Entertainment
Movies of the 1980s
Top 500 films from the 1980s (out of 6,849 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Country↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Godzilla Fantasia | 1,984 | Ishirō Honda | Music, Science Fiction, Fantasy | 9.7 | 11 | Japanese | Japan | Akira Ifukube has arranged music from his fantastic films into a three-movement symphony, presented here with scenes from the films the music was originally written for. The second half features Makoto Inoue's synthesizer arrangements of Ifukube's music. In this portion, all the music is by Ifukube, but it shows scenes from films Ifukube did not work on. Showcases footage from various monster and science fiction films from Ishiro Honda as well as scenes from Senkichi Taniguchi's Adventure of Kigan Castle. |
| Bride of the Orient | 1,989 | Urs Odermatt | Drama, Romance | 9.6 | 23 | German | Germany | After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a family of his own. Eventually he pays for a bride from Thailand. The couple don't share a language, but being to know each other. However the village neighbors are suspicious of foreigners. |
| Wolfman vs. Godzilla | 1,983 | Shizuo Nakajima | Science Fiction, Horror | 9.6 | 12 | Japanese | Japan | A high production fan film directed and produced by Shizuo Nakajima and several former Toho filmmakers in 1983. Principal photography on Wolfman vs. Godzilla began in 1983 and concluded in the mid 1980's. Post-production ("editing, sound design, and visual effects") is ongoing. |
| Mickey's Safety Club: Street Safe, Street Smart | 1,989 | Gino Ricotta | Family, Animation, Comedy, Music, TV Movie | 9.3 | 38 | English | United States of America | Mickey and his friends take a close look at important street safety situations and tips. |
| Scooby-Doo's A Nutcracker Scoob | 1,984 | Charles August Nichols | Animation, Family, Comedy, Mystery | 9.2 | 67 | English | United States of America | The evil is set to damper another Christmas season for the children's home. Can the Scooby gang warm his heart? |
| Hanna-Barbera's 50th | 1,989 | Marshall Flaum | Comedy, Fantasy, Family, Animation, Documentary, TV Movie | 9.2 | 47 | English | United States of America | The special is hosted by Tony Danza and Annie Potts celebrating 50 years of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's partnership in animation. This is the first animated project to be broadcast in Dolby Surround sound system. |
| My Partner | 1,982 | Paolo Agazzi | Comedy, Drama | 8.9 | 65 | Spanish | Bolivia | The story of the friendship between a truck driver and a shoeshine boy who occasionally becomes his assistant when they travel together from the agro-industrial area of Santa Cruz to the high Andean basin of La Paz in a truck named "Mi Socio". |
| Making Michael Jackson's Thriller | 1,983 | Jerry Kramer | Documentary, Music | 8.9 | 25 | English | United States of America | Featuring interviews with director John Landis, make-up artist Rick Baker, and the King of Pop himself, Making Michael Jackson's Thriller takes you on a behind-the-scenes journey from pre-production to shooting on the ghoulish graveyard set of Michael Jackson's legendary music video and short film. |
| Prince and the Revolution: Live | 1,985 | Paul Becher | Music | 8.9 | 14 | English | United States of America | “Prince and the Revolution: Live” is a legendary concert filmed toward the end of Prince's “Purple Rain” tour in Syracuse, NY on March 30, 1985. The performance has Prince at the height of his powers, backed by the classic Revolution lineup of Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman, Matt Fink, Mark Brown, Eric Leeds, and Bobby Z. The 20-song set features: Let's Go Crazy, Delirious, 1999, Little Red Corvette, Take Me With U, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Do Me Baby, Irresistible Bitch, Possessed, How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore, Let's Pretend We Are Married, International Lover, God, Computer Blue, Darling Nikki, The Beautiful Ones, When Doves Cry, I Would Die 4 U, Baby I'm A Star, and Purple Rain. |
| Tomorrow's Joe The Movie | 1,980 | Osamu Dezaki | Action, Animation, Drama | 8.8 | 12 | Japanese | Japan | An abridged remake of the first Ashita no Joe TV series, released in 1980 to provide back-story for the second TV series to new fans who were not familiar with the first TV series or the manga. |
| Teahouse | 1,982 | Tian Xie | Drama, History | 8.7 | 31 | Chinese | China | An old teahouse in Beijing serves as the stage for a drama that unfolds over several tumultuous decades of modern Chinese history, from the waning days of the Qing dynasty to the eve of the People's Republic. |
| G.I. Joe: Arise, Serpentor, Arise! | 1,986 | Ray Lee | Animation | 8.7 | 10 | English | United States of America | After yet another defeat inflicted by G.I. Joe, the immediate subordinates of Cobra's leader, Cobra Commander, have finally come to the end of their patience with his apparent incompetence and his inability to achieve real victories. The leader of the research and interrogations wing, Dr. Mindbender, receives a dream showing the solution. His plan is to collect the genetic material of great warriors and military leaders to create a composite clone that would be the perfect leader for Cobra. Now they set out to put this scheme into motion, and G.I. Joe has very little time to learn of this plot before Cobra becomes that much more a dire threat to the world. |
| David Bowie: Serious Moonlight | 1,984 | David Mallet | Music | 8.6 | 19 | English | Canada | British singer David Bowie performs in Vancouver, Canada, on September 12, 1983, during his Serious Moonlight Tour. |
| SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back | 1,980 | Robert Guenette | Documentary, TV Movie | 8.6 | 10 | English | United States of America | Hosted by Mark Hamill, this revealing documentary offers behind-the-scenes glimpses into the amazing special effects that transformed George Lucas’ vision for Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back into reality! |
| Zübük | 1,980 | Kartal Tibet | Comedy | 8.5 | 64 | Turkish | Turkey | This is the story of the politician named Zübük. He gets expelled from the political party that he is a member of, due to corruption. The journalist Yaşar wants to make a news story about his case and investigates Zübük's doings. Yaşar gets baffled at the sly tricks Zübük played on his village people. In the end, he feels sorry about Zübük's present situation, however, as things happen he becomes aware that Zübük has been tricking him. |
| SSS | 1,989 | Charles Atlas | Documentary | 8.5 | 12 | English | Unknown | Marina Abramovic collaborated with videomaker Charles Atlas on this striking work of autobiographical performance. Abramovic delivers a monologue that traces a concise personal chronology. This brief narrative history, which references her past in the former Yugoslavia, her performance work, and her collaboration with and separation from Ulay, is intercut with images of Abramovic engaged in symbolic gestures and ritual acts—scrubbing her feet, staring like Medusa as snakes writhe on her head. Closing her litany with the phrase "time past, time present," Abramovic invokes the personal and the mythological in a poignant affirmation of self. |
| We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song | 1,985 | Tom Trbovich | Music, Documentary | 8.5 | 12 | English | United States of America | We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song is a documentary which examines how the song was written, how producer Quincy Jones and songwriters Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie persuaded some of the most popular performers in America to donate their services to the project, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the marathon recording session that produced the single. |
| Queen: Live In Rio | 1,985 | Aloysio Legey | Music, Documentary | 8.5 | 11 | English | Brazil | British rock's greatest entertainers play to more than 300,000 people in Rio, Brazil, headlining the first Rock in Rio festival in January 1985. |
| Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever | 1,983 | Don Mischer | Music, Documentary, TV Movie | 8.5 | 11 | English | United States of America | Television special taped before a live studio audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on March 25, 1983, and broadcast on NBC on May 16. Highlights include Michael Jackson's performance of "Billie Jean", a Temptations/Four Tops "battle of the bands", Marvin Gaye's inspired speech about black music history and his memorable performance of "What's Going On", and a Jackson 5 reunion. This performance is noted for Michael Jackson debuting his signature moonwalk. |
| The Empire Strikes Back | 1,980 | Irvin Kershner | Adventure, Action, Science Fiction | 8.4 | 18,083 | English | United States of America | The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair. |
| Grave of the Fireflies | 1,988 | Isao Takahata | Animation, Drama, War | 8.4 | 6,363 | Japanese | Japan | In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive. |
| Once Upon a Time in America | 1,984 | Sergio Leone | Drama, Crime | 8.4 | 5,900 | English | United States of America | A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life. |
| Cinema Paradiso | 1,988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | Drama, Romance | 8.4 | 4,733 | Italian | Italy | A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist. |
| Queen: Live at Wembley Stadium | 1,986 | Gavin Taylor | Music | 8.4 | 166 | English | United Kingdom | One of the world's biggest bands returns to the scene of their Live Aid triumph (one year earlier in 1985) to play all their greatest hits in front of a packed Wembley Stadium. |
| Twenty Years Later | 1,984 | Eduardo Coutinho | Documentary, History | 8.4 | 72 | Portuguese | Brazil | Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered. |
| Okey, Mister Pancho | 1,981 | Gilberto Martínez Solares | Adventure, Comedy | 8.4 | 26 | Spanish | Mexico | La India Maria becomes deeply embroiled in a large scale diamond heist. |
| Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain | 1,984 | Xie Jin | Drama, War | 8.4 | 19 | Chinese | China | Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain is a 1984 Chinese film about the life of the soldiers in a PLA army company before, during and after the Sino-Vietnamese War. |
| The Secret Nation | 1,989 | Jorge Sanjinés | Drama | 8.4 | 14 | Spanish | Bolivia | In this Bolivian story, a man remembers his life while on a journey which will help him expiate his sins and which will result in his death. The focus on the story is on a man who has betrayed everyone he knows. He is planning to perform an ancient ritual dance which will end with his life being taken. He journeys from where he was living back to the village where most of the people he wronged still live. As he journeys, carrying his distinctive dance costume, his story is told in flashbacks. Once he gets there, he gets involved in the affairs of the villagers once more. |
| Space Runaway Ideon: Be Invoked | 1,982 | Yoshiyuki Tomino | Science Fiction, Animation, Action, War, Drama | 8.4 | 13 | Japanese | Japan | The epic conclusion to the Ideon saga, featuring what was meant to be the final 5 episodes of the TV series. The Solo Ship and its crew continue their intense battle with the Buff Clan leading to a final battle that will determine the fate of all life in the universe. This movie was the second part of a double feature along with "The Ideon: A Contact". |
| David Bowie: Glass Spider | 1,988 | David Mallet | Music, Documentary | 8.4 | 12 | English | Australia | A chronicle of the eight shows held by the British singer David Bowie at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, Australia, in November 1987, during the Glass Spider Tour, in promotion of his album Never Let Me Down. |
| Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love | 1,980 | Mircea Mureșan | Drama, History | 8.4 | 11 | Romanian | Romania | Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes that he has betrayed his heart, and that he is still in love with Florica, not with his wife. It is the curse of love that will be Ion's undoing. Badly mistreated, Ana, his wife, is driven to despair and she hangs herself. Ion, now free and wealthy, believes that the time has come for him to have Florica. Florica's husband, George waylays Ion and savagely murders him with a hoe. |
| Back to the Future | 1,985 | Robert Zemeckis | Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction | 8.3 | 21,401 | English | United States of America | Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985. |
| Dead Poets Society | 1,989 | Peter Weir | Drama | 8.3 | 12,307 | English | United States of America | At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster. |
| Stop Making Sense | 1,984 | Jonathan Demme | Documentary, Music | 8.3 | 348 | English | United States of America | A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning and cinematic performance that features creative choreography and visuals. |
| George & Mildred | 1,980 | Peter Frazer-Jones | Comedy | 8.3 | 30 | English | United Kingdom | Big screen spin-off of the Seventies sitcom. Mildred Roper is determined to make husband George celebrate their wedding anniversary in style, at a posh hotel in London. However, upon arrival George is mistaken by a gangland criminal for a rival hitman, and soon the Ropers find themselves up to their necks in trouble on the wrong side of the law! |
| A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story | 1,989 | Unknown | Drama, TV Movie | 8.3 | 20 | English | Unknown | Tracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets a restraining order, and the police do little to help. When he brutally beats her and slashes her throat in front of police, she sues the city and the police department for failing to protect her. |
| An Audience with Billy Connolly | 1,985 | Alasdair Macmillan | Comedy | 8.3 | 19 | English | United Kingdom | Billy Connolly delivers his special brand of stand-up comedy and abrasive humour in front of a celebrity audience. |
| Dangerous Charm | 1,984 | Ivan Andonov | Comedy, Thriller | 8.3 | 18 | Bulgarian | Bulgaria | He is well educated, charming, and gallant - a dream for each lonely lady. In reality he is a skillful swindler, who robs naive women. Cheating merchants with guilty consciences are his targets as well. This is the elusive protagonist of the movie. He constantly changes his name, stages his own death, and travels from town to town. His exploits are myriad and his life is an endless adventure. Yet, he remains an amiable swindler, an unrealized actor, whose only goal is make his life more interesting. |
| Anantaram | 1,987 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Drama | 8.3 | 11 | Malayalam | India | A young man narrates two conflicting accounts of his life, changing the details and incidents in both, as he slowly approaches madness. |
| Deaf | 1,986 | Frederick Wiseman | Documentary | 8.3 | 10 | English | United States of America | The School for the Deaf at the Alabama Institute is organized around a theory of total communication i.e. the use of signs and finger spelling in conjunction with speech, hearing aids, lip reading, gestures and the written word. The film shows sequences dealing with various aspects of this comprehensive training such as teaching students and parents to sign; speech therapy; psychological counseling; regular academic courses; vocational training; disciplinary problems; parents visits; sports and recreational activity; training in living and working independently; and developing skills in home and money management. |
| Yavanika | 1,982 | K. G. George | Drama, Mystery | 8.3 | 10 | Malayalam | India | Ayyappan, a tabla player of a touring drama group, goes missing. Later on, Sub-Inspector Jacob Eeraly is assigned to investigate the case and finds out disturbing truths. |
| The Shining | 1,980 | Stanley Kubrick | Horror, Thriller | 8.2 | 18,627 | English | United Kingdom | Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within. |
| Scarface | 1,983 | Brian De Palma | Action, Crime, Drama | 8.2 | 12,740 | English | United States of America | After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall. |
| Come and See | 1,985 | Elem Klimov | Drama, War | 8.2 | 1,753 | Russian | Soviet Union | The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope. |
| Michael Jackson's Thriller | 1,983 | John Landis | Horror, Thriller, Music | 8.2 | 737 | English | United States of America | A night at the movies turns terrifying when Michael and his date are attacked by zombies. Released at the height of Thriller’s success, the short film redefined the music video, broke racial barriers, and became the first inducted into the U.S. National Film Registry. |
| Shoah | 1,985 | Claude Lanzmann | Documentary, History | 8.2 | 215 | French | France | Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka. |
| The Broken Landlord | 1,985 | Nesli Çölgeçen | Drama, Comedy | 8.2 | 96 | Turkish | Turkey | The landowner (Agha) of the Haraptar village marries off his old father with the young and beautiful Kiraz. But on the nuptial night, his father dies and everything starts to go bad for the Agha. Due to the long drought and provocations of Kekec Salman (big brother of Kiraz), the peasants steal the crops and run away to Istanbul. Without the peasants and crops, Agha is also forced to sell the village and move to Istanbul. But he cannot keep up with the big city life and consumes all his money and belongings. Agha's wife and relatives leave him during this downfall. |
| They Don't Wear Black Tie | 1,981 | Leon Hirszman | Drama | 8.2 | 66 | Portuguese | Brazil | Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião, one of the employees, is more of a realist and doesn't want to risk losing his job by striking. This clash of perspectives puts the father and son at odds. Fortunately, Tião's mother, Romana, is on hand to act as a moderator between the two opinionated men. |
| Buddies | 1,985 | Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. | Drama | 8.2 | 53 | English | United States of America | David, a naive graduate student, has volunteered to work as a 'buddy' for people dying of AIDS. Assigned to the intensely political Robert, a lifelong activist whose friends and family have abandoned him following his diagnosis, the two men, each with notably different world views, soon discover common bonds, as David's inner activist awakens and Robert's need for emotional release is fulfilled. |
| Robin Williams: An Evening at the Met | 1,986 | Bruce Gowers | Comedy, TV Movie | 8.2 | 38 | English | United States of America | In this hilarious stand up comedy, Robin Williams is energetic, witty and again hilarious. It's the number one stand up comedy of all time. |
| Recollections of the Yellow House | 1,989 | João César Monteiro | Comedy, Drama | 8.2 | 28 | Portuguese | Portugal | Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront. |
| Kisapmata | 1,981 | Mike de Leon | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.2 | 25 | Filipino | Philippines | A young woman gets married but her authoritarian father refuses to let her out of his sight. |
| Disney’s Scary Tales | 1,985 | Unknown | N/A | 8.2 | 22 | Italian | Unknown | |
| Polly | 1,989 | Debbie Allen | Family, Music | 8.2 | 15 | English | United States of America | An musical adaptation of the book "Pollyanna" set in the 1950's in which an orphan tries to use gladness to unite the people in a small southern town. |
| El Keif | 1,985 | Ali Abdel-Khalek | Drama, Crime, Comedy | 8.2 | 15 | Arabic | Egypt | Gamal sings at local weddings. His brother Salah, a chemist, tries to convince him to quit drugs and gives him some weed that is made out of harmless substances. When a drug dealer grows impressed by Salah's formula, Salah succumbs to the temptation of money. |
