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Tag Archives: 1980s
Doctor Yes: The Hyannis Affair (1983) Jack Nixon-Browne, Britt Ekland, Jack Messinger, Stephanie Grant, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Erotic

Emotionally vulnerable and somber Louisa arrives at the posh villa of her rich and very young-looking mother Susannah to stay for awhile. Read More »
Blutige Schreie / Strange Behavior (1981) Michael Laughlin, Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher, Dan Shor, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Widowed John Brady is the Chief of Police in small town Galesburg, Illinois, where he has lived most of his life. Read More »
Christina (1984) Francisco Lara Polop, Jewel Shepard, Ian Sera, Enrique Johnson, Drama, Erotic

Jewel plays Christina Von Belle, the world’s richest playgirl, who gets kidnapped an all female all lesbian terrorist group. Read More »
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983) John Hough, Richard Harris, Michael Beck, Ana De Sade, Western

An Englishman, John Morgan, lives 30 years as a Sioux named Man Called Horse. In 1874, gold is discovered in the Black Hills, on tribal land guaranteed to the Sioux in the Laramie Treaty of 1868. Read More »
The Idolmaker (1980) Taylor Hackford, Ray Sharkey, Tovah Feldshuh, Peter Gallagher, Biography, Drama, Music, Romance

Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marcucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
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Danton (1983) Andrzej Wajda, Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Biography, Drama, History

Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre’s incitement Read More »
The Lady and the Highwayman (1989) John Hough, Emma Samms, Oliver Reed, Claire Bloom, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance

The young lady Panthea Vyne falls in love with the handsome highwayman who saves her from her brutal husband. Read More »
The Bay Boy (1984) Daniel Petrie, Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Donat, Drama

A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should he become a priest? Read More »
Het dak van de Walvis / On Top of the Whale (1982) Raoul Ruiz, Jean Badin, Fernando Bordeu, Herbert Curiel, Fantasy

A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia Read More »