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Subgenre Sampler
Rising Damp (TV Series) (1980)- Dir. Ronnie Baxter
Feat. Leonard Rossiter, Richard Beckinsale, Frances de la Tour… - A dank Brit boarding–house is the setting for this classic sitcom written by Eric Chappell. Series 1 & 2 (15 episodes) available across two…
Scruples (Mini-series) (1980)- Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Lindsay Wagner, Barry Bostwick, Kim Cattrall… - Trashy, high–society soap opera, with Lindsay Wagner overcoming privilege and class to rise beyond the upper echelons of the L.A. fashion…
Sea Wolves, The (1980)- Dir. Andrew McLagen
Feat. Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven… - Salty War drama based on a real covert mission during World War II in which a group of middle–aged civilian ex–soldiers are sent by the…
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980)- Dir. Steve Roberts
Feat. Trevor Howard, Patrick Magee - Based on Vivian Stanshall's surreal radio monologues, this tipsy British comedy concerns the attempts of an eccentric British aristocrat to exorcise…
Staying On (1980)- Dir. Silvio Narizzano
Feat. Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Saeed Jaffrey - Drama based on the award–winning novel by Paul Scott (The Jewel in the Crown), and reuniting BRIEF ENCOUNTER actors Celia Johnson and Trevor…
Stir Crazy (1980)- Dir. Sidney Poitier
Feat. Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Craig T. Nelson - The first and best of the Pryor/Wilder comedies, about a pair of clumsy crooks who land in jail. Plenty of laughs – though fairly predictable…
Used Cars (1980)- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Jack Warden, Kurt Russell - Two sibling used car dealers (both played by Jack Warden) take their rivalry and sales gimmicks to a bad–taste extreme. Good script elevates…
10 (1979)- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Dudley Moore, Bo Derek, Julie Andrews - The cuddly charms of Dudley Moore lift this light comedy out of the saccharine. Moore plays a successful composer falling in love with gorgeous Bo…
1941 (1979)- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Toshiro Mifune - The dir.’s only real commercial failure, this loose slapstick comedy, set in a Californian seaside town visited by a Japanese submarine in 1941,…
A Force Of One (1979)- Dir. Paul Aaron
Feat. Chuck Norris, Jennifer O'Neill, Clu Gulager… - Passable crime thriller with Chuck Norris near the start of his career playing a karate champion assisting the police to hunt down a…
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