Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5561 Films to Buy & Rent
Caddyshack (1980)
- Dir. Harold Ramis
Feat. Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray…
- Rude and crude golfing hi–jinks, often deliriously funny. Perhaps most famous for the infantile chocolate–bar in the swimming pool scene.
Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980)
- Dir. Thomas Chong
Feat. Cheech Marin, Thomas Chong, Paul Reubens…
- The pot–head duo followed UP IN SMOKE with another batch of set pieces spiked with a brand of humour that (surely?) requires a particular state…
Cowboys (TV Series) (1980)
- Dir. Michael Mills
Feat. Colin Welland, David Kelly, Roy Kinnear
- Wickedly funny early–80's comedy centered around a dubious firm of dis–functional builders.
Essential Almodovar: Volume One (Pepi Luci Bom, Dark Habits, What Have I Done to Deserve This, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) (1980-1988)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
- Four early Pedro Almodovar films presented in a Collector's Edition box set.
Fade to Black (1980)
- Dir. Vernon Zimmerman
Feat. Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Gwynne Gilford
- Film buffs should appreciate this inventive black–comedy about a weirdo movie addict who kills people in the style of his various film heroes.
Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
- Dir. Piers Haggard
Feat. Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren
- Notable as Peter Sellers' last movie, but ranking close to the bottom of the Sellers canon for its fiendish forced humour and racist overtones.
Flickers (TV Series) (1980)
- Feat. Bob Hoskins, Frances de la Tour, Sheila Reid
- An amiable Cockney rogue seeking investors in the silent–film industry finds that building a business out of make believe isn't as easy as he…
Grown-Ups (1980)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Philip Davis, Lesley Manville, Brenda Blethyn
- A working class couple discovers the joys of living in a council flat in this early Mike Leigh drama for the BBC (part of the 'Play for Today'…
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…
Hopscotch (1980)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston…
- Walter Matthau carries this cat–and–mouse comedy as a demoted CIA operative who enjoys being a target after publishing a spiteful memoir…