Taking place in 1941, Love in a Fallen City centers on Pai, a young woman who has been ostracized by her family for divorcing her rich husband. A local match-maker, Mrs. Hsu, takes pity on Pai and decides to bring her to Hong Kong, under the guise of employing her as the Hsu's nanny, but in reality to introduce her to Fan. Pai and Fan seem to hit it off, but Fan's refusal to marry Pai soon sours things. However, as the Japanese begin to invade Hong Kong, the two begin to realize their true feelings for each other.

Twenty Years Later

1984

Portuguese

8.3

♡ 4

94%

Action

brazilian military dictatorship

Eduardo Coutinho Director

Elizabeth Teixeira as

Ferreira Gullar as Portuguese Narration

Tite de Lemos as Portuguese Narrator

Eduardo Coutinho as Self

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.

Station to Heaven

1984

Japanese

7.0

♡ 1

Masanobu Deme Director

Sayuri Yoshinaga as Kayo Hayashiba

Tomokazu Miura as Kouichi Hashimoto

Masahiko Tsugawa as Kouji Fukumi

Nobuyoshi Araki as Photographer

From a true incident that happened in 1960's Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but medieval in its characters and emotions as it focuses on a tangled web of murder and deceit encountered by a beautiful woman, Kayo after her abusive husband is murdered.

Return of the Bastard Swordsman

1984

Cn

6.4

♡ 23

Action

Chun-Ku Lu Director

Elvis Tsui as

Jason Pai Piao as

Chun Kang Wang as

Tony Liu as

Just when audiences thought the director couldn't get more spectacular and outrageous, he unleashed this eye-filling, mind-bending "Martial Arts World" sequel of clan rivalries, ninja atrocities, wizard sorceries, and the mythical Silkworm style that changes our hero into a veritable Spider-swordsman. The screen practically explodes with colorful characters and kung-fu -- all directed, co-written, and co-choreographed by Lu Chun-ku, and showcasing some of the best Shaw Brothers action stars. The original Bastard Swordsman was just the beginning, this superlative cult classic that out-phantasmagoricals the original.

Alley Cat

1984

English

5.3

♡ 15

10%

Al Valletta Director

Tony Oliver as Bob Mertel

Jon Greene as Boyle

Robert Torti as Johnny

Dennis Edwards as Strickland

After her grandparents are savagely attacked, Billie uses her knowledge of martial arts to begin dishing out her own brand of vigilante justice.

Tricheurs

6.2

Barbet Schroeder Director

Jacques Dutronc as Elric

Robby Müller as Ingénieur

Kurt Raab as Jorg

Roger Sarbib as Patron Suzie

Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.

Marche à l'ombre

1984

French

6.6

♡ 1

Action

Comedy

Drama

Michel Blanc Director

Michel Blanc as Denis

Gérard Lanvin as François

François Berléand as Inspecteur receleur

Bernard Farcy as Monsieur Christian

Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here they spend nights in the underground, and squat in houses with the African immigrants. One day they both fall in love with Mathilde a blond dancer and follow her to New York.

Bye Bye Jupiter

1984

Japanese

4.3

♡ 5

Ishirô Honda Director

Tomokazu Miura as Dr. Eiji Honda

Masumi Okada as Dr. Mohammed Mansur

Hisaya Morishige as Earth Federation President

Toshirô Mifune as Samurai on TV

In the 22nd century, scientists from an energy-depleted Earth research new fuel sources in the far corners of the solar system, where they discover an ancient alien race from Jupiter as well as the emergence of an apocalyptically dangerous black hole. Koji Hashimoto's 1983 sci-fi adventure was conceived as a Japanese competitor to the upcoming sequel to Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001, titled 2010, and often mirrors the sequel's plot.

