Subgenre Sampler
Rental > : 24509 Films to Rent
Smiley's People (1982)
- Dir. Simon Langton
Feat. Alec Guinness, Bernard Hepton, Barry Foster…
- Alec Guinness is John Le Carre's Smiley, a retired agent called back to investigate a collegue's assasination which leads him on a treacherous…
Smithereens (1982)
- Dir. Susan Seidelman
Feat. Richard Hell
- Hanging out on the lower rung of the gritty New York music scene in the early 80s, a flaky adolescent girl struggles to make her mark or find…
Snowman, The (1982)
- Delicately animated version of Raymond Brigg's beautiful, wordless storybook about a snowman that comes to life.
One to melt the heart, this won a…
Sophie's Choice (1982)
- Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Feat. Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline
- Master of many accents Meryl Streep won an Oscar for her role as a European refugee of the Nazi death–camps whose uneasy relationship with…
Space Adventure Cobra (1982)
- Dir. Osamu Dezaki
- Space opera at its soapiest – a rouge intergalactic criminal thwarts alien pirates, saves the universe, and gets the ladies in this retro anime…
Square Pegs (TV Series) (1982-1983)
- Feat. Sarah Jessica Parker, Amy Linker, Jami Gertz…
- Sassy high school comedy from the early 1980's centred around Sarah Jessica Parker and Amy Linker as two awkward teenage girls desperate to be…
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan (1982)
- Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley…
- The Enterprise crew are back to do battle with Kirk's old enemy Khan, as he takes control of a Federation Starship. Nice touches of humour and…
Starstruck (1982)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Jo Kennedy
- A fabulous, overlooked Aussie musical in which an ambitious barmaid lives out her dreams to be a singing star in the new wave–inflected early…
State of Things, The (1982)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Patrick Bauchau, Samuel Fuller, Roger Corman
- Reliving the personal turmoil of his first American production (HAMMETT), Wenders fashions a scathing yet oddly comedic…
Still of the Night (1982)
- Dir. Robert Benton
Feat. Meryl Streep, Roy Scheider
- Hitchcock–style thriller about a psychiatrist who falls in love with a woman who may have brutally murdered one of his patients.