Set in modern day Buenos Aires, the film centers around a relationship between two emotionally crippled roommates. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980) Alan Roberts, Martine Beswick, Chris Lemmon, Adam West
A madcap comedy about Xaviera’s attempt to make a film in Hollywood based on her book. Read More »
Fertile Memory (1980) Michel Khleifi, Farah Hatoum, Sahar Khalifeh
The first full length film to be shot within the disputed Palestinian West Bank “Green Line,” Read More »
Lonely Hearts (1982) Paul Cox, Wendy Hughes, Norman Kaye, Jon Finlayson
In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant Read More »
Cross Country (1983) Paul Lynch, Richard Beymer, Nina Axelrod, Michael Ironside
After a woman is found butchered in her New York apartment, suspicion falls on her estranged husband Read More »
War Party (1988) Franc Roddam, Billy Wirth, Kevin Dillon, Tim Sampson
A group of re-enactors attempt to stage a hundred year anniversary battle between US Cavalry and Blackfeet Indians. Read More »
The Pride of Jesse Hallam (1981) Gary Nelson, Johnny Cash, Brenda Vaccaro, Ben Marley
Jesse Hallam, an illiterate coal miner from Kentucky, moves to Cincinnati so that his daughter may receive spinal surgery. Read More »
Edge of Sanity (1989) Gérard Kikoïne, Anthony Perkins, Glynis Barber, Sarah Maur Thorp
When Henry Jekyll’s experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. Read More »
Baja Oklahoma (1988) Bobby Roth, Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Coyote, Swoosie Kurtz
Dan Jenkins co-wrote the screenplay based on his novel of the same name about Juanita Read More »
Mix-Up ou Meli-melo (1986) Françoise Romand
Two English girl babies are switched by mistake in a 1930s hospital, but by being raised by parents other than the real ones,their lives are enriched. Read More »
Ki lo sa? (1986) Robert Guédiguian, Ariane Ascaride, Pierre Banderet, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Here, Guédiguian regulars Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Pierre Banderet play four disparate individuals who Read More »
The Shinobi Ninja (1981) Yasuhiro Shikamura, Tadashi Yamashita, Eric Lee
Fighters hired to steal back a secret document that if public could destroy all democracy. Read More »
Sword of Heaven (1985) Byron Meyers, Tadashi Yamashita, Deke Anderson, Jerry Baxter
A Japanese policeman in Los Angeles uses an ancient magic sword to battle killers and an extortion ring. Read More »
True Story of the Nun of Monza (1980) Bruno Mattei, Zora Kerova, Mario Cutini, Paola Corazzi
Sister Virginia de Leyva becomes the new Mother Superior at the convent of Monza. Read More »
Teacher Somsri (1985) Chatrichalerm Yukol, Chalita Pattamapan, Ron Rittichai, So Asanachinda
A feisty teacher leads a group of slum-dwellers against a real estate developer who is determined Read More »