
At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervenes to support its argument dialogical rules, within the context symposial. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
The Cannibals (1988) Manoel de Oliveira, Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Dória, Musical, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. Read More »
Forbidden (1984) Anthony Page, Jacqueline Bisset, Jürgen Prochnow, Irene Worth, Drama, Romance, War

In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veterinary medicine and a young man she meets at the home of a former professor. Read More »
Latino (1985) Haskell Wexler, Robert Beltran, Annette Charles, Américo González, Drama, War

Set in the context of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and their battle with the U.S.-backed Contra rebels. Read More »
The American Success Company (1980) William Richert, Jeff Bridges, Belinda Bauer, Ned Beatty, Comedy, Drama

A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and friends and get a lot richer in the process. Read More »
The Boys Next Door (1985) Penelope Spheeris, Maxwell Caulfield, Charlie Sheen, Patti D’Arbanville, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Roy and Bo leave their small town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to LA. Read More »
The Assisi Underground (1985) Alexander Ramati, Ben Cross, James Mason, Irene Papas, Drama, History, War

This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943. Read More »
S.O.B. (1981) Blake Edwards, Julie Andrews, William Holden, Marisa Berenson, Comedy, Drama

Felix Farmer is an extremely successful Hollywood producer, whose movies for Capitol Pictures have never lost money,… until now Read More »
The Lonely Lady (1983) Peter Sasdy, Pia Zadora, Lloyd Bochner, Bibi Besch, Drama

Jerilee Randall, a simple schoolgirl living in the San Fernando Valley, dreams of becoming a famous screenwriter. Read More »
The Long Summer of George Adams (1982) Stuart Margolin, James Garner, Joan Hackett, Alex Harvey, Drama

James Garner stars in a lighthearted tale about the vices and virtues of small-town life, based on the novel by Weldon Hill. Read More »