Subgenre Sampler
Rental > : 24509 Films to Rent
Cheetah (1989)
- Dir. Jeff Blyth
Feat. Keith Coogan
- Bored American teenagers in Kenya befriend a Masai boy and together they attempt to raise an orphaned cheetah cub. Battles with a gang of poachers…
Chorus of Disapproval (1989)
- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales…
- A light and slight drama set around widower Jeremy Iron’s move to a seaside town and involvement with a local theatre group. Superb cast livens the…
Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian (1989)
- Dir. Alex Kirby
Feat. Richard Dempsey, Johnathon R. Scott, Sophie Cook…
- Fine BBC production of the C.S. Lewis fantasy tale. This second part of the saga sees Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy return to the enchanted land of…
Chronicles of Narnia - Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989)
- Dir. Alex Kirby
Feat. Richard Dempsey, Johnathon R. Scott, Sophie Cook…
- Fine BBC production of the C.S. Lewis fantasy tale. This third part of the saga sees Edmund, Lucy and their cousin Eustace search with King Caspian…
Circus Boys (1989)
- Dir. Kaizo Hayashi
Feat. Hiroshi Mikami, Moe Kamura, Shu Ken
- Sumptuous film blends illusion and reality in contrasting the paths of two brothers from a circus family, one an idealist who attempts to rejuvenate…
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…
Civil War, The (The American Civil War) (1989)
- Dir. Ken Burns
- An extraordinary documentary series on the American Civil War, widely recognised as one of the greatest ever made.
Using archival photographs,…
Clarke and Dawe (The Full Catastrophe) (1989-2009)
- Feat. John Clarke, Bryan Dawe
- Comprehensive compilation of mock interviews from Aussie comic Bryan Dawe and true–blue Kiwi John Clarke (aka Fred Dagg), whose collective…
Class of 1999 (1989)
- Dir. Mark Lester
Feat. Malcolm McDowell
- This is a tongue–in–cheek sequel to CLASS OF 1984 in which prototype androids are brought in to teach class and wield some discipline.
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…