Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5549 Films to Buy & Rent
Death Becomes Her (1992)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn
- Streep, Willis and Hawn turn in spot–on performances for this hilarious send–up of Tinseltown's obsession with youth. The zany plot…
Delicatessen (1992)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Feat. Marie-Laure Dougnac, Dominique Pinon, Karin Viard…
- Two former Ad–men splash down with an audacious, darkly comic masterpiece set in a vegetarianist, post–apocalyptic future. Consumed with…
Discrete, La (1992)
- Dir. Christian Vincent
Feat. Fabrice Luchini, Judith Henry, Maurice Garrel…
- Things don't go to plan for a philandering writer who refuses to commit emotionally. A literary yet accessible essay on sexual game–playing,…
Distinguished Gentleman, The (1992)
- Dir. Jonathan Lynn
Feat. Eddie Murphy
- Perennial con–man Eddie Murphy wangles his way to Washington and discovers his petty untruths are small potatoes compared to the corruption…
Ed and His Dead Mother (1992)
- Dir. Jonathan Wacks
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Ned Beatty
- Steve Buscemi distinguishes this otherwise routine comedy–horror about about a mommie's boy who can't sever the apron strings, even after…
Encino Man (California Man) (1992)
- Dir. Les Mayfield
Feat. Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, Pauly Shore
- Debut vehicle for MTV guru Shore about a youthful cave–man who becomes an unlikely fraternity hero when he is awakened in contemporary L.A.
Favour, The Watch and the Very Big Fish, The (1992)
- Dir. Ben Lewin
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Jeff Goldblum, Natasha Richardson…
- In gay Paris, Bob Hoskins plays a frustrated photographer whose life complicates after friend Jeff Goldblum asks a most unusual favour.
Frauds (1992)
- Dir. Stephan Elliot
Feat. Phil Collins, Hugo Weaving, Nicholas Hammond
- Phil Collins plays a smooth–talking, sleazy insurance investigator hell bent on making life miserable for a young couple who have made a claim.…
George Carlin - Live (1992)
- Feat. George Carlin
- The government, the military, golfers and the media are just some of the victims of this stand up sensation, here best known as Rufus from the 'Bill…
Get Back (TV Series) (1992-1993)
- Feat. Ray Winstone, Carol Harrison, Larry Lamb…
- Limp sitcom with Ray Winstone as an East End boy now running a menswear shop facing financial ruin. Notable only for an early Kate Winslet role and…