CRITTERS (1986)
byA group of small alien creatures escape a prison transport ship and are pursed by two shape-shifting bounty hunters to Earth.
1980s
EXCALIBUR (1981)
byMerlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart.
KAGEMUSHA (1980)
byA petty thief who resembles a samurai warlord is hired as the lord’s double, but when the warlord dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.
COMING TO AMERICA (1988)
byA pampered African Prince travels to Queens, New York City, going undercover to find a wife that he can respect for her intelligence and will.
PULSE (1988)
byA visiting son tries to warn his father and stepmother that they are being menaced by a living and intelligent pulse of electricity that moves from house to house and terrorizes the residents therein.
DEMONS (1985) • DEMONS 2 (1986)
byDemons are unleashed in a cinema and, later, a high-rise building.
RAGING BULL (1980)
byThe life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
CINEMA PARADISO (1988)
byA filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema’s projectionist.
TAMPOPO (1985)
byA truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business.
SHOGUN ASSASSIN (1980)
byWhen the wife of the Shogun’s Decapitator is murdered and he’s ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire…
BURST CITY (1982)
byPunk rock gangs and music groups clash with one another and the brutal police force in a futuristic Tokyo setting.
THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK (1984)
byA documentary about the successful career and assassination of San Francisco’s first elected gay city supervisor.