When the new Warden comes in disguised as an inmate, he sees first hand all the corruption and scams the guards and prison officials and running. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding (1985) Georges Lautner, Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Antonella Interlenghi, Comedy
Third and final version of the La Cage aux Folles series has Renato’s drag queen lover Albin learning that he can inherit a vast fortune from a distant relative. Read More »
Freeway (1988) Francis Delia, Darlanne Fluegel, James Russo, Billy Drago, Thriller
A crazed driver…with a deeply troubled past goes on a nightly shooting spree across the highways of America…preying on motorists as part of a fanatical religious crusade. Read More »
Shadows In Paradise / Varjoja paratiisissa (1986) Aki Kaurismäki, Matti Pellonpää, Kati Outinen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Only connect. In gray, class-conscious Helsinki, Nikander is a stoic, solitary garbage man. Cigarettes, coffee, bingo games, and English lessons border his circumscribed life. Read More »
Mr. Vampire II (1986) Ricky Lau, Ching-Ying Lam, Biao Yuen, Fat Chung, Comedy, Horror
Modern grave robbing “archeologists” find perfectly preserved specimens from the past of a man, a woman, and their child. Read More »
The Moscow Elegy (1987) Andrei Tarkovsky, Tonino Guerra, Aleksandr Sokurov, Art-house, Documentary
A film in homage to Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. It concentrates on his absence from the Soviet Union and what he left behind. There are episodes of his funeral and places he lived in Moscow.
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Paradaisu byû / Paradise View (1985) Go Takamine, Kaoru Kobayashi, Jun Togawa, Haruomi Hosono, Arthouse, Fantasy
Reishu quits a job on a US military base; while mulling over his future he catches snakes, sticks numbers on ants and gets village girl Nabi pregnant. Read More »
La machine à découdre (1986) Jean-Pierre Mocky, Patricia Barzyk, Pierre Semmler, Comedy, Thriller
The insane Doctor Enger is obsessed with his plan to build a hospital to cure blind children. Read More »
Mr. Vampire (1985) Ricky Lau, Ching-Ying Lam, Siu-Ho Chin, Ricky Hui, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A ghost sucks the life-force out of a one of Uncle Nine’s student. The other is slowly turned into a vampire. Read More »
La vie et rien d’autre / Life and Nothing But (1989) Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Pascale Vignal, Drama, War
January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families’ descriptions. Read More »
Silverado (1985) Lawrence Kasdan, Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
A misfit bunch of friends come together to right the injustices which exist in a small town. Read More »
Frantic (1988) Roman Polanski, Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, Emmanuelle Seigner, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A doctor and his wife go to Paris for a medical conference. While showering, his wife disappears. Read More »
Poulet au vinaigre / Chicken with Vinegar (1985) Claude Chabrol, Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Mystery, Crime, Thriller
When a small town begins losing its citizenry in a series of grisly murders, out-of-town police inspector Jean Lavardin (Jean Poiret) is sent to investigate. Read More »
Inspecteur Lavardin (1986) Claude Chabrol, Jean Poiret, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Inspector Lavardin is induced to investigate the murder of a province’s notable who was taking himself as the moral guardian of his village. Read More »
The Silent Lovers (1980) John Erman, Brian Keith, Barry Bostwick, Harold Gould, Drama
Follows the arrival of Greta Garbo in Hollywood, and her ill fated affair with fellow star John Gilbert. Read More »