Cinematic Era: 1980 Vintage

A story about the life of a high school and a physical education teacher.

Kawthar leaves her fiancé Ahmed and marries the wealthy Shamis, the owner of the factory where her father works, after a quarrel broke out between them because of her father. She wins his admiration. Ahmed completes his studies and graduates from the Faculty of Engineering. He falls in love with his colleague, the engineer Nahid, and they agree to get married, while Shamis is killed by his lover's husband. Kawthar asks the engineer Ahmed to help her manage her late husband's factory because she faces many problems in managing it. By chance, she learns about Ahmed's relationship with Nahid.

In Nicaragua, 1977, corruption and abuse of power are everyday occurrences under the Somoza family’s dictatorship. Eruptions of violence lead to a civil war, which the Sandinista revolutionaries win – at least for the time being. Against this backdrop, the conflict between a young soldier of the Somoza regime and his family, who sympathize with the insurgents, is illustrated.

Two men and a young girl meet at the end of the world

A cowardly man is being scared by trolls underneath an old tree.

Antonio, a Neapolitan merchant in Istanbul, knows the prostitute Linda, known as Lulu, in Paris, ignoring his profession. After robbing his patron, Ciro, of a fine little bundle, the girl embarks the young man on a ship bound for Turkey, after having been drugged, and, on waking, makes him believe that he married him. —Ulf Kjell Gür

Taiwanese romantic comedy film.

Lovers Edgar and Lucia dream of happiness, but Lucia's brother Henry is preparing her marriage to another man. He forces his sister to sign a marriage contract and enter into an open fight with Edgar.

Story of obsessive love between two women.

A live, half-hour campaign broadcast for Governor Jerry Brown during the 1980 Democratic primaries—produced by Francis Ford Coppola and staged in Madison, Wisconsin—experimenting with real-time video effects. The production was plagued by technical mishaps (audio failure, on-screen typos, and misfiring composites), earning the tongue-in-cheek nickname “Apocalypse Brown.”

The story of the life and witness of a Christian Police Officer called Dennis Hill asks the question, why did he have to die that night? How could such a tragedy be part of God’s plan? Denny Hill, himself asks, “Where will you spend eternity?”

Johan, a former Volksdeutscher, after thirty years after the end of the Second World War, comes back to the place where he was born and grew up, visits his birthplace where he finds Dane and Janja, the colonists who were assigned Johan’s house to. Johan recognizes the mulberry tree in the yard.

A middle-aged businessman, a neo-liberal, returns to Portugal to realize the ambitious dream of a banana plantation and help reconstruct the national economy, weakened by the "communist" revolutionaries. He fails. He even fails to meet his death, from which he mysteriously "escapes". To be continued?

Paalattu Kunjikannan is a 1980 Indian Malayalam film, directed and produced by Boban Kunchacko.

Close The comedy quartet Klyderne attempts to create "a typical Danish film" through a long series of absurd sketches, parodies, musical interludes, and animated segments. The film includes the story of Anton W. Olsen and his singing foot, a soccer match between knitting ladies, a highly dramatic silent film horror movie, and an examination of the Danish national character as expressed at a campsite.

While the Easter holidays are over, a young woman named Cécile and her brother Pierre return to the family home. There they meet their grandfather Léon, an old communist militant who has shaken Lenin's hand.

KING Shih-chieh plays A, who has no clue how to count the stairs of the old broken staircase. Should you count the landing? B, played by LI Ang, tells A, “I can’t possibly tell you what I don’t know, but the stairs can lead you to where you want to go. Isn’t that enough?” B is aware that she can’t fathom A’s rules. To A, the question already exists. If he can’t figure it out, it will keep haunting him like a wandering ghost.

A couple arrive in an off-season Cesenatico but they quickly split up after a bad argument. The girl then settles in an uninhabited flat with a photographer she met before and with whom she has an affair. His ex gets kidnapped by three amateur robbers. Both stories end with a dramatic and grotesque epilogue.

Jelena spends her summer holiday tending a flock of sheep. A plane from a nearby aerodrome attracts her attention and she and the pilot engage in spontaneous games.

Explores the relationship between an eleven-year-old daughter and her ailing mother, who is losing a grasp of reality in the surrounding environment of insensitivity and cruelty.

Paparayudu gets jailed for a murder that he didn't commit. So he tries to prove his innocence and he gets rid of all his enemies too.

The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.

A musical comedy about the after-school activities of high school and college students, particularly in disco houses.

A story about the conflicting emotions of love and hate, duty and selfishness in the human mind.

