Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
Eastern Condors (Dung fong tuk ying) (1986)
- Dir. Sammo Hung
Feat. Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen
- A Hong Kong riff on THE DIRTY DOZEN, in which 12 Chinese convicts accept a mission into Vietnam to destroy an abandoned American weapons…
Edge of Darkness (TV Mini-series) (1986)
- Dir. Martin Campbell
Feat. Bob Peck, Joe Don Baker, Joanne Whalley…
- Multi award–winning suspense drama journeys into the secret, high–stakes world of the nuclear state. This is television at its most…
El Amor Brujo (A Love Magician) (1986)
- Dir. Carlos Saura
Feat. Antonio Gades
- The third in Saura's Flamenco trilogy. Plot involves two gypsies in an arranged marriage who both love others.
Erotic Tatooing and Body Piercing (1986)
- Dir. Charles Gatewood
- A behind–the–scenes peek at the 'modern primitive' sub–culture. Mondo king Charles Gatewood visits a body adornment convention…
Essential Almodovar: Volume Two (Law of Desire, Kika, Flower of My Secret) (1986-1996)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
- Three more Pedro Almodovar films presented in a Collector's Edition box set.
Essential Arcand (Decline of the American Empire, Jesus of Montreal, Love and Human Remains, The Barbarian Invasions) (1986-2003)
- Dir. Denys Arcand
- Four of French–Canadian dir. Denys Arcand's quality works in one box–set.
Extremities (1986)
- Dir. Robert M. Young
Feat. Farrah Fawcett, James Russo, Diana Scarwid…
- Notoriously violent drama concerns a rape–victim who turns the tables on her attacker when he returns to torment her. Something of a 'cause…
Falklands Collection, The (The Falklands Play, Tumbledown) (1986)
- Dir. Michael Samuels
Feat. Patricia Hodge, Colin Firth
- A collection of two BBC dramas focused around the controversial Falklands Campaign of 1982 during Margaret Thatcher's reign.
The Falklands Play:…
Fantasist, The (1986)
- Dir. Robin Hardy
Feat. Moira Harris, Christopher Cazenove, Timothy Bottoms
- Belated and little known second film from the director of “The Wicker Man” about a rural Irishwoman whose teaching stint in Dublin finds…
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Matthew Broderick
- Probably the teen comedy of the '80s, with Matthew Broderick as the crafty 17–year–old Ferris who skips school to takes his friends on a…