Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics: 3203 Films to Rent on DVD
- Stand and Deliver (1988)
- Dir. Ramon Menendez
Feat. Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Andy Garcia
- Rousing true story about a no–nonsense Math teacher in a tough L.A. school and his struggles to motivate his dispirited and troubled students.
- Talk Radio (1988)
- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Eric Bogosian, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Greene
- Eric Bogosian adapts his biting stageplay for Oliver Stone's camera, and the result is devastating. He portrays a radio talkshow host with an opinion…
- Twins (1988)
- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny De Vito
- A science experiment posits Big Arnie and pint–sized Danny DeVito as not–so–identical twins who meet as adults after being…
- Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (1988)
- Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Stellan Skarsgard
- In war–torn Czechoslovakia 1968, a young doctor is caught between two lovers and the political struggle of his homeland. Daniel Day–Lewis…
- Vampire's Kiss (1988)
- Dir. Robert Bierman
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals
- Nicolas Cage gives a wildly uninhibited performance as a psychotic yuppie who thinks he's been bitten by a vampire. From the pen that wrote the…
- Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1988)
- Dir. Bob Ellis
Feat. Wendy Hughes, Colin Friels, Norman Kaye
- A Catholic schoolteacher moonlights as a prostitute to fund her disabled brother’s morphine dependence, later falling under the influence of a…
- Without A Clue (1988)
- Dir. Thom Eberhardt
Feat. Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones…
- A nicely contrived send–up of the Sherlock Holmes stories, with Kingsley playing Doctor Watson, who in fact has invented the character of…
- Barfly (1987)
- Dir. Barbet Schroeder
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige
- Mickey Rourke relishes his role as an alcoholic low–life with a gift for poetry. Loosely based on one Charles Bukowski, who wrote the script.
- Blackadder 3 (TV Series) (1987)
- Dir. Mandie Fletcher
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Tony Robinson
- Classic third series set in England 1760–1815. Six episodes contained on one DVD or two tape volumes: 'Dish and Dishonesty', 'Ink and…
- Broadcast News (1987)
- Dir. James L. Brooks
Feat. Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Albert Brooks…
- Superb TV newsroom dramedy in which vacuous newsreader Hurt and neurotic reporter Brooks compete for the attentions of Holly Hunter.