In 1965 Mexico City, Fabiola, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Graciela, a young orphan girl who has an unhealthy fascination with witchcraft. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Blackout (1988) Doug Adams, Gail O’Grady, Carol Lynley, Michael Keys Hall, Drama, Thriller
Caroline Boyle returns to her childhood home in Northern California, drawn there by a cryptic letter from her father, who abandoned her and her mother when she was a child. Read More »
Out of Africa (1985) Sydney Pollack, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Drama, Romance, Biography
Initially set on being a dairy farmer, the aristocratic Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) travels to Africa to join her husband, Bror (Klaus Maria Brandauer) Read More »
Suspicion (1982) Yoshitarô Nomura, Kaori Momoi, Shima Iwashita, Akira Emoto, Drama, Crime, Mystery
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Read More »
Heritage Africa (1989) Kwaw Ansah, Kofi Bucknor, Ian Collier, Anima Misa, Drama
The films follows the first black district commissioner appointed in Ghana circa 1955, shortly before the civil unrest that would lead to Ghana becoming the sub-Saharan African country to gain independence. Read More »
Winter People (1989) Ted Kotcheff, Kurt Russell, Kelly McGillis, Lloyd Bridges, Drama
A young widower moves with his daughter into a North Carolina mountain town in 1934. Read More »
Oci Ciornie / Dark Eyes (1987) Nikita Mikhalkov, Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Marthe Keller, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. Read More »
Stranger Than Paradise (1984) Jim Jarmusch, John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Comedy, Drama
A self-styled New York hipster is paid a surprise visit by his younger cousin from Budapest. Read More »
Tough Enough (1983) Richard Fleischer, Dennis Quaid, Carlene Watkins, Stan Shaw, Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
An aspiring country/western singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a “Tough Man” amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills. Read More »
Fatal Games (1984) Michael Elliot, Sally Kirkland, Lynn Banashek, Sean Masterson, Horror, Sport
A mad javelin thrower kills teenagers in the school. All promising athletes are executed in the most brutal way. Especially naked girls in dressing-rooms or saunas. Read More »