A pianist falls in love with Mari, a beautiful blond woman, who happens to be the wife of a deaf-mute animal caretaker. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Diary (1983) David Perlov, Mira Perlov, Yael Perlov
Shot over a ten-year period, Diary is not only the political, professional, and personal diary of a man, but is a testimony on the turbulent reality of a war-torn country, Israel. Read More »
Dreamscape (1984) Joseph Ruben, Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer
A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people’s dreams, with some mechanical help. Read More »
Burning Ambition AKA Long zhi zheng ba (1989) Frankie Chan, Eddy Ko, Kara Wai, Simon Yam
Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story (1985) Lamont Johnson, Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, Kenneth Colley
The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust. Read More »
War-Time Romance AKA Voenno-polevoy roman (1983) Pyotr Todorovskiy, Nikolay Burlyaev, Natalya Andreychenko, Inna Churikova
This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer Read More »
’38 – Vienna Before the Fall AKA 38 – Auch das war Wien (1986) Wolfgang Glück, Tobias Engel, Sunnyi Melles, Heinz Trixner
In 1938, Austria is about to become a part of the Third Reich. Read More »
The Devil and Max Devlin (1981) Steven Hilliard Stern, Elliott Gould, Bill Cosby, Susan Anspach
When Max dies in an accident, he goes straight to hell. Read More »
The Phantom AKA Widziadlo (1984) Marek Nowicki, Roman Wilhelmi, Marzena Trybala, Hanna Mikuc
Set in the early years of the century. A story of a country gentleman haunted by the memory of his first wife. Read More »
Barfly (1987) Barbet Schroeder, Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige
Henry Chinaski never cared for the American dream, the thought of needing to become ‘something’ and fit into the system disgusts him. Read More »
The Assam Garden (1985) Mary McMurray, Deborah Kerr, Ronald Russell, Daisy Bell
An insecure, aggressive widow of a tea garden manager reluctantly develops an affectionate relationship with an Indian housewife and her family. Read More »
Tapeheads (1988) Bill Fishman, John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Mary Crosby
After being fired from their jobs as security guards, Josh and Ivan form Video Aces, a video production company. Read More »
Polyester (1981) John Waters, Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey
Francine Fishpaw is an upper middle class suburban housewife in Baltimore. Read More »
Untama giru (1989) Go Takamine, Chikako Aoyama, Kaoru Kobayashi, John Sayles
Magical realist film about Okinawa. It’s about the occupation of Okinawa – both by the United States Read More »
Antarctica AKA Nankyoku monogatari (1983) Koreyoshi Kurahara, Ken Takakura, Tsunehiko Watase, Eiji Okada
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Read More »