Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Comedy: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
- Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. Nick Nolte, Richard Dreyfuss, Bette Midler…
- Street bum Nick Nolte moves in to the plush home of neurotic fat cat Richard Dreyfuss and family, to amply comedic effect.
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Michael Caine, Dianne Wiest…
- Spot–on romantic comedy from Woody Allen, aligning another witty and perceptive script with a stellar cast.
Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
- Dir. Gene Wilder
Feat. Gene Wilder, Dom DeLuise, Gilda Radner…
- Insipid farce has two hapless honeymooners besieged by various spooky happenings. There is some fun to be had here and Wilder's affection for Abbott…
Heartburn (1986)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson
- Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson undergo some engaging marital strife.
Howard the Duck (1986)
- Dir. Willard Huyck
Feat. Lea Thompson, Tim Robbins, Jeffrey Jones
- An H–Bomb of interstellar proportions, this George Lucus produced quack–job starred a dwarf–sized humanoid duck, sent to earth to…
It's Garry Shandling's Show (1986-1990)
- Feat. Garry Shandling
- Hugely influential show centered around the neurosis of Garry Shandling – basically playing himself, who along with the rest of the cast just…
Lucas (1986)
- Dir. David Seltzer
Feat. Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen…
- Genuinely sympathetic account of the teenage love of 'dweeb' Corey Haim for an older schoolmate (Green), through infatuation, rejection and...…
Malcolm (1986)
- Dir. Nadia Tass
Feat. Colin Friels, John Hargreaves
- A simple young man with a genius for things mechanical is coerced into criminal activity by his dodgy new flatmate. Deserved winner of 8 Australian…
Money Pit, The (1986)
- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Tom Hanks, Shelley Long
- An often very funny 80s comedy about couple Tom Hanks’ and Shelley Long’s disastrous purchase of a home in Long Island that conceals a host of…
Pretty in Pink (1986)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton
- Molly Ringwald faces some tricky teenage dilemmas in John Hughes' quintessentially '80s rite–of–passage.