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A bored, aimless 14-year-old girl falls into the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s after attending ‘The Sound’, a modern new disco. In search of acceptance and freedom, she falls in with a teenage boy who is hooked on heroin and eventually develops an addiction of her own.Read More »
1981-1990
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Uli Edel – Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo AKA We Children from Bahnhof Zoo (1981)
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António-Pedro Vasconcelos – O Lugar do Morto AKA Dead Man’s Seat (1984)
1981-1990Antonio Polo GalanteCrimeMysteryPortugalQuote:
Alvaro, a divorced journalist with a complicated love life, watches someone he doesn’t know killing himself after a fight with a woman who he gave a lift. Intrigued by that mysterious sensual woman, he decides not to tell the police about the lift he gave her and investigates her by himself. He gets involved with her, but she remains too mysterious about her personal life. He ends up tangled in a web of murder, mystery and sex because of that woman, who he barely gets to know.Read More » -
Clara Law – Pan Jin Lian zhi qian shi jin sheng AKA The Reincarnation of Golden Lotus (1989)
1981-1990Clara LawDramaHong KongSummary:
A woman is cursed with beauty in China and becomes prey for men. Raped by the prefect of her ballet school and sent to work camp, she escapes to decadent Hong Kong by marrying a wealthy banker. She finds herself drawn to sadomasochistic affairs and in flashbacks discovers she is the reincarnation of a famous courtesan of ancient China.Read More » -
Wolfgang Büld, Dominik Graf, Hans Schmid, Helmer von Lützelburg, Gisela Weilemann – Neonstadt (1982)
1981-1990Dominik GrafDramaGermanyGisela WeilemannHans SchmidHelmer von LützelburgWolfgang BüldThis film, set in the 80ies, tells about young people in a big city, their lifes, their desires, their dramas and their dreams. The five episodes, directed by then young german directors who had just graduated from the HFF in Munich, Germany (Hochschule für Film & Fernsehen) are all inspired by french and american genre-movies and throughout free of illusions, which expressed the fashionable trend of the ‘no future’-attitude of these days. The titles and directors of the five episodes:
1. Verliebt, verlobt, BRD-igt – dir.: Gisela Weilemann
2. Star – dir.: Helmer von Lützelburg
3. Running Blue – dir.: Dominik Graf
4. Panter Neuss – dir.: Johann Schmid
5. Disco Satanica – dir.: Wolfgang Büld
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Francis Mankiewicz – Les beaux souvenirs AKA Beautiful Memories (1981)
1981-1990CanadaDramaFrancis MankiewiczQuote:
Viviane, a prodigal child, tries to regain her place in the family she abandoned. Hurt by the desertion and the absence of their beloved, her father and younger sister have created an airtight, troubled world on which rests their security. A hard, moving film shot in the magnificent setting of the Island of Orleans from a script by Réjean Ducharme.Read More » -
Andrew Grieve – On the Black Hill (1988)
1981-1990Andrew GrieveDramaEpicUnited KingdomBased on the famous novel by Bruce Chadwick, a tale of twins growing up on a welsh hill farm in the 1900s.
Starring Bob Peck and Gemma Jones as an embittered married couple, the film charts their efforts to raise identical twin brothers in the turbulent early years of the 20th century. Sharing a unique bond, the brothers journey through eight decades of life, death and hardship together, all the while tied to the land on which they were raised. Featuring stunning photography and steeped in authentic rural imagery.
On the Black Hill has been described as one of the best British films of the 1980s.Read More »
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Petar Krelja – Vlakom prema jugu aka Southbound Train (1981)
1981-1990ComedyPetar KreljaYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under TitoIMDB:
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Jorge Silva Melo – Agosto AKA August (1988)
1981-1990ArthouseDramaJorge Silva MeloPortugalQuote:
While Portugal is still involved in the war in Africa, Carlos, a violinist, spends his summer vacation at the beach with a friend couple, Alda and Darius. The world seems far from them, which leads to the three, to experience the rites of friendship and loneliness.Read More » -
José Bénazeraf – La Star Sodomisée AKA The Movie Star (1983)
1981-1990EroticaExploitationFranceJosé BénazérafLéa a great porn star from the fifties is living the end of her career in a luxurious apartment where some orgies, to which she does not participate, still take place but the star is in debt, creditors are seizing her properties and her house will be sold. She even pays her creditors by offering her body…One day one of her admirers brings her the script that will restart her career…this deserves a reward.Read More »