Leona and Allen unintentionally kill two offenders who have in their wake a lot of “friends”. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Epitaph (1987) Joseph Merhi, Natasha Pavlovich, Delores Nascar, Jimmy Williams
A family must keep moving from town to town because the mother is a psychotic axe murderer who keeps flipping out and murdering people. Read More »
Travis McGee (1983) Andrew V. McLaglen, Sam Elliott, Gene Evans, Barry Corbin
Travis McGee is a world-weary private investigator trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation Read More »
Fire with Fire (1986) Duncan Gibbins, Craig Sheffer, Virginia Madsen, Jon Polito
In this fact-based melodrama, Joe Fisk is a juvenile delinquent who falls in love with Lisa Taylor, a Catholic girl’s school student, in an Oregon forest. Read More »
Man of Iron (1981) Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania
A worker becomes a “man of iron” forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love Read More »
Children of a Lesser God (1986) Randa Haines, William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie
James is a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. Read More »
Mania (1985) Giorgos Panousopoulos, Alessandra Vanzi, Aris Retsos, Antonis Theodorakopoulos
It is on Ascension Day that Zoe, a brilliant computer analyst, visits the National Park in the center of Athens with her daughter, Katerina. Read More »
Red Dawn (1984) John Milius, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson
From out of the sky, Soviet, Nicaraguan, and Cuban troops begin landing on the football field of a Colorado high school. Read More »
Invaders from Mars (1986) Tobe Hooper, Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms
Invaders from Mars, horror-film director Tobe Hooper’s remake of the classic 1950’s science fiction film, directed by William Cameron Menzies Read More »
The Mass Is Ended (1985) Nanni Moretti, Marco Messeri, Ferruccio De Ceresa
Don Giulio, a young Roman priest, returns home after being pastor in an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea and is intended for a church in the suburbs. Read More »
Gotham (1988) Lloyd Fonvielle, Tommy Lee Jones, Virginia Madsen, Colin Bruce
Eddie is a private detective. When a client asks him to help persuade his ex-wife to leave him alone, Eddie says yes. Read More »
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980) David Lowell Rich, Billy Crystal, Kim Darby, Patrick Duffy
The decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it. Read More »
River Without Buoys (1984) Tian-Ming Wu, Ronghua Hu, Wei Li, Baosen Song
Three men steer timber rafts on the Xiaohui river. Fifty-something Pan Laowu is still single. Read More »
Halloween II (1981) Rick Rosenthal, Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers
In a continuation of the plot of Halloween, Michael Myers shows off his indestructability by resuming his murder spree despite being gunned down with six bullets in the original movie. Read More »
Death Hunt (1981) Peter R. Hunt, Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Andrew Stevens
Canada 1931: The unsociable trapper Johnson lives for himself in the ice-cold mountains near the Yukon river. Read More »