Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Bronco Billy (1980)- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke - Amiable drama has Clint play the sharp–shooting proprieter of a travelling 'cowboy' show which is on a losing streak. Eastwood himself…
Brubaker (1980)- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander… - Straight–edged prison drama based around the true story of a warden who disguised himself as a convict in order to expose the corruptions of…
Club, The (1980)- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy, Frank Wilson - Doing for Australian Rules football what DON'S PARTY did for Australian politics, this examines in brawling, bawdy detail the behind–scenes…
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones - Biopic of country legend Loretta Lynn.
Deathwatch (1980)- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton - Cerebral drama set in the future about a media group who attempt to film the deaths of the terminally ill for public consumption.
Elephant Man, The (1980)
- Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt - The heart–wrenching true story of a grossly deformed pauper, dramatised to perfection by director David Lynch. A compassionate doctor rescues…
Essential Almodovar: Volume One (Pepi Luci Bom, Dark Habits, What Have I Done to Deserve This, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) (1980-1988)- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
- Four early Pedro Almodovar films presented in a Collector's Edition box set.
Essential John Sayles (Return of the Secaucus 7, Lianna, Brother From Another Planet) (1980-1984)- Dir. John Sayles
- Three seminal films from John Sayles' formative years as a spearhead of the American independent cinema movement.
Falls, The (1980)- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Peter Westley, Aad Wirtz, Michael Murray - One of dir. Greenaway's more trenchantly avant–garde works (think 'A Walk Though H' crossed with DROWNING BY NUMBERS), expanding his riddling…
Fame (1980)- Dir. Alan Parker
Feat. Irene Cara - Young wannabees get ready for their big break at a New York performing arts college. Funny how none of the cast have since achieved it.
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