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Barbara, a dancer / stripper, traveling, going home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above the bar Nami no ue, in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon her return, Barbara faces problems beyond his reach, his brother and two friends took one of their teachers hostage to extort money to go on a school trip … Miyazato, the man who shares the life of Barbara is there, but not Aiko, her best friend, who had yet to wait. Miyazato, yakuza and laborer in a nuclear, Barbara learns that Aiko was forced into prostitution for the workers of the plant, and he helped him escape from this hell … Aiko has been distributed to Mihama [ 1 ] (central Japan). Without even thinking for a moment, Barbara decided to go see her friend.Read More »
1980s
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Azuma Morisaki – Ikiteru uchiga hana nanoyo shin-dara sore madeyo to sengen aka Nuclear Gypsies (1985)
1981-1990Azuma MorisakiComedyJapan -
Algimantas Puipa – Moteris ir keturi jos vyrai AKA Woman and Her Four Men (1983)
1981-1990Algimantas PuipaArthouseDramaLithuaniaA balladic story from a Baltic fishermen´s setlement set at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Psychological drama about the life in Lithuania Minor region of the 19th century East Prussia. The script is based on Holger Drachmann’s novel “Romance in the Dunes”.Read More »
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Rick Schmidt – Morgan’s Cake (1989)
USA1981-1990ComedyCultRick Schmidt

Morgan is about to turn 18, he lives in a small room with his father, his girlfriend may be pregnant, his mother is indifferent, and he doesn’t want to register for the the draft. His dad shares a story of how he avoided military service in the late 1960’s.Read More »
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Eberhard Fechner – Der Prozeß – Eine Darstellung des Majdanek-Verfahrens in Düsseldorf (1984)
1981-1990DocumentaryEberhard FechnerGermanyTV

Der Prozeß. Eine Darstellung des Majdanek-Verfahrens in Düsseldorf
Teil 1: Anklage
Teil 2: Beweisaufnahme
Teil 3: UrteileIn über 8jähriger Arbeit entstand der Film DER PROZESS über die juristische Aufbereitung der Nazi Verbrechen im Konzentrationslager Majdanek. Es war das erste große Arbeits- und Todeslager, das von den Russen befreit wurde. Innerhalb von drei Jahren wurden dort mindestens 250 000 Menschen umgebracht: erschossen, vergast, erschlagen.Read More »
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Ken Loach – Looks and Smiles (1981)
1981-1990DramaKen LoachPoliticsUnited Kingdom

This film is based on the novel of the same name by Barry Hines (first published in the bad old days of the early 1980s when the nefarious Margaret Thatcher ruled Britain. — Frontline Books).Read More »
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Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill – The Second Journey (To Uluru) (1981)
1981-1990ArthouseArthur CantrillAustraliaCorinne CantrillDocumentary

Filmed years after “At Uluru” (1978) in very different conditions, the film showcases the burnt landscape around a monolith in a land inhabited for millennia.
“As the camera moves gently from afar into the very heart of the monolith, the magic of the holiest site of the Aborigines unfolds in shimmering nuances of light.
Shot at different times of day, the close-up and panorama shots of this more than 500-million-year-old stone formation combine silence and acoustically altered birdsong to convey a feeling of timelessness into which a sense of loss is also inscribed. The somnambulistic moonrise in the great sky seems almost like an abstract painting and yet it is real. The areas of discolouration in the film material caused by problems in the developing process were deliberately left in the film as a metaphor for the looming threat to this natural environment through bushfires and tourism.Read More » -
Yugantar – Tambaku Chaakila Oob Ali AKA Tobacco Embers (1982)
Documentary1981-1990IndiaShort FilmYugantar

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Tambaku Chaakila Oob Ali documents, re-enacts, and takes forward one of the largest movements of unorganized labor of its time and context, which sparked unionizing processes across India throughout the 1980s. In the spirit of mobilizing for the leftist labor and the women’s movements the Yugantar collective spent four months with female tobacco factory workers in Nipani, Karnataka in India, listening to their accounts of exploitative working conditions, discussing strategies for unionizing and steps to broaden solidarities for strike actions, and filming previously unseen circumstances inside the factories. Read More » -
Andy Sidaris – Picasso Trigger (1988)
1981-1990ActionAndy SidarisCampUSA

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Donna (Dona Sper) and her partner Tanya (Hope Marie Carlton) are two beautiful female secret agents sent to stop the international villain Picasso Trigger (John Aprea) in this action spy thriller. Travis Abilene (Steve Bond) is the agent assigned to gather a group of sometimes questionable abilities to combat the international foes.Picasso Trigger is a 1988 action adventure film starring Steve Bond, Dona Speir, Hope Marie Carlton, Roberta Vasquez, Cynthia Brimhall, and Harold Diamond. It was written and directed by Andy Sidaris and it’s the third installment in the Triple B series.Read More »
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João Batista de Andrade – O Homem que Virou Suco AKA The Wrung-Out Man (1980)
1971-1980BrazilDramaJoão Batista de AndradePolitics

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São Paulo police mistakenly thinks a folk poet and singer is the same man who had stabbed his boss.Read More »

