1980s

  • Jesús Franco – Sexo Caníbal AKA El caníbal AKA Devil Hunter (1980)

    1971-1980ExploitationHorrorJesus FrancoSpain

    The story is set amongst jungle tribes that live in fear of the devil. Laura Crawford is a model who gets kidnapped by a gang of thugs whilst working in South America. They take her into the jungle and demand a huge ransom. Laura is guarded by some ridiculous looking native who calls himself “The Devil” and has to go through all manner of unpleasantries until the gang get their ransom. Chained maidens are offered in supplication and the devil demonstrates eating pussy in a grossly excessive literal manner. Enter Peter Weston, the devil hunter, who goes into the jungle in true Indiana Jones style to try and rescue her.Read More »

  • Jesús Franco – El sexo está loco AKA Sex is Crazy (1981) (HD)

    1981-1990CultEroticaJesus FrancoSpain

    If any Jess Franco films truly lives up to its title that would be “El sexo está loco”…

    Synopsis:
    Life starts to imitate art when aliens in search of fertile women to help repopulate their planet impregnate an actress. The plot as it progresses then focuses around two couples and their sexual adventures. Then we’re back to the weird alien vibe it all started with only to briefly abandon it again until the films ends. So were there really aliens or where they just a fantasy of Lina Romay’s character’s imagination?Read More »

  • Jean-Paul Dupuis – Les Chants (I, II, III, IV, V) (1981)

    1981-1990ArthouseExperimentalFranceJean-Paul Dupuis

    Synopsis:
    The first series of a film whose course is in parallel with the life of the author. Unlike a newspaper, however, any realistic, everyday element is excluded.Read More »

  • Michel Lemoine – Slips fendus et porte-jarretelles (1987)

    1981-1990EroticaFranceMichel Lemoine

    Quote:
    Amanda Shell, who has a toy boy, is trying to sell a house in the country. She has two nieces, Tina Loren and Valerie Vinal who play tennis on the court attached to the house wearing no knickers. They are watched by Jean-Pierre Armand who is trying to persuade Marilyn Jess to have sex with him. He succeeds by winning a bet with her that the other two girls play knickerless tennis. The two nieces seduce the prospective buyer, Jean-Pierre has it away with Marilyn, who also has it away with the prospective buyer, and so on.Read More »

  • Jesus Franco – Ópalo de fuego: Mercaderes del sexo AKA Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties (1980)

    1971-1980EroticaJesus FrancoSpainThriller

    SYNOPSIS:
    A sexual crazy couple kidnap a young girl (Susan Hemmingway) and begin to sexually torture and rape her but have no fear because two strippers (Lina Romay, Nadine Pascal) are on the case. This is a rather crazy and silly Franco caper that spoofs various genres but mainly the detective films of the 1940s. There’s a lot of humor, a lot of sex and of course a whole bunch of naked women running around.Read More »

  • Harley Cokeliss – Black Moon Rising (1986)

    1981-1990ActionHarley CokelissThrillerUSA

    Buckle up for ride in the Black Moon, a sleek, high-tech supercar, powered by hydrogen and capable of speeds of over 300mph! Tommy Lee Jones (Rolling Thunder, Under Siege) stars as Sam Quint, a master thief working for the government who hides a computer disc loaded with evidence of corporate crime in a prototype supercar, the Black Moon. When a gang of thieves steal the car, Quint seduces their leader, Nina (Linda Hamilton, Terminator), to get to the disc. But in order to reclaim his property, Quint and Nina must break into an impenetrable skyscraper and take down Ed Ryland (Robert Vaughn, The Delta Force), the head of a dangerous stolen car syndicate…A fast-moving, hydrogen-fuelled action thriller written by John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing), Black Moon Rising has earned admiration from cult movie audiences for its thrilling chase sequences, pounding synth score, and slick direction courtesy of Harley Cokeliss (Battle Truck, The Glitterball).Read More »

  • Adolfo Arrieta – Grenouilles (1983)

    1981-1990Adolfo ArrietaArthouseFantasyFrance

    Grenouilles (Frogs) is perhaps Arrieta’s strangest film. Anne Wiazemsky plays a beautiful Russian spy, Nora, who arrives on an island in the middle of the ocean, to avenge the betrayal of her lover, the artist Tibor. Other characters include a spy from UNESCO, a mysterious stranger who is plotting the end of the world, and a gang of thieves disguised as frogmen…Read More »

  • Ringo Lam – Lung foo fung wan AKA City on Fire (1987)

    1981-1990ActionChinaCrimeRingo Lam

    Ko Chow (Chow Yun-Fat) is an undercover cop who is under pressure from all sides. His boss, Inspector Lau (Yueh Sun), wants him to infiltrate a gang of ruthless jewel thieves; in order to do this he must obtain some handguns; his girlfriend (Carrie Ng) wants him to commit to marriage or she will leave Hong Kong with another lover; and he is being pursued by other cops who are unaware that he is a colleague.Read More »

  • Olivier Assayas – Laissé inachevé à Tokyo (1982)

    1981-1990ArthouseFranceOlivier AssayasShort Film

    About two novelists, one returning from Japan with an adventure story she has not completed, the other in Japan, at work typing his next novel.Read More »

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