1980s Movies

Allison Silverman never got out much in high school, preferring to write dark poetry and daydream. Part of the reason for her isolation was the...

When the 1989 "one-hit-wonder" glam-metal band "Sonic Grave" embark on a trip to Coachella in hopes of a comeback, their peyote trip pit stop in...

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa...

Best known for their megahit ’80s anthem "Don't You (Forget About Me)”—made famous in John Hughes’ The Breakfast...

Comedy about Zdzisław Najmrodzki, most famous polish criminal in the times of Polish People Republic, named "the getaway king", known for...

Set in Hong Kong in the 1980s, the film follows a fisherman’s son who rises to become a powerful tai pan.

China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.

Growing up on the grounds of one of Germany's largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow - different. For Joachim, the director's youngest son, the...

After finding a mysterious VHS tape depicting the murders of countless people in his room, a motel guest is haunted by angry spirits from the past.

Simon, a 16-year-old suffocated by his strict Mormon upbringing, rebels and crosses the border with friends for a weekend in Canada, as they...

A country priest receives his bishop with the mission of converting a nudist camp.

A strippers' convention and a major contest. The movie focuses on a few strippers, each with her own strong motive to win.

United in Anger: A History of ACT UP is an inspiring documentary about the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the...

When a demonically possessed young lady calls into Bill's Christian radio program seeking help, he ends up inviting her to live with him and his wife...

Set in the 1980s, a young Italian-American from the wrong side of the tracks falls for a Jewish girl from Long Island.

1987: While the other students wonder if new kid Robin is a boy or a girl, Robin forges a complicated bond with the school bully, making increasingly...

Adultery tears apart a long-standing friendship. Based on the opera La Cavalleria Rusticana.

Marion Stokes secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years from 1975 until her death in 2012. For Marion taping was a form of activism to...

This tribute program takes you back into the world of Thierry Ardisson, a particularly creative, provocative, and erudite host and producer. From...