Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Oliver Twist (Mini-series) (1985)- Dir. Gareth Davies
Feat. Robert Middlemass, Lysette Anthony, Michael Attwell… - Quality BBC adaptation of the beloved Dickens story starring Ben Rodska as the eponymous orphan, ably supported by older British thespian brass.
Out of Africa (1985)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Meryl Streep, Robert Redford - Epic, elegant retelling of Karen Blixen's African memoirs. Winner of seven Oscars including Best Picture.
Perfect (1985)- Dir. James Bridges
Feat. John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis - John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis get physical in this under–rated slice of 80s sizzle: he plays a Rolling Stone journalist investigating the…
Pickwick Papers, The (Mini-series) (1985)- Feat. Nigel Stock, Clive Swift, Ray Brooks…
- BBC televison production stars Nigel Stock as the titular Mr Samuel Pickwick who – with his pals Nathaniel Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass, and…
Plenty (1985)- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Meryl Streep, John Gielgud, Sam Neill… - Meryl Streep plays a hero of WWII, who finds the rest of her life an anticlimax.
Ran (1985)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai - The title translates to 'chaos'; it is Kurosawa's vast and bloody interpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear. Grandiose in every sense – a…
Revolution (1985)- Dir. Hugh Hudson
Feat. Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski… - Disastrous epic with Pacino almost committing career suicide as a fur trapper caught in the upheaval of the American Revolution. Some handsome…
Room with a View, A (1985)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Day-Lewis, Denholm Elliott… - Arguably the pinnacle achievement of the Merchant–Ivory partnership, this light–toned but nuanced adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel…
Sacred Hearts (1985)- Dir. Barbara Rennie
Feat. Anna Massey - Earnest drama set in a repressive convent (run by Anna Massey) during the Blitz.
- Seacoal (1985)
- Dir. Amber Film Collective
- The first feature from the Tyneside film community who mix drama and 'real life' to tell their own stories. This film focuses on the plight of…
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