“There is a World in one of those far off stars sand things do not happen there as they happen here”. A love story with a twist, set on a distant planet.
Tag: 1980s
An American Vietnam serviceman arrives on a 5 day R&R leave in Sydney. He meets a local girl and they enjoy their short time together.
A focus on the tormented lives of intellectuals who failed to protest recent troubles in their homeland. Jancsó emphasizes highly evocative and ambiguous imagery over dialog or exposition as he – through visually fascinating imagery – depicts the painful, stunted lives of Hungary’s intellectuals who have remained silent and ineffectual during various political crises.
One in this dramatic anthology series. Set in the 1960s in New York, Lee Kalcheim’s adaptation of his stage play stars Dick Van Dyke and Cloris Leachman as the eccentric Dischingers, a couple who broadcast their morning radio talk show from their apartment. Their first topic of discussion on this particular morning is Princess Grace of Monaco, but the show ends with an entirely different topic.
The toys in the playroom of the Jones household magically come to life when their owners aren’t looking. On Christmas Eve, as the toys eagerly await the arrival of a new toy, Rugby the tiger plots to make sure he remains the favorite toy.
A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only of a job, a wife and a family. He succeeds partially in fulfilling these dreams, but then runs into a conflict on a construction job between the corrupt boss and fellow workers secretly planning a strike. He becomes a pawn in one camp while remaining true to his ideals in the other. The unavoidable conflict destroys him.
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by natural disasters, and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself. These in turn try to hunt the two men down.
Tetsuaki is an unpublished novelist who makes his living by taking odd jobs. When Tetsuaki hears that Mitsuko, a staff at a publishing house, is getting married, he confesses his love to her. Mitsuko rejects him. But after the engagement is broken off she falls in love with Tetsuaki. Unfortunately, Mitsuko comes from a rich family and finds it demeaning to live a life that is too much deprived of material comforts.