The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part of his fortune burned to ashes during late 1918 when power was transferred from AustroHungary to Romania. Looking for revenge, he ordered the killing of innocent Romanian peasants from a neighboring village, which he suspected to be guilty for the losses he suffered. A Romanian officer from Romanian Transylvanian Volunteers Corp, decides to help the villagers to face the menace of the nobleman.Read More »
1981-1990
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Sergiu Nicolaescu – Capcana mercenarilor AKA The Mercenaries’ Trap (1981)
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Daina Krumins – Babobilicons (1982)
1981-1990AnimationDaina KruminsShort FilmUSASynopsis
Krumins’ fantasy sets the world of flora and fauna on its ear. At one moment grotesque greenish mushrooms grow, wither and reverse their life-cycle, at another, strange crustacean-like animals speed around on a bed of feathers, next a room is inundated with giant ladybugs…Read More » -
Juliet Berto & Jean-Henri Roger – Cap Canaille (1983)
Juliet Berto1981-1990DramaFranceJean-Henri RogerThriller

Marseille, the 80s. Criminal fires, real estate business.
A burnt hill belongs to Paula Baretto, her only goods and heritage from her murdered father, ex-chemist of the French Connection…Read More » -
Jack Clayton – The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
Jack Clayton1981-1990DramaUnited Kingdom

Synopsis:
Judith Hearn is a middle aged spinster earning a living by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950’s. She falls in love with a shady hotel owner who, in turn, decides to exploit her as far as he can.Read More » -
Jerzy Skolimowski – The Lightship (1985)
Jerzy Skolimowski1981-1990CrimeDramaUSA

A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don’t reckon on the crew fighting back.Read More »
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Miroslaw Bork – Konsul AKA The Consul (1989)
1981-1990ComedyCrimeMiroslaw BorkPolandA con man (Piotr Fronczewski) gets out of jail and is soon up to his old tricks. He starts small, but his grifts quickly grow more elaborate and far-reaching, until he’s entangled all manner of local politicians and government ministers in his chicanery, culminating with his grand impersonation of an Austrian diplomat. Miroslaw Bork’s dry-witted Polish comedy won the Best Director award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival in 1989.Read More »
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Zivko Nikolic – Lepota poroka AKA The Beauty of Vice (1986)
Zivko Nikolic1981-1990ComedyDramaYugoslaviaQuote:
The Beauty of Vice is a comedy that depicts the chaos of our time, caused by a lack of proper morality, as well as the vacuum in which the foundations of civilization are disappearing.This film shows the almost unrecognizably cruel world of Montenegro, whose ravines are ruled by archaic codes and horrible laws of “honor and blood”. An adulteress is punished by hitting a cake on her head with a club, while people in black hiss in the whiteness of the stone rubble. And then George appears, a man who succeeded on the shore. He shatters the petrified world of Medvedja. After him, his married godparents, Jaglika and her robust, simple husband, go to the sea, to a world ruled by money. A meeting of two opposing worlds. Old-fashioned people in contact with the unscrupulous are described.Read More »
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Takashi Ito – Grim (1985)
Takashi Ito1981-1990ExperimentalJapanShort Film

A sensuous ghost haunts a flat in this unusual ode to plain, generic areas.
Takashi Ito wrote:
With this work, I developed/fleshed out the idea I had when making Ghost of peeling only the skin from various objects in the room, floating the skins in midair and then sticking them on different objects. This film was also shot entirely frame-by-frame with long-exposures. Along with Grim, its meaning is “as if to do forever.”Read More » -
Takashi Ito – Ghost (1984)
Takashi Ito1981-1990ExperimentalJapanShort Film

Takashi Ito wrote:
I made this work because I wanted to try out the idea of floating images in midair that had come to me when making Thunder. The entire work was shot frame-by-frame with long exposures. I filmed this in the company dorm I was living in in the middle of the night after I had come home from work, and thought I might die from what had become my daily pattern of sleeping for two hours in the morning then going off to work.Read More »



