
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower) Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Deathquake (1980) Kenjirô Ohmori, Hiroshi Katsuno, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Yumi Takigawa

Seizmologist Hoichi loses touch with his family when he predicts that there will be an earthquake in Tokyo Read More »
Reds (1981) Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann

American journalist John Reed (Warren Beatty) journeys to Russia to document the Boleshevik Revolution and returns a revolutionary. Read More »
Mascara (1987) Patrick Conrad, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Sarrazin, Derek de Lint

A respected police commissioner has a reputation as a fervent opera lover Read More »
Do the Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

This film looks at life in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn on a hot summer Sunday. Read More »
The Mean Season (1985) Phillip Borsos, Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan

Malcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper. Read More »
The Man Who Wasn’t There (1983) Bruce Malmuth, Steve Guttenberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Art Hindle

A State Department employee finds an egg-shaped device with a green fluid Read More »
Ishtar (1987) Elaine May, Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns Read More »
Love Leads the Way: A True Story (1984) Delbert Mann, Timothy Bottoms, Eva Marie Saint, Arthur Hill

When an insurance salesman is blinded in a boxing accident, his world is turned upside down Read More »
Too Early, Too Late (1982) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Bahgat Elnadi, Gérard Samaan

A sequence of shots of rural landscapes accompanied by readings of texts about the struggles of poor farmers. Read More »