Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Cherry Orchard, The (1981)- Dir. Richard Eyre
Feat. Judi Dench, Bill Paterson, Timothy Spall… - BBC television drama based on the classic 1904 play by Anton Chekhov about the decline of the Russian aristocracy in general and one high–born…
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…
Clash of the Titans (1981)- Dir. Desmond Davis
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Ursula Andress - Brave stab at visualising Greek mythology, taking the Perseus legend as its basis, this turned out to be the swansong for Ray Harryhausen and his…
Condorman (Condor Man) (1981)- Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Barbara Carrera - An odd, but likeable superhero–spy yarn from Disney, in which a cartoonist (Crawford) turns himself into a living version of one of his own…
Continental Divide (1981)- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Garfield… - Neglected Belushi outing is a gentle comedy with a hard–nosed journalist falling for an eagle researcher high in the mountains of Colorado.
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…
Dallas - Season 5 (TV Series) (1981-1982)- Feat. Larry Hagman, Barbara Bel Geddes, Patrick Duffy…
- Further episodes in the classic piece of 80s TV Americana, following the fortunes of the well–heeled Ewing and Barnes families. Available over…
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