Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3566 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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.
- Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
- Dir. Steve Rash
Feat. Patrick Dempsey
- Likeable though period–bound comedy in which nerdy student Patrick Dempsey pays the gorgeous Amanda Peterson a thousand bucks to pose as his…
- Dame Edna Experience, The (TV Series) (1987)
- Feat. Barry Humphries
- Dame Edna Everage hosted this riotous mock chat–show in the late eighties (following a series of successful TV specials), where her guests…
- Date With An Angel (1987)
- Dir. Tom McLoughlin
Feat. Michael E. Knight, Emmanuelle Beart, Phoebe Cates…
- Frothy and feckless, this dim comedy has a man waking up after his bachelor party to find an angel in his pool. You can bet they're going to have…
- Eat the Rich (1987)
- Dir. Peter Richardson
Feat. Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Jennifer Saunders…
- Terrific second feature from the COMIC STRIP players makes a spectacular mockery of the British class structure and Thatcherist politics. It's a…
- Five Corners (1987)
- Dir. Tony Bill
Feat. Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Todd Graff…
- Ambitious, although ultimately chaotic, drama set in the Bronx in 1964, where a young Jodie Foster is stalked by her former boyfriend (Turturro), who…
- Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker
- Robin Williams tour–de–force performance as an irreverant, rebel radio–jock stationed in Saigon during the Vietnam War. The funny…
- Harp in the South, The (TV Mini Series) (1987)
- Dir. George Whaley
Feat. Martyn Sanderson, Anne Phelan, Anna Hruby…
- A TV mini–series about an Irish family who migrate to Australia in the post WW2 years to find their hopes of prosperity dashed on the streets…
- High Tide (1987)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Judy Davis, Claudia Karvan, Colin Friels
- The director of MY BRILLIANT CAREER encores with Judy Davis for this bittersweet exploration of mother–daughter relations at a bleak coastal…