Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Sense and Sensibility (1981)- Dir. Rodney Bennett
Feat. Irene Richards, Tracey Childs, Diana Fairfax… - Two sisters search for love, happiness and a way out of financial strife. From Jane Austen's novel, this was filmed by the BBC on location in Dorset…
Take a Letter Mr. Jones (TV Series) (1981)- Feat. John Inman, Rula Lenska, Miriam Margolyes
- British sitcom set in the office of a multinational corporation, where an exec juggles her hectic work life (and workplace sexual politics) with…
Tenko (TV Series) (1981-1984)- Feat. Stephanie Cole, Jean Anderson
- Memorable British drama in which a group of English women, shipwrecked while fleeing the invasion of Singapore in 1941, are captured by the Japanese…
Wave, The (1981)
- Dir. Alexander Grasshof
Feat. Bruce Davison, John Putch - A powerful "after school special" that dramatizes a real experiment conducted in an American High School where students learn how easy it is to be…
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)- Dir. Ferninand Fairfax
Feat. Robert Hardy, Sian Phillips, Nigel Havers… - 8–part drama series about the future British Prime Minister, during his years in political exile in the 1920s and 1930s. Robert Hardy plays…
Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV Series) (1980)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Gunter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Elisabeth Trissenaar… - This monolithic tome set in Weimar–era Germany represented the peak of dir. Fassbinder's filmmaking career. Across 15 hours, it details the…
Beulah Land (TV Mini-series) (1980)- Feat. Lesley Ann Warren, Michael Sarrazin, Eddie Albert…
- There are plenty of well–known faces in the support cast of this old–fashioned, three–part mini–series dramatizing the lives…
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…
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…
Lucinda Brayford (TV Mini Series) (1980)- Dir. John Gauci
Feat. Wendy Hughes, Sam Neill - Australian mini–series based on the novel by Martin Boyd, and depicting the span of generations of a family of English emigrees in the late…
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