Initially set on being a dairy farmer, the aristocratic Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) travels to Africa to join her husband, Bror (Klaus Maria Brandauer) Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Suspicion (1982) Yoshitarô Nomura, Kaori Momoi, Shima Iwashita, Akira Emoto, Drama, Crime, Mystery
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Read More »
Heritage Africa (1989) Kwaw Ansah, Kofi Bucknor, Ian Collier, Anima Misa, Drama
The films follows the first black district commissioner appointed in Ghana circa 1955, shortly before the civil unrest that would lead to Ghana becoming the sub-Saharan African country to gain independence. Read More »
Winter People (1989) Ted Kotcheff, Kurt Russell, Kelly McGillis, Lloyd Bridges, Drama
A young widower moves with his daughter into a North Carolina mountain town in 1934. Read More »
Oci Ciornie / Dark Eyes (1987) Nikita Mikhalkov, Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Marthe Keller, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. Read More »
Stranger Than Paradise (1984) Jim Jarmusch, John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Comedy, Drama
A self-styled New York hipster is paid a surprise visit by his younger cousin from Budapest. Read More »
Tough Enough (1983) Richard Fleischer, Dennis Quaid, Carlene Watkins, Stan Shaw, Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
An aspiring country/western singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a “Tough Man” amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills. Read More »
Fatal Games (1984) Michael Elliot, Sally Kirkland, Lynn Banashek, Sean Masterson, Horror, Sport
A mad javelin thrower kills teenagers in the school. All promising athletes are executed in the most brutal way. Especially naked girls in dressing-rooms or saunas. Read More »
Ganashatru / An Enemy of the People (1989) Satyajit Ray, Soumitra Chatterjee, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey, Drama
In this adaptation of the Ibsen stage play, an idealistic physician discovers that the town’s hot springs are dangerously contaminated. Read More »
Roar (1981) Noel Marshall, Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith, Adventure, Thriller
Ravening jungle beasts assemble in flocks to invade an otherwise quiet home where they terrorize the visiting family of their keeper. Read More »
Yan zhi kou / Rouge (1987) Stanley Kwan, Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Alex Man, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery, Romance
Fleur is the blue angel in one of Hong Kong’s “flower houses” – bordellos and night clubs of the 1930’s. Read More »
Sleepwalker (1984) Saxon Logan, Joanna David, Nickolas Grace, Heather Page, Horror
Rich couple Angela & Richard travel to the home of brother and sister Alex and Marion for dinner but end up clashing with their hosts over their different views. Read More »
A Time of Destiny (1988) Gregory Nava, William Hurt, Timothy Hutton, Melissa Leo, Drama, War
Josie elopes with Jack against her father’s wishes. Her father follows her to the hotel where they are staying and forces Josie to go with him. Read More »
Summer Heat (1987) Michie Gleason, Lori Singer, Anthony Edwards, Bruce Abbott, Drama
Feeling lonely and neglected by her overworked husband, Roxy, a Depression-era farm wife, is drawn into an ill-advised affair with Jack, their hired hand. Read More »
Return to Oz (1985) Walter Murch, Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Dorothy Gale has recently come home to Kansas from the Land of Oz is now almost back to perfect health since the incident of the tornado, only she cannot get that wonderful place out of her head. Read More »