Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5567 Films to Buy & Rent
My New Partner (Les Ripoux) (1984)
- Dir. Claude Zidi
Feat. Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte
- The genial Phillipe Noiret plays a slobbish corrupt cop saddled with a straight–laced partner in this hilarious caper comedy. It's a delight…
Not for Publication (1984)
- Dir. Paul Bartel
Feat. Nancy Allen, David Naughton
- Screwball take on NYC tabloid reporters from the director of EATING RAOUL.
Oxford Blues (1984)
- Dir. Robert Boris
Feat. Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Amanda Pays…
- A streetwise American hustler pursues the girl of his dream to England's where he enrols at Oxford University and joins the rowing team in an effort…
Police Academy (1984)
- Dir. Hugh Wilson
Feat. Steve Guttenberg, Michael Winslow, Kim Cattrall
- Original of a long–series of 80s comedies lampooning various misfit recruits to a chaotic Police Academy. Stars Steve Guttenberg and Kim…
Police Academy - The Complete Collection (Police Academy 1-7) (1984-1994)
- All 7 'Police Academy' comedies in one boxset.
Protocol (1984)
- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus
- Goldie Hawn plays a charmingly naive cocktail waitress who ends up employed at the White House after saving the president's life, in this…
Punky Brewster (TV Series) (1984)
- Feat. Soleil Moon-Frye, George Gaynes
- Colourful family sitcom with Soleil Moon Frye attaining semi–iconic status as the feisty orphan adopted by a grumpy old widower.
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
- Dir. Jeff Kanew
Feat. Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards
- Distinguished among 80s comedies by its unique agenda in which two bespectacled, buck–toothed nerds battle it out with the college…
Rolf De Heer Collection (Tail Of A Tiger, Incident At Raven's Gate, Dingo, Bad Boy Bubby, Epsilon, The Quiet Room) (1984)
- Dir. Rolf De Heer
- Charming, eccentric boxset of six early films from idiosyncratic Australian filmmaker Rolf De Heer.
Films Include:
– Tail Of A Tiger…
Secret Honor (1984)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Philip Baker Hall
- A fictionalized monologue adapted from the stage by playwrights Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, with the great Philip Baker Hall as former…