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Subgenre Sampler
Saigon - Year of the Cat (1983)- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Judi Dench, Frederic Forrest, E.G. Marshall… - Potent romantic drama set during the South Vietnam collapse with Dench as a depressed loan officer who falls into the arms of CIA interrogator…
Scales of Justice (TV Mini-series) (1983)- Dir. Michael Jenkins
Feat. John Hargreaves, Bill Hunter, Isabelle Anderson… - A three–part crime drama which links tales of drug–dealing, organised crime, police corruption and political conspiracy in 1980s…
Sheer Madness (Heller Wahn) (1983)- Dir. Margarethe von Trotta
Feat. Hanna Schygulla, Angela Winkler - Two women, one a withdrawn painter and the other a confident professor, start to rely upon their friendship as an alternative to their unhappy…
Signal 7 (1983)- Dir. Rob Nilsson
Feat. Bill Ackridge, Dan Leegant - Dedicated to John Cassavetes, this 12–hr slice of the night–world of various New York taxi–drivers, shot on videotape, is similarly…
Silkwood (1983)- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Meryl Streep, Cher, Kurt Russell - Fact–based account of a Southern nuclear factory–worker who died mysteriously before exposing unsound trade secrets. Meryl Streep is on a…
Sins of Dorian Gray, The (1983)- Dir. Tony Maylam
Feat. Anthony Perkins, Joseph Bottoms, Belinda Bauer - Unusually trashy TV–movie that riffs on Oscar Wilde's famous adult fairytale. Here, a woman's celluloid screen–test carries the burden of…
Skin Deep (1983)- Dir. Mark Joffe
Feat. Briony Behets, Nicole Kidman - Big shoulder pads and even bigger hairdos compete in this trash 80s soap opera set in the world of Australian fashion. Nicole Kidman, in an early…
Star 80 (1983)
- Dir. Bob Fosse
Feat. Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson… - Dir. Bob Fosse's razzle–dazzle cynicism is a perfect match for this loose chronicle of true events that led to the murder of penthouse pet…
Staying Alive (1983)- Dir. Sylvester Stallone
Feat. John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes - Engagingly tacky sequel to SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, fashioned by dir. Sylvester Stallone as a ROCKY–style vehicle for John Travolta, who juggles…
Streamers (1983)- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Matthew Modine, David Alan Grier, George Dzundza… - Four young army recruits await in close quarters their call–up to Vietnam. Brilliantly acted by the novice cast (including Matthew Modine), it…
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