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Tag Archives: 1980s
Dog Day AKA Canicule (1984) Yves Boisset, Lee Marvin, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet
A fugitive on the run from the law and carrying several million dollars hides out in the house of a farm family. Read More »
In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro (1986) Raju Patel, John Rhys-Davies, Timothy Bottoms, Irene Miracle
There’s a big drought in Africa. Food and water are scarce. Read More »
Runaway Train (1985) Andrey Konchalovskiy, Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay
A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter Read More »
Arising From The Surface (1980) Mani Kaul, Bharat Gopy, Vibhuti Jha, Satyen Kumar
Taking an experimental approach to the relationship between the written text and moving image Read More »
Bliss (1985) Ray Lawrence, Barry Otto, Lynette Curran, Helen Jones
Harry suffers a heart attack and has a near-death experience that changes his outlook on life. Read More »
Doomed Love (1984) Andrew Horn, Black-Eyed Susan, Allen Frame, Charles Ludlam
Depressed after losing his lover a long time ago, Andre visits a psychiatrist. Read More »
The Hit (1984) Stephen Frears, Freddie Stuart, Ralph Brown, A.J. Clarke
Ex-gangster Willie Parker (Terence Stamp) has betrayed his former “colleagues” Read More »
The Day After Trinity (1981) Jon Else, Hans Bethe, Holm Bursom, Haakon Chevalier
Scientists and witnesses involved in the creation and testing of the first ever atomic bomb Read More »
Athens, Ga. – Inside/Out (1987) Tony Gayton, Herbert Abrahams, Jeremy Ayers, Bar-B-Q Killers
Led by the success of the B-52’s and R.E.M., Athens, Georgia was the most happening music scene Read More »
Deaths in Tokimeki AKA Tokimeki ni shisu (1984) Yoshimitsu Morita, Kenji Sawada, Kanako Higuchi, Naoki Sugiura
An emotionless hit man is sent on a mission to a remote town. Read More »
Utopia (1983) Sohrab Shahid Saless, Manfred Zapatka, Imke Barnstedt, Gundula Petrovska
A treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws Read More »
Dust in the wind AKA Lian lian feng chen (1986) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Shu-Fang Chen, Shu-fen Hsin, Lawrence Ko
A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. In the city, A-yuan is an apprentice by day Read More »
Rented Lips (1988) Robert Downey Sr., Martin Mull, Dick Shawn, Jennifer Tilly
A documentary filmmaker, who has spent the last 15 years making films like “Aluminum: Our Shiny Friend,” Read More »
An Innocent Man (1989) Peter Yates, Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house Read More »