Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Makioka Sisters, The (Sasame-yuki) (1983)- Dir. Kon Ichikawa
Feat. Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga - Lyrical Japanese drama set in the 1930's, following the lives of four siblings who have taken on their father's kimono manufacturing business. Based…
Mansfield Park (1983)- Dir. David Giles
Feat. Sylvestra Le Touzel - BBC drama based on Jane Austen's classic about life at an upper class family estate in Eighteenth century rural England.
Meantime (1983)- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, Pam Ferris… - Mike Leigh's skewed sense of humour takes on the doledrums of Thatcher's London. Tim Roth and Gary Oldman are unrecognisably awkward in a…
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
- Dir. Nagisa Oshima
Feat. David Bowie, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano - David Bowie endures the hardships of a Japanese POW camp in WWII. Stylish melodrama, memorably scored by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Murder In Coweta County (1983)- Dir. Gary Nelson
Feat. Johnny Cash, Andy Griffith, June Carter-Cash - A gritty fact–based policier about a cold–blooded land baron in 1940s rural Georgia (Griffiths) who murders a black tenant farmer and…
My Brother's Wedding (1983)- Dir. Charles Burnett
Feat. Everett Silas - Crude but affecting follow–up to KILLER OF SHEEP concerns a South Central LA resident torn between attending the funeral of his best friend, or…
Nostalgia (Nostalghia) (1983)- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Oleg Jankovsky - A lingering essay on the angst of living in exile, with Oleg Jankovsky as a beleaguered Russian academic subsisting in Italy (like Tarkovsky…
Outsiders, The (1983)- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio… - Based on the gritty novel by S. E. Hinton (THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW), this ‘realistic’ depiction of teenage outsiders in 50s America is…
Pauline a La Plage (Pauline at the Beach) (1983)- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle - Teenage Pauline visits her older cousin plagued with boy trouble. Rohmer again demonstrates his knack for eliciting candid performances from…
Phar Lap (1983)- Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. Tom Burlinson - Legendary racehorse reared in New Zealand (though Australian makes claims), who died under mysterious circumstances in America. Good period piece,…
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