Tag: 1985

Director: Michel Deville
Stars: Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Nicole Garcia
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

A magnate and his younger wife hire David to teach guitar to their teenage daughter. The wife quickly seduces David, and simultaneously he strikes up an acquaintance with the family’s inquisitive neighbor. One night, David is mugged but rescued from injury by a stranger, Daniel, who also becomes David’s friend and admits to being a hit man. Video tapes of their activities appear in the lovers’ mail; David thinks they’re from the neighbor, Daniel is sure the husband is onto the affair and hired the mugger.

Director: Ray Lawrence
Stars: Barry Otto, Lynette Curran, Helen Jones
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia

After a near-death experience, a man wonders if he actually did die and is now in Hell.

Director: Ron Fricke
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA | France

Carefully picked scenes of nature and civilization are viewed at high speed using time-lapse cinematography in an effort to demonstrate the history of various regions.

Director: David Hare
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.

Director: Jûzô Itami
Stars: Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan

A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.

Director: John Irvin
Stars: Glenda Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Richard Johnson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK | USA

Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Ho Nguyen
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.

Director: Mamoru Oshii
Stars: Mako Hyôdô, Jinpachi Nezu, Kei’ichi Noda
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan

A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

In a palace of Paris. Two detectives are investigating a two-year-old murder. Emile and Francoise Chenal are putting pressure on Jim Fox Warner, a boxing manager, who owes them a huge amount of money. But Jim also owes money to the Mafia, and it seems the boxing match he is counting on to bail out will not be sufficient.

Director: Terry Zwigoff
Stars: Howard Armstrong, Ted Bogan, Jay Lynch
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

About the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America.

Director: Fredi M. Murer
Stars: Thomas Nock, Johanna Lier, Dorothea Moritz
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland

A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where he uses pubescent energy to break rocks and build walls and cairns. (It’s the tradition of the father’s family, called “The Irascibles” by neighbors, to spend puberty doing this.) Belli visits him and they begin sleeping together. By winter, the boy is back in the house and Belli is pregnant. Soon her parents must know.

Director: Ken Burns
Stars: Huey Long, Russell Long, David McCullough
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: USA

Ken Burns’ portrait of Louisiana governor/U.S. senator Huey Long.

Director: Jovan Acin
Stars: Gala Videnovic, Relja Basic, Nebojsa Bakocevic
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They’d last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.

Director: Claude Miller
Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Clothilde Baudon, Julie Glenn
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France

Charlotte (Gainsbourg) is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.

Director: Nanni Moretti
Stars: Nanni Moretti, Ferruccio De Ceresa, Marco Messeri
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy

The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many of them are depressed or frustrated, and some suicidal. Father Giulio determines to leave again, but his stopped parents convince him to perform the wedding ceremony for his friend Caesar and his fiancee. Don Giulio rushes through the ceremony and then away from Rome. Once away from the city, he immediately regains happiness.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste
Genre: Drama
Country: France | Switzerland | UK

A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.

Director: Richard Donner
Stars: Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA | Italy

The thief Gaston escapes the dungeon of medieval Aquila through the latrine. Soldiers are about to kill him when Navarre saves him. Navarre, traveling with his spirited hawk, plans to kill the bishop of Aquila with help from Gaston.

Director: Chris Marker
Stars: Shigehiko Hasumi, Chris Marker, Akira Kurosawa
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Country: France | Japan

A documentary that shows the production of Ran and discusses the film techniques of Kurosawa himself.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Louis Malle, Lowell Barnum, Arnold Beneke
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Original footage of the prosperous farming community of Glencoe Minnesota, 60 miles west of Minneapolis, was filmed in 1979 for a PBS documentary. But for the next six years Malle was too busy with other projects to finish this work. He returned in 1985 for a follow-up and found the community reacting to the mid eighties crisis of overproduction in farm country. with weekly foreclosures on family farms, and many families moving to the south, Malle documented a sense of frustration and apprehension from the same participants he had befriended in better times half a decade earlier.

Director: Richard Linklater
Stars: Daniel Johnston
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: USA

This short documentary chronicles the chaos of the Austin, Texas music festival, “Woodshock ’85.”

