Showing posts with label 1980s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1980s. Show all posts

Sherman's March (1985)

Sherman's March (1985) DVDRip x264 AC3
2h 37min - Documentary | Biography | Romance

IMDB: 7.5/10 (1,809 users) 29 reviews | Critics: 21 reviews
Tomatometer: 100/100 (based on 12 reviews from Rottentomatoes.com)

Ross McElwee sets out to make a documentary about the lingering effects of General Sherman's march of destruction through the South during the Civil War, but is continually sidetracked by ...

Director: Ross McElwee
Writer: Ross McElwee
Stars: Ross McElwee, Dede McElwee, Ross McElwee Jr.

Country: USA
Language: English


A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

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1h 31min - Horror

IMDB: 7.5/10 (147,133 users) 665 reviews | Critics: 256 reviews
Metascore: 78/100 (based on 6 reviews from Metacritic.com)

Several people are hunted by a cruel serial killer who kills his victims in their dreams. While the survivors are trying to find the reason for being chosen, the murderer won't lose any chance to kill them as soon as they fall asleep.

Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Wes Craven
Stars: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund

Country: USA
Language: English


Ms .45 (1981)

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1h 20min - Crime | Drama | Thriller

IMDB: 6.8/10 (5,141 users) 69 reviews | Critics: 130 reviews
Metascore: 62/100 (based on 6 reviews from Metacritc.com)

A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day, in which she takes to the streets of New York after dark and randomly kills men with a .45 caliber gun.

Director: Abel Ferrara
Writer: Nicholas St. John (screenplay) (as N.G. St. John)
Stars: Zoë Lund, Bogey, Albert Sinkys

Country: USA
Language: English


Fast, Fast (1981)

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99 min - Crime | Drama

IMDB: 7.1/10 (557 users) 5 reviews | Critics: 2 reviews

Angela begins to hang around with Pablo and his gang of young robbers.

Director: Carlos Saura
Writers: Blanca Astiasu, Carlos Saura (screenplay)
Stars: Berta Socuéllamos, Jose Antonio Valdelomar González and Jesús Arias

Country: Spain
Language: Spanish with English subtitles





Another State of Mind (1984)

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78 min - Documentary | Music

IMDB: 7.8/10 (451 users) 9 reviews | Critics: 7 reviews

Another State of Mind is a documentary film made in the summer of 1982 chronicling the adventure (and misadventure) of two punk bands – Social Distortion and Youth Brigade – as they embark on their first international tour.

Directors: Adam Small, Peter Stuart
Writers: Adam Small, Peter Stuart
Stars: Dennis Danell, Brent Liles, John Macias

Country: USA
Language: English



Thief (1981)

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122 min - Action | Crime | Drama

IMDB: 7.4/10 (10,774 users) 96 reviews | Critics: 56 reviews
Metascore: 78/100 (based on 8 reviews from Metacritic.com)

Becoming closer to his dream of leading a normal life, a professional safecracker agrees to do a job for the mafia, who have other plans for him.

Director: Michael Mann
Writers: Frank Hohimer (novel), Michael Mann (screen story)
Stars: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson

Country: USA
Language: English



Housekeeping (1987)

Housekeeping (1987) DVDRip x264 AC3
116 min - Comedy | Drama

IMDB: 7.3/10 (1,261 users) 28 reviews | Critics: 15 reviews

In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950's, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite...

Director: Bill Forsyth
Writers: Marilynne Robinson (novel), Bill Forsyth (screenplay)
Stars: Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, Andrea Burchill

Country: USA
Language: English



Eric Rohmer (1920-2010)

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Admirers have always had difficulty explaining Eric Rohmer's "Je ne sais quoi." Part of the challenge stems from the fact that, despite his place in French Nouvelle Vague (i.e., New Wave), his work is unlike that of his colleagues. While this may be due to the auteur's unwillingness to conform, some have argued convincingly that, in truth, he has ...

Born: Jean-Marie Maurice Schérer
April 4, 1920 in Tulle, Corrèze, France

Died: January 11, 2010 (age 89) in Paris, France





Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate (1986)

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75 min - Documentary

IMDB: 6.5/10 (116 users) 2 reviews | Critics: 4 reviews

In this cult doc from 1985, director Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated) weaves a fascinating study of the curious role of a sex surrogate in the then-new discipline of sexual therapy. ...

Director: Kirby Dick
Stars: Warren Robert Jason, Maureen Sullivan

Country: USA
Language: English





The Vanishing (1988)

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107 min - Mystery | Thriller

IMDB: 7.8/10 (17,542 users) 158 revivews | Critics: 66 reviews
Tomatometer: 100/100 (based on 34 reviews from Rottentomatoes.com)

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.

Director: George Sluizer
Writers: Tim Krabbé (novel), Tim Krabbé (screenplay)
Stars: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege

Country: Netherlands
Language: Dutch with English subtitles


Christiane F. (1981)

Christiane F. (1981) DVDRip x264
R - 138 min - Biography | Drama

IMDB: 7.6/10 (7,473 users) 50 reviews | Critics: 30 reviews

This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin...

Director: Uli Edel
Writers: Uli Edel (additional writer), Kai Hermann (book)
Stars: Natja Brunckhorst, Thomas Haustein and Jens Kuphal

Country: West Germany
Language: German with English subtitles



Videodrome (1983)

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87 min - Horror | Sci-Fi

IMDB: 7.3/10 (33,879 users) 188 reviews | Critics: 125 reviews
Metascore: 60/100 (based on 6 reviews from Metacritic.com)

A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.

Director: David Cronenberg
Writer: David Cronenberg
Stars: James Woods, Deborah Harry and Sonja Smits

Country: Canada
Language: English



The Decalogue (1989)

The Decalogue 1989 DVDRip x264-TBB
TV Mini-Series - 550 min  - Drama

IMDB: 9.1/10 (7,638 users) 32 reviews | Critics: 45 reviews 
Tomatometer: 100/100 (based on 28 reviews from Rottentomatoes.com)

Ten television drama films, each one based on one of the Ten Commandments.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writers: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Stars: Artur Barcis, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Olaf Lubaszenko

Country: Poland
Language: Polish with English subtitles




Louie Bluie (1985)

Louie Bluie (1985) DVDRip XviD
75 min - Documentary | Music

IMDB: 7.9/10 (252 users) 4 review | Critics: 16 reviews

About the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America.

Director: Terry Zwigoff
Stars: Howard Armstrong and Ted Bogan

Country: USA
Language: English





Local Hero (1983)

Local Hero (1983) DVDRip x264
PG - 111 min - Comedy | Drama

IMDB: 7.4/10 (9,336 votes) 164 reviews | Critics: 30 reviews
Tomatometer: 100/100 (based on 31 reviews from Rottentomtoes.com) 

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

Director: Bill Forsyth
Writer: Bill Forsyth
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert and Fulton Mackay

Country: UK
Language: English with French subtitles