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Tag Archives: 1980s
The Champions (1983) Boh ngau – Brandy Yuen

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 »
The Wheel of Life / Da lunhui (1983) King Hu, Hsing Lee, Ching-Jui Pai, Hsueh-Fen Peng, Huo-Yen Chiang, Chun Shih

This 3-parter uses the same 3 leads in each of its parts. Read More »
Man on the Brink / Bin yuen yan (1981) Kwok-Ming Cheung, Lun Chia, Hing-Yin Kam, Eddie Chan

An undercover cop goes deep undercover to inside one of Hong Kong’s most Read More »
Radio Days (1987) Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Mike Starr

A nostalgic look at radio’s golden age focusing on one ordinary family Read More »
Mixed Blood (1984) Paul Morrissey, Marília Pêra, Richard Ulacia, Linda Kerridge

Brazilian drug dealers in Manhattan’s Lower East Side start a war with Read More »