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Tag Archives: 1980s
The Year of Awakening / El año de las luces (1986) Fernando Trueba, Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdú, Verónica Forqué

Political and religious prejudices are destroying the relationship between two teenagers in wartime Spain. Read More »
Divine Madness (1980) Michael Ritchie, Bette Midler, Jocelyn Brown, Ula Hedwig

In 1980, the head usher at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium gives his crew a pep talk Read More »
Z for Zachariah (1984) Anthony Garner, Anthony Andrews, Pippa Hinchley, David Daker

Based on a book of the same name, depicting events in a Welsh valley after a nuclear holocaust Read More »
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987) Jack Clayton, Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Wendy Hiller

A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. Read More »
The Champions / Boh ngau (1983) Brandy Yuen, Biao Yuen, Moon Lee, Dick Wei

Ah Biao stars as an acrobatic country hick who must flee out of town after injuring Read More »
Bert Rigby, You’re a Fool (1989) Carl Reiner, Robert Lindsay, Robbie Coltrane, Cathryn Bradshaw

Bert Rigby lives in the small dying town Langmore, where most people depend on badly doing mining corporation. Read More »
Rouge / Rûju (1984) Hiroyuki Nasu, Emi Shindô, Shôhei Hino, Yuki Kitazume

Tsutomu (Shohei Hino) is a magazine editor obsessed with porn star Nami (Emi Shindo) Read More »
Jacques et novembre (1984) Jean Beaudry, François Bouvier, Jean Beaudry, Marie Cantin, Carole Chatel

The film relates the last days of a 31-year old man who, doomed to die shortly Read More »
Little Sweetheart (1988) Anthony Simmons, John Hurt, Karen Young, Cassie Barasch

Having embezzled a small fortune and attempting to lay low, Robert Burger (Sir John Hurt) Read More »