Cats
Stalin’s Disciples AKA Yaldei Stalin (1986) Nadav Levitan, Aharon Almog, Ezra Dagan, Rachel Dobson
“Stalin’s Children” is one of Levitan’s most important films produced in Is...
Prisoner of Rio (1988) Lech Majewski, Steven Berkoff, Paul Freeman, Peter Firth, Biography, Drama, Thriller
In 1981, Ronald Biggs was kidnapped by agents from Scotland Yard from his B...
Silkwood (1983) Mike Nichols, Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher
Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood, the Oklahoma nuc...
Out of Africa (1985) Sydney Pollack, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Drama, Romance, Biography
Initially set on being a dairy farmer, the aristocratic Karen Blixen (Meryl...
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (1985) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chia-bao Chang, Neng Chang, Chih-Chen Chen, Biography, Drama
This depiction of childhood and adolescence draws heavily from the filmmake...
Chariots of Fire (1981) Hugh Hudson, Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Biography, Drama, Sport
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided United Kingdom of the early 1...
Wagner (1983) Tony Palmer, Richard Burton
A huge panorama of Richard Wagner’s life and work, from before the 1848 rev...
The Declic Years / Les années déclic (1984) Raymond Depardon
This documentary is an autobiography based on director Depardon’s voice, hi...
Sylvia (1985) Michael Firth, Eleanor David, Nigel Terry, Tom Wilkinson
Real-life story of Sylvia Ashton Warner’s pioneering work teaching Maori ch...
Missing (1982) Costa-Gavras, Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, Biography, Drama, History
In September1973, in Chile, the American journalist Charles Horman arrives ...
Young Toscanini / Il giovane Toscanini (1988) Franco Zeffirelli, C. Thomas Howell, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophie Ward
In Rio de Janeiro in 1886, eighteen-year-old conductor Arturo Toscanini (C....
Dreamchild (1985) Gavin Millar, Coral Browne
Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll...
84 Charing Cross Road (1987) David Hugh Jones, Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench
When a humorous script-reader in her New York City apartment sees an ad in ...
Haunted Summer (1988) Ivan Passer, Philip Anglim, Alice Krige, Eric Stoltz
Based on the infamous Summer of 1816 when Mary Shelley wrote “Frankenstein”...
