When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
Tampopo (1985) Jûzô Itami, Ken Watanabe
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro, who rides into town like a modern Shane Read More »
The Morning After (1986) Sidney Lumet, Jane Fonda
Alex Sternberg wakes up with a hangover and no memory of how she ended up in bed with a dead man. Read More »
Street of Crocodiles (1986) Stephen Quay
Inside a box full of curio, a puppet who is recently freed from his strings explores a dusty and forlorn commercial area. Read More »
Dear Yelena Sergeyevna (1988) Eldar Ryazanov
Four school graduates congratulate their teacher of mathematics Yelena Sergeyevna Read More »
Sole Survivor (1984) Thom Eberhardt
Denise Watson is a TV station worker who is the only survivor of a unexplained Read More »
2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) Peter Hyams
In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), a joint American-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter Read More »
His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Kiwako Harada, Riki Takeuchi, Noriko Watanabe, Tomokazu Miura
After a failed romance, a temperamental young biker meets a carefree Read More »
Red King, White Knight (1989) Geoff Murphy, Tom Skerritt, Max von Sydow, Helen Mirren
The C.I.A. hears of a K.G.B. scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary Read More »
Into the Homeland (1987) Lesli Linka Glatter, Powers Boothe, C. Thomas Howell, Cindy Pickett
Deep within the shadowy world of paramilitary white-supremacist movements Read More »