Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5458 Films to Rent
Cold Feet (1989)
- Dir. Robert Dornhelm
Feat. Keith Carradine, Sally Kirkland, Tom Waits…
- A deranged assassin and a strange couple concoct a scheme to smuggle emeralds over the Mexican border. Bawdy, off–kilter Southern romp features…
Cousins (1989)
- Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young…
- Superior remake of COUSIN COUSINE with Danson and Rossellini pretending to be lovers to avenge their unfaithful partners.
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Martin Landau, Anjelica Huston, Mia Farrow…
- Premium Woody Allen combines the best of his comedic and dramatic worlds. Martin Landau, Anjelica Huston, Mia Farrow and Woody himself do justice to…
Cutting Class (1989)
- Dir. Rospo Pallenberg
Feat. Brad Pitt, Donovan Leitch, Jill Schoelen…
- Late–80s, high–school set slasher that (semi–)parodies the genre is best known for featuring a young Brad Pitt. While mediocre as a…
Darling Buds of May, The (TV Series) (1989-1991)
- Feat. Catherine Zeta-Jones, David Jason, Pam Ferris…
- Top–rating TV comedy based on the H. E. Bates books, set in a not–so–innocent rural England.
The complete three series, plus two…
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.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1989)
- Dir. Frank Oz
Feat. Steve Martin, Michael Caine
- Small–time peddler Steve Martin and aristocratic con–man Michael Caine compete to swindle $50,000 from the next woman they meet. Wild and…
Do the Right Thing (1989)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Danny Aiello, Spike Lee, Ossie Davis…
- Spike Lee's tour–de–force of racial friction and personal politics, forged his status as the most important black director in history.…
Dream Team, The (1989)
- Dir. Howard Zieff
Feat. Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle
- Four mental patients are taken by their psychiatrist to see a baseball game and end up lost in New York after he is knocked unconscious while…
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…