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Subgenre Sampler
Gentle Touch, The (TV Series) (1980)
- Feat. Jill Gascoine, William Marlowe
- Ground–breaking police drama featuring Britain's first female TV detective fighting crime and the demands of being a solo mother. Jill Gascoine…
Soldier Girls (1980)- Dir. Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill
- Early Nick Broomfield entry surveys the US Army's training regime for female recruits. Though less obtrusive than in later incarnations, Broomfield…
Agatha (1979)- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton… - Speculating over the 11 days in 1926 when detective–writer Agatha Christie (Vanessa Redgrave) went missing, this gently–toned drama sees…
Facts of Life, The (TV Series) (1979-1988)- Feat. Charlotte Rae, Molly Ringwald
- Coming–of–age spin–off from the series DIFFERENT STROKES focused on a group of young girls growing up in a boarding house under the…
My Brilliant Career (1979)- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Judy Davis, Sam Neill - Landmark Australian film, with Judy Davis as a determinedly independent femme in the late 19th century. From the novel by Miles Franklin.
Sisters or the Balance of Happiness (Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks) (1979)- Dir. Margarethe von Trotta
- 1970s West German drama about two sisters whose unusually close relationship negatively impacts their individual personal lives.
An Unmarried Woman (1978)- Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy… - Jill Clayburgh endeared herself to a generation of women with this well–loved character study of a divorced New Yorker navigating the single…
Classic Bronte Collection, The (TV Series) (1978-1996)- Dir. Julian Amyes, Mike Barker
Feat. Timothy Dalton, Zelah Clarke, Tara Fitzgerald… - Five–disc box–set containing three BBC television drama productions from the pen of the Bronte sisters. – Jane Eyre (83')…
Little Women (TV Mini-series) (1978)- Dir. David Lowell Rich
Feat. Susan Dey, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Ann Dusenberry… - Emmy Award–winning two part miniseries adapting Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical novel. Mostly unsurprising except for the casting of…
Night The Prowler, The (1978)- Dir. Jim Sharman
Feat. Ruth Cracknell, John Frawley, Kerry Walker - Based on a play by Patrick White, this stylised drama concerns a sexually repressed young woman (Walker), under the thumb of her domineering snobbish…
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