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Rental > Classics: 3551 Films to Rent
Oxford Blues (1984)
- Dir. Robert Boris
Feat. Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Amanda Pays…
- A streetwise American hustler pursues the girl of his dream to England's where he enrols at Oxford University and joins the rowing team in an effort…
Places in the Heart (1984)
- Dir. Robert Benton
Feat. Sally Field, Danny Glover, John Malkovich
- Moving period drama with Sally Field's Oscar–winning performance as a widowed cotton–farmer in Depression era Texas.
Police Academy (1984)
- Dir. Hugh Wilson
Feat. Steve Guttenberg, Michael Winslow, Kim Cattrall
- Original of a long–series of 80s comedies lampooning various misfit recruits to a chaotic Police Academy. Stars Steve Guttenberg and Kim…
Pope of Greenwich Village, The (1984)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke
- Perennial no–hoper Eric Roberts cons pal Mickey Rourke into a final heist, but stealing from the Mob proves to be a bad idea.…
Protocol (1984)
- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus
- Goldie Hawn plays a charmingly naive cocktail waitress who ends up employed at the White House after saving the president's life, in this…
Racing with the Moon (1984)
- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage…
- A well–observed and resonant drama, about the last few days of boyhood for a couple of inductees into the US Marines in 1942. The cast all…
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
- Dir. Jeff Kanew
Feat. Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards
- Distinguished among 80s comedies by its unique agenda in which two bespectacled, buck–toothed nerds battle it out with the college…
River, The (1984)
- Dir. Mark Rydell
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Mel Gibson, Scott Glenn
- A handsomely–shot epic set around a struggling Midwest farming couple who must battle the elements and local land barons to survive on their…
Samson and Delilah (1984)
- Dir. Lee Philips
Feat. Antony Hamilton, Belinda Bauer, Max von Sydow…
- Made–for–TV Old Testament epic centred on the classic Biblical tale of power, persuasion, and love between a Hebrew strongman and a…
Secret Honor (1984)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Philip Baker Hall
- A fictionalized monologue adapted from the stage by playwrights Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, with the great Philip Baker Hall as former…