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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Oppenheimer (TV Mini-series) (1980)- Dir. Barry Davis
Feat. Sam Waterston, Shane Rimmer, David Suchet - Excellent mini–series starring Waterson as nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who helped build the atomic bomb for the 'Manhattan…
Pride and Prejudice (TV Mini-Series) (1980)- Feat. Elizabeth Garvie, David Rintoul, Moray Watson
- Fay Weldon adaptation of the Jane Austen perennial in which the arrival of a wealthy gentleman sends her marriage–minded mother into a frenzy,…
Spoils of War, The (TV Series) (1980)- Feat. Alan Hunter, William Lucas, Emily Moore
- British drama series examining the effects of World War II on two families.
Strumpet City (Mini-Series) (1980)- Feat. Peter O'Toole, Peter Ustinov
- Broad, sweeping Irish history of Dubliners in the early 20th century. Based on James Plunkett’s popular novel.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1980)- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Alec Guinness, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston - Alec Guinness returns as John Le Carre's retired agent George Smiley, this time lured back to trace an infiltrator at his old stomping ground.
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