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Tag Archives: 1980s
Union City (1980) Marcus Reichert, Dennis Lipscomb, Debbie Harry, Sam McMurray
Guilty paranoia in a gritty 1950’s industrial town. An accountant, living a repressed life, becomes so obsessed Read More »
Handgun (1983) Tony Garnett, Karen Young, Clayton Day, Suzie Humphreys
Shortly after moving to Dallas, a young woman is raped at gunpoint. Read More »
The Time You Need a Friend AKA Xiao jiang (1985) John Woo, Yueh Sun, David Tao, Linda Jui-Chi Liu
Two old vaudeville comedians who broke up many years ago over a woman Read More »
Run Tiger, Run AKA Liang zhi lao hu (1984) John Woo, Teddy Robin Kwan, Bin Bin, Yin-Tze Pan
So, there are two drifters, one is a little kid and a midget. Read More »
Why Me? (1984) Fielder Cook, Glynnis O’Connor, Armand Assante, Craig Wasson
Leola Mae Harmon, a pregnant military nurse who is the victim of a drunk-driving accident. Read More »
Scarred (1983) Rosemarie Turko, Jennifer Mayo, Jackie Berryman, David Dean
Ruby Star is a runaway teenage mom facing many problems: a baby, no family and no job. Read More »
Stammheim: The Trial of the Baader-Meinhof Group AKA Stammheim – Die Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe vor Gericht (1986) Reinhard Hauff, Ulrich Tukur, Hans Kremer, Therese Affolter
Stammheim Prison in Stuttgart, West Germany, as the five defendants–Andreas Baader Read More »
The Lightship (1985) Jerzy Skolimowski, Robert Duvall, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Tim Phillips
Just when US Coast Guard captain Miller takes his teenage son Alex to his lightship off the coast of Virginia Read More »
We Think the World of You (1988) Colin Gregg, Alan Bates, Max Wall, Liz Smith
An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. Read More »
A Passage to India (1984) David Lean, Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft
Circa 1920, during the Indian British rule, Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed was born and brought up in India. Read More »
Berlin Chamissoplatz (1980) Rudolf Thome, Hanns Zischler, Sabine Bach, Wolfgang Kinder
An architect falls in love with a student who engages actively against Read More »
Secret Places (1984) Zelda Barron, Marie Theres Relin, Tara MacGowran, Claudine Auger
Secret Places follows the story of schoolgirls in England during WW2. Read More »
Pejzazi u magli (1984) Jovan Jovanovic, Anamarija Petricevic, Ljubomir Todorovic, Tihomir Arsic
Naturalistic and almost documentary account of the heroin addicts in Belgrade Read More »
Selva. Un portrait de Parvaneh Navaï (1983) Maria Klonaris
Trance dances and out of body projection. In front of the camera, Parvaneh Navaï becomes a mediator Read More »