Nam Pu

1984

Thai

7.5

♡ 1

Biography

Drama

drug addiction

Euthana Mukdasanit Director

Rewat Buddhinan as

Wasamon Watharodom as

Amphol Lumpoon as Nam Pu

Patravadi Mejudhon as Suwannee Sukontha

The story as told by his mother of an eighteen year old boy who falls into a life of drugs and violence and of the consequences to himself and those around him.

For Kayako

1984

Japanese

6.9

♡ 1

Action

Drama

Kôhei Oguri Director

Jun Hamamura as Akio Matsumoto

Takuzô Kawatani as Irujun Im

Takeshi Katô as Kyusu Im

Tokie Hidari as Shinsyun Ku

A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean.

Kaddish

1984

English

7.7

♡ 3

Documentary

Steve Brand Director

Steve Brand as Narrator

Menachem Begin as Self

Norbert Wollheim as Self

Adolf Hitler as Self - Walks with Horthy

From an early age Yossi Klein received a special education. He was prepared for another Holocaust. So were other children in Boro Park, the largest Orthodox survivor community in America, and this candid portrait of a young Jewish activist coming to terms with his father's traumatic history is as bracing as any fiction. Through his writing and activism, Yossi attempts to carry on the legacy of struggle passed on to him. A portrait emerges of a young man whose world view and personal outlook have been principally shaped by an event that took place before he was born.

Harry & Son

1984

English

5.8

♡ 6

30%

Paul Newman Director

Paul Newman as Harry Keach

Maury Chaykin as Lawrence

Joanne Woodward as Lilly

Morgan Freeman as Siemanowski

Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical lifestyle and has a strained relationship with his daughter Nina as he does not approve of her husband. When Harry is fired from his job, his life changes drastically as he is made to focus on the relationships around him.

Don't Open Till Christmas

1984

English

4.7

♡ 6

17%

Edmund Purdom Director

Caroline Munro as Caroline Munro

Kelly Baker as 'Experience' Girl

Keith Smith as Experience Santa

Alan Lake as Giles

It's just days before Christmas in London, but not everyone is full of good cheer - as a maniac with a pathological hatred of Santa Claus stalks the streets, butchering any man that’s unlucky enough to be wandering around dressed as Old Saint Nick.

Viva la vie

1984

French

6.1

♡ 2

Claude Lelouch Director

Raymond Pellegrin as Barret

Charlotte Rampling as Catherine Perrin

Michel Piccoli as Michel Perrin

Myriam Boyer as Pauline

The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer shows only a long sequence of faces gazing speechlessly in space. "Like all my movies, this one is about a man and a woman", says Lelouch in the interview.

They're Playing with Fire

1984

English

5.1

♡ 14

35%

Howard Avedis Director

Sybil Danning as Diane Stevens

Dominick Brascia as Glenn

Alvy Moore as Jimbo

K.T. Stevens as Lillian Stevens

A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.

The Razor's Edge

1984

English

6.4

♡ 6

53%

76%

Action

based on novel or book

change

Drama

enlightenment

himalaya mountain range

John Byrum Director

Denholm Elliott as Elliott Templeton

Bruce Boa as Henry Maturin

Catherine Hicks as Isabel Bradley

Bill Murray as Larry Darrell

An American WWI veteran undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he discovers he is not the only one who has changed.

A Private Function

1984

English

6.5

♡ 2

91%

Malcolm Mowbray Director

Denholm Elliott as Dr. Swaby

Maggie Smith as Joyce Chilvers

Alison Steadman as Mrs Allardyce

Tony Haygarth as Sutcliff

In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.

First Graders

1984

Persian

7.3

♡ 6

Abbas Kiarostami Director

Mohammad Dadras as Nazem

A documentary film about a boys school in Iran. The film shows numerous, funny and moving interviews of many different young pupils of this school summoned by their superintendent for questions of discipline. The man is not severe, but clever and fair. He teaches loyalty, fellowship and righteousness to these boys. Besides these interviews, we see scenes of this school’s quotidian life.