1980s

  • Michel Lemoine – Le retour de Marilyn (1986)

    1981-1990EroticaFranceMichel Lemoine

    IMDB:
    Several erotic love adventures during a bus trip along the castles on the Loire. Finally, the discovery of great love. Moreover, he is called Perfect and she is Love. Ruined couple Donald and Alice are forced to accept the deal that a certain Richard offers them: $ 50,000 for a night with Alice. At first hesitant, they tell themselves that $ 50,000 is well worth a leg in the air. Or maybe two. The situation ends up escaping them.Read More »

  • Katt Shea – Dance of the Damned (1989)

    1981-1990HorrorKatt SheaUSAWomen Make Horror

    Quote:
    Very low-budget BUT very well done.
    9/10
    Author: capkronos from Ohio, USA
    29 January 2002

    This is a wonderful low-budget sleeper, proving that not all contemporary Roger Corman-produced films are trash. And all it really is is a night long conversation between a self-destructive, suicidal stripper and a brooding, world weary vampire. Go figure. But it also would probably take a more mature, patient viewer to sit through this one, because if you’re looking for gore, action and special effects, you’ll find little of that here.Read More »

  • Vinnie Rossi – Foreplay (1982)

    1981-1990EroticaUSAVinnie Rossi

    Synopsis:
    She satisfies her personal desires by spying on the tenants of her boarding house. After observing every sort of erotic act imaginable, she enters the world of sexual conquest like a pro.Read More »

  • Chantal Akerman – Lettre d’un cinéaste: Chantal Akerman (1984)

    1981-1990ArthouseChantal AkermanFrance

    Quote:
    Shot while Akerman was in pre-production for Golden Eighties, Lettre d’un cinéaste was made for the television series Cinéma, cinéma, which routinely commissioned filmmakers to send in dispatches. Featuring Aurore Clément as the director’s accomplice/proxy (who asks “What is cinema for? Who is it for?”), this little experimental romp includes a list of what is required to make films, such as getting out of bed, eating, getting dressed — a light-hearted jest that nevertheless speaks truthfully to Akerman’s sense of cinema.
    – tiff.netRead More »

  • John Woo – Ying hung boon sik II AKA A Better Tomorrow II AKA A Better Tomorrow 2 (1987)

    1981-1990ActionHong KongJohn Woo

    Restaurant owner Ken Gor (Chow Yun-Fat), twin brother of Mark Gor, teams up with police detective Kit (Leslie Cheung) and his struggling ex-con brother Ho (Lung Ti) to avenge his old friend’s (Dean Shek) daughter’s death by a Triad gang.
    In this sequel, Ho (Ti Lung) initially refuses to go undercover to bust the gang he used to work for in exchange for his release from prison. He only accepts after his little brother, the policeman Kit (Leslie Cheung) accepts the assignment. Meanwhile in New York Ken Gor (Chow Yun-Fat), the twin brother of Mark Gor from the 1st movie, shelters the boss of the gang, who has had to flee after it is taken over by a more aggressive leadership.Read More »

  • Lordan Zafranovic – Vecernja zvona AKA Evening Bells (1986)

    1981-1990DramaLordan ZafranovicPoliticsYugoslavia

    Trials and tribulations of a Croatian Communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after WW2.

    Evening Bells (Croatian: Večernja zvona) is a 1986 Yugoslav film directed by Lordan Zafranović. It is based on Vrata od utrobe, a novel by Mirko Kovač.Read More »

  • Guy Sherwin – Messages (1984)

    1981-1990ExperimentalGuy SherwinShort FilmUSA

    Quote:
    A response to my young daughter’s discovery of language and to her questions about the world.

    Messages was made over a 3 year period, when my daughter Maya was first learning to talk and write.

    It was my first film that involved gathering material around a central theme. That theme was not constant, but shifted its ground between ideas to do with childhood, with language, or with visual perception.Read More »

  • Atef El-Taieb – Sawak al-utubis AKA The Bus Driver (1982)

    1981-1990Atef El-TaiebDramaEgypt

    Arguably the best film of the Egyptian neorealist school of the eighties, exemplified by Daoud Abd El-Sayed, Khairy Bishara, and Mohamed Khan. depicting the devastating effects of global trade on the simple lives on the inhabitants.
    Directed by Atef El-Tayeb, one of the boldest names in Egyptian cinema, who died prematurely and worked on the issues concerning the poor and the voiceless throughout his short but important career.Read More »

  • Ratno Timoer – Golok Setan AKA The Devil’s Sword (1984)

    1981-1990FantasyIndonesiaMartial ArtsRatno Timoer

    The Devil’s Sword lies hidden in a secret cave inside Devil’s Mountain. Four warriors attack the keeper and force him to hand over the map but he manages to escape and runs to Mandala who sets off on his journey to save the Devil’s Sword.Read More »

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