1981-1990

  • Lamberto Bava – Blastfighter (1984)

    1981-1990ActionCrimeItalyLamberto Bava

    Jake “Tiger” Sharp, a former Georgian police officer has been released from jail, after serving a 8-year sentence for taking the law into his own hands. Tiger decides to return to his hometown Georgia as he tries to live a quiet life and try to escape from his past. But for Tiger, things are about to get very bad. When he gets cruelly taunted by a group of deer poaches who are employed by a man from Hong Kong, who is using the deers they kill to make medicine. But when the poachers rape and kill his long-lost daughter Connie, Tiger looses his rocker. Armed with a arsenal of weaponry, Tiger, with a thirst for vengeance, decides to give the Poacher’s a dose of their own medicine, as he sets out off on a violent rampage, as he blasts the poachers to pieces…Read More »

  • Roman Polanski – Frantic (1988)

    1981-1990CrimeRoman PolanskiThrillerUSA

    Synopsis:
    A doctor and his wife go to Paris for a medical conference. While showering, his wife disappears. His lack of language, and the odd way she disappeared makes it nearly impossible for him to find any official help in his search as he enters the punk/drug culture to find out what has happened to her.Read More »

  • Akio Jissoji – Nami no bon AKA Lanterns on Blue Waters (1983)

    1981-1990Akio JissojiAsianDramaJapan

    This Jissoji starring Chishu Ryu is the story of a Japanese man who went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now retired and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his grandchild who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead 4th son. Lot’s of conflicting feelings about him having stayed in America during the war. Have a box of tissues handy. This was a made for TV movie.Read More »

  • Stere Gulea – Morometii AKA The Moromete Family (1987)

    1981-1990ArthouseDramaRomaniaStere Gulea

    The story of a family. Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army, life and much more…

    Quote:
    The movie is a portray of the inhabitants of an ordinary Romanian village,before the beginning of ww2.A dramatic story about poverty and ignorance..People ready to sacrifice their family members for a little more welfare.Sadness,misery.All seen through the eyes of a man less brutified than the others,a man who realizes his misery and tries to overcome it. It is a brutal and in the same time sensitive introspection in simple people’s life,a naked portray of their existence and inner battles.I don’t know if foreigners will find the story interesting or just repulsive but I can’t help calling it a masterpiece.The Moromete family could have been my grandparents.Read More »

  • Lance Bird – The World of Tomorrow (1984)

    1981-1990ArchitectureDocumentaryLance BirdUSA

    The film was first broadcast on PBS in 1984 as a 60-minute feature and later expanded into an 84-minute production.

    From New York Times review
    ”THE World of Tomorrow,” which opens today at the Film Forum, is a fine, funny feature-length documentary about the New York World’s Fair of 1939, when, for a few, short, glittery months, Western civilization paused between the Depression and World War II.Read More »

  • Borhane Alaouié – Lettre d’un temps d’exil AKA Letter from a Time of Exile (1988)

    1981-1990ArthouseBorhane AlaouiéDocumentaryLebanon

    Alaouié presents the stories of four exiles from Beirut. Their only connection is the voice of the narrator and their situation of living in exile in Europe. Told with a subtle humor, the film sketches four highly individual portraits of people, whose lives have taken unexpected turns due to the madness of the Civil War.Read More »

  • Luc Moullet – Ma première brasse (1981)

    1981-1990ArthouseComedyFranceLuc Moullet

    Luc Moullet, 44 years, director is learning to swimRead More »

  • Mika Kaurismäki – Cha Cha Cha (1989)

    1981-1990ComedyFinlandMika Kaurismäki

    Quote:
    A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä (Matti Pellonpää), a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an American aunt of his. The sum 1,000,000 Fmk would be his, if only he meets the qualifications set by his aunt.

    He must show that he is capable of ‘living properly’ and possessing a ‘respectable occupation and a family he can support’. Otherwise the money would go to a foundation the chairman of which the lawyer himself happens to be!Read More »

  • Jérôme Boivin – Baxter (1989)

    France1981-1990ComedyHorrorJérôme Boivin

    Quote:
    A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.Read More »

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