Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5549 Films to Buy & Rent
A Bit of a Do (TV Series) (1989)
- Feat. David Jason, Gwen Taylor, Nicola Pagett…
- A curly class comedy based the books by REGINALD PERRIN author David Nobbs, this gets good mileage out of its premise of two families – one…
A World Without Pity (Un Monde Sans Pitie) (1989)
- Dir. Eric Rochant
Feat. Hippolyte Girardot, Mireille Perrier, Yvan Attal
- A young Parisian slacker falls in love with an ambitious, bright student but finds the tables turning on his egocentric existence. Rochant's debut…
Andy Kaufman - I'm From Hollywood (1989)
- Dir. Lynne Margulies
Feat. Andy Kaufman
- Cheeky doco tracing renowned comic Andy Kaufman's foray into the world of professional wrestling with all the thrills and spills of specialised…
As Time Goes By (1989)
- Dir. Barry Peak
Feat. Bruno Lawrence
- A distinctively Oz sci–fi comedy, centering around a strange encounter between a knockabout surfer and a time–travelling alien.
Back to the Future 2 (1989)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson…
- Second part of the trilogy has Marty McFly catapulted into 2020 and back again into a dark alternate reality. With Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd,…
Behaving Badly (TV mini-series) (1989)
- Dir. David Tucker
Feat. Judi Dench, Frances Barber, Maurice Denham…
- A bleak though blackly–comic mini–series with Judi Dench as a dowdy housewife who belatedly comes out of her shell after her husband of…
Best of Billy T, The (1989)
- Feat. Billy T. James
- A collection of fine moments from the TV career of New Zealand's very own comic genius.
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
- Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin
- Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter play a couple of crazed teenagers who are sent on a Excellent Adventure, collecting famous historical figures via a…
Bill Hicks - Sane Man (1989)
- Feat. Bill Hicks
- An early–ish dose of standup genius from Bill Hicks, here offering himself in Austin, Texas, in 1989 as a rare 'sane man' in the strange world…
Billy Crystal - Midnight Train to Moscow (1989)
- Dir. Paul Flaherty
Feat. Billy Crystal
- Billy Crystal explores his Russian roots, with a mockumentary 'Jokenost' tour of Russian and a standup performance live at the Pushkin Theatre.