Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5549 Films to Buy & Rent
Best of John Belushi, The (1985)
- Feat. John Belushi
- Collection of 16 skits from Belushi's time at Saturday Night Live (1975–1979). Showcases his unpredictable, madcap style in many classic…
Bette Midler - Art or Bust (1985)
- Dir. Thomas Schlamme
Feat. Bette Midler
- Song and dance version of Bette at her sassy best, in a unique 'video concert' in which takes on the world of art.
Mostly featuring selections…
Better Off Dead (1985)
- Dir. Savage Steve Holland
Feat. John Cusack, Amanda Wyss, Donald Ogden Stewart…
- Skewed version of the 80s teenage comedy which follows the plight of likeable John Cusack after he is dumped by his girlfriend. After many original…
Big Trouble (1985)
- Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Charles Durning…
- Cassavette's final film is far from a fitting finale to the iconoclast's career, but its not without its charms. Arkin plays a besieged insurance…
Billy Connolly - An Audience With (1985)
- Dir. Alisdair MacMillan
Feat. Billy Connolly
- Selected highlights of Connelly's legendary television appearance in 1985 in front of a studio audience.
A leopard skin shirt, long hair and the…
Blott on the Landscape (TV Mini-Series) (1985)
- Feat. David Suchet, George Cole, Geraldine James…
- Cheeky, farcical BBC comedy is one of the better adaptations of Tom Sharpe's satirical works. David Suchet nails the defiant gardener Blott who,…
Brazil (1985)
- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Ian Holm…
- Daydreaming bureaucrat Jonathan Pryce becomes unwittingly involved with an underground superhero and a mystery woman before falling victim to his own…
Breakfast Club, The (1985)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall…
- Five teenagers do detention together in this John Hughes classic.
Came a Hot Friday (1985)
- Dir. Ian Mune
Feat. Billy T. James
- Billy T. James stars in this comic yarn about a pair of inept bookmakers whose greed leads them to losing (and trying to recoup) their…
Catholic Boys (Heaven Help Us) (1985)
- Dir. Michael Dinner
Feat. Mary Stuart Masterson, John Heard, Donald Sutherland…
- Slight, but engaging comedy set around a group of Roman Catholic schoolboys and their misadventures with the opposite sex.