Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8108 Films to Buy & Rent
Sweetie (1989)
- Dir. Jane Campion
Feat. Genevieve Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos
- An unsettling account of a young woman's uncomfortable relationship with her boyfriend and disturbed sister who makes an unexpected visit. Askewed…
Tale of Two Cities, A (Mini-series) (1989)
- Dir. Philippe Monnier
Feat. James Wilby, John Mills, Jean-Pierre Aumont…
- BBC TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' great, historical novel of the French Revolution, in the shadow of which two, very different men fall for the…
Testimony (1989)
- Dir. Tony Palmer
Feat. Ben Kingsley
- The life, artistry and anguish of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich receives a vivid, stylistic treatment here, with Ben Kingsley in the central…
This Dance Is Ours (Waltzing Regitze) (1989)
- Dir. Kaspar Rostrup
Feat. Frits Helmuth, Mikael Helmuth, Ghita Norby
- Longtime married couple reminisce the good times and bad when Regitze hosts a party for family and friends. Finely crafted family drama with inspired…
Traffik (1989)
- Dir. Alistair Reid
Feat. Bill Paterson
- Complex mini–series set throughout the hierarchies of the international heroin trade. Filmed in locations such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and…
Triumph of the Spirit (1989)
- Dir. Robert M. Young
Feat. Willem Dafoe
- Harrowing tale of a Greek–Jewish boxer (Willem Dafoe) who is deported to Auschwitz during WW2.
Unbelievable Truth, The (1989)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Adrienne Shelly, Robert Burke, Chris Cooke…
- The folk of a backward American town get a mite nervous when a mechanic returns after spending 15 years in prison for murdering his father and…
Unexplained Laughter (1989)
- Feat. Diana Rigg, Elaine Paige, Jon Finch
- Diana Rigg plays a broken–hearted journalist who retreats to the country only to be haunted by ghostly laughter. Adapted from the Anna Haycraft…
Valmont (1989)
- Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly…
- Baroque Milos Forman variation on the classic tale of ‘Dangerous Liaisons’, with Annette Bening and Colin Firth tangling tonsils, and more, as…
Welcome Home (1989)
- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, JoBeth Williams, Sam Waterston…
- Fairly tepid post–Vietnam War drama has Kris Kristofferson play a pilot shot down over Cambodia and was rescued by a Khmer Rouge woman, whom he…