1980 movies

Last Metro, The (1980)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France
Actors: Deneuve, Catherine | Depardieu, Gérard | Poiret, Jean | Ferréol, Andréa | Dubost, Paulette | Richard, Jean-Louis | Risch, Maurice | Haudepin, Sabine | Bennent, Heinz | Baltauss, Christian | Belot, Pierre | Dupré, René | Loring, Aude | Tasma, Alain | Thiéry, Rose
Directors: Truffaut, François
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Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew and was compelled to leave the country. His wife Marion, an actress, directs the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive with a new play, and hires Bernard Granger for the leading role. But Lucas is actually hiding in the basement… A film about art and life.

Blues Brothers, The (1980)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Music | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Belushi, John | Aykroyd, Dan | Brown, James | Calloway, Cab | Charles, Ray | Franklin, Aretha | Cropper, Steve | Dunn, Donald | Dunne, Murphy | Hall, Willie | Malone, Tom | Marini, Lou | Murphy, Matt | Rubin, Alan | Fisher, Carrie
Directors: Landis, John
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After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church stopped its support and will sell the place to the education authority, and the only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their “mission from god” they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?

Ordinary People (1980)

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sutherland, Donald | Moore, Mary Tyler | Hirsch, Judd | Hutton, Timothy | Walsh, M. Emmet | McGovern, Elizabeth | Manoff, Dinah | Lehne, Fredric | Sikking, James | Hoffman, Basil | Doebler, Scott | Redeker, Quinn K. | Costello, Mariclare | Mundy, Meg | Hubbard, Elizabeth
Directors: Redford, Robert
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Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.

Elephant Man, The (1980)

Monday, December 7th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Hurt, John | Bancroft, Anne | Gielgud, John | Hiller, Wendy | Jones, Freddie | Elphick, Michael | Gordon, Hannah | Ryan, Helen | Standing, John | Fletcher, Dexter | Dunlop, Lesley | Nicholls, Phoebe | Gorman, Pat | Davenport, Claire
Directors: Lynch, David
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Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a side-show freak.

Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980)

Friday, November 6th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Spacek, Sissy | Jones, Tommy Lee | Helm, Levon | Boyens, Phyllis | Anderson Jr., Bill | Dickerson, Foister | McCown, Malla | McCown, Pamela | Salvilla, Kevin | Sanderson, William | Lucas, Sissy | Patterson, Pat | Warf, Brian | Watson, Elizabeth | D'Angelo, Beverly
Directors: Apted, Michael
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At only thirteen years of age, Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible for a sizeable family. Loretta appears destined to a life of homemaking, but Doolittle recognises his wife’s musical talent, and buys her a guitar as an anniversary present one year. This gift sets Loretta Lynn on the gruelling, tumultuous path to country music greatness.

Somewhere in Time (1980)

Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Reeve, Christopher | Seymour, Jane | Plummer, Christopher | Wright, Teresa | Erwin, Bill | Voskovec, George | French, Susan | Alvin, John | Gale, Eddra | Bennett, Audrey | Macy, William H. | Coven, Laurence | Bugg, Susan | Michaels, Christy | Matheson, Ali Marie
Directors: Szwarc, Jeannot
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The movie opens with college student Richard Collier gathering rave reviews for his new play. At the party, he comes face to face with an old woman who presses something in his hand and whispers, “Come back to me.” He opens his hand to find an old pocket watch. Cut to several years later. Playwright Collier is in the midst of a break-up and writers block. He leaves the city for awhile to think things out and finds himself near his alma mater at the Grand Hotel. While wandering around the hotel, he finds a photograph of a beautiful young woman. Richard is entranced, and tries to find out all he can about her. During the course of his research he learns she was Elise McKenna, an actress from the turn of the century. He also discovers that she was the mysterious old woman who gave him the watch. Finally determining that he must meet her somehow, he employees self-hypnosis and wills himself back to 1912. He meets Elise and they fall in love, which does not make her manager, William Fawcett Robinson, happy at all. Will their love survive Robinson’s disapproval? Will Richard be able to stay in 1912?

The Fog (1980)

Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Barbeau, Adrienne | Curtis, Jamie Lee | Leigh, Janet | Houseman, John | Atkins, Tom | Canning, James | Cyphers, Charles | Kyes, Nancy | Mitchell, Ty | Holbrook, Hal | Goff, John F. | Flower, George 'Buck' | Waldon, Regina | Haynie, Jim | Igus, Darrow
Directors: Carpenter, John
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The centennial of the small town of Antonio Bay, California has finally arrived. However, the events of 100 years ago are about to come back to haunt the town, because a conspiracy of the town’s founders resulted in the deaths of several lepers in a shipwreck. The conspirators had planned to lure the lepers’ ship towards the rocks so that it would sink, and they could recover the cargo of gold and use it to pay for building the town. The sinister plot succeeded when a fog rolled in, blinding the crew, and forcing them to follow the false fire on shore. Now the ghosts of the Elizabeth Dane’s crew are back - and so is the fog that led them to their doom. Only now, it conceals and protects the ghosts of the crew, as they seek their revenge on the residents of Antonio Bay…

The Changeling (1980)

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Scott, George C. | Van Devere, Trish | Douglas, Melvyn | Marsh, Jean | Colicos, John | Morse, Barry | Sherwood, Madeleine | Burns, Helen | Hyland, Frances | Springford, Ruth | Christmas, Eric | Maxwell, Roberta | Behrens, Bernard | Douglas, James B. | Campbell, J. Kenneth
Directors: Medak, Peter
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John Russell, a composer and music professor, loses his wife and daughter in a tragic accident. Seeking solace, he moves into an old mansion unoccupied for twelve years. But a child-like presence seems to be sharing the house, and trying to share its secrets, with him. Through research into the house’s past and a seance held within, Russell discovers the horrific secret of the house’s past, a secret that the presence will no longer allow to be kept.

The Unseen (1980)

Friday, July 10th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Furst, Stephen | Bach, Barbara | Lassick, Sydney | Goldoni, Lelia | Lamm, Karen | Barr, Douglas | Young, Lois | Severn, Maida
Directors: Steinmann, Danny
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Two sisters; Karen and Jennifer, Tony Ross; Jen’s disgruntled beau and female reporter Vicki Thompson stumble across siblings Virginia & Ernest Keller allowing with their brother/offspring Junior dwelling beneath the bowels of an ancient former hotel.

City Of The Living Dead (1980)

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Genres: Horror
Countries: Italy
Actors: George, Christopher | MacColl, Catriona | De Mejo, Carlo | Interlenghi, Antonella | Lombardo Radice, Giovanni | Doria, Daniela | Jovine, Fabrizio | Venantini, Luca | Soavi, Michele | Venantini, Venantino | D'Ausilio, Enzo | Aste, Adelaide | Rossi, Luciano | Sampson, Robert | Agren, Janet
Directors: Fulci, Lucio
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The suicide of a priest marks the beginning of the end. We have this story seen through the eyes of two sorts of teams with the journalist Peter Bell and Mary, a girl who experienced a vision of the mentioned priest, in one hand and Gerry, a psychiatrist, and Sandra, one of his patients, in the other hand. With these four characters we are going to see a story that begins just with unusual and inexplicable things happening like the broke of a mirror without any logical explanation. But soon the death will be there and the only possible solution, of course, is to go deeper in the case of the priest before it’s too late. If they can’t end with the problem, the death bodies will never rest in peace again.