Flash Gordon is an American football hero who is skyjacked aboard Dr. Hans Zarkov’s rocketship along with his beautiful girlfriend Dale Arden. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Anita: Dances of Vice AKA Anita: Tänze des Lasters (1987) Rosa von Praunheim, Lotti Huber, Ina Blum, Mikael Honesseau
In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber Read More »
Honeysuckle Rose (1980) Jerry Schatzberg, Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, Amy Irving
Buck Bonham is a county singer, with a good family, struggling to find national fame. Read More »
Oldtimer AKA Stara masina (1989) Zelimir Zilnik
The aged rocker Igor works as a journalist and DJ at the “Radio Student” in Ljubljana. Read More »
When Time Ran Out… (1980) James Goldstone, Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden
Tourists are surprised by a volcanic eruption in a lonesome hotel in the Caribic. Read More »
Les compères AKA The ComDads (1983) Francis Veber, Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Anny Duperey
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth Read More »
Hangar 18 (1980) James L. Conway, Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn, Gary Collins
Shortly after the launch of a satellite from a space shuttle the satellite collides with a UFO in front of the crew’s eyes. Read More »
Horror Vacui (1984) Rosa von Praunheim, Lotti Huber, Joaquin La Habana, Folkert Milster
The plot follows Frankie and Hannes, a young gay couple living in Berlin. One is studying art and the other medicine. Read More »
The Best Little Girl in the World (1981) Sam O’Steen, Charles Durning, Eva Marie Saint, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Teenage Casey Powell secretly suffers from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately Read More »
Maine-Ocean (1986) Jacques Rozier, Rosa-Maria Gomes, Abdel Kedadouche, Luis Rego
“Maine-Ocean” is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). Read More »
Mannequin (1987) Michael Gottlieb, Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Estelle Getty
Jonathan Switcher is a young artist. He just doesn’t seem to last in any job he does. Read More »
The Gong Show Movie (1980) Chuck Barris, Robin Altman, Brian O’Mullin
A week in the life of “The Gong Show” host and creator Chuck Barris who lives through a series of outrageous competitors Read More »
Draw! (1984) Steven Hilliard Stern, Kirk Douglas, James Coburn, Alexandra Bastedo
In the dying days of the Old West, ex-outlaw Handsome Harry Holland is released from prison an old man. Read More »
Eye of the Needle (1981) Richard Marquand, Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Stephen MacKenna
A German spy carrying information that will reveal the target of Operation Overlord Read More »
Priest of Love (1981) Christopher Miles, Janet Suzman, Ian McKellen, Graham Faulkner
Following the banning and burning of his novel, “The Rainbow”, D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. Read More »