Tag Archives: 1980s

In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination Read More »

Based on Errol Flynn’s lurid autobiography, this is a TV drama from the 80’s. Read More »

Caleb, “son of nobody” (Enrico Montesano) lives in Galilee in Jesus’ day and struggles as a thief and con-man, pretending to be a magician. Read More »

In one final attempt to achieve victory, an aging professional runner is training vigorously for a very tough marathon race. Read More »

Film of the legendary 1985 concert performance presented by the New York Philharmonic of Stephen Sondheim’s classic musical at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Read More »

A self-centred university lecturer thinks it quite all right that he has taken one of his students as a lover Read More »

Roger and Lars are family men who live a life as a traveling construction workers on large sites worldwide. Read More »

A librarian devotes her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound tyrannical father after being stood up at the altar. Read More »

Koto is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata’s story The Old Capital. Read More »

In the middle of his own heart surgery, an Egyptian filmmaker remembers his life. In fact his old self, as a child, is accused of attempted murder of his new self. Read More »