Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Decalogue - Parts 6 - 10 (Dekalog) (1988)
- Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Continuing Kieslowski's exemplary series of hour–long dramas, with a further five 'commandments'.
Episodes:
Dekalog 6 – "Thou Shalt…
Deceivers, The (1988)
- Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Saeed Jaffrey, Shashi Kapoor
- Fact–based account of a secret society of murderers, and of the man who exposed them in British India 1825. Based on the novel by John Masters.
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
- Dir. Terence Davies
Feat. Lorraine Ashbourne, Jean Boht, Pete Postlethwaite
- Dream–like autobiographical vignettes of the director's good and bad memories of growing up in wartime Liverpool. Little narrative structure,…
Dominick and Eugene (1988)
- Dir. Robert M Young
Feat. Ray Liotta, Tom Hulce, Jamie Lee Curtis
- Ray Liotta cares for his autistic twin brother Tom Hulce in this affecting drama.