Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
City of Sadness, A (Beiging Chengsi) (1989)
- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Hsin Shu-fen, Chen Sown-yung… - The first of the director’s trilogy of films about the modern history of Taiwan, here depicting the unstable post–WW2 period through the eyes…
Club Extinction (Dr. M) (1989)- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas… - Chabrol’s re–examination of Fritz Lang’s DR MABUSE is set in a future Berlin saturated with Big Brother messages and a plague of…
Cold Feet (1989)- Dir. Robert Dornhelm
Feat. Keith Carradine, Sally Kirkland, Tom Waits… - A deranged assassin and a strange couple concoct a scheme to smuggle emeralds over the Mexican border. Bawdy, off–kilter Southern romp features…
Criminal Law (1989)- Dir. Martin Campbell
Feat. Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Tess Harper… - Hot shot lawyer Gary Oldman successfully defends psycho–killer Kevin Bacon, only to find he had made a costly misjudgement.
Dark Woods, The (1989)- Dir. Jacques Deray
Feat. Beatrice Dalle - Beatrice Dalle (BETTY BLUE) marries a stranger on a whim, and lives to regret it when her affections for his brother leads to a brutal crime of…
Dead Funny (Penn and Teller Get Killed) (1989)- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. David Patrick Kelly, Jon Cryer, Reg E. Cathey… - Black comedy and magic duo Penn and Teller deploy an array of morbid stage show theatrics within the framework of a fictional feature.
- Diamond Skulls (1989)
- Dir. Nick Broomfield
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Amanda Donohoe - This brittle stab at fiction from renowned documentarian Nick Broomfield about "sex, class and obsession" suffers from unsympathetic…
- Dink the Little Dinosaur (1989)
- A recent creation from the Hanna–Barbera stable. Dink and his prehistoric pals brave it against the perils of Mother Nature over five episodes.
- Dominion Tank Police (1989)
- Four parts on two cassettes.
Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989)- Dir. Wayne Wang
Feat. Victor Wong - Witty Chinese–American fable about a young New Yorker under increasing social pressure, especially from his father, who arranged his marriage…
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