A man, with the help of a friendly police and a lady reporter, stops a huge drug deal. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984) David Hugh Jones, Edward Petherbridge, John Woodvine, Edita Brychta
When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch’s riddle Read More »
Timon of Athens (1981) Jonathan Miller, John Fortune, John Bird, Tony Jay
Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors Read More »
Manon (1981) Yôichi Higashi, Setsuko Karasuma, Masahiko Tsugawa, Kôichi Satô
The story of the rise and fall of a young courtesan. Read More »
Absence of Malice (1981) Sydney Pollack, Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban
Mike Gallagher is a Miami liquor wholesaler whose deceased father was a local mobster. Read More »
Nadia (1984) Alan Cooke, Talia Balsam, Jonathan Banks, Joe Bennett
Story about gymnast Nadia Comaneci from her childhood beginning as a gymnast Read More »
The Vanishing AKA Spoorloos (1988) George Sluizer, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege
Rex and Saskia are on holiday, a young couple in love. They stop at a busy service Read More »
The Island AKA Sang sei sin (1985) Po-Chih Leong, John Sham, Hoi-Lun Au, Timothy Zao
Mr. Cheung takes six young students along for a trip to a remote, deserted island. Read More »
Life Story (1987) Mick Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Tim Pigott-Smith, Alan Howard
Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling Read More »
Zuma (1985) Jun Raquiza, Max Laurel, Snooky Serna, Mark Gil
Zuma is a movie remake of one of the oldest and most popular comic books in the Philippines. Read More »
Cross Country (1983) Paul Lynch, Richard Beymer, Nina Axelrod, Michael Ironside
After a woman is found butchered in her New York apartment, suspicion falls on her estranged husband Read More »
Slipstream (1989) Steven Lisberger, Bob Peck, Mark Hamill, Kitty Aldridge
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by natural disasters Read More »
An Unremarkable Life (1989) Amin Q. Chaudhri, Patricia Neal, Shelley Winters, Mako
Sisters Frances and Evelyn McEllany are two older women who have put aside Read More »
Mueda, Memory and Massacre AKA Mueda Memoria e Massacre (1981) Ruy Guerra, Romao Canapoquele, Filipe Gunoguacala, Mauricio Machimbuco
Mueda was a massacre. The name is that of the village in Northern Mozambique where in 1960 it took place. Read More »
Loyalties (1986) Anne Wheeler, Kenneth Welsh, Tantoo Cardinal, Susan Wooldridge
Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton Read More »