Subgenre Sampler
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8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
- Dir. Hal Ashby
Feat. Rosanna Arquette, Jeff Bridges
- Late–career crime–thriller from dir. Ashby, lending his skills to the woozily–atmospheric tale of Florida cocaine deals gone wrong.…
Arriving Tuesday (1986)
- Dir. Richard Riddiford
Feat. Judy McIntosh, Peter Hayden
- An estranged couple try to rekindle their romance by taking a holiday which only seems to make matters worse. A poignant love story.
Assault, The (1986)
- Dir. Fons Rademakers
Feat. Derek De Lint, Marc Van Uchelen, Monique Van de Ven
- Exceptional near–epic tale of a young boy who witnesses the murder of a Nazi collaborator. Fine direction won this powerful drama the Best…
Bashu, The Little Stranger (1986)
- Dir. Bahram Beizai
Feat. Susan Taslimi, Parvis Pourhosseini, Adrian Afravian
- Compassionate film follows the plight of a 10–year–old boy whose raided Iranian village forced him to take contentious refuge. Certain to…
Basil The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
- Dir. Ron Clements
- A Sherlock Holmes–inspired animated feature from Disney.
Set in turn–of–the–century London, Basil sets on the trail of a…
Best of Q (TV Series) (1986)
- Feat. Spike Milligan
- Spike Milligan's influential television series (it out Monty Python's Monty Python) takes the former Goon's surrealistic 'nonsense' style and gives…
Bridge to Nowhere (1986)
- Dir. Ian Mune
Feat. Bruno Lawrence
- Young backpackers go bush and find themselves in a conflict of survival with bad–egg Bruno Lawrence.
Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
- Dir. Gene Saks
Feat. Blythe Danner, Bob Dishy, Jonathan Silverman
- A humourous slice of nostalgia set in pre–war Brooklyn, from the pen of Neil Simon.
Cactus (1986)
- Dir. Paul Cox
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Norman Kaye
- Challenging and intriguing drama from dir. Paul Cox, about a French woman (Isabelle Huppert) having an uneasy vacation in Australia.
Camorra (1986)
- Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Angela Molina, Harvey Keitel
- Complicated but well–judged thriller about the Naples underworld and specifically the use of children in the drug trade. More conventional than…