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Tag Archives: 1980s
Kotaro makari-toru! / Death of a Ninja (1984)

Lewd and wild, long-haired karate prodigy Kotaro Shindo wreaks havoc daily at the elite Tsurugamine Academy Read More »
Cecilia (1983) Olivier Mathot, Jesús Franco, Muriel Montossé

After surviving a traumatic sexual assault, a woman struggles with the aftermath of her ordeal. Read More »
La femme publique / The Public Woman (1984) Andrzej Zulawski, Francis Huster, Valérie Kaprisky, Lambert Wilson

In Paris, a naïve young actress lands a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky’s The Possessed Read More »
Il était une fois Marilyn Jess / Sodomies brûlantes (1987) Michel Caputo, Marilyn Jess, Marina Borringer

In 1987, renowned French adult film star Marilyn Jess is making her final film Read More »
Jubiabá (1986) Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Grande Otelo, Julien Guiomar, Charles Baiano

A white girl and a black boy grow up together in the same house. Read More »
Abolition / Abolição (1988) Zózimo Bulbul, Camila Amado, Benedita da Silva, Abdias do Nascimento

A documentary, mostly in color, but with historical photography and pictures in black and white. Read More »
She’s Back (1989) Tim Kincaid, Carrie Fisher, Robert Joy, Matthew Cowles

Paul is a meek electrician who, with his nagging, dominating wife Beatrice Read More »
Nowhere to Run (1989) Carl Franklin, David Carradine, Jason Priestley, Kieran Mulroney

Rural Texas, 1960 — An age of good times and innocence, when growing up was supposed to be easy. Read More »
Leila and the Wolves / Leila wa al ziap (1984) Heiny Srour, Rafik Ali Ahmad, Nabila Zeitouni

A film that weaves together re-enactments, archive footage and fairy-tale sequences Read More »