Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7936 Films to Rent
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…
Emma's Shadow (1989)
- Dir. Soeren Jacobsen
Feat. Line Kruse, Borje Ahlstedt, Erik Wedersoe
- 12–year–old Emma, feeling that her affluent parents would care more for her if she were missing, fakes her own kidnapping, and discovers…
Enemies, A Love Story (1989)
- Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston
- Ron Silver and Anjelica Huston star in this sobering story of a Jewish immigrant in post–war New York who winds up married to three different…
Eversmile, New Jersey (1989)
- Dir. Carlos Sorin
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Mirjana Jokovic
- Oddball dramedy with Daniel Day–Lewis taking on the role of a dentist travelling by motorbike through South America to provide locals with free…
Fabulous Baker Boys, The (1989)
- Dir. Steve Cloves
Feat. Michelle Pfeiffer, Jeff Bridges, Beau Bridges…
- The fabulous Bridges brothers play two sibling cocktail musicians who employ sexy vocalist Michelle Pfeiffer to spice up their routine act.
Family Business (1989)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick
- Star–studded caper film that follows a family of criminals and their struggles when attachment clashes with business. Adapted by Vincent…
Field of Dreams (1989)
- Dir. Phil Alden Robinson
Feat. Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Burt Lancaster…
- Kevin Costner has his childhood fantasy fulfilled when he is asked by strange voices to build a baseball diamond in his corn–field.…
Firm, The (1989)
- Dir. Alan Clarke
Feat. Gary Oldman, Phillip Davis
- Another of dir. Clarke’s essential forays into the vicious subcultures of Britain, here a ‘firm’ of football hooligans led by real estate agent…
Five Days in June (1989)
- Dir. Michel Legrand
Feat. Sabine Azema, Annie Girardot, Matthieu Roze
- Yet another addition to the canon of dramas based on childhood memoirs. A renowned composer takes the helm to recall five days in his life on the…
Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree (1989)
- Dir. Martyn Sanderson
Feat. Richard Von Sturmer
- A Western Samoan youth finds himself caught between traditionalism and the freedoms of Western culture. Albert Wendt's novel is given the…