Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek’s life. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
That House in the Outskirts (1980) Eugenio Martín, Javier Escrivá, Silvia Aguilar, Alida Valli
A young girl’s husband rents a lovely home just outside of Madrid so she can spend the last three months of her pregnancy in peace and luxury. Read More »
Passion of Love (1981) Ettore Scola, Bernard Giraudeau, Valeria D’Obici, Laura Antonelli
In the 1860’s, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). Read More »
A Clod of Clay (1989) Nicolae Margineanu, Emilia Dobrin, Tudorel Filimon, Ilie Gâlea
Having the provincial life of Moldova as a backdrop, director Nicolae Margineanu masterfully re-creates the atmosphere Read More »
Twister (1989) Michael Almereyda, Harry Dean Stanton, Suzy Amis, Crispin Glover
An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. Read More »
Cop’s Honor (1985) José Pinheiro, Alain Delon, Jacques Perrin, Fiona Gélin
Retired police officer Daniel Pratt’s teenage daughter is killed by a gang of hooded men. Read More »
Airplane (1980) Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen
Still craving for the love of his life, Ted Striker follows Elaine Read More »
Tracked (1985) Hideo Gosha, Ken Ogata, Atsuko Asano, Takuzô Kawatani
A man who is jailed for murdering his family after he confessed, escapes. Read More »
Grievous Bodily Harm (1988) Mark Joffe, Colin Friels, John Waters, Bruno Lawrence
A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks. Read More »
Biggles (1986) John Hough, Neil Dickson, Alex Hyde-White, Fiona Hutchison
One minute the New Yorker advertising expert Jim Ferguson is at a business party — the next he finds himself way back in 1917 Read More »
Cutter’s Way (1981) Ivan Passer, Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn
Alex Cutter (John Heard) came back from the war minus an eye, a leg and an arm. Read More »
National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983) Harold Ramis, Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Imogene Coca
Accompanied by their children (Dana Barron, Anthony Michael Hall), Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) and his wife Read More »
The Breakfast Club (1985) John Hughes, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald
Beyond being in the same class at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois Read More »
Heads or tails (1980) Robert Enrico, Philippe Noiret, Michel Serrault, Dorothée
For inspector Baroni,Monsieur Morlaix is the main suspect who might have killed his wife. Read More »
We of the Never Never (1982) Igor Auzins, Angela Punch McGregor, Arthur Dignam, Martin Vaughan
Jeannie Gunn faced being the only civilised woman in an uncivilised land. Read More »