Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Memories of Me (1988)
- Dir. Henry Winkler
Feat. Billy Crystal, Alan King, JoBeth Williams
- Henry Winkler (The "Fonz" from HAPPY DAYS) directs this sentimental drama with Billy Crystal playing a New York doctor who, after a…
Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
- Dir. Robert Redford
Feat. Ruben Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga…
- A New Mexican farmer triggers a feud with corporate developers keen to exploit his land. A spirited, simple fable – Redford lovingly directs a…
Moderns, The (1988)
- Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, John Lone…
- A witty and exquisite recreation of Paris in the 1920s, complete with the ‘lost generation’ of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and F Scott…
Monsignor Quixote (1988)
- Dir. Rodney Bennett
Feat. Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Christopher Neame
- Fine tele–version of Graham Greene's novel follows a newly appointed Monsignor and his avowed Marxist companion on an enlightening drive to…