Judy Bernly (Jane Fonda) – a housewife whose husband left her for his secretary – begins her own secretarial career at a huge corporation called…
Browsing: Movies 1980
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The tail of a plane slices through dark clouds like a shark fin breaking through the moonlit surf in Jaws . . . and so begins the…
Sleazy pet store owner Lou Gutchel (Sydney Lassick) has been dog-snatching puppies for the illegal research experiments of unscrupulous pharmaceutical executive Slade (Dean Jagger). Meanwhile,…
William Hurt made his film debut in this sci-fi/horror flick – unquestionably one of the trippiest movies ever released by a Hollywood studio – playing…
When John Travolta dropped out of American Gigolo everyone said he was ruining his career. But Travolta took a walk and Richard Gere stepped into his Georgio…
This sequel to Every Which Way But Loose (1979) typifies the kind of lightweight, disposable comic vehicles that paid Clint Eastwood’s rent in the late…
In the (future) year of 1994, Alphie (George Gilmour) and Bibi (Catherine Mary Stewart) – two sweet, naive youths from Moose Jaw, Canada – travel…
Atlantic City is a sweet and flaky movie about an assortment of down-and-outs. Lou (Burt Lancaster) is an ageing numbers runner living on the fringe of…
Babylon is the story of a group of young men living in a black ghetto area of South London (the film was shot on location…
Bad Timing is seen in flashback after a traumatic incident sends young American girl Milena Flaherty (Theresa Russell) to an emergency room in Vienna in…
The peace-loving inhabitants of the small planet Akir are threatened by a genetically deficient and vicious band of marauders led by the evil Sador (John…
This made-for-television spy drama – shot on location on the Isle of Wight and broadcast on ITV on 19 October 1980 – was the first…
Two 11-year-old friends – the manipulative Leo (Richard Thomas) and the manipulated Mike (Peter Clark) have a plan to get some police attention. Using a…
In 1949 Jean Simmons and David Houston starred in The Blue Lagoon as the victims of a shipwreck who grow up in each other’s company on…
Tom Wolfe’s 1987 novel about the Greed Decade was penetrating. prophetic and incisively satirical. Director Brian De Palma’s $45 million film version of the book…
Two young children surreptitiously watch through a window as their mother is having sex with a man. When the young voyeurs are caught, the man…
Aldous Huxley gave the world a chilling picture of genetic controls and behaviour conditioning in his 1932 novel Brave New World. It was a world…
Beautifully filmed, expertly acted and meticulously directed by Bruce Beresford, Breaker Morant tells the true story of the court-martial of three officers – two Australian…
Singer Kate (Hazel O’Connor) claws her way into the charts, with help from spiv manager-cum-lover Danny (Phil Daniels), only to find the glitter tarnished and…
Clint Eastwood directed this light and pleasing adventure comedy about a group of misfits who choose to live out their fantasies. Eastwood himself stars as Bronco…