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Tag Archives: 1980s
The Sand Storm AKA Trishagni (1988) Nabendu Ghosh, Nana Patekar, Pallavi Joshi, Alok Nath
The film is set in a Central Asian desert in the 1st Century B.C. A sandstorm strikes Read More »
Magdalena Viraga (1986) Nina Menkes, Claire Aguilar, Nora Bendich, Dave Gist
Story of A Red Sea Crossing. Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East LA Read More »
Potlatch AKA Arhangelos tou pathous (1987) Nikos Vergitsis, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Isabel Otero, Patrick Bauchau
A young Greek composer is trying to escape the era’s disease, apathy. Read More »
The Ploughman’s Lunch (1983) Richard Eyre, Jonathan Pryce, William Maxwell, Paul Jesson
James Penfield (Jonathan Pryce) has made a career out of journalism. Read More »
The Year of Awakening AKA El año de las luces (1986) Fernando Trueba, Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdú, Verónica Forqué
April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe Read More »
Divine Madness (1980) Michael Ritchie, Bette Midler, Jocelyn Brown, Ula Hedwig
In 1980, the head usher at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium gives his crew a pep talk Read More »
Z for Zachariah (1984) Anthony Garner, Anthony Andrews, Pippa Hinchley, David Daker
Based on a book of the same name, depicting events in a Welsh valley after a nuclear holocaust Read More »
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987) Jack Clayton, Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Wendy Hiller
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. Read More »
The Champions AKA Boh ngau (1983) Brandy Yuen, Biao Yuen, Moon Lee, Dick Wei
Ah Biao stars as an acrobatic country hick who must flee out of town after injuring Read More »
Bert Rigby, You’re a Fool (1989) Carl Reiner, Robert Lindsay, Robbie Coltrane, Cathryn Bradshaw
Bert Rigby lives in the small dying town Langmore, where most people depend on badly doing mining corporation. Read More »
Sarraounia (1986) Med Hondo, Aï Keïta, Jean-Roger Milo, Féodor Atkine
On January 2 1899, beginning from the French Soudan, a french pillar below the commandment of the captains Voulet Read More »
Rouge AKA Rûju (1984) Hiroyuki Nasu, Emi Shindô, Shôhei Hino, Yuki Kitazume
Tsutomu (Shohei Hino) is a magazine editor obsessed with porn star Nami (Emi Shindo) Read More »
Jacques et novembre (1984) Jean Beaudry, François Bouvier, Jean Beaudry, Marie Cantin, Carole Chatel
The film relates the last days of a 31-year old man who, doomed to die shortly Read More »
Restless Natives (1985) Michael Hoffman, Vincent Friell, Ned Beatty, Joe Mullaney
Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. Read More »