1981-1990

  • Solveig Nordlund – Dina e Django (1981)

    1981-1990CrimeDramaPortugalSolveig Nordlund
    Dina e Django (1981)
    Dina e Django (1981)

    Synopsis
    Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family. Since Dina only has her grandmother, she spends her time fantasizing about her life and reading comic-book love stories – activities that do nothing to improve her dim perspective of reality. Due to these handicaps and her own inexperience, she gets involved with Django (Luis Lucas), a shady character who decides to use her as bait to attract men and then rob them. One day when both are in a taxi with robbery in mind, the driver gets suspicious so Django shoots him, and so does Dina. She escapes and runs away – though it seems like she has learned too little too late. This story unfolds against a time of upheaval in Portugal (mid-1970s) when the military government is formulating a constitution and social changes are happening everywhere.Read More »

  • Arizal – Final Score (1986)

    Arizal1981-1990ActionCultIndonesia
    Final Score (1986)
    Final Score (1986)

    A Vietnam War veteran who now living in Indonesia discovers that gunmen invaded his home, murdered his son and his wife. Vowing revenge, he begins to track down the culprits, learning that they’re in the employ of his business rival.Read More »

  • Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Sûîto Homu AKA Sweet Home (1989)

    Kiyoshi Kurosawa1981-1990HorrorJapan
    Sûîto Homu (1989)
    Sûîto Homu (1989)

    A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter’s wife.Read More »

  • Raoul Ruiz – L’Île aux merveilles de Manoël AKA Manoel on the Island of Marvels (1984)

    Raoul Ruiz1981-1990ArthouseFranceTV
    L'Île aux merveilles de Manoël (1984)
    L’Île aux merveilles de Manoël (1984)

    Quote:
    When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy – the boy is actually himself several years down the road. Manuel experiences three different versions of his encounters in the garden, revealing that fate can have several twists and turns in one’s life, depending on decisions that are made early on.Read More »

  • Franco Zeffirelli – I Pagliacci (1982)

    Franco Zeffirelli1981-1990ItalyMusicalPerformance

    The story is set in southern Italy and recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown in a commedia dell’arte troupe, his wife Nedda, and her lover, Silvio.Read More »

  • Claire Denis – Chocolat AKA Chocolate (1988)

    Claire Denis1981-1990DramaFrance
    Chocolat (1988)
    Chocolat (1988)

    A young French woman returns to the silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family’s houseboy, Protee – a man of great nobility and beauty – and the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society.Read More »

  • George Roy Hill – The Little Drummer Girl (1984)

    USA1981-1990DramaGeorge Roy HillThriller
    The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
    The Little Drummer Girl (1984)

    Synopsis:
    A Palestinian bomber has killed an Israeli diplomat and his family and the Israeli plot to neutralise him becomes convoluted as they select an American Actress (Charlie) to impersonate the Bomber’s brother’s girlfriend after the Israeli’s capture and kill the brother. Charlie is placed into a world where she begins being an actress, then becomes a spy, then is trained by the Palestinians as a guerrilla and finally is sent to deliver a bomb. She is chronically confused by how far she is really supposed to go in her impersonations and how much of herself she must give up.Read More »

  • Vigen Chaldranyan – Aprel AKA April (1985)

    1981-1990ArmeniaDramaShort FilmVigen Chaldranyan
    Aprel (1985)
    Aprel (1985)

    In April (Armenia 1985), on the 70th anniversary of the genocide, on April 24, 1985, Vigen Chaldranyan stages a conversation between the generations in a mixture of comedy and bitter seriousness. As every year, the veterans talk about the days of the war. But while their sons can no longer hear all this, the grandchildren feel called upon to “solve the Armenian question”.Read More »

  • Arizal – The Stabilizer (1986)

    1981-1990ActionArizalCultIndonesia
    The Stabilizer (1986)
    The Stabilizer (1986)

    Peter Goldson, aka The Stabilizer, searches for drug smuggler Greg Rainmaker. Rainmaker killed Goldson’s fiancee by kicking her with his spiked shoes, and now Goldson wants revenge. Meanwhile, Rainmaker has kidnapped the famous Professor Protost, and the Stabilizer teams up with his daughter Christina to save the Professor and bring Rainmaker down for good.Read More »

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