| Rickshaw Boy | 1,982 | Ling Zifeng | Drama | 8.2 | 15 | Chinese | China | Xiang Zi is a rickshaw boy who has always had a desire to excel and a thirst for freedom. He married Hu Niu who died of dystocia later. After her death, another girl, Xiao Fuzi, falls in love with Xiang Zi but they are separated by poverty. Xiang Zi works very hard in order to change his life, only to find that Xiao Fuzi is dead just as he begins to be hopeful for their future. Finally, Xiang Zi, an unflinching man, surrenders to that dark society. |
| Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson | 1,986 | Laurie Anderson | Music, Documentary | 8.2 | 10 | English | Canada | A concert film directed by and featuring the music of Laurie Anderson, filmed at the Park Theater in Union City, New Jersey, during the summer of 1985. The film includes songs from her 1984 album 1984’s “Mister Heartbreak” and selections from her 1983 “United States” show, along with eclectic, experimental visuals blending film, animation, dance and electronics. |
| Full Metal Jacket | 1,987 | Stanley Kubrick | Drama, War | 8.1 | 11,233 | English | United Kingdom | A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. |
| My Neighbor Totoro | 1,988 | Hayao Miyazaki | Fantasy, Animation, Family | 8.1 | 8,626 | Japanese | Japan | Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her. |
| The Thing | 1,982 | John Carpenter | Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction | 8.1 | 7,717 | English | United States of America | A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims. |
| Das Boot | 1,981 | Wolfgang Petersen | Drama, History, War | 8.1 | 2,436 | German | Germany | A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits. |
| Paris, Texas | 1,984 | Wim Wenders | Drama | 8.1 | 2,146 | English | United Kingdom | A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier. |
| Decalogue I | 1,989 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie | 8.1 | 257 | Polish | Germany | Krzysztof, a semantics professor and computer hobbyist, is raising his young son, Paweł, to look to science for answers, while Irena, Paweł’s aunt, lives a life rooted in faith. Over the course of one day, both adults are forced to question their belief systems. |
| Anne of Green Gables | 1,985 | Kevin Sullivan | Family, Drama | 8.1 | 252 | English | United States of America | At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to take on an orphan boy as help for their farm. But they get an unexpected jolt when they're mistakenly sent a girl instead: Anne Shirley. |
| Isle of Flowers | 1,989 | Jorge Furtado | Documentary | 8.1 | 221 | Portuguese | Brazil | A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear. |
| We Will Rock You | 1,982 | Saul Swimmer | Music | 8.1 | 39 | English | United Kingdom | In November 1981, and with “Under Pressure” topping the charts in the UK, Queen performed a blistering set of hits – including "We Will Rock You" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" – in front of an 18,000-strong crowd at Montreal's Forum, in this stunning concert film. |
| The Kingdom of Diamonds | 1,980 | Satyajit Ray | Comedy | 8.1 | 28 | Bengali | India | When Goopy and Bagha learn about Hirak Raja's tyranny, they try to set him right with the help of Udayan, a school teacher, and their magical powers. |
| Er | 1,983 | Stefan Julian Neuschäfer | Drama | 8.1 | 23 | German | Germany | |
| Banana Paradise | 1,989 | Wang Tung | Drama, Comedy | 8.1 | 12 | Chinese | Taiwan | A young man and his friend move to Taiwan, believing it to be a land of possibilities, but it's not long before they're accused of being spies. |
| Prince - Lovesexy Live | 1,988 | Egbert van Hees | Music | 8.1 | 11 | English | Germany | Lovesexy Live was the fifth Prince home video to be released and second live concert released on Home Video format. It was first released on 2 cassettes under the name of "Lovesexy Live 1" and "Lovesexy Live 2" in Europe. Confusingly Vol.1 contained the latter part of the concert, while Vol.2 contained the first part. The concert was later re-released as Lovesexy Live on one cassette (of 127 minutes) and on laserdisc. |
| Revenge of the Snakes | 1,985 | Şerif Gören | Drama | 8.1 | 11 | Turkish | Unknown | Kara Bayram is a poor farmer living in a Turkish village with his wife, 3 kids (4th on the way) and his old mother Irazca Ana. They live on their own until another villager, Haceli who is backed up by the Mukhtar (local administrator of the Village) starts to build a new house right in front of their's. Kara Bayram and Irazca Ana do not accept these uninvited neighboors from the first day and unwanted events start right away. |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles | 1,981 | Igor Maslennikov | Crime, Adventure, Mystery, TV Movie | 8.1 | 11 | Russian | Soviet Union | When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for help to save Sir Henry Baskerville, the only known heir, from the curse that haunts Baskerville family. |
| Sí al amor | 1,986 | Víctor Andrés Catena | Comedy, TV Movie | 8.1 | 10 | Spanish | Spain | |
| Aliens | 1,986 | James Cameron | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction | 8 | 10,609 | English | United States of America | Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426. |
| Amadeus | 1,984 | Miloš Forman | History, Music, Drama | 8 | 4,650 | English | United States of America | Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. |
| Castle in the Sky | 1,986 | Hayao Miyazaki | Adventure, Fantasy, Animation, Action, Family | 8 | 4,582 | Japanese | Japan | A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle. |
| The Elephant Man | 1,980 | David Lynch | Drama, History | 8 | 3,832 | English | United States of America | A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London. |
| Ran | 1,985 | Akira Kurosawa | Action, Drama, History | 8 | 1,750 | Japanese | Japan | Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons. |
| The Man Who Planted Trees | 1,987 | Frédéric Back | Animation, Drama, Fantasy | 8 | 173 | French | Canada | The story of one shepherd's single-handed quest to re-forest a desolate valley in the foothills of the French Alps throughout the first half of the 20th century. |
| Once Upon a Time, There Lived a Dog | 1,982 | Eduard Nazarov | Comedy, Animation, Family | 8 | 156 | Russian | Soviet Union | Based on the Ukrainian folktale, the old dog of a village family is not as keen as he once was, and is sent away after he fails to guard their house during a robbery. In the woods, he meets the wolf he protected his masters against long ago, who decides to pay a favor to get his old enemy's rightful place back in the doghouse. |
| Decalogue VI | 1,989 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie | 8 | 154 | Polish | Germany | A teenage postal worker, Tomek, routinely spies on his older neighbor Magda, a sexually liberated artist who lives in the apartment across the courtyard from his. As their private worlds merge, fascination turns to obsession, and the line between love and curiosity becomes violently blurred. |
| Thus Spoke Bellavista | 1,984 | Luciano De Crescenzo | Comedy | 8 | 151 | Italian | Italy | In Naples, Professor Bellavista is a retired man, passionate about the philosophy and thought of Ancient Greece. Every day, in his luxurious apartment, he teaches his lessons of life to the poor-nothing (his friends), who are dazzled by his reasoning. One day, however, the quiet life of the building of Bellavista will be disturbed by the arrival of a director of Milan. Between Naples and Milan there contrast, because the Neapolitans are accustomed to enjoy a quiet life, always based on the "philosophy of pleasure and delay", while the northern Italians are very strict and punctual. |
| Waiting for the Hearse | 1,985 | Alejandro Doria | Comedy | 8 | 148 | Spanish | Argentina | Mama Cora, who is almost eighty years old, has three sons and a daughter. She lives with one of them, who has serious financial problems. The family meets one day to celebrate an anniversary meal, and that is when the problem arises: which of them will take care of her? |
| Mr. Muhsin | 1,987 | Yavuz Turgul | Drama | 8 | 86 | Turkish | Turkey | An ingenuous countryman Ali Nazik migrates to Istanbul and meets producer Mr. Muhsin to have his first album. |
| Wow! A Talking Fish! | 1,983 | Robert Sahakyants | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 8 | 40 | Russian | Soviet Union | A fisherman catches a talking fish and spares its life. After that, he meets a grotesque, evil monster in a state of constant change. |
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | 1,982 | Hal Prince | Music, Drama, Thriller, Horror, TV Movie | 8 | 40 | English | United States of America | In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession. |
| Nadodikkattu | 1,987 | Sathyan Anthikad | Comedy | 8 | 39 | Malayalam | India | After losing their jobs, Dasan and Vijayan have no hope of finding work in Kerala. They plan to escape to Dubai, but end up in Chennai. Can they find luck there? |
| The Wife of an Important Man | 1,988 | Mohamed Khan | Drama | 8 | 27 | Arabic | Egypt | When Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what he shows to the people. |
| The High schoolers | 1,986 | Nicolae Corjos | Comedy, Romance | 8 | 23 | Romanian | Romania | The love story of two students in the tenth grade. Mihai is a provincial who reached in a Bucharest high school where his passion for philosophy and mathematics will be eclipsed by love and Dana is a chess enthusiast. Their romance is full of naturalness, but will go through many trials. |
| Ratas De La Ciudad | 1,985 | Valentín Trujillo | Action, Drama | 8 | 23 | Spanish | Mexico | A father on the search for his missing child discovers a revealing and shocking drama. The true adventures of thousands of juvenile criminals who live in a big city. They live in ghettos, in a world ful of violence, corruption and hate. They form gangs who attack and rob innocent victims, leaving a trail of terror behind. |
| Baywatch: Panic at Malibu Pier | 1,989 | Richard Compton | TV Movie, Thriller, Drama | 8 | 21 | English | United States of America | Welcome to the bay... Mitch and his friends enter the sink or swim world that is BAYWATCH. |
| Miracle | 1,982 | Ishmael Bernal | Drama | 8 | 20 | Filipino | Philippines | When plain orphan Elsa begins having visions of the Virgin Mary, the rest of the residents of her isolated village find themselves questioning their own beliefs and values. Soon, Elsa is healing people with a variety of ailments. As word of this phenomenon spreads, tourists, pilgrims, patients and a documentary filmmaker all arrive on a quest to partake in the miracle. |
| Chiquidracula | 1,985 | Julio Aldama | Drama, Comedy, Family | 8 | 17 | Spanish | Mexico | An alcoholic grandfather is seriously ill. His doctor suggests that experiencing a bad scare could cure him. His grandson volunteers to help him. |
| Schindler | 1,983 | Jon Blair | Documentary, History, TV Movie | 8 | 13 | English | United Kingdom | The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews — more than a thousand people — whose lives he saved from extermination during World War II. |
| King for a Day | 1,983 | Nikolay Volev | Comedy | 8 | 12 | Bulgarian | Bulgaria | This film is a comedy about a poor man named Purko. Purko always fails in his attempt to escape from poverty. The film illustrates the social and the moral atmosphere in Bulgaria during the 1930's. |
| The Beginning | 1,986 | Salah Abu Seif | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 8 | 10 | Arabic | Egypt | After a crash, a group of passengers are stranded in the desert. They attempt to cope with their new conditions as the most privileged of them all, an overpaid lawyer, declares himself a dictator of the nearby oasis and names it after him. |
| Imagine | 1,987 | Zbigniew Rybczyński | Fantasy, Drama, Music | 8 | 10 | English | United States of America | A camera tracks through endless rooms while lives unfold. |
| G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra | 1,984 | Dan Thompson | Animation, Action, Adventure | 8 | 10 | English | United States of America | G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra is the second G.I. Joe miniseries based on the successful Hasbro Toys and Marvel Comics property. Using a laser core stolen from G.I.Joe, Cobra activates the Weather Dominator, an incredible weapon which controls the forces of Nature itself, Cobra Commander targets Washington for destruction, but the Joe team repels the attack and the Weather Dominator explodes into three parts setting off a chain reaction of natural disasters around the world. Can G.I.Joe recover the Weather Dominator in time to beat Cobra and save the world. It aired in 1984 and most of the 1984 and even some 1985 products are given plenty of screen time. Like the first miniseries, A Real American Hero, The Revenge of Cobra was written by Ron Friedman who created the series for television, and wrote all four miniseries. |
| Return of the Jedi | 1,983 | Richard Marquand | Adventure, Action, Science Fiction | 7.9 | 16,661 | English | United States of America | Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, the Emperor prepares to crush the Rebellion with a more powerful Death Star, and the Rebel fleet mounts a massive attack on the space station. Luke Skywalker confronts Darth Vader in a final climactic duel before the evil Emperor. |
| Blade Runner | 1,982 | Ridley Scott | Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller | 7.9 | 14,703 | English | United States of America | In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans. |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark | 1,981 | Steven Spielberg | Adventure, Action | 7.9 | 13,396 | English | United States of America | When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime. |
| Raging Bull | 1,980 | Martin Scorsese | Drama | 7.9 | 4,657 | English | United States of America | The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it. |
| Akira | 1,988 | Katsuhiro Otomo | Animation, Science Fiction, Action | 7.9 | 4,639 | Japanese | Japan | A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop. |
| Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | 1,984 | Hayao Miyazaki | Adventure, Animation, Fantasy | 7.9 | 3,976 | Japanese | Japan | After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth. |
| Pink Floyd: The Wall | 1,982 | Alan Parker | Music, Drama | 7.9 | 1,609 | English | United Kingdom | A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone. |
| Vincent | 1,982 | Tim Burton | Animation, Fantasy | 7.9 | 902 | English | United States of America | Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams that annoy his mother. |
| Koyaanisqatsi | 1,983 | Godfrey Reggio | Documentary, Music | 7.9 | 755 | English | United States of America | Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass. |
| Where Is The Friend's House? | 1,987 | Abbas Kiarostami | Drama, Adventure | 7.9 | 422 | Persian | Iran | An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school. |
| Pixote | 1,980 | Héctor Babenco | Crime, Drama | 7.9 | 231 | Portuguese | Brazil | 10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death. |
| Heart of a Dog | 1,988 | Vladimir Bortko | Drama, Comedy, Science Fiction | 7.9 | 181 | Russian | Soviet Union | "Heart of a Dog" is a Soviet film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s iconic novella. Set in 1920s Moscow, it tells the satirical and darkly humorous story of a stray dog named Sharik, who is transformed into a human by Professor Preobrazhensky through a daring medical experiment. The resulting man, Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, embodies the social and ideological tensions of early Soviet society. With its sharp critique of class struggle, human nature, and the perils of radical change, the film is celebrated for its faithful adaptation, brilliant performances, and rich allegorical depth. |
| Decalogue V | 1,989 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie, Crime | 7.9 | 157 | Polish | Germany | Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty, and their interactions take on an emotional honesty that throws into stark relief for Piotr the injustice of killing of any kind. |
| Decalogue X | 1,989 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie, Comedy | 7.9 | 138 | Polish | Germany | Jerzy and Artur’s father dies, leaving behind a valuable stamp collection, which, they discover, is coveted by dealers of varying degrees of shadiness. The more involved the brothers get in their father’s world, the more dire and comical their situation becomes. |
| Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel | 1,987 | Kevin Sullivan | Family, Drama, Romance | 7.9 | 124 | English | United Kingdom | Anne Shirley, now a schoolteacher, has begun writing stories and collecting rejection slips. She acts as Diana's maid of honor, develops a relationship with Gilbert Blythe, and finds herself at Kingsport Ladies' College. But while Anne enjoys the battles and the friends she makes, she finds herself returning to Avonlea. |
| Bruce Lee: The Legend | 1,984 | Raymond Chow | Documentary | 7.9 | 112 | English | Hong Kong | The Official Golden Harvest tribute to the Master of the Martial Arts Film, Bruce Lee. |
| Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite | 1,989 | Tunç Başaran | Drama | 7.9 | 70 | Turkish | Turkey | Sent to prison along with his mother after her drug conviction, a young boy develops a warm, tender relationship with a political prisoner. |
| The Honest One | 1,984 | Ertem Eğilmez | Comedy, Drama | 7.9 | 60 | Turkish | Turkey | When an incorruptible government pay clerk, who isn't taken seriously by anyone including his family, get robbed while carrying huge amount of work money, he becomes popular because people believe he faked the robbery and kept the money. |
| Hibiscus Town | 1,987 | Xie Jin | Drama, History, Romance | 7.9 | 57 | Chinese | China | Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, a melodrama about the life and travails of a young woman who lives through the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution. |
| Perro callejero | 1,980 | Gilberto Gazcón | Crime, Drama | 7.9 | 55 | Spanish | Mexico | An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him. |
| Live Aid | 1,985 | Kenneth Shapiro | Music, Documentary | 7.9 | 51 | English | United Kingdom | Live Aid was held on 13 July 1985, simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, and the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, United States. It was one of the largest scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: watched live by an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion, across 150 nations. "It's twelve noon in London, seven AM in Philadelphia, and around the world it's time for Live Aid...!" |
| Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars | 1,988 | Noboru Ishiguro | Animation, Science Fiction, War | 7.9 | 49 | Japanese | Japan | For the past 150 years, humanity’s two greatest nations have been deadlocked in a meaningless war. In what is hoped to be a miraculous victory, the Alliance embarks on a battle to break through the Empire’s frontline. Like many other “decisive” battles, this can only end in disaster; a sentiment shared by Imperial nobleman Reinhard von Lohengramm and Alliance Commodore Yang Wen Li, both of whom realize how to turn the fight in their favor. And while the tides of war may never change, these two men must rise to the occasion, solidifying their place in history as heroes. |
| Chithram | 1,988 | Priyadarshan | Comedy, Drama | 7.9 | 36 | Malayalam | India | A young woman is dumped by her boyfriend just before the wedding as she will not be inheriting any wealth from her father. When the girl's father pays her a visit, she hires a man to act like her husband. |
| Depeche Mode 101 | 1,989 | D. A. Pennebaker | Documentary, Music | 7.9 | 36 | English | United Kingdom | A fascinating documentary focusing on backstage realities of art and business during the British synthesizer band's 1988 American tour. |
| Un hombre llamado el diablo | 1,983 | Rafael Villaseñor Kuri | Drama, Romance, Western | 7.9 | 31 | Spanish | Unknown | Rapine and blood-feuds in rural Mexico. |
