Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
Land Before Time, The (1988)
- Dir. Don Bluth
- A young dinousaur named Littlefoot ventures in search of a lush sanctuary of vegetation and tranquility.
An animated charmer particularly…
Last of England, The (1988)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Tilda Swinton
- Jarman's personal commentary on the decline of Britain under Thatcher is a shocking, poetically rich montage, mixing images of war and urban decay…
Last Stop Paradise (Terminus paradis) (1988)
- Dir. Lucian Pintilie
Feat. Costel Cascaval, Dorina Chiriac, Gheorghe Visu
- French/Romanian drama set against the outskirts of Budapest, centered around the ill–fated love affair between a waitress and a young pig…
Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey…
- Brave, earnest film controversial for its assumption that Christ suffered from mortal doubt when chosen to carry God's message. Willem Dafoe plays…
Legend of the Holy Drinker, The (1988)
- Dir. Ermanno Olmi
Feat. Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas…
- Rutger Hauer plays a drunken homeless man in Paris who is lent 200 francs by a stranger as long as he promises to repay it to a local church when he…
License to Drive (1988)
- Dir. Greg Beeman
Feat. Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Carol Kane…
- A teen decides to go for a night on the town with his friends despite flunking his driver's test.
Madame Sousatzka (1988)
- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Shirley Maclaine
- Shirley Maclaine is acutely cast as an eccentric, reclusive piano teacher forced to confront the modern world when her talented pupils deny her their…
Man from Snowy River 2, The (1988)
- Dir. Geoff Burrowes
Feat. Brian Dennehy, Tom Burlinson
- Tom Burlinson returns to gather wild horses from up the Snowy River in this lesser sequel.
Fits a love–triangle into the draw as well as the…
Maniac Cop (1988)
- Dir. William Lustig
Feat. Bruce Campbell
- THE EVIL DEAD's Bruce Campbell stars in this violent black comedy about a psycho–killer who masquerades as a policeman.
Mapantsula (1988)
- Dir. Oliver Schmitz
Feat. Eugene Majola, Darlington Michaels, Thomas Mogotlane
- A disturbingly accurate evocation of township unrest in Soweto, as a young black petty criminal is throne into jail with a militant fraternity whom…