Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Under the Volcano (1984)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews… - Solid dramatisation of Malcolm Lowry's 'unfilmable' novel about the sordid death of an alcoholic diplomat in 30s Mexico. Distinguished by intense,…
Vigil (Incl. In Spring One Plants Alone & A State Of Seige) (1984)
- Dir. Vincent Ward
Feat. Penelope Stewart, Frank Whitten, Bill Kerr… - A young girl's world is transformed when her father dies and a enigmatic stranger arrives in his wake. Our unique landscape provides a magnificent…
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Carmen Maura - Carmen Maura plays a delirious feminist housewife in this early black–comic farce from Almodovar, here working at his freshest and most…
Wheels on Meals (1984)- Dir. Sammo Hung
Feat. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen - The kung–fu trio of Chan, Hung and Biao travel, to Spain for this rambunctious minor classic, in a tale about food–vendors helping out a…
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruce Spence, Ray Barrett - Dir. Herzog’s usually compelling obsessions – myths, nature, primitive experience – come a cropper in this uneven depiction of a land rights…
Who's the Boss? (TV Series) (1984-1992)- Feat. Tony Danza, Alyssa Milano, Katherine Helmond…
- Very likeable 1980s sitcom, set in a suburban mansion, with a household comprised of an advertising executive (Light), her elderly mother (Helmond),…
Widows (TV Series) (1984)- Feat. Ann Mitchell, Ann Mitchell
- Gritty crime TV from the writer of PRIME SUSPECT, Lynda La Plante, about the widows of three armed robbers who take over their husbands' crime busines
Wind in the Willows (TV Series) (1984-1988)- Fine puppet–animation brings to life Mole, Ratty, Toad and Badger in three episodes of from the Thames TV series. Based on Kenneth Grahame's…
Woman In Red, The (1984)- Dir. Gene Wilder
Feat. Gene Wilder, Kelly Le Brock, Charles Grodin - Perhaps the height of Gene Wilder comedic indulgence, playing a middle–aged average man who becomes besotted with the womanly curves of leggy…
Yellow Earth (1984)- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Quiang Liu, Tuo Tan, Xueyin Wang… - This spearheaded the wave of modern Chinese cinema to be seen outside the People's Republic. A communist soldier visits a backwards village in 1939…
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