Subgenre Sampler
Family > Comedy: 306 Films to Buy & Rent
Adventures in Babysitting (1987)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Chris Columbus
Feat. Elisabeth Shue, Keith Coogan, Anthony Rapp…
- A young Elisabeth Shue is serious crush material as the teenage babysitter who must escort two rug rats through the treacherous urban jungle of…
Full House (TV Series) (1987-1995)
- Feat. John Stamos, Bob Saget, Mary-Kate Olsen…
- The ultimate in 24–carat family friendly fare, this light American sitcom expanded on the THREE MEN AND A BABY formula, with its premise of a…
Innerspace (1987)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan…
- The premise of FANTSTIC VOYAGE is comically reworked with a vastly different plotline involving a miniaturized Dennis Quaid is inadvertently injected…
Alf (TV Series) (1986)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Feat. Max Wright
- Irresistibly cute sitcom about a furry, wise–cracking alien that settles into American suburbia in the 1980s. Season 1 available.
Disc 1:…
Real Ghostbusters, The (TV Series) (1986)
- Popular eighties cartoon series furthers the adventures of Ghostbusters Peter, Egon, Ray and Winston, although this time they're joined by past…
Short Circuit (1986)
- Dir. John Badham
Feat. Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg
- A family adopts an alien–robot which develops a personality of its own. Good family fodder.
Back to the Future (1985)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson…
- A bona fide 80s classic, this original sci–fi comedy/adventure has a perfectly cast Michael J. Fox sent back to the '50s to have his mother…
Goonies, The (1985)
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, Martha Plimpton
- Junior edition of 'Indiana Jones', from a Steven Speilberg story, has seven bored kids on the Oregon coast hunting for pirate booty after they…
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Paul Ruebens
- A stylised masterpiece in which Pee–Wee Herman embarks on a priceless search for his prized possession; a bicycle. A brilliant,…
Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4, The (1985)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Gian Sammarco, Julie Walters, Lulu …
- Engaging TV adaptation of Sue Townsend's much–loved book about the pains of adolescence chronicled by a teenage diarist as he struggles to come…