Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
Wind in the Willows, The (1983)
- Stop–motion puppetry brings the world of Toad, Ratty and Mole to delightful life in this nice TV version of Kenneth Graham's classic book..…
Winds of War, The (Mini-series) (1983)
- Dir. Dan Curtis
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent…
- Thorough and imposing wartime miniseries chronicling the width and breadth of events in the years leading up to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour in…
Year of Living Dangerously, The (1983)
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt…
- Multi–layered, vivid yarn posits Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver as foreign officials in 1965 Indonesia at the time of the communist coup.…
Yellowbeard (1983)
- Dir. Mel Damski
Feat. Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Eric Idle…
- Pirate farce for serious Python completists only. Impressive cast though.
Yentl (1983)
- Dir. Barbra Streisand
Feat. Barbra Streisand
- Barbra Streisand directs herself in this musical/drama as an Eastern European woman at the turn of the century who masquerades as a boy in order to…
Zelig (1983)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Mia Farrow
- Woody seamlessly fuses newsreel footage with new material for this mock–documentary on the fictional life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig.…
Zu Warriors (Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain) (1983)
- Dir. Tsui Hark
Feat. Biao Yuen, Moon Lee, Brigitte Lin…
- A renowned fantasy film, in which four medieval warriors search the universe for twin swords with which to defeat a powerful demon, which threatens…
'Allo 'Allo (TV Series) (1982-1992)
- Feat. Gordon Kaye, Carmen Silvera
- British farce at its best and silliest, this sitcom takeoff of every WW2 French Resistance film (and the TV Series 'Secret Army') is set around the…
1915 (TV Mini-series) (1982)
- Feat. Scott Burgess, Scott McGregor, Lorraine Bayly…
- A solid recreation of the Great War era, this TV mini–series charts the experiences of several young men leaving the home–front in…
1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982)
- Dir. Enzo G. Castellari
Feat. Vic Morrow, Fred Williamson, Christopher Connelly
- Renowned cheese–fest in which youth gangs of the post–Apocalypse Bronx, battle each other and an evil corporate arms manufacturer. Prime…