The Great Barrier Reef, an oasis of life off Australia in a barren ocean where beauty and terror live side by side. Come meet the hidden killers, the crocodiles...the sea snakes...the toadfish...the moray eel...and the most venomous creature on Earth, the deadly Box Jellyfish.

Film starring Ramesh Deo, P. Jairaj amd Shashi Kapoor

Primitive human Zan learns of his past and future lives when he discovers a spaceship.

Two close friends get into trouble when another friend intrudes into their lives with a personal motive.

The story of the town of Cardamom and the people there, as well as the only characters who stir up serious trouble.

In his further adventures Frank finds success and unhappiness.

"The Courage to Kill". A father and son showdown. The father arrives uninvited at the son's tiny apartment.

A mysterious object of Italian cinema, starring cult figures from the Roman scene of the 1970s and 1980s, an ambitious attempt to portray the Roman dolce vita on the spot, or what remains of it after the post-1968 recession. Characters adrift dance in the dark, bringing their explosive vitality to the stage, but the end of it all is near and will overwhelm them.

Documentary about the state of El Salvador in the late 70's.

A young woman wants to know who is responsible for the death of her parents. Ten years ago, little Sonja and her brother Niki Schmitt lost their parents in a car accident. Mayor Gassner provided accommodation for the two at that time. Sonja now returns to her hometown to solve the death of her parents. She blames Mayor Gassner until she learns the whole truth.

The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game casualties of New York's upper depths, with Patti Astor statuesquely hysterical as a 20-year-old Norma Desmond, made up to recall Edie Sedgwick and surrounded by Warhol's lost children. We've been here before, but without the hindsight: a camera cruise along a hustler's meat-rack, kitchen-talk over cold canned spaghetti, Taylor Mead grimacing in a spastic dance, the silent stud a sullenly passive observer. Mitchell's ear for campy native wit and eye for figures in a loft-scape happily keep at bay the otherwise contagious NY ennui.

A love story between two women in the Naples outskirts, a universe so far away from the glare of modernity, turbid, rural, completely naked in its ugliness and sorrow, where "people are talking".

Chandran and Babu grow from rags to riches by illegal means. Chandran wishes to marry Daisy, who was part of their operations. But Babu advises him to kill her as she knows all their secrets.

An undercover spy of the Revolution approaches a ruthless guard at Côn Đảo prison to extract information.

Industrialist Sood's manager Vishal gets expelled for siphoning off money from the company. To seek revenge, he kidnaps Babloo, one of Sood's twin sons, and inducts him into the criminal world.

The intent of novice director Solveig Hoogesteijn to make a drama about two Venezuelans from opposite sides of the economic and social tracks wobbles and weakens in the telling. Although the two compatriots both live in the capital, Caracas, and both love music, they have a need to go out into the rest of the country and discover their roots. As big-city dwellers, they are limited in their perspectives, though this excursion into other areas of Venezuela may prove more illuminating to them than to a foreign audience.

TV-adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Outcast of the Islands".

A gang of city children is secretly practicing to enter a musical competition. All of them plunder their parents' supplies in order to build their own stage and amplifiers. Baffled by these unexplained thefts, the parents decide to hold a meeting as their suspicions turn to a group of camper folks living across from their flat. The tables are turned when the residents take a camping holiday of their own and end up being mistrusted by the locals as much as they themselves did their own neighbors. Meanwhile, the children's gang meets a rival group of kids who are planning to enter the same competition.

Experimental short by Harumi Fujii.

A minor thug, Raghu, and a pickpocket, Maria, fall in love. To find proof, Raghu joins a gang that killed Maria's father but soon realises that they are planning to kill Maria to bury any evidence.

Documentary about Brazilian history, from 1945 until the 70s, focusing on president Juscelino Kubitschek, his political rise, his philosophy of economical development, his gigantic project ...

A journey in a second-class passenger car in Soviet Georgia. People are squeezed into cramped seats, some of them trying to get comfortable on lying places - shelves. The main "entertainment" is an elegant blond man who claims he is an actor and has traveled the world. His stories mesmerize most of the passengers. Nevertheless, there is a man of stern appearance who differs from the masses. He travels with a trained sparrow hidden in his coat and does not believe the tales of the so-called actor, and openly declares it. The men get into a fight...

In the film "A fuego lento," Guadalupe Palma, a dancer and part-time prostitute, finds herself at the center of a suspenseful and enigmatic story, inadvertently setting off a chaotic pursuit by various factions, including ruthless gangsters. Her impoverished musician boyfriend, Óscar, becomes entangled in the intrigue, resulting in a unique cinematic experience with minimal dialogue.

The exploits of an odd adulterous couple