After years of abuse at the hands of her husband, a woman, Emmanouella, is pushed to the breaking point. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
The Runner AKA Davandeh (1984) Amir Naderi, Madjid Niroumand, Abbas Nazeri, Musa Torkizadeh
Amiro is a young boy who has lost his home during the war. Read More »
The Living Koheiji AKA Kaiidan: Ikiteiru Koheiji (1982) Nobuo Nakagawa, Fumihiko Fujima, Junko Miyashita, Shôji Ishibashi
The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro. Read More »
Rhythm of a Crime AKA Ritam zlocina (1981) Zoran Tadic, Ivica Vidovic, Fabijan Sovagovic, Bozidarka Frajt
A single teacher allows a stranger to share his home with him before it is to be torn down by developers. Read More »
In the Wink of an Eye AKA Kisapmata (1981) Mike De Leon, Charo Santos-Concio, Jay Ilagan, Vic Silayan
An crime-drama-suspense genre film not often seen in Philippine cinema Read More »
The Eye Above the Well AKA Het oog boven de put (1988) Johan van der Keuken
A poetic depiction of life and ritual in the south Indian state of Kerala. Read More »
A Prayer For The Dying (1987) Mike Hodges, Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates
Martin Fallon is an IRA bomber who tries to blow up a troop truck but instead kills a bus load of school children. Read More »
The Beyond AKA E tu vivrai nel terrore! L’aldilà (1981) Lucio Fulci, Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Cinzia Monreale
From legendary Italian horror master Lucio Fulci come the ultimate classic of supernatural horror. Read More »
The Annihilators (1985) Charles E. Sellier Jr., Jim Antonio, Sid Conrad, Gerrit Graham
Upon his return from Vietnam, an ex-soldier finds his neighborhood has deteriorated badly Read More »
Hong Kong Godfather AKA Jian dong xiao xiong (1985) Lung Wei Wang, Ka-Yan Leung, Norman Chu, Shu-Yuan Hsu
After receiving a life imprisonment sentence for a NY Chinatown massacre, Jia Shi Lan, alias Hei Lan Read More »
The Accidental Tourist (1988) Lawrence Kasdan, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis
After the death of his son, Macon Leary, a travel writer, seems to be sleep walking through life. Read More »
The Holcroft Covenant (1985) John Frankenheimer, Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant
Noel Holcroft is a foreign-born American citizen working in New York as an architect. Read More »
Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987) Edward Asner, Linwood G. Dunn, Ginger Rogers
The history of the major Golden Age of Hollywood film company, RKO Pictures. Read More »
The Great Skycopter Rescue (1980) Lawrence David Foldes, Aldo Ray, William Marshall, Terry Michos
When oil is discovered in a small-town, some greedy prospectors hire a gang of wild bikers to scare the townsfolk away. Read More »
From a Far Country (1981) Krzysztof Zanussi, Sam Neill, Christopher Cazenove, Lisa Harrow
The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtyla was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Read More »