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Tag Archives: 1980s
Playing Away (1987) Horace Ové, Norman Beaton, Robert Urquhart, Helen Lindsay
To mark the conclusion of their “Third World Week” celebration, a cricket team Read More »
Lost in America (1985) Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Sylvia Farrel
David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment Read More »
Nijinsky (1980) Herbert Ross, Alan Bates, George De La Pena, Leslie Browne
Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism Read More »
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long (1987) Mika Kaurismäki, Kari Väänänen, Roberta Manfredi, Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Alex is Finlander married to an Italian who works as a taxi driver in Berlin. Read More »
Kill the Referee AKA À mort l’arbitre! (1984) Jean-Pierre Mocky, Michel Serrault, Carole Laure, Eddy Mitchell
Michel,a referee has to suffer the consequences of having whistled a penalty against a team which is supported by football hooligans. Read More »
The Enemy AKA Düsman (1980) Zeki Ökten, Aytaç Arman, Güngör Bayrak, Sevket Altug
Ismail is out of work despite am obvious willingness to do almost anything to earn enough to provide for his family. Read More »
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) Colin Higgins, Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise
Founded in 1910 just outside of the city limits of Gilbert located in Lanville County Read More »
Reform School Girls (1986) Tom DeSimone, Linda Carol, Wendy O. Williams, Pat Ast
Jenny is sent to a women’s reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Read More »
Bitter Harvest (1981) Roger Young, Ron Howard, Art Carney, Tarah Nutter
A farmer’s herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill Read More »
Intimate Moments AKA Madame Claude 2 (1981) François Mimet, Alexandra Stewart, Dirke Altevogt, Yanet Cuevas
A notorious French madam, whose business serves many of the nation’s most powerful individuals Read More »
Empire of Kids AKA Gaki teikoku (1981) Kazuyuki Izutsu, Shinsuke Shimada, Ryûsuke Matsumoto, Bang-ho Cho
This impossibly complicated plot about gangland vendettas and power struggles Read More »
Gandahar (1987) René Laloux, Glenn Close, Christopher Plummer, Pierre-Marie Escourrou
Gandahar is a utopian world of rare beauty and tranquility Read More »
Drunken Tai Chi AKA Siu Tai Gik (1984) Woo-Ping Yuen, Donnie Yen, Cheung-Yan Yuen, Lydia Shum
A troublesome young man named Ta Sha rides a bike around town spoiling and ruining for others. Read More »
The Taming of the Scoundrel AKA Il bisbetico domato (1980) Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia, Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Edith Peters
A grouchy farmer, known around his small Italian town as being wonderful Read More »