Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 978 Films to Buy & Rent
- Clean and Sober (1988)
- Dir. Glenn Gordon Caron
Feat. Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman…
- Unflinching, powerful drama with Michael Keaton utterly convincing as a real estate broker who decides to lay low at a drug rehabilitation facility…
- Cocktail (1988)
- Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown
- Tom Cruise receives behind–the–bar cocktail tips from Bryan Brown. Slick comedy was an early box–office for kiwi dir. Donaldson.
- Crossing Delancey (1988)
- Dir. Joan Micklin Silver
Feat. Amy Irving, Peter Riegert
- Liberal New Yorker Amy Irving juggles her passion for literature around two (in)eligible bachelors – a handsome academic and a humble pickle…
- Da (1988)
- Dir. Matt Clark
Feat. Martin Sheen
- Martin Sheen returns to his native Ireland for his father's funeral and finds his ghost alive and well and willing to discuss the past.
- 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…
- Dominick and Eugene (1988)
- Dir. Robert M Young
Feat. Ray Liotta, Tom Hulce, Jamie Lee Curtis
- Ray Liotta cares for his autistic twin brother Tom Hulce in this affecting drama.
- Evil Angels (A Cry in the Dark) (1988)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Meryl Streep, Sam Neill
- Jack–of–all–accents, Meryl Streep, does wonders as Lindy Chamberlain, the woman accused of murdering her child in the Australian…
- Four Minute Mile, The (1988)
- Dir. James Goddard
Feat. Richard Huw, Nique Needles, Michael York
- Set in the post–WW2 era of middle–distance athletics when for a period of eight years it seemed that no one would break the…
- Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris
- Impressive biopic of American primatologist Dian Fossey (Sigourney Weaver), who ventured to the volitile African jungle to study the…
- Homeboy (1988)
- Dir. Michael Seresin
Feat. Mickey Rourke
- Grim tale with Mickey Rourke as an alcoholic boxer who struggles both in and outside the ring. Directed by Alan Parker's NZ–born cameraman…