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Subgenre Sampler
Losing Ground (1982)- Dir. Kathleen Collins
Feat. Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones - Noted as the first feature–length drama directed by a black American woman since the 1920s – a semi–autobiographical story of a…
Personal Best (1982)
- Dir. Robert Towne
Feat. Mariel Hemingway, Glenn Close - Excellent directorial debut for scriptwriter Towne (of CHINATOWN fame), that uses slow–motion photography to dynamise its story of two lesbian…
Scrubbers (1982)- Dir. Mai Zetterling
Feat. Imogen Bain, Honey Bane, Debby Bishop - A women–behind–bars movie that sidesteps exploitative trappings to deliver a grimly realistic reminder of tragic and frustrated lives.…
Woman Called Golda, A (1982)- Dir. Alan Gibson
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Ned Beatty, Judy Davis… - Much–praised biopic in which Ingrid Bergman gives her final performance as Israeli Prime Minister and so–called "mother of Israel', Golda…
Raggedy Man (1981)- Dir. Jack Fisk
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Eric Roberts, Sam Shepard… - Texas–set drama led by Spacek (fresh from her Oscar winning performance in COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER) portraying a perturbed divorcee mother who…
Foxes (1980)- Dir. Adrian Lyne
Feat. Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman… - Four teenage loose cannons speed towards self–destruction in this frank, impressionistic portrait of L.A. teen culture. A young Jodie Foster…
Agatha (1979)- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton… - Speculating over the 11 days in 1926 when detective–writer Agatha Christie (Vanessa Redgrave) went missing, this gently–toned drama sees…
My Brilliant Career (1979)- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Judy Davis, Sam Neill - Landmark Australian film, with Judy Davis as a determinedly independent femme in the late 19th century. From the novel by Miles Franklin.
Sisters or the Balance of Happiness (Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks) (1979)- Dir. Margarethe von Trotta
- 1970s West German drama about two sisters whose unusually close relationship negatively impacts their individual personal lives.
An Unmarried Woman (1978)- Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy… - Jill Clayburgh endeared herself to a generation of women with this well–loved character study of a divorced New Yorker navigating the single…
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