1980 Movies

MOVE: Confrontation in Philadelphia is a fast-paced, independently created award-winning documentary film of the events of the summer of 1978 which le...

TV-adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Outcast of the Islands".

The story of a British/Norwegian collaboration on the building of an oil rig.

Film about the trials facing a family whose patriarch has squandered money into a series of unwise ventures.

Forcing himself to confront his own 16mm camera each day for over two weeks, Suzuki Shiroyasu initially seems to regret his own idea and indulges in v...

Documentary film about the inhabitants of the village of Gager on the island of Rügen. The net and trap fishermen are a close-knit community and use t...

A documentary filmmaker’s latest work attracts the attentions of African secret agents - but what is it they want from the film?

The movie set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centers on the life of the protagoni...

The plot is based on a Japanese folk tale. A wanderer cures a boy by making him a paper toy.

A soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work.

Winsome art critic Peter visits married artists Gilberto and Vera in Brazil for Christmas. Gilberto and Peter are more than friends though, and jealou...

When Song Wei's fiancee Luo Qun is denounced as a right-wing traitor by Party official Wu Yao, he is sentenced to ten years' hard labor. Song Wei brea...

Bern, 1980: A caleidoscopic portrait of Swiss urban life in the early 1980s.

When two dim-witted thieves escape from prison and ransack Mandla’s house, the young boy’s parents believe he and his friend are to blame. Determined...