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Tag Archives: 1980s
The Good Father (1985) Mike Newell, Anthony Hopkins, Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter
Bill (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is a man who’s very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. Read More »
The Carrier (1988) Nathan J. White, Gregory Fortescue, Stevie Lee, Steve Dixon
The main character is stricken with a horrible disease, but it doesn’t affect him. Read More »
Touched (1983) John Flynn, Robert Hays, Kathleen Beller, Ned Beatty
Two inmates of a mental institution, a man named Daniel and a woman named Jennifer Read More »
Spooner (1989) George Miller, Diane Adair, Conrad Bachmann, Gary Bairos
An escaped forger (Robert Urich) poses as a high-school wrestling coach. Read More »
Purple Hearts (1984) Sidney J. Furie, Ken Wahl, Cheryl Ladd, Stephen Lee
It’s sometime during the Vietnam War. Lieutenant Don Jardian of the US Navy, who would have just started Read More »
The Winter War AKA Talvisota (1989) Pekka Parikka, Taneli Mäkelä, Vesa Vierikko, Timo Torikka
Set during World War 2. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Russia attacked Finland in November 1939. Read More »
Educating Julie (1984) Gail Hardman, Gail Ward, Miles Taylor, Tony Monroe
Julie, an English student assigned to write a paper about “Nudity”. Read More »
The Possessed AKA Les possédés (1988) Andrzej Wajda, Isabelle Huppert, Jutta Lampe, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu
This story begins in 1870 at a little town somewhere in Russia. It processed the real “Nyecsajev story”. Read More »
Charlotte for Ever (1986) Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Roland Bertin
Once a successful Hollywood screenwriter, Stan is now a depressive alcoholic who spends Read More »
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man AKA La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo (1981) Bernardo Bertolucci, Ugo Tognazzi, Anouk Aimée, Laura Morante
The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped Read More »
The Gold of Love AKA Das Gold der Liebe (1983) Eckhart Schmidt, Alexandra Curtis, Allegra Curtis, Marie Colbin
Dreaming of the “gold of love,” Patricia loses herself in a search for the modern Holy Grail Read More »
Tears Were Falling AKA Slyozy kapali (1983) Georgiy Daneliya, Evgeniy Leonov, Iya Savvina, Nina Grebeshkova
One evening after a hard day at the office, Pavel Ivanovich Vasin starts to behave quite strangely to family and friends. Read More »
Murder by the Book (1987) Mel Damski, Robert Hays, Catherine Mary Stewart, Christopher Murney
Mild-mannered mystery writer D. H. Mercer has become so immersed in his material that his creation Read More »
Sylvester (1985) Tim Hunter, Richard Farnsworth, Melissa Gilbert, Michael Schoeffling
Working in a Texas stockyard, breaking horses, Charlie’s doing the best she can to support herself and her two brothers. Read More »