Rebellious football player Johnny falls for cheerleader Tracy. They come from opposite backgrounds; she’s from a comfortable well off family, his is poor and broken. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Ratboy (1986) Sondra Locke, Robert Townsend, Christopher Hewett, Comedy, Crime, Drama
A physically deformed and somewhat feral teenager whose face looks like the snout of a rodent lives in solitude and misery in a city dump. Read More »
36 Chowringhee Lane (1981) Aparna Sen, Jennifer Kendal, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Drama, Romance
After the marriage of her niece, Rosemary, Anglo-Indian school-teacher Violet Stoneham lives a lonely life in her single room flat located at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta, with only a tom cat for company. Read More »
The Nesting / Massacre Mansion (1981) Armand Weston, Robin Groves, Christopher Loomis, Michael David Lally, Horror, Mystery
A writer suffering from agoraphobia rents an isolated house so she can concentrate on her writing. Read More »
Il Fantasma di Sodoma / Ghosts of Sodom (1988) Lucio Fulci, Claudio Aliotti, Maria Concetta Salieri, Robert Egon, Horror, Erotic
The spirits of Nazis who were killed by bombs while having an orgy return 50 years later to terrorize a group of six teens who stumble upon the house of their death site. Read More »
The Princess and the Call Girl (1984) Radley Metzger, Carol Levy, Victor Bevine, Shannah Hall, Comedy, Drama, Erotic
Two women–one a wealthy society débutante, the other an elegant call girl–with a remarkable resemblance to one another decide to trade professions and social positions temporarily and see what results from it. Read More »
Vigil (1984) Vincent Ward, Penelope Stewart, Frank Whitten, Bill Kerr, Drama
Vincent Ward (director of What Dreams May Come, River Queen, The Navigator) tells the genre-defying, deeply personal Read More »
Édith et Marcel / Edith and Marcel (1983) Claude Lelouch, Evelyne Bouix, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Biography, Drama, Romance
Before World War II, Edith Piaf and Marcel Cerdan were both on their way to becoming legends in their own lifetimes. Read More »
Scream for Help (1984) Michael Winner, Rachael Kelly, Marie Masters, David Allen Brooks, Horror, Mystery, Crime
A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her. Read More »
De Vlaschaard / The Flax Field (1983) Jan Gruyaert, Vic Moeremans, Rene Van Sambeek, Marc Peeters, Drama
In a part of Flanders where flax is the main crop, farmer Vermeulen rules his estate like an ‘old school’ patriarch, stern and authoritarian Read More »