Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
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.
Damnation (Karhozat) (1988)
- Dir. Bela Tarr
Feat. Miklós B. Székely, Vali Kerekes, Gyula Pauer
- A magnificent representation of the earlier feature films of Hungarian master of miserabilism Béla Tarr, telling the story of a lonely barfly who…
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer
- Classic tale of an unscrupulous French countess who creates royal havoc by challenging her former lover to the sexual conquest of a virginal…
Decalogue - Parts 1 - 5 (Dekalog) (1988)
- Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
- The Polish master's extraordinary series of hour–long dramas, each pertaining to one of the ten commandments. He matches the high concept with…