1980s

  • Norifumi Suzuki – Hoero tekken AKA Roaring Fire (1982) (HD)

    Norifumi Suzuki1981-1990ComedyJapanMartial Arts
    Hoero tekken (1981)
    Hoero tekken (1981)

    Quote:
    When Joji Hibiki’s (Hiroyuki Sanada) father is dying he tells his son of a deep dark secret that sends Joji reeling into another time, to his childhood. His father tells him that he is not his father and that Joji’s is not his son. He learns that his real name is Joji HINOHARA and that he was a child who he kidnapped, one of two twin brothers and a sister now blind still living in Japan. Soon Joji is in flight to Japan his homeland from America, but not before learning of the chilling fate his real parents suffered one night under mysterious circumstances. He also learns of his twin brothers recent and supposedly random death. Read More »

  • Zivko Nikolic – U ime naroda (1987)

    Zivko Nikolic1981-1990DramaYugoslavia
    U ime naroda (1987)
    U ime naroda (1987)

    Quote:
    In a industrial town one business firm stands out with good management. Thanks to the agile director Todor, his successful policy of “World breakthrough” the whole town look forward to progress and incredibly quick prosperity in 1966. The director’s driver Milutin is the center of absurdly dramatic relations in which base manipulation dominates. His lonely, consequent, and reasonable admiration for Todor, his honesty and goodwill bring him into situations to which he can’t and won’t adapt to, nor will he quit…Read More »

  • John N. Smith – First Winter (1981)

    1981-1990CanadaDramaJohn N. SmithShort Film
    First Winter (1981)
    First Winter (1981)

    This historical drama features the first winter spent in Canada by a family of Irish immigrants deep in the Ottawa Valley. The year is 1830.

    In their first Canadian winter an Irish immigrant family is finding life a struggle at the best of times. Now, with the father away for work during the winter, the mother and the children labor for a bare existence. Then tragedy strikes and the young survivors must call upon their inner strengths to make it through the unforgiving season.Read More »

  • Alexander Grasshoff – The Wave (1981)

    1981-1990Alexander GrasshoffDramaShort FilmUSA
    The Wave (1981)
    The Wave (1981)

    Quote:
    To explain to his students the atmosphere in the 1930’s Nazi-Germany, history teacher Burt Ross initiates a daring experiment. He declares himself leader of a new movement, called ‘The Wave’. Inspired, he proclaims ideas about Power, Discipline and Superiority. His students are strikingly willing to follow him. Soon the entire school is under the spell of ‘The Wave’. Anyone who refuses to be a part of the Movement, faces threats or worse. Ross himself gets carried away by his own experiment. Or has it turned into something more than an experiment? A climax is unavoidable, resulting in a hard lesson for both Ross and his students…Read More »

  • Jean Rollin – La nuit des traquées AKA The Night of the Hunted (1980)

    Jean Rollin1971-1980EroticaFranceHorror
    La nuit des traquées (1980)
    La nuit des traquées (1980)

    A woman is taken to a mysterious clinic whose patients have a mental disorder in which their memories and identities are disintegrating as a result of a strange environmental accident.Read More »

  • James Goldstone – When Time Ran Out… (1980)

    James Goldstone1971-1980ActionAdventureUSA
    When Time Ran Out... (1980)
    When Time Ran Out… (1980)

    An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property’s developer and a drilling foreman.Read More »

  • Marva Nabili – Nightsongs (1982)

    Marva Nabili1981-1990DramaUSA
    Nightsongs (1982)
    Nightsongs (1982)

    NIGHTSONGS was made in New York’s Chinatown and explores experiences of exile with suitable restraint. The cramped apartment of a family of Chinese immigrants is visited by their Chinese-Vietnamese cousin, who becomes the silent witness of the difficulties of the individual family members, whose lives are marked by harsh working conditions and their fight for recognition. NIGHTSONGS is structured by the letters that this new arrival in the US writes to her husband, who is looking for their missing children in a refugee camp.Read More »

  • Angela Chan – Kwai ching AKA Maybe It’s Love (1984)

    1981-1990Angela ChanDramaHong KongMystery
    Kwai ching (1984)
    Kwai ching (1984)

    A thrilling “who-dun-it?” that weaves in and out of the lives of the residents of a small village. Sex and subterfuge bubble to the surface when the young coquettish Mrs Wang (Elaine Chin Yen-ling) disappears. A young girl, Marble (Hsu Ke-ying) says she saw someone falling in the water after a violent quarrel. When the police find no evidence, Marble and her friends launch their own investigation. But Marble is going to get more than she bargained for now that the killer knows there is a witness out there.Read More »

  • Yannick Bellon – L’amour nu (1981)

    Yannick Bellon1981-1990DramaFranceRomance
    L'amour nu (1981)
    L’amour nu (1981)

    In this film, bilingual UNESCO interpreter Claire meets oceanographer Simon at an international conference. The two are drawn to each other, and romance blossoms. Just as they begin to establish a stable relationship, she discovers that she has breast cancer and can’t bring herself to tell her new boyfriend.Read More »

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