
Al Shaw’s life revolves around motor racing and his back country junkyard, the “Smash Palace”. His French wife, Jacqui, doesn’t appreciate the lack of attention due to Al’s obsession with cars. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
El imperio de la fortuna / The Realm of Fortune (1986) Arturo Ripstein, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Blanca Guerra, Alejandro Parodi, Drama

A very poor and handicaped man, lives in a small town in Mexico with his mother. Read More »
Eyewitness (1981) Peter Yates, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Manhattan janitor Daryll Deever is fixated on hard-charging TV commentator, Tony Sokolow; he tapes her commentary daily to watch after work. Read More »
Les Bons Débarras / Good Riddance (1980) Francis Mankiewicz, Charlotte Laurier, Marie Tifo, Germain Houde, Drama

Set in a small rural town in the Quebec Laurentians, Michelle lives in an isolated house with her mentally-challenged brother Guy and her 13 year old daughter Manon. Read More »
Shame (1988) Steve Jodrell, Deborra-Lee Furness, Tony Barry, Bill McCluskey, Drama

Asta Cadell, a lawyer traveling through the Australian Outback on holiday, stops in a small Western Australian town after her motorcycle breaks down and shacks up with Tim Curtis Read More »
Istanbul (1985) Marc Didden, Brad Dourif, Dominique Deruddere, Ingrid De Vos, Thriller, Drama

Willy, a student, quits his vacationjob to go to Istanbul with the sinister yet facinating Klamski. Read More »
Survivor (1987) Michael Shackleton, Christopher Mayer, Richard Moll, Sue Kiel, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Returning from outer space, an astronaut calling himself “The Survivor” finds a nuclear war has left the Earth as a desert wasteland. Read More »
Imperial Navy (1981) Shûe Matsubayashi, Susumu Fujita, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Akihiko Hirata, Drama, War

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan’s greatest flagship during the Second World War. Read More »
La fille de 15 ans (1989) Judith Godrèche, Melvil Poupaud, Jacques Doillon, Drama, Romance

Willy, a middle-aged divorcee, decides to take his 15 year-old son, Thomas, on holiday to Ibiza, staying at an isolated villa on the unspoilt part of the coast. Read More »
The Misfit Brigade / Wheels of Terror(1987) Gordon Hessler, Bruce Davison, David Patrick Kelly, D.W. Moffett, Action, Adventure, Drama, War

In 1943, the Nazi Germany is suffering heavy losses at the Eastern Front and an order for all-out retreat is eventually issued. Read More »