Director: Percy Adlon
Stars: Marianne Sägebrecht, Eisi Gulp, Toni Berger
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany

An asocial, obese German woman lives in a large city. Unfortunately despite her kind and intelligent personality, she has had a lot of trouble making a connection with people, until she gets a crush on a handsome subway conductor.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Grazyna Szapolowska, Maria Pakulnis, Aleksander Bardini
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland

It’s 1982: Poland is under martial law, and Solidarity is banned. Ulla, a translator working on Orwell, suddenly loses her husband, Antek, an attorney. She is possessed by her grief, and Antek continues to appear to her. She seeks to free herself in her work, in her relationship with her son, in sex, and in hypnosis. In a subplot, Ulla refers the wife of one of her husband’s clients – Darek, a jailed Solidarity strike organizer – to Labrador, a world-weary, aging attorney, who works to free Darek by various political manipulations and psychological ploys.

Director: Roger Young
Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Robert Prosky, Sam Robards
Genre: Drama
Country: USA | UK

Ellen Burstyn stars as the Canadian mother of a college student who vanishes mysteriously while driving back to school in the states. After having no luck from the police, she hires a private detective (Robert Prosky) to help her. Their tenacious pursuit of clues uncovers the grim details of her son’s fate, leading to a shocking climax.

Director: Dan Pita
Stars: Claudiu Bleont, Petre Nicolae, Ecaterina Nazare
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Romania

Two friends, closer than brothers, working together, staying in the same room, playing together.

Director: Peque Gallaga
Stars: Daniel Fernando, Anna Marie Gutierrez, Orestes Ojeda
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines

Young Danny resides above the room of a security guard and his wife in a shabby apartment. Every day, the husband goes home, eats his dinner, washes the dishes, goes straight to bed and makes love to his wife. Danny plays Peeping Tom and every night observes through a hole in his floorboard. One night unable to control his urges, he enters the room and does the same things of husband and he has sex with her with no resistance, her eyes closed. The two perform the act repeatedly until they fall in love with each other. The husband finds out that his wife is cheating on him, when one day he walks in on them while they are having sex, and shoots them both. He then shoots himself while having sex with his dead wife.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: France

When a small town of Normandy begins losing its citizenry in a series of strange deaths, out-of-town police inspector Jean Lavardin (Jean Poiret) is sent to investigate. Could the killers be a bullied son (Lucas Belvaux) and his possessive and manipulative mother (Stephane Audran) ? Or a pushy trio of local public figures and land developers wanna-be?

Director: István Szabó
Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Yugoslavia | Hungary | Austria | West Germany

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Chishû Ryû, Werner Herzog, Yûharu Atsuta
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA | West Germany

Moved by the work of director Yasujirô Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in Ozu’s films.

Director: Nicolas Roeg
Stars: Gary Busey, Tony Curtis, Theresa Russell
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK

Four 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.

Director: Karel Reisz
Stars: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA

The story of Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.

Director: Tom Holland
Stars: Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA

A teenager discovers that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire, so he turns to an actor in a television horror show for help dealing with the undead.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: Stefan Iordache, Gheorghe Cozorici, Ion Ritiu
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania

After he kills his beloved wife, Puiu Faranga is helped by his father to fake insanity.

Director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi
Stars: Kin’ya Kitaôji, Kiwako Taichi, Norihei Miki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

The villagers in a beautiful remote area of Japan are divided into the woodsmen, who worship the mountain goddess, and the fishermen, who worship the goddess of the sea. These traditions are threatened by a planned marine park. Tatsuo is a macho lumberjack who hunts boars and monkeys with the young Ryota. Tatsuo is married with two children, has four elder sisters, and is under pressure to sell the family land to the developers. When the fish pens are deliberately contaminated by oil, the fishermen suspect Tatsuo. Kimiko, an old girlfriend of Tatsuo, returns to the village to find money to pay off her debts. During the annual fire festival, Tatsuo becomes angry when the old traditions are not preserved.

