Returning to the small Florida town where he grew up, Billy Turner (Nelson) learns that his father has been killed. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
L’as des as / Ace of Aces (1982) Gérard Oury, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Rachid Ferrache, Adventure, Comedy, Sport
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler’s Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph Read More »
Zhi fa xian feng / Righting Wrongs (1986) Corey Yuen, Biao Yuen, Cynthia Rothrock, Melvin Wong, Action, Crime, Thriller
Yuen Biao plays Jason Chan a lawyer, angry at the way the law seems to protect the bad guys, he decides to take the law into his own hands Read More »
El bosque animado / The Enchanted Forest (1987) José Luis Cuerda, Alfredo Landa, Alejandra Grepi, Tito Valverde, Comedy, Fantasy
In the fantastic world of the “bosque animado” meet some people who have been transported to this place by a magic force. Now their histories cross one another.
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Dong dong de jiàqi / A Summer at Grandpa’s (1984) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chi-Kuang Wang, Shu-Chen Li, Hsiu-Ling Lin, Drama
When a young brother and sister spend a pivotal summer away from home, they are changed. Ting-Ting and Tung-Tung (Wang Qiguang) are children of the city Read More »
Tajna starog tavana / The Secret of an Old Attic (1984) Vladimir Tadej, Mario Mirkovic, Jirí Guryca, Nina Petrovic, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
During a summer holiday, two boys discover an anti-gravity cannon in an old attic.
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Spokój / The Calm (1980) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Izabella Olszewska, Jerzy Trela, Drama
Filmed in 1976 and shelved for five years. A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. Read More »
Krótki dzien pracy / Short Working Day (1981) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Tadeusz Bartosik, Zbigniew Bielski, Leon Charewicz, Drama
Based on reportage of the 1976 strike in Radom, which ended with the regional Party Committee headquarters set aflame, Kieslowski’s made-for-TV hybrid film merges archival materials with a dramatization of organized opposition during a single day of conflict. Read More »
Key Exchange (1985) Barnet Kellman, Brooke Adams, Danny Aiello, Seth Allen, Comedy, Romance
A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exchange apartment keys.
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Hamlet liikemaailmassa / Hamlet Goes Business (1987) Aki Kaurismäki, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Kati Outinen, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that decides to move into the rubber duck market. But Hamlet is suspicious of the circumstances surrounding his father’s death…
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