Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Running Scared (1986)- Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Steven Bauer - Two street–wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed…
Ruthless People (1986)
- Dir. David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Feat. Bette Midler, Danny De Vito - A genuine classic from the Zucker brothers and Touchstone pictures. The ingenious plot is laced with great gags, giving Bette Midler and Danny DeVito…
Sacrifice, The (1986)
- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edward - Tarkovsky's final film is this harrowing tale of a man who vows to sacrifice all that he is in order for the world to avoid the apocalypse. Further…
Salvador (1986)- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. James Woods, James Belushi - A potent dramatisation of a journalist's experiences in El Salvador, with Woods in his usual dynamic form. Never one for fence–sitting, the…
Screamplay (1986)- Dir. Rufus Butler Seder
Feat. George Kuchar, Katy Bolger - Tacky amusement can be found in this midnight flick about a splatter movie writer whose nightmare visions become frighteningly real!
Second Serve (1986)- Dir. Anthony Page
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Louise Fletcher, Martin Balsam - Vanessa Redgrave gives a remarkable performance in this TV–movie true–story as a transexual…
Seize the Day (1986)- Dir. Fielder Cook
Feat. Robin Williams, Joseph Wiseman, Jerry Stiller… - Under–valued drama, whose title ironically represents the quest of 40–something 'loser' Robin Williams to find some form of redemption…
Shadows in Paradise (Varjoja paratiisissa) (1986)- Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Matti Pellonpaa, Kati Outinen, Sakari Kuosmanen - The first film in Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy follows a lonely garbage collector who finds romance with a check–out clerk (Kaurismäki…
Shanghai Surprise (1986)- Dir. Jim Goddard
Feat. Sean Penn, Madonna, Paul Freeman… - Universally panned adventure flick stars Madonna as a missionary (!) on the hunt for medicinal opium (!) and then–husband Penn plays the…
She's Gotta Have It (1986)- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Spike Lee - Spike Lee's stylish debut accounts the love–lives of Nola Darling, a black siren with three boyfriends all demanding her fidelity. A remarkably…
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