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Subgenre Sampler
Police Assassins (Yes Madam) (1985)- Dir. Corey Yuen
Feat. Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Rothrock, Tsui Hark - Cheesy but fun outing has two hard–as–nails policewomen Michelle Yeoh (in her first lead role) and Cynthia Rothrock turning in their…
Police Story (1985)
- Dir. Jackie Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung - The incomparable Jackie Chan – a mix of Bruce Lee and Buster Keaton – is in prime form here, weaving his brand of sly Asian humour into a series…
Price, The (TV Mini-series) (1985)- Feat. Peter Barkworth, Harriet Walter, Aingeal Grehan
- UK miniseries building a chilling web of intrigue around a priviledged dilettante wife (Harriet Walter) who finds herself caught between IRA thugs…
Private Function, A (1985)- Dir. Malcolm Mowbray
Feat. Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott - Michael Palin and Maggie Smith star in Alan Bennett's savage satire of class hypocrisy. Set in post–WW2 Britain during food rationing, secret…
Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate (1985)- Dir. Kirby Dick
- The debut feature from bold documentarian Kirby Dick (SICK) is this fascinating and humane portrait of a sex surrogate Maureen Sullivan, who is…
Prizzi's Honor (1985)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston - Jack Nicholson plays a Mafia hitman, embroiled in some ripely comic and sexy intrigues.
Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello - Exceptional comic fantasy about a depression–era housewife (Mia Farrow) whose solace in the movies blossoms into a romance with a screen…
Quiet Earth, The (1985)- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge - New Zealand's best attempt yet at the sci–fi genre. Bruno Lawrence wakes one morning to find himself apparently the only person left on earth.…
Raising Arizona (1985)- Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter - Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter can't concieve a baby of their own, so they steal a quintuplet from a redneck tycoon. Highly original, off–beat…
Rambo 2 (1985)- Dir. George Pan Cosmatos
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier - Iconic actioner in which traumatised commando John Rambo (Stallone) returns to Vietnam to rescue imprisoned G.I.s. Simplistic and violent, but a key…
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