| ¡Mamá, soy Paquito! | 1,984 | Sergio Véjar | Drama | 7.9 | 27 | Spanish | Mexico | Paquito lives with his mother in poverty. When she dies, he looks for his father's love, who is a very wealthy man. |
| ¡El que no corre... vuela! | 1,982 | Gilberto Martínez Solares | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 7.9 | 18 | Spanish | Mexico | After mistakenly going to jail, Maria makes friends with a woman whose kids live in the streets and Maria gets the idea to help them. |
| Ek Ruka Hua Faisla | 1,986 | Basu Chatterjee | Drama | 7.9 | 17 | Hindi | India | Twelve male members of a jury gather together in an enclosed room to deliberate their decision on a charge of murder against a young man who has been accused of killing his elderly father. All of the jury, save for one, are convinced of this young man's guilt, and they would like to convince their colleague also to come to the same unanimous decision. But will they be able to convince him to change his verdict? Its a hindi remake of the movie 12 angry men. |
| Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping | 1,983 | Ladislav Smoljak | Comedy | 7.9 | 17 | Czech | Czechoslovakia | Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman, criminalist, poet, writer and philosopher). |
| Tex Avery: King of Cartoons | 1,988 | John Needham | Documentary | 7.9 | 16 | English | Unknown | A documentary about the life and career of legendary cartoon director Fred "Tex" Avery. |
| Yesterday | 1,988 | Ivan Andonov | Drama | 7.9 | 15 | Bulgarian | Bulgaria | The 1960s was the time of Beatles and Rolling Stones, the time of sexual revolution. These events have their echo in Bulgarian English-learning school. The school order provokes a protest of the students due to the narrow-minded teachers. |
| Autumn Milk | 1,989 | Joseph Vilsmaier | Drama | 7.9 | 11 | German | Germany | With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look after the nine-member family. Deprivation-rich years, which also find no end when Anna marries: Her husband Albert must be a soldier in the Second World War, and the pregnant Anna has to work hard in the farm and care sick relatives. Lonely and exposed to the harassment of the tyrannical mother-in-law, she waits for Albert, with no certainty that he will ever return. |
| Back to the Future Part II | 1,989 | Robert Zemeckis | Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction | 7.8 | 13,681 | English | United States of America | Marty and Doc are at it again as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch attempt to set things straight, Marty finds himself bound for 1955 and face to face with his teenage parents -- again. |
| Die Hard | 1,988 | John McTiernan | Action, Thriller | 7.8 | 12,039 | English | United States of America | NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office's Christmas Party, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down. |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 1,989 | Steven Spielberg | Adventure, Action | 7.8 | 10,869 | English | United States of America | In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world! |
| Stand by Me | 1,986 | Rob Reiner | Crime, Drama | 7.8 | 6,348 | English | United States of America | After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys decide to go see the body. Gordie, Vern, Chris, and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, but they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives. |
| The Untouchables | 1,987 | Brian De Palma | Crime, History, Thriller | 7.8 | 6,059 | English | United States of America | Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”. |
| Kiki's Delivery Service | 1,989 | Hayao Miyazaki | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Drama | 7.8 | 4,459 | Japanese | Japan | A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service. |
| The King of Comedy | 1,982 | Martin Scorsese | Drama, Comedy | 7.8 | 2,524 | English | United States of America | Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy. |
| Do the Right Thing | 1,989 | Spike Lee | Drama | 7.8 | 1,938 | English | United States of America | Sal is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise. |
| Wings of Desire | 1,987 | Wim Wenders | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.8 | 1,460 | German | Germany | Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds — with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk — that it might be possible for him to take human form. |
| Fanny and Alexander | 1,982 | Ingmar Bergman | Fantasy, Drama, Mystery | 7.8 | 855 | Swedish | Sweden | As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander. |
| Kagemusha | 1,980 | Akira Kurosawa | Action, Drama, History, War | 7.8 | 715 | Japanese | Japan | Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord. |
| Nostalgia | 1,983 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Drama, Romance | 7.8 | 592 | Russian | Italy | Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov journeys through Italy with his interpreter Eugenia to research the life of an 18th-century Russian composer who once lived abroad. Isolated and consumed by an unrelenting longing for his homeland, Andrei becomes drawn to Domenico, a radical mystic obsessed with spiritual redemption. Through austere imagery and extended temporal rhythms, Tarkovsky examines exile, memory, and the profound melancholy of being unable to belong fully to either place or language. |
| The Marquis of Grillo | 1,981 | Mario Monicelli | Comedy | 7.8 | 493 | Italian | France | In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself. |
| Tampopo | 1,985 | Jūzō Itami | Comedy | 7.8 | 412 | Japanese | Japan | In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life. |
| A Short Film About Love | 1,988 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, Romance | 7.8 | 407 | Polish | Poland | 19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, an... |
| The King and the Mockingbird | 1,980 | Paul Grimault | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 7.8 | 406 | French | France | A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy. |
| Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | 1,985 | Paul Schrader | Drama | 7.8 | 337 | Japanese | Japan | A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970. |
| The Plague Dogs | 1,982 | Martin Rosen | Adventure, Animation, Drama | 7.8 | 283 | English | United Kingdom | Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search parties and then the military after rumors spread that they could be carrying the bubonic plague. |
| Hachiko | 1,987 | Seijiro Koyama | Drama, Family | 7.8 | 180 | Japanese | Japan | The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death. |
| Decalogue IV | 1,989 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie | 7.8 | 154 | Polish | Germany | A father and daughter, Michał and Anka, have a unique intimacy, which the college-aged Anka is beginning to feel conflicted about. When she finds an unopened letter from her deceased mother, it seems to justify her attraction to Michał, who may not in fact be her father. |
| For All Mankind | 1,989 | Al Reinert | Documentary, History | 7.8 | 154 | English | United States of America | A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the missions and astronaut interviews, the documentary offers the viewpoint of the individuals who braved the remarkable journey to the moon and back. |
| The Holy Innocents | 1,984 | Mario Camus | Drama | 7.8 | 123 | Spanish | Spain | In 60s Extremadura, Paco el Bajo and his relatives work during day in a farmhouse, and silently suffer submission to their masters, who exploit them and treat them almost like animals. Meanwhile, Paco dreams that one day his children will be able to study. |
| Teddy Bear | 1,981 | Stanisław Bareja | Comedy | 7.8 | 94 | Polish | Poland | En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the city with the sports team he manages. |
| Nayakan | 1,987 | Mani Ratnam | Drama, Crime | 7.8 | 88 | Tamil | India | Velu Naicker, who witnesses the brutal murder of his father, kills a corrupt policeman and escapes to Mumbai, only to become a gangster. |
| Talking Heads | 1,980 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Documentary | 7.8 | 84 | Polish | Poland | People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life. |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Hunting the Tiger | 1,980 | Igor Maslennikov | Mystery, TV Movie, Crime, Adventure | 7.8 | 57 | Russian | Soviet Union | Dr. Watson executes Sherlock Holmes' will, who faced death after exposing Moriarty and his gang in the previous episode. |
| El Sinvergüenza | 1,983 | Rafael Villaseñor Kuri | Comedy | 7.8 | 48 | English | Unknown | Married man hires a surrogate to pose as the father of the four children he has had with his mistress. |
| His Motorbike, Her Island | 1,986 | Nobuhiko Obayashi | Romance, Drama | 7.8 | 36 | Japanese | Japan | Ko, a motorbike enthusiast from the city wandering the Japanese countryside, falls for the carefree local Miyo and teaches her how to ride. When Miyo proves herself a biker prodigy, Ko begins to fear she's destined to crash. |
| In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro | 1,986 | Raju Patel | Horror | 7.8 | 34 | English | United Kingdom | There's a big drought in Africa. Food and water are scarce. 90,000 wild baboons suddenly start attacking humans and eating them in order to survive. Some people find themselves being hunted by the starving monkeys and must do whatever they can to stay alive. |
| Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper | 1,984 | Thomas Carter | Drama, Crime, TV Movie | 7.8 | 30 | English | United States of America | Miami detective Sonny Crockett reluctantly teams with New York City cop Rico Tubbs when both of them end up pursuing a drug dealer who killed their respective partners. |
| The Three Inventors | 1,980 | Michel Ocelot | Animation | 7.8 | 28 | French | France | In a white lace universe, three inventors create machines which are both pretty and useful. Unfortunately people do not understand them... |
| El ratero de la vecindad 2 | 1,985 | Gilberto Martínez Solares | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.8 | 25 | Spanish | Mexico | Roberto y su nueva familia estan pasando por dificultades economicas por lo que decide formar otra vez su vieja banda y comienzan a tratar de organizar algunos robos que resultan mal. La esposa de Roberto y su abuelita recurren al engaño disfrazandose de monjitas para poder vender galletas y rompope, sin embargo la abuelita hace de las suyas y se meten en problemas. |
| Treasure Island: Part I – Captain Flint's Map | 1,987 | Davyd Cherkaskyi | Animation, Adventure, TV Movie, Family, Music | 7.8 | 23 | Russian | Soviet Union | A Soviet Ukrainian made violent farcical yet quite faithful adaptation of the famous Robert Louis Stevenson's book that combines animated sequences with live action parts. This movie covers the first half of the book. |
| Mouna Raagam | 1,986 | Mani Ratnam | Romance, Drama | 7.8 | 23 | Tamil | India | Divya, a college student, is forced to marry Chandrakumar due to family pressure. However, she asks for a divorce as a wedding gift, revealing her past. |
| A Hazard of Hearts | 1,987 | John Hough | Drama, Romance, TV Movie | 7.8 | 23 | English | United Kingdom | When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Wrotham. Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Vulcan, who has witnessed the events, takes pity on Serena Staverley, although they have never met. He challenges Lord Wrotham to a game of dice in which the winner takes both Staverley Court and Miss Serena. |
| Ni de aquí, ni de allá | 1,988 | María Elena Velasco | Comedy | 7.8 | 19 | Spanish | Mexico | This Mexican comedy stars La India Maria, who drives the FBI crazy because they cannot figure out whether she belongs here or there. |
| Tomorrow's Joe 2: The Movie | 1,981 | Osamu Dezaki | Action, Animation, Drama | 7.8 | 19 | Japanese | Japan | It has been six months since the tragic accident in Joe and Rikiishi's fight. Joe believes he has overcome Rikiishi's death and decides to make a comeback. Joe does make a successful comeback by scoring 5 KO's by body blows. Joe is then given a shot at the national title as a means by the boxing commission to put him down. The champion, Tiger Ozaki makes use of Joe's habits and ends up making Joe's corner throw in the towel. Joe is afraid to throw punches at the face because of what happened to Rikiishi. Youko, Joe's love interest and the owner of the gym where Rikiishi trained at recruits a world ranked boxer from Venezuela, Carlos Rivera, to get Joe back on his feet and pursue his boxing career to the regional and world ranks. |
| Hacen muchas gracias de nada | 1,980 | Les Luthiers | Comedy, Music | 7.8 | 18 | Spanish | Unknown | 'Muchas Gracias de Nada', is a show premiered on June 15, 1979 at the Coliseo Theater in the City of Buenos Aires by the Argentinean ensemble of informal instruments, Les Luthiers. Recorded live between October 24th and 25th, 1980 at the same theater. PROGRAM: 1. La Campana Suonerá; 2. El Rey Enamorado; 3. Sinfonía Interrumpida; 4. La Tanda; 5. Canción para Moverse; 6. La Gallina Dijo Eureka; 7. Trío Op. 115; 8. Cartas de Color; 9. Tango Op. 11. In this show 'Antenor' made its first appearance, an advanced robot (for the time it was built - 1979) that weighed 80 kilos and was equipped with several motors that allowed it to move around the stage, turn its head, etc. The robot caught fire during the last performance of this play (Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico - 1980) in the middle of the stage and before the astonished gaze of all those who were there. |
| Mirch Masala | 1,987 | Ketan Mehta | Drama, Thriller | 7.8 | 17 | Hindi | India | Early-1940s, rural British India. When a woman decides to fight against the village's despotic subedar and is supported by the guard of the local spice factory, more women join to defy the prevailing oppression. |
| Vellanakalude Naadu | 1,988 | Priyadarshan | Drama, Comedy | 7.8 | 16 | Malayalam | India | Vellanakalude Nadu movie which is a political satire based against municipal mafia in the form of Buildings |
| Small Sacrifices | 1,989 | David Greene | Drama, TV Movie | 7.8 | 15 | English | United States of America | A peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospital's emergency room. |
| The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special | 1,988 | Ray Patterson | Animation | 7.8 | 13 | English | United States of America | A special that shows the young Flintstones trying to raise money so they can go to a concert. The story takes a turn when older kids try to push drugs on them. |
| Ponmuttayidunna Tharavu | 1,988 | Sathyan Anthikad | Drama, Comedy | 7.8 | 13 | Malayalam | India | Bhaskaran, a goldsmith, is madly in love with Snehalatha, the daughter of astrologer, Panicker. When Bhaskaran asks for Sneha's hand in marriage, to his shock, she denies their love affair. |
| Nosotros los pelados | 1,984 | Pedro Galindo III | Comedy | 7.8 | 13 | Spanish | Mexico | Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood. |
| As Not to Fly the Smoke | 1,984 | Ahmed Yehia | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.8 | 13 | Arabic | Egypt | Fahmi Abdul Hadi .. A distinguished student of law school .. His dreams are simple and his actions are ideal and pure .. Fahmi collides with the bitter reality of life when losing his mother because he cannot afford the price of her treatment. At a time, He watches his colleagues around him spend money like water and making fun of his poverty and even refuse to help him to treat his mother. Fahmi decides to abandon the idealism and take revenge of all who failed him. |
| Aparan | 1,988 | P. Padmarajan | Mystery, Thriller | 7.8 | 10 | Malayalam | India | Viswanathan comes to the city for a job interview, only to find himself entangled in a crisis due to his resemblance with a gangster. Frustrated, he decides to find and face his doppelgänger with the help of a police inspector friend, but finding the imposter proves difficult, and the further they dig, the more mysterious and shocking their findings. |
| Gone with No Return | 1,984 | Mohamed Khan | Drama, Comedy | 7.8 | 10 | Arabic | Egypt | Attia (Yehia al-Fakharani) works as a simple employee, after his mother-in-law threatens to break his engagement from her daughter because of his delay in getting an apartment. He travels to his hometown to sell his inheritance. There he falls in love with Kharyia (Leila Alawi) daughter of Kamal Bey (Farid Shawki) who bought his land. |
| Death of Yazdgerd | 1,982 | Bahram Beyzai | History, Drama | 7.8 | 10 | Persian | Iran | Bahram Beyzai's poetic imagining of the circumstances that led to the death of Yazdgerd III, the last of the Sassanid kings of Iran. His death in 651, during the Arab invasions that brought Islam to this Zoroastrian realm, was mysterious: his corpse was discovered in a mill, but the cause of his death—and the whereabouts of his remains—are unknown. |
| Avengers from Hell | 1,981 | Lee Pooi-Kuen | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | 7.8 | 10 | Chinese | Hong Kong | Three macabre short stories about gambling, vengeance and homicide. |
| The Terminator | 1,984 | James Cameron | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction | 7.7 | 14,301 | English | United Kingdom | In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine? |
| The Breakfast Club | 1,985 | John Hughes | Comedy, Drama | 7.7 | 8,410 | English | United States of America | Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same. |
| Rain Man | 1,988 | Barry Levinson | Drama | 7.7 | 6,906 | English | United States of America | When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives. |
| The Princess Bride | 1,987 | Rob Reiner | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Comedy, Romance | 7.7 | 4,973 | English | United States of America | In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing. |
| Platoon | 1,986 | Oliver Stone | Drama, War, Action | 7.7 | 4,968 | English | United Kingdom | As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. |
| The Blues Brothers | 1,980 | John Landis | Music, Comedy, Action, Crime | 7.7 | 4,490 | English | United States of America | Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised. |
| Brazil | 1,985 | Terry Gilliam | Comedy, Science Fiction | 7.7 | 3,608 | English | United Kingdom | Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies. |
| The Color Purple | 1,985 | Steven Spielberg | Drama, History | 7.7 | 1,925 | English | United States of America | An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa. |
| Mississippi Burning | 1,988 | Alan Parker | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 | 1,877 | English | United States of America | Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff. |
| Nothing Left to Do But Cry | 1,984 | Roberto Benigni | Comedy, Fantasy | 7.7 | 1,179 | Italian | Italy | Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history. |
| Mickey's Christmas Carol | 1,983 | Burny Mattinson | Family, Animation | 7.7 | 972 | English | United States of America | Ebenezer Scrooge is far too greedy to understand that Christmas is a time for kindness and generosity. But with the guidance of some new found friends, Scrooge learns to embrace the spirit of the season. A retelling of the classic Dickens tale with Disney's classic characters. |
| Jean de Florette | 1,986 | Claude Berri | Drama | 7.7 | 601 | French | France | In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water. |
| The Sacrifice | 1,986 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Drama | 7.7 | 598 | Swedish | Sweden | Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun. |
| Angel's Egg | 1,985 | Mamoru Oshii | Animation, Fantasy, Mystery | 7.7 | 551 | Japanese | Japan | In the ruins of a strange city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms. She bonds with a boy who is searching for a bird he saw in a dream. |
| Kin-dza-dza! | 1,986 | Georgiy Daneliya | Comedy, Science Fiction, Adventure | 7.7 | 278 | Russian | Soviet Union | Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth. |
