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Trancers
Trancers (1984) on 6 may 1985
, 1h16
Directed by Charles Band
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Christmas films, Time travel films
Actors Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Art LaFleur, Richard Herd, Telma Hopkins, Andrew Robinson
Rating59% 2.997912.997912.997912.997912.99791
Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson) is a police trooper in the year 2247 who has been hunting down Martin Whistler (Michael Stefani), a criminal mastermind who uses a psychic power to turn people into zombies and carry out his orders. Deth can identify a tranced victim by scanning them with a special bracelet. All trancers appear as normal humans at first, but once triggered, they become savage killers with twisted features.
Waiting for the Hearse
Waiting for the Hearse (1985) on 6 may 1985
, 1h27
Directed by Alejandro Doria
Origin Argentine
Genres Comedy
Actors China Zorrilla, Antonio Gasalla, Betiana Blum, Mónica Villa, Enrique Pinti, Darío Grandinetti
Rating79% 3.998283.998283.998283.998283.99828
Musicardi's octogenarian widow, Ana María de los Dolores Buscaroli, called Mamá Cora by everybody (Antonio Gasalla), has four children: Antonio (Luis Brandoni), Sergio (Juan Manuel Tenuta), Emilia (Lidia Catalano) and Jorge Musicardi (Julio De Grazia) with whom she lives and goes through financial troubles. This situation, plus lack of space and constant generational conflicts, makes Susana (Jorge's wife) ask desperately for the siblings to take their mother with any of them for a while.
Creature
Creature (1985) on 8 may 1985
, 1h37
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Stan Ivar, Klaus Kinski, Diane Salinger
Rating44% 2.2051052.2051052.2051052.2051052.205105
In the film's prologue, two geological researchers for the American multinational corporation NTI encounter an ancient alien laboratory on the moon Titan. In the lab is an egg-like container which is keeping an alien creature alive. The creature emerges and kills the researchers. Two months later, the geologists' spaceship crashes into the space station Concorde in orbit around Earth's moon, its pilot having died in his seat.
Chronos
Chronos (1985) on 10 may 1985
, 42minutes
Directed by Ron Fricke
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Rating76% 3.8443653.8443653.8443653.8443653.844365
Chronos is 42 minutes long and has no actors or dialogue. The soundtrack consists of a single continuous piece by composer Michael Stearns. Filmed in dozens of locations on five continents, the film relates to the concept of time passing on different scales—the bulk of the film covers the history of civilization, from pre-history to Egypt to Rome to Late Antiquity to the rise of Western Europe in the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to the modern era. It centers on European themes but not exclusively. Other time scales include the passing of seasons, and the passing of night and day, and the passing shadows of the sun in an afternoon to the passing of people on the street. These themes are intermingled with symbolic meaning.
Rembetiko
Rembetiko (1985) on 10 may 1985
, 2h28
Directed by Costas Ferris
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Rating80% 4.042334.042334.042334.042334.04233
This musical drama sweeps through a turbulent 40 years in popular singer Marika's (Sotiria Leonardou) life – and in the history of Greece – starting with the singer's birth in Smyrna, Turkey in 1917. Marika was deported to Greece along with all the other Greeks in Smyrna when she was seven years old, and a few years later, her parents started a career as a musician and a singer in a nightclub/bar. In the short space of one decade, Marika witnesses her father murder her mother, runs away from home, has a baby, and comes back to the nightclub to sing in an act with a childhood friend and a bouzouki player, Babis. Success finally comes at the expense of the suicide of another female singer at the club (named Rosa), but then Marika's childhood friend is exiled for political reasons, and she and Babis leave for other venues. Although Ninou carries a torch for Babis, their relationship never seems to work out, and after many years and World War II go by, she sends her daughter away to a convent school and goes on a tour in America. She then returns to Greece to find herself supplanted by a younger singer named Matina who has caught the attention Babis. Marika eventually dies in an accident during Mardi Gras and is buried by the people she sang with as they sing in her memory at the cemetery.
Rustlers' Rhapsody
Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985) on 10 may 1985
, 1h28
Directed by Hugh Wilson
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Tom Berenger, G. W. Bailey, Marilu Henner, Fernando Rey, Andy Griffith, Sela Ward
Rating63% 3.1935953.1935953.1935953.1935953.193595
The concept of the movie is explained in a voiceover intro by G. W. Bailey, who wonders what it would be like if one of the 1930s/1940s Rex O'Herlihan movies were to be made today. At that point, in a scene reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz, the cinematography shifts from black & white to color and the soundtrack changes from mono to Dolby Digital surround sound.
Seven Minutes in Heaven
Seven Minutes in Heaven (1985) on 9 may 1985
, 1h28
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Jennifer Connelly, Byron Thames, Maddie Corman, Michael Zaslow, Spalding Gray, Polly Draper
Rating59% 2.9514352.9514352.9514352.9514352.951435
Natalie (Jennifer Connelly) allows her classmate Jeff (Byron Thames), who ran away from home after a fight with his stepfather (Marshall Bell), to stay at her place while her father (Michael Zaslow) is away on a business trip. Natalie soon starts dating Jeff's friend James Casey (Alan Boyce), who is not as faithful as she thinks, while her best friend Polly (Maddie Corman) falls in love with baseball player Zoo Knudsen (Billy Wirth).