Subgenre Sampler
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Marvin Gaye - Scenes from a Life (1987)
- Scenes from the life of the great soul singer Marvin Gaye – known for his particularly sincere delivery and progressive albums and songwriting.
Masters of the Universe (1987)
- Dir. Gary Goddard
Feat. Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Meg Foster…
- Brain–deadening adaptation of the TV cartoon has Dolph Lundgren stepping into the furry loincloth to take on Skeletor and his robotic guards.
Matewan (1987)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell…
- In 1920s Virginia, miners unite against their strong–arm company who resort to 'scab' minority labour in response to strike action. Costly…
Maurice (1987)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Hugh Grant, James Wilby, Rupert Graves…
- In the face of Edwardian attitudes and noble breeding, two young Englishmen comes to terms with their homosexuality. From E.M. Forster's novel.
Melba (TV Mini-series) (1987)
- Dir. Rodney Fisher
Feat. Linda Cropper, Tom Burlinson, Hugo Weaving
- Biopic of famed Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, whose professional veneer hid a tumultuous private life, her struggles to provide as a…
Monster Squad, The (1987)
- Dir. Fred Dekker
Feat. Andre Gower, Stephen Macht, Stan Shaw…
- A group of savvy kids attempt to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monstrous cohorts – all familiar faces from Universal horror…
Month in the Country, A (1987)
- Dir. Pat O'Connor
Feat. Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson
- Colin Firth plays a shellshocked WW1 vet keen to recoup a medieval painting in a remote Yorkshire town. Kenneth Branagh and Natasha Richardson prove…
Moonstruck (1987)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Cher, Danny Aiello
- Superb comic drama rivals the best of Woody Allen through vignettes of family life in New York's Italian district, and the cast have never been…
Near Dark (1987)
- Dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Feat. Adrian Pasdar, Lance Henrikson, Jenny Wright…
- The blueprint vampire–in–contemporary–clothing movie about a pack of young hedonists on the urban fringes afflicted with…
New Statesman, The (TV Series) (1987-1991)
- Dir. Geoffrey Sax
Feat. Rik Mayall
- Rik Mayall plays British Tory MP Alan B’Stard in this fairly amusing sift through the sleazy, corrupt corridors of Westminster.
All four series…