An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Music Box (1989) Costa-Gavras, Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest
Hungarian immigrant Mike Laszlo has done well for himself since arriving in the USA Read More »
Man, Woman and Child (1983) Dick Richards, Martin Sheen, Blythe Danner, Craig T. Nelson
A man with a wife and two daughters learns that he has a son. It seems that a few years ago while visiting France Read More »
Surrender (1987) Jerry Belson, Sally Field, Michael Caine, Steve Guttenberg
A wealthy writer, who has had terrible experiences with money-hungry girlfriends Read More »
The Nonentity AKA Le paltoquet (1986) Michel Deville, Fanny Ardant, Daniel Auteuil, Richard Bohringer
Miss Lotte has her residence in a big hangar near a port. Read More »
Relentless (1989) William Lustig, Judd Nelson, Robert Loggia, Leo Rossi
Two Los Angeles police detectives, cynical veteran Malloy and cocky rookie Dietz Read More »
The Seburi Story AKA Seburi monogatari (1985) Sadao Nakajima, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Yumiko Fujita, Michiko Kohno
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject Read More »
The Bus Driver AKA Sawwaq el-Utubis (1982) Atef El-Tayeb, Sharif Abdulhamid, Aaliyah Abdulmoneim, Nimat Abdulnaser
Hassan is a bus driver and the only male sibling of five sisters Read More »
Sword of Gideon (1986) Michael Anderson, Steven Bauer, Michael York, Robert Joy
Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists Read More »
Signs of Life (1989) John David Coles, Beau Bridges, Vincent D’Onofrio, Arthur Kennedy
After generations of operation, family owned and operated Coughlin Read More »
Woman in a Hat AKA Kobieta w kapeluszu (1985) Stanislaw Rózewicz, Hanna Mikuc, Maria Czubasiewicz, Barbara Dziekan
A psychological portrait of a young Polish theatre actress Read More »
Labyrinth Romanesque AKA Hanazono no meikyu (1988) Shun’ya Itô, Yôko Shimada, Yûya Uchida, Yûki Kudô
Based on Edogawa Ranpo Award winner “Hanazono no Meikyu” by Yoko Yamazaki. Read More »
BrainWaves (1982) Ulli Lommel, Keir Dullea, Suzanna Love, Vera Miles
After a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months. Her doctors want to try a new procedure on her Read More »
The Nest AKA El nido (1980) Jaime de Armiñán, Héctor Alterio, Ana Torrent, Luis Politti
In a town near Salamanca, an eccentric widower, aged 60, is captivated by an imp, a precocious 13 year old. Read More »
The Legend of Alfred Packer (1980) James W. Roberson, Patrick Dray, Ronald Haines, Jim Dratfield
Alfred (also known as Alferd) Packer promoted himself as a guide to a group of pioneers Read More »