Subgenre Sampler
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Run, Chrissie, Run! (1986)
- Dir. Chris Langman
Feat. Carmen Duncan, Red Symons
- An ex–terrorist from Germany is on the run in Australia with her teenage daughter Chrissie, with a former lover on her trail, and two IRA…
Running Scared (1986)
- Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Steven Bauer
- Two street–wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed…
Ruthless People (1986)
- Dir. David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Feat. Bette Midler, Danny De Vito
- A genuine classic from the Zucker brothers and Touchstone pictures. The ingenious plot is laced with great gags, giving Bette Midler and Danny DeVito…
Sacrifice, The (1986)
- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edward
- Tarkovsky's final film is this harrowing tale of a man who vows to sacrifice all that he is in order for the world to avoid the apocalypse. Further…
Salvador (1986)
- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. James Woods, James Belushi
- A potent dramatisation of a journalist's experiences in El Salvador, with Woods in his usual dynamic form. Never one for fence–sitting, the…
Seize the Day (1986)
- Dir. Fielder Cook
Feat. Robin Williams, Joseph Wiseman, Jerry Stiller…
- Under–valued drama, whose title ironically represents the quest of 40–something 'loser' Robin Williams to find some form of redemption…
Shadows in Paradise (Varjoja paratiisissa) (1986)
- Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Matti Pellonpaa, Kati Outinen, Sakari Kuosmanen
- The first film in Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy follows a lonely garbage collector who finds romance with a check–out clerk (Kaurismäki…
Shanghai Surprise (1986)
- Dir. Jim Goddard
Feat. Sean Penn, Madonna, Paul Freeman…
- Universally panned adventure flick stars Madonna as a missionary (!) on the hunt for medicinal opium (!) and then–husband Penn plays the…
She's Gotta Have It (1986)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Spike Lee
- Spike Lee's stylish debut accounts the love–lives of Nola Darling, a black siren with three boyfriends all demanding her fidelity. A remarkably…
Sherman's March (1986)
- Dir. Ross McElwee
- A wonderfully oddball chronicle of the disastrous and wacky lovelife and times of the film–maker. Intending to make a historical doco, he veers…