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…
Browsing: Movies – 1980s
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Patchy comedy about a wild party for a soon-to-be-married young man played with moderate charm by Tom Hanks. Aside from Hanks’ likeable presence, the film…
Middle-aged Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield) is the poster boy for self-made millionaires. He’s taken his immigrant father’s humble tailor shop and turned it into a national…
It’s hard to imagine who Lyndall Hobbs thought would love her parody of early sixties beach movies like How To Stuff A Wild Bikini (1965) and Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)…
Insecure but intelligent and wise-cracking 17-year-old Hill Valley High student Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) is working as an assistant to his eccentric scientist pal…
Doc Brown’s time machine works its magic once more in this merry sequel to Back To The Future. Barely back to 1985 after his original jaunt,…
Australian police officers Trevor Darling (David Argue) and Nikki Iceton (Gia Carides) have to escort Kath (newcomer Lydia Miller), a young Aboriginal woman, from Sydney…
Set in the early days of World War II and based on a true story, Australian actor Jack Thompson stars as Stanley Graham, a poor…
Chicago kid Mick O’Brien (Sean Penn) is sent to Rainford Juvenile Correctional Facility in Illinois for vehicular manslaughter. Unfortunately, the person he killed is the…
Harris (Richard Lynch) is the Jim Jones-style leader of a cult called Unity Fields who dies during a mass suicide in a fire in 1973.…
An Alien Investigation and Defence team are dispatched to hunt down some extra-terrestrial aliens who have depopulated a small town, using the humans as stock…
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…
Bagdad Cafe was the first American film made by German director Percy Adlon. Casting his German star, the flamboyantly overweight Marianne Sägebrecht to lead an otherwise…
Every character in this complex and extraordinary made-for-television comedy film is an easily-recognisable stereotype – seen through the eyes of the main characters, Joe Marriot…
An autobiographical account of Henry Chinaski – a booze-soaked poet-writer (Charles Bukowski wrote the screenplay based on his experiences) with Mickey Rourke in the title…
This gore-drenched, low-budget gutter-trash classic is one of the key horror movies of the 1980s. It tells the bizarre story of the Bradley brothers -…
American cinema box office receipts in 1989 totalled a record five billion dollars – Batman, Tim Burton’s incredibly over-hyped adaptation of the DC comic, accounted…
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…
A world after the 21st-century oil wars – with energy at a premium, a global fuel shortage and the Earth’s food and resources running out,…
This tale of two ferrets, a tiger and an eagle – supported by a cast of beautiful human bodies – in the pursuit of good…