Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Sunday in the Country, A (1984)
- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Louis Ducreux, Sabine Azema, Michel Aumont…
- An elderly painter invites his family to his country villa; in a single day their happinesses and sorrows come to be expressed. Subtle, intelligent…
Swann in Love (1984)
- Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon…
- Lavish filming of Proust's novel 'Remembrance of Things Past' which centres around a high class man who risks everything for his erotic obsessions.…
Tail of a Tiger (1984)
- Dir. Rolf De Heer
Feat. Grant Navin, Gordon Poole
- Australian treasure Rolf De Heer's thoughtful debut about a young boy who's fascination with aeronautics reaches grand heights when he befriends a…
Threads (1984)
- Dir. Mick Jackson
Feat. Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale
- A disturbing vision of a nuclear attack on Sheffield, which comes across as an English THE DAY AFTER, with more focus on the grim details of such a…
Three of Us, The (Noi Tre) (1984)
- Dir. Pupi Avati
Feat. Christopher Davidson, Ida De Benedetto, Gianni Cavina…
- Charming, though slender, portrayal of Mozart’s teenage life as the 14–year old musical prodigy spends a summer in Italy and starts to…
Under the Volcano (1984)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews…
- Solid dramatisation of Malcolm Lowry's 'unfilmable' novel about the sordid death of an alcoholic diplomat in 30s Mexico. Distinguished by intense,…
Vigil (Incl. In Spring One Plants Alone & A State Of Seige) (1984)
- Dir. Vincent Ward
Feat. Penelope Stewart, Frank Whitten, Bill Kerr…
- A young girl's world is transformed when her father dies and a enigmatic stranger arrives in his wake. Our unique landscape provides a magnificent…
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…