Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Sono fotogenico (1980) Dino Risi, Renato Pozzetto, Edwige Fenech, Aldo Maccione
Antonio Barozzi moves from Lago Maggiore to Rome to become an actor. Read More »
Le guignolo (1980) Georges Lautner, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mirella D’Angelo, Michel Galabru
After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business men Read More »
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988) Claude Lelouch, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Richard Anconina, Lio
A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. Read More »
Vincent (1987) Paul Cox, John Hurt, Marika Rivera, Gabriella Trsek
This documentary, on the life of artist Vincent Van Gogh, is told through his letters to his brother Theo, from 1872 until his tragic death. Read More »
Trapped Alive (1988) Leszek Burzynski, Jay Leggett, Cameron Mitchell, Sullivan Hester
A sheriff’s deputy, some escaped prisoners and two young girls find themselves trapped in a mine shaft where a cannibalistic mutant is hunting them for food. Read More »
Beyond Evil (1980) Herb Freed, John Saxon, Lynda Day George, Michael Dante
An architect and his wife move into a house with a bloody past and a 100-year-old ghost, who possesses the wife. Read More »
The Saga of Khayal (1989) Kumar Shahani, Mangal Dhillon, Rajat Kapoor, Mita Vasisht
The film is presented in an abstract format, where a music student (Mangal Dhillon) listens to stories Read More »
Fear City (1984) Abel Ferrara, Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia
A killer is targeting New York City strippers, and world-weary policeman Al Wheeler (Billy Dee Williams) Read More »
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) Jamie Uys, N!xau, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo
A Sho in the Kalahari desert encounters technology for the first time–in the shape of a Coke bottle. Read More »