Set in an Australian lumber town in 1939. Marge (Rachel Ward), the bored wife of kindly-but-dull Sonny Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Family Reunion (1981) Fielder Cook, Bette Davis, J. Ashley Hyman, David Huddleston
Elizabeth Winfield is a retired teacher and matriarch of a problematic family Read More »
Fighting Back (1982) Lewis Teague, Tom Skerritt, Patti LuPone, Michael Sarrazin
It’s a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals’ violences and ravages. Read More »
Freckled Max and the Spooks / Pehavý Max a strasidlá (1987) Juraj Jakubisko, Martin Hreben, Gerhard Karzel, Eddie Constantine
Young orphan Max leaves the circus to escape his abusive fosters. Read More »
Paradise for All / Paradis pour tous (1982) Alain Jessua, Patrick Dewaere, Jacques Dutronc, Fanny Cottençon
By the side of the pool at his luxury villa, Alain Durieux sits in his wheelchair Read More »
Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno (1984)
The story of a farmer that succeeded to contest the king Alboino Read More »
The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians / Pruncul, petrolul si Ardelenii (1981) Dan Pita, Ilarion Ciobanu, Ovidiu Iulian Moldovan, Mircea Diaconu
The last part in the trilogy follows the three brothers on their way home Read More »
Buddy, Buddy (1981) Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss
Walter Matthau plays a professional killer going by the name of Trabucco Read More »
He, the Dolphin / Ele, o Boto (1987) Walter Lima Jr., Carlos Alberto Riccelli, Cássia Kis Magro, Ney Latorraca
“Ele, o Boto” is based on an old legend of a water spirit who takes on form of Amazon river dolphin. Read More »
The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) Robert Redford, Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga
In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. Read More »