Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
Name of the Rose, The (1986)
- Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Feat. Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Christian Slater…
- A haunting medieval chiller with Sean Connery as a monk who discovers a series of bizarre deaths are not the work of evil spirits, as commonly…
Night of the Creeps (1986)
- Dir. Fred Dekker
Feat. Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Tom Atkins…
- Good–humored horror about alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, and turning their hosts into rampaging zombies.
No Mercy (1986)
- Dir. Richard Pearce
Feat. Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Jeroen Krabbe…
- Swampy helping of neo–noir with Gere as a Chicago cop commissioned to to take out a New Orleans crime boss.
Nomads (1986)
- Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Lesley-Anne Down
- Murky plot sees Pierce Brosnan discovering Indian spirits terrorising L.A.
Nothing in Common (1986)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason, Eva Marie Saint…
- Tom Hanks stars as a precocious ad exec who's forced to deal with his aging, unloving father (Jackie Gleason) after his parents separate.
The…
Off Beat (1986)
- Dir. Michael Dinner
Feat. Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Harvey Keitel
- Comedy about a likeable librarian who impersonates a police officer at a charity function as a favour to a friend, but then finds himself in the…
Oprah Winfrey Show: 20th Anniversary Collection (1986-2006)
- Feat. Oprah Winfrey
- A gigantic 6–DVD distillation of the extremely influential US daytime TV show which propelled Oprah Winfrey into mega–celebrity, wealth…
Otello (Othello) (1986)
- Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Feat. Placido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Diaz
- Exemplary operatic film with Placido Domingo perfectly attuned to the tenor of the title character.
Pallet On the Floor (1986)
- Dir. Lynton Butler
Feat. Bruce Spence, Peter McCauley
- A black comedy of errors ensues when a fallen aristocrat and mate cause the accidental death of a notorious criminal.
Paradise Postponed (TV Series) (1986)
- Feat. Sir Michael Hordern, Richard Vernon, Peter Egan…
- Ambitious series following various characters in a small British village across three post–war decades. Written by John Mortimer, who adapted…