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Tag Archives: 1980s
School on Fire (1988) Ringo Lam, Fennie Yuen, Roy Cheung, Damian Lau
A young schoolgirl gets involved in the triads of Hong Kong after a classmate is killed in a fight. Read More »
Don’t Play with Fire (1980) Hark Tsui, Lieh Lo, Chen Chi Lin, Albert Au
Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Read More »
Scent of a Spell (1985) Toshiharu Ikeda, Mari Amachi, Johnny Ohkura, Yuki Kazamatsuri
A young man returns home from the bar only to find a woman who was about to kill herself. Read More »
Crime on the Highway (1982) Bruno Corbucci, Tomas Milian, Viola Valentino, Bombolo
Undercover cop Nico Giraldi is once again transformed, now as a trucker in a criminal gang. Read More »
Strawman (1987) Tung Wang, Chun-Fang Chang, Po-Chou Chang, Sheng Li Cho
During the last years of Japanese occupation in Taiwan, as tenants from the preceding generation Read More »
Killing Auntie (1985) Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Wladyslaw Dewoyno, Krystyna Feldman, Wieslaw Golas
A grotesque fairy tale of fantasies in a 21-year old’s mind. Read More »
HealtH (1980) Robert Altman, Carol Burnett, Glenda Jackson, James Garner
A parody and satire of the U.S. political scene of the time, HealtH is set at a health food convention at a Florida luxury hotel Read More »
He Knows You’re Alone (1980) Armand Mastroianni, Don Scardino, Caitlin O’Heaney, Elizabeth Kemp
A reluctant bride to be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. Read More »
Ana (1982) Margarida Cordeiro, António Reis, Ana Maria Martins Guerra, Manuel Ramalho Eanes, Octávio Lixa Filgueiras
It is a sincere and naive film that combines the themes of nature-man, modernism-man in Rilke’s poets with a local narrative. Read More »