Subgenre Sampler
: 25145 Films to Buy & Rent
Top Gun (1986)
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer…
- Star–making film for Cruise, who goes through all the right motions to get millions of bums on seats. The routine plot is overcome by the…
Tough Guys (1986)
- Dir. Jeff Kanew
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Charles Durning…
- A low–brow but likeable vehicle for macho Hollywood icons Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster who play two elderly gangsters who are released from…
Transformers - The Movie (1986)
- Dir. Nelson Shin
- Accompanying the mid–80s craze for ‘Transformer’ toys – robots which could transform into cars, planes etc. – was this animated…
Travelling North (1986)
- Dir. Carl Schultz
Feat. Leo McKern, Julia Blake
- Screen adaptation of David Williamson's play about a cantankerous retiree who finds love at last, but then discovers his imminent mortality.
Trick or Treat (1986)
- Dir. Charles Martin Smith
Feat. Marc Price, Tony Fields, Ozzy Osbourne…
- High–school bullying prompts mournful teen Marc Price to conjure his recently–deceased heavy–metal idol (Tony Fields) back to life…
True Stories (1986)
- Dir. David Byrne
Feat. David Byrne, John Goodman
- David Byrne meets some folks in the shopping malls and diners of a small Texan town, here displayed in all their "ordinary" glory. His lens on…
Umbrella Woman, The (1986)
- Dir. Ken Cameron
Feat. Rachel Ward, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown
- Smalltown adultery in 30s Australia, with Rachel Ward and Sam Neill.
Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
- Dir. Prince
Feat. Prince
- Prince stars in this stylistic melodrama as an American gigolo/entertainer in France who is, of course, irresistable to women. Features songs from…
Vamp (1986)
- Dir. Richard Wenk
Feat. Grace Jones, Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron…
- Campy, neon–hued sex comedy–horror from the 80's in which two students travel to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their…
View to a Kill, A (1986)
- Dir. John Glen
Feat. Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts…
- Roger Moore's final outing as agent 007. Evil billionaire industrialist Max Zorin (Walken) and his lethal associate May Day (Jones) plan to take over…