Subgenre Sampler
Rental > (1989-1989): 91 Films to Rent on VHS
- Criminal Law (1989)
- Dir. Martin Campbell
Feat. Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Tess Harper…
- Hot shot lawyer Gary Oldman successfully defends psycho–killer Kevin Bacon, only to find he had made a costly misjudgement.
- Dark Woods, The (1989)
- Dir. Jacques Deray
Feat. Beatrice Dalle
- Beatrice Dalle (BETTY BLUE) marries a stranger on a whim, and lives to regret it when her affections for his brother leads to a brutal crime of…
- Dead Funny (Penn and Teller Get Killed) (1989)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. David Patrick Kelly, Jon Cryer, Reg E. Cathey…
- Black comedy and magic duo Penn and Teller deploy an array of morbid stage show theatrics within the framework of a fictional feature.
- Diamond Skulls (1989)
- Dir. Nick Broomfield
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Amanda Donohoe
- This brittle stab at fiction from renowned documentarian Nick Broomfield about "sex, class and obsession" suffers from unsympathetic…
- Dink the Little Dinosaur (1989)
- A recent creation from the Hanna–Barbera stable. Dink and his prehistoric pals brave it against the perils of Mother Nature over five episodes.
- Dominion Tank Police (1989)
- Four parts on two cassettes.
- Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989)
- Dir. Wayne Wang
Feat. Victor Wong
- Witty Chinese–American fable about a young New Yorker under increasing social pressure, especially from his father, who arranged his marriage…
- Emma's Shadow (1989)
- Dir. Soeren Jacobsen
Feat. Line Kruse, Borje Ahlstedt, Erik Wedersoe
- 12–year–old Emma, feeling that her affluent parents would care more for her if she were missing, fakes her own kidnapping, and discovers…
- Enemies, A Love Story (1989)
- Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston
- Ron Silver and Anjelica Huston star in this sobering story of a Jewish immigrant in post–war New York who winds up married to three different…
- Fellow Traveller (1989)
- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Ron Silver, Hart Bochner
- A classy political thriller concerning the traumas of a blacklisted writer exiled in London during the McCarthy era.