Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7936 Films to Rent
Two Moon Junction (1988)
- Dir. Zalman King
Feat. Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Louise Fletcher…
- Mild erotica from 9 1/2 WEEKS creator made bearable by a young, blonde Sherilyn Fenn.
Two of Us (1988)
- Dir. Roger Tonge
Feat. Jason Rush, Lee Whitlock, Kathy Burke
- This gay youth drama made for British television caused a political outcry upon release just as the sex education laws were being revised. This…
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (1988)
- Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Stellan Skarsgard
- In war–torn Czechoslovakia 1968, a young doctor is caught between two lovers and the political struggle of his homeland. Daniel Day–Lewis…
Une Affair Des Femmes (a Story of Women) (1988)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Francois Cluzet
- Traumatic, gripping fact–based story about the last woman to be guillotined in France. Isabelle Huppert is in feverish form as the woman both…
Virgin Machine (1988)
- Dir. Monika Treut
Feat. Ina Blum, Marcelo Uriona, Gad Klein
- A frustrated German journalist takes her work to San Fransisco in this lesbian odyssey that proudly parades its fringe philosophy and contemporary…
War and Remembrance (Mini-Series) (1988)
- Dir. Dan Curtis
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner…
- Sequel to THE WINDS OF WAR follows trials and tribulations of the Henry and the Jastrow families amid the events after the USA's entry into World War…
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1988)
- Dir. Bob Ellis
Feat. Wendy Hughes, Colin Friels, Norman Kaye
- A Catholic schoolteacher moonlights as a prostitute to fund her disabled brother’s morphine dependence, later falling under the influence of a…
We Think the World of You (1988)
- Dir. Collin Gregg
Feat. Gary Oldman, Alan Bates
- Quirky Brit comedy/drama about a love triangle between two men and an alsatian! Jealousy overcomes Gary Oldman when a prison sentence brings together…
Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, The / The Rainbow (1988-1992)
- Dir. Katie Mitchell, Stuart Burge
Feat. Zoe Wanamaker, Stephen Dillane, Colin Firth…
- A 1992 BBC "Performance" theatre production of The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, D.H. Lawrence's portrayal of a woman married to a loutish miner whom she…
Wonder Years, The (TV Series) (1988-1993)
- Feat. Fred Savage
- One of the more endearing US TV series of the period, depicts the 'growing up' of its adolescent protagonists with humour and empathy. This disc…