Director: Suzana Amaral
Stars: Marcelia Cartaxo, José Dumont, Tamara Taxman
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil

Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens to time Radio Station; on Sundays she likes to ride the subways. She describes herself saying, “I am a typist and a virgin, and I like Coca-Cola.” Then she meets Olimpico, a north-easterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a Congressman.

Director: Jacques Rivette
Stars: Fabienne Babe, Lucas Belvaux, Sandra Montaigu
Genre: Drama, Romance, Mystery
Country: France

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.

Director: Shinji Sômai
Stars: Yuichi Mikami, Yûki Kudô, Tomokazu Miura
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

The movie takes place in the five-day period before, during and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which several students endure while marooned in their school gymnasium.

Director: John Erman
Stars: Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young lawyer hasn’t told his parents about his homosexuality. Now he must tell them–at a time when the diagnosis was still a death sentence–that he has AIDS.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | UK

Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville talk about their films, while doing everyday tasks around their house.

Director: Anne-Marie Miéville
Stars: Bruno Cremer, Aurore Clément, Rebecca Hampton
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: France | Switzerland

Marie, eleven years old, is experiencing difficult times. Her parents will separate. The perception of her universe is profoundly disturbed. This exacting portrait of a child immerses in her books, her music, and her dancing casts a dispassionate yet ultimately touching eye on the girl’s reaction to the new upheaval in her life.

Director: Ken Burns
Stars: David McCullough, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA

Documentary showing the history of the world-famous Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, the impact it still has on people and the state of liberty as a personal and political concept in America in 1985.

Director: Francisco J. Lombardi
Stars: Pablo Serra, Gustavo Bueno, Luis Álvarez
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru

Four angry cadets have formed an inner circle in an attempt to beat the system and ward off the boredom and stifling confinement of the military academy, set off a chain of events that starts with a theft and leads to murder.

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Wojciech Pszoniak
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who’s now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon’s a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn’t tell Rosa he’s seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he’ll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon’s peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war’s end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.

Director: André Téchiné
Stars: Lambert Wilson, Juliette Binoche, Wadeck Stanczak
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.

Director: Alejandro Doria
Stars: Luis Brandoni, China Zorrilla, Antonio Gasalla
Genre: Comedy
Country: Argentina

Each member of this family tries to endorse someone else to care for the old Mother.

Director: Mike Newell
Stars: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK

A stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.

Director: Luis Puenzo
Stars: Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Argentina

During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.

Director: Shirley Clarke
Stars: Ornette Coleman, John Giordano, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

It captures Ornette’s evolution over three decades. Returning home to Fort Worth, Texas in 1983, it chronicles his boyhood in segregated Texas and his subsequent emergence as an American cultural pioneer and world-class icon.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Stars: George Alexandru, Anda Onesa, Valentin Uritescu
Genre: War
Country: Romania

The Last Assault is a 1986 Romanian drama film directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu. It is set during World War II, during the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis.

Director: Wayne Wang
Stars: Laureen Chew, Kim Chew, Victor Wong
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

In San Francisco, an immigrant widow welcomes the new year with some unhappiness: she’s sixty-two now, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors, a fortune teller has told her this is the year she’ll die, and a daughter, Geraldine, remains unmarried. Geraldine does have a boyfriend, but she’s not sure she’s ready for marriage, and, anyway, he lives in Los Angeles and Geraldine doesn’t want to leave her mother alone in her declining years. Mrs. Tan’s cheerful brother-in-law tries to help out. Is there any solution that will enable Mrs. Tan to hold onto her culturally influenced and deep-seated hopes, yet keep those hopes from suffocating Geraldine?

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Reinhold Messner, Hans Kammerlander, Werner Herzog
Genre: Documentary
Country: West Germany

Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner during their expedition into climbing the Gasherbrum mountains, which has some of the most difficult peaks to be conquered, and they’ll do it without the use of oxygen tanks. Herzog also takes some time to hear about their past experiences with other mountains, their personal tragedies and the reasons why they are so involved with such activity.

Director: Lamont Johnson
Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, Kenneth Colley
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA | Yugoslavia

The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.

