Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Germany, Pale Mother (Deutschland bleiche Mutter) (1980)
- Dir. Helma Sanders-Brahms
Feat. Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi - Bleak WWII drama that follows the tragic fate of a couple who marry the day before the war breaks out when he is drafted to the Eastern front only to…
Hamlet (1980)- Dir. Rodney Bennett
Feat. Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Patrick Stewart… - Part of the BBC's excellent series of Shakespeare productions, filmed in a 'theatrical' TV environment utilising the best of English acting talent.
Hi-de-hi! (TV Series) (1980-1988)- Feat. Paul Shane, Ruth Madoc, Jeffrey Holland…
- The classic 1980s comedy series that took a sardonic look at the garish and cheerful culture of post–WW2 British holiday camps. Set around the…
Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Anne Baxter, Robert Powell, MIchael Wager… - Delightful Merchant Ivory production has two rival theatre companies dueling over the right to produce a recently discovered Jane Austen manuscript.…
Jayne Mansfield Story, The (1980)- Dir. Dick Lowry
Feat. Loni Anderson, Arnold Schwarzenegger - Loni Anderson plays the titular blonde bombshell in this tacky biopic of one of the Hollywood's most likeable sex kittens. Arnie co–stars as…
Jerk, The (1980)- Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. Steve Martin - Classic debut for Steve Martin as a hayseed inventor raised in the bayou.
Last Married Couple in America, The (1980)- Dir. Gilbert Cates
Feat. George Segal, Natalie Wood, Richard Benjamin… - A "happily married" Californian couple begin to doubt their 15 year marriage after their friends all divorce and pressure them to do the same.
Little Miss Marker (1980)- Dir. Walter Bernstein
Feat. Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis… - Comedy set in the 30's, following a gloomy, cantankerous bookie (Walter Matthau) running a gambling operation, who finds himself with a 6–year…
McVicar (1980)- Dir. Tom Clegg
Feat. Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell… - Based on the true story of infamous UK criminal John McVicar, this gritty thriller stars Daltrey as the bad boy sent to a maximum security prison…
Melvin and Howard (1980)- Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Paul Le Mat, Jason Sr. Robards - Low–key gem of a road–movie in which yokel Paul Le Mat (AMERICAN GRAFFITI) rescues a grizzled tramp on a desert highway one night, who…
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