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Subgenre Sampler
Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries (TV Series) (Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, Gaudy Night) (1987)- Feat. Harriet Walter, Edward Petherbridge, Richard Morant
- A series of BBC TV adaptations of three novels by Dorothy L. Sayers that follow the aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey's romance with the crime…
Dragnet (1987)- Dir. Tom Mankiewicz
Feat. Tom Hanks, Dan Aykroyd, Christopher Plummer… - Amiably silly buddy–cop comedy that both parodies and pays homage to television crime drama of the 1950s and 60s. Dan Aykroyd plays the "old…
Drowning by Numbers (1987)
- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson - Blackly comic tale of three women who each drown their husbands. Peppered with references to game–playing, you can take part by counting to…
Dudes (1987)- Dir. Penelope Spheeris
Feat. Jon Cryer, Catherine Mary Stewart - A wacky road movie about a trio of New York punks who attempt to get to LA in a VW. They bargain on fame and fortune, but end up with serious…
East of Ipswich (1987)- Dir. Tristram Powell
Feat. Edward Rawle-Hicks - Michael Palin drew from his childhood memories of seaside family holidays in penning this coming–of–age dramedy for the BBC, set in the…
Eat the Rich (1987)- Dir. Peter Richardson
Feat. Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Jennifer Saunders… - Terrific second feature from the COMIC STRIP players makes a spectacular mockery of the British class structure and Thatcherist politics. It's a…
Ebony Tower, The (1987)- Dir. Robert Knights
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Roger Rees, Greta Scacchi… - Self–conscious but watchable satire has a young art critic finding himself attracted to the unusual lifestyle of a reclusive painter. Based on…
Echoes In The Darkness (TV Mini-series) (1987)- Dir. Glenn Jordan
Feat. Peter Coyote, Stockard Channing, Robert Loggia… - The true life murder of Pennsylvanian woman Susan Reinert and her two children in the 1970s gets a successful treatment in this taut…
Eddie Murphy - Raw (1987)- Feat. Eddie Murphy
- Eddie Murphy captured live and, er, raw. Something here to amuse and offend just about everyone – live from the Flet Forum, New York.
Emperor's New Clothes, The (1987)- Dir. David Irving
Feat. Sid Caesar, Clive Revill, Robert Morse… - Lively adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale with a rambunctious Sid Caesar in the title role.
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