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Tag Archives: 1980s
Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980) Michael Apted, Sissy Spacek
At only 13, Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible for a large family. Read More »
Touched by Love (1980) Gus Trikonis, Deborah Raffin
A young nurse becomes determined to reach an unresponsive teenage cerebral Read More »
My First Wife (1984) Paul Cox, John Hargreaves
The film follows the dissolution of John and Helen’s marriage and the aftermath. Read More »
The Girl with the Red Hair (1981) Ben Verbong, Loes Luca
Johanna ‘Hannie’ Schaft tells, in flash-backs, how she decides during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands Read More »
Golden Ninja Warrior (1986) Joseph Lai, Godfrey Ho
Two ninjas, Michael and Sherri are on two seperate missions but always team up to find the same Ninja attacking them. Sheeri is out to find her father’s Read More »
In the King of Prussia (1982) Emile de Antonio
Dramatization of the trial of Christian anti-war activists, known collectively as the “Plowshares Eight”. In September 1980, they broke into a General Electric weapons Read More »
The Carrier (1988) Nathan J. White, Stevie Lee
The main character is stricken with a horrible disease, but it doesn’t affect him. Read More »
Ready to Fight (1987) Gerardo Herrero, Iván Aledo
Deceit and treachery in the currency smugglers underworld. Read More »
My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister (1986)
This parody of the detective-story genre merrily detours into spoofing French foibles as well Read More »