In World War II, the Jewish French musician and cabaret singer Fania Fenelon Goldstein Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
The Impossible Spy (1987) Jim Goddard, John Shea, Eli Wallach, Sasson Gabay
Young Israeli husband Eli Cohen is recruited by the Mossad in the early 1960’s and sent to Syria. Read More »
City Limits (1984) Aaron Lipstadt, John Stockwell, Darrell Larson, Rae Dawn Chong
Years after a mysterious plague has wiped out most of the adult population Read More »
Utu (1984) Geoff Murphy, Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Elliott
In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. Read More »
The Comedy of Errors (1983) James Cellan Jones, Cyril Cusack, Charles Gray, Nicolas Chagrin
Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search Read More »
Looking for Eileen / Zoeken naar Eileen (1987) Rudolf van den Berg, Thom Hoffman, Lysette Anthony, Marijke Veugelers
After his wife Marjan has died in a car crash, Philip de Wit becomes a total wreck. Read More »
The Compleat Beatles (1982) Patrick Montgomery, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
A documented account of the life and career of the Fab Four Read More »
For Queen & Country (1988) Martin Stellman, Denzel Washington, Dorian Healy, Sean Chapman
Reuben, having been discharged from the British military, returns to London Read More »
Ninja in the Dragon’s Den / Long zhi ren zhe (1982) Corey Yuen, Hiroyuki Sanada, Conan Lee, Jang-Lee Hwang
Two rival warriors, a Japanese and a Chinese, are forced to work together Read More »
Testimony (1988) Tony Palmer, Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines, Magdalen Asquith
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin. Read More »