Keyword: 1980s

The Cokeville Miracle

5

2015

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Children who were held hostage in their elementary school tell stories of miraculous things, but many adults are skeptical that the Cokeville Miracle ever truly happened.

Notes on Blindness

7.1

2016

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In the summer of 1983, just days before the birth of his first son, writer and theologian John Hull went blind. In order to make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began keeping a diary on audiocassette. Upon their publication in 1990, Oliver Sacks described the work as the most extraordinary, precise, deep and beautiful account of blindness I have ever read. It is to my mind a masterpiece. With exclusive access to these original recordings, NOTES ON BLINDNESS encompasses dreams, memory and imaginative life, excavating the interior world of blindness.

Carla's Song

6.9

1996

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1987, love in time of war. Bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly-sad life in Glasgow. Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her family dispersed; shes suicidal. George takes her to Nicaragua to find out what has happened to them and help her face her past. Once home, Carlas nightmarish memories take over, and she and George are thrown into the thick of the U.S. war against the Sandinistas. A mystery develops over where Carlas boyfriend is, and the key to his whereabouts may be her friend Bradley, a bitter American aid worker. She finds her family, the Contras attack, and she and the Scot face their choices.

Excursion

7.1

2018

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A mystery thriller about a 1980s devoted Czechoslovakian communist party member visiting his future self in London (UK), to make sure Socialism still prospers.

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

8

1989

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A collection of profiles of people dead from AIDS who are remembered in the AIDS Memorial Quilt.

Unit 7

6.5

2012

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A squad of four undercover cops are charged with cleaning up the streets of Seville from drugs and prostitution.

Brahman Naman

5.6

2016

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This homage to 1980s teen sex comedies follows a college quiz bowl champion who knows almost everything, except how to talk to women.

The Rainbow Warrior

5.3

1993

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Peter Wilcox (Voight), as skipper of the Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear testing in the south pacific. When a bomb rips open the vessel, killing a crew member, he must convince the police superintendent (Neill) that this is an act of terrorism. Determined not to allow outside forces to threaten their harbor, the police embark on a pursuit of the persons responsible. The events that follow nearly bring down an allied nations government.

Life After The Navigator

10

2020

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A feature that not only celebrates the 1986 classic Flight of the Navigator, but also looks at the life of its child star, Joey Cramer, and his roller-coaster life since that breakthrough role.

This Ain't California

7.4

2012

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This Aint California is a celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary documentary trip into the world of roller boarding in the German Democratic Republic. A coming-of-age tale of three teenagers and their passionate love for a sport on the crumbling tarmac of the streets in the German Democratic Republic, which was considered very ill-fitting. The punk fairy tale is a story of the subversive powers of fun in that part of Germany, which had lost touch with its citizens. The film follows its three heroes from their childhood in the seventies through their teenage rebellion in the eighties, ending in the last summer of their life in the German Democratic Republic in 1989, when their life changed forever, and follows them to 2011.

Shooting for Socrates

5.9

2014

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Ray & Liz

6.8

2018

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Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz.