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Tag Archives: 1980s
The Phone Call (1989) Allan A. Goldstein

A married man calls the wrong number for phone-sex and winds up being stalked by a psychotic man. Read More »
The Fourth Power / Le 4ème pouvoir (1985) Serge Leroy, Philippe Noiret, Nicole Garcia, Roland Blanche

He, Yves Dorget, is a major reporter in a daily newspaper. She, Catherine Carré, is a TV news anchor. Read More »
Chronopolis (1982) Piotr Kamler, Michael Lonsdale

Weary immortals inhabit a metropolis in the sky and amuse themselves Read More »
High Frequency / Qualcuno in ascolto (1988) Faliero Rosati, Vincent Spano, Umberto Caglini, Anne Canovas

A boy who operates a ham radio and a man who works at a satellite relay station witness the same murder thousands Read More »
Notes on Love / Notater om kærligheden (1989) Jørgen Leth, Claus Nissen, Jan Nowicki, Stina Ekblad

Poet-filmmaker Jørgen Leth taps his own earliest inspirational veins by free-floating through Read More »
The Battle of Tagrift / Ma’rakat Taqraft (1981) Mahmoud Ayad Dreza, Khaled Mustafa Khushaim

An epic war film about the battle of the Italian and Libyan armies. Read More »
The War Is Over / Après la guerre (1989) Jean-Loup Hubert, Richard Bohringer, Antoine Hubert, Julien Hubert

The film is set in France in August 1944 at the end of the war. German troops are in retreat as the allies are coming in. Read More »
Hiding Out (1987) Bob Giraldi, Jon Cryer, Keith Coogan, Annabeth Gish

A very successful stock broker is called to court to testify against a mob boss Read More »
Permanent Record (1988) Marisa Silver, Alan Boyce, Keanu Reeves, Pamela Gidley

David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he’s smart, musically talented, and very successful. Read More »