Film Index
British cinema: 1980s
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
David Hugh Jones
In 1949, Helene Hanff is an aspiring writer who scrapes by as a script reader in New York City. Her main passion in life is old books, preferably out of print volumes of obscure work by English writers...
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David Hugh Jones
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Charles Crichton
London gangster George Thomason has masterminded the perfect jewel robbery, which he is about to put into action with his henchman Ken Pile, an animal-lover with a crippling stutter, and a pair of Americans - Wanda Gerschwitz and Otto West...
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Charles Crichton
A Handful of Dust (1988)
Charles Sturridge
England in the 1930s. Wealthy landowner Tony Last is more concerned over the upkeep of his sprawling neo-Gothic mansion than preserving his marriage to Brenda...
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Charles Sturridge
A Passage to India (1984)
David Lean
In the 1920s, Adela Quested makes the journey from England to India, where she intends to marry her fiancé, Ronny Heaslop, the magistrate of a provincial town named Chandrapore...
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David Lean
A View to a Kill (1985)
John Glen
When it is discovered that the Soviets have managed to duplicate a revolutionary microchip capable of withstanding a nuclear explosion, British Intelligence suspects that the chip's manufacturer, Zorin Industries, has been infiltrated by Russian agents...
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John Glen
Aliens (1986)
James Cameron
57 years after her encounter with an alien being which wiped out her crew aboard the space freighter Nostromo, Ellen Ripley is picked up and taken back to Earth... [More...]
James Cameron
57 years after her encounter with an alien being which wiped out her crew aboard the space freighter Nostromo, Ellen Ripley is picked up and taken back to Earth... [More...]
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
John Landis
David Kessler and Jack Goodman are two American college backpackers who decide to make a tour of Europe. Where better to begin than the bleak, soggy Yorkshire moors... [More...]
John Landis
David Kessler and Jack Goodman are two American college backpackers who decide to make a tour of Europe. Where better to begin than the bleak, soggy Yorkshire moors... [More...]
Batman (1989)
Tim Burton
Gotham City is a sprawling metropolis mired in crime and the detritus of social decay. The town's district attorney, Harvey Dent, is fighting a losing battle against an army of hoodlums led by criminal mastermind Carl Grissom... [More...]
Tim Burton
Gotham City is a sprawling metropolis mired in crime and the detritus of social decay. The town's district attorney, Harvey Dent, is fighting a losing battle against an army of hoodlums led by criminal mastermind Carl Grissom... [More...]
Blade Runner (1982)
Ridley Scott
Los Angeles, 2019. Android technology has now become so sophisticated that robotic humans have become almost indistinguishable from real humans... [More...]
Ridley Scott
Los Angeles, 2019. Android technology has now become so sophisticated that robotic humans have become almost indistinguishable from real humans... [More...]
Brazil (1985)
Terry Gilliam
Somewhere in the 20th century, Sam Lowry dutifully carries out his duties as a low-ranking government employee in the Department of Records at the Ministry of Information... [More...]
Terry Gilliam
Somewhere in the 20th century, Sam Lowry dutifully carries out his duties as a low-ranking government employee in the Department of Records at the Ministry of Information... [More...]
The Chain (1984)
Jack Gold
A black teenager can hardly wait to leave his two-up, two-down terraced home in Hackney and move into a new flat with his girlfriend, although his puritanical mum isn't too pleased... [More...]
Jack Gold
A black teenager can hardly wait to leave his two-up, two-down terraced home in Hackney and move into a new flat with his girlfriend, although his puritanical mum isn't too pleased... [More...]
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Hugh Hudson
Harold Abrahams, the son of a successful Jewish financier, encounters anti-Semitic prejudice when he arrives at Cambridge University in 1919 but he soon impresses his peers and the college staff with his athletic prowess... [More...]
Hugh Hudson
Harold Abrahams, the son of a successful Jewish financier, encounters anti-Semitic prejudice when he arrives at Cambridge University in 1919 but he soon impresses his peers and the college staff with his athletic prowess... [More...]
The Comedy of Errors (1983)
James Cellan Jones
When Egeon, a Syracusian merchant, arrives in Ephesus he is arrested and sentenced to death, as a law forbids his countrymen from entering the city... [More...]
James Cellan Jones
When Egeon, a Syracusian merchant, arrives in Ephesus he is arrested and sentenced to death, as a law forbids his countrymen from entering the city... [More...]
Cymbeline [TV] (1982)
Elijah Moshinsky
In Ancient Britain, King Cymbeline reigns at a time of fragile peace with the Roman Empire. Since his two sons were stolen from him in childhood, Cymbeline has but one surviving heir, his daughter Imogen... [More...]
Elijah Moshinsky
In Ancient Britain, King Cymbeline reigns at a time of fragile peace with the Roman Empire. Since his two sons were stolen from him in childhood, Cymbeline has but one surviving heir, his daughter Imogen... [More...]
