Princess Fragrance is a 1987 Hong Kong film based on Louis Cha’s novel The Book and the Sword. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982) Peter Greenaway, Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert
Mr. Neville, a cocksure young artist, is contracted by Mrs. Herbert, the wife of a wealthy landowner Read More »
Stand and Deliver (1988) Ramón Menéndez, Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris, Mark Phelan
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a Hispanic neighbourhood. Read More »
Cal (1984) Pat O’Connor, Helen Mirren, John Lynch, Donal McCann
Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella Read More »
Class of 1984 (1982) Mark L. Lester, Perry King, Merrie Lynn Ross, Timothy Van Patten
Andy is a new teacher and an inner city high school that is like nothing he has ever seen before. Read More »
Who Shot Patakango? (1989) Robert Brooks, David Edwin Knight, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Otto
This nostalgic drama portrays the lives and adventures of a group of Brooklyn high-schoolers. Read More »
She’s Back (1989) Tim Kincaid, Carrie Fisher, Robert Joy, Matthew Cowles
Paul is a meek electrician who, with his nagging, dominating wife Beatrice Read More »
Domineering (1982) Sadao Nakajima, Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Bunta Sugawara
The aftermath of the death of the biggest yakuza family. Read More »
Oh, Bloody Life (1984) Péter Bacsó, Dorottya Udvaros, Zoltán Bezerédy, András Kern
The Hungarian Oh, Bloody Life reflects on the heavy emotional toll taken by the repressive Stalin regime. Read More »
Tough Guys Don’t Dance (1987) Norman Mailer, Ryan O’Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Debra Stipe
Writer, ex-con and 40-something bottle-baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black-outs Read More »
Pirates (1986) Roman Polanski, Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas
Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. Read More »
Headstand (1981) Ernst Josef Lauscher, Christoph Waltz, Ingrid Burkhard, Elisabeth Epp
Christoph Waltz plays the role of Markus Dorn, a young man clearly unhappy in his home life. Read More »
Club Med (1986) Bob Giraldi, Jack Scalia, Linda Hamilton, Patrick Macnee
O’Shea is the easy going head honcho at Club Med. After years apart, he finally runs into his ex-wife Kate. Read More »
Last Resort (1986) Zane Buzby, Charles Grodin, Robin Pearson Rose, John Ashton
George Lollar takes his family on vacation with “Club Sand”, a shoddy and untrustworthy company. Read More »
The Summer of Miss Forbes (1988) Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Hanna Schygulla, Francisco Gattorno, Alexis Castanares
Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. Read More »