Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Nightmare On Elm Street, A (1984)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. John Saxon, Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp… - The maiden nightmare of the razor–fingered dream–demon Freddie Krueger, who went on to become the pre–eminent horror icon of the…
Racing with the Moon (1984)- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage… - A well–observed and resonant drama, about the last few days of boyhood for a couple of inductees into the US Marines in 1942. The cast all…
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)- Dir. Jeff Kanew
Feat. Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards - Distinguished among 80s comedies by its unique agenda in which two bespectacled, buck–toothed nerds battle it out with the college…
Silent One, The (1984)- Dir. Yvonne MacKay
Feat. George Henare, Pat Evison, Teraki Tokorangi - An endearing and visually striking tale of a gifted young mute boy who becomes ostracised by his isolated Pacific community, but finds solace in the…
Sixteen Candles (1984)- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Schoeffling… - Molly Ringwald became a star in this first of John Hughes' hip and eminently enjoyable movies about adolescence in the 1980s.
À Nos Amours (To Our Loves) (1983)- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Cyril Collard - One of dir. Pialat's most satisfying dramas, this concerns a journey of a teenage girl (Bonnaire, in a stunning debut) when her family life turns…
Christine (1983)- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul - A persecuted teen finds unlikely kinship in a girl with a diff – a demonically–charged 1958 Plymouth that indulges in dispatching…
Meantime (1983)- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, Pam Ferris… - Mike Leigh's skewed sense of humour takes on the doledrums of Thatcher's London. Tim Roth and Gary Oldman are unrecognisably awkward in a…
Outsiders, The (1983)- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio… - Based on the gritty novel by S. E. Hinton (THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW), this ‘realistic’ depiction of teenage outsiders in 50s America is…
Risky Business (1983)- Dir. Paul Brickman
Feat. Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay - A kind of '80s update of THE GRADUATE, this imaginative comedy propelled a 17–year old Tom Cruise into the limelight. Uncommonly stylish and…
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