1981-1990

  • Roberto Benigni – Il Piccolo diavolo AKA The Little Devil (1988)

    Roberto Benigni1981-1990ComedyFantasyItaly
    Il Piccolo diavolo (1988)
    Il Piccolo diavolo (1988)

    Synopsis:
    Father Maurizio, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, and who is having a tormented love story with a young woman (ever beautiful Stefania Sandrelli), is called out one day to “exorcise” the devil from someone. The devil turns out to be in the form of a fun-loving man, who calls himself Giuditta, the name of the fat woman he “possessed”. What Father Maurizio doesn’t know is that this type of devil will turn his life upside down. The devil, quite young and inexperienced, will try to learn his way into this world by imitation, generating havoc to no end.Read More »

  • Georgiy Daneliya – Kin-dza-dza! (1986)

    Georgiy Daneliya1981-1990ComedySci-FiUSSR
    Kin dza dza! (1986)
    Kin dza dza! (1986)

    Imagine Andrei Tarkovsky circa SOLARIS directing Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and you’ll come close to the existential weirdness of the wonderfully loopy Soviet-era sci-fi comedy KIN-DZA-DZA!Two average Muscovites – a plainspoken construction foreman (Stanislav Lyubshin) and a Georgian violin student (Levan Gabriadze) – encounter an odd homeless man on the street who asks, “Tell me the number of your planet in the Tentura?”In a flash, they’re teleported across the universe to the planet Pluke in the Kin-Dza-Dza galaxy – a Tatooine-like desert world whose inhabitants are hilariously noncommunicative (their main words are “ku” for good and “kyu” for very bad) and where common wooden matches are tremendously valuable. A deadpan, absurdist mixture of Kurt Vonnegut, Monty Python, Samuel Beckett and Jodorowsky’s never-made Dune where alien cultures are even more haphazard and WTF? than our own, the film is also a savage satire of bureaucratic idiocy and dysfunction no matter what political system you’re living under – or what planet you’re living on.Read More »

  • Michael Anderson – Millennium (1989)

    Michael Anderson1981-1990Sci-FiThrillerUSA
    Millennium (1989)
    Millennium (1989)

    Whilst investigating a plane crash, a government official meets a strange woman and they spend the night together, but the next day the woman vanishes. Her identity is entwined with the strange object found at the crash site, which she returns for and then vanishes in a bright light.Read More »

  • Harold Becker – The Boost (1988)

    1981-1990DramaHarold BeckerRomanceUSA
    The Boost (1988)
    The Boost (1988)

    Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds himself $700,000 in hock with nowhere to turn. His friend, Joel, introduces him to cocaine to give Lenny that needed “boost”. What ensues next is a descent into drug addiction and insanity as Lenny tries to regain control of his life, all the while needing that extra “boost”.Read More »

  • Heiner Carow – Coming Out (1989) (HD)

    Heiner Carow1981-1990DramaGermanyQueer Cinema(s)Romance
    Coming Out (1989)
    Coming Out (1989)

    A young teacher in East Berlin struggles with accepting his homosexuality.Read More »

  • Robert van Ackeren – Die Venusfalle AKA The Venus Trap (1988)

    Robert van Ackeren1981-1990DramaEroticaGermany
    Die Venusfalle (1988)
    Die Venusfalle (1988)

    Quote:
    30-year-old Max works as an emergency doctor in a Berlin hospital. He has been in love with the attractive Coco for a long time, with whom he shares a well-kept apartment. Coco jealously defends the relationship, while Max feels restricted in his freedom. One day Max dials the wrong number and falls in love with a voice on the other end of the phone that says only one word: “Hello”. On nightly forays through the city, Max looks for the woman who owns the voice and hopes to escape the close proximity of Coco. In a billiard salon he finally meets Marie, who is accompanied by her partner Kurt. Shortly afterwards, Marie and Max are involved in a car accident that causes them to hug each other and make love in the rain on the street. When Max and Coco later have a party, Marie and Kurt are guests at the door. As a result, Max and Marie try to couple their respective partners together.Read More »

  • Gregory Dark – The Devil in Miss Jones 4: The Final Outrage (1986)

    Gregory Dark1981-1990EroticaFantasyUSA
    The Devil in Miss Jones 4 The Final Outrage (1986)
    The Devil in Miss Jones 4 The Final Outrage (1986)

    Quote:
    The mind-searing action that came to a bubbling frenzy in DMJ 3: A New Beginning now reaches a fever pitch! In the grand finale of the Dark Bros. two-part epic, Justine Jones continues her quest to find the way out of Hell with a little help from her infernal guide. Their search takes them through the sexual underworld, where every known sexual whim is a reality; then it’s down to “The Racist Room,” where bigots discover the finer points of race relations. But the clincher comes when they reach “The Taboo Room” – and Justine discovers the shocking key to her forbidden past. But does she get out of Hell? You’ll find out in the unbelievable climax of The Devil In Miss Jones 4: The Final Outrage.Read More »

  • Gregory Dark – The Devil in Miss Jones 3: A New Beginning (1986)

    Gregory Dark1981-1990EroticaFantasyUSA
    The Devil in Miss Jones 3 A New Beginning (1986)
    The Devil in Miss Jones 3 A New Beginning (1986)

    The erotic odyssey of Justine Jones through the sex-splattered rooms of Hell where she witnesses totally bizarre, hilarious, and shocking moments.Read More »

  • Jan Nickman – The Mind’s Eye (1990)

    1981-1990AnimationExperimentalJan NickmanUSA
    The Mind's Eye (1990)
    The Mind’s Eye (1990)

    Quote:
    The Mind’s Eye is a compilation of experimental computer animations from when such technology was in its early infancy. The animations are from various studios, having been arranged in a sort of “2001” evolution-timeline theme, and set to synthesized music. These pioneering CGI projects later gave rise to films such as Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Antz, and Shrek.Read More »

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