1981-1990

  • Benoît Jacquot – Les Mendiants (1988)

    Benoît Jacquot1981-1990CrimeDramaFrance

    This symbolic drama underscores the human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while women steal other women’s men just to prove they can. Drug smuggling, clandestine love affairs, and two lovers involved with the production of Shakespeare’s Othello carry on their own off-stage tragedy.Read More »

  • Jean-Charles Tacchella – Travelling avant (1987)

    Jean-Charles Tacchella1981-1990ComedyDramaFrance

    Synopsis
    In post-WWII France, three friends are intent on starting a film club for different reasons. Nino (Thierry Fremont), a rich playboy, thinks that it would be amusing to become a director. He hooks up with Donald (Simon de la Brosse), a young man from the countryside who is a serious student of film and hopes to become more urbane by getting involved in cinema. They join forces with Barbara (Ann-Gisele Glass), a young woman who knows how to get into a film warehouse. Their plan is to steal old prints from the warehouse and start their own enterprise…Read More »

  • Fred Olen Ray – Armed Response (1986)

    Fred Olen Ray1981-1990ActionCrimeUSA

    imdb:
    One of Tanaka’s underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakusa and Chinese Tong. He hires two private investigators to exchange ransom money to recover the statuette, but the trade goes down bad and Clay Roth is killed. This angers Roth’s brothers and father, all combat veterans, and they go after the people responsible.Read More »

  • Jørgen Leth – Composer Meets Quartet (1987)

    Jørgen Leth1981-1990DenmarkDocumentary

    imdb:
    An insight into the work by composer and pianist Herman D. Koppel with the American Cantilena Quartet before the first performance of his piano quartet ‘opus 114’ in 1986. The film is shot at Louisiana, the museum of modern art north of Copenhagen, which serves as a setting literally rich in images. The director and founder of the museum, Knud W. Jensen, talks briefly about Louisiana and what art means to man. Herman D. Koppel also plays a piano piece by Carl Nielsen – conveyed in the film as a study in fingers dancing on the keys.Read More »

  • Alberto Cortés – Amor a la vuelta de la esquina AKA Love Around the Corner (1986)

    1981-1990Alberto CortésDramaMexico

    imdb says:
    Maria escapes from prison. On the run, she breaks her ankle. Julian, a truck driver, finds her sitting at the roadside, crying. He picks her up and takes her to a hospital. On her first chance, Maria flees again and goes to a hotel, where she ends up as a prostitute. She frequents bars and saloons, commits some robberies, but neither sex, nor the tequila, can replace love.Read More »

  • Jürgen Enz – Das liebestolle Internat (1982)

    1981-1990ComedyEroticaGermanyJürgen Enz

    The sexual escapades of boarders in a small and sparsely furnished private school in the Alps.Read More »

  • Walter Hill – Extreme Prejudice (1987)

    Walter Hill1981-1990ActionCrimeUSA

    Quote:
    Modern-day Texas Ranger Jack Benteen (Nick Nolte) was once the best friend of local drug kingpin Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe). At present, however, the only element linking them together is Jack’s lover Sarita (Maria Conchita Alonso), Cash’s former mistress. When Sarita tires of Jack’s Spartan lifestyle, she returns to Cash as a voluntary hostage to make certain that Jack keeps his hands off Cash’s operation. The film comes to a head during a meticulously planned drug bust, in which both Jack and Cash butt heads with CIA-funded paramilitary Maj. Paul Hackett (Michael Ironside, who isn’t all he seems to be).Read More »

  • Éric Rohmer – Le beau mariage AKA A Good Marriage (1982)

    Eric Rohmer1981-1990ArthouseComedyFrance

    Quote:
    Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.Read More »

  • Axel Corti – Wohin und zurück – Teil 2: Santa Fé AKA Santa Fe (1986)

    Axel Corti1981-1990AustriaDrama

    Synopsis:
    ‘New York City 1940. A ship arrives filled with exhausted refugees desperate to begin a new lives. Alfred “Freddy” Wolff, a young Austrian Jew, dreams of starting anew in the mythic American West, but instead struggles to overcome the piercing alienation of immigrant life. In Brooklyn, an émigré community tries to recreate their European café life in a local coffee shop, but nothing can disguise their feelings of loneliness and profound loss.Read More »

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