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Rumble Fish
Rumble Fish is a 1983 American drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, adapted from S. E. Hinton's novel and starring Matt Dillon and Mickey Rourke.
Running on Empty (1988 film)
Running on Empty is a 1988 American drama directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Naomi Foner, starring Christine Lahti, River Phoenix, and Judd Hirsch as a fugitive antiwar family; Golden Globe-winning, Oscar-nominated film released September 9, 1988.
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987) is a Stephen Frears comedy-drama written by Hanif Kureishi, starring Shashi Kapoor, Frances Barber, and Ayub Khan-Din, a Thatcher-era London satire and follow-up to My Beautiful Laundrette.
Sauve qui peut
Sauve qui peut, also released as Every Man for Himself and Slow Motion, is a 1980 French-Swiss drama directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye, and Isabelle Huppert.
Scandal (1989 film)
Scandal (1989), Michael Caton-Jones's drama about the 1963 Profumo affair, starring John Hurt as Stephen Ward, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as Christine Keeler, and Ian McKellen as Profumo; Miramax's first in-house production, initially rated X in the US.
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
sex, lies, and videotape (1989) is Steven Soderbergh's debut drama, starring James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, and Laura San Giacomo; made for $1.2 million, it won the 1989 Palme d'Or and Sundance Audience Award and kickstarted the 1990s American indie boom.
Shoot the Moon
Shoot the Moon is a 1982 divorce drama directed by Alan Parker, written by Bo Goldman, starring Albert Finney and Diane Keaton, set in Marin County, shown in competition at Cannes 1982.
Smithereens (1982 film)
Smithereens is Susan Seidelman's 1982 American independent debut drama, starring Susan Berman, Brad Rinn, and punk icon Richard Hell; shot on 16 mm in downtown New York, it was the first American indie to compete for the Palme d'Or at Cannes 1982.
Sophie's Choice (film)
Sophie's Choice (1982), Alan J. Pakula's adaptation of William Styron's novel, stars Meryl Streep as Holocaust survivor Sophie Zawistowska opposite Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol; Streep won the Best Actress Oscar.
Special Bulletin
Special Bulletin (1983) is an NBC television drama directed by Edward Zwick and written by Marshall Herskovitz, a simulated live newscast of nuclear terrorism in Charleston, S.C.; it won four Emmys.
Square Dance (film)
Square Dance is a 1987 American drama directed by Daniel Petrie from his novel by Alan Hines, starring Jason Robards, Jane Alexander, Winona Ryder, and Rob Lowe.
Star 80
Star 80 (1983) is Bob Fosse's final film, a biographical drama starring Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts as Dorothy Stratten and Paul Snider, whose 1980 murder-suicide it dramatizes; released by Warner Bros., it earned Roberts a Golden Globe nomination.
Starry Is the Night
Starry Is the Night (今夜星光燦爛, Gam ye sing gwong chan lan) is a 1988 Hong Kong drama-romance directed by Ann Hui, starring Brigitte Lin, George Lam, and David Wu; the first Hong Kong film to unambiguously depict the 1967 riots, produced by Shaw Brothers and Tomson Films.
Story of Women
Story of Women (Une affaire de femmes) is Claude Chabrol's 1988 French drama starring Isabelle Huppert as an abortionist in Vichy France, based on Francis Szpiner's book about Marie-Louise Giraud, guillotined in 1943; Huppert won the 1988 Venice Volpi Cup.
Suburbia (film)
Suburbia is a 1983 American drama thriller, the debut feature of writer-director Penelope Spheeris, starring Chris Pedersen, Bill Coyne, and Flea, about teenage runaways squatting near Los Angeles.
Swing Shift (film)
Swing Shift is a 1984 Jonathan Demme comedy-drama starring Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, and Ed Harris about WWII aircraft-factory workers; it was famously re-edited after Hawn's reshoots and grossed $6,650,206.
Taboo (1980 film)
Taboo (1980) is an American adult drama directed by Kirdy Stevens, written by Helene Terrie, starring Kay Parker as Barbara Scott; an X-rated hit that spawned a long sequel series and entered the XRCO Hall of Fame.
Taipei Story
Taipei Story (青梅竹馬, Qingmei zhuma) is Edward Yang's 1985 Taiwanese drama, his second feature, starring Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Chin as a couple drifting apart in modernizing Taipei; a New Cinema landmark, Locarno FIPRESCI winner, restored by the World Cinema Project.
Tender Mercies
Tender Mercies is a 1983 American drama directed by Bruce Beresford, written by Horton Foote, starring Robert Duvall as recovering country singer Mac Sledge; it won Oscars for Best Actor and Original Screenplay.
Teri Meherbaniyan
Teri Meherbaniyan (तेरी मेहरबानियाँ) is a 1985 Hindi action drama by K.C. Bokadia, directed by Vijay Reddy, a remake of Kannada Thaliya Bhagya, starring Jackie Shroff, Poonam Dhillon, Amrish Puri, and the avenging dog Moti (Brownie).
The Accidental Tourist (film)
The Accidental Tourist is a 1988 American comedy-drama directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring William Hurt and Geena Davis, who won an Academy Award for the film.
The Accused (1988 film)
The Accused is a 1988 Paramount legal drama directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Jodie Foster as rape survivor Sarah Tobias and Kelly McGillis as her attorney, loosely based on the 1983 Cheryl Araujo New Bedford case; Foster won the 1989 Best Actress Oscar.
The Angelic Conversation
The Angelic Conversation is Derek Jarman's 1985 British experimental film: Judi Dench reads 14 Shakespeare sonnets over Super-8 imagery of a gay love affair, with music by Coil, produced by the BFI.
The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考) (1983 film)
The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, Narayama bushikō) is Shohei Imamura's 1983 Toei drama, the second adaptation of Fukazawa Shichiro's 1956 novel about ubasute, the abandonment of 70-year-olds on a mountain; it won the 1983 Cannes Palme d'Or.
The Big Blue
The Big Blue (Le Grand Bleu) is Luc Besson's 1988 French film about free divers Jacques Mayol and Enzo Molinari, inspired by Jacques Mayol and Enzo Maiorca. It opened Cannes 1988, sold 9.2 million tickets in France, and won two Césars.
The Big Parade (大阅兵) (1986 film)
The Big Parade (大阅兵, Da yue bing) is Chen Kaige's 1986 Fifth Generation drama about PLA soldiers training eight months for the 1984 35th anniversary National Day parade, shot by Zhang Yimou, censored, and awarded at Montreal.
The Color of Money
The Color of Money (1986) is Martin Scorsese's sequel to The Hustler, starring Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson mentoring Tom Cruise's Vincent Lauria; Newman won the Best Actor Oscar.
The Color Purple (1985 film)
The Color Purple (1985) is Steven Spielberg's drama adapting Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize novel, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, and Margaret Avery; 11 Oscar nominations, no wins, $94 million initial domestic gross.
The Cyclist
The Cyclist (Bicycleran) is a 1989 Iranian drama directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, starring Moharram Zeinalzadeh as an Afghan refugee who pedals non-stop for a week.
The Dead (1987 film)
The Dead (1987) is John Huston's final film, an adaptation of James Joyce's short story from Dubliners, written by Tony Huston and starring Anjelica Huston and Donal McCann as Gretta and Gabriel Conroy at a 1904 Epiphany dinner in Dublin.