Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
Cactus (1986)
- Dir. Paul Cox
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Norman Kaye
- Challenging and intriguing drama from dir. Paul Cox, about a French woman (Isabelle Huppert) having an uneasy vacation in Australia.
Camorra (1986)
- Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Angela Molina, Harvey Keitel
- Complicated but well–judged thriller about the Naples underworld and specifically the use of children in the drug trade. More conventional than…
Caravaggio (1986)
- Dir. Derek Jarman
Feat. Noam Almaz, Dawn Archibald, Sean Bean
- A stylised, impressionistic biopic of the controversial bisexual artist from the Italian renaissance. The film is similarly cryptic, bold and…
Cassandra (1986)
- Dir. Colin Eggleston
Feat. Tegan Charles, Tessa Humphries, Dylan O'Neill…
- Quite watchable Aussie horror is set around a young woman's visions of her brother stabbing somebody to death during her childhood years. Using a…
Castle in the Sky (Laputa) (1986)
- Dir. Hayao Miyazaki
Feat. Anna Paquin, James Van Der Beek, Cloris Leachman
- A triumph of craft and narrative sophistication, this is an epic, supremely imaginative feature from master animator/storyteller Miyazaki that will…
Casualty (TV Series) (1986-2008)
- Long–running British medical soap following the trials of a group of overtaxed hospital employees working the night shift at Holby City…
Children of a Lesser God (1986)
- Dir. Randa Haines
Feat. William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie
- Acclaimed drama in which teacher–for–the–deaf William Hurt falls in love with Marlee Matlin. Newcomer Matlin won an Oscar for her…
Clan of the Cave Bear, The (1986)
- Dir. Michael Chapman
Feat. Daryl Hannah, Pamela Reed
- In the Cro–Magnon age when homosapiens shared the earth with an earlier species of man, Darryl Hannah gets adopted by a clan of Neanderthals,…
Class of Nuke 'em High (Atomic High School) (1986)
- Dir. Richard W. Haines, Lloyd Kaufman
Feat. Janelle Brady, Gil Brenton
- One of the better Troma–trash productions in which pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after…
Clockwise (1986)
- Dir. Christopher Morahan
Feat. John Cleese, Alison Steadman, Joan Hickson
- Headmaster John Cleese, with pupil in tow, gets hopelessly lost enroute to a conference. In a more deadpan mode than the usual Python–esque…