1980s

  • Marleen Gorris – De stilte rond Christine M. AKA A Question of Silence (1982)

    1981-1990DramaMarleen GorrisNetherlands

    Housewife Christine M. tries to shoplift some merchandise from a boutique in a shopping mall but is caught by the male shopkeeper. Christine and two other customers, waitress Annie and secretary Anna, beat the man to death, witnessed by a large group of other female shoppers. They are tried with murder and deny the plea of insanity that the male prosecutor and judges assume they should plead. The female criminal psychiatrist assigned to ascertain their level of sanity comes to identify with the women’s situations and concludes that they are not insane but have been driven to murder by the strain of living in a patriarchy. This feminist drama in which a Woman Psychiatrist is appointed by the Court to investigate the sanity of three women, all strangers, for beating a male boutique owner to death.Read More »

  • José Bénazeraf – Du Foutre Plein Le Cul AKA Breaking And Entering(1984)

    1981-1990EroticaExploitationFranceJosé Bénazéraf

    In the South of France a naughty band of female cat burglars decides to rob a ritzy villa for kicks. Breaking and Entering, the girls discover a treasure trove of love toys and lingerie that proves to be a real party pleaser until the long, long arm of the law catches up with them. These gendarmes go for the gusto using their “nightsticks” to probe the girls for information. Then the owners of the villa show up and are mistaken as thieves but it really doesn’t matter. They seem to enjoy “the intrusion” even more then the girls do!Read More »

  • Velislav Kazakov – Libido (1988)

    1981-1990AnimationBulgariaEroticaVelislav Kazakov

    A male fly is desperately in love, but does not meet reciprocity. Flycatchers are waiting for him everywhere. The hero does not notice the caterpillar’s sympathy. The goldfish offers to fulfill his wish. He wants to become as big as an elephant. He manages to take revenge on his enemies, but his beloved finds another.Read More »

  • José Bénazéraf – Révolution [French Cut] (1985)

    1981-1990EroticaExploitationFranceJosé Bénazéraf

    A coup d’etat turns into a menage a trois when the amorous ambassador from the fictitious South American country of Youraway and his more-than-willing wife [Olinka Hardiman ] pay a state visit to El Presidente at his palace. This sexual revolution is out of control as El Presidente’s wife tries a little foreign intervention on the ambassador by adding raunchy new dimensions to the “Good Neighbour Policy”. Not to be outdone, El Presidente takes Olinka on a tour of the palace and they soon indulge in a little target practice that proves to be the “Bang Heard Around The World”. This is one erotic uprising you will not soon forget.Read More »

  • João Botelho – Tempos Difíceis AKA Hard Times (1988)

    1981-1990ArthouseCultJoão BotelhoPortugal

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    Even if adapted from Dickens’ Hard Times, the writer’s world fits perfectly in the Portuguese reality of these times. In a hamlet, that functions as a social microcosms, great wealth & extreme poverty mingle, so do culture, ignorance, perversion & ignorance. Griffith’s channelled via Júlia Britton.Read More »

  • Kyôsuke Mikuriya & Hayao Miyazaki – Meitantei Holmes AKA Sherlock Hound (1984-1985)

    1981-1990AnimationHayao MiyazakiJapanKyôsuke MikuriyaTV

    Before he went on to create Totoro and Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki captured a whole generation of children’s imaginations with his retelling of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries using a loveable cast of canines. Sherlock Hound, released as either Famous Detective Holmes or Detective Holmes in Japan, is an anime based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series where all the characters are depicted as anthropomorphic animals, the majority dogs, though Holmes is a fox and his enemy Professor Moriarty is a wolf. The show featured regular appearances of Jules Verne-steampunk style technology, adding a 19th-century science-fiction atmosphere to the series.Read More »

  • Piotr Szulkin – Ga, Ga – Chwala bohaterom AKA Ga, Ga – Glory To The Heroes (1986)

    1981-1990ArthousePiotr SzulkinPolandSci-Fi

    Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to ‘volunteer’ for the exploration of far-away planets. Landing on planet Australia 458, he is given a hero’s welcome with all the sex, booze, and violence that any one man can stomach. But as his new caretakers push him towards even more heinous and deplorable acts, Scope finds that his freedom comes with a high price; his own violent demise, broadcast live for the viewing pleasure of Australia 458’s inhabitants. Is there a way out? Or is Scope’s fate sealed?Read More »

  • Piotr Szulkin – O-bi, O-ba – Koniec cywilizacji AKA O-bi O-ba – The End Of Civilization (1985)

    1981-1990ArthousePiotr SzulkinPolandSci-Fi

    The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of ‘The Dome’. Soft is a shepherd for the last remnants of humanity who have gathered together as they await rescue from a mysterious craft known only as ‘The Ark.’ He wanders among the masses, performing his regular daily tasks; keeping morale from plummeting, wooing prostitutes, squashing rebellions, and sometimes feeding the hungry. But as the true and sinister nature of ‘The Dome’ comes to light, Soft must ask himself if humanity is worth saving?Read More »

  • Erwin C. Dietrich – Sechs Schwedinnen von der Tankstelle AKA Six Swedes at a Pump (1980)

    Erwin C. Dietrich1971-1980ComedyEroticaSwitzerland

    Before the Swedes ever went to relax in the Alps, they inherited a nice little gas station with a rather large home attached to it. When we join them in the film they already have a thriving filling station for which men travel from miles around to enlist the services of. Of course this isn’t just any gas station, the girls also take the men inside for a little bit of the two bear mambo. Usually the meter is left running, but remarkably none of the men complain.Read More »

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