| Saint Seiya: Legend of Crimson Youth | 1,988 | Shigeyasu Yamauchi | Action, Animation, Fantasy | 7.7 | 224 | Japanese | Japan | Athena receives the visit of Phoebus Abel, her older brother and God of the Corona. He informs her that he has come to destroy humanity as punishment for their corruption, just as it was done in ancient times. He dismisses Seiya and the Bronze Saints, as she will now be guarded by Abel's three Corona Saints, Atlas of Carina, Jaow of Lynx and Berenike of Coma Berenices, and the five resurrected Gold Saints who died in the Sanctuary battle: Saga of Gemini, Deathmask of Cancer, Shura of Capricorn, Camus of Aquarius and Aphrodite of Pisces. When Athena rebels against Abel's plan, he attacks her, sending her soul to Elysion, the final resting place from which there is no return. The Bronze Saints immediately rush to the Sanctuary to save her and ultimately overcome Abel. |
| On the Silver Globe | 1,989 | Andrzej Żuławski | Science Fiction, Drama | 7.7 | 163 | Polish | Poland | A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god. |
| El Sur | 1,983 | Víctor Erice | Drama | 7.7 | 147 | Spanish | Spain | A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father. |
| Davaro | 1,981 | Kartal Tibet | Comedy | 7.7 | 73 | Turkish | Turkey | Memo returns from Germany to get married with his love but his fathers killer Sulo is being released from jail. As a village rule he has to get revenge for his fahter or he can not get married but he doesn't want to kill so they stage a fake death with Sulo and after that his luck runs out. |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Mortal Fight | 1,980 | Igor Maslennikov | Mystery, TV Movie, Crime, Adventure | 7.7 | 62 | Russian | Soviet Union | After upsetting the criminal underground in 'the Master Blackmailer' case, Sherlock Holmes has to face his archenemy: Prof. Moriarty. |
| Balkan Spy | 1,984 | Dušan Kovačević | Drama, Comedy | 7.7 | 60 | SH | Yugoslavia | Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to an absurd and destructive chain of events. |
| Ninja in the Dragon's Den | 1,982 | Corey Yuen | Action, Comedy | 7.7 | 51 | CN | Japan | A Japanese master of ninjutsu and a Chinese expert in kung fu, put their differences aside after their master is killed by a mortal enemy. |
| Kireedam | 1,989 | Sibi Malayil | Drama, Action | 7.7 | 42 | Malayalam | India | Sethu aspires to become a police officer to fulfil his father's dream. However, his life turns upside down when he intervenes in a scuffle with a criminal to save his father's life. |
| Metallica: Cliff 'Em All | 1,987 | Doug Freel | Documentary, Music | 7.7 | 42 | English | United States of America | Originally released as "The $19.98 Home Vid: Cliff 'Em All," Metallica's first video is a tribute to late original bassist Cliff Burton. James Hetfield describes it as "a compilation of bootleg footage shot by sneaky Metallifux, stuff shot for TV that was never used, but we've held onto, home footage, personal fotos and us drunk. But most important, it's really a look back at the 3-1/2 years that Cliff was with us and includes his best bass solos and the home footage and pix that we feel best capture his unique personality and style." 1987. |
| The Three Veterans | 1,984 | Oldřich Lipský | Family, Fantasy, Comedy | 7.7 | 39 | Czech | Czechoslovakia | It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish brothers. Each of the veterans is given a magic item - one gets magic harp that provides him with servants by wish, other one endless pouch of gold and the last one owns magic hat that can create all the staff excluding money and people. |
| Captain Tsubasa Movie 02: Danger! All Japan Junior Team | 1,985 | Hiroyoshi Mitsunobu | Animation | 7.7 | 38 | Japanese | Japan | The return match between the All-Europe and All-Japan Junior teams comes home to Japan, but what sort of problems will occur with the game on Tsubasa's home turf? |
| Alice in Wonderland | 1,981 | Yefrem Pruzhanskyi | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 7.7 | 36 | Russian | Soviet Union | Alice follows the white rabbit, falls down a deep hole and discovers a strange Wonderland at the bottom. |
| Buddha's Palm | 1,982 | Taylor Wong | Action, Fantasy | 7.7 | 32 | CN | Hong Kong | An old blind martial master living in a cave teaches a young swordsman the secret of the Buddha's Palm, a legendary martial arts technique, which propels him into a whole new world of evil knights, hidden temples, dragon dogs, and magical objects. |
| The Stationmaster Meets His Match | 1,980 | Sándor Mihályfy | Comedy | 7.7 | 31 | Hungarian | Hungary | The story of Bendegúz, the teenage boy who never succeeds in anything and about whom everybody's first though is "I wish you had been hanged when you were born!" drops out of school and becomes a cowboy. He works for the Stationmaster whose cows he has to graze by the railway. Despite his goodwill and kindheartedness he always manages to spoil everything he touches. No matter his wit, he gets into humiliating situations and regularly fights with the Ugly Witch (the Stationmaster's mother-in-law). However his good spirit and cheerfulness never leave him. |
| My Memories of Old Beijing | 1,983 | Wu Yigong | Drama | 7.7 | 29 | Chinese | China | It is the late 1920s when six-year-old Yingzi and her family move to Beijing. As Yingzi explores the busy streets and alleys, she befriends a widow who, driven mad by grief, stands vigil at the entrance of her hutong, waiting for her missing daughter to return. |
| The Butcher | 1,981 | Franz Antel | Drama, History | 7.7 | 25 | German | Austria | A politically naive Viennese butcher manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the second world war. |
| The Blue Planet | 1,982 | Franco Piavoli | Documentary | 7.7 | 21 | Italian | Italy | A look at the passage of time through the changing seasons, human evolution and everyday life. |
| Ico, the Brave Horse | 1,987 | Manuel García Ferré | Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance | 7.7 | 19 | Spanish | Argentina | A young horse wishes to be one of the king's horses, and while trying to achieve it, finds out that one of the king's horses mysteriously disappear every night. |
| Doctor Who: The Five Doctors | 1,983 | Peter Moffatt | Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, TV Movie | 7.7 | 19 | English | United Kingdom | Many incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There, they must battle the Master, Daleks, Cybermen and Yeti in order to reach the Dark Tower and discover the Tomb of Rassilon. |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra - Part 1 | 1,983 | Igor Maslennikov | Mystery, TV Movie, Crime, Adventure | 7.7 | 18 | Russian | Soviet Union | A girl named Mary Morsten comes to Sherlock Holmes, who asks him and the doctor to help solve the annual receipt of one pearl by her parcel and in the search for her father, who disappeared many years ago. Holmes and Watson do not refuse her help and find out that Miss Mary is the heiress of a huge fortune — the treasures of Agra, which are also claimed by the sons of Major Sholto and Jonathan Small — an escaped convict with a wooden prosthesis instead of a leg, whom the elder Morsten and Sholto deceived (while Sholto also deceived Morsten). |
| Roberto Benigni: TuttoBenigni | 1,983 | Giuseppe Bertolucci | Comedy, Documentary | 7.7 | 16 | Italian | Italy | The film presents many clips taken from the television and theatrical shows of the Tuscan comedian who makes fun of the habits of the Italians and of the governing politics of the eighties. |
| Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin, Both Usual and Unbelieveable | 1,983 | Vladimir Alenikov | Comedy, Family | 7.7 | 16 | Russian | Soviet Union | Best friends and mischievous third-graders Vasya Petrov and Petya Vasechkin, despite their differences, share a love for adventures. Romantic Vasya falls for his serious, excellent classmate Masha and writes her an anonymous love note. However, the quick-witted Masha identifies Vasya due to his errors and rejects him harshly. Upset, Vasya confides in Petya, who then devises a cunning plan to win Masha over. |
| Time of Violence | 1,988 | Ludmil Staikov | Drama, History | 7.7 | 14 | Bulgarian | Bulgaria | In the 17th century, a Bulgarian Christian region is selected by the Ottoman rulers to serve as an example of conversion to Islam. A Janissary who was kidnapped from the village as a boy is sent to force the reluctant inhabitants to convert. The Turkish governor seeks a peaceful solution, but ultimately torture, violence, and rebellion break out. |
| Adventures of Vasia Kurolesov | 1,981 | Vladimir Popov | Mystery, Animation, Family, Comedy | 7.7 | 14 | Russian | Soviet Union | A comic mystery about Vasia Kurolesov who is trying to become a detective. |
| Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket | 1,989 | Fumihiko Takayama | Action, Animation, Drama, Science Fiction, War | 7.7 | 13 | Japanese | Japan | In the final days of the One Year War, a Zeon special forces group infiltrates a colony to gather information on a new Gundam unit. Alfred Izuruha, a 10-year-old student, befriends Zeon rookie pilot Bernie Wiseman during a brief mobile suit combat. Meanwhile, Al meets up with Christina MacKenzie, his former neighbor and babysitter. Little does he know that not only is Christina a member of the Earth Federation, she's the test pilot of the new Gundam NT-4 prototype. |
| Thalavattam | 1,986 | Priyadarshan | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.7 | 13 | Malayalam | India | Vinod/Vinu (played by Mohanlal) is mentally ill and is hospitalized in the institution run by Dr. Ravindran ( M G Soman). Story progresses as Vinod recovers with the help of Dr. Savithri, Dr. Ravindran's daughter (Karthika) and Dr. Unnikrishnan (Nedumudi Venu) who finds that Vinu fell ill after the accidental death of his fiancée Anitha (Lizy). Later Vinu and Savithri fall in love but Savithri is already engaged to be married to her cousin, Hari(Mukesh). Plot progresses as Dr. Ravindran opposes the romance between the doctor and the recovered patient. |
| Test at educational class | 1,987 | Nicolae Corjos | Romance | 7.7 | 12 | Romanian | Romania | The school year is inaugurated by teacher Socrates with an extemporary exam on the theme "How would I like to be the class headmaster?". Socrates' popularity worries the math teacher, Isoscel. But Socrates also has his worries about Anca, his daughter in love. |
| The Tale of Fedot, the Shooter | 1,988 | Zinaida Alieva | Comedy | 7.7 | 11 | Russian | Soviet Union | Wanting to destroy the Archer and marry his wife, the King comes up with tests for the hero. |
| Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit | 1,987 | Richard Lang | Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, TV Movie | 7.7 | 10 | English | United States of America | Jordan White, a publisher friend of Perry, is called to a hotel where a guest, famous horror writer David Hall, has cleared out the hotel for a weekend and has called his "friends" - an actress, a fortune-teller, David's private assistant and the two remaining staff at the hotel to discuss business. They have come to the hotel as all of them are going to sue David over his new book - "The Resort" which characters are obviously based on Jordan and the guests. A practical joker, David plays tricks on them until he is thrown from the high tower of the hotel where Susan Warrenfield, the manager and owner of the hotel sees the fall and then Jordan at the tower causing the police to arrest Jordan. While Perry and Della try to solve the main mystery, Paul tries to find out who is trying to scare Susan away from the hotel. Could it really be a ghost or a more earthy visitor? |
| A Woman Called Golda | 1,982 | Alan Gibson | TV Movie, Drama, History | 7.7 | 10 | English | United States of America | The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s. |
| Voltati Eugenio | 1,980 | Luigi Comencini | Drama | 7.7 | 10 | Italian | France | The film begins when Eugenio, a 14 year old child, is conduced from his grandparents home outside Rome, to Giancarlo (his father) in the city, by Giancarlo's friend (called "Moustache"). As Eugenio is bothering Moustache, he threatens Eugenio with leaving him in the middle of the country. He finally does it. When Giancarlo finds out, they return for Eugenio, but he is now lost. Meanwhile we're told the story of the child and his relation with the family, and why he feels unwanted. |
| The Secret of Bacchus | 1,984 | Geo Saizescu | Action, Comedy | 7.7 | 10 | Romanian | Romania | Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud committed by the person in charge of the wine section, called Bachus. Although aided by an impressive number of cronies, Bachus will not be able to hide forever infamous secret. |
| Ferris Bueller's Day Off | 1,986 | John Hughes | Comedy | 7.6 | 5,278 | English | United States of America | After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister. |
| Blue Velvet | 1,986 | David Lynch | Mystery, Thriller, Crime | 7.6 | 3,726 | English | United States of America | The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child. |
| Gandhi | 1,982 | Richard Attenborough | Drama, History | 7.6 | 2,462 | English | India | In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed. |
| The Last Emperor | 1,987 | Bernardo Bertolucci | Drama, History | 7.6 | 1,867 | English | China | A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic. |
| The Killer | 1,989 | John Woo | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 | 866 | CN | Hong Kong | Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. But when Jeffrey is double-crossed, he reluctantly joins forces with a rogue policeman to make things right. |
| Fitzcarraldo | 1,982 | Werner Herzog | Drama, Adventure | 7.6 | 855 | German | Germany | Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest. |
| I'm Starting from Three | 1,981 | Massimo Troisi | Comedy | 7.6 | 695 | Italian | Italy | Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people. |
| Maurice | 1,987 | James Ivory | Drama, Romance | 7.6 | 590 | English | United Kingdom | After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society. |
| Manon of the Spring | 1,986 | Claude Berri | Drama | 7.6 | 554 | French | France | In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier. |
| Stand and Deliver | 1,988 | Ramón Menéndez | Drama | 7.6 | 428 | English | United States of America | Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students. |
| Time of the Gypsies | 1,988 | Emir Kusturica | Drama, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy | 7.6 | 426 | SH | Italy | In this luminous tale set in the former Yugoslavia, Perhan, an engaging young Romany with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime that threatens to destroy him and those he loves. |
| The Thin Blue Line | 1,988 | Errol Morris | Crime, Documentary | 7.6 | 404 | English | United States of America | This unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas. |
| A Short Film About Killing | 1,988 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Crime, Drama | 7.6 | 388 | Polish | Poland | Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive. |
| Threads | 1,985 | Mick Jackson | War, Drama, Science Fiction | 7.6 | 385 | English | Australia | Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization. |
| My Friends Act II | 1,982 | Mario Monicelli | Comedy | 7.6 | 360 | Italian | Italy | The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery. |
| Eddie Murphy: Delirious | 1,983 | Bruce Gowers | Comedy | 7.6 | 342 | English | United States of America | Taped live and in concert at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. in August, 1983, Eddie Murphy: Delirious captures Eddie Murphy's wild and outrageous stand-up comedy act, which he performed in New York and eighteen other cities across the U.S. to standing-room-only audiences. Eddie's comedy was groundbreaking, completely new, razor sharp and definitely funny.Eddie Murphy pontificates in his own vulgarly hilarious fashion on everything from bizarre sexual fantasies to reliving the family barbecue, and is peppered with Eddie's one-of-a-kind wit. Laugh along as Eddie reminiscences of hot childhood days and the ice cream man intermixed with classic vocal parodies of top American entertainers.Experience Eddie Murphy at his best, live and red hot! Delirious! Uncensored and Uncut! |
| Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears | 1,980 | Vladimir Menshov | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 7.6 | 269 | Russian | Soviet Union | This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions... |
| Sorry for the Delay | 1,983 | Massimo Troisi | Comedy | 7.6 | 233 | Italian | Italy | Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to improve. He meets Anna and fell in love with her but to keep the relationship alive he has to learn to accept more responsibility. |
| Barefoot Gen | 1,983 | Mori Masaki | Animation, Drama, War, History | 7.6 | 233 | Japanese | Japan | A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people. |
| Landscape in the Mist | 1,988 | Theo Angelopoulos | Drama | 7.6 | 216 | Greek | France | Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany. |
| Saint Seiya: The Heated Battle of the Gods | 1,988 | Shigeyasu Yamauchi | Action, Animation, Fantasy | 7.6 | 199 | Japanese | Japan | In Siberia, Hyōga saves a man that is being attacked. Injured, the man manages only to say something about Asgard. Some days later, Saori, Seiya, Shiryū and Shun are wondering about Hyōga and decide to go to Asgard to investigate. At Valhalla, the Lord of Asgard, Dolbar, says he has not heard of any Hyōga and neither has his right hand, Loki. However, at all times Seiya and the others can feel an evil cosmo emanating from Loki and the other Odin Saints called God Warriors. Shiryū, in particular, notices a familiar cosmo coming from Midgard, a mysterious, masked God Warrior. Dolbar makes it clear that he is trying to take control of both Asgard and the Sanctuary, imprisoning Athena in a strange dimension within the giant statue of Odin. Midgard reveals himself as Hyōga and tries to kill Shiryū to prove himself to Dolbar. Thus, it is the task of the Bronze Saints to defeat Dolbar, Loki and the rest of the God Warriors, to save Athena and Hyōga. |
| Dimensions of Dialogue | 1,983 | Jan Švankmajer | Animation, Comedy | 7.6 | 164 | Czech | Czechoslovakia | Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society. |
| Who's Singin' Over There? | 1,980 | Slobodan Šijan | Drama, Comedy, Adventure | 7.6 | 158 | Serbian | Yugoslavia | On Saturday, 5 April 1941, one day before the Invasion of Yugoslavia of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colourful group of random passengers on a country road deep in the heart of Serbia board a dilapidated bus, headed for the capital Belgrade. The group includes two gypsy musicians, a World War I veteran, a Germanophile, a budding singer, a sickly looking man, and a hunter with a shotgun. The bus is owned by Krstic senior, and driven by his impressionable and dim-witted son Misko. |
| Damnation | 1,988 | Béla Tarr | Drama, Crime | 7.6 | 142 | Hungarian | Hungary | Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would... |
| Tres lancheros muy picudos | 1,989 | Adolfo Martínez Solares | Comedy | 7.6 | 138 | Spanish | Mexico | Son las emocionantes aventuras de tres lancheros holgazanes en Acapulco. Cada uno de ellos se ve involucrado en diferentes problemas y tienen que salir huyendo a la ciudad de México. Ahí se esconden en la casa de unas amigas para evadir a los gangsters que los buscan solo que las muchachas resultan ser prostitutas y todo se complica. The exciting adventures of three men who drive boats in Acapulco. Each gets involved in different problems and all have to run away to Mexico City to elude the gangsters who are after them. They hide in the house of some lady friends who turn out to be "working girls" and things get really wild. |
