A notorious French madam, whose business serves many of the nation’s most powerful individuals Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
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 »
Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980) Michael Apted, Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm
At only 13, Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible for a large family. Read More »
Castle of De Sade AKA O Castelo das Taras (1982) Julius Belvedere, Dorival Coutinho, Esmeralda Barros, Silvana Alves
Three female undergraduates and their parapsychology teacher Read More »
Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story AKA Tsisperi mtebi anu daujerebeli ambavi (1983) Eldar Shengelaia, Ramaz Giorgobiani, Vasil Kakhniashvili, Teimuraz Chirgadze
In an off-beat story told in three acts and an epilogue, a young writer tries unsuccessfully Read More »
Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989) Monte Hellman, Samantha Scully, Bill Moseley, Richard C. Adams
Ricky Caldwell, the notorious ‘Killer Santa Claus’, awakens from a six year coma after Read More »
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) Roland Joffé, Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia
In real life, Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific head of the Manhattan Project Read More »
The Taming of the Shrew (1980) Jonathan Miller, Simon Chandler, Anthony Pedley, John Franklyn-Robbins
Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca Read More »
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1981) Elijah Moshinsky, Estelle Kohler, Nigel Davenport, Hugh Quarshie
The adventures of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors Read More »
Brotherly Love (1985) Jeff Bleckner, Judd Hirsch, Karen Carlson, George Dzundza
A businessman is stalked by his murderous twin brother Read More »
Solar Task Force Sunvulcan: The Movie AKA Taiyô sentai San Barukan: Za Mubi (1981) Shohei Tôjô, Takayuki Godai, Kinya Sugi, Asao Kobayashi
Black Magma decides to separate Hiba from his teammates while plotting to blow up Tokyo with hidden bombs. Read More »
The Little Shepherd Boy from the Valley AKA Pasácek z doliny (1985) Frantisek Vlácil, Vlastimir Drbal, Zdenek Dusek, Radka Fiedlerová
The film is set in 1947 Beskydy. It follows a 10 year old boy who regularly shepherds cows next to a destroyed German tank. Read More »