Cinematic Era: 1980 Vintage

Taiwanese movie

A long-married couple embark on one last cross-country journey when it is discovered that the wife is dying. Together they try to reconnect with their estranged daughter before it is too late.

Rich girl Angela returns to school and falls for the local hunk. But when he refuses her advances, she pretends to be in love with the principal instead.

A group of veteran boxers find a young potential champion to train.

Though the problem of Marija's pregnancy may be solved, her relationship with Boba causes a rift between the Pavlović and Todorović families.

Vyacheslav Tikhonov's roles are discussed by his colleagues.

On November 20, 1978 a truck driver picks up a man on the road, that tells him to take him to Pardo's Palace. Soon, the truck driver begins to realize who this person is.

A drama about a teacher and the students she teaches.

This witty and original film is about the open spaces of cities and why some of them work for people while others don't. Beginning at New York's Seagram Plaza, one of the most used open areas in the city, the film proceeds to analyze why this space is so popular and how other urban oases, both in New York and elsewhere, measure up. Based on direct observation of what people actually do, the film presents a remarkably engaging and informative tour of the urban landscape and looks at how it can be made more hospitable to those who live in it.

Years ago, artists would walk around the muck at the edge of the San Francisco Bay in Emeryville, and build loads of sculptures out there on the flats, created from driftwood and found objects that drivers would enjoy as they motored south on the old Highway 17 (known in numerous radio ads as 'Highway 17, The Nimitz'). Grabbing material off someone else’s work was considered fair game and part of the fun, and contributed a kinetic dynamic to the ongoing display. Now the place is a park, and the sculptures are gone, but you can see what it used to be like in this neat and funny documentary by Ric Reynolds, augmented by Erich Seibert’s wonderful musique-concrète/time-lapse sequences. The flashback circus sequence includes Scott Beach and Bill Irwin. Sculptors interviewed include Walt Zucker, Tony Puccio, Robert Sommer, Ron & Mary Bradden, and Bob Kaminsky.

Story of a modest but talented soccer player for an obscure club in a small Brazilian town who comes to São Paulo and reaches stardom.

Minchina Ota is a 1980 Indian Kannada language heist film directed by and starring Shankar Nag with his brother Anant Nag and Lokanath in pivotal roles. The supporting cast features Priya Tendulkar and Ramesh Bhat, who made his debut in the film.

Two little criminals without major, dream of adventure and easy life. They agree to go to work in the Poitou as representatives of musical encyclopedias luxury. But their friend Valerie arrive from Paris and just changes their life.

One of the unemployed (Rafat) asks a friend of his (Ismat) to marry his elderly rich aunt (Iqbal), provided that they share her wealth after her death. They agree on a plan to kill (Iqbal) while she is in Switzerland, but The plan goes wrong.

A girl falls in sin and becomes pregnant ,and fled from her family for fear of scandal. She gives birth and leaves the baby and her brother Hamdan kills her. Two young men Mukhtar and Mustafa find the child and decide to raise him. While Hamdan searches for the man who seduced his sister.

A film that depicts the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity.

The events of the film take place in the early sixties of the XX century, when the exploration of Antarctica was just beginning and the ice continent was full of secrets and mysteries. A group of polar explorers, before being sent to their homeland, is given the task of re-preserving the Vostok intracontinental station.

Micky is dead. Brian was his mate. Brian won't go to school, won't go out and he won't talk - except to Micky.

A group of villagers come together to fight against the atrocities of their landlords and amongst them is Bheeman, a man who turns against his master of several years and joins the revolution.

Early Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell short.

A local gangster named Gaja falls in love with a woman named Vadivu and she tells him to mend his ways, which he does. However, he now has to deal with his former associates once and for all.

Living on the edge of the woods, a young boy (Joseph Cory) dedicates himself to finding a magical rock. Narrated by Orson Welles.

Poor Hans, who becomes an apprentice to the evil sorcerer Spellbinder, learns forbidden magic in secret, and ultimately triumphs over his master in a spellbinding magical duel. Based on the Grimm fairy tale.

TV-adaptation of the performance by the Dutch theatre group 'Het Werkteater'. Three ladies of high society invite homeless people, homeless people and junks to spend a pleasant evening with them, in order to promote communication and integration.

Don't Mess with Bill is a 1980 Canadian short documentary film about Canadian martial arts pioneer Bill Underwood. At eighty-four, Underwood is a specialist in his own brand of self defense, which he still teaches to police, students, and senior citizens. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.

As a mentally unstable man goes to the house of a female official of ill repute, she asks him to hide, after which she gets murdered. The investigators continue to look for the murderer, and many become suspects during the course of the investigation.

Police inspector Madan Singh is married to Sushma, whose brother Arun is a violent leader of mill workers. Arun is shot dead by Madan when the former tries to kill the mill owner. Sushma leaves him.

Drug dealer Rushdi Abdel Rahman meets by chance the peasant Salma, who flees her town because her stepson is trying to kill her because she caused her husband to go to prison by testifying against him.

Ardently falling in love with the daughter of a pawnbroker, dashing hussar could not imagine to what extent the future father-in-law is greedy. But the hussar was no fool and took the same old sensualist and hunks around your finger, producing money from him.

Gregory has troubles enough when Ella moves him out and sets him up for a job with the radio people. Suspicions of infidelity can make the world a disturbing place. But then he still has to meet the new neighbours ...