| Love and Pigeons | 1,984 | Vladimir Menshov | Comedy, Romance | 7.6 | 136 | Russian | Soviet Union | One of the most favorite Soviet comedies, a screen version of the play of the same name by Vladimir Gurkin. Each of us knows the story of Vasily, who went to the resort, succumbed to the charms of a femme fatale Raisa Zakharovna, but could not withstand two weeks of urban life, and returned to his family, where he waited for love and pigeons. |
| Poison for the Fairies | 1,986 | Carlos Enrique Taboada | Fantasy, Horror | 7.6 | 132 | Spanish | Mexico | In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica convinces Flavia that she is a real witch and forces her to be her assistant. The children's games gradually become more serious and Veronica demands more from Flavia. |
| Black Rain | 1,989 | Shōhei Imamura | Drama, History | 7.6 | 128 | Japanese | Japan | Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors. |
| Vabank | 1,981 | Juliusz Machulski | Crime, Comedy, History | 7.6 | 119 | Polish | Poland | October 1934. Poland. Famous bank robber Kwinto decided to quit his dangerous criminal job, but after his friend's death, he changed his mind and organized a burglary of famous and well protected bank which belonged to his former partner in crime, backstabbing and double-crossing Kramer. Kwinto designs a clever plan not to only rob the Kramer's bank but to make it look like Kramer himself did it. |
| Dust in the Wind | 1,986 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Drama, Romance | 7.6 | 113 | Chinese | Taiwan | A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, and so do they. They fail to see time and fate are beyond their control. |
| The Marathon Family | 1,982 | Slobodan Šijan | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 | 99 | Serbian | Yugoslavia | The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150-year-old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance. |
| Winter in Prostokvashino | 1,984 | Vladimir Popov | Animation | 7.6 | 97 | Russian | Soviet Union | A third movie about Fyodor and his friends from the Prostokvashino village and their adventures - this time during the winter. |
| Son of the White Mare | 1,981 | Marcell Jankovics | Adventure, Animation, Fantasy | 7.6 | 91 | Hungarian | Hungary | A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors' lost kingdom. |
| Guest from the Future | 1,984 | Pavel Arsenov | Adventure, Family, Science Fiction | 7.6 | 81 | Russian | Soviet Union | 6-grader Kolya Gerasimov discovers a time machine in a basement of an old house in Moscow and gets transferred into the 21st century. There he is allowed to look around. Accidentally, Kolya witnesses two space pirates who arrive from Saturn and later try to steal a device called a "Mielophone" (which can read thoughts) from Alisa Seleznyova - a girl that performs experiments with this device and animals. Kolya manages to save the device from the pirates and brings it back to the 20th century. But both pirates and Alisa get there too. Alisa knows where Kolya studies but doesn't know what he looks like. Pirates saw Kolya, but don't know anything about him. Written by Boris Shafir |
| Righting Wrongs | 1,986 | Corey Yuen | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 | 74 | CN | Hong Kong | Jason Chan, a Hong Kong lawyer, is angry at the way the law protects criminals and decides to take the law into his own hands, dishing out vigilante justice when a key witness and his entire family are murdered. But hotshot cop Cindy Si is soon on Chan's case, and the situation unravels into a fight that only a few will survive. |
| Possibly in Michigan | 1,983 | Cecelia Condit | Horror, Music | 7.6 | 73 | English | United States of America | A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal. He follows them home, and here the victims become the aggressors. |
| The Little Fox | 1,981 | Attila Dargay | Animation, Family | 7.6 | 72 | Hungarian | Hungary | A tale about a little fox Vuk from the novel of the famous Hungarian writer István Fekete. |
| Adventures of Captain Vrungel | 1,980 | Davyd Cherkaskyi | Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Action | 7.6 | 71 | Russian | Soviet Union | An old sea captain and his student decide to take part in the international regatta. At the same time an amateur thief steals a statue of Aphrodite from Louvre and boards their yacht by mistake. A long, fun adventure is ahead. |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: King of Blackmailers | 1,980 | Igor Maslennikov | Mystery, TV Movie, Crime, Adventure | 7.6 | 64 | Russian | Soviet Union | Mycroft Holmes hands Sherlock Holmes the case of the Master Blackmailer. |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra | 1,983 | Igor Maslennikov | Crime, Mystery, Adventure, TV Movie | 7.6 | 59 | Russian | Soviet Union | Holmes and Dr. Watson help a young lady who is receiving anonymous letters 10 years after her father passed away under shady circumstances. They find themselves in an enigma involving a treasure, murder and a love interest for Watson. |
| Boat People | 1,982 | Ann Hui | Drama | 7.6 | 56 | CN | Hong Kong | A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the liberation to document the nation, and begins following and documenting the young children from a poor Vietnamese family. |
| The City and the Dogs | 1,985 | Francisco J. Lombardi | Drama | 7.6 | 50 | Spanish | Peru | Four angry cadets have formed an inner circle in an attempt to beat the system and ward off the boredom and stifling confinement of the military academy, set off a chain of events that starts with a theft and leads to murder. |
| El ratero de la vecindad | 1,982 | Gilberto Martínez Solares | Comedy, Crime | 7.6 | 50 | Spanish | Mexico | Roberto es un ladrón que le hace creer a su hijo Pepito y a todos sus vecinos que es un honesto Mecánico. La güerita recién llegada a la vecindad es la muchacha de la que Roberto se ha enamorado. Pero Roberto tiene una doble vida, ya que también es Bobby "El elagante" jefe de una banda de ladrones, quienes siempre fallan en todos sus robos y juntos se ven envueltos en persecuciones graciosas y equivocaciones constantes. Una divertida comedia para toda la familia. |
| Give the Devil His Due | 1,985 | Hynek Bočan | Family, Fantasy | 7.6 | 48 | Czech | Czechoslovakia | Dorota, a bad woman married the miller, out of sheer greed drives him to death. She then took the mill away from his son Peter and threw him out of the hime. Lucifer, who is known to rule in hell, sends out the devil Janek. He is supposed to fetch Dorota because the measure of her earthly sins is overflowing. But the devil himself can not handle this evil woman and flees to the military. There he meets Peter. By joining forces, they finally succeed in transporting the wicked Dorota to hell. Since then hell is hell. But for Peter, who is suddenly in possession of a magic mantle, begins a nice time, because strangely, the prince shows great interest in him. |
| The Secret Garden | 1,987 | Alan Grint | TV Movie, Drama, Family | 7.6 | 47 | English | United States of America | When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She wishes to discover what has caused him so much sorrow and to bring joy back to the household. It all must have something to do with the screams and wails which echo through the house at night and no one wants to talk about. |
| El Diablo El Santo Y El Tonto | 1,985 | Rafael Villaseñor Kuri | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 | 40 | Spanish | Mexico | When rancher, Don Trinidad is on his deathbed, he confesses to his fumbling son Rogelio, that he has two other illegitimate sons and that he wishes them to be included in his will. When Rogelio tracks them down, he discovers that each of them has a completely different life. |
| With You The World Is Fun | 1,983 | Marie Poledňáková | Comedy, Family | 7.6 | 35 | Czech | Czechoslovakia | Three middle-aged go for a vacation into the mountains with their children. How will they cope with their youngsters every-day needs without their ... |
| Two Crazy Pirates 2 | 1,986 | Enrique Carreras | Comedy | 7.6 | 33 | Spanish | Argentina | Following the events (and disasters) at the end of their previous adventure, Alberto and Jorge are severely reprimanded. However, just when the recruits' fate seemed destined for the brig, a direct call from the Lieutenant General saves them from punishment... though to do so, they must prove themselves in a new training environment for their first special mission. |
| The Dark Glow of the Mountain | 1,985 | Werner Herzog | Documentary, TV Movie | 7.6 | 29 | German | Germany | Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner during their expedition into climbing the Gasherbrum mountains, which has some of the most difficult peaks to be conquered, and they'll do it without the use of oxygen tanks. Herzog also takes some time to hear about their past experiences with other mountains, their personal tragedies and the reasons why they are so involved with such activity. |
| Three Monks | 1,981 | A Da | Animation | 7.6 | 29 | Chinese | China | Adaptation of the Chinese folk tale that gave rise to the proverb “One monk will shoulder two buckets of water, two monks will share the load, but add a third and no one will want to fetch water”. |
| Treasure Island: Part II - Captain Flint's Treasure | 1,987 | Davyd Cherkaskyi | Animation, Adventure, TV Movie, Family, Music | 7.6 | 28 | Russian | Soviet Union | A Soviet Ukrainian made violent farcical yet quite faithful adaptation of the famous Robert Louis Stevenson's book that combines animated sequences with live action parts. This film covers the second half of the book. |
| Blackadder's Christmas Carol | 1,988 | Richard Boden | Comedy, TV Movie | 7.6 | 27 | English | United Kingdom | After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways. |
| Música de Viento | 1,989 | Roberto Gómez Bolaños | Comedy | 7.6 | 25 | Spanish | Mexico | Mr. Quevedo is a public relationist in a real estate company managed by Mr. Cepeda. Mr. Cepeda has become rich through fraudulent practices. Mr. Martinez is a client who was victimized by Mr. Cepeda; thus he appears one day at the real estate office looking for Mr. Cepeda but instead he found Mr. Quevedo and appoints him with a gun, Mr. Quevedo farts unintentionally due to the menacing situation. Mr. Quevedo teaches the audience to bravely act according to the own values. —Elizabeth Kahl |
| The Black Cannon Incident | 1,985 | Huang Jianxin | Drama, Comedy | 7.6 | 25 | Chinese | China | A mining engineer acting as a technical translator is suspected of industrial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a militant snoop. Placed under investigation and reassigned to a less sensitive department, but never informed of the reason for his demotion, he petitions to get his job back, sparking an increasingly obtuse series of Party meetings. |
| The Tragedy of "W" | 1,984 | Shinichiro Sawai | Drama, Mystery | 7.6 | 23 | Japanese | Japan | A young theatre actress fights for her uncertain career while having to confront the personal sacrifices that will arise from it. |
| The Treasure of Swamp Castle | 1,985 | Attila Dargay | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 7.6 | 21 | Hungarian | Hungary | Szaffi is a full-length animated feature based on Mór Jókai’s short books The Gypsy Baron (A cigánybáró) and Szaffi. It has adventure, and treasure, and love, and a little black cat, and a war, and picturesque villains - a governor with a pressure release valve in his skull and a fat pig-loving baron, and of course, the good gypsies. |
| The Compleat Beatles | 1,982 | Patrick Montgomery | Documentary, Music | 7.6 | 19 | English | United States of America | Now, for the first time, you can re-live the Beatles legends with this stunning 2-hour musical “Rockumentary”. It’s all there from the wild exuberance of the early Cavern Club days through eight incredible years, to the grim finality of “Let It Be”. See John, Paul, George and Ringo in performance, on tour, in films, recording with George Martin and in rare footage never before seen. Narrated by Malcom McDowell. |
| Sanmanassullavarkku Samadhanam | 1,986 | Sathyan Anthikad | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 | 18 | Malayalam | India | The only way Gopalakrishnan can escape from certain bankruptcy is to sell the property he owns in the city and use the proceeds to settle his debts. To do that, he has to evict his tenants from there first. Unfortunate for him, his tenant is the feisty Meera and her family, who absolutely refuses to vacate the house. Gopalakrishnan uses an obscure clause in the contract to take up residence at the house, and tries his best to smoke his tenants out. |
| After the Promise | 1,987 | David Greene | Drama, TV Movie | 7.6 | 18 | English | Unknown | Elmer Jackson is a carpenter in a small Californian town in the 1930s. Struggling to bring up 4 young boys after the death of his wife, he is horrified when the Government (citing trumped-up charges of parental neglect) places the boys into various foster homes and institutions, unaware of the abuse that boys would then be subjected to. The conditions imposed by the court and the difficulties caused by the Depression make Jackson's determined and vigorous quest to find his boys extremely difficult. |
| Inside the Labyrinth | 1,986 | Desmond Saunders | Documentary | 7.6 | 17 | English | United States of America | A behind-the-scenes look at Jim Henson's 1986 fantasy film, 'Labyrinth', featuring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly. |
| Brooklyn Bridge | 1,981 | Ken Burns | Documentary, History | 7.6 | 17 | English | United States of America | Today it's a symbol of strength and vitality. 135 years ago, it was a source of controversy. This documentary examines the great problems and ingenious solutions that marked the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. From conception to construction, it traces the bridge's transformation from a spectacular feat of heroic engineering to an honored symbol in American culture. |
| Karz | 1,980 | Subhash Ghai | Action, Thriller | 7.6 | 17 | Hindi | India | Ravi is killed by his wife after his marriage. He is reborn as Monty and is now a singer he goes to holiday in Ooty where he recollects his memories from previous life and inquires about his family from first life and his evil wife Kamini. |
| The Feathered Coyote | 1,983 | María Elena Velasco | Action, Comedy | 7.6 | 16 | Spanish | Mexico | The outstanding comedian, "La India Maria," unknowingly ends up as a detective in Acapulco, pursued by smugglers of ancient artifacts. |
| Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky | 1,988 | Michał Leszczyłowski | Documentary | 7.6 | 14 | Swedish | Sweden | This documentary offers a rare glimpse of the legendary Soviet filmmaker, Andrei Tarkosvky, at work. Tarkovsky made only seven films in his brief, but brilliant, career; Michal Leszczylowski's respectful movie chronicles him at work on his last film, The Sacrifice. Offering insight into Tarkovsky's working methods and transcendental aesthetics, the movie is a compelling account of the difficulties of film production. In the case of an uncompromising and visionary filmmaker like Tarkovsky, the practical problems of filmmaking are only magnified, as cast and crew struggle to realize the ambitious concepts in Tarkovsky's mind. |
| The Princess and the Robot | 1,984 | Mauricio de Sousa | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Family, Science Fiction | 7.6 | 14 | Portuguese | Brazil | Lord Raider and an endearing little robot companion reside in the far-off realm of Planet Carrotland. As fate would have it, a cosmic spark from the radiant Pulsar star strikes the robot just as he becomes smitten with Princess Mimi, a charming pink bunny. However, their newfound love faces a significant obstacle when the king decrees a grand tournament in the kingdom, intent on determining who shall earn the honor of marrying the Princess. |
| The Dollmaker | 1,984 | Daniel Petrie | Drama, TV Movie | 7.6 | 14 | English | Unknown | During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory job in bustling Detroit. Reluctantly accompanying Colvis is his long-suffering wife, Gertie, a talented woodcarver set in her traditional ways. When the perils of city life and Colvis' reckless squandering of money send the Nevels into precarious financial straits, Gertie starts a business making hand-carved dolls in order to provide for her family. |
| Thaniyavarthanam | 1,987 | Sibi Malayil | Drama | 7.6 | 13 | Malayalam | India | Balan, a teacher, has a mentally unstable uncle. There is a belief that the family is cursed to have a lunatic at all times. When the uncle passes away, people believe that Balan will be the next. |
| The Shame | 1,982 | Ali Abdel-Khalek | Drama, Thriller | 7.6 | 13 | Arabic | Egypt | A family inherits their father's drug business which leads to their undoing. |
| Ciuleandra | 1,985 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Drama, Romance | 7.6 | 12 | Romanian | Romania | After he kills his beloved wife, Puiu Faranga is helped by his father to fake insanity. |
| A Long Way Home | 1,981 | Robert Markowitz | TV Movie, Drama | 7.6 | 12 | English | United States of America | A married teenager sets out to find his long-lost brother and sister years after all three had been placed with different families following their abandonment by their migrant worker parents. Luckily, he finds a compassionate social worker who, at first reluctantly, decides to help him cut through the bureaucratic red tape. |
| Twisted Sister: We're Not Gonna Take It | 1,984 | Unknown | N/A | 7.6 | 10 | English | Unknown | |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1,982 | Steven Spielberg | Science Fiction, Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 7.5 | 11,810 | English | United States of America | An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliott who decides to keep him hidden in his home. While a task force hunts for the extra-terrestrial, Elliott, his brother, and his little sister Gertie form an emotional bond with their new friend, and try to help him find his way home. |
| Ghostbusters | 1,984 | Ivan Reitman | Comedy, Fantasy | 7.5 | 9,579 | English | United States of America | After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator. |
| Predator | 1,987 | John McTiernan | Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.5 | 8,860 | English | United States of America | A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior. |
| First Blood | 1,982 | Ted Kotcheff | Action, Adventure, Thriller, War | 7.5 | 6,757 | English | United States of America | When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers. |
| The Goonies | 1,985 | Richard Donner | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 7.5 | 6,113 | English | United States of America | Young teen Mikey Walsh and his friends set off on a quest to find Pirate One-Eyed Willie's treasure in hopes of saving their homes from demolition. However, on their quest to find the treasure, they run into a family of recently escaped criminals, determined to capture the kids and reach the treasure first. |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1,988 | Robert Zemeckis | Fantasy, Animation, Comedy, Crime | 7.5 | 6,064 | English | United States of America | 'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect. |
| Evil Dead II | 1,987 | Sam Raimi | Horror, Comedy, Fantasy | 7.5 | 3,397 | English | United States of America | Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead." As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda's body. |
| The Name of the Rose | 1,986 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Drama, Thriller, Mystery | 7.5 | 3,249 | English | France | 14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable. |
| Empire of the Sun | 1,987 | Steven Spielberg | Drama, History, War | 7.5 | 2,068 | English | United States of America | Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him. |
| Glory | 1,989 | Edward Zwick | Drama, History, War | 7.5 | 1,761 | English | United States of America | Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates. |
