Movies 1980 Page 48

Rush premiered at the 18th New York Film Festival, and was the first film of Evelyn Purcell.

The film revolves around two characters: a high school student who is intelligent, beautiful, and fulfills all the expectations placed on her by her...

Complex, introspective children in low-income neighborhoods of New York City tell their stories.

An alarm clock wakes a man who washes his face, has breakfast, drives his car to work, spins records, returns home, and takes his pills. It's a world...

Rai adaptation of the play by G.B. Shaw.

Short parody of black film whose male hero meets a mysterious lady who turns out to be his destiny, of course. Unlike black film, where action...

This year's Record Award was decided to go to popular singer Natsu Akemi. Yoshioka, the president of the production company, was using money,...

Lizuca is only six years old, not much older than her pet dachshund Patrocle, when her mother dies and she is left to live with her grandparents on...

Richard Gaikowski chronicles punk rock band The Offs' performing at San Francisco's notorious "Deaf Club"

A treasure hunt sparks the continuing violence in this Hong Kong action film, yet the film does not focus only on the violent nature of some of the...

Subhadra's mother faces criticism from society after her father abandons them. Her mother wishes Subhadra to live a scrupulous life but is shocked...

A 5-minute look at a room through photography and animation.

“In 1979-80, I was teaching in the Media Studies Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo, filling in for Woody and Steina...

A teenage girl considered by everybody as "difficult" is sent to the village to live with her grandfather.

Musical Special designed to showcase the minimal talents of Raquel Welch. Highlights include: a scene featuring Welch and Mickey Rooney, portraying...

A Black screenwriter is hired to write the $50,000,000 remake of The Birth of a Nation.

Baadur accidentally gets a lottery ticket which he can win a prestigious car - a white Volga GAZ-24.

Dorothy is carried back to Oz by a green turkey balloon on the final Thanksgiving she is to spend with her aunt and uncle, who are moving to a...

This film takes a candid, inside look at the world of juvenile delinquency. We are shown the tough existence on the streets of Montreal, but it could...

With roots in the Los Angeles country & folk-rock scenes, Linda Ronstadt became one of the most popular interpretative singers of the 1970s, earning...

Short film.

In this interplanetary baseball story, a group of friends are playing a sandlot game on Earth that is noticed by Irwin, an outer space promoter of...

A 1980 pene movie from Bathaluman Productions. Original title Asawa Mo, Kalaguyo Ko.

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

A nervous ad executive creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream girl he keeps seeing everywhere but whom he...

Part two of the three-part play by William Corlett about a young man's emergence into the adult world.

Kay Gilbert goes into hospital for a minor operation which goes badly wrong. Based on an actual case, this play tells the story of her fight for...

Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of the beautiful Countess St. Alyre brings him into...

A young couple gets so caught up in their sexual games and role playing that they begin to act them out in public.

Organised by Terri Hooley's Good Vibration Records, this legendary gig found almost 1800 people cramming into The Ulster Hall to see local band The...

A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.

Two middle-class Dublin couples get together for a Christmas Eve party which degenerates into a kind of Irish "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"?...

A Visual Diary is a look at a private moment in one's life. A narrative form without utilizing a story line. The collaboration incorporates...

A televised concert special featuring Barry Manilow and special guest star Dionne Warwick.

One man's defiant stand against the hypocrisy of polite society is the theme of Molière's comic masterpiece. Ian Holm stars in this film set in...

Homecomin' is based on a true story of the coming together of a father and his son after a year-long separation. The strain caused by the separation...

A film loop twisted at its splice reverses a scene to its mirror image with each repetition. Here, spinning propellers describe three different...