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Paris By Night - 1988
Written and Directed by David Hare. Starring Charlotte Rampling and Michael Gambon in a political thriller evolving around a female member of the British Parliament who is confronted by a dark figure from her past while at a convention in Paris. |
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Talk Radio - 1988
Written and Directed by Oliver Stone and based on the play written by Eric Bogosian who stars in the film as an acerbic radio talk show host with an important few days after discovering that his controversial talk show is about to be "picked up" nationally. However, he finds himself in a state of turmoil with a crazed love life and fears that the management of the network will try to alter the content of his show. To make matters worse, he copes with the burden of being harassed by a neo-Nazi angered by his forthright opinions – angered enough to kill. Also starring Alec Baldwin, Leslie Hope, Michael Wincott, John C. McGinley, and Ellen Green. |
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Wall Street - 1987
Written and Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Terrence Stamp, Sean Young, and featuring Michael Douglas’s Academy Award winning performance as Gordon Gecko. Wallstreet is the story of Bud Fox, a struggling broker who is taken under the wing of Investment Tycoon, Gordon Gecko. Fox entangles himself in Gecko’s web of shady deals, riding the rollercoaster to success until he is confronted with an investment deal that comes to close to home, jeopardizing him and his family’s future. |
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Walker - 1987
Directed by Alex Cox and starring Ed Harris as William Walker. He and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat. All is being financed by an American multimillionaire who has his own interest in this country. Also starring Richard Masur, Marlee Matlin, Rene Auberjonois, Marshall Bell, and Peter Boyle and featuring an original score by Joe Strummer.
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Master of the Universe - 1987
Directed by Gary Goddard and starring Dolph Lundgren as He-Man and Frank Langella as Skeletor. A group of fantasy world freedom fighters, led by the heroic He-Man are accidentally transported to Earth by a mysterious Cosmic Key, which holds the power to make his nemesis Skeletor all-powerful. Once on Earth, He-Man and his team up with two teenagers as they battle Skeletor and attempt to find the key and return home to Eternia. Also starring Courtney Cox in her debut film role. |
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Good Morning, Babylon - 1987
Directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani in their only English language film and starring Joaquim de Almeida, Vincent Spano, Gretta Scacchi, and Charles Dance. After the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, brothers Nicola and Andrea immigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventures and near-disasters, they end up in Hollywood designing sets for D.W.Griffith and marring beautiful actresses when tragedy strikes. With the arrival of World War I, the brothers are faced with fighting on opposite sides. |
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Cherry 2000 - 1987
Directed by Steve De Jarnatt and starring Melanie Griffith, Laurence Fishburne, Ben Johnson, and David Andrews. When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the treacherous and lawless region of 'The Zone', Treadwell learns the hard way that the perfect woman is made not of computer chips and diodes, but of real flesh and blood! |
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True Stories - 1986
Starring David Byrne, John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, Spalding Gray, and Annie McEnroe. Talking Heads front man David Byrne visits a typical (and fictional) Texas town, on the eve of its sesquicentennial celebration. Along the way, he meets various colorful characters, most notably Lewis Fyne, a big-hearted bachelor in search of matrimony. Directed by David Byrne in his first and only feature film.
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Half Moon Street - 1986
Directed by Bob Swaim and starring Sigourney Weaver and Michael Caine. Half Moon Street follows Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a frustrated research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London who supplements her income by moonlighting at the Jasmine Escort Service. When Lord Bulbeck, a mediator for the Israeli Arab Peace Accord, falls in love with Lauren as an escort, she becomes a pawn in some very dirty politics. |
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Crimewave - 1985
Written by Sam Raimi, Joel and Ethan Cohen, and directed by Raimi. Starring Louise Lasser, Bruce Campbell, and Brion James. Crimewave follows a pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator / hit men who kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, then stalk the partner who hired them, his wife. Told from the perspective of a nerdy man sitting on the electric chair, falsely accused of the crime. |
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Plenty - 1985
Directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Meryl Streep, Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ian McKellen, Sam Neill, Charles Dance, Tracy Ullman, and Sting. Plenty is the story of Susan Traherne who has been irreparably changed by her wartime experiences as a resistance fighter. She sets out in the post-war era to find her own path in life, no matter what the cost. Produced with Joseph Papp, and based on David Hare’s classic play. |
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Pirates of Penzance - 1983
Frederick has fallen in love with sweet innocent Mabel. Yet his vocation is an impediment to their union. Perhaps the situation can be rectified by his old nurse, Ruth, who made a dreadful blunder years before. Starring Kevin Kline in his feature film debut. Also starring, Angela Lansbury and Linda Ronstadt, and adapted from Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operetta of the same name. First of two co-productions with Joseph Papp and the New York Public Theater. |
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Conan the Barbarian – 1982
Written by Oliver Stone and John Milius and directed by John Milius. Conan the Barbarian is the epic tale of child sold into slavery who grows into a man who seeks revenge against the warlord who massacred his tribe. Starring James Earl Jones, Sandahl Bergman and Arnold Schwarzenegger in his first major motion picture.
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Das Boot - 1981
Directed by Wolfgang Peterson and starring Jürgen Prochnow, and Herbert Grönemeyer. Das Boot follows the terror filled lives of a German U Boat crew as they engage in the infamous WWII campaign, “The Battle of the Atlantic”. Nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Adapted screenplay and Best Director. |
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The Hand - 1981
Starring Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Viveca Lindfors, Annie McEnroe, and Bruce McGill. The Hand marks Oliver Stone’s first major film about Jon Lansdale, a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. When the hand cannot be found at the scene of the accident, it soon returns, following Jon, and murdering those who anger him. |
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Victoria - 1980
Based on the novel by Knut Hamsun. Directed by Bo Widerberg and starring Hans Christian Blech and Erik Eriksson. After Victoria promises to marry a wealthy suitor able to provide desperately needed funds to save her father's deteriorating castle and land, Victoria's self worth plummets. Her loyalty and duty to her father drives her to repress her strong attraction to a lesser suitor, Johannes, leaving him in a life of yearning for the unattainable Victoria. |
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Heart Beat - 1980
Directed by John Byrum, and starring Nick Nolte as Neil Cassady, Sissy Spacek as Carolyn Cassady, and John Heard as Jack Kerouac. Cassady imparts his wisdom, and helps Kerouac take on the world. But their friendship is tested by the relationship they share with the woman who would eventually become Cassady's wife, Carolyn.
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