Melissa is a paralysed woman who is being taken care of by her two sisters. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1980s
The Warrior (1981) Sisworo Gautama Putra, Barry Prima, W.D. Mochtar, Dana Christina
Indonesia is a country in turmoil. The people are poor and oppressed by the Dutch Government. Read More »
And a Nightingale Sang (1989) Robert Knights, Phyllis Logan, Tom Watt, Joan Plowright
Romance lifts a sister from a lively family in working-class Newcastle during World War II. Read More »
Martin’s Day (1985) Alan Gibson, Richard Harris, Lindsay Wagner, James Coburn
Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a twelve-year-old as hostage. Read More »
There Were Seven Simeons (1989) Vladimir Eisner, Herz Frank
One family, one band. They seemed to be happy. A movie that investigates why these seemingly optimistic musicians Read More »
Last Night at the Alamo (1983) Eagle Pennell, Sonny Carl Davis, Lou Perryman, Steven Mattila
The cheerless events on the last night in the existence of a little suburban Houston pub. Read More »
Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981) Marco Ferreri, Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti, Susan Tyrrell
After a lecture where a poem is read out to a group of bored students, the alcoholic and sex addicted poet Read More »
Die Nichten Der Frau Oberst (1980) Erwin C. Dietrich, Karine Gambier, Brigitte Lahaie, Pascale Vital
Frau Oberst has 2 young nieces who are very open with their sexuality. Read More »
We’re Going to Eat You (1980) Hark Tsui, Norman Chu, Eddy Ko, Melvin Wong
A secret agent investigates a village that is populated by crazed, inbred cannibals. Read More »
Blow to the Heart (1983) Gianni Amelio, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Laura Morante, Sonia Gessner
Emilio, the son of Darius, a left-wing professor, is an introverted teenager who feels jealous of the relationship between his father and alumni. Read More »
Repo Man (1984) Alex Cox, Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter
Frustrated punk rocker Otto quits his supermarket job after slugging a co-worker, and is later dumped by his girlfriend at a party. Read More »
Bad Boys (1983) Rick Rosenthal, Sean Penn, Reni Santoni, Jim Moody
Chicago crime kid Mick O’Brien (Sean Penn) has been sent to a juvenile prison for vehicular manslaughter. Read More »
Eight Women Die a Martyr (1987) Guangyuan Yang, Ying Cai, Kou Qiaoling, Chi Sujing
“Eight Women Who Martyred Themselves In The River” is a true-to-life incident, now immortalized in the Peoples Republic of China. Read More »
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) Peter Greenaway, Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren
The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband’s restaurant. Read More »
The Dogs of War (1980) John Irvin, Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely
Jamie Shannon is a soldier of fortune — a mercenary who will stage a coup or a revolution for the right price. Read More »