Director: Jirí Menzel
Stars: János Bán, Marián Labuda, Rudolf Hrusínský
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia

Comedy about the people who inhabit a small town. For years the overbearing Pavek has endured Otik, the “town idiot,” sharing his meals and the front seat of their dump truck. But Otik is such a sweet-natured fool that Pavek, exasperated as he becomes, always relents on his threats to find another partner. This Laurel and Hardy-like pair are at the heart of a comedy which finds humor in an abundance of everyday situations. The town doctor regularly wrecks his car because he’s admiring the scenery, a romantic teenager develops a hopeless crush on his sister’s schoolteacher, and an adulterous housewife and her boyfriend are just one step ahead of her suspicious, hot-headed husband.

Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada
Stars: Ana Patricia Rojo, Elsa María Gutiérrez, Leonor Llausás
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Mexico

A 10 year old girl convinces a lonely classmate that she is a witch, forcing the child to become her assistant. Though their games are initially rather naive, they gradually take a nasty and violent turn.

Director: Toyoo Ashida
Stars: Kaneto Shiozawa, Michie Tomizawa, Seizô Katô
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan

A young girl requests the help of a vampire hunter to kill the vampire who has bitten her, and thus prevent her from becoming a vampire herself.

Director: James Ivory
Stars: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

Lucy meets George in a Florence pensione and the two share a brief romance before Lucy returns home, where she becomes engaged to Cecil. However, it isn’t long before George unexpectedly enters her life again.

Director: Takashi Ito
Stars: Hiroko Emori
Genre: Short
Country: Japan

A sensuous ghost haunts a flat in this unusual ode to plain, generic areas.

Director: Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy
Country: UK

Loosely based on the Mesopotamian “Epic of Gilgamesh”, here Gilgamesh is portrayed as a grotesque, Picasso-esque being who uses a tricycle to patrol his box-shaped kingdom that hovers above a dark abyss.

Director: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Cosey Fanni Tutti, Geoffrey Palmer
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: UK

Greenaway’s documentary short shows us…well, 26 bathrooms, some in use by their owners while we visit. Whee!

Director: Maya Deren, Cherel Ito, Teiji Ito
Stars: John Genke, Joan Pape
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A documentary film about Haitian vodou.

Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Stars: Matthew Broderick, John Kani, Zakes Mokae
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When Harold, a young white man, learns that his alcoholic, handicapped father is returning home, his frustration turns into racist viciousness against the two black men who work for the family.

Director: Piotr Szulkin
Stars: Jerzy Stuhr, Krystyna Janda, Kalina Jedrusik
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland

Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.

Director: Kirby Dick
Stars: Maureen Sullivan, Warren Robert Jason, Noreen Hennesey
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

In this cult doc from 1985, director Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated) weaves a fascinating study of the curious role of a sex surrogate in the then-new discipline of sexual therapy. Maureen Sullivan and two of her clients agreed to have the entire progression of their therapy taped, and what emerges is a disarming and compassionate look at the struggles people face in connecting with one another.

Director: Jim Goddard
Stars: John Shea, Bill Nighy, Lucy Gutteridge
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

The story of Helmut and Karl Hoffmann. Both come of age at the start of Hitler’s power in Germany. Helmut joins the SS and eventually becomes a successful flag rank officer. Karl joins the SA and experiences the darker side of Nazism after the SA is disbanded and Karl is thrown into prison and later conscripted into the German army. Brother is pitted against brother until their relationship, and the Third Reich, stands in ruins.

Director: Emir Kusturica
Stars: Moreno D’E Bartolli, Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic, Mirjana Karanovic
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia

A family is deeply affected by father’s extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of Tito-Stalin split.

Director: Peter Masterson
Stars: Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.

Director: John Boorman
Stars: Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Yara Vaneau
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

After the son of engineer Bill Markham is abducted by an aboriginal tribe on the edge of the rain forest, the engineer spends the next 10 years searching for him.

Director: William Friedkin
Stars: William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Japan | France

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other…and him.

Director: Aleksey German
Stars: Andrei Boltnev, Nina Ruslanova, Andrey Mironov
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin’s Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.