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Tag Archives: 1980s
Garbo Talks (1984) Sidney Lumet, Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Comedy, Drama
Estelle is a one-person protest army: she goes to jail over grocery prices, shames construction workers for catcalls to passing women, and won’t cross a picket line for her son’s wedding. Read More »
Heat Street (1988) Joseph Merhi, Del Zamora, Quincy Adams Jr., Wendy MacDonald, Action
A black boxer whose daughter was murdered by bikers joins up with a white repo man to battle street gangs. Read More »
Punchline (1988) David Seltzer, Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Steven Gold is a stand-up comedian who is flat broke and has recently dropped out of medical school. Read More »
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) Terence Davies, Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Drama, Music
The second film in Terence Davies’s autobiographical series (‘Trilogy’, ‘The Long Day Closes’) is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies’s own family. Read More »
Shadows in the Storm (1988) Terrell Tannen, Ned Beatty, Mia Sara, Michael Madsen, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A daydreaming businessman named Thelonius Pitt takes a vacation in the Redwood Forests of California. Read More »
Paris by Night (1988) David Hare, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, Iain Glen, Drama, Thriller
Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career – but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter. Read More »
Marquis (1989) Henri Xhonneux, François Marthouret, Valérie Kling, Michel Robin, Animation, Comedy
The scene is a pre-French Revolution Bastille, where various political prisoners are being held: a woman who was raped and impregnated by the king Read More »
Poison for the Fairies (1986) Carlos Enrique Taboada, Ana Patricia Rojo, Elsa María Gutiérrez, Leonor Llausás, Fantasy, Horror
In 1965 Mexico City, Fabiola, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Graciela, a young orphan girl who has an unhealthy fascination with witchcraft. Read More »
Blackout (1988) Doug Adams, Gail O’Grady, Carol Lynley, Michael Keys Hall, Drama, Thriller
Caroline Boyle returns to her childhood home in Northern California, drawn there by a cryptic letter from her father, who abandoned her and her mother when she was a child. Read More »