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Tag Archives: 1980s
Barbarosa (1982) Fred Schepisi, Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, Isela Vega
Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor Read More »
Valmont (1989) Milos Forman, Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. Read More »
Battle Heater AKA Batoru hîtâ (1989) Jôji Iida, Akira Emoto, Hisako Hara, Masao Imafuku
Hama, along with his assistant Furuchi, spends his time collecting electronic junk from other people’s garbage and junk yards. Read More »
The Skin AKA La pelle (1981) Liliana Cavani, Marcello Mastroianni, Ken Marshall, Alexandra King
After the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, the life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women. Read More »
Sparkle’s Tavern (1985) Curt McDowell, Marion Eaton, Peter Paskos, Melinda McDowell
A brother and sister who run a bordello worry that their conservative mother will find out what they do for a living. Read More »
An Early Frost (1985) John Erman, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney
Set in the mid-eighties Michael Pierson, a young gay man, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life. Read More »
When the Whales Came (1989) Clive Rees, Paul Scofield, David Threlfall, Helen Mirren
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. Read More »
I Married a Shadow AKA J’ai épousé une ombre (1983) Robin Davis, Nathalie Baye, Francis Huster, Richard Bohringer
After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident. Read More »
Self Defense (1983) Paul Donovan, Maura O’Connell, Tom Nardini, Brenda Bazinet, Daryl Haney
A bunch of selfrighteous bullies want to set som “new rules” in town while the police in Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada) are on strike. Read More »
Thunder Alley (1985) J.S. Cardone, Roger Wilson, Jill Schoelen, Scott McGinnis
A group of friends start a rock band, but as they start their rise in the music world, they get mixed up with drugs. Read More »
Dusty (1983) John Richardson, Bill Kerr, Noel Trevarthen, Carol Burns
The story of a friendship between an older Australian man and his instinctively wild dog. Read More »
Unhinged (1982) Don Gronquist, Laurel Munson, Janet Penner, Sara Ansley
College students, Terry, Nancy and Gloria are on their way to a rock concert, driving through a torrential rainstorm… Read More »
The Blood AKA O Sangue (1989) Pedro Costa, Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira, Inês de Medeiros
Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. Read More »
A Killer in the Family (1983) Richard T. Heffron, Robert Mitchum, James Spader, Lance Kerwin
A father serving time for murder convinces his three teenage sons that his life Read More »