1980s

Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.Read More »

Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman, a rich self-made man with a conscience – he founded a highly visible and active international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? Eventually, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his younger wife Lina, and that in a roundabout way concerns her as well. It is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier, when Elsa Wiener, a German singer exiled in Paris, without money or relations, a refugee among many others, faced two daunting problems: surviving in a foreign city, and saving her husband Michel from the clutches of the Nazis.Read More »

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Time and Tide (時代屋の女房 Jidaiya no nyobo) is a 1983 Japanese film directed by Azuma Morisaki and based on a novel by Muramatsu Tomomi. It involves a woman, her cat, and an antique shop owner.

Stars the beautiful Masako Natsume who passed away a mere 2 years after this film’s release from leukemia.Read More »

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To help his actress girlfriend regain her confidence a Hollywood bigshot bankrolls a small budget film being made by a first-time producer and director pair. Despite the hand-to-mouth way it has to be made the film starts to come good, as does the off-set relationship between the actress and her unknown male lead.Read More »

Shifting between real and mystic landscapes, Blackwood and Julien create a visual mosaic to signify the complexity of the black British experience and the often-overlooked intersections between race, class, gender and sexuality.Read More »

A photographer in his mid-20s meets a 13 year old homeless girl. Two lonely souls in the Oslo art underground scene of the 1980s.

Won the special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival.Read More »

“Klucznik / The Housemaster” – screenplay by Marczewski based on a stage drama by Wieslaw Myśliwski. A small village during the period of agricultural reforms in 1945. The two protagonists, a terminally ill count and his housemaster, engage in a private game that consists of artificially maintaining the social hierarchy which reigned here for centuries. (Awards: 1980 – Grand Prix for directing and “Panoramy Polnocy” / “Northern Panorama” Award, Festiwal Polskiej Twórczosci Telewizyjnej / Festival of Polish Television Creativity, Olsztyn).Read More »

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A group of women escapes from prison. They know where to find a gold treasure, but they don’t have food, guns, or tools to dig for the treasure. They are trying to steal what they need from a bunch of guys, but one of the girls is killed and another one captured. The captive is telling the truth about the gold after she’s tortured with scorpions and spiders. Thus the two groups will face each other in a merciless fight for the treasure…Read More »

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Set in Ireland in 1920, Ascendancy is a powerful meditation on English guilt over the tormented history of Northern Ireland. Connie (Julie Covington) is an English aristocrat driven to despair over the horrors of war, including both the residual effects of the Great War and a new wave of violence emerging on the streets of Ulster.Read More »