1980-1989 Movies To See
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- DirectorEmerson BixbyStarsEmerson BixbyRachel McBrideMelinda PierceAn unstable filmmaker risks his crew to shoot a documentary in a town overrun with flesh-eating zombies.
- DirectorFrancesco MassaroStarsLino BanfiJerry CalàMara VenierLino, a penniless Pugliese emigrant to Turin, is an unwelcome guest in his sister and brother-in-law's house. Engaged with Rossana, who leaves him for a friend. Lino makes 13 the pools but keeps it hidden from everyone.
- DirectorPeter WernerStarsTatum O'NealColin FrielsShirley KnightA man resettles his American family to New Zealand where he gets a new job at a prison in the city Wellington. His daughter has an affair with one of his prisoners he is to look out for.
- DirectorJuraj HerzStarsMarián LabudaJirí KodetMiroslav StredaMafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried to fool the boss and earned a death sentence. The convict runs away from the killer.
- DirectorVivian KubrickStarsJack NicholsonVivian KubrickTerry NeedhamA look behind the scenes during the making of The Shining (1980).
- DirectorJuraj HerzStarsVladimír KratinaRadim HlozekZora KerovaA young square-built Tadeás Falk called Táda (Vladimír Kratina) distributes meat from a slaughterhouse to the Liberec-city environs and to mountain hotels. The divorced Bára Saklová (Zora Kerova) must marry her lover Táda as soon as possible to get a company flat and be able to take care of her five-year-old daughter Beruska who lives with her grandmother. Her ex-husband, a hotel manager Sakl (Jirí Stepnicka), troubles her. Though, in fact, he does not actually care for his daughter, he does not agree Tadeás would adopt her and give her his name.
- DirectorHarvey HartStarsErin GrayLori SingerEd MarinaroThis is the story of Betsy a model who is nearly 30. Now in the world of modeling that is considered to be the age of retirement. She then sets out to see what else she can do and at the same time try to straighten out her personal life cause her husband has demanded that she should be either a full time wife or give him a divorce. And she has also taken an aspiring model under her wing, and is considering also being a photographer.
- DirectorMuschaTrini TrimpopStarsFelix AuerBerthold BellMike JansenThe young butcher's assistant Mann gets lost in a gloomy, cold alienated world in this new wave avantgarde tale.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsDiego AbatantuonoLino TroisiLara LambertiIn Milan, a father lost his daughter and hires Domingo, the neighborhood Ras, to find her.
- DirectorIan SellarStarsRay McAnallyDavid HaymanSinéad CusackPeter, a young boy living in the fishing village of St Monans, Scotland during 1940s, learns about life and the beauty of imagination from his grandfather and female teacher in this touching semi-autobiographical story about childhood.
- DirectorRick KingStarsMargaret KlenckGary McCleeryJohn SeitzA teenaged boy goes for a ride with his brother and the brother's friends, who proceed to rob a store and murder the clerk. They are caught and, despite the young boy's protestations, he is convicted of murder and sent to prison. A female social worker assigned to the boy's case not only believes him, but begins to fall in love with him, and determines to either help him prove his innocence or escape.
- DirectorRichard BaskinPaul JustmanStarsRachel SweetSusan BarnesDiane BellamyA young trio of musicians, called The Third Dimension, enter a battle of bands in an old hotel called the Rock N' Roll Hotel.
- DirectorSteven Hilliard SternStarsKarl MaldenAndrew StevensSteve GuttenbergThe fact-based story of how the U. S. Olympic hockey team beat the Soviets at the 1980 Lake Placid, N. Y., winter Olympics, then went on to win the gold medal.
- DirectorGuy LaiStarsKar-Bik ChanPak-Cheung ChanCarol 'Do Do' ChengKit accidentally stumbles upon a house after his motorbike went out of control, and a girl helps him on his feet, then disappears.
- DirectorDavid ChiangStarsBill TungLydia ShumEric TsangSiu-Fung (Lydia Sum), an owner of a pizzeria, unexpectedly succumbs to a heart attack. However, her spirit was unable to cross over to the other side, thus, she resurrects into the body of a young woman (Maggie Cheung). Afterward, she reunites with her family and tries to convince them that she is alive. Yet, the plot thickens when a woman, unrelated to the family and is physically identical to Siu-Fung, appears, and Siu-Fung's husband (Bill Tung) thinks that that woman is his wife.
- DirectorPaul MorrisseyStarsGino MarroccoDerek NolanCamilla ScottA computer hacker uses his high-tech skills to get into personal computers, and from there into their homes. His sister is the only chance the world has of stopping him. Directed by Paul Morrissey, whose films include "Flesh" (1968), "Trash" (1970) and "Forty Deuce" (1982).
- DirectorFernando Fernán GómezStarsJosé SacristánLaura del SolJuan DiegoThe movie tells the story of a family of comedians that work in the towns of Spain during the 40's and 50's. Life gets very tough for them since they cannot compete any longer with cinema. We assist to the end of an era.
- DirectorBasilio Martín PatinoStarsRüdiger VoglerVerónica ForquéMaría Luisa PonteA German documentary filmmaker travels to Madrid to do a TV program about the city and the Spanish civil war commemorating its 50th anniversary.