
Joe Gower’s job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Head Office (1985) Ken Finkleman, Judge Reinhold, Eddie Albert, Lori-Nan Engler, Comedy

Upon graduation from college with a business degree, John Issel is promptly hired by Helmes’s company I.N.C. At INC, the one who gets ahead, does it by kissing ass, or over someone else’s dead body. Read More »
Getting It On (1983) William Olsen, Martin Yost, Heather Kennedy, Jeff Edmond, Comedy

An ordinary sex-starved teenager and his friends start secretly video recording high school girls and their activity irks the community, as well as their principal. Read More »
Fool for Love (1985) Robert Altman, Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton, Drama

May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated. Read More »
A Tale of Two Cities (1980) Jim Goddard, Chris Sarandon, Peter Cushing, Kenneth More, Drama, History, Romance, War

Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. Read More »
Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989) Hideo Gosha, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Tomokazu Miura, Masahiro Motoki, Action, Drama, War

Based on the “2.26 Incident”, an attempted coup d’état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Read More »
Death Shadow (1986) Hideo Gosha, Mariko Ishihara, Masanori Sera, Mari Natsuki, Action, Drama

Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninjas working for mysterious high ranking officials. Read More »
O Melissokomos / The Beekeeper (1986) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani, Drama

Spiros retires as a schoolteacher, his daughter is married, and he starts his annual journey with his bees to get honey from different areas. Read More »
The Magic Toyshop (1987) David Wheatley, Caroline Milmoe, Tom Bell, Kilian McKenna, Drama, Fantasy, Horror

After her parents are killed, a young girl is sent to London to live with her uncle and his family. Read More »
L’Effrontée / An Impudent Girl (1985) Claude Miller, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Clothilde Baudon, Julie Glenn, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance

The dreams and naivete of Charlotte, a young, working-class girl (Charlotte Gainsbourg in an award-winning performance) clash with reality as she meets the young pianist she admires (Clothilde Baudon), and a younger pest she would like to shed (Julie Glenn). Read More »