Writer and director Carlos Saura here dramatizes the downward slide of four young people who started out with many strikes against them. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Screwball Hotel (1988) Rafal Zielinski, Michael Bendetti, Andrew Zeller, Jeff Greenman, Comedy
Three boys drop out of military school. They get jobs working at a hotel, but it’s about to go under. They decide to help the owner raise enough money to stay in business. Read More »
Mr. Vampire III (1987) Ricky Lau, Ching-Ying Lam, Richard Ng, Billy Lau, Comedy, Horror
Expelled by a band of restless ghosts in his village, Taoist Priest Mao Ming, and his two spirit companions, visit another village to seek wealth. Read More »
Possession (1981) Andrzej Zulawski, Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Art-house, Horror, Drama
After Anna (Isabelle Adjani) reveals to her husband, Mark (Sam Neill), that she is having an affair, she leaves him and their son. Read More »
A Gathering of Old Men (1987) Volker Schlöndorff, Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Widmark, Holly Hunter, Drama
A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. Read More »
Crimewave (1985) Sam Raimi, Louise Lasser, Brion James, Paul L. Smith, Comedy, Crime, Horror
A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair. Read More »
Brubaker (1980) Stuart Rosenberg, Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Morgan Freeman, Crime, Drama
When the new Warden comes in disguised as an inmate, he sees first hand all the corruption and scams the guards and prison officials and running. Read More »
La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding (1985) Georges Lautner, Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Antonella Interlenghi, Comedy
Third and final version of the La Cage aux Folles series has Renato’s drag queen lover Albin learning that he can inherit a vast fortune from a distant relative. Read More »
Freeway (1988) Francis Delia, Darlanne Fluegel, James Russo, Billy Drago, Thriller
A crazed driver…with a deeply troubled past goes on a nightly shooting spree across the highways of America…preying on motorists as part of a fanatical religious crusade. Read More »
Shadows In Paradise / Varjoja paratiisissa (1986) Aki Kaurismäki, Matti Pellonpää, Kati Outinen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Only connect. In gray, class-conscious Helsinki, Nikander is a stoic, solitary garbage man. Cigarettes, coffee, bingo games, and English lessons border his circumscribed life. Read More »