Subgenre Sampler
Politics: 627 Films to Buy & Rent
Berkeley in the Sixties (1990)
- Dir. Mark Kitchell
- A lively, dense study of 1960s counter–culture in microcosm, this chronicles the rise and fall of the student movement in a Californian campus…
Gravy Train, The (TV Mini-series) (1990-1991)
- Dir. David Tucker, James Cellan Jones
Feat. Ian Richardson, Alexei Sayle, Francesca Annis…
- Intriguing political TV Mini–series based around a scheming Director of European Economic Community and his naive assistant travelling across…
House of Cards, The (TV Series) (1990-1993)
- Dir. Paul Seed
Feat. Ian Richardson
- A sardonic and blackly humourous look at British politics, with a reptilian Ian Richardson plotting and blackmailing his way into power in three…
Maria's Story (A Portrait Of Love And Survival In El Salvador's Civil War) (1990)
- Dir. Monona Wali, Pamela Cohen
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Roger and Me (1990)
- Dir. Michael Moore
Feat. Michael Moore
- A brilliantly irreverant personal odyssey by the film–maker who, equipped with a mic and a camera, endeavours to extract comment from General…
Blaze (1989)
- Dir. Ron Shelton
Feat. Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Richard Jenkins
- Paul Newman plays flamboyant Southern governor Earl Long, who was scandalized over a love affair with an exotic dancer (Lolita Davidovich, in a…
Cat Chaser (1989)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Peter Weller, Kelly McGillis, Charles Durning…
- The director atypically sidesteps controversy in adapting Elmore Leonard's political novel about a Miami hotel owner who courts danger when he…
Clarke and Dawe (The Full Catastrophe) (1989-2009)
- Feat. John Clarke, Bryan Dawe
- Comprehensive compilation of mock interviews from Aussie comic Bryan Dawe and true–blue Kiwi John Clarke (aka Fred Dagg), whose collective…
Eight Men Out (1989)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. John Cusack, Michael Rooker, Christopher Lloyd…
- True story of the Chicago White Sox baseball team who conspired with gamblers to lose the World Series in 1919. Finely detailed topical drama with an…
Fellow Traveller (1989)
- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Ron Silver, Hart Bochner
- A classy political thriller concerning the traumas of a blacklisted writer exiled in London during the McCarthy era.