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Tag Archives: 1980s
It’s My Turn (1980) Claudia Weill, Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin
A successful but stressed mathematics professor goes to her father’s wedding and falls in love with her father’s bride’s son Read More »
Desert Bloom (1986) Eugene Corr, Jon Voight, JoBeth Williams, Annabeth Gish
The story involves Rose Chismore’s youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Read More »
The Age of the Earth AKA A Idade da Terra (1980) Glauber Rocha, Maurício do Valle, Jece Valadão, Antonio Pitanga
The day that Pier Paolo Pasolini was killed, Glauber Rocha decided to make this film about the life of Christ in the Third World. Read More »
Osa (1986) Oleg Egorov, Kelly Lynch, Daniel Grimm, Phillip Vincent
In a future society where water is a precious resource, a savage gang murders a young girl’s family. Read More »
Burning Snow AKA Xue zai shao (1988) Patrick Tam, Simon Yam, Chuan-Chen Yeh, Chih-Cheng Hsueh
A young woman is forced to marry an older man who runs a roadhouse saloon. Read More »
A Voyage Round My Father (1982) Alvin Rakoff, Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Jane Asher
Before creating the beloved courtroom drama Rumpole of the Bailey, writer John Mortimer found inspiration in his own life Read More »
Heaven’s Touch (1983) Shaun Costello, Michael Knight, Gail Sterling, Dena Ferrara
Henry was a wimp, who was terrified of women, finally becoming a victim of their sexual hungers Read More »
D.O.A. (1988) Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton, Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling
Dexter Cornell, an English Professor, becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him. Read More »
Blood Delirium (1988) Sergio Bergonzelli, John Phillip Law, Gordon Mitchell, Brigitte Christensen
After his beloved wife dies, an unbalanced painter who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Vincent Van Gogh Read More »
First Name: Carmen AKA Prénom Carmen (1983) Jean-Luc Godard, Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel
Carmen is a member of a terrorist gang who falls in love with a young police officer guarding a bank that she and her cohorts try to rob. Read More »
Last Harem AKA L’ultimo harem (1981) Sergio Garrone, Corinne Cléry, George Lazenby, Daniela Poggi
Laura, a beautiful, famous and expensive photographic model, arrives in Cannes to pose for a series of photos by a well-known photographer. Read More »
War and Peace AKA Krieg und Frieden (1982) Stefan Aust, Axel Engstfeld, Jürgen Prochnow, Günther Kaufmann, Manfred Zapatka
At the peak of the Cold War, the short-range missile crisis, neutron bombs could have potentially annihilated Central Europe. Read More »
Twisted Issues (1988) Stephen L. Antczak, Charles Pinion
Low budget shot-on-video gore film with comical overtones concerns a skateboarding teen’s murder. Read More »
Blackbird AKA Cavka (1988) Milos ‘Misa’ Radivojevic, Marko Ratic, Slobodan Negic, Aleksandar Bercek
Story about friendship between two boys coming from different social backgrounds, but with the equally bitter family experiences. Read More »