Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5549 Films to Buy & Rent
Best of Times, The (1986)
- Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Feat. Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed…
- Robin Williams and Kurt Russell star as two friends attempting to relive a high school football game in this comedy–drama written by…
Bread (TV Series) (1986-1991)
- Feat. Jean Boht, Jonathon Morris, Nick Conway…
- Much–loved British sitcom based around a Liverpool family struggling to survive the cruel 1980s of unemployment, crime, welfare–fraud and…
Brush Strokes (TV Series) (1986)
- Feat. Karl Howman, Gary Waldhorn, Elizabeth Counsell
- From the creators of THE GOOD LIFE comes this saucy BBC comedy centered on a charming house painter (Howman) who has an insatiable appreciation for…
Class of Nuke 'em High (Atomic High School) (1986)
- Dir. Richard W. Haines, Lloyd Kaufman
Feat. Janelle Brady, Gil Brenton
- One of the better Troma–trash productions in which pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after…
Clockwise (1986)
- Dir. Christopher Morahan
Feat. John Cleese, Alison Steadman, Joan Hickson
- Headmaster John Cleese, with pupil in tow, gets hopelessly lost enroute to a conference. In a more deadpan mode than the usual Python–esque…
Club Paradise (1986)
- Dir. Harold Ramis
Feat. Harold Ramis, Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole…
- Robin Williams retreats to a tropical Caribbean island, helping to renovate a run–down resort at the mercy of ruthless developers. With Jimmy…
Comic Relief (1986)
- Feat. Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan…
- The stars of THE YOUNG ONES (along with many other stellar Brit comedians) perform for charity, in this irreverant satirical stageshow.
Crimes of the Heart (1986)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek…
- Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek play the Magrath sisters, who reunite in their family home in Mississippi to regroup and settle their…
Crocodile Dundee (1986)
- Dir. Peter Faiman
Feat. Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, David Gulpilil…
- Immensely successful Aussie comedy with outbacker Hogan encountering New York.
Dangerous Brothers, The (TV Series) (1986)
- Feat. Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson
- Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson perform raucous skits lifted from British tele's “Saturday Live”. Tape features the sketch 'Kinky Sex' which was…