Christos is secretly in love with a girl who lives in the opposite appartment. He follows her night and day even though they’ve never met. One night, he sees her at a party making love with a young man. The scene, the images, are carved in his memory. A few years later, Christos meets outside of a bar a mysterious woman, called Silena. Her resemblance to the girl of his youth is astonishing. Christos invites Silena to his house to spend one night with her. One night that will change his life forever.Read More »
1981-1990
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Dimitris Panayiotatos – I nyhta me ti Silena AKA The Night with Silena (1986)
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Ji-shun Duan & Jun’ya Satô – Mikan no taikyoku AKA The Go Masters (1982)
1981-1990DramaJapanJi-shun DuanJun'ya SatôQuote:
“The Go Masters” begins and ends with the same game of Go, but 32 years separate the opening and closing moves. In between, there is war and heartbreak, death and disease, doomed lovers, families separated by fate and united by chance. The movie is a melodrama on an epic scale, an Asian “Gone With the Wind,” filled with romance and action but built on a foundation of Eastern philosophy.Read More » -
Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet – Le bunker de la dernière rafale AKA The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (1981)
1981-1990Jean-Pierre JeunetMarc CaroSci-FiShort FilmSynopsis
A military group of men is locked up in a bunker in an unknown future. All those soldiers are waiting for an eventual enemy. But the discovery of a certain project will cause several catastrophies and will make those men…Read More » -
Aki Kaurismäki & Mika Kaurismäki – Saimaa-ilmiö AKA The Saimaa Gesture (1981)
1981-1990Aki KaurismäkiDocumentaryFinlandMika Kaurismäkifrom cinematik
Saimaa-ilmiö is probably the first properly made rock film made in Finland. Such basics as including the songs in their entirety, shooting with multiple cameras, reducing interviews to a minimum and using them to express the atmosphere, not as compulsory fillers-in, were unheard of in Finland at the time. Concentrating on the music, not everything around it, Saimaa-ilmiö captures much of the leisurely feel of the lake tour.Read More » -
Robert Bierman – Vampire’s Kiss (1988)
USA1981-1990ComedyCultRobert BiermanVampire’s Kiss follows the story of yuppie literary agent Peter Loew (Nicolas Cage) as he descends into madness and vampirism. Loew believes he has been bitten by a vampire (Jennifer Beals) and is slowly becoming one himself, despite the contrary opinion of his therapist (Elizabeth Ashley). He then begins to wage a campaign of escalating terror against his secretary and first potential victim, Alva (Maria Conchita Alonso, looking appropriately baffled). Alva begs her parents to let her stay home from work to avoid her unusual boss, but they force her to go on that fateful day, and the plot unfolds.Read More »
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Jan Troell – Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd AKA The Flight of the Eagle (1982)
Drama1981-1990AdventureJan TroellSwedenThe Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, “The Eagle”, takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again.Read More »
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Dario Argento – Opera (1987)
1981-1990Dario ArgentoGialloItalyThrillerWhen a young opera singer takes over the leading role in an avant-garde presentation of Verdi’s Macbeth, she triggers the madness of a crazed fan who repeatedly forces the diva to watch the brutal murders of her loved ones. Will the woman’s recurring nightmare hold the key to the identity of this psychopath or does an even more horrific evil lay waiting in the wings?Read More »
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Joe Dante – The ‘Burbs (1989)
1981-1990ComedyCultJoe DanteUSAQuote:
An overstressed suburbanite and his neighbors are convinced that the new family on the block are part of a murderous Satanic cult.Read More » -
Maurice Pialat – À nos amours aka To Our Loves (1983)
1981-1990DramaFranceMaurice Pialat
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In a revelatory film debut, the dynamic, fresh-faced Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a fifteen-year-old Parisian who embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing, beloved father (played with astonishing magnetism by Pialat himself), ineffectual mother, and brutish brother. A tender character study that can erupt in startling violence, À nos amours is one of the high-water marks of eighties French cinema.Read More »








