Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
Rowing with the Wind (1988)
- Dir. Gonzalo Suárez
Feat. Hugh Grant, Elizabeth Hurley, Lizzy McInnerny…
- Earnest dramatisation of Mary Shelley's relationship with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley while in the midst of conceiving her famed novel…
Running On Empty (1988)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Judd Hirsch, River Phoenix, Christine Lahti…
- A married couple, on the run for activist crimes in the 1960s, come to terms with their childrens' right to be free.
A moving story, handled with…
Salaam Bombay! (1988)
- Dir. Mira Nair
Feat. Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal
- Breakthrough Indian film that eschews Bollywood tradition is a compassionate account of an 11–year–old village boy, stranded on the…
Salome's Last Dance (1988)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns
- Oscar Wilde drops in to witness a risque performance of his own play. A perfect reason for Ken to indulge in opulent overstatement with Glenda…
Salt, Saliva, Sperm & Sweat (1988)
- Dir. Philip Brophy
- Be prepared to be grossed out for this very weird, Warhol–influenced experimental outing from Australia about a day in the life of a frustrated…
Satisfaction (Girls of Summer) (1988)
- Dir. Joan Freeman
Feat. Justine Bateman, Julia Roberts, Liam Neeson…
- Flavour of the '80s, Justine Bateman (TV's FAMILY TIES), stole the limelight from her then fledgling co–star, Julia Roberts, in this hoary girl…
Scarecrows (1988)
- Dir. William Wesley
Feat. Ted Vernon, Michael David Simms, Richard Vidan…
- 80's horror following a group of mercenaries who steal three million dollars from a military base and flee in a hijacked plane, only to find…
School Daze (1988)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn…
- Spike Lee's black high–school musical is perhaps over–ambitious, but the disorder is compensated in sheer exuberance and…
Scrooged (1988)
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Alfre Woodard…
- Bill Murray is hilariously mean–spirited as a yuppie incarnation of Charles Dicken’s ‘Scrooge’ who eventually gets a change of attitude…
Serpent and the Rainbow, The (1988)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae
- Based on an apparently true story of a man's nightmare journey to into the eerie world of voodoo. Filmed on location in Haiti and scarier for it.