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Tag Archives: 1980s
White Mischief (1987) Michael Radford, Sarah Miles, Joss Ackland, Greta Scacchi
A millionaire past his prime, and his young wife, arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates Read More »
Honey AKA Miele di donna (1981) Gianfranco Angelucci, Clio Goldsmith, Catherine Spaak, Fernando Rey
The young, naive Annie enters a hotel to spend the night – without knowing that it’s this special kind of hotel, that serves more than breakfast. Read More »
Real Life (1984) Francis Megahy, Rupert Everett, Cristina Raines, Catherine Rabett
A comedy about a dreamer whose Walter Mitty-like fantasies turn his world of make-believe into a world of trouble. Read More »
Dragnet (1987) Tom Mankiewicz, Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer
Friday and Streebek are assigned to some very strange robberies, like i.e. the stealing of one bat Read More »
Remember Me (1985) Lex Marinos, Wendy Hughes, Jenny Ellis, Jack Ellis
A woman recently returned to work is contacted by her former husband who has been in a mental institution. Read More »
Road (1987) Alan Clarke, Neil Dudgeon, Jane Horrocks, Andrew Wilde
Your tour guide for the night is one drunken man called Scullery. Read More »
Second Thoughts (1983) Lawrence Turman, Lucie Arnaz, Craig Wasson, Ken Howard
Lawyer Amy finds herself courted by two very different men: her client, a roguish street musician named Will, and her old boyfriend John Michael. Read More »
Without a Clue (1988) Thom Eberhardt, Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones
This is a Sherlock Holmes story with a difference. Here, Dr. Watson is the ace detective Read More »
The Man with Bogart’s Face (1980) Robert Day, Robert Sacchi, Franco Nero, Michelle Phillips
A man with a fixation on Humphrey Bogart gets plastic surgery to make him look exactly like Bogart. Read More »
Silent Night AKA Magdalene (1988) Monica Teuber, Steve Bond, Nastassja Kinski, David Warner
Father Joseph Mohr, a newly appointed priest in the town of Oberndorf (near Salzburg) Read More »
Higher Ground (1988) Robert Day, John Denver, Meg Wittner, David Renan
A retired F.B.I. Agent (played by country music star John Denver) becomes a bush pilot in Alaska. Read More »
Code Name: Emerald (1985) Jonathan Sanger, Ed Harris, Max von Sydow, Horst Buchholz
In April 1944, an allied agent is sent to France in order to rescue an “overlord” captured by the Germans. Read More »
Reborn (1981) Bigas Luna, Dennis Hopper, Michael Moriarty, Antonella Murgia
A man discovers that his girlfriend is a “stigmata” (someone whose hands and feet mysteriously bleed in the same places where Jesus Christ was crucified) Read More »
Buddies AKA A un (1989) Yasuo Furuhata, Ken Takakura, Eiji Bandô, Sumiko Fuji, Yasuko Tomita
Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love. Read More »