Michael Keaton plays Daryl Poynter, a hot shot real estate agent who just happens to have a cocaine and drinking problem. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Table for Five (1983) Robert Lieberman, Jon Voight, Richard Crenna, Marie-Christine Barrault
J. P. Tannen takes his three children for a vacation cruise. They usually live with their mother and step-father Read More »
Paura e amore (1988) Margarethe von Trotta, Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi, Valeria Golino
An adaptation of a classic “Three Sisters” play by Anton Chekhov. Read More »
The Ballad of Narayama AKA Narayama bushikô (1983) Shôhei Imamura, Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari
In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. Read More »
Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder! AKA Hissatsu! Buraun-kan no kaibutsutachi (1985) Joe Hirose, Makoto Fujita, Izumi Ayukawa, Masaki Kyômoto
Each member of a band of assassins has a cover. The leader, Mondo Nakamura, is an officer of the law who bumbles through his assignments. Read More »
Equation to an Unknown AKA Équation à un inconnu (1980) Francis Savel, Gianfranco Longhi, Jean-Jacques Loupmon, Reinhard Montz
This long-lost masterpiece of gay erotic cinema centers on a handsome young stud who rides his motorcycle Read More »
Valley Girl (1983) Martha Coolidge, Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily
Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. Read More »
Tea in the Harem AKA Le thé au harem d’Archimède (1985) Mehdi Charef, Kader Boukhanef, Rémi Martin, Laure Duthilleul
In a depressing concrete Parisian suburb in the seventies two friends are keeping boredom at bay with loitering and petty crime. Read More »
Murder on the Moon (1989) Michael Lindsay-Hogg
After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the Moon. Read More »
Loose Connections (1983) Richard Eyre, Lindsay Duncan, Stephen Rea, Keith Allen
A lesbian and feminist woman advertises for a traveling companion to accompany her in a drive across Europe. Read More »