Tag: 1980s

March 14, 2020 / Comedy

Leo and Loree are a young couple and aspiring actors trying to succeed in show business. Leo’s career is hampered by his attitude, and Loree’s career is helped by her mother – an Oscar-winning actress – who has opened doors for her. In spite of their feelings for each other, the ups and downs of the couple’s professional lives affect their relationship.

March 8, 2020 / Drama

After narrowly surviving a traumatic brain injury, macho pro boxer Eiji Adachi (Hidekazu Akai) puts his life on the line for another chance at boxing glory—vying for a comeback despite the seriousness of his condition. A hyper-masculine brute with a devil-may-care attitude, the hot-tempered Adachi starts again from the ground up, launching his own Osaka training gym with the hopes of returning to the ring. At times comically absurd, Sakamoto’s film brings a satirical yet bleak approach to the self-destructive nature of the boxer, further bolstered by the very fact that the film is based on the life and career of lead actor Akai himself.

March 8, 2020 / Comedy

A young news reporter schemes to take over the job of a veteran news anchor whose ratings he’s been hired to promote.

March 8, 2020 / Sci-Fi

In a future United States, the only transport available to an individual is public transportation. Predicated on an assertion that “the oil has run out”, an increasingly totalitarian central government has ordered all personal vehicles be impounded by law. One man, a former race car driver, yearns again for his ability to choose his own roads and destiny. He reassembles his race car hidden from confiscation, and sets out for “Free California” which has broken away from the new regime, aided by a young technically savvy teen who feels alienated from this “social” society. 

March 8, 2020 / TV Movie

After Mel Adler’s apartment burns down, his son, who harbors some ill will towards him, tries to put him in a retirement home. He’s also very hard on his son, Jody. He’s telling him which college he should go to. But when he decides to go where he wants, Mel decides to join him, and when he gets there, he clashes with some of the teachers and finds himself attracted to one of them. Eventually, he learns that he might flunk out so he tries to cram so he can pass.

March 7, 2020 / Drama
March 7, 2020 / Arthouse

Gaston Kaboré’s movie «Zan Boko explores the conflict between tradition and modernity with a family in a rural contexr. It has been for long time a central theme in many African films. Kaboré tells the poignant story of a village family swept up in the current tide of urbanization. In doing so, «Zan Boko» expertly reveals the transformation of an agrarian, subsistence society into an industrialized commodity economy.

February 29, 2020 / Documentary

Two English girl babies are switched by mistake in a 1930s hospital, but by being raised by parents other than the real ones, their lives are enriched.