Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Making Love (1982)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Michael Ontkean
- A glossy but under–rated love triangle drama starring former "Charlie's Angel" Kate Jackson that was the first mainstream Hollywood film to…
Marco Polo (1982)
- Dir. Giuliano Montaldo
Feat. Kenneth Marshall, Denholm Elliott, F. Murray Abraham
- TV miniseries about the 13th–century Venetian merchant and explorer who sought to link Asia and Europe through trade.
Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1982)
- Feat. Alan Bennett, Richard Griffiths, Judy Davis…
- Part of the BBC's excellent series of Shakespeare productions, filmed in a 'theatrical' TV environment utilising the best of English acting talent.
Missing (1982)
- Dir. Costa-Gavras
Feat. Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron…
- Jack Lemmon goes in search of his missing son in volatile Latin America (based on Chile), where even the American representives seem to be concealing…
Monkey Grip (1982)
- Dir. Ken Cameron
Feat. Colin Friels, Noni Hazlehurst, Alice Garner…
- Serious–minded drama set in the bohemian environs of 1980s Melbourne.
Focused chiefly on a struggles of a divorcee to free herself from the…
Moonlighting (1982)
- Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
Feat. Jeremy Irons
- Jeremy Irons plays a Polish building supervisor who is stranded in London with his workers, when a brutal clampdown occurs in their homeland.…
Nancy Astor (TV Mini-series) (1982)
- Dir. Richard Stroud
Feat. Lisa Harrow, Pierce Brosnan
- Rags–to–riches biography of the life of Nancy Astor, the first woman to hold a seat in the house of commons.
Night of the Shooting Stars, The (Night of San Lorenzo, The) (1982)
- Dir. Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Feat. Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli
- Set during the German retreat from Italy in 1944, this tragicomedy of War carries a magical nostalgia by being told through the memories of woman who…
Oliver Twist (1982)
- Dir. Clive Donner
Feat. Tim Curry, George C. Scott, Sir Michael Hordern
- Tim Curry is creepiness itself in this decent adaptation of Dickens' tale of an orphan boy escaping the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in…
One from the Heart (1982)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia
- A lavishly mounted curiosity loosely following the romantic plight of an estranged couple, set against an impressively stylised backdrop of Las…