Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Sophie’s Choice (1982) Alan J. Pakula, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live in Nathan Read More »
And a Nightingale Sang (1989) Robert Knights, Phyllis Logan, Tom Watt, Joan Plowright
Romance lifts a sister from a lively family in working-class Newcastle during World War II. Read More »
Traxx (1988) Jerome Gary, Shadoe Stevens, Priscilla Barnes, Willard E. Pugh
Traxx has battled his way through El Salvador, the Middle East and Nicaragua, spitting lead with two-handed good grace. Read More »
Utilities (1983) Harvey Hart, Robert Hays, Brooke Adams, John Marley
Bob Hunt is a put upon social worker who has had enough of the bad service of public utilities. Read More »
All Night Long (1981) Jean-Claude Tramont, Gene Hackman, Barbra Streisand, Diane Ladd
Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. Read More »
Uliisses (1982) Werner Nekes, Armin Wölfl, Tabea Blumenschein, Russel Derson
Director Werner Nekes has created this experimental film in the mode of James Joyce’s Read More »
The Victim AKA Shen bu you ji (1980) Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Ka-Yan Leung, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Yi Chang
Chung Yao, a martial arts expert, has long been on the run from his stepbrother Read More »
Asphalt Night AKA Asphaltnacht (1980) Peter Fratzscher, Gerd Udo Heinemann, Thomas Davis, Monika Rack
During a night in Berlin, a 17-year old punk meets a 30-year-old rocker. Read More »
Caprice (1986) Joanna Hogg, Tilda Swinton, Patti Palladin, Bruce Payne
A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine. Read More »
The Citadel AKA El kalaa (1989) Mohamed Chouikh, Djillali Ain-Tedeles, Khaled Barkat, Fatima Belhadj
In a small village in rural Algeria, the “village idiot” is madly in love with a married woman. Read More »
The Gold Diggers (1983) Sally Potter, George Antoni, Julie Christie, Kassandra Colson
Celeste (Colette Laffont) is a computer clerk in a bank who becomes fascinated by the relationship between gold and power. Read More »
Jacknife (1989) David Hugh Jones, Robert De Niro, Kathy Baker, Ed Harris
A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister Read More »
The Fall of Italy AKA Pad Italije (1981) Lordan Zafranovic, Daniel Olbrychski, Ena Begovic, Gorica Popovic
A partisan commander had to shoot one of his comrades because he had neglected the struggle Read More »
Build a House, Plant a Tree AKA Postav dom, zasad strom (1980) Juraj Jakubisko, Jana Brezinová, Ivan Drozdy, Pavel Nový
Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko resurfaces after a hiatus with this potent drama about Pavel Read More »