Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Choix Des Armes, Le (Choice of Arms) (1981)- Dir. Alain Corneau
Feat. Yves Montand, Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu - Two disparate ex–convicts face difficulties settling into normal society. Boasts France's greatest acting talents.
Christiane F. (1981)
- Dir. Ulrich Edel
Feat. David Bowie - Absorbing account of the decline and fall into the Berlin's degrading drug and prostitution scene of two young heroin addicts. Features the music and…
City of Women (1981)- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni - Dir. Fellini pushes his fantasies to their zenith (or nadir), again with Marcello Mastroianni as the surrogate male. Falling asleep on a train, he…
Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate) (1981)- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle… - Mordantly humourous suspense set in dusty French Senegal, with Noiret playing a much–abused police chief who begins to have dreams of…
Cutter's Way (1981)- Dir. Ivan Passer
Feat. John Heard, Jeff Bridges, Lisa Eichhorn - Low–key mystery set in the hazy South Californian boondocks, that gets under your skin in its own moody, mordant way. Story concerns lippy…
Duet for Four (1981)- Dir. Tim Burstall
Feat. Michael Pate, Wendy Hughes, Diane Cilento… - Wry Aussie dramatic comedy centres on wealthy toy manufacturer in the midst of a mid–life crisis, both his and his wife's infidelities and his…
Dynasty (TV Series) (1981-1989)- Feat. John Forsythe, Joan Collins, Linda Evans…
- Producer Aaron Spelling's lavish prime–time soap, conceived to capitalize on the huge success of rival, "Dallas", can't hide its status as a…
Endless Love (1981)- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Brooke Shields - Brooke Shields is the saving grace of this fiasco made of Scott Spencer's acclaimed novel about an obsessive teenage romance.
Eureka (1981)- Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Nicolas Roeg… - Irishman Gene Hackman strikes it rich in Alaska, and retires to his own Carribean island for family fights with flaky son–in–law Rutger…
Evil Under the Sun (1981)- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Colin Blakely… - Murder at a resort hotel, with Peter Ustinov as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot. An all–star cast and top production values, with sun and sea…
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