| After Hours | 1,985 | Martin Scorsese | Comedy, Thriller, Drama | 7.5 | 1,683 | English | United States of America | Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman. |
| Hannah and Her Sisters | 1,986 | Woody Allen | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 | 1,135 | English | United States of America | Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly. |
| Police Story | 1,985 | Jackie Chan | Action, Crime, Comedy | 7.5 | 1,002 | CN | Hong Kong | Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a slum. Now, he must protect the boss' secretary, Selina, who will testify against the gangster in court. |
| My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown | 1,989 | Jim Sheridan | Drama | 7.5 | 999 | English | Ireland | No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author. |
| The Secret of NIMH | 1,982 | Don Bluth | Family, Animation, Fantasy, Adventure, Mystery | 7.5 | 914 | English | United States of America | A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground. |
| The Killing Fields | 1,984 | Roland Joffé | Drama, History, War | 7.5 | 808 | English | United Kingdom | New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in. |
| Au Revoir les Enfants | 1,987 | Louis Malle | Drama, War | 7.5 | 710 | French | Germany | Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening. |
| Ordinary People | 1,980 | Robert Redford | Drama | 7.5 | 680 | English | United States of America | Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together. |
| Somewhere in Time | 1,980 | Jeannot Szwarc | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.5 | 640 | English | United States of America | Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early twentieth century. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her. |
| My Dinner with Andre | 1,981 | Louis Malle | Drama | 7.5 | 444 | English | United States of America | Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews. |
| A Christmas Carol | 1,984 | Clive Donner | Drama, Fantasy, TV Movie, Family | 7.5 | 411 | English | United Kingdom | Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption. |
| Bianca | 1,984 | Nanni Moretti | Drama, Comedy, Mystery | 7.5 | 399 | Italian | Italy | Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaningless if he doesn’t have a woman by his side but, after a series of rather disastrous experiences, he feels more alone than ever. Then, out of the blue, a new French teacher called Bianca arrives at school. Amongst uncertainties and contradictions, the two start dating. In the meantime, a series of homicides take place and a police officer begins to suspect that Michele is involved. Bianca will save him providing an alibi at the right moment, but then, everything goes wrong again. |
| The Seventh Continent | 1,989 | Michael Haneke | Drama | 7.5 | 348 | German | Austria | Chronicles three years of a middle-class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, troubled only by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, however, they're planning something much more sinister. |
| The Snowman | 1,982 | Dianne Jackson | Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy | 7.5 | 340 | English | United Kingdom | A young boy makes a snowman one Christmas Eve, which comes to life at midnight and takes him on a magical adventure to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus. |
| The Inquisitor | 1,981 | Claude Miller | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.5 | 268 | French | France | Martinaud, an illustrious notary suspected of being the perpetrator of two horrendous crimes, voluntarily agrees to be questioned by Inspector Gallien on New Year's Eve. What initially is a routine procedure, soon becomes a harsh interrogation that seems to confirm the initial suspicions. |
| Blind Chance | 1,987 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama | 7.5 | 234 | Polish | Poland | Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life. |
| The Official Story | 1,985 | Luis Puenzo | Drama, History | 7.5 | 200 | Spanish | Argentina | Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter. |
| The Ballad of Narayama | 1,983 | Shōhei Imamura | Drama | 7.5 | 193 | Japanese | Japan | In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife. |
| A City of Sadness | 1,989 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Drama, History | 7.5 | 147 | Chinese | Hong Kong | The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people from 1947-1987. |
| Burden of Dreams | 1,982 | Les Blank | Documentary | 7.5 | 145 | English | Peru | The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true. |
| Balance | 1,989 | Christoph Lauenstein | Drama, Animation | 7.5 | 139 | German | Germany | The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall. |
| Decalogue VII | 1,989 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie | 7.5 | 137 | Polish | Germany | As a high school student, Majka bore a child, Ania, whom Majka’s mother, Ewa, has been raising as her own. Now that Majka is ready for motherhood, Ewa refuses to let go, leading Majka to kidnap her own daughter, with unexpected emotional consequences. |
| Taipei Story | 1,985 | Edward Yang | Drama | 7.5 | 130 | Chinese | Taiwan | A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble. |
| Decalogue IX | 1,989 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie, Romance | 7.5 | 129 | Polish | Germany | Roman and Hanka have a loving marriage, but his impotence has led to her having an affair. The unbearable situation drives Roman to extreme measures both physically and mentally, testing their love and his own will to live. |
| The Family | 1,987 | Ettore Scola | Drama | 7.5 | 120 | Italian | France | "The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late. |
| The Quack | 1,982 | Jerzy Hoffman | Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 104 | Polish | Poland | A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives of several village patients. |
| Vacations in Prostokvashino | 1,980 | Vladimir Popov | Animation | 7.5 | 100 | Russian | Soviet Union | The continuation of the adventures of Fyodor and his friends from the Prostokvashino village. |
| Cat City | 1,986 | Béla Ternovszky | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 7.5 | 99 | Hungarian | Hungary | In the year 80 AMM (After Mickey Mouse) on planet X the crime-syndicated Cats try to erase the Mouse-population once and for all. A scientist of the mice, prof. Fushimishi seems to have found the weapon against the threat - so Intermouse calls its best (albeit retired) agent, Nick Grabowsky, to get the plans. As a distraction for the Cats, they also send a second agent - Seargent Lazy Dick - for the mission. |
| Chronos | 1,985 | Ron Fricke | Documentary | 7.5 | 85 | English | United States of America | Carefully picked scenes of nature and civilization are viewed at high speed using time-lapse cinematography in an effort to demonstrate the history of various regions. |
| Vabank II | 1,985 | Juliusz Machulski | Comedy, Crime | 7.5 | 84 | Polish | Poland | A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager. |
| Man Facing Southeast | 1,987 | Eliseo Subiela | Mystery, Science Fiction, Drama | 7.5 | 81 | Spanish | Argentina | A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himself unhappy, and affected by the patient's insight. But he is ordered to treat the patient according to institutional procedure. |
| Ten Little Indians | 1,987 | Stanislav Govorukhin | Crime, Mystery | 7.5 | 77 | Russian | Soviet Union | Ten strangers are forced to come face-to-face with their dark pasts after receiving an anonymous invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England. |
| Formula of Love | 1,984 | Mark Zakharov | Romance, Comedy | 7.5 | 75 | Russian | Soviet Union | A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family's country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love... t... |
| 28 Up | 1,984 | Michael Apted | Documentary | 7.5 | 74 | English | United Kingdom | Just two years away from turning 30, participants in Michael Apted's documentary series are facing serious questions of identity and purpose, wondering whether they've found their place in the world. |
| Streetwise | 1,984 | Martin Bell | Documentary | 7.5 | 64 | English | United States of America | This documentary about teenagers living on the streets in Seattle began as a magazine article. The film follows nine teenagers who discuss how they live by panhandling, prostitution, and petty theft. |
| Trickster | 1,981 | Natuk Baytan | Comedy | 7.5 | 60 | Turkish | Turkey | Rıfkı, who lives in Germany, returns to his village, which he left years ago, to sell the properties inherited from his late father. A few coincidences that occur upon his arrival in the village lead to his name being associated with the 'Saint' title. |
| Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space | 1,982 | Yoshiyuki Tomino | Animation, Science Fiction, Action | 7.5 | 60 | Japanese | Japan | Amuro Ray and the rest of the White Base crew, now denominated the 13th Autonomous Corps, return to outer space to support the rest of the Earth Federation forces for the decisive battle against the Principality of Zeon's forces. |
| Captain Tsubasa Movie 01: The Great Competition of Europe | 1,985 | Tatsuya Okamoto | Animation | 7.5 | 57 | Japanese | Japan | Tsubasa and his comrades take on the "All-Europe Boy's Soccer Team", a league of players with skills that they have never seen before in previous matches. Will Team Japan come out on top against this diverse group of players? |
| The Return of the Prodigal Parrot (Part 1) | 1,984 | Valentin Karavaev | Animation | 7.5 | 57 | Russian | Soviet Union | Animated series about the adventures of a parrot Kesha, "the hero of our time." The action is concentrated in the city and its surroundings. Kesh lives in the apartment of Vova, a schoolchild, but because of his hot-tempered, arrogant character, he periodically runs away and gets into trouble, eventually returning to Vovka with a confession. The humor of the series is based on the eccentric behavior of Keshi, on recognizable realities, as well as on the multiple quotations used by the parrot. |
| The French Revolution | 1,989 | Richard T. Heffron | Drama, War, History, Thriller | 7.5 | 55 | French | United Kingdom | A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. Part one spans the event until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all authority and was imprisoned). Part two carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794. |
| That Day, on the Beach | 1,983 | Edward Yang | Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 53 | Chinese | Taiwan | Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business. |
| The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On | 1,987 | Kazuo Hara | Documentary | 7.5 | 48 | Japanese | Japan | Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old veteran of the New Guinea campaign in World War II, sets out to conduct interviews with survivors and relatives to find the truth behind atrocities committed by Japanese military, in particular the unexplained killing of two Japanese privates in his unit. |
| The Elusive Summer of '68 | 1,984 | Goran Paskaljević | Comedy | 7.5 | 45 | SH | Yugoslavia | For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968. |
| Homework | 1,989 | Abbas Kiarostami | Documentary | 7.5 | 42 | Persian | Iran | Young male students at a local Iranian school are asked about their feelings on homework. |
| Captain Tsubasa Movie 03: Run Towards Tomorrow! | 1,986 | Noriyuki Nakamura | Animation | 7.5 | 42 | Japanese | Japan | |
| Voyage to Nowhere | 1,986 | Fernando Fernán Gómez | Drama, Comedy | 7.5 | 39 | Spanish | Spain | The Iniesta-Galván family is a theatre company that goes from town to town offering its performances. Over the years, its members will have to adapt to changes and make decisions, like that of whether or not to continue performing. One day, unexpectedly, a son that he has fathered on his travels presents himself to Carlos Galván. |
| Secrets of the Heavenly Book | 1,983 | Wang Shuchen | Animation, Fantasy, Adventure | 7.5 | 39 | Chinese | China | Yuangong, the deacon, opened the shrine and exposed the holy book to the human world. He is now punished to guard the book for life by the jade emperor for breaking heaven’s law. In order to pass this holy book to human beings, he would have to get by the antagonist fox. |
| Carlin at Carnegie | 1,983 | Steven J. Santos | Comedy | 7.5 | 37 | English | United States of America | Recorded at Carnegie Hall, New York City in 1982, released in 1983. Most of the material comes from his A Place for My Stuff, the album released earlier that same year. The final performance of "Seven Dirty Words," his last recorded performance of the routine, features Carlin's updated list. |
| Selamsız's Band | 1,987 | Nesli Çölgeçen | Comedy | 7.5 | 35 | Turkish | Turkey | Selamsiz (wich means 'no greeting') is a small town in Anatolia. The town has a lot of problems but noone from governments come and see the town. One day the mayor learns that the prime minister will come to the city. They, now, have a chance to solve their problems. However, they think that they should have a band to greet the prime minister. |
| Rikyu | 1,989 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | Drama | 7.5 | 32 | Japanese | Japan | Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan’s most powerful warlord, unifying the country. |
| Loafing and Camouflage | 1,984 | Nikos Perakis | Comedy | 7.5 | 32 | Greek | Greece | A group of Greek soldiers are assigned to run the Cinematographic Unit of the army in the midst of political unrest. |
| Coqueta | 1,983 | Sergio Véjar | Drama, Music, Romance | 7.5 | 31 | Spanish | Mexico | Two teenagers fall in love with each other for the first time. |
| Stranger Than Paradise | 1,983 | Jim Jarmusch | N/A | 7.5 | 30 | English | Unknown | 30-minute short subject film that would become Stranger Than Paradise. This short was released as a standalone film in 1982, and shown as "Stranger Than Paradise" at the 1983 International Film Festival Rotterdam. When it was later expanded into a three-act feature, that name was appropriated for the feature itself, and the initial segment was renamed "The New World". |
| Jimi Plays Monterey | 1,987 | Chris Hegedus | Documentary, Music | 7.5 | 29 | English | United States of America | Jimi Hendrix's debut American set at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival is generally considered one of the most radical and legendary live shows ever. Virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, even though he was already an established entity in the UK, Hendrix and his two-piece Experience explode on stage, ripping through blues classics "Rock Me Baby" and Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor," interpreting and electrifying Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," debuting songs from his yet-to-be-released first album and closing with the now historic sacrificing/burning of his guitar during an unhinged version of "Wild Thing" that even its writer Chip Taylor would never have imagined. Hendrix uses feedback and distortion to enhance the songs in whisper-to-scream intensity, blazing territory that had not been previously explored with as much soul-frazzled power. |
| Meeting Place | 1,989 | Goran Marković | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 7.5 | 27 | SH | Yugoslavia | During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead. |
| Garfield on the Town | 1,983 | Phil Roman | Animation, Family, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, TV Movie | 7.5 | 26 | English | United States of America | Garfield escapes from the car on a trip to the vet and finds the place where he grew up. |
| Apoorva Sagodharargal | 1,989 | Singeetam Srinivasa Rao | Action, Comedy | 7.5 | 25 | Tamil | India | An honest police officer pays a heavy price after he gets involved with a group of criminals. Years later, his son goes on a vengeance spree but his twin is mistaken as the culprit. |
| Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers | 1,980 | Les Blank | Documentary | 7.5 | 22 | English | United States of America | A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative powers of the stinking rose features chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, and a flavorful musical soundtrack. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999. |
| The Day Dorival Faced the Guard | 1,986 | Jorge Furtado | Comedy | 7.5 | 21 | Portuguese | Brazil | Dorival, a man in jail, has only one wish: to take a bath. To achieve his objective, he defies the private, the corporal, the sargeant and, finally, the lieutenant in charge of the prison. |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 2 | 1,981 | Igor Maslennikov | Mystery, TV Movie, Crime, Adventure | 7.5 | 20 | Russian | Soviet Union | The second part of the Soviet TV adaption. |
| Hero | 1,986 | Tony Maylam | Documentary | 7.5 | 19 | English | Mexico | 1986 FIFA World Cup Official Film. Mexico had just recovered from a devastating earthquake, but the nation put on a great tournament and Argentina, inspired by Maradona, justified "favourite" status. Eighty-six minutes of football magic from numerous world stars, including Diego Maradona, Gary Lineker, Michel Platini, Socrates, Rummenigge, Sanchez, Laudrup and many others. Michael Caine narrates this, the official FIFA coverage. |
| The Day After Trinity | 1,981 | Jon Else | Documentary, History | 7.5 | 19 | English | United States of America | This essential, Academy Award–nominated documentary offers an urgent warning from history about the dangers of nuclear warfare via the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic physicist and all-around Renaissance man who led the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb that America unleashed on Japan in the final days of World War II. Through extensive interviews and archival footage, THE DAY AFTER TRINITY traces Oppenheimer’s evolution, from architect of one of the most consequential endeavors of the twentieth century to an outspoken opponent of nuclear proliferation who came to deeply regret his role in ushering in the perils of the atomic age. |
| Confidence | 1,980 | István Szabó | Drama | 7.5 | 19 | Hungarian | Hungary | Janos and Kata are thrown together during the Second World War and forced to pose as husband and wife to hide from the Nazis. The intensity and suffocating intimacy of their new relationship and the circumstances in which they find themselves, forces them to confront past prejudices and assumptions and challenge what they truly believe. |
| The Innocent | 1,986 | Atef El-Tayeb | Drama | 7.5 | 18 | Arabic | Egypt | A simple minded peasant was recruited in the Egyptian army where he was deceived to believe that political activists are his homeland enemies, but not for so long. |
| The Nine-Colored Deer | 1,981 | Dai Tielang | Animation, Fantasy | 7.5 | 18 | Chinese | China | In ancient times, a Persian merchant gets lost in a windstorm. Suddenly a spiritual deer of nine colors appears to guide the man. Later on, the deer rescues a man drowning in a river. In exchange, the man promises not to reveal the deer's whereabouts. The man reaches an imperial palace. The king insists on hunting down the spiritual deer down to make clothes out of the deer skin. The man gives in to his greed and leads an army of warriors to the spot. He falls into the river again, hoping the deer will show up to rescue him. This time, all the warriors' arrows turn into dust and the man is drowned |
| Chashme Buddoor | 1,981 | Sai Paranjape | Comedy, Romance | 7.5 | 16 | Hindi | India | Womanizing slackers Omi and Jai attempt to woo the new girl in the neighborhood, and fail - miserably. Their third roommate - shy, and a bookworm - succeeds, much to their chagrin. The two scheme up comical ideas to split the two lovebirds, so that their secrets and humiliation are not revealed. |
| The Last Assault | 1,985 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | War | 7.5 | 15 | Romanian | Romania | The film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2. |
