Achando que seu casamento caiu na rotina e querendo retomar sua liberdade, Júlio Garcia separa-se de Regina. Ele entrega-se aos bacanais promovidos por seu amigo, o advogado Enéas, e à sedução de jovens bonitas e ingênuas, como sua secretária Vânia que, fascinada pelo patrão, trai o noivo Celso.
Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Britannia Hospital (1982) Lindsay Anderson, Leonard Rossiter, Malcolm McDowell, Brian Pettifer, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Mick Travis is a reporter who is about to shoot a documentary on Britannia Hospital, an institution which mirrors the downsides of British Society. It’s the day when Her Royal Highness is to visit the hospital to inaugurate a new wing, where advanced (and sinister) scientific experiments led by Prof. Millar will take place.
Read More »
Gallipoli (1981) Peter Weir, Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Adventure, Drama, History
The story of a group of young Australian men who leave their various backgrounds behind and sign up to join the ANZACs in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the resolute Turkish army.
Read More »
Hombre mirando al sudeste / Man Facing Southeast (1986)
A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet Read More »
After Hours (1985) Martin Scorsese, Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Comedy, Crime, Drama
A meek word processor impulsively travels to Manhattan’s Soho District to date an attractive but apparently disturbed young woman and finds himself trapped there in a nightmarishly surreal vortex of improbable coincidences and farcical circumstances.
Read More »
The Pit (1981) Lew Lehman, Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits, Horror, Mystery
Twelve year-old Jamie Benjamin is a misunderstood lad. His classmates pick on him, his neighbors think he’s weird and his parents ignore him. But now Jamie has a secret weapon: deep in the woods he has discovered a deep pit full of man-eating creatures he calls Trogs… and it isn’t long before he gets an idea for getting revenge and feeding the Trogs in the process!
Read More »
The Gunrunner (1989) Nardo Castillo, Kevin Costner, Sara Botsford, Paul Soles, Crime, Drama
1926. The Chinese Civil War. Drifter Ted Beaubien is captured and forced to witness his girlfriend’s execution. He finally escapes and vows to avenge her death by taking on a deadly mission to buy guns abroad and smuggle them back. Arriving in his hometown, Ted is shocked to find his elderly mother and younger brother George are penniless.
Read More »
One-Trick Pony (1980) Robert M. Young, Paul Simon, Blair Brown, Rip Torn, Drama
Jonah (Paul Simon) is an aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face Read More »
Je vous salue, Marie / Hail Mary (1985) Jean-Luc Godard, Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste, Drama
In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father’s petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab.
Read More »
The Island (1980) Michael Ritchie, Michael Caine, David Warner, Angela Punch McGregor, Action, Adventure, Drama
In New York, the journalist Blair Maynard convinces his editor to travel to Florida to investigate the mysterious disappearance of ships in the Bermuda’s Triangle area. Maynard is divorced and his ex-wife sends their son Justin to stay with him while she is traveling with her boyfriend.
Read More »