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Tag Archives: 1980s
Escape from El Diablo (1983) Gordon Hessler, Timothy Van Patten, Jimmy McNichol, Ethan Wayne

A young American is framed and thrown into a Mexican prison. Read More »
Indoctrination / Die Schulung (1987) Harun Farocki

This film is about a five-day seminar designed to teach executives how to “sell themselves” better. Read More »
Market Place / Mandi (1983) Shyam Benegal, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah

Forbidden love, fraying loyalties and flagrant hypocrisy emerge Read More »
The Sand Storm / Trishagni (1988) Nabendu Ghosh, Nana Patekar, Pallavi Joshi, Alok Nath

The film is set in a Central Asian desert in the 1st Century B.C. A sandstorm strikes Read More »
Magdalena Viraga (1986) Nina Menkes, Claire Aguilar, Nora Bendich, Dave Gist

Story of A Red Sea Crossing. Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East LA Read More »
Potlatch / Arhangelos tou pathous (1987) Nikos Vergitsis, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Isabel Otero, Patrick Bauchau

A young Greek composer is trying to escape the era’s disease, apathy. Read More »
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 »