1980s

  • Frank Oz – Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

    Frank Oz1981-1990ComedyMusicalRock n' Roll MusicalsUSA
    Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
    Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

    Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik’s, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day as Seymour is seeking a new mysterious plant, he finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for his supper. Soon enough, Seymour feeds Audrey’s sadistic dentist boyfriend to the plant and later, Mushnik for witnessing the death of Audrey’s ex. Will Audrey II take over the world or will Seymour and Audrey defeat it?Read More »

  • Saeed Ebrahimifar – Nar-o-nay AKA Pomegranate and Reed (1989)

    Saeed Ebrahimifar1981-1990DramaIranMusical
    Nar-o-nay (1989)
    Nar-o-nay (1989)

    Hunting for interesting elements for a play, a photographer meets an old man, who has just had a heart attack He tries to save the man’s life. In an effort to determine the old man’s identity, he is confronted with the old man nostalgic memories.Read More »

  • Carlo Vanzina – La partita AKA The Gamble (1988)

    1981-1990Carlo VanzinaComedyItaly
    La partita (1988)
    La partita (1988)

    A young man joins a feisty runaway as he flees from the noblewoman who won him in a wager.Read More »

  • Bertrand Blier – Trop belle pour toi AKA Too Beautiful for You (1989)

    1981-1990Bertrand BlierDramaFrance
    Trop belle pour toi (1989)
    Trop belle pour toi (1989)

    Time Out wrote:
    Bernard (Depardieu) is a wealthy businessman, happily married to beautiful, elegant Florence (Bouquet). Much to his astonishment, he falls in love with his comparatively dowdy secretary, Colette (Balasko). It’s no office fling but the real thing, and – to Bernard – completely incomprehensible. Once again charting the outrageous repercussions of an obsessive love, Blier proceeds to explore the situation from every conceivable angle, merrily constructing and deconstructing alternative stories for all he’s worth. Although the film fails to sustain itself over 90 minutes, much of the first half is very funny and occasionally sharp; Buñuelian motifs are mischievously resurrected, and Blier’s parodies and fantasy sequences are brilliantly dovetailed in a series of waltzing, switchback camera movements that are a joy to behold. Blier is a classy, amusing film maker, but one suspects he is too fundamentally bourgeois to truly shock or surprise; and this movie ends dispiritingly with the most banal of all its potential options.Read More »

  • Jonathan Sanger – Code Name: Emerald (1985)

    Jonathan Sanger1981-1990ActionUSAWar
    Code Name Emerald (1985)
    Code Name Emerald (1985)

    Plot Synopsis from allmovie.com
    In this slow-paced thriller set just before D-Day in Paris, Gus Lang (Ed Harris) is an American agent who has to make sure a captured U.S. officer is not forced to divulge the secret of the Normandy invasion. Since audiences know the invasion worked, the success of Gus Lang’s espionage forays into Nazi officialdom, and the French resistance appears to be a foregone conclusion. At least Paris provides an excellent backdrop for his undercover work, both with the attractive Claire Jouvet (Cyrielle Claire) and the less-attractive Nazi militaryRead More »

  • Babbar Subhash – Dance Dance (1987)

    Babbar Subhash1981-1990ActionDramaIndia
    Dance Dance (1987)
    Dance Dance (1987)

    Orphaned as kids, Radha and her brother Ramu make their living by dancing and singing in small functions. Ramu makes it big in the music world.Read More »

  • André S. Labarthe – Wassily Kandinsky (1985)

    1981-1990André S. LabartheDocumentaryFrance
    Wassily Kandinsky (1985)
    Wassily Kandinsky (1985)

    Colour, form, area this is the formula of the greatest pioneer of abstract painting. Kandinsky came to art late in life, but his impact through Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) and Bauhaus paved the way for modern art. In 1913, he created one of the first abstract pictures, the theoretical basis of which was inspired by his essay Über das Geistige in der Kunst (On the Spiritual in Art). Accompanied by Mussorgsky’s Pictures From An Exhibition, Labarthe goes on a sensual journey which makes the soul resound with colours and forms.Read More »

  • Kichitarô Negishi – Onna kyôshi: Yogoreta hôkago AKA Female Teacher: Dirty Afternoon (1981)

    1981-1990EroticaExploitationJapanKichitarô Negishi
    Onna kyôshi Yogoreta hôkago (1981)
    Onna kyôshi Yogoreta hôkago (1981)

    A teacher, Sakiko Kurata, receives a phone call regarding one of her former students. Young Sueko is accused of being a prostitute and has requested Sakiko’s help. This minx seduces random strangers for sex, but does not ask for payment. Sakiko has moved to another town and barely remembers Sueko, but there’s something about her that awakens painful memories of her own secretive past. What is that strange paint thinner smell on Sueko? Who is the man in the nylon ski mask that violently assaulted Sakiko many years ago? In her search for answers, Sakiko discovers that her past may have inadvertently destroyed another family’s future.Read More »

  • Philippe Le Guay – Les deux Fragonard (1989)

    Philippe Le Guay1981-1990DramaFrance
    Les deux Fragonard (1989)
    Les deux Fragonard (1989)

    Jean-Honoré Fragonard, an 18th century painter, decides to use as a model a young washerwoman, Marianne, with whom he ends up falling in love.Read More »

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