| Dinosaur! | 1,985 | Robert Guenette | TV Movie, Documentary | 7.5 | 14 | English | United States of America | An entertaining documentary look at dinosaurs with Emmy Award-winning special effects, feature film clips and stills, commentary by leading paleontologists of the time, and an on camera as well as voice-over narrative by Christopher Reeve. Shot on location in Los Angeles and New York at the American Museum of Natural History |
| Bucharest Identity Card | 1,982 | Virgil Calotescu | Comedy | 7.5 | 14 | Romanian | Romania | A provincial young girl, a farming engineer, does not want to return to the countryside on graduating, but stay in the capital. But she needs a Buc... |
| Boris Godounov | 1,989 | Andrzej Żuławski | Music, Drama, History | 7.5 | 13 | French | France | A possible impostor torments a newly crowned medieval czar who may have ordered the real successor's death. |
| The Pregnant Papa | 1,989 | Dezső Garas | Comedy | 7.5 | 13 | Hungarian | Hungary | In the small village of Rátót, every male is called Béla. When a woman gives birth to her child, she names him Józsi... |
| Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night | 1,988 | Tony Mitchell | Music, Documentary | 7.5 | 13 | English | United States of America | Recorded live at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, Roy is joined by an eclectic ensemble of rock and roll superstars including Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, T-Bone Burnett, J.D. Souther, Jennifer Warnes, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits. |
| Christine | 1,987 | Alan Clarke | TV Movie, Drama | 7.5 | 13 | English | United Kingdom | Christine is a pasty-faced teen in a windbreaker and ill-fitting striped shirt who walks endlessly from one friend's house to another, delivering heroin while their parents are absent. |
| Vaya par de gemelas | 1,983 | Víctor Andrés Catena | Comedy, TV Movie | 7.5 | 13 | Spanish | Spain | |
| Irupatham Noottandu | 1,987 | K. Madhu | Action, Thriller | 7.5 | 12 | Malayalam | India | Investigative reporter Ashwathy tries to expose the nexus between politics and crime. In doing so, she ends up causing a rift between Sagar, a smuggler, and his accomplice Sekharankutty, the CM's son. |
| Louie Bluie | 1,985 | Terry Zwigoff | Documentary, Music | 7.5 | 12 | English | United States of America | Crumb director Terry Zwigoff’s first film is a true treat: a documentary about the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. As beguiling a raconteur as he is a performer, Louie makes for a wildly entertaining movie subject, and Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tribute. Full of infectious music and comedy, Louie Bluie is a humane evocation of the kind of pop-cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to excavate in the coming years. |
| Gold, Silver, Death | 1,982 | Peque Gallaga | War, Drama | 7.5 | 12 | Filipino | Philippines | The story follows the Lorenzos and the Ojedas, the two land-owning clans in the island province of Negros, who were trying to cope and survive the war that lasted three tumultuous years, where they experienced or witnessed violence, blood, horror, and death. It is structured into three parts: Oro, a life of luxury and comfort in the city; Plata, a still-luxurious time of refuge in a provincial hacienda; and finally, Mata, a toilsome retreat deeper into the mountains. A war not only turned them into miserable people but also turned them into animals. |
| Careful, Monkeys! | 1,984 | Leonid Shvartsman | Animation | 7.5 | 12 | Russian | Soviet Union | Second film. Adventures of little monkeys, secretly from their mother escaped from a zoo to the city. |
| Biquefarre | 1,984 | Georges Rouquier | Documentary, Drama | 7.5 | 11 | French | France | Biquefarre is a small farm in Aveyron. The changing economics of farming lead Raoul, in late middle age, to decide to sell and move to Toulouse. At least two neighboring farmers want to buy Biquefarre: Lucien and the young Marcel. Behind the scenes, Henri, whose brother is Marcel's father and who is also Lucien's brother-in-law, negotiates with Raoul so that Marcel's father can secretly sweeten Marcel's offer. Will dad and uncle succeed? In the background is the hard daily work of farming: milking cows, harvesting at night, and finding help when a farmer falls ill. Progress brings challenges: polluted water, factory farms, and skyrocketing land prices. |
| A Gentle Spirit | 1,985 | Piotr Dumała | Animation, Drama | 7.5 | 10 | Polish | Poland | A man seated next to the body of his young wife thinks about their brief life together. Suicide has been the only escape for her... Dumala's technique creates a dark, claustrophobic atmosphere, entirely suitable for Dostoyevski's novel "A Gentle Spirit" on which it is based. |
| Life Is Beautiful | 1,985 | Boro Drašković | Drama | 7.5 | 10 | SH | Yugoslavia | After a train breaks down and the passengers are forced to spend a day at a remote country tavern, the mix of seasonal farm workers, transients, musicians, and would-be party kingpins heads toward some explosive moments. A truckload of chickens arrive to be killed and cooked for the unruly group of passengers, and when a few boorish men harass a female singer, their actions lead to unexpected violence. |
| Sleeping Beauty | 1,987 | David Irving | Family, Fantasy | 7.5 | 10 | English | United States of America | Feature-length, live-action musical version of the classic fairy tale by Charles Perrault. |
| The Dream Is Alive | 1,985 | Graeme Ferguson | Documentary | 7.5 | 10 | English | Canada | The Dream Is Alive takes you into space alongside the astronauts on the space shuttle. Share with them the delights of zero gravity while working, eating and sleeping in orbit around the Earth. Float as never before over the towering Andes, the boot of Italy, Egypt and the Nile. Witness firsthand a tension-filled satellite capture and repair and the historic first spacewalk by an American woman. |
| Erótica, a Fêmea Sensual | 1,984 | Ody Fraga | Drama | 7.5 | 10 | Portuguese | Brazil | Flora is a happy housewife but suffer a serious accident and loses her husband and gets her face terribly burned. Depressed, she feels herself guilty for the accident, but her sexuality is still on so she hires men to fulfill her carnal desires. Among them is cynical and ambitious Romeu who makes her do whatever he wants. But by advice of her friend Suzana, she undergoes a plastic surgery and falls in love with her doctor, Romeu who is the lover of Suzana. Romeu and Suzana will do all they can to destroy this love. |
| 'E' | 1,981 | Břetislav Pojar | Animation | 7.5 | 10 | French | Canada | A giant statue of the letter "E" arrives in the park. One man sees it as "B"; they are preparing to cart him off to the looney bin when a doctor ar... |
| Pippin | 1,981 | David Sheehan | Music, Comedy, Romance | 7.5 | 10 | English | United States of America | A mysterious performance troupe led by a Leading Player tells the story of Pippin, a young prince on his search for meaning and significance. Taped at Hamilton Place in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. |
| The Little Mermaid | 1,989 | Ron Clements | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 7.4 | 8,298 | English | United States of America | This colorful adventure tells the story of an impetuous mermaid princess named Ariel who falls in love with the very human Prince Eric and puts everything on the line for the chance to be with him. Memorable songs and characters -- including the villainous sea witch Ursula. |
| Beetlejuice | 1,988 | Tim Burton | Fantasy, Comedy | 7.4 | 8,289 | English | United States of America | A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home. |
| RoboCop | 1,987 | Paul Verhoeven | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction | 7.4 | 5,590 | English | United States of America | In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters. |
| The Fly | 1,986 | David Cronenberg | Horror, Science Fiction | 7.4 | 4,844 | English | Canada | When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one. |
| When Harry Met Sally... | 1,989 | Rob Reiner | Comedy, Romance, Drama | 7.4 | 4,491 | English | United States of America | Sex always gets in the way of friendships between men and women. At least, that's what Harry Burns believes. So when Harry meets Sally Albright and a deep friendship blossoms between them, Harry's determined not to let his attraction to Sally destroy it. But when a night of weakness ends in a morning of panic, can the pair avoid succumbing to Harry's fears by remaining friends and admitting they just might be the perfect match for each other? |
| Mad Max 2 | 1,981 | George Miller | Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction | 7.4 | 4,075 | English | Australia | Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape. |
| An American Werewolf in London | 1,981 | John Landis | Comedy, Horror | 7.4 | 2,643 | English | United Kingdom | American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind. |
| Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | 1,982 | Nicholas Meyer | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller | 7.4 | 2,076 | English | United States of America | The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis. |
| Blow Out | 1,981 | Brian De Palma | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 | 1,624 | English | United States of America | While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead. |
| This Is Spinal Tap | 1,984 | Rob Reiner | Comedy, Music | 7.4 | 1,587 | English | United States of America | "This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real. |
| The Big Blue | 1,988 | Luc Besson | Romance, Adventure, Drama | 7.4 | 1,535 | French | France | Childhood friends Jacques and Enzo share a passion for the danger of free diving. Professional diver Jacques opted to follow in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy; to the bewilderment of scientists, Jacques harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing pattern in the water, so that his vital signs more closely resemble that of dolphins than men. As Enzo persuades a reluctant Jacques to compete against him in a free diving contest -- determining who can dive deeper and longer without scuba gear -- Jacques meets Johana, a beautiful American insurance investigator, and finds that he must choose between his love for her and his love of the sea. |
| The Mission | 1,986 | Roland Joffé | Adventure, Drama, Action, History | 7.4 | 1,508 | English | United Kingdom | When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors. |
| The Purple Rose of Cairo | 1,985 | Woody Allen | Fantasy, Comedy, Romance | 7.4 | 1,115 | English | United States of America | Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again. |
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | 1,988 | Pedro Almodóvar | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 | 978 | Spanish | Spain | After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events. |
| The Right Stuff | 1,983 | Philip Kaufman | Drama, History, Adventure | 7.4 | 938 | English | United States of America | At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges. |
| Crimes and Misdemeanors | 1,989 | Woody Allen | Comedy, Drama, Crime | 7.4 | 936 | English | United States of America | A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss. |
| Zelig | 1,983 | Woody Allen | Comedy | 7.4 | 904 | English | United States of America | Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others. |
| The Vanishing | 1,988 | George Sluizer | Thriller, Mystery | 7.4 | 776 | Dutch | Netherlands | Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation when they stop at a busy service station. Saskia is abducted in broad daylight and three years pass with no answers or closure surrounding her disappearance. Rex has nearly given up all hope when he suddenly begins receiving letters from her abductor. |
| The Verdict | 1,982 | Sidney Lumet | Drama | 7.4 | 705 | English | United States of America | Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer. |
| A Better Tomorrow | 1,986 | John Woo | Action, Crime, Drama | 7.4 | 593 | CN | Hong Kong | A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break. |
| Crossroads | 1,986 | Walter Hill | Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance | 7.4 | 462 | English | United States of America | A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson. |
| Alice | 1,988 | Jan Švankmajer | Animation, Fantasy, Adventure | 7.4 | 350 | Czech | Switzerland | A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare - no matter how twisted or odd that way must be. A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll’s novel "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland". |
| Running on Empty | 1,988 | Sidney Lumet | Drama, Romance, Crime | 7.4 | 346 | English | United States of America | The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms. |
| Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf | 1,988 | Ray Patterson | Animation, Family, TV Movie, Mystery, Comedy | 7.4 | 332 | English | United States of America | Shaggy is turned into a werewolf, and it's up to Scooby, Scrappy and Shaggy's girlfriend to help him win a race against other monsters, and become human again. |
| When the Wind Blows | 1,986 | Jimmy T. Murakami | Animation, War, Drama | 7.4 | 319 | English | United Kingdom | With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II. |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy | 1,980 | Jack Gold | Family, Drama, TV Movie | 7.4 | 314 | English | United Kingdom | Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir. |
| Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School | 1,988 | Charles August Nichols | Animation, Family, TV Movie, Mystery, Fantasy | 7.4 | 308 | English | United States of America | Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy are on their way to a Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, where they've been hired as gym teachers. Once there, however, they find that not only is it actually an all-girl school of famous monsters' daughters but there's a villainess out to enslave the girls. |
| Godzilla vs. Biollante | 1,989 | Kazuki Ōmori | Action, Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction | 7.4 | 287 | Japanese | Japan | After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese government uses the cells to create a new bio-weapon, ANEB (Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria). They seeks the aid of geneticist Genshiro Shiragami, who's experiments result in a new mutation. |
| The Green Ray | 1,986 | Éric Rohmer | Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 274 | French | France | A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation. |
| Santa Claus Is a Stinker | 1,985 | Philippe Galland | Comedy | 7.4 | 273 | French | France | Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office. |
| Sans Soleil | 1,983 | Chris Marker | Documentary | 7.4 | 260 | French | France | A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco. |
| Scooby-Doo! Meets the Boo Brothers | 1,987 | Paul Sommer | Animation, Family, TV Movie, Mystery, Comedy | 7.4 | 253 | English | United States of America | After the death of Shaggy's Uncle Beaureguard, he, Scooby and Scrappy arrive at the late uncle's Southern plantation to collect the inheritance. But as soon as they arrive, they find it is haunted by the ghost of a Confederate soldier. With this spook on their tails while they solve riddles in search of the inheritance, they seek help from the Boo Brothers, a trio of ghost-exterminators to help catch this nasty ghoul. |
| Saint Seiya: Warriors of the Final Holy Battle | 1,989 | Masayuki Akehi | Action, Animation, Fantasy | 7.4 | 249 | Japanese | Japan | The plot involves the coming of Lucifer to the Sanctuary, where his underlings systematically dispose of the surviving Gold Saints. Athena goes to Lucifer to ask for peace, placing herself in peril. The Bronze Saints must then come to her rescue, destroying Lucifer's Fallen Angels (Seima Tenshi in Japanese) in the process. |
| Mary Forever | 1,989 | Marco Risi | Crime, Drama | 7.4 | 237 | Italian | Italy | A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamoured of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time? |
| Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl | 1,982 | Ian MacNaughton | Comedy | 7.4 | 174 | English | United Kingdom | Monty Python perform many of their greatest sketches at the Hollywood Bowl, including several from pre-Python days. |
| Terrorizers | 1,986 | Edward Yang | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 | 166 | Chinese | Taiwan | An uncompromising look into urban life from the eyes of a voyeuristic photographer, a rebellious teenager, and a married couple teetering on the edge of adultery. |
| What Time Is It? | 1,989 | Ettore Scola | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 | 144 | Italian | France | A father and his son who lived seperated for some time meet each other one day and try to talk their problems over and understand their diametrical differences. |
| The Mass Is Ended | 1,985 | Nanni Moretti | Drama, Comedy | 7.4 | 144 | Italian | Italy | The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many of them are depressed or frustrated, and some suicidal. |
| Matewan | 1,987 | John Sayles | Drama, History | 7.4 | 127 | English | United States of America | Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line. |
| The Secret of the Third Planet | 1,981 | Roman Kachanov | Animation, Science Fiction, Adventure, Family | 7.4 | 120 | Russian | Soviet Union | At the end of the 22nd century Alisa Seleznyova, her father Professor Seleznyov and pilot Zelyony go on a space expedition to find rare animals for Moscow Zoo. On the way they seem to encounter a mysterious conspiracy led by Doctor Verhovtsev against legendary Two Captains Kim and Buran. The only clue is a talking bird Сhatterer [Govorun] that our heroes accidentally took possession of. |
| Tango | 1,985 | Zbigniew Rybczyński | Animation | 7.4 | 102 | Polish | Poland | A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, looping further through an absurd dance of social disconnection as each character moves in. |
| Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip | 1,982 | Joe Layton | Comedy, Documentary | 7.4 | 97 | English | United States of America | Richard Pryor's stand-up act includes his frank discussion about his freebasing addiction, as well as the infamous night on June 9, 1980 that he caught on fire. |
| Do You Remember Dolly Bell? | 1,981 | Emir Kusturica | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 85 | SH | Yugoslavia | A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and gets attracted by the world of small-time criminals. |
| Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle | 1,987 | Éric Rohmer | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 | 84 | French | France | Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends. |
| Rouge | 1,987 | Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang | Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Mystery | 7.4 | 81 | CN | Hong Kong | Amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong, a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family fall in love and embrace death by suicide pact. Fifty years later, her ghost returns to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself. |
| Egg Nogg | 1,988 | Roman Załuski | Comedy | 7.4 | 80 | Polish | Poland | Following the emotions associated with entrance examinations to the faculty of pedagogy, Catherine Solska returns to his native village. And here she will surprise - the family without their knowledge to begin preparations for engagement with a rich neighbor Kolasa. Girl falls into despair, tries to oppose the decision of the parents, but is closed in his room. On visits to her fiance and flees out the window calling mail to the university. Receives misleading information and is convinced that was not accepted to college. Resigned returns home and agrees to the wedding. Meanwhile, on the eve of the wedding the postman brings the notice of acceptance to the university. |
