Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
Punisher, The (1989)
- Dir. Mark Goldblatt
Feat. Dolph Lundgren, Louis Jr. Gossett
- Based on the Marvel comic hero, a NY cop emerges as a merciless vigilante after his family is murdered in a car bomb.
Puppet Master, The (1989)
- Dir. David Schmoeller
Feat. Paul Le Mat, William Hickey, Irene Miracle
- Puppetsploitation movie from Charles Band's Full Moon production house about a group of psychics who find themselves plotted against by a former…
Quantum Leap (TV Series) (1989-1993)
- Dir. Donald P Bellisario
Feat. Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell
- An often thoughtful speculative sci–fi drama in which a scientist finds himself trapped in time, leaping into the body of a different person in…
Rainbow, The (1989)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Sammi Davis, Amanda Donohoe
- The director steers away from his usual excesses for D.H. Lawrence's portrait of a young woman's sexual and feminist liberation, set in Edwardian…
Ranma 1/2 (TV Series) (1989-1992)
- Dir. Tomomi Mochizuki, Tsutomu Shibayama
- Action–comedy manga TV series based on the serial written and illustrated by acclaimed artist Rumiko Takahashi. Centred around a comedic…
Red Dwarf (TV Series) - Series 3 (1989)
- Feat. Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules…
- More classic episodes with Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Kryten and Holly in the brilliant British sci–fi comedy.
Available on 2 VHS tapes or a…
Red King, White Knight (1989)
- Dir. Geoff Murphy
Feat. Tom Skerritt, Max von Sydow, Helen Mirren
- Tough HBO telemovie places Mikhail Gorbachev at the centre of an assasination plot; Skerritt and von Sydow, CIA and KGB agents respectively, must put…
Red Riding Hood (1989)
- Dir. Adam Brooks
Feat. Isabella Rossellini, Amelia Shankley, Craig T. Nelson
- Musical interpretation of the classic fairy tale with real, flesh–and–blood actors (including Isabella Rossellini), some Disney–ish…
Return of the Swamp Thing, The (1989)
- Feat. Louis Jourdan, Heather Locklear, Dick Durock
- Everyone's favourite muck–encrusted plant–man is back in a sequel so bad, it's better than the original!
The campy…
Rikyu (1989)
- Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
Feat. Rentaro Mikuni, Tsutomu Yamazaki
- A unique dramatic meditation on the symbolic qualities of the Japanese tea ceremony, set around a Buddhist priest and the ruling Shogun of Japan in…