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Tag Archives: 1980s
The Mass Is Ended (1985) Nanni Moretti

The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Read More »
Growing Up / Xiao Bi de gu shi (1983)

Growing Up was the film that “first attracted broad critical and popular attention to the movement” known as New Taiwan Cinema. Read More »
A Passage to India (1984) David Lean, Judy Davis

Circa 1920, during the Indian British rule, Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed was born and brought up in India. Read More »
Onimasa / Kiryûin Hanako no shôgai (1982) Hideo Gosha

A yakuza melodrama, covering decades in the lives of Boss Onimasa Read More »
24 Hours to Midnight (1985) Leo Fong, Bernie Pock, Myra

There are two plots in this movie and oddly enough, they don’t intersect. Read More »
Return Fire (1988) Neil Callaghan, Ronald L. Marchini

Steve Parrish returns home to the San Francisco area after his many travails fighting in Central America Read More »
Can’t Buy Me Love (1987) Steve Rash, Patrick Dempsey

Ronald Miller is tired of being a nerd, and makes a deal with one of the most popular girls in school to help him break into the “cool” clique. Read More »
Lucifer (1987) John Eyres, Emma Burdon-Sutton

A psychotic killer is embarked on a murder spree, and the authorities begin to suspect that he may have been sent from Hell. Read More »
The Girl, the Gold Watch and Dynamite (1981) Hy Averback

In this sequel to The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything, down-on-his-luck Kirby Winter Read More »