An ordinary sex-starved teenager and his friends start secretly video recording high school girls and their activity irks the community, as well as their principal. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Fool for Love (1985) Robert Altman, Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton, Drama
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated. Read More »
A Tale of Two Cities (1980) Jim Goddard, Chris Sarandon, Peter Cushing, Kenneth More, Drama, History, Romance, War
Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. Read More »
Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989) Hideo Gosha, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Tomokazu Miura, Masahiro Motoki, Action, Drama, War
Based on the “2.26 Incident”, an attempted coup d’état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Read More »
Death Shadow (1986) Hideo Gosha, Mariko Ishihara, Masanori Sera, Mari Natsuki, Action, Drama
Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninjas working for mysterious high ranking officials. Read More »
The Elephant Man (1980) David Lynch, Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, Biography, Drama
Dr. Frederic Treves (Anthony Hopkins) discovers Joseph (John) Merrick (John Hurt) in a sideshow. Read More »
Once More / Encore (1988) Paul Vecchiali, Jean-Louis Rolland, Florence Giorgetti, Pascale Rocard, Drama
A man decides to leave his wife and finds his happiness elsewhere. Along the way he meets a man with whom he falls in love. Read More »
O Melissokomos / The Beekeeper (1986) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani, Drama
Spiros retires as a schoolteacher, his daughter is married, and he starts his annual journey with his bees to get honey from different areas. Read More »
The Magic Toyshop (1987) David Wheatley, Caroline Milmoe, Tom Bell, Kilian McKenna, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After her parents are killed, a young girl is sent to London to live with her uncle and his family. Read More »
L’Effrontée / An Impudent Girl (1985) Claude Miller, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Clothilde Baudon, Julie Glenn, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
The dreams and naivete of Charlotte, a young, working-class girl (Charlotte Gainsbourg in an award-winning performance) clash with reality as she meets the young pianist she admires (Clothilde Baudon), and a younger pest she would like to shed (Julie Glenn). Read More »