Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5549 Films to Buy & Rent
Night of the Creeps (1986)
- Dir. Fred Dekker
Feat. Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Tom Atkins…
- Good–humored horror about alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, and turning their hosts into rampaging zombies.
Nothing in Common (1986)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason, Eva Marie Saint…
- Tom Hanks stars as a precocious ad exec who's forced to deal with his aging, unloving father (Jackie Gleason) after his parents separate.
The…
Off Beat (1986)
- Dir. Michael Dinner
Feat. Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Harvey Keitel
- Comedy about a likeable librarian who impersonates a police officer at a charity function as a favour to a friend, but then finds himself in the…
Pallet On the Floor (1986)
- Dir. Lynton Butler
Feat. Bruce Spence, Peter McCauley
- A black comedy of errors ensues when a fallen aristocrat and mate cause the accidental death of a notorious criminal.
Parting Glances (1986)
- Dir. Bill Sherwood
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Richard Ganoung
- A gay classic and pioneering film of the independent movement, this is widely enjoyed as a truthful picture of gay life and relationships and also as…
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage
- Kathleen Turner returns to the '50s to relive her youth and contemplate what might have been.
Peking Opera Blues (1986)
- Dir. Tsui Hark
Feat. Brigitte Lin, Cherie Chung, Sally Yeh
- One of prolific Hong Kong director/producer Tsui Hark's most celebrated films is a genre–blending romp set around the Peking Opera in 1913. A…
Perfect Strangers (TV Series) (1986-1993)
- Feat. Bronson Pinchot, Mark Linn-Baker
- Quirky 80's comedy series following the farcical exploits of a couple of mismatched Chicago roommates – a foreign sheepherder from a distant…
Pretty in Pink (1986)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton
- Molly Ringwald faces some tricky teenage dilemmas in John Hughes' quintessentially '80s rite–of–passage.
Real Ghostbusters, The (TV Series) (1986)
- Popular eighties cartoon series furthers the adventures of Ghostbusters Peter, Egon, Ray and Winston, although this time they're joined by past…