Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
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.
First Deadly Sin, The (1980)
- Dir. Brian G. Hutton
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, Bruce Willis…
- Probably Ol' Blue Eyes' last decent film, giving an understated, effective performance as a pressured NYC detective hunting a serial killer and…
Flickers (TV Series) (1980)
- Feat. Bob Hoskins, Frances de la Tour, Sheila Reid
- An amiable Cockney rogue seeking investors in the silent–film industry finds that building a business out of make believe isn't as easy as he…
Formula, The (1980)
- Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Marlon Brando, George C. Scott, Marthe Keller…
- Muddled thriller with Scott as a detective caught up in a conspiracy to manipulate world fuel prices. Brando –only in three scenes– does…