Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
Flashdance (1983)
- Dir. Adrian Lyne
Feat. Jennifer Beals
- Glossy mid 80s musical has Jennifer Beals holding down the day–job as a welder, so as to realise her dreams dancing to hits like Flashdance and…
Fourth Man, The (1983)
- Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Jeroen Krabbe
- Jeroen Krabbe is a gay alchoholic writer prone to hallucinations who suspects his hairdresser of triple murder. Weird and stylish…
Fraggle Rock (TV Series) (1983)
- Creature curator Jim Henson developed this Muppet side project about a community of subterranean ‘Fraggles’ as an allegory for the human world,…
Gorky Park (1983)
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy…
- William Hurt plays a brooding Russian detective investigating horrific murders in Moscow. Meaty, convincing thriller.
Hammett (1983)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner…
- A chequered production history – conflict between director Wenders and exec producer Coppola, money problems – basically rendered the…
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983-1985)
- In its time this animated TV series was a ubiquitous pop phenomena, being simultaneously unleashed on the world with a line of model toys and…
Heart Like a Wheel (1983)
- Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Jesse Aragon, Bonnie Bedelia
- Well–rated biopic of woman racing–car driver, Shirley Muldowney.
Hell's Angels Forever (1983)
- Dir. Richard Chase, Kevin Keating, Leon Gast
Feat. Bo Diddley, Willie Nelson
- Seemingly straightforward doco is more a chilling endorsement of the self–styled outlaws. Even amid disturbing glimpses of short–fuse…
High Road To China (1983)
- Dir. Brian G. Hutton
Feat. Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong
- A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter as she searches for her missing father through Asia, entangling them in a struggle…
Hitchhiker, The (TV Series) (1983)
- Feat. Page Fletcher, Gary Busey, Peter Coyote…
- An early HBO series of mystery–thriller stories, related only by the character of The Hitchhiker (Page Fletcher), who introduces and closes…