Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7936 Films to Rent
Hussy (1980)
- Dir. Michael Chapman
Feat. Helen Mirren, John Shea, Paul Angelis
- A prostitute working in a posh London nightclub begins an affair with a mysterious American and is pulled further into the criminal underworld she is…
Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Anne Baxter, Robert Powell, MIchael Wager…
- Delightful Merchant Ivory production has two rival theatre companies dueling over the right to produce a recently discovered Jane Austen manuscript.…
Jayne Mansfield Story, The (1980)
- Dir. Dick Lowry
Feat. Loni Anderson, Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Loni Anderson plays the titular blonde bombshell in this tacky biopic of one of the Hollywood's most likeable sex kittens. Arnie co–stars as…
Jazz Singer, The (1980)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier
- Tepid updating of the 1927 Al Jolson film, this has singer–songwriter Neil Diamond debut as a... er, songwriter, who must choose between…
Juliet Bravo (TV Series) (1980)
- Feat. Stephanie Turner, David Ellison, Noel Collins
- Massively popular – although rather dated – UK police series focused on a female police officer who takes charge of a fictional…
Last Metro, The (1980)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu
- Elegant war story in occupied France, Catherine Deneuve struggles to keep her Jewish husband's theatre operating while concealing his whereabouts.
Lili Marleen (1980)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer
- Fassbinder's fact–based account of the recording of the Nazi anthem, sung by a jaded cabaret singer with a Jewish love interest.
Look Back in Anger (1980)
- Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Malcolm McDowell
- Malcolm McDowell stars in this updated version of the groundbreaking John Osborne play from the 1950s.
Loulou (1980)
- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand
- Charismatic street rogue Gerard Depardieu lures an impetuous Isabelle Huppert out her stale, bourgeois partnership with Guy Marchand. Star chemistry…
Lucinda Brayford (TV Mini Series) (1980)
- Dir. John Gauci
Feat. Wendy Hughes, Sam Neill
- Australian mini–series based on the novel by Martin Boyd, and depicting the span of generations of a family of English emigrees in the late…