Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5458 Films to Rent
Innerspace (1987)
- 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…
Intervista (1987)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Sergio Rubini
- An easy–going ode to dir. Fellini's early career at Cinecitta Studios, this takes the form of a mock interview–flashback, with the…
Ishtar (1987)
- Dir. Elaine May
Feat. Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani…
- Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman star in this notorious adventure–comedy as a duo of incredibly untalented American songwriters who travel to a…
Lethal Weapon (1987)
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Mel Gibson, Danny Glover
- Enjoyable caper–comedy, teaming up Gibson and Glover as partners–in–crime–fighting, struck a winning formula and inspired a…
Life Is a Long Quiet River (1987)
- Dir. Etienne Chatiliez
Feat. Benoit Magimel, Helene Vincent, Andre Wilms…
- Wry, off–beat comedy with a resonant message about two families of different classes who discover that their twelve–year–old…
Love Child (1987)
- Dir. Robert Smith
Feat. Peter Capaldi
- Conceived by famed hippy parents who were killed in a car crash, office nerd Peter Capaldi now aspires only to be 'ordinary'. A quirky,…
Made in Heaven (1987)
- Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Timothy Hutton, Kelly McGillis, Maureen Stapleton…
- Quirky comedy with Timothy Hutton finding true soul–mate Kelly McGillis in heaven.
Mannequin (1987)
- Dir. Michael Gottlieb
Feat. Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Estelle Getty…
- Andrew McCarthy stars as a department store window–dresser who discovers that one of his mannequins (Kim Cattrall) is actually a woman from…
Monster Squad, The (1987)
- Dir. Fred Dekker
Feat. Andre Gower, Stephen Macht, Stan Shaw…
- A group of savvy kids attempt to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monstrous cohorts – all familiar faces from Universal horror…
Moonstruck (1987)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Cher, Danny Aiello
- Superb comic drama rivals the best of Woody Allen through vignettes of family life in New York's Italian district, and the cast have never been…