Having the provincial life of Moldova as a backdrop, director Nicolae Margineanu masterfully re-creates the atmosphere Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
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 »
A Tale Of Africa (1980) Susumu Hani, Simon Trevor, Kathy, Philip Sayer, Heekura Simba
An old man (Jimmy Stewart) has settled in Kenya, in a remote cabin, with his adult granddaughter and several of her “animal friends”. Read More »
Fight for Us (1989) Lino Brocka, Phillip Salvador, Dina Bonnevie, Gina Alajar
In 1985, in the obscure town of Santa Filomena, the Orapronobis, a cult under the leadership of Kumander Kontra (Roco) Read More »
Love at Stake (1987) John Moffitt, Patrick Cassidy, Kelly Preston, Georgia Brown
The mayor and judge of Salem trump up the notorious witch trials in support of their land grab scam. Read More »