When a murder happens with a bloody inscription and a ring left behind, puzzled Scotland Yard detectives go to Sherlock Holmes for help. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: The Acquaintance AKA Znakomstvo (1980) Igor Maslennikov, Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya
In the late 19th century, retired military doctor is looking for rental housing in London and finds it at 221B Baker Street. Read More »
Boardinghouse (1982) John Wintergate, Kalassu, Lindsay Freeman
Resembling a cross between “The Amityville Horror” and a Playboy Playmates video, this film tells the terrifying tale Read More »
Enemies, A Love Story (1989) Paul Mazursky, Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin
Set in 1949 New York, a Holocaust survivor who makes a living as a ghostwriter for a Jewish rabbi Read More »
Comrades (1986) Bill Douglas, Keith Allen, Dave Atkins, Stephen Bateman
The story of “The Tolpuddle Martyrs”. A group of nineteenth century English farm laborers who formed Read More »
True Colors (1986) Kirk Wong, Lung Ti, Brigitte Lin, Raymond Bak-Ming Wong
A criminal has come out of hiding only to find that his old partner has become a priest Read More »
White Mischief (1987) Michael Radford, Sarah Miles, Joss Ackland, Greta Scacchi
A millionaire past his prime, and his young wife, arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates Read More »
Honey AKA Miele di donna (1981) Gianfranco Angelucci, Clio Goldsmith, Catherine Spaak, Fernando Rey
The young, naive Annie enters a hotel to spend the night – without knowing that it’s this special kind of hotel, that serves more than breakfast. Read More »
Real Life (1984) Francis Megahy, Rupert Everett, Cristina Raines, Catherine Rabett
A comedy about a dreamer whose Walter Mitty-like fantasies turn his world of make-believe into a world of trouble. Read More »
Dragnet (1987) Tom Mankiewicz, Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer
Friday and Streebek are assigned to some very strange robberies, like i.e. the stealing of one bat Read More »