Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5561 Films to Buy & Rent
As Thick As Thieves (1988)
- Dir. Claude Zidi
Feat. Christophe Malavoy, Claire Nebout, Francois Cluzet
- A practical joke goes awry for a group of successful business men who mislead an aspiring friend into thinking he's struck it rich. Hilarious…
Beetlejuice (1988)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin…
- A deceased couple return as ghosts and discover their home has been occupied by an obnoxious family, so decide to enlist the services of…
Big (1988)
- Dir. Penny Marshall
Feat. Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia…
- Tom Hanks is perfect as a 12–year–old trapped in an adults body, having to cope with big business and romance without the benefit of…
Big Business (1988)
- Dir. Jim Abrahams
Feat. Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward…
- Midler and Tomlin play sets of identical twins in this mixed–identity farce.
Big Top Pee-Wee (1988)
- Dir. Randal Kleiser
Feat. Paul Ruebens, Kris Kristofferson, Penelope Ann Miller…
- Under–rated second feature with Pee–Wee sees him join a circus and gets involved in a bizarre love triangle, Pee–Wee style! Highly…
Biloxi Blues (1988)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken
- Famed scriptwriter Neil Simon (THE GOODBYE GIRL) here gives a semi–autobiographical account of his experiences in boot–camp during WW2,…
Brain Damage (1988)
- Dir. Frank Henenlotter
Feat. Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry
- Outrageous splatter comedy doubles as a drug–addiction parable about a parasitic monster that feeds off the acquaintances of its human host.…
Bull Durham (1988)
- Dir. Ron Shelton
Feat. Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins
- Costner and Sarandon star in this much–admired romantic baseball comedy.
Buster (1988)
- Dir. David Green
Feat. Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb
- Based on the Great Train Robbery of 1963 and starring Phil Collins as Buster Edwards, one of the real perpetrators, and Julie Walters as his wife…
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1988)
- Dir. J.D. Athens
Feat. Shannon Tweed, Bill Maher, Karen Mistal…
- For once as good as its title, this is a feminist cult satire about a oddball trio who trek into the treacherous Avocado Belt where they discover…