Evening Rain

1980

Chinese

7.3

♡ 3

Drama

gang of four

Yigong Wu Director Lin Shi

Lin Shi as Guan Shengxuan

Zhiyu Li as Qiushi

Weihui Mao as Xiao Juangzi

Ming Zhang as Xinghua

At the tail end of the Cultural Revolution, Qiu Shi, a poet who has been in prison for six years, is transferred elsewhere by boat under the guard of two officers. During transit, he meets a series of passengers, who have also faced hardships in recent times.

Killer Constable

1980

Chinese

7.0

♡ 7

40%

Action

Drama

Chih-Hung Kuei Director

Han Chiang as

Hui-jin Park as

Jason Pai Piao as Fan Jin-Diao

Dick Wei as Suen-Heng

2 million taels in gold has been stolen from a vault within the Forbidden City. The Empress wants the money returned within 10 days. Chief Constable Leng Tian-Ying is hired to bring back the gold robbers, dead or alive- and Leng's earned a reputation of never bringing anyone back alive.

The Waltons: A Decade of the Waltons

1980

English

7.5

♡ 4

Drama

Family

Philip Leacock Director

Ronnie Claire Edwards as Corabeth Walton Godsey

Mary Jackson as Emily Baldwin

Ellen Corby as Esther Walton

Judy Norton as Mary Ellen Walton

A docudrama of the classic series. Almost like another episode of the series as a photo album presented to Grandma as a present spurs memories, presented via flashbacks from the series' first eight seasons. Waltons creator Earl Hamner recounts bringing his life to television.

Cheech and Chong's Next Movie

1980

English

6.0

♡ 10

71%

Tommy Chong Director

Doug Cox as Cameraman

Phil Hartman as Chick Hazard Private Eye

Don Bovingloh as Man in hotel

Lupe Ontiveros as Old Lady

Perennially stoned Cheech and Chong tear through the city of Los Angeles, causing trouble wherever they go. After Cheech loses his job, the two pot enthusiasts head to the welfare offices where Cheech's girlfriend, Donna, works. Instead of collecting unemployment, they find themselves thrown back on the streets, searching for a way to earn new income. But when Cheech's cousin, "Red" Mendoza, arrives, things get even crazier.

Girl with the Golden Panties

1980

Spanish

5.1

♡ 4

Drama

Thriller

Vicente Aranda Director

Palmiro Aranda as El médico del pueblo

Victoria Abril as Mariana

Raquel Evans as Mari-La madre de Mariana

Consuelo de Nieva as Tecla

Luys Forest is a writer with a Falangist political past. He lives isolated in a coastal town, writing his memoirs (actually rewriting and adapting his autobiography with the times), and brooding over his failed marriage. His sister is worried about him and decides to send her daughter Mariana to stay with him. Mariana and a seemingly mute and artistic lesbian companion come to town to shake the stable world of Luys with their free and uninhibited ways. Soon begins a game of seduction that ends up exposing the intellectual game of Luys.

Christmas Evil

1980

English

5.6

♡ 15

57%

Lewis Jackson Director

Raymond J. Barry as Detective Gleason

William Robertson as Guard

Brandon Maggart as Harry Stadling

Philip Casnoff as Ricardo Bauma

Garbed in his red suit, Harry, a toy factory worker, decides that the only thing he can do to save the spirit of Christmas is to become Santa Claus himself and make all of the naughty townspeople pay... in blood!

Used Cars

1980

English

6.7

♡ 20

77%

Robert Zemeckis Director

Claude Earl Jones as Al

Marc McClure as Heavy Duty Dubois

Kurt Russell as Rudy Russo

Beans Morocco as Stanley Dewoski

When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.

The Constant Factor

1980

Polish

7.1

♡ 5

75%

Action

Drama

poland

Krzysztof Zanussi Director

Tom Alter as

Eugeniusz Priwieziencew as (as E. Priwieziencew)

Tadeusz Bradecki as Witold

Jan Jurewicz as Zenek

A young man is confronted with corrupt and vindictive colleagues at work and negligent officials at the hospital where his mother is dying. As he searches quixotically for a steadfast moral code by which to live, he suffers from the knowledge of human frailty and our darker inclinations to do harm.

