
Robert is a professional and artist, in Vichy after breaking up from his wife, Véronique, herself recently engaged. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Lassistente sociale tutto pepe (1981) Nando Cicero, Nadia Cassini, Renzo Montagnani, Yorgo Voyagis, Comedy

Nadia is a social worker who’s attempting to maintain the occupants of a neighborhood slum online. Read More »
Chariots of Fire (1981) Hugh Hudson, Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Biography, Drama, Sport

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided United Kingdom of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Read More »
Creepshow (1982) George A. Romero, Hal Holbrook, Leslie Nielsen, Adrienne Barbeau, Comedy, Horror, Fantasy

Five tales of terror are introduced. The first deals with a demented old man coming from the tomb to find the Father’s Day cake his murdering daughter gave him. Read More »
The Bunker (1981) George Schaefer, Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan, Cliff Gorman, Drama, History, War

Back in 1945, The Third Reich is in its death throes with the Allies relentlessly attacking the capital town of Berlin. Read More »
Le banquet (1989) Marco Ferreri, Lucas Belvaux, Jean Benguigui, Marc Berman, Drama

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 »
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 »