
Arriving in Taiwan in the 1950s, Kuei-mei makes a disadvantageous marriage to a widower with three unruly kids and a bad gambling habit. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
My Best Friends Girl (1983) Bertrand Blier, Coluche, Isabelle Huppert, Thierry Lhermitte

Isabelle Huppert plays an attractive Parisienne out looking for some fun during her vacation on the ski slopes of Courchevel Read More »
Splitz (1982) Domonic Paris, Robin Johnson, Barbara Bingham, Patti Lee

An all-female rock band and a group of “well-endowed” sorority sisters team up to save a sorority house slated for condemnation by the university. Read More »
Watchers (1988) Jon Hess, Corey Haim, Michael Ironside, Christopher Cary

Based on a novel by Dean Koontz. A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that its an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Read More »
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984) Jack Hofsiss, Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Rip Torn

Brick, the son of a rich southern plantation owner, is drinking himself to death over some hidden pain. Read More »
Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981) Lamont Johnson, Scott Glenn, Diane Lane, Burt Lancaster

In nineteenth century Oklahoma, two teen girls, fans of stories about outlaws, are on a quest to meet and join up with them. Read More »
Come and See (1985) Elem Klimov, Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius

The action takes place on the territory of Belarus in 1943. In the center of the story is a Belarusian boy, who witnesses the horrors of the Nazi punitive action Read More »
Poker Alice (1987) Arthur Allan Seidelman, Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Skerritt, George Hamilton

Alice Moffit, ‘Poker Alice’, has been disowned by her Boston family because of her incurable penchant for gambling. Read More »
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) Uli Edel, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young

Hailed as an uncompromising look at life on the dark side, Last Exit to Brooklyn follows a gang of young hoodlums Read More »
Elephant (1989) Alan Clarke, Gary Walker, Bill Hamilton, Michael Foyle

A depiction of a series of violent killings in Northern Ireland with no clue as to exactly who is responsible. Read More »