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Rental > Music: 1339 Films to Rent
Kate Bush - The Whole Story (1986)
- Feat. Kate Bush
- Video compilation includes Wuthering Heights, and 13 others up to the mid 80s.
MTV Closet Classics (1986)
- Clips from the pre–MTV days featuring 15 hits of the 60s and 70s by artists such as Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Cream, Black Sabbath, Beach Boys,…
Otello (Othello) (1986)
- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Placido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Diaz
- Exemplary operatic film with Placido Domingo perfectly attuned to the tenor of the title character.
Paul Kelly and the Messengers (1986-1992)
- Dir. Various
- Twelve music–videos from Australian balladeer Kelly, incl. “Bradman”, “Leaps and Bounds”, “Careless” and “Dumb Things”.
True Stories (1986)
- Dir. David Byrne
Feat. David Byrne, John Goodman
- David Byrne meets some folks in the shopping malls and diners of a small Texan town, here displayed in all their "ordinary" glory. His lens on…
Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
- Dir. Prince
Feat. Prince
- Prince stars in this stylistic melodrama as an American gigolo/entertainer in France who is, of course, irresistable to women. Features songs from…
Blind Eye Sees All - Butthole Surfers (1985)
- An excellent, high–energy concert from Gibby Haynes and Texas' finest freak–rockers, featuring their twisted, tasteless stage antics.…
Frank Zappa - Does Humour Belong in Music? (1985)
- Dir. Frank Zappa
Feat. Frank Zappa
- Frank Zappa captured in full flight, live in concert in 1984 at The Pier, NYC, providing his patented blend of musical virtuosity, sociological…
George Clinton with Parliament Funkadelic: The Mothership Connection (1985)
- One of the few readily available records of the influential US funk pioneers playing live in Houston, Texas in 1976. Despite the poor–quality…
Get Out of My Room (1985)
- Dir. Richard Marin
Feat. Cheech and Chong, Cassandra Peterson, Mary Woronov…
- Cheech and Chong oddity, with the doped–out duo contriving four music–videos and a documentary about the whole deal.