Subgenre Sampler
Rental > (1989-1989): 297 Films to Rent
Family Business (1989)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick
- Star–studded caper film that follows a family of criminals and their struggles when attachment clashes with business. Adapted by Vincent…
Farewell to the King (1989)
- Dir. John Milius
Feat. Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers, Frank McRae…
- Half–successful attempt to fashion a mythic tale from the Japanese invasion of Borneo in WW2, with a US Army deserter (Nolte) and a British…
Fellow Traveller (1989)
- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Ron Silver, Hart Bochner
- A classy political thriller concerning the traumas of a blacklisted writer exiled in London during the McCarthy era.
Feud, The (1989)
- Dir. Bob D'Elia
Feat. Rene Auberjonois, Joe Grifasi, Stanley Tucci
- David Lynch meets Norman Rockwell in this oddly likeable satire of '50s Hicksville gazes upon a spiralling feud between two eccentric families.
Field of Dreams (1989)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Phil Alden Robinson
Feat. Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Burt Lancaster…
- Kevin Costner has his childhood fantasy fulfilled when he is asked by strange voices to build a baseball diamond in his corn–field.…
Firm, The (1989)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Alan Clarke
Feat. Gary Oldman, Phillip Davis
- Another of dir. Clarke’s essential forays into the vicious subcultures of Britain, here a ‘firm’ of football hooligans led by real estate agent…
Five Days in June (1989)
- Dir. Michel Legrand
Feat. Sabine Azema, Annie Girardot, Matthieu Roze
- Yet another addition to the canon of dramas based on childhood memoirs. A renowned composer takes the helm to recall five days in his life on the…
Fletch Lives (1989)
- Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook, R. Lee Ermey
- Chevy Chase returns as the reckless reporter who resorts to his trademark bag of silly disguises when murder and misadventure follow his inheritance…
Fly 2, The (1989)
- Dir. Chris Walas
Feat. Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, John Getz
- Unnecessary 'son–of–the–fly' sequel to the revisionist horror classic with dir. Walas clearly no Cronenberg and EricStoltz no…
Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree (1989)
- Dir. Martyn Sanderson
Feat. Richard Von Sturmer
- A Western Samoan youth finds himself caught between traditionalism and the freedoms of Western culture. Albert Wendt's novel is given the…