
Peter Herzl, social worker and Left sympathizer from Wuppertal, West Germany, is assaulted and robbed on the way back from Yugoslavia to his home country. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985) Aleksey German, Andrei Boltnev, Nina Ruslanova, Andrey Mironov

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin’s Great Purge. Read More »
The Moon God (1988) Jonas Cornell, Tomas Laustiola, Agneta Ekmanner, Per Myrberg

A serial killer who slaughters campers is on the loose in Sweden. Read More »
Captain Johnno (1988) Mario Andreacchio, John Waters, Damien Walters, Rebecca Sykes

A young deaf boy who calls himself “Captain Johnno” befriends Tony, an Italian fisherman in the small Australian fishing town they live in. Read More »
Just One of the Guys (1985) Lisa Gottlieb, Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner, Billy Jayne

Terry Griffith has got it all — looks, popularity, the perfect college boyfriend Read More »
Q – The Winged Serpent (1982) Larry Cohen, David Carradine, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark

New York police are bemused by a spate of reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York Read More »
Lili Marleen (1981) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer

In Switzerland, German singer Willie falls in love with Jewish composer, Robert, who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. Read More »
God’s Country (1985) Louis Malle

Original footage of the prosperous farming community of Glencoe Minnesota, 60 miles west of Minneapolis, was filmed in 1979 for a PBS documentary. Read More »
Lifepod (1981) Bruce Bryant, Joe Penny, Kristine DeBell, Carl Lumbly

The first interplanetary cruise ship malfunctions halfway to Jupiter, forcing most of the crew and passengers to abandon ship. Read More »
King of the Children (1987) Kaige Chen, Yuan Xie, Xuewen Yang, Shaohua Chen

Set during the twilight of the Cultural Revolution, Chen Kaige’s third film, King of the Children Read More »