Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Winds of War, The (Mini-series) (1983)
- Dir. Dan Curtis
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent…
- Thorough and imposing wartime miniseries chronicling the width and breadth of events in the years leading up to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour in…
Year of Living Dangerously, The (1983)
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt…
- Multi–layered, vivid yarn posits Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver as foreign officials in 1965 Indonesia at the time of the communist coup.…
Yentl (1983)
- Dir. Barbra Streisand
Feat. Barbra Streisand
- Barbra Streisand directs herself in this musical/drama as an Eastern European woman at the turn of the century who masquerades as a boy in order to…
1915 (TV Mini-series) (1982)
- Feat. Scott Burgess, Scott McGregor, Lorraine Bayly…
- A solid recreation of the Great War era, this TV mini–series charts the experiences of several young men leaving the home–front in…
A Good Marriage (Le Beau Marriage) (1982)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Beatrice Romand, Andre Dussollier, Féodor Atkine
- An art history student is growing tired of being the mistress of a married painter, then meets a handsome and wealthy younger man whom she vows to…
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
- Dir. Taylor Hackford
Feat. Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Louis Jr. Gossett
- Irresistible formula romance between prospective army officer Richard Gere and Debra Winger.
Angel (1982)
- Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Stephen Rea, Marie Kean, Ray McAnally
- The gritty feature debut of Irish director Neil Jordan stars Stephen Rea as a saxophonist who witnesses the gangland murder of the band's manager and…
Anthony Trollope Collection, The (The Barchester Chronicles, The Way We Live Now, He Knew He Was Right) (1982-2004)
- Three BBC mini–series masterpieces from the pen of novelist Anthony Trollope.
Barchester Chronicles, The (TV Mini-series) (1982)
- Dir. David Giles
Feat. Alan Rickman, Donald Pleasence, Nigel Hawthorne…
- Scandal inflames the once placid town of Barchester, in this typically astute BBC production of Anthony Trollope's novel. A young Alan Rickman holds…
BBC Shakespeare Collection: Series 5 (Richard III, King Lear, Henry VI Part 1, Henry VI Part 2, Henry VI Part 3, The Merry Wives of Windsor) (1982-1983)
- Feat. Alan Bennett, Ben Kingsley, Judy Davis…
- The fifth in a series of boxed–sets compiling the BBC's comprehensive Shakespeare adaptations for television. This set includes:
Richard III,…