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Hard Country
Hard Country (1981) on 1 april 1981
, 1h44
Directed by David Greene
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Jan-Michael Vincent, Kim Basinger, Michael Parks, Gailard Sartain, Richard Moll, Daryl Hannah
Rating56% 2.8015552.8015552.8015552.8015552.801555
Jody Lynn est mariée à un ouvrier texan, satisfait de sa petite vie tranquille. Mais, elle rêve de partir à Los Angeles surtout depuis que son ami d'enfance, Kyle, est revenu dans la petite ville après avoir réussi à percer dans la musique country.
Three Brothers
Three Brothers (1981) on 4 april 1981
, 1h53
Directed by Francesco Rosi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Philippe Noiret, Michele Placido, Francesco Rosi, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Charles Vanel, Andréa Ferréol
Rating70% 3.5391553.5391553.5391553.5391553.539155
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman, the matriarch of an Italian family, dies. Her husband summons their three sons, each of whom are facing difficult personal problems, back to their farmhouse. One of their sons, Raffaele, is a judge living in Rome, who is presiding over a terrorism case for which he risks assassination, and is in fear of his life. Another son, Rocco, who lives in Naples, is religious and works as a counselor at a correctional institute for boys, so that he can fulfill his dream of helping troubled teenagers. The third son, Nicola, who lives in Turin, is a factory worker involved in a labour dispute as well as a failed marriage. Each of the men grieves in his own way, while also wrestling with the other emotional issues that are pressing on them.
Hardly Working
Hardly Working (1980) on 3 april 1981
, 1h31
Directed by Jerry Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jerry Lewis, Susan Oliver, Deanna Lund, Roger C. Carmel, Harold J. Stone, Steve Franken
Rating47% 2.360522.360522.360522.360522.36052
Bo Hooper (Lewis), a clown, finds himself unemployed when the circus where he works suddenly closes. He winds up living with his sister (Susan Oliver), against the wishes of her husband Robert (Roger C. Carmel). From there he goes from job to job, wreaking havoc along the way. He finally finds some stability as a postal worker, until he finds out that his boss is his girlfriend's father. The father hates all mail carriers because his daughter's ex-husband was one, so he tries to wreck Bo's life, but Bo overcomes the odds and succeeds not only at work, but at impressing the father.
The Last Chase
The Last Chase (1981) on 1 april 1981
, 1h41
Directed by Martyn Burke
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Lee Majors, Burgess Meredith, Chris Makepeace, Alexandra Stewart, Trudy Young, Harvey Atkin
Rating43% 2.156782.156782.156782.156782.15678
At an unspecified future time, the United States is a police state. A substantial percentage of the population was wiped out by a devastating viral pandemic twenty years previously. Amidst the resulting chaos and general panic, democracy collapsed and a totalitarian cabal seized power. After moving the seat of government to Boston, the new dictatorship outlawed ownership and use of all automobiles, boats, and aircraft, on the pretext (later proven false) that an even bigger crisis, the exhaustion of fossil fuel supplies, was imminent. The loss of other personal freedoms followed, and surveillance cameras now monitor private citizens' every move.
Christiane F.
Christiane F. (1981) on 2 april 1981
, 2h18
Directed by Uli Edel
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, L'enfance marginalisée, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Natja Brunckhorst, David Bowie
Rating74% 3.7454253.7454253.7454253.7454253.745425
In 1975, 13-year-old Christiane Felscherinow lives with her mother and little sister in a small apartment in a typical multi-story concrete social-housing building in a dull neighbourhood in the outskirts of West Berlin. She's sick and tired of living there and has a passion for singer David Bowie. She hears of Sound, a new disco in the city centre, labelled as the most modern discothèque in Europe. Although she's legally too young to go there, she dresses up in high heels, wears makeup, and asks a friend from school, who hangs out there regularly, to take her, too. At the disco, she meets Detlef, who is a little older and is in a clique where everybody experiments with various drugs. At first she takes pills and LSD, and goes to a David Bowie concert in which she meets Babsi, a girl of her same age and tendencies, and tries heroin for the first time by snorting it. But soon after Christiane falls in love with Detlef, and in order to be closer to him begins using heroin on a regular basis, gradually delving deeper into the drug and ending up as a full-blown addict. After her 14th birthday her time at home is replaced with time spent at her cohorts' unkempt apartment, she is also drawn to the seedy Bahnhof Zoo scene, a large railway and subway station notorious for the drug and sex trade in its underpasses and backalleys. There she also begins prostituting herself, with handjobs at first, imitating her boyfriend who also sells himself to homosexual clients on a regular basis. She steals at home, too, sells all her possessions, and debases herself to abysmal levels. In one of the crudest scenes, Christiane is jumped in a filthy, blood- and urine-soaked cubicle by an older junkie who forces her to surrender her loaded syringe and proceeds to inject himself with it right in the neck in front of a terrorised elder woman who happens to be in the lavatories too.
Atlantic City
Atlantic City (1980) on 3 april 1981
, 1h44
Directed by Louis Malle
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Michel Piccoli, Robert Joy, Robert Goulet, Al Waxman
Rating72% 3.6461153.6461153.6461153.6461153.646115
Sally (Susan Sarandon) is a young waitress in an Atlantic City casino who has dreams of becoming a blackjack dealer in Monte Carlo. Sally's estranged husband Dave (Robert Joy) returns to her one day with the intention of selling a large amount of cocaine that he had stolen in Philadelphia and meets Lou (Burt Lancaster), an aging former gangster who lives in Sally's apartment building and runs numbers in poor areas of the city; he also acts as a caretaker for Grace (Kate Reid), an elderly invalid. Dave convinces Lou to sell the cocaine for him, but as Lou sells the first batch, Dave is attacked and killed by the mobsters from whom he had stolen the drugs.
Nighthawks
Nighthawks (1981) on 4 april 1981
, 1h33
Directed by Gary Nelson, Bruce Malmuth
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Rail transport films, Musical films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Billy Dee Williams, Rutger Hauer, Lindsay Wagner, Persis Khambatta, Nigel Davenport
Rating63% 3.1507653.1507653.1507653.1507653.150765
Three armed assailants mug a woman who turns out to be NYPD Detective Sergeant Deke DaSilva in drag. His partner, Detective Sergeant Matthew Fox, immobilizes two of the suspects as Deke chases the third upstairs to the subway station platform, taunts him, and incapacitates him with a scarf. On the same day in London, terrorist Heymar Reinhardt, alias Wulfgar (Rutger Hauer) bombs a department store. Meanwhile, back in New York City, DaSilva and Fox serve a high-risk warrant in the Bronx. They raid a known drug distribution spot, where they discover corrupt police officers among the dealers. After the arrest, DaSilva meets his estranged wife, Irene, and professes his love for her. Irene initially rebuffs DaSilva's advances but eventually renews their relationship.