In April 1944, an allied agent is sent to France in order to rescue an “overlord” captured by the Germans. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Reborn (1981) Bigas Luna, Dennis Hopper, Michael Moriarty, Antonella Murgia
A man discovers that his girlfriend is a “stigmata” (someone whose hands and feet mysteriously bleed in the same places where Jesus Christ was crucified) Read More »
Let’s Get Lost (1988) Bruce Weber
Documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter and drug addict Chet Baker. Read More »
Der Al Capone von der Pfalz (1987) Theo Berger, Peter Fleischmann, Bernhard Kimmel
This is one of the two exceptional documentaries about Bernhard Kimmel, who was in the headline of German newspaper’s Read More »
Blaze (1989) Ron Shelton, Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin
This movie tells the story of the latter years of Earl Long, a flamboyant governor of Louisiana. Read More »
The Turning Point AKA Der Aufenthalt (1983) Frank Beyer, Sylvester Groth, Fred Düren, Matthias Günther
This story of mistaken identity was taken from the experiences of writer Hermann Kant when he was a 19-year-old soldier in the German Wehrmacht. Read More »
The Last American Virgin (1982) Boaz Davidson, Lawrence Monoson, Diane Franklin, Steve Antin
The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs Read More »
Purple Haze (1982) David Burton Morris, Peter Nelson, Chuck McQuary, Bernard Baldan
The film opens in Princeton University, 1968, where Matt Caulfield and his friends are watching television. Read More »
The 4th Man AKA De vierde man (1983) Paul Verhoeven, Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk, Thom Hoffman
The morbid Catholic writer Gerard Reve who is bisexual, alcoholic and has frequent visions of death Read More »
The Berlin Affair AKA Interno berlinese (1985) Liliana Cavani, Gudrun Landgrebe, Kevin McNally, Mio Takaki
Set in 1938 Berlin, Louise Von Hollendorf is the wife of a young Nazi diplomat who meets Read More »