Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Pictures (1981)
- Dir. Michael Black
Feat. Kevin J. Wilson, Peter Vere-Jones, Helen Moulder
- Two rival photographer brothers clash ethics over their respective portraits of the native Maori. Colonialist parable explores the value of art and…
Pippin: His Life and Times (1981)
- Dir. David Sheehan
Feat. Ben Vereen, William Katt, Leslie Denniston
- TV movie adapted from the 1972 musical, itself an adaptation of the Bob Fosse Broadway production. Music and lyrics are by Stephen Schwartz and book…
Pixote (1981)
- Dir. Hector Babenco
Feat. Marilia Pera, Ramos Da Silva
- Inspired by the plight of his country's homeless children, dir. Babenco created this semi–improvised odyssey of three boys in the slums of…
Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1981)
- Dir. Bob Rafelson
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange
- Highly–charged remake of the steamy film–noir classic based on the 1934 novel by James M. Cain. Written by David Mamet (in his…
Pride of Jesse Hallam, The (1981)
- Dir. Gary Nelson
Feat. Johnny Cash, Eli Wallach, Brenda Vaccaro
- Johnny Cash plays a poor and illiterate coal miner who moves from the Kentucky countryside to Cincinnati so that his daughter can have spinal…
Priest Of Love (1981)
- Dir. Christopher Miles
Feat. Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, Ava Gardner…
- Ian McKellen stars as D.H Lawrence in this biopic, chronicling the author's tempestuous relationship with his wife Frieda (Suzman), and his battle…
Puberty Blues (1981)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Nell Schofield, Jad Capelja
- Affecting teenage odyssey with Nell Schofield and Jad Capelja as surfing–groupies, learning to fit into a sex’n’drugs beach–scene.
Quartet (1981)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Isabelle Adjani, Alan Bates, Maggie Smith…
- Merchant–Ivory period drama, starring Isabelle Adjani as a young Parisian who moves in with an older couple following the arrest of her husband.
Raggedy Man (1981)
- Dir. Jack Fisk
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Eric Roberts, Sam Shepard…
- Texas–set drama led by Spacek (fresh from her Oscar winning performance in COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER) portraying a perturbed divorcee mother who…
Ragtime (1981)
- Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn…
- 8–time Oscar nominated adaptation of E. L. Doctorow's novel which recreates a real–life murder mystery in ragtime–era America…