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An advertising executive dies and goes to hell… except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. But the notes he writes to himself to prove he hasn’t gone insane are getting more disjointed, and he runs off with an ex-prostitute called Honey Barbera.Read More »
1981-1990
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Ray Lawrence – Bliss (Director’s Cut) (1985)
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Harun Farocki – Das doppelte Gesicht: Peter Lorre aka The Double Face of Peter Lorre (1984)
Harun Farocki1981-1990DocumentaryGermanyArnold Hohmann wrote:
Peter Lorre achieved international fame for his performance in the myth-making role in M. This character has held a peculiar fascination for generations of cinephiles. However, at the time, whilst such success meant recognition, it also weighed on the Hungarian actor as a constrictive burden. Using photographs and film extracts, Das doppelte Gesicht reconstructs the ups and downs of Lorre’s career, taking into consideration the economic imperatives and workings of the film industry at the time.Read More » -
Oleg Teptsov – Gospodin oformitel AKA Mister Designer (1987)
1981-1990FantasyHorrorOleg TeptsovUSSRIn this surreal take on Pygmalion set in 1900s St. Petersburg, Russia, a time known in art as Russian Decadence, a famous artist and decorator, Platon Andreevich, strives to find the secret to eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates, and his latest masterpiece, more perfect in his hubristic mind than anything that God had ever created, is based on a young dying girl. However, years later, he meets the wife of a rich merchant, who looks just like the now supposedly long time dead girl he used as model for his perfect mannequin. The artist becomes obsessed with uncovering the woman’s mysterious past, which puts him in grave danger.Read More »
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Andrea Bianchi & Jesús Franco – Commando Mengele AKA Angel of Death (1987)
Jesus Franco1981-1990Andrea BianchiExploitationFranceA Jewish commando unit hunting Nazi war criminals tracks down the infamous Dr. Mengele in the jungle, and find that he is torturing nubile young virgins and performing horrible medical experiments on the locals. They prepare to battle their way past Mengele’s hordes of fanatic Nazi bodyguards in order to get to him.Read More »
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Edward Yang – Hai tan de yi tian AKA That Day on the Beach (1983)
Edward Yang1981-1990AsianDramaTaiwanSynopsis:
Two friends who haven’t seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.Read More » -
Tim Burton – Vincent (1982)
Tim Burton1981-1990AnimationShort FilmUSAYoung Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.Read More »
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Richard Condie – The Big Snit (1985)
1981-1990AnimationCanadaRichard CondieShort FilmA couple have a fight over a scrabble game unaware that a full scale nuclear war has started.Read More »
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Per Åhlin – Resan till Melonia AKA The Journey to Melonia: Fantasies of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ (1989)
1981-1990AdventureAnimationPer ÅhlinSwedenWhen a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the beaches of paradise island Melonia, where the “all-powerful” wizard Prospero and his strange friends reside.Read More »
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Kinji Fukasaku – Kataku no hito AKA House on Fire (1986)
Kinji Fukasaku1981-1990AsianDramaJapanAdapted from the autobiographical story by Kazuo Dan which was published a few months before his death, House Of Fire tells story of a popular writer sharing his complicated life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work.Read More »