An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow’s Gorky Park. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Cold Summer of 1953 (1988) Aleksandr Proshkin, Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoliy Papanov, Viktor Stepanov
In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. Read More »
Secret Honor (1984) Robert Altman, Philip Baker Hall
In this speculative one-man drama, we see former President Richard Milhous Nixon alone in his study, dictating his thoughts into a tape recorder. Read More »
She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985) Philippe Garrel, Mireille Perrier, Jacques Bonnaffé, Anne Wiazemsky
A young film director is turning a movie with his friend Christa (reminds us of the real-life relationship between Garrel and Nico). Read More »
Obszön – Der Fall Peter Herzl (1981) Hans-Christof Stenzel, Volker Spengler, Lydia Kreibohm, Karina Fallenstein
Peter Herzl, social worker and Left sympathizer from Wuppertal, West Germany, is assaulted and robbed on the way back from Yugoslavia to his home country. Read More »
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985) Aleksey German, Andrei Boltnev, Nina Ruslanova, Andrey Mironov
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin’s Great Purge. Read More »
The Moon God (1988) Jonas Cornell, Tomas Laustiola, Agneta Ekmanner, Per Myrberg
A serial killer who slaughters campers is on the loose in Sweden. Read More »
Captain Johnno (1988) Mario Andreacchio, John Waters, Damien Walters, Rebecca Sykes
A young deaf boy who calls himself “Captain Johnno” befriends Tony, an Italian fisherman in the small Australian fishing town they live in. Read More »
Just One of the Guys (1985) Lisa Gottlieb, Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner, Billy Jayne
Terry Griffith has got it all — looks, popularity, the perfect college boyfriend Read More »
Q – The Winged Serpent (1982) Larry Cohen, David Carradine, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark
New York police are bemused by a spate of reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York Read More »
Lili Marleen (1981) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer
In Switzerland, German singer Willie falls in love with Jewish composer, Robert, who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. Read More »
God’s Country (1985) Louis Malle
Original footage of the prosperous farming community of Glencoe Minnesota, 60 miles west of Minneapolis, was filmed in 1979 for a PBS documentary. Read More »
Lifepod (1981) Bruce Bryant, Joe Penny, Kristine DeBell, Carl Lumbly
The first interplanetary cruise ship malfunctions halfway to Jupiter, forcing most of the crew and passengers to abandon ship. Read More »
King of the Children (1987) Kaige Chen, Yuan Xie, Xuewen Yang, Shaohua Chen
Set during the twilight of the Cultural Revolution, Chen Kaige’s third film, King of the Children Read More »
Cop in Drag (1984) Bruno Corbucci, Tomas Milian, Bombolo, Olimpia Di Nardo
During a show held at Blue Gay, drag queen cabaret in the center of Rome, an artist of the restaurant is found dead. Read More »