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Tag Archives: 1980s
Year of The Dragon (1985) Michael Cimino, Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Ariane
Best known for his 1978 film The Deer Hunter or perhaps the less-successful Heaven’s Gate Read More »
Death of a Soldier (1986) Philippe Mora, James Coburn, Bill Hunter, Reb Brown
Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Read More »
A Better Tomorrow III AKA Ying hung boon sik III: Zik yeung ji gor (1989) Hark Tsui, Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Anita Mui
At the end of the Vietnam war, Cheung goes to Saigon, intent on bringing his uncle and cousin back to Hong Kong. Read More »
A Taxing Woman’s Return / Marusa no onna 2 (1988) Jûzô Itami, Nobuko Miyamoto, Rentarô Mikuni, Masahiko Tsugawa
Ryoko Itakura returns as the government tax agent willing to tackle the toughest cases. Read More »
The Mystery of Oberwald AKA Il mistero di Oberwald (1980) Michelangelo Antonioni, Monica Vitti, Paolo Bonacelli, Franco Branciaroli
One long and painful decade after the brutal assassination of her husband Read More »
Chain Letters (1985) Mark Rappaport, Mark Arnott, Reed Birney, David Brisbin
A wicked picture of the New York yuppie scene in which nine upwardly mobile Manhattanites all receive a chain letter. Read More »
Daniel (1983) Sidney Lumet, Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson Read More »
Our Nazi AKA Notre nazi (1984) Robert Kramer, Alfred Filbert, Thomas Harlan, Hertz Nativ
The son of a famous Nazi filmmaker shoots a movie and meets the former city commander of Vilna Read More »
The Boys from Fengkuei AKA Feng gui lai de ren (1983) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chun-Fang Chang, Shih Chang, Grace Chen
Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village Read More »