
A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel “The Caine Mutiny”. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Le livre de Marie / The Book of Mary (1985) Anne-Marie Miéville, Bruno Cremer, Aurore Clément, Rebecca Hampton, Short, Drama

Marie, eleven years old, is experiencing difficult times. His parents will separate. The perception of his universe is profoundly disturbed. Read More »
Black Moon Rising (1986) Harley Cokeliss, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn, Action, Thriller

A professional thief is hired by the FBI to steal a data tape from a company under investigation. Read More »
The Jigsaw (1983) Terence Young, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George, Thriller

Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. Read More »
Separate Tables (1983) John Schlesinger, Ken Price, Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Claire Bloom

Arrival of a beautiful model stirs up the guests of a peaceful small-town hotel where most of them hide from their troubles. Secrets, infatuations and lies come out. Read More »
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987) Stephen Frears, Shashi Kapoor, Claire Bloom, Frances Barber, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people Read More »
High Road to China (1983) Brian G. Hutton, Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Jack Weston, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War

A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist’s daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord. Read More »
The Bounty (1984) Roger Donaldson, Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance

Captain Bligh (Anthony Hopkins) struggles to restore discipline among the crew of the HMS Bounty after the ship has an extended furlough in Tahiti. Read More »
Hamshahri / Fellow Citizen (1983) Abbas Kiarostami, Documentary

On July 1983, lawmakers in Teheran decided to close off a section of the capital to regular traffic. Read More »
I Sent a Letter to My Love / Chère inconnue (1980) Moshé Mizrahi, Simone Signoret, Jean Rochefort, Delphine Seyrig, Drama

A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. Read More »