Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
Sisters of Mercy - Shot (1988)
- Four songs from the Floodland peak–period of these sardonic Goths. Includes This Corrosion.
Slugs (Slugs, Muerte Viscosa) (1988)
- Dir. Juan Piquer Simon
Feat. Michael Garfield, Kim Terry, Philip MacHale
- Creature feature based on the UK horror novel of the same name by Shaun Hutson.
A rural town is invaded by mutant killer slugs, spawned from…
Smoke 'em If You Got Em (1988)
- Dir. Ray Boseley
Feat. George Huxley, Nique Needles
- The apocalypse inspires a group of loutish adolescents to throw a party, in spite of their guests dying from radiation sickness! Bizarre comedy…
Some Girls (1988)
- Dir. Mike Hoffman
Feat. Patrick Dempsey, Jennifer Connelly, Sheila Kelley…
- An odd and moving little film in which a college student travels to Quebec to visit his girlfriend – and her eccentric family, and is thrust…
Sound (1988)
- Dir. Biagio Proietti
Feat. Peter Fonda
- Peter Fonda stars in this avant garde sci–fi film about a space technician's fascination with a bizarre noise that he believes to be a message…
Stand and Deliver (1988)
- Dir. Ramon Menendez
Feat. Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Andy Garcia
- Rousing true story about a no–nonsense Math teacher in a tough L.A. school and his struggles to motivate his dispirited and troubled students.
Stealing Home (1988)
- Dir. Steven Kampmann
Feat. Mark Harmon, Blair Brown, Jonathan Silverman…
- Coming–of–age romantic drama about a washed up baseball player (Mark Harmon) who finds out his childhood love (Jodie Foster) has…
Storyteller, The (1988)
- Feat. John Hurt
- John Hurt is the storyteller of Jim Henson's award–winning classic tales of magic and fantasy. The three volumes each contain three stories.
Straight No Chaser (1988)
- Dir. Charlotte Zwerin
- Composed of B&W archival footage of Thelonious Monk (rediscovered 20 years after the fact), this sees the idiosyncratic jazz pianist in full…
Switching Channels (1988)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve…
- Newsroom comedy about a chief at a cable TV station who tries to prevent his ex–wife and anchorwoman from marrying another man by assigning her…