Rene is a “ripou”, a rotten cop who makes ends meet by accepting bribes, presents and free drinks from the people he should be putting in jail. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Deadly Friend (1986) Wes Craven, Matthew Labyorteaux, Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Paul Conway and his mother Jeannie Conway travel to a new town where Paul will join the local university invited by Dr. Johanson. Read More »
Splav meduze / The Medusa Raft (1980) Karpo Acimovic-Godina, Olga Kacijan, Vladislava Milosavljevic, Boris Komnenic, Drama
In the early 20’s there’s a group on anarchic artistic yugoslawian yahoos traipsing around the rural never-lands of what then was the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Read More »
Toute une nuit / A whole night (1982) Chantal Akerman, Aurore Clément, Tchéky Karyo, Angelo Abazoglou, Drama
Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acception and rejection in the realm of romance. Read More »
Galyon (1980) Ivan Tors, Stan Brock, Ina Balin, Lloyd Nolan, Action
An oil tycoon hires Galyon, a jungle survival expert and soldier of fortune, to rescue his daughter and her husband from South American terrorists. Read More »
The Suicide Club (1988) James Bruce, Mariel Hemingway, Robert Joy, Lenny Henry, Drama, Thriller
A woman traumatized by her brother’s suicide is inducted into a world of games involving murder. Read More »
Les morfalous (1984) Henri Verneuil, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacques Villeret, Michel Constantin, Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller, War
April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. Read More »
Running Out of Luck (1987) Julien Temple, Mick Jagger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dennis Hopper, Drama, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Music
La femme de Rose Hill / The Woman from Rose Hill (1989) Alain Tanner, Marie Gaydu, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Denise Péron, Drama
A Summer Story (1988) Piers Haggard, Imogen Stubbs, James Wilby, Susannah York, Drama, Romance
Matewan (1987) John Sayles, Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell
Mingo County, West Virginia, 1920. Coal miners, struggling to form a union, are up against company operators and the gun thugs of the notorious Baldwin-Felts detective agency. Read More »