Cloud Dancer

1980

English

5.2

♡ 5

Adventure

Drama

Barry Brown Director

Colleen Camp as Cindy

Norman Alden as Dr. Putnam

Salome Jens as Jean Randolph

James T. Callahan as Walt Lawson

An aerobatic pilot comes to terms with his work, his photographer ex-lover and a brash newcomer.

Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown

1980

English

7.1

♡ 10

Animation

Comedy

Family

Phil Roman Director

Michael Mandy as Charlie Brown

June Foray as Fifi

Brent Hauer as Patricia 'Peppermint Patty' Reichardt

Bill Melendez as Snoopy

When the circus comes to town, Snoopy naturally pays a visit. There he falls for a beautiful poodle performing there. He soon runs away to join it. While he quickly becomes a star performer, Charlie Brown is distraught by Snoopy's decision while Snoopy himself has to face some realities of show business himself.

Cruising

1980

English

6.5

♡ 33

50%

William Friedkin Director

James Remar as Gregory

Karen Allen as Nancy

Al Pacino as Steve Burns

Don Scardino as Ted Bailey

When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, young rookie Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.

Battle Beyond the Stars

1980

English

5.5

♡ 25

50%

Roger Corman Director

Sam Jaffe as Dr. Hephaestus

Julia Duffy as Mol

Lynn Carlin as Nell

Richard Thomas as Shad

A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.

Atlantic City

1980

English

7.3

♡ 15

100%

Louis Malle Director

Michel Piccoli as Joseph

Susan Sarandon as Sally

Robert Goulet as Singer

Wallace Shawn as Waiter

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.

Cannibals in the Streets

1980

Italian

5.5

♡ 8

Antonio Margheriti Director

Lonnie R. Smith Jr. as Biker

Laura Dean as Brunette Jogger

Wallace Wilkinson as Captain McCoy

Tony King as Tom Thompson

Released from captivity in Vietnam, two American Army officers return to civilian life and discover they have acquired an insatiable taste for human flesh. A city is terrorised... as they stalk the inhabitants to satisfy their primitive appetites.

Maniac

1980

English

6.3

♡ 26

45%

William Lustig Director

Caroline Munro as Anna D'Antoni

Tom Savini as Disco Boy

Joe Spinell as Frank Zito

Frank Pesce as T.V. Reporter

A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and local girl American models and takes their scalps as trophies.

The Miser

1980

French

6.6

♡ 3

70%

Action

based on play or musical

parent child relationship

revenge

Louis de Funès Director

Georges Audoubert as Anselme

Micheline Bourday as Dame Claude

Louis de Funès as Harpagon

Hervé Bellon as Valére

The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven’t spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. Based on Molière’s play.

American Gigolo

1980

English

6.3

♡ 45

73%

Paul Schrader Director

Richard Gere as Julian

K Callan as Lisa Williams

Hector Elizondo as Sunday

Frank Pesce as Suspect #4

Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins pumping him for details on his different clients, something he is reluctant to do considering the nature of his work. Julian begins to suspect he's being framed. Meanwhile Michelle begins to fall in love with him.

Cannibal Holocaust

1980

Italian

5.8

♡ 94

65%

Ruggero Deodato Director

Paolo Paoloni as 1st Executive

Carl Gabriel Yorke as Alan Yates

Francesca Ciardi as Faye Daniels

Ruggero Deodato as Man Sitting in University Campus

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

The King and the Mockingbird

1980

French

7.7

♡ 8

100%

Paul Grimault Director

Roger Blin as L'aveugle

Raymond Bussières as Le chef de la police

Thomas M. Pollard as Museum Security Guard

Jerry Di Giacomo as The King / Additional Voices

A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy.