A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Dance with a Stranger (1985) Mike Newell, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm
Ruth Ellis lives with her 10-year old son Andy next to a night club. Read More »
Three Fugitives (1989) Francis Veber, Nick Nolte, Martin Short, Sarah Rowland Doroff
On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself Read More »
Take Me Out to the Snowland AKA Watashi wo ski ni tsuretette (1987) Yasuo Baba, Hiroshi Mikami, Tomoyo Harada, Kiwako Harada
Fumio Yano is an unassuming young businessman in the ski wear line. Read More »
Host for a Ghost AKA Hao cai zhuang dao ni (1984) Shan-Hsi Ting, Pak-Cheung Chan, Ke-Hsin Yu, Wan-Si Wong
A movie about a spirit who escapes “the pain of hell” by agreeing to return among the living. Read More »
Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands! AKA Que les gros salaires lèvent le doigt! (1982) Denys Granier-Deferre, Jean Poiret, Michel Piccoli, Daniel Auteuil
The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees Read More »
Angel (1983) Robert Vincent O’Neil, Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn
15 year-old Molly is the best in her class in high school. Read More »
All Fired Up AKA Tout feu, tout flamme (1982) Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Yves Montand, Isabelle Adjani, Lauren Hutton
Victor Valance, an absent father who likes to gamble, returns home in order to take money from his family and gamble with it. Read More »
Hécate (1982) Daniel Schmid, Bernard Giraudeau, Lauren Hutton, Jean Bouise
North Africa in the 1930s. Julien, a young, bored diplomat meets Clothilde Read More »
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981) John Badham, Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti
Ken Harrison is an artist who makes sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident Read More »
Tap (1989) Nick Castle, Gregory Hines, Suzzanne Douglas, Sammy Davis Jr.
Max Washington has just been released from prison after serving time for burglary. Read More »
Medium (1985) Jacek Koprowicz, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Michal Bajor, Jerzy Zelnik
In the early 1930s the parapsychologist Wagner uses his telepathic sister to psychically uncover the presence of a nearby medium. Read More »
Foolin Around (1980) Richard T. Heffron, Gary Busey, Annette O’Toole, John Calvin
College student Wes agrees to be a test subject in a psychological experiment involving shock treatments. Read More »
A Railway Station for Two AKA Vokzal dlya dvoikh (1983) Eldar Ryazanov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Basilashvili, Nikita Mikhalkov
Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. Read More »
A Cruel Romance AKA Zhestokiy romans (1984) Eldar Ryazanov, Alisa Freyndlikh, Larisa Guzeeva, Nikita Mikhalkov
Cinematographic adaptation of classical Russian play “Dowry-less” by A. Ostrovsky. Read More »