Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Killing Fields, The (1984)
- Dir. Roland Joffe
Feat. Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich… - Devastating and award–winning account of Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia.
Last Bastion, The (1984)- Dir. Chris Thomson
Feat. Bill Hunter, Ray Barrett, Robert Vaughn… - Australia's involvement in World War II is explored from behind closed doors in this dramatisation of the decisions made by politicians and generals…
Missing in Action (1984)- Dir. Joseph Zito
Feat. Chuck Norris, M. Emmet Walsh - Simplistic but iconic 80s actioner, with Norris as a RAMBO–figure, a Vietnam Vet who returns to liberate POWs from their jungle hellholes.…
Purple Hearts (1984)- Dir. Sidney J Furie
Feat. Ken Wahl, Cheryl Ladd, R. Lee Ermey… - Vietnam War set romance with Wahl and Ladd as love struck medics.
Razor's Edge, The (1984)- Dir. John Byrum
Feat. Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Denholm Elliott - Bill Murray is in early dramatic mode as a despondent WWI vet. embarking on a spiritual walkabout through India and the Himalayas. Written by…
Red Dawn (1984)- Dir. John Milius
Feat. Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Harry Dean Stanton… - Playing out the US fear/fantasy of Commie invasion, this sees a high–school football team (led by Patrick Swayze) make for the hills and wage…
Threads (1984)- Dir. Mick Jackson
Feat. Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale - A disturbing vision of a nuclear attack on Sheffield, which comes across as an English THE DAY AFTER, with more focus on the grim details of such a…
By the Sword Divided (TV Series) (1983)- Feat. Sharon Maughan, Andrew MacLachlan , Lucy Aston
- Classic BBC period drama following the aristocratic Lacey family, whose lives are thrown into turmoil as their political allegiances split during the…
Hong Kong 1941 (Dang doi lai ming) (1983)- Dir. Po-Chi Leong
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Alex Man, Kien Shih… - One of Chow Yun–Fat's early classics, this portrays the disturbing invasion of Hong Kong by the Japanese in 1941, which disrupts the dreams and…
Keep, The (1983)- Dir. Michael Mann
Feat. Scott Glenn, Alberta Watson, Jurgen Prochnow… - German soldiers camping in a Romanian castle are visited by various ghoulies in Michael Mann's off–beat supernatural yarn set during WWII,…
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