Subgenre Sampler
Rental > : 24514 Films to Rent
Killer, The (1989)
- Dir. John Woo
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat
- Action at break–neck speed with a body–count to match the running time, this smorgasbord of super–violence with lashings of good…
King Richard II (1989)
- Dir. Michael Bogdanov
Feat. Colin Farrell, Michael Pennington, Michael Cronin…
- Michael Pennington and The English Shakespeare Company’s internationally acclaimed production of King Richard II – who became England's…
King Richard III (1989)
- Dir. Michael Bogdanov
Feat. Michael Pennington, Roger Booth, June Watson…
- Michael Pennington and The English Shakespeare Company’s internationally acclaimed production of King Richard III. The final installment of the…
Kinjite - Forbidden Subjects (1989)
- Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Charles Bronson, Juan Fernandez, Perry Lopez…
- Warped thriller with Bronson as a vice cop out to bust a teen prostitution ring. Bronson and Thompson's ninth and final collaboration is a sordid…
Kitchen Sink (1989)
- Dir. Alison Maclean
Feat. Theresa Healy, Peter Tait, Anagretta Christian
- Three shorts from director Alison Maclean. Her 1989 award–winning Gothic horror is here paired with two earlier works, TALKBACK (1987), and the…
Kiwi Shorts Volume 2 (1989-1993)
- Dir. William Toepfer, Anthony McCarten, Jessica Hobbs
- Another good sampling of eight short films funded by the NZ Arts Council and Film Commission – also compiled by the good folk at…
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
- Dir. Uli Edel
Feat. Jennifer Jason Leigh
- A harrowingly realistic adaptation of a contentious novel about civil unrest during the New York dock workers strike in the 1950s. Jennifer Jason…
Lean On Me (1989)
- Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Robert Guillaume
- Principal Morgan Freeman whips the pupils of a troubled high–school into shape in this formulaic but likeable example of the genre.
Legend of the Demon Womb (1989)
Legend of the Overfiend (Urotsukidoji) (1989)
- A genuine Manga 'video nasty', this has all the trademark elements of sex, violence and the supernatural to enough of an extreme to ensure an…