George Purse is the gamekeeper for the duke's estate, a role he takes seriously. His position gives him a certain status, but he has an uneasy relationship with some of the locals, not least those who turn to poaching

Tom Foreman kills a policeman after stealing jewellery worth a fortune. He is caught and incarcerated. Prison psychiatrist Ollie Milton and Tom's wife, Val, enlist the help of ex-con "Cat" Devlin in their plot to locate the hidden jewels.

The daughter of a bourgeoisified Communist MP and a permissive housewife brings home her latest boyfriend, a Neapolitan scoundrel.

A desperate smuggler, Ravi, battles a corrupt police officer and his gang while trying to protect his love, Radha

Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had.

Prince Luarsab is going to get married. But he is fooled and instead of desired woman, he has to marry woman's ugly sister Darejan. However, he gets used to it and the couple live their unbothered life together.

Roving gunslingers team up against a common enemy, but then they turn on each other.

After falling into the human world, Larabel goes to the beach with her human friends Teco and Toko, where she helps a boy named Ryota, who runs a guesthouse by himself, and works hard. It's a fun summer at the beach...

Lee Lung witnessed the murder of his parents by the ruthless bandit Shek King who in turn abducted Lee's infant sister. Lee wanders the land and learns martial arts from a drunken master. Once his skills are perfected, Lee sets out in search of his long lost sister and the villain Shek King.

Sultan is working to expel the residents of his buildings to build investment projects. He raises the issue of expulsion on the pretext that architecture is falling. Attorney Nima (Suhair Ramzi) and her husband Dr. Kamal (Mahmoud Abdel Aziz) confront him with the people of the neighborhood to prevent him from carrying out his plan. Hamada's son Sultan al-Mu'allim returns from America to discover that Nima is married, and his father enters his chest to avenge her. But fate hid many surprises in the events.

When teenager David Bowers renounces his home and family to run off with a quasi-religious cult, his sister, Janet, sets out to bring him back, very nearly becoming brainwashed herself.

A newspaper reporter takes pictures of famous people cheating on their wives in his secret business, and uses them to blackmail them for a lot of money. He rents an apartment in Tokyo with the money and keeps a mistress. One day, the man's wife is raped while alone at home. The wife cannot tell her husband about it. The man goes to a university professor as usual to ask for money, but is confronted with a photo of his wife being raped. If he doesn't want this to be spread to the world, he should never do this again. Meanwhile, the wife, feeling lonely because her husband doesn't pay her attention, accepts the rapist two or three times, and eventually they fall in love with each other...

An office employee, pretending to be weak and crippled, reveals himself as a ruthless criminal.

Barcelona between 1917 and 1923. Is the era of gangsterism, during which gunmen clash between anarchists and thugs paid by The Patronal showed a shocking number of deaths. The confrontation between anarchists and workers of the factory owners Savolta arms worsens when Savolta family decides to end the rebellion hiring murderers hired and plotting to hide their illegal transactions with Germany. Adapted from the novel by Eduardo Mendoza.

Through the poetic lens of visionary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, Muhammad and Larry explores the unique and poignant relationship between two great boxers and two remarkable men who were more than just competitors. They were once teacher and student, and remain close friends.

The idler Nazar, who only used to count flies that he had killed, suddenly appears on the throne as a result of the ignorance of people and the guile of the priest.

Four hoodlums break into a jeweller's house and brutally murder him, his wife and daughter. On the run they kidnap Jenny, a Senator's grand daughter and her boyfriend, but discover that the two will not be taken easily. In the melee that follows, the gang are blown away one by one, until the final vengeful confrontation between Jenny and the remaining gang member.

This satirical comedy follows the strict older generation pitting themselves against the pleasure-seeking youths, both in 1947 and in 1978.

Rigo and la Tulipana meet at the cabaret where they work, he as a singer and she as a fichera. They live an intense love, but Rigo's alcoholism is a source of constant tension.

Zsolt Mohai, an eccentric shop window decorator in his 40s, drops by Anna Parádi on his wedding day, asking her to phone his bride Klára Horváth and call off the event. Drama, discussions and musical numbers ensue over topics like romance, loyalty, ambition, and settling for a family life in a modern day city.

The Great Russian scientist, famous politician and poet M.Lomonosov is severely ill. Understanding that there is not much time left for him to live, he decides to visit his beloved small native town. Taking a coach, he heads for the motherland of his ancestors. A shaky road raises thoughts and reminiscences about his days of youth, about the time when he was young and unknown, how he made first steps on his long way of the truth comprehension. He recollects early death and funeral of his mother, the repeated, and not very successful marriage of his father, hatred of stepmother, care of godfather, who gave him the books of Peter the Great, wandering monk, who taught him the fundamentals of science, Latin, and, of course, his first love.

Two half-brothers have to go on a road trip to find their half-sister and receive a huge inheritance.

Survival! is a 22-minute, Alan Madison-directed instructional wilderness survival film focusing on safety techniques. It is often described as a surprisingly cinematic, educational piece. Four scenarios depict the dangers of hyperthermia and hypothermia and how common sense, being prepared and following a few important tips can save your life: Scenario 1: A fisherman falls in icy water and suffers from hypothermia. Scenario 2: An unprepared family hikes into the mountains and is surprised by a sudden change in the weather. Scenario 3: A couple guys make multiple mistakes in the desert and experience the consequences. Scenario 4: A hunter gets lost in the forest during a winter storm.

Lynda Carter's second musical TV special.