In the class-obsessed and religiously divided United Kingdom of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Creepshow (1982) George A. Romero, Hal Holbrook, Leslie Nielsen, Adrienne Barbeau, Comedy, Horror, Fantasy
Five tales of terror are introduced. The first deals with a demented old man coming from the tomb to find the Father’s Day cake his murdering daughter gave him. Read More »
The Bunker (1981) George Schaefer, Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan, Cliff Gorman, Drama, History, War
Back in 1945, The Third Reich is in its death throes with the Allies relentlessly attacking the capital town of Berlin. Read More »
Le banquet (1989) Marco Ferreri, Lucas Belvaux, Jean Benguigui, Marc Berman, Drama
At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervenes to support its argument dialogical rules, within the context symposial. Read More »
The Fighter (1983) Alain Delon, Robin Davis, Anne Parillaud, François Périer, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs. Read More »
The Cannibals (1988) Manoel de Oliveira, Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Dória, Musical, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. Read More »
Forbidden (1984) Anthony Page, Jacqueline Bisset, Jürgen Prochnow, Irene Worth, Drama, Romance, War
In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. Read More »
Latino (1985) Haskell Wexler, Robert Beltran, Annette Charles, Américo González, Drama, War
Set in the context of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and their battle with the U.S.-backed Contra rebels. Read More »
The American Success Company (1980) William Richert, Jeff Bridges, Belinda Bauer, Ned Beatty, Comedy, Drama
A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and friends and get a lot richer in the process. Read More »
The Boys Next Door (1985) Penelope Spheeris, Maxwell Caulfield, Charlie Sheen, Patti D’Arbanville, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Roy and Bo leave their small town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to LA. Read More »