
A daydreaming businessman named Thelonius Pitt takes a vacation in the Redwood Forests of California. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
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 »
Out of Africa (1985) Sydney Pollack, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Drama, Romance, Biography

Initially set on being a dairy farmer, the aristocratic Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) travels to Africa to join her husband, Bror (Klaus Maria Brandauer) Read More »
Heritage Africa (1989) Kwaw Ansah, Kofi Bucknor, Ian Collier, Anima Misa, Drama

The films follows the first black district commissioner appointed in Ghana circa 1955, shortly before the civil unrest that would lead to Ghana becoming the sub-Saharan African country to gain independence. Read More »
Winter People (1989) Ted Kotcheff, Kurt Russell, Kelly McGillis, Lloyd Bridges, Drama

A young widower moves with his daughter into a North Carolina mountain town in 1934. Read More »
Oci Ciornie / Dark Eyes (1987) Nikita Mikhalkov, Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Marthe Keller, Comedy, Romance, Drama

Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. Read More »
Stranger Than Paradise (1984) Jim Jarmusch, John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Comedy, Drama

A self-styled New York hipster is paid a surprise visit by his younger cousin from Budapest. Read More »