Subgenre Sampler
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White Nights (1985)
- Dir. Taylor Hackford
Feat. Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski…
- Baryshnikov and Hines try to dance themselves free from Soviet oppression in this amusing dated thriller. The dance sequences still hold up though.
Witness (1985)
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer…
- Cop Harrison Ford goes undercover at an Amish community after one of their young witnesses a murder. Consummate Hollywood thriller, quite brilliantly…
Year of the Dragon (1985)
- Dir. Michael Cimino
Feat. Mickey Rourke, John Lone
- Mickey Rourke leads a clean–up of corruption in New York's Chinatown. An arresting melodrama with gut–wrenching violence in the league of…
Young Sherlock Holmes and the Pyramid of Fear (1985)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
- Highly watchable updating of Sherlock Holmes, with his teenage incarnation plumbing 'thugee' cult mysteries in Victorian London.
Notable at the…
Zed and Two Noughts, A (1985)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Andrea Ferreol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon…
- Enigmatic visual essay centres around a pair of identical twin zoologists and a paraplegic Spanish seductress! A difficult but rewarding film…
1984 (1984)
- Dir. Michael Radford
Feat. John Hurt, Richard Burton
- Adaptation of George Orwell's novel remains faithful to his book and is thus a despairing experience. John Hurt and Richard Burton represent the…
2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
- Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Roy Scheider, Helen Mirren
- Belated sequel jettisons the metaphysics of 2001 for more traditional sci–fi explanations, bolstered by excellent special f/x. Roy Scheider…
A Soldier's Story (1984)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Howard Jr. Rollins, Adolph Caesar, Art Evans…
- In charge of an inquiry into the murder of a black sergeant on an army base in 1944, investigator Howard E Rollins Jnr uncovers a knot of racial…
A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
- Dir. Krzysztof Zanussi
Feat. Maja Komorowska, Scott Wilson
- Realistic and poignant drama that depicts the tentative yet soulful romance that blooms between a Polish woman and an American soldier who is…
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai - Across the Eighth Dimension (1984)
- Dir. W.D. Richter
Feat. Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin…
- This offbeat genre film has been described as a silly movie for smart people. A bored neurosurgeon (Buck) decides to become a rock star and defender…