Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
High Hopes (1989)- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Phillip Davis, Ruth Sheen - Mike Leigh's excruciating portrait of a dysfunctional yet typical working–class family surviving in Thatcher's England. The blistering social…
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
- Dir. Bruce Robinson
Feat. Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward - Richard E. Grant encores for the director of WITHNAIL AND I to play a manic genius ad–man whose conscience rears its ugly head while he…
Just Me and Mario (1989)- Dir. Greg Stitt
Feat. Mark Hadlow - Mark Hadlow portrays a repressed individual obsessed with the music and life of Mario Lanza. It's a surreal, blackly comic take on suburban angst.
Parents (1989)
- Dir. Bob Balaban
Feat. Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis - Frightening piece of horror kitsch about a boy who suspects his parents are cannibals. Splendid, stylised direction and set design make this a…
Trop Belle Pour Toi (Too Beautiful For You) (1989)- Dir. Bertrand Blier
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet - Car salesman Gerard Depardieu has a beautiful wife, but becomes infatuated with his plain yet passionate receptionist. Insightful, melancholy comedy.
Beetlejuice (1988)- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin… - A deceased couple return as ghosts and discover their home has been occupied by an obnoxious family, so decide to enlist the services of…
Brain Damage (1988)- Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry - Outrageous splatter comedy doubles as a drug–addiction parable about a parasitic monster that feeds off the acquaintances of its human host.…
Child's Play (1988)- Dir. Tom Holland
Feat. Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent… - 'Chucky', the possessed cabbage–patch kid, goes on a murderous rampage in this clever consumerist parable. Tightly scripted and imaginatively…
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer - Classic tale of an unscrupulous French countess who creates royal havoc by challenging her former lover to the sexual conquest of a virginal…
Fright Night Part 2 (1988)- Dir. Tommy Lee Wallace
Feat. Roddy McDowall, William Ragsdale, Traci Lind… - William Ragsdale returns as Charley Brewster, now a college freshman who is tormented by the undead sister of the vampire from the first film. While…
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