Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Assam Garden, The (1985)- Dir. Mary McMurray
Feat. Deborah Kerr - Gently paced drama finds Deborah Kerr tending her late husband's garden.
At Close Range (1985)- Dir. James Foley
Feat. Sean Penn, Christopher Walken - Sean Penn plays a wayward youth who reunites with his gangland father (Christopher Walken) with violent consequences. Sordid yet solid drama.
Aviator, The (1985)- Dir. George Miller
Feat. Christopher Reeve, Rosanna Arquette, Jack Warden… - Earnest aviation drama about a 1920's mail pilot and a rich man's daughter who crash–land on a mountain full of hungry wolves. Based on the…
Beethoven's Nephew (1985)- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Wolfgang Reichmann, Dietmar Prinz, Nathalie Baye… - Thoughtful story of the destructively possessive relationship between Ludwig Von Beethoven and his nephew, leading to humiliation and tragedy.…
Beiderbecke Affair, The (TV Series) (1985)- Feat. James Bolam, Barbara Flynn, Dudley Sutton
- Character–centric Brit TV series that was the first in the 'Beiderbecke Trilogy' following a couple of Leed's teachers ensconced in a…
Bliss (1985)- Dir. Ray Lawrence
Feat. Barry Otto - Peter Carey's cult novel maintains its distinctive off–beat flavour in this screen adaptation, about a middle–aged ad–man who…
Colonel Redl (1985)- Dir. Istvan Szabo
Feat. Klaus Maria Brandauer - Klaus Maria Brandauer offers another tour–de–force performance for the second in Szabo's WW2 trilogy (between MEPHISTO and HANUSSEN)…
Color Purple, The (The Colour Purple) (1985)- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover… - Striking interpretation of Alice Walker's novel about a black girl's life and hard times in the South, spanning forty years. Whoopi Goldberg's screen…
Come and See (1985)
- Dir. Elim Klimov
Feat. Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius - Shattering film that chronicles the devastating effect the Nazi occupation had on Russian peasantry, focusing on one impoverished youth. The brutal…
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean (Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean) (1985)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black - The repressed anxieties and memories of five women are triggered when they congregate to celebrate their childhood hero, James Dean. Stunningly…
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