Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever.
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Tag Archives: 1980s
Grandview, U.S.A. (1984) Randal Kleiser, Jamie Lee Curtis, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, Drama
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle “Mike” Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie “Slam” Webster is on of the drivers in the derby who’s wife is cheating on him and wants to later on be with Mike. Tim falls for Mike and a big love triangle is about to happen.
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Blood Simple. (1984) Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, Crime, Thriller
Texas bar owner Julian Marty, who is generally regarded as not a nice person, hires shady private detective Loren Visser, who is able to obtain what Marty requests: evidence – in this instance, photographic – that his wife, Abby, and one of his bartenders, Ray, are having an affair. As Ray and Abby realize that Marty has found out about them, it allows them to plan for their future away from Marty, while be up front with Marty about the situation. Marty, in turn, decides to hire Visser once again, this time to kill Abby and Ray, and dispose of their bodies so that they won’t be found. The out in the open affair and the contract hit lead to some actions based on self interest, and a standoff of sorts between the four players, which is compounded in complexity by some wrong assumptions of what has happened, with an innocent bystander, another of the Marty’s bartenders, Meurice, potentially and unwittingly adding to the scenario.
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Centerspread Girls (1982) Gary Graver, Veronica Hart, Lisa De Leeuw, John Alderman, Comedy, Adult
The Morality over Madness (MOM) committee tries to take down Sue Forbes’ adult magazine “Panther”. Alas, one by one the MOM members are seduced by Sue’s former centerfold models. Producer Beverly Martine seduces wore out porn star Lyndon Loveless to rediscover his prowess. While old member Thurman Parrish refuses the advances of the buxom stripping artist Vee Beacham and Anne the photographer, they enlist his younger wife Louella by causing her to out herself. After witnessing Gov. Hamilton Osmond with an overly patriotic girl, Celeste and Sean Carson seduce him themselves. Ellie Parker the reporter seduces Lay Rev. W. W. Williams and ends up sneaking the videotape he takes of their encounter into Sue. Jane Mohr takes a different approach by coming clean to Judge Roy Hammer. They fall in love after he reveals MOM got his support by pure political pressure. In the committee’s hearing.
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Brief Affair (1982) Louis Lewis, Annette Haven, Lisa DeLeeuw, Jon Martin, Mike Horner, Adult
Romantic and off-beat sexual encounters, such as when a handsome gum-chewing escapee from a mental home wanders into the women’s locker room, make this a truly erotic movie for all cummers.
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High School Memories (1983) Anthony Spinelli, Annette Haven, Jamie Gillis, John Leslie, Adult, Comedy
A group of former high school friends reminisce about the times, and sexual conquests, they had in high school during a football team outing to a local hotel for one wild weekend of fun and games.
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The Chick’s Ability (1984) John Doo, Helena Ramos, Romeu de Freitas, Vanessa Alves, Drama, Erotic
Woman has to choose between being a prostitute or posing nude for a painter, in order to finance an expensive surgery for her son, his only chance to survive.
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Zhuo gui da shi / Ninja Vampire Busters (1989) Norman Law Man, Stanley Wing Siu, Kent Cheng, Pak-Cheung Chan, Stanley Sui-Fan Fung, Comedy, Horror
In ancient China, a demon was defeated in a fierce battle with a priest, who sealed it’s evil spirit in a vase. Centuries later, during the cultural revolution, rebels attempted to gain possession of the vessel from the priest’s descendant; however, he threw it into the ocean to keep it from being tampered. The vase was recovered years later in Hong Kong and was auctioned off to a councilman. The demon, unfortunately, escaped and took control of the councilman’s body, beginning a spree of terror in the city.
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Golem (1980) Piotr Szulkin, Marek Walczewski, Krystyna Janda, Joanna Zólkowska, Sci-Fi
The film is set in a terrorizing world of the future, where technology commands the movements of individuals, supervised by the doctors, carrying out a program to improve the human race. Thus, instead of doctors creating a monster, the monsters are already there as the species of the future – but one of them is suspected by the doctors of being a human being. That is Golem in reverse.
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Mord i mørket / Murder in the Dark (1986) Sune Lund-Sørensen, Michael Falch, Line Knutzon, Ove Sprogøe, Crime
A journalist is trying to find out about the murder of a friend in Copenhagen’s red light district. The victim was the owner of a bar at Halmtorvet. Soon, his investigations in the world of pimps and petty criminals opens up a pandora’s box of organised crime and the journalist finds himself caught between police and gangsters involved in drug trafficking. The culprit is brought to justice in the end. But the price is high.
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