In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Beyond Gravity (1989) Garth Maxwell
Richard, an astronomy-obsessed worrier spends his time fantasizing about outer-space and the cosmos, an activity which antagonizes friends and family. Read More »
The Witch Hunt (1981) Forfølgelsen
The year is 1630. A young woman in Laupstad comes to a small mountain village. She witnesses a woman being hunted and captured. Read More »
Money, Power, Murder. (1989) Lee Philips
Peter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has interest in a missing anchorwoman’s story. Read More »
Two Fathers’ Justice (1985) Rod Holcomb
After a couple is murdered by drug dealers who flee the country, two fathers with opposite backgrounds join forces. Read More »
An Italian Woman (1980) Oggetti smarriti
Oppressed by her husband, her lover, and her obsessive mother, a bourgeois from Milan is reunited Read More »
Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986)
What constitutes a deadly sin today? Seven of the world’s best-known women directors produce their own version of celluloid sin in this omnibus film. Read More »
La Paresse (1986) Portrait of a Lazy Woman
A director trying to overcome her own laziness, to shot a film about laziness. Read More »
To Trap a Kidnapper (1982) Yûkai hôdô
Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school. Read More »
The Woman Who Lives at Night (1980) Gece Yasayan Kadin
Necla is a crippled woman who cannot walk, but at night she puts on her red wig and becomes Selma, a dangerous woman who can walk. Read More »