Cats
Hajji Washington (1983) Ali Hatami, Ezzatolah Entezami, Richard Harrison, Russel Case
Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori (Haji Baba) goes to Washington D.C. as the first ...
Rasputin AKA Agoniya (1981) Elem Klimov, Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoliy Romashin, Velta Line
Russia, 1916. Be it by craft or madness, Rasputin exercises power over the ...
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981) Sharad Patel, Joseph Olita, Thomas Baptiste, Leonard Trolley
This biographical movie begins with a short blurb about Uganda, followed by...
The Wheel of Life AKA Da lunhui (1983) King Hu, Hsing Lee, Ching-Jui Pai, Hsueh-Fen Peng, Huo-Yen Chiang, Chun Shih
This 3-parter uses the same 3 leads in each of its parts. Through reincarna...
Hope and Glory (1987) John Boorman, Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Sebastian Rice-Edwards
A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy c...
Bodas de sangre / Blood Wedding (1981) Carlos Saura, Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Juan Antonio Jiménez, Mystery, Musical
In a sense, Carlos Saura’s first foray into filming classical dance, Blood ...
Cours privé / Private Tuition (1986) Pierre Granier-Deferre, Elizabeth Bourgine, Michel Aumont, Xavier Deluc
Jeanne Kern is a history teacher in a private mixed class. Passionately pro...
Time Bandits (1981) Terry Gilliam, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, John Cleese
Intrigued by history but neglected by his parents, Kevin, an eleven-year-ol...
Sugar Cane Alley / Rue Cases Nègres (1983)
Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a sm...
Matewan (1987) John Sayles, Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell
Mingo County, West Virginia, 1920. Coal miners, struggling to form a union,...
Silkwood (1983) Mike Nichols, Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher
Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood, the Oklahoma nuc...
Zegen (1987) Shôhei Imamura, Ken Ogata, Mitsuko Baishô, Chun-Hsiung Ko
The award-winning director of such esteemed films as Black Rain and The Bal...
Comrades (1986) Bill Douglas, Keith Allen, Dave Atkins, Stephen Bateman
The story of “The Tolpuddle Martyrs”. A group of nineteenth century English...
Scandal in a Small Town (1988) Anthony Page, Raquel Welch, Christa Denton, Frances Lee McCain
Leda Beth Vincent (Raquel Welch) lives in the small town of Shiloh and work...
Seeing Red (1983) Jim Klein, Julia Reichert, Oscar Hunter, Rose Podmaka, Sylvia Woods
A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American...