Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Jack the Ripper (TV Mini-series) (1988)
- Dir. David Wickes
Feat. Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Jane Seymour
- This British television series adds a new solution to the ever–intriguing and grisly case of Jack the Ripper, who preyed on women in Victorian…
Judgement in Berlin (1988)
- Dir. Leo Penn
Feat. Martin Sheen, Sean Penn, Sam Wanamaker…
- Stolid courtroom drama about the trial of an man who hijacked an airplane in order to flee East Germany for the West, Martin Sheen plays the American…
Kiwi Shorts Volume 1 (1988-1992)
- Dir. Grant Lahood, Scott Reynolds, Nicky Marshall
- A good sampling of eight short films funded by the NZ Arts Council and Film Commission, including the classic "The Lounge Bar". Compiled by the good…
Last Stop Paradise (Terminus paradis) (1988)
- Dir. Lucian Pintilie
Feat. Costel Cascaval, Dorina Chiriac, Gheorghe Visu
- French/Romanian drama set against the outskirts of Budapest, centered around the ill–fated love affair between a waitress and a young pig…
Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey…
- Brave, earnest film controversial for its assumption that Christ suffered from mortal doubt when chosen to carry God's message. Willem Dafoe plays…
Legend of the Holy Drinker, The (1988)
- Dir. Ermanno Olmi
Feat. Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas…
- Rutger Hauer plays a drunken homeless man in Paris who is lent 200 francs by a stranger as long as he promises to repay it to a local church when he…
Madame Sousatzka (1988)
- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Shirley Maclaine
- Shirley Maclaine is acutely cast as an eccentric, reclusive piano teacher forced to confront the modern world when her talented pupils deny her their…
Mapantsula (1988)
- Dir. Oliver Schmitz
Feat. Eugene Majola, Darlington Michaels, Thomas Mogotlane
- A disturbingly accurate evocation of township unrest in Soweto, as a young black petty criminal is throne into jail with a militant fraternity whom…
Martin Scorsese: Films of Faith (The Last temptation of Christ, Kun Dun, The Silence) (1988-2016)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
- Scorsese's artful "trilogy" meditating on faith, purpose, and destiny throughout the ages. Blu–Ray version includes two bonus discs of extra…
Mauri (1988)
- Dir. Merata Mita
Feat. Anzac Wallace, Eva Rickard, James Hayward
- Rural slice–of–life centres around an embittered man's search for fulfilment by returning to his roots. It gently illuminates the…