| The Sign of Four | 1,987 | Peter Hammond | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 | 75 | English | United Kingdom | Mary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance. This leads Holmes and Watson to the truth about a secret pact between four convicts during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. |
| The Pied Piper | 1,986 | Jiří Barta | Animation, Fantasy, Drama | 7.4 | 74 | Czech | Czechoslovakia | A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language. |
| Peter Knife | 1,984 | Alfonso Rosas Priego Jr. | Action, Comedy, Drama | 7.4 | 71 | Spanish | Mexico | The story of the coolest, street-smart hustler ever to walk the streets of Mexico City, based on the international hit song. The police are after him, his rivals are after him, and all the while the most beautiful women of Mexico are in the cup of his hand. |
| Sugar Pie Lady | 1,983 | Atıf Yılmaz | Comedy, Romance, Music, History | 7.4 | 69 | Turkish | Turkey | In the harsh times of the small time crime in Istanbul, a conscientious police officer Cumali is recognized by the police chief Ziver Bey who sees Cumali as a threat and matches him with Sekerpare, a famous harlot. |
| Captain Tsubasa Movie 04: The Great World Competition!! The Junior World Cup | 1,986 | Tatsuya Okamoto | Animation | 7.4 | 60 | Japanese | Japan | Japan and Europe goes continental! This time, they arrange a tournament with 4 teams: Japan, USA, "All-Europe", and "All-South America". South America is rising to the tops of the bracket with their hidden weapon, Carlos Santana, who manages to avoid the tricks of his international opponents. How will Team Japan counter this impressive player? |
| A Bad Son | 1,980 | Claude Sautet | Drama | 7.4 | 60 | French | France | Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment. |
| Bill Cosby: Himself | 1,983 | Bill Cosby | Comedy | 7.4 | 60 | English | United States of America | A 1983 stand-up comedy film featuring the comedy of Bill Cosby. Filmed before a live audience at the Hamilton Place Theatre, in Hamilton, Ontario. Cosby gives his comedic views on people who drink too much and take drugs, going to the dentist, marriage and parenthood. |
| Style Wars | 1,984 | Tony Silver | Music, Documentary, TV Movie | 7.4 | 57 | English | United States of America | Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s. |
| El Chanfle 2 | 1,982 | Roberto Gómez Bolaños | Family, Comedy | 7.4 | 54 | Spanish | Mexico | is the continuation of the Mexican film El Chanfle (1979) Chespirito, which aired in theaters in 1982. At that time the cast of the neighborhood (with some absences: the Carlos Villagran, who decided not to continue working with Roberto Gomez Bolaños by a personal decision, he left in 1979. Ramon Valdez next year decides to accompany him, also leaving to work with Chespirito. returned with him in 1981, but a health problem that was detected in the early 80's, was prevented from participating in this film), it left room for the story of a lowly stagehand football team that achieves his dream beside his wife Tere, of having a child. In this film, the situation is a little different. |
| A Summer at Grandpa's | 1,984 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Drama | 7.4 | 50 | Chinese | Taiwan | A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents. |
| Mother For Baby Mammoth | 1,981 | Oleg Churkin | Animation | 7.4 | 49 | Russian | Soviet Union | Baby Mammoth is looking for his Mom. |
| El Barrendero | 1,982 | Miguel M. Delgado | Comedy | 7.4 | 48 | Spanish | Mexico | A cheerful sweeper collects garbage dancing, and the maids of the neighborhood get jealous because he invites another woman out. |
| The Makioka Sisters | 1,983 | Kon Ichikawa | Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 48 | Japanese | Japan | This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan. |
| Crac | 1,980 | Frédéric Back | Animation, Drama | 7.4 | 45 | French | Canada | A wooden rocking chair serves as a tool to delve through the history of Quebec in the last century. |
| The Moromete Family | 1,987 | Stere Gulea | Drama | 7.4 | 43 | Romanian | Romania | Story of a family. Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army, life and much more. |
| Aaahh Belinda | 1,986 | Atıf Yılmaz | Comedy, Fantasy, Thriller | 7.4 | 38 | Turkish | Turkey | Serap is a successful theater actress. Although she rejects the traditional roles assigned to women in her personal life, she agrees to play the role of a traditional housewife in a shampoo commercial. However, she is unaware that this commercial will turn into her worst nightmare. |
| 'night, Mother | 1,986 | Tom Moore | Drama | 7.4 | 38 | English | United States of America | A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it. |
| Time for Revenge | 1,981 | Adolfo Aristarain | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.4 | 38 | Spanish | Argentina | Two coworkers decide to blackmail the corrupt demolition company they work for by setting up a fake accident. |
| Barbie and the Sensations: Rockin' Back to Earth | 1,987 | Bernard Deyriès | TV Movie, Animation, Music, Adventure, Science Fiction | 7.4 | 34 | English | United States of America | Following their concert for world peace in outer space, Barbie and her band the Rockers are going back home. During the trip back to Earth, the band's space shuttle inadvertently enters a time warp. Upon landing at an airport, they meet Dr. Merrihew and his daughter Kim and soon learn that they have been transported back to 1959. The band then decides to go on a tour around the city alongside Kim. After a performance at Cape Canaveral, Dr. Merrihew helps Barbie and the Rockers return to their time. Back in the present, they stage a big concert in New York City, where Barbie is reunited with an adult Kim and introduced to her daughter Megan. |
| Mur Murs | 1,982 | Agnès Varda | Documentary | 7.4 | 33 | French | France | Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures. She casts a curious eye on graffiti and photorealism, roller disco & gang violence, evangelical Christians, Hare Krishnas, artists, angels and ordinary Angelenos. |
| Fiebre de Amor | 1,985 | René Cardona Jr. | Drama, Music, Romance | 7.4 | 32 | Spanish | Mexico | A teenage girl with a crush on a young popular singing star sneaks into his house to fulfill her dreams of meeting him. Together they accidentally run into a group of diamond smugglers and she becomes the victim of a kidnapping. The young star comes to her rescue in this romantic comedy with lots of songs and the Acapulco scenery as a backdrop. |
| Pistoleros famosos | 1,981 | José Loza | Action, Drama, Crime | 7.4 | 27 | Spanish | Mexico | A gunfighter after killing the ones responsible for his brother's death, joins by mistake a gang of smugglers |
| Precious Images | 1,986 | Chuck Workman | Documentary | 7.4 | 24 | English | United States of America | A cross-cut of nearly 100 years of American movies. We see the most precious film sequences that we all remember: From Citizen Kane to Star Wars, from Some Like It Hot to E.T. The incredible short cuts of roughly a second each push the audience into a kind of trance and take them on a journey into their individual memories of great films of the 20th century. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film. |
| Two Crazy Privates | 1,986 | Enrique Carreras | Comedy | 7.4 | 23 | Spanish | Argentina | Two violators of the military service law are incorporated as soldiers recently arrived from Europe and proposed to integrate a group that will operate in a jungle region, for which they have to prepare for difficult survival missions. |
| How the Cossacks Met Aliens | 1,987 | Volodymyr Dakhno | Adventure, Animation, Comedy | 7.4 | 22 | Ukrainian | Soviet Union | Hraï, Oko and Tour come across extraterrestrials in search of oil to repair their saucer and be able to return home. Together, they cross Europe, find themselves defending Bulgaria invaded by enemies, discover an aqueduct in Italy and narrowly escape the Inquisition in Spain. |
| How the Cossacks Celebrated a Wedding | 1,984 | Volodymyr Dakhno | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy | 7.4 | 22 | Ukrainian | Soviet Union | Tur regrets being single until he meets a charming maiden to whom he promises a new pair of boots. He gets trapped at a witch’s sabbath hosted by the devil, who promises him a pair of boots in exchange for his soul. |
| Camp de Thiaroye | 1,988 | Ousmane Sembène | War, Drama | 7.4 | 21 | French | Algeria | A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among their numbers are Sergeant Diatta, the charismatic leader of the troop who was educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a Senegalese soldier left in a state of shock from the war and concentration camps and who can only speak in guttural screams and grunts. |
| Sidewalk Stories | 1,989 | Charles Lane | Comedy | 7.4 | 21 | English | United States of America | A New York City street artist rescues a baby girl after her father is murdered. He then sets off to find the mother, but has to first learn how to care for the child. Ultimately he ends up in a horse drawn chase for the murderers. |
| Juan Charrasqueado y Gabino Barrera | 1,982 | Rafael Villaseñor Kuri | N/A | 7.4 | 21 | Spanish | Unknown | Revolution-era Mexico: two well-known bandits hook up, then join forces with an outlaw woman. |
| Go Ahead, Brazil! | 1,982 | Roberto Farias | Crime, Drama | 7.4 | 20 | Portuguese | Brazil | Mid-1970s. When the military regime's "economic miracle" and the victory of the Brazilian football team on the World Cup serve as a distraction for the persecution of opposition leaders by the political police of the dictatorship. Under this context, Jofre Godoi da Fonseca, an alienated middle-class man, is mistaken for Sarmento, a political activist he met at an airport prior to his assassination. He is then arrested for being "subversive". |
| Soccer Poker | 1,989 | Janusz Zaorski | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 | 19 | Polish | Poland | Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international referee. He sees the prevailing arrangements, manipulations, and bribery around him. Now desperate, he decides to stage an extraordinary culmination of his career: he wants to create a so-called "miracle Sunday" by "printing" the final round of games - taking substantial bribes from the interested clubs and manipulating the matches so that the results align in the order he set up. |
| El Embustero | 1,984 | Rafael Villaseñor Kuri | Comedy, Adventure, Drama | 7.4 | 19 | Spanish | Mexico | In order to remain unnoticed in the eyes of justice, a clever rogue poses as a generous teacher at a small town school. |
| Sagara Sangamam | 1,983 | K. Viswanath | Drama, Romance, Music | 7.4 | 19 | Telugu | India | When a passionate classical dancer, Balakrishna, falls in love with Madhavi, a woman who admires his talent, fate separates them. Years later, as he drowns in sorrow and self-destruction, an unexpected encounter rekindles his lost hopes, emotions and talent. |
| Garfield's Babes and Bullets | 1,989 | Phil Roman | Animation, Comedy, Family, Crime, Mystery | 7.4 | 18 | English | United States of America | Garfield the cat daydreams that he's an old-time private detective. |
| Shakti | 1,982 | Ramesh Sippy | Action, Crime | 7.4 | 18 | Hindi | India | A policeman's son becomes a criminal after a childhood incident creates a rift between them. |
| Genocide | 1,982 | Arnold Schwartzman | Documentary, History, War | 7.4 | 18 | English | United States of America | The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust could happen again. The history of European Jewish culture and events before and during the Holocaust are seen in newsreels, photographs, and animated segments. The words of the victims of the era are read, and footage from the liberation os a concentration camp is shown. |
| Radio Bikini | 1,988 | Robert Stone | Documentary | 7.4 | 17 | English | United States of America | It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before it is annihilated by a nuclear test. Shows great footage from these times and tells the story of the US Navy Sailors who were exposed to radioactive fallout. One interviewed sailor suffered grotesquely swollen limbs and he is shown being interviewed with enormous left arm and hand. |
| Educate Yourself My Son | 1,981 | Thodoros Maragos | Drama, Comedy | 7.4 | 17 | Greek | Greece | The most important political, post-military junta satire about the nation, the religion, the education, the family. |
| Robotech II: The Sentinels | 1,988 | Carl Macek | Animation, Science Fiction | 7.4 | 16 | English | Japan | Robotech II: The Sentinels was an attempt to continue the original 1985 Robotech television series. The project was cancelled in 1986. The aborted Sentinels series would have followed the ongoing adventures of Rick Hunter and Lisa Hayes and the rest of the Robotech Expeditionary Force (REF) during the events of The Robotech Masters and The New Generation series. |
| Who Am I This Time? | 1,982 | Jonathan Demme | Drama, Romance, TV Movie | 7.4 | 14 | English | United States of America | Harry is a shy hardware store employee. But whenever he takes a part in a local amateur theater production, he becomes the part completely--while on stage. Helene is new in town, a lonely itinerant telephone company employee. On a whim, she auditions for and gets the part of Stella to Harry's Stanley when the theater group performs A Streetcar Named Desire. Before anyone realizes the growing affection between Helene and Stanley, she falls deeply in love with the sexy brute, not knowing what the real man is like. |
| Adam | 1,983 | Michael Tuchner | Drama | 7.4 | 14 | English | United States of America | Based on the true story that shocked the nation and led to vast changes in how law enforcement handled missing children cases...John and Reve Walsh deal with their grief in front of the whole country when their son, Adam, is abducted and later found dead. |
| Andrei Tarkovsky: A Poet in the Cinema | 1,984 | Donatella Baglivo | Documentary | 7.4 | 13 | Italian | Italy | An extensive interview with legendary director Andrei Tarkovsky conducted by Donatello Baglivo. |
| My Dad, the Socialist Kulak | 1,987 | Matjaž Klopčič | Comedy | 7.4 | 12 | SL | Yugoslavia | Year 1945. The second World War is over and the soldiers from the disbanded army are returning home. Yet there is still no sign of Joze Malek. |
| A Dinner Date | 1,981 | Mohamed Khan | Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 12 | Arabic | Egypt | This movie revolves around the story of an innocent girl (Nawal) who was married to a rich and possessive man who still wants her back after their divorce; however she meets a hair stylist (Shoukry) and falls in love with him. They get married but her first husband starts torturing Shoukry so he can leave Nawal but he refuses. Eventually, acts of revenge begins from both Nawal and her ex-husband. |
| Khoon Bhari Maang | 1,988 | Rakesh Roshan | Romance | 7.4 | 11 | Hindi | India | Nandini and Sanjay Verma are lovers, and they conspire to take over the vaste estate of Mr. Saxena and his only widowed daughter, Aarti, and her two children, with the help of Sanjay's maternal uncle Heeralal, a longtime employee of Saxena. After Saxena passes away suddenly, Sanjay woes Aarti and marries her. On a boating trip both Nandini and Sanjay do away with Aarti, making it look like an accident, and subsequently take over the entire Saxena estate. But Aarti survives, disfigured beyond recognition by a crocodile attack, With the help of plastic surgery transforms herself to a successful model, Jyoti. She then plans to carry out her vengeance against Sanjay, but finds that he has been physically abusing her children, pets, and servants. She must now decide to reveal her identity, or continue with her plan and be a spectator to the abuse on her loved ones. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) |
| The Black Stuff | 1,980 | Jim Goddard | Drama, TV Movie | 7.4 | 11 | English | United Kingdom | A Liverpool tarmac gang set off for a contract in Middlesbrough. After a day of work, the group are approached by two gypsies who offer them a lucrative side job. |
| The Return of the Prodigal Parrot (Part 2) | 1,987 | Aleksandr Davydov | Animation | 7.4 | 10 | Russian | Soviet Union | The Cat shows off his new player. Kesha, jealous, returns home and makes a scene for his owner. After that, he leaves home and tries to sell himself for 1,000 rubles. Meeting Vovka's rich neighbor, he goes to live with him. But life turns out to be not so sweet. |
| Will Your Heart Beat Faster? | 1,980 | Mike de Leon | Comedy | 7.4 | 10 | Filipino | Philippines | In a spoof on the contemporary sacred cons, two yuppy couples get entangled with warring smugglers of dope that include fake priests and nuns as well as Japanese and Chinese agents. |
| Snow White | 1,984 | József Nepp | Animation, Fantasy, Comedy | 7.4 | 10 | Hungarian | Hungary | A farcical retelling of Snow White. Disillusioned Snow White isn't all that pretty or cute, her friends dwarfs aren't all that hospitable, her evil stepmother is an alcoholic and prince charming likes the ladies too much. |
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | 1,984 | Steven Spielberg | Adventure, Action | 7.3 | 9,942 | English | United States of America | After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace. |
| Dirty Dancing | 1,987 | Emile Ardolino | Drama, Music, Romance | 7.3 | 6,418 | English | United States of America | Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love. |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street | 1,984 | Wes Craven | Horror | 7.3 | 5,600 | English | United States of America | Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson... |
| Airplane! | 1,980 | Jim Abrahams | Comedy | 7.3 | 4,941 | English | United States of America | An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning. |
| Lethal Weapon | 1,987 | Richard Donner | Action, Comedy, Thriller | 7.3 | 4,919 | English | United States of America | A veteran cop and an unstable detective become partners who must put their differences aside in order to bring down a heroin-smuggling ring run by ex-Special Forces. |
| The Evil Dead | 1,981 | Sam Raimi | Horror | 7.3 | 4,364 | English | United States of America | In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway. |
| The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | 1,988 | David Zucker | Comedy, Crime | 7.3 | 4,361 | English | United States of America | When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. |
| They Live | 1,988 | John Carpenter | Science Fiction, Action, Thriller | 7.3 | 3,357 | English | United States of America | A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission. |
| The Abyss | 1,989 | James Cameron | Adventure, Thriller, Science Fiction | 7.3 | 3,330 | English | United States of America | A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it. |
| Good Morning, Vietnam | 1,987 | Barry Levinson | Comedy, Drama, War | 7.3 | 2,935 | English | United States of America | A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humor. |
| Labyrinth | 1,986 | Jim Henson | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 7.3 | 2,664 | English | United Kingdom | Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah, a teenager with an active imagination, summons the Goblins to take her baby stepbrother away. When little Toby actually disappears, Sarah must follow him into a fantastical world to rescue him from the Goblin King. Guarding his castle is the labyrinth itself, a twisted maze of deception, populated with outrageous characters and unknown dangers. |
| Videodrome | 1,983 | David Cronenberg | Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery | 7.3 | 2,406 | English | Canada | As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought. |
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