Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7936 Films to Rent
Celia (1988)
- Dir. Ann Turner
Feat. Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie
- Fans of Jane Campion should enjoy this eerie antipodean tale of a 9–year–old girl who surrenders to her nightmarish fantasies when her…
China Beach (TV Series) (1988)
- Feat. Dana Delany, Michael Boatman, Nan Woods
- TV series set at an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War, following the unique perspectives of a range of characters including US Army doctors…
Chocolat (1988)
- Dir. Claire Denis
Feat. Isaach de Bankole, Giulia Boschi, Francois Cluzet
- Quietly rewarding autobiographical work follows a young woman to West Africa where she reminisces her childhood. Early work by the director of BEAU…
Christmas Wife, The (1988)
- Dir. David Hugh Jones
Feat. Jason Robards Jr., Julie Harris
- Afraid to spend the Christmas holiday alone, an aging widower responds to an ad for "social introductions".
Clara's Heart (1988)
- Dir. Robert Mulligan
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg
- Whoopi Goldberg plays housemaid to various insufferable yuppies.
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…
Cobra Verde (1988)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski
- Klaus Kinski stars for the last time for Herzog as another doomed outcast in an alien environment. West Africa is portrayed as a cruel, highly…
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.