A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
The Spooky Bunch AKA Zhuang dao zheng (1980) Ann Hui, Josephine Siao, Kenny Bee, Mang-Ha Cheng
A Cantonese opera company arrives in Cheung Chau to perform for a rich man, who wants to marry Read More »
Alice AKA Alicja (1982) Jacek Bromski, Jerzy Gruza, Sophie Barjac, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Susannah York
Alice was sitting in the park one day. She sees a jogger called Rabbit. Read More »
Billions for Boris (1984) Alexander Grasshoff, Scott Tiler, Mary Tanner Bailey, Seth Green
Three New York City kids fix a broken television and discover it now receives tomorrow’s broadcast. Read More »
The Girlfriend AKA La amiga (1988) Jeanine Meerapfel, Liv Ullmann, Cipe Lincovsky, Federico Luppi
This film is a story of a close, but complex friendship between two women against the backdrop of the military dictatorship. Read More »
Trouble in Paradise (1989) Di Drew, Raquel Welch, Jack Thompson, Nicholas Hammond
Rachel (Raquel Welch), a recent widow, is taking a cargo ship back to the U.S. with her husband’s body Read More »
Testament (1988) John Akomfrah, Tania Rogers, Evans Oma Hunter, Frank Parkes
In Testament, the condition of the postcolony is embodied in the figure of activist turned television reporter Abena Read More »
Eskimo Woman Feel Cold AKA Eszkimó asszony fázik (1984) János Xantus, Béláné Csóka, László Földes, Carol Harrison
A pianist falls in love with Mari, a beautiful blond woman, who happens to be the wife of a deaf-mute animal caretaker. Read More »
Dreamscape (1984) Joseph Ruben, Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer
A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people’s dreams, with some mechanical help. Read More »
