Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruce Spence, Ray Barrett
- Dir. Herzog’s usually compelling obsessions – myths, nature, primitive experience – come a cropper in this uneven depiction of a land rights…
Widows (TV Series) (1984)
- Feat. Ann Mitchell, Ann Mitchell
- Gritty crime TV from the writer of PRIME SUSPECT, Lynda La Plante, about the widows of three armed robbers who take over their husbands' crime busines
Yellow Earth (1984)
- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Quiang Liu, Tuo Tan, Xueyin Wang…
- This spearheaded the wave of modern Chinese cinema to be seen outside the People's Republic. A communist soldier visits a backwards village in 1939…
À Nos Amours (To Our Loves) (1983)
- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Cyril Collard
- One of dir. Pialat's most satisfying dramas, this concerns a journey of a teenage girl (Bonnaire, in a stunning debut) when her family life turns…
Agatha Christie: Partners in Crime (TV Series) (1983)
- Feat. Francesca Annis, James Warwick, Reece Dinsdale
- Crisp adaptation of some of Dame Agatha's lesser known short mysteries. The protagonists here are husband and wife sleuths Tommy and Prudence…
Alice in Wonderland (1983)
- Dir. Kirk Browning
Feat. Kate Burton, Richard Burton, Eve Arden…
- From the Broadway Theatre Archive series, this is a filmed version of the 1970s revival of a 1932 Broadway version. Distinguished by extraordinary…
All The Right Moves (1983)
- Dir. Michael Chapman
Feat. Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson…
- Stirring though conventional sports drama has a talented high–school football player (Cruise), weigh up his life priorities in the face of a…
Anthony and Cleopatra (1983)
- Dir. Lawrence Carra
Feat. Timothy Dalton, Lynn Redgrave, John Carradine…
- Above–par version of Shakespeare's Egyptian tragedy with the two leads giving particularly strong performances. Filmed in a…
Baby, It's You (1983)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano
- High–school sweethearts Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano undergo the trials of the late 60s counter–culture America. Characters and…
Ballad of Narayama (1983)
- Dir. Shohei Imamura
Feat. Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari
- Austere beauty characterises this second retelling of a Japanese legend, originally filmed in stylised, Kabuki–inspired vignettes.
Ken…