11-year-old Davey, whose mother is dead and whose father doesn’t spend nearly enough time with him. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Sea of Love (1989) Harold Becker, Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Troubled New York City detective Frank Keller (Al Pacino) investigates a serial killer who finds victims using personal ads in a magazine and leaves the song “Sea of Love” playing at his crime scenes. With the help of his partner, Sherman Touhey (John Goodman), Frank concocts a plan to find the killer using his own personal ads. But when Frank falls for one of his chief suspects, Helen Cruger (Ellen Barkin), he struggles to reconcile his personal life and his professional duty.
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Rivals (1981) Lyman Dayton, Stewart Petersen, Philip Brown, Dana Kimmell, Drama
After the death of his father, Adam moves (with his family) from their sheep farm in Wyoming to Los Angeles. Read More »
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982) Terry Hughes, Harold Prince, Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Cris Groenendaal, Musical, Drama, Thriller
Times are hard in 1846 London and one must make do. Nellie Lovett adds something extra to the meat pies she peddles on Fleet Street. Read More »
Los ritos sexuales del diablo / Black Candles (1982) José Ramón Larraz, Helga Liné, Vanessa Hidalgo, Jeffrey Healey, Horror, Erotic
A young woman travels with her partner to England on the unexpected death of her brother. Staying with her sister-in-law, she finds her companion soon drawn into a satanic cult based in the house whose rites seem to centre somewhat on large-scale sexual congress.
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Turk 182! (1985) Bob Clark, Timothy Hutton, Robert Urich, Kim Cattrall, Action, Comedy
Jimmy Lynch is angry because his older brother, who was injured as a result of an off duty fire rescue, is denied benefits by the city. Read More »
Blue City (1986) Michelle Manning, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, David Caruso, Action, Crime, Drama
Returning to the small Florida town where he grew up, Billy Turner (Nelson) learns that his father has been killed. Read More »
L’as des as / Ace of Aces (1982) Gérard Oury, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Rachid Ferrache, Adventure, Comedy, Sport
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler’s Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph Read More »
Zhi fa xian feng / Righting Wrongs (1986) Corey Yuen, Biao Yuen, Cynthia Rothrock, Melvin Wong, Action, Crime, Thriller
Yuen Biao plays Jason Chan a lawyer, angry at the way the law seems to protect the bad guys, he decides to take the law into his own hands Read More »
El bosque animado / The Enchanted Forest (1987) José Luis Cuerda, Alfredo Landa, Alejandra Grepi, Tito Valverde, Comedy, Fantasy
In the fantastic world of the “bosque animado” meet some people who have been transported to this place by a magic force. Now their histories cross one another.
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Dong dong de jiàqi / A Summer at Grandpa’s (1984) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chi-Kuang Wang, Shu-Chen Li, Hsiu-Ling Lin, Drama
When a young brother and sister spend a pivotal summer away from home, they are changed. Ting-Ting and Tung-Tung (Wang Qiguang) are children of the city Read More »
Tajna starog tavana / The Secret of an Old Attic (1984) Vladimir Tadej, Mario Mirkovic, Jirí Guryca, Nina Petrovic, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
During a summer holiday, two boys discover an anti-gravity cannon in an old attic.
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Spokój / The Calm (1980) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Izabella Olszewska, Jerzy Trela, Drama
Filmed in 1976 and shelved for five years. A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. Read More »
Krótki dzien pracy / Short Working Day (1981) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Tadeusz Bartosik, Zbigniew Bielski, Leon Charewicz, Drama
Based on reportage of the 1976 strike in Radom, which ended with the regional Party Committee headquarters set aflame, Kieslowski’s made-for-TV hybrid film merges archival materials with a dramatization of organized opposition during a single day of conflict. Read More »
Key Exchange (1985) Barnet Kellman, Brooke Adams, Danny Aiello, Seth Allen, Comedy, Romance
A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exchange apartment keys.
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