Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7936 Films to Rent
Dark Eyes (1987)
- Dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni
- The Soviet director ventures to Italy for this exquisite Chekhovian romantic tragedy in which Marcello Mastroianni abandons rationale for the allure…
Dead, The (1987)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Anjelica Huston
- James Joyce's novella adapted as personal, fascinating vignettes of family life in Ireland, 1904. Anjelica Huston stars in her father's final film.
Debajo Del Mundo (Underground) (1987)
- Dir. Beda Docampo Feijóo
Feat. Oscar Ferrigno Jr., Gabriel Rovito
- Intense WW2 drama focused on a Polish family who make the drastic decision to bury themselves underground to hide from the Nazis. Based on a true…
Degrassi Junior High (TV Series) (1987-1991)
- An unusually entertaining 1980s Canadian high school drama gathered a certain cult following around its charismatic young cast and well–judged…
Drowning by Numbers (1987)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson
- Blackly comic tale of three women who each drown their husbands. Peppered with references to game–playing, you can take part by counting to…
East of Ipswich (1987)
- Dir. Tristram Powell
Feat. Edward Rawle-Hicks
- Michael Palin drew from his childhood memories of seaside family holidays in penning this coming–of–age dramedy for the BBC, set in the…
Ebony Tower, The (1987)
- Dir. Robert Knights
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Roger Rees, Greta Scacchi…
- Self–conscious but watchable satire has a young art critic finding himself attracted to the unusual lifestyle of a reclusive painter. Based on…
Empire of the Sun (1987)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson…
- A much–admired Spielberg epic in which a young boy witnesses the Japanese invasion of China in WWII. Based on the memoirs of sci–fi…
Family Viewing (1987)
- Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney
- A technically basic yet highly original film that weaves director Egoyan's obsessive themes – technology, voyeurism, dysfunction – into…
Five Corners (1987)
- Dir. Tony Bill
Feat. Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Todd Graff…
- Ambitious, although ultimately chaotic, drama set in the Bronx in 1964, where a young Jodie Foster is stalked by her former boyfriend (Turturro), who…