Classic tale of a girl named Alice who follows a white rabbit down a hole into Wonderland, where she can change sizes by eating and drinking and animals talk.
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Tag Archives: 1980s
Eréndira (1983) Ruy Guerra, Irene Papas, Claudia Ohana, Michael Lonsdale, Drama
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother’s house catches on fire and burns to the ground.
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Times Square (1980) Allan Moyle, Tim Curry, Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson, Drama, Music
Two girls run away from a mental institution and forge a relationship on the streets of New York. They soon begin enjoying their punk-rock life until the powers that be start nosing around, looking for them, unsettling their already delicate mental states. Will the Sleez Sisters be torn apart? Or will they tear themselves apart?
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Lady Beware (1987) Karen Arthur, Diane Lane, Michael Woods, Cotter Smith, Thriller
Young and good looking Katya, a window dresser for a big department store in Pittsburgh, begins a love story with a journalist, Mac Odell.
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Cocoon (1985) Ron Howard, Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Sci-fi
A group of aliens return to earth to retrieve cocoons containing the people they’d left behind from an earlier trip. These cocoons had been resting at the bottom of the ocean. Once retrieved, they stored these recovered cocoons in the swimming pool of a house they’d rented in a small Florida town. Their mission is hampered by a number of elderly people from a nearby retirement community who had been secretly using the pool, and who discover unusual powers from within these cocoons.
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Another Way / Egymásra nézve (1982) Károly Makk, János Xantus, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Ildikó Bánsági, Grazyna Szapolowska, Biography, Drama, History
Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia’s husband, Donci, is under arrest. In a flashback to the year before, we see what leads up to the tragedy. Eva gets a job as a writer. She meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesitations. In their work, they (and Eva in particular) bang up against the limits of telling political truths; in private, they confront the limits of living out sexual and emotional truth.
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Le rapport Darty (1989) Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Politics, Philosophy
A daring deconstruction of consumerist behaviour featuring a robot and Miss Clio Darty, with a voiceover by Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, this philosophical “report,” like so many of Godard’s commissions, was rejected by its funders.
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Bronco Billy (1980) Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Bronco Billy McCoy is the proud owner of a small traveling Wild West show. But the business isn’t doing too well: for the past six months he hasn’t paid his employees.
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Dark Age (1987) Arch Nicholson, John Jarratt, Nikki Coghill, Max Phipps, Adventure, Horror
In the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant crocodile that has been killing and eating the local populace.
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A Room with a View (1985) James Ivory, Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Drama, Romance
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy’s life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
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