Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Germany, Pale Mother (Deutschland bleiche Mutter) (1980)
- Dir. Helma Sanders-Brahms
Feat. Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi - Bleak WWII drama that follows the tragic fate of a couple who marry the day before the war breaks out when he is drafted to the Eastern front only to…
Grown-Ups (1980)- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Philip Davis, Lesley Manville, Brenda Blethyn - A working class couple discovers the joys of living in a council flat in this early Mike Leigh drama for the BBC (part of the 'Play for Today'…
Hamlet (1980)- Dir. Rodney Bennett
Feat. Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Patrick Stewart… - Part of the BBC's excellent series of Shakespeare productions, filmed in a 'theatrical' TV environment utilising the best of English acting talent.
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.
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