A frozen Ming Dynasty royal guard and the equally frigid rapist-killer he’s tracking are thawed out in modern-day Hong Kong. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Vultures (1984) Paul Leder, Stuart Whitman, Yvonne De Carlo, Aldo Ray
A dying wealthy patriarch, Ramon summons his relatives to his bedside Read More »
Turkish Star Wars AKA Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam (1982) Çetin Inanç, Cüneyt Arkin, Aytekin Akkaya, Füsun Uçar
Two space cadets crash-land on a desert planet, where an evil wizard seeks the ultimate power to take over the world. Read More »
War Requiem (1989) Derek Jarman, Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier
A film with no spoken dialogue, just follows the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten’s Read More »
The Personals (1982) Peter Markle, Bill Schoppert, Karen Landry, Paul Eiding
A magazine publisher in Minneapolis, recently separated, puts a personals ad in The Twin Cities Reader, a free university newspaper. Read More »
‘night, Mother (1986) Tom Moore, Sissy Spacek, Anne Bancroft, Ed Berke
What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night Read More »
Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988) George Schaefer, Katharine Hepburn, Karen Austin, Brenda Forbes
A famous, pampered novelist accepts a bet suggesting that she can’t survive one week of living with an average family. Read More »
The Pregnant Papa AKA A legényanya (1989) Dezsö Garas, Ferenc Kállai, Károly Eperjes, Judit Pogány
In the small village of Rátót, every male is called Béla. When a woman gives birth to her child, she names him Józsi… Almost 2 decades later, Józsi becomes pregnant… Read More »
Hunting Time AKA Av Zamani (1988) Erden Kiral, Aytaç Arman, Serif Seler, Zihni Küçümen
In a timeless and unknown island (which is Cunda Adasi in Ayvalik, on the Aegean Coast of Turkey) a writer tries Read More »
Desperate Moves AKA Rollerboy (1981) Ovidio G. Assonitis, Steve Tracy, Eddie Deezen, Isabel Sanford
A naive young man from a small Oregon town travels to the big city–in this case San Francisco–to pursue his dream. Read More »
Sonia (1980) Takis Kanellopoulos, Antigoni Doudoumi, Spiros Focás, Kostas Lahas
The brief history of love Sonia lived in the summer with his teacher, greater and married in the early 60s By the fall man Read More »
Hardbodies (1984) Mark Griffiths, Grant Cramer, Teal Roberts, Gary Wood
Three middle-aged daddies visit California to have a marvelous time at the beach. Read More »
Hardbodies 2 (1986) Mark Griffiths, James Karen, Louise Baker, Alexandros Mylonas
A film crew is travelling from America to Greece to produce a movie. Read More »
Reisender Krieger (1981) Christian Schocher, Willy Ziegler, Barbla Bischoff, Marianne Huber
This is a portrait of a man and of a country, as he travels through it. Read More »
Committed (1984) Sheila McLaughlin, Lynne Tillman, Victoria Boothby, Lee Breuer
Stylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin. Read More »