Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5549 Films to Buy & Rent
Law of Desire (1986)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Carmen Maura
- Sexual acrobatics and absurd humour abound as it explores the increasingly complex sex–life of a gay film director. Fun screwball romp.
Legal Eagles (1986)
- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah…
- Light rom–com thriller set in New York's art world with Winger and Redford as feuding attorneys.
Les Fugitifs (1986)
- Dir. Francis Veber
Feat. Pierre Richard, Gerard Depardieu
- The inept Pierre Richard teams up with the innocent Gerard Depardieu in a madcap criminal escape after a botched bank–job. The situation…
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
- Dir. Frank Oz
Feat. Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia…
- Excellent film version of the off–Broadway musical based on the 1960 horror/comedy of the same name. The story of the man–eating plant is…
Lucas (1986)
- Dir. David Seltzer
Feat. Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen…
- Genuinely sympathetic account of the teenage love of 'dweeb' Corey Haim for an older schoolmate (Green), through infatuation, rejection and...…
Malcolm (1986)
- Dir. Nadia Tass
Feat. Colin Friels, John Hargreaves
- A simple young man with a genius for things mechanical is coerced into criminal activity by his dodgy new flatmate. Deserved winner of 8 Australian…
Matador (1986)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Assumpta Serna, Antonio Banderas, Nacho Martinez
- Almodovar breaks a few more screen taboos with this erotic black comedy about a bull–fighter and a smart female lawyer who share a morbid…
Max Mon Amour (1986)
- Dir. Nagisa Oshima
Feat. Charlotte Rampling
- Charlotte Rampling does her stuff... with a chimpanzee called Max? A very dry comedy with some decidedly dicey morality about Man and his closest…
Millionaire's Express (Foo gwai lit che) (1986)
- Dir. Sammo Hung
Feat. Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen, Rosamund Kwan
- Camp and hysterical genre mash–up, has Samo Hung as a bumbling brothel–owner who entraps a group of millionaire's in his hometown (by…
Money Pit, The (1986)
- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Tom Hanks, Shelley Long
- An often very funny 80s comedy about couple Tom Hanks’ and Shelley Long’s disastrous purchase of a home in Long Island that conceals a host of…