Subgenre Sampler
Rental > (1989-1989): 297 Films to Rent
- A Bit of a Do (TV Series) (1989)
- Feat. David Jason, Gwen Taylor, Nicola Pagett…
- A curly class comedy based the books by REGINALD PERRIN author David Nobbs, this gets good mileage out of its premise of two families – one…
- A Dry White Season (1989)
- Dir. Euzhan Palcy
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Susan Sarandon, Marlon Brando…
- Enraged by the brutal, senseless murder of his black gardener’s son by a racist ‘special policeman’, a South African schoolteacher (Sutherland)…
- A TV Dante (The Inferno Cantos I - VIII) (1989)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. John Gielgud, Bob Peck, Joanne Whalley
- Striking recitation by Gielgud and company of the first eight cantos. Greenaway superimposes some truly potent images over a series of talking heads.…
- A World Without Pity (Un Monde Sans Pitie) (1989)
- Dir. Eric Rochant
Feat. Hippolyte Girardot, Mireille Perrier, Yvan Attal
- A young Parisian slacker falls in love with an ambitious, bright student but finds the tables turning on his egocentric existence. Rochant's debut…
- Abyss, The (1989)
- Dir. James Cameron
Feat. Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn
- Ed Harris leads a civilian diving team who encounter an alien aquatic species while searching for a lost nuclear submarine.
Director James…
- Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989)
- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, Robin Williams
- An elaborate and hugely expensive adventure for dir. Gilliam who successfully visualises the fantastic tall–tales of the real–life 18th…
- Adventures of Milo and Otis (1989)
- Dir. Masanori Hata
Feat. Dudley Moore
- Dudley Moore narrates this charming story about a dog and a cat that stray from their home and experience the obstacles of man and Mother Nature.
- Akira (1989)
- Dir. Katsuhiro Otomo
- Dazzling cyberpunk animated feature adapted from the cult comic books, it's a violent, anarchic, wildly ambitious ride through Neo–Tokyo in…
- All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
- Dir. Don Bluth
- From Disney renegade Don Bluth comes the slightly off–beat animated adventures of a rascal dog called Charlie.
- Always (1989)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, John Goodman, Holly Hunter
- Heartwarming fantasy about a deceased pilot whose spirit returns to help his best friend pursue the same career and lady.