1980s

  • Vasili Levin – Petlya Oriona AKA The Orion Loop (1981)

    1981-1990Sci-FiUSSRVasili Levin

    A strange phenomenon has been noticed on the outskirts of our Solar system that quickly approaches the Earth. It’s called “Orion’s Loop.” A spaceship with a crew of people and androids identical to them is sent to intercept the anomaly. But strange events start happening as the spaceship approaches the mysterious loop.Read More »

  • Pierre Unia – College Dormitory AKA Dortoir des grandes (1984)

    1981-1990EroticaExploitationFrancePierre Unia

    Story about a girl who, tired of her step-mother and her step-mother’s gigolo, goes to a boarding-school and falls in love with a woman who runs it.Read More »

  • Laila Mikkelsen – Liten Ida AKA Little Ida (1981)

    1981-1990ClassicsDramaLaila MikkelsenNorway
    Liten Ida (1981)
    Liten Ida (1981)

    Synopsis
    Ida and her mother, a single woman, live in Northern Norway during the Nazi occupation. Ida’s mother works as a cook at a POW camp for Russians captured during the fighting in the Arctic. But she is more involved with the Germans than that… The occupying troops were reputedly encouraged to have relations with local women in Norway (as the racial characteristics of Nordic people were favoured by Nazi ideology…) As a result, lots of Norwegian women got involved in relationships and many children were conceived.Read More »

  • Colin Gregg – To the Lighthouse (1983)

    Colin Gregg1981-1990DramaTVUnited Kingdom
    To the Lighthouse (1983)
    To the Lighthouse (1983)

    The made-for-TV BBC adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, directed by Colin Gregg.

    From IMDb:
    A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf’s novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I. The stern Mr. Ramsay scolds everybody, while Mrs. Ramsay is the linchpin in keeping the family together. Aunt Lily paints, and the family talk about sailing to the lighthouse, but the trip is always postponed.Read More »

  • Jonathan Demme – Stop Making Sense (1984)

    Jonathan Demme1981-1990DocumentaryMusicalUSA

    Quote:
    An innovative concert movie for the rock group The Talking Heads. David Byrne walks onto the stage and does a solo “Psycho Killer.” Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz join him for two more songs. The crew is busy, still setting up. Then, three more musicians and two back-up singers join the band. Everybody sings, plays, harmonizes, dances, and runs. They change instruments and clothes. Bryne appears in the Big Suit. The backdrop is often black, but sometimes it displays words, images, or children’s drawings. The band cooks for 18 songs, the lyrics are clear, the house rocks. In this concert film, the Talking Heads hardly talk, don’t stop, and always make sense.
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  • Yasuharu Hasebe – Abunai deka aka Dangerous Cops (1987)

    Yasuharu Hasebe1981-1990ActionComedyJapan

    When a doctor is found dead and the company’s exclusive data on a cancer drug is missing, detective Taka-yama and Oshita are called to the Nakamitsu pharma-ceutical laboratory. However, a bungled attempt to catch the murderer leave Takayama and Oshita re-assigned to the lackluster task of patrolling public bathrooms and hopefully out of trouble.Read More »

  • Nobuyuki Saitô – Osowareru onna kyôshi AKA Attacked Female Teacher (1983)

    1981-1990DramaEroticaJapanNobuyuki Saitô

    Quote:
    A woman with a past that was raped in her school days and broke up with her lover due to it. Later, when she became a high school music teacher, she has dangerous after-school liaisons with her colleagues and students at her apartment. However, the hollow of her heart cannot be filled with only carnal desire. One day, she encounters her old lover by chance, and a turning point comes to her… Roman Porno depicting a nasty private life without fear of a female teacher!Read More »

  • Giuseppe Ferrara – Il caso Moro AKA The Moro Affair (1986)

    Giuseppe Ferrara1981-1990DramaItalyPolitics

    On March 16, 1978, the Red Brigades kidnapped the head of Christian Democracy, the party in power in Italy since the end of the war. Fifty-five days later, his corpse was found in the trunk of a red Renault. Moro was not only the victim of the Brigades but also of the struggle for power between the Italian parties.Read More »

  • Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Reibyo densetsu AKA Legend of the Cat Monster (1983)

    1981-1990HorrorJapanNobuhiko ObayashiRomance

    Quote:
    Another stunning Tuesday Suspense Theater movie from Obayashi. I love how there is some music playing almost every second of the film. That gives the movie an special feeling of drama and I think of it as another way to telling the viewer like Hey, don’t forget you’re watching a movie!

    And the fact that this is a cat monster movie about making a cat monster movie featuring Takeko Irie, also known as the cat monster actress, and her daughter playing a character inspired in herself! I will sure give a rewatch to this after I watch some of Takako Irie’s cat monster movies.Read More »

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