Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Patty Hearst (1988)- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames… - Intense depiction of Patty Hearst's kidnapping, confinement and brain–washing by 'urban guerillas' the SLA, from that specialist in American…
Permanent Record (1988)- Dir. Marisa Silver
Feat. Keanu Reeves - Keanu Reeves stars in this slight but interesting teen drama about the effects of a suicide on a group of college friends.
Rain Man (1988)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino - Oscar–winning road drama featuring Dustin Hoffman's virtuoso performance as the idiot savant brother of Tom Cruise, who does equally well in a…
Red Sorghum (1988)- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Gong Li, Wen Jiang - A love story set among village winemakers who fight back against Japanese marauders in 1930's China. Blackly humorous and agonisingly horrific, this…
- Rikky and Pete (1988)
- Dir. Nadia Tass
Feat. Stephen Kearney, Nina Landis - A misfit with a penchant for mechanical inventions jaunts with his lost–soul sister to a remote mining village. Quirky fun from the makers of…
- Rouge (1988)
- Dir. Stanley Kwan
Feat. Leslie Cheung - Beautiful, haunting ghost story about a 1930s courtesan whose restless spirit roams modern Hong Kong. Asian stars Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung…
Rowing with the Wind (1988)- Dir. Gonzalo Suárez
Feat. Hugh Grant, Elizabeth Hurley, Lizzy McInnerny… - Earnest dramatisation of Mary Shelley's relationship with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley while in the midst of conceiving her famed novel…
Running On Empty (1988)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Judd Hirsch, River Phoenix, Christine Lahti… - A married couple, on the run for activist crimes in the 1960s, come to terms with their childrens' right to be free. A moving story, handled with…
Salaam Bombay! (1988)- Dir. Mira Nair
Feat. Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal - Breakthrough Indian film that eschews Bollywood tradition is a compassionate account of an 11–year–old village boy, stranded on the…
Salome's Last Dance (1988)- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns - Oscar Wilde drops in to witness a risque performance of his own play. A perfect reason for Ken to indulge in opulent overstatement with Glenda…
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