Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3566 Films to Buy & Rent
- Behaving Badly (TV mini-series) (1989)
- Dir. David Tucker
Feat. Judi Dench, Frances Barber, Maurice Denham…
- A bleak though blackly–comic mini–series with Judi Dench as a dowdy housewife who belatedly comes out of her shell after her husband of…
- Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
- Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin
- Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter play a couple of crazed teenagers who are sent on a Excellent Adventure, collecting famous historical figures via a…
- Birds of a Feather (TV Series) (1989)
- Feat. Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson, Lesley Joseph
- Charming and concise British sitcom following the fortunes of two sisters, each married to small–time crooks, who move in together after their…
- Blackadder Goes Forth (TV Series) (1989)
- Dir. Richard Boden
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson
- Final official series, set on the Western Front 1917. Six episodes contained on a single DVD or two tape volumes: 'Captain Cook', 'Corporal…
- 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…
- Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
- Dir. Howard Brookner
Feat. Matt Dillon, Jennifer Grey, Julie Hagerty…
- An American Playhouse adaptation of four Damon Runyon tales which intersect on New Year's Eve 1928 in a milieu of jazz–age hedonism. A good…
- Booker (TV Series) (1989-1990)
- Feat. Carmen Argenziano
- Good value spin–off series from 21 JUMP STREET, with Richard Grieco from the original series taking on the role of a rebellious private…
- Burbs, The (1989)
- Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher…
- A worthwhile comic spin on that age–old comic scenario – what if those strange new neighbours were members of a cannibalistic cult?…
- Chorus of Disapproval (1989)
- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales…
- A light and slight drama set around widower Jeremy Iron’s move to a seaside town and involvement with a local theatre group. Superb cast livens the…
- Cousins (1989)
- Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young…
- Superior remake of COUSIN COUSINE with Danson and Rossellini pretending to be lovers to avenge their unfaithful partners.