Tag Archives: 1980s

Happily engaged to her handsome fiance, Charles, Fanny is soon hit with one misfortune after another until she is forced to become a prostitute to survive. Read More »

Joe Mulholland, Head of Production at a Hollywood studio, makes a rather fool-hardy promise to a dying friend. Read More »

A Czech agricultural student, Šimon Pláni?ka, arrives at the small South Bohemian town of Hoštice, and joins the local JZD (agricultural co-op) with the intention of trying out his experiment regarding the “Milk yield of cows in regards to a cultured environment”. Read More »

Lead by Alexandros (Omero Antonuti), a group of thieves escape from prison. They take several aristocrats hostage, and, together with a few anarchists Read More »

The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt. Read More »

From a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. Christopher Walken is a shy hardware store employee. But whenever he takes a part in a local amateur theater production, he becomes the part completely–while on stage. Read More »

As Michael and Robert, a gay couple in New York, prepare for Robert’s departure for a two-year work assignment in Africa Read More »

Reserved and cool, Margaret is the French wife of Peter, a British diplomat posted to France with their son Nelson. Read More »

It’s recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America’s hottest young football prospect. Read More »

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. Read More »