Tag: 1980s

April 3, 2025 / Comedy

When Max dies in an accident, he goes straight to hell. But the devil Barney makes him an offer: if he manages to get three innocent youths to sell him their souls in the next two months, he may stay on earth. Max accepts and returns to earth, equipped with special powers. However, his task is harder than expected, especially when 7-year-old Tobi demands that he marry his mother.

April 3, 2025 / Thriller

Struggling actress accepts high paying job to play a rich heiress committed in a lunatic asylum, not knowing she’s really being set up as a surrogate for the real girl who’d been murdered.

April 1, 2025 / Fantasy

Based on the famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, this adaptation is fairly faithful to the original. Portraying the sinister tones of old fairy tales in a dream-like or theatrical style, this surreal film focuses mainly on the young girl Kerttu’s journey to rescue her brother Kai from the evil Snow Queen. Kerttu travels through beautiful and hostile lands, meeting various strange and threatening characters on the way – befriended and helped by some, waylaid and trapped by others. In the classic style of such tales her journey is episodic, punctuated with scenes of events unfolding at the Snow Queen’s palace.

April 1, 2025 / Short

“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.

April 1, 2025 / Short

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.

March 29, 2025 / Arthouse

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.

March 29, 2025 / Theatre

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.

December 25, 2024 / Family

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.