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Stephen Frears
France, circa 1760. Behind a façade of scrupulous respectability, the Marquise de Merteuil delights in inflicting cruelty on those who do her wrong through her meticulously calculated romantic intrigues... [More...]
Stephen Frears
France, circa 1760. Behind a façade of scrupulous respectability, the Marquise de Merteuil delights in inflicting cruelty on those who do her wrong through her meticulously calculated romantic intrigues... [More...]
Educating Rita (1983)
Lewis Gilbert
26-year-old Liverpudlian hairdresser Rita has decided to get herself an education and so begins an Open University course in English literature... [More...]
Lewis Gilbert
26-year-old Liverpudlian hairdresser Rita has decided to get herself an education and so begins an Open University course in English literature... [More...]
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
Guy Hamilton
Alerted by an insurance scam, the world-famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot travels to a small island in the Adriatic to try to recover a valuable diamond belonging to the self-made millionaire Sir Horace Blatt... [More...]
Guy Hamilton
Alerted by an insurance scam, the world-famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot travels to a small island in the Adriatic to try to recover a valuable diamond belonging to the self-made millionaire Sir Horace Blatt... [More...]
The Final Conflict (1981)
Graham Baker
The world is in the grip of recession and tensions in the Middle East are rising amidst a diplomatic crisis. One man can lead the way forwards, guiding mankind to a better future... [More...]
Graham Baker
The world is in the grip of recession and tensions in the Middle East are rising amidst a diplomatic crisis. One man can lead the way forwards, guiding mankind to a better future... [More...]
Flash Gordon (1980)
Mike Hodges
Intent on destroying the planet Earth for his own wicked amusement, the Emperor Ming the Merciless instigates a series of catastrophes which are taken to be natural disasters... [More...]
Mike Hodges
Intent on destroying the planet Earth for his own wicked amusement, the Emperor Ming the Merciless instigates a series of catastrophes which are taken to be natural disasters... [More...]
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
John Glen
When a fishing trawler is sunk by an old naval mine in the Ionian Sea, Britain's entire defences are suddenly put at risk... [More...]
John Glen
When a fishing trawler is sunk by an old naval mine in the Ionian Sea, Britain's entire defences are suddenly put at risk... [More...]
The Fourth Protocol (1987)
John Mackenzie
During the Cold War, the head of the KGB, General Govershin, devises a plan that will strike a potentially fatal blow to NATO, by breaching the Fourth Protocol of the recent nuclear weapons treaty... [More...]
John Mackenzie
During the Cold War, the head of the KGB, General Govershin, devises a plan that will strike a potentially fatal blow to NATO, by breaching the Fourth Protocol of the recent nuclear weapons treaty... [More...]
Gandhi (1982)
Richard Attenborough
After being subjected to racial intimidation in South Africa, Indian lawyer Mohandas Gandhi organises a non-violent campaign of opposition to the country's discriminatory laws... [More...]
Richard Attenborough
After being subjected to racial intimidation in South Africa, Indian lawyer Mohandas Gandhi organises a non-violent campaign of opposition to the country's discriminatory laws... [More...]
George and Mildred (1980)
Peter Frazer-Jones
The Ropers' adventure of a lifetime begins when Mildred decides that she and George will celebrate their wedding anniversary in one of London's top hotels... [More...]
Peter Frazer-Jones
The Ropers' adventure of a lifetime begins when Mildred decides that she and George will celebrate their wedding anniversary in one of London's top hotels... [More...]
Gregory's Girl (1981)
Bill Forsyth
Gregory is a typical teenage boy at a Scottish comprehensive school. His main interest in life is football and so he is understandably perturbed when his coach, Phil Menzies, tells him that he intends to make some radical changes to the school team... [More...]
Bill Forsyth
Gregory is a typical teenage boy at a Scottish comprehensive school. His main interest in life is football and so he is understandably perturbed when his coach, Phil Menzies, tells him that he intends to make some radical changes to the school team... [More...]
Heat and Dust (1983)
James Ivory
In 1982, a reporter named Anne travels to the town of Satipur in India to find out more about her great aunt Olivia, who caused a scandal sixty years previously... [More...]
James Ivory
In 1982, a reporter named Anne travels to the town of Satipur in India to find out more about her great aunt Olivia, who caused a scandal sixty years previously... [More...]
Henry V (1989)
Kenneth Branagh
Early in 15th century England, representatives of the Church urge the recently crowned King Henry V to invade France, since he has a legitimate claim to the country's throne... [More...]
Kenneth Branagh
Early in 15th century England, representatives of the Church urge the recently crowned King Henry V to invade France, since he has a legitimate claim to the country's throne... [More...]
Licence to Kill (1989)
John Glen
On his wedding day, CIA agent Felix Leiter assists British agent James Bond in capturing the notorious drugs baron Franz Sanchez... [More...]
John Glen
On his wedding day, CIA agent Felix Leiter assists British agent James Bond in capturing the notorious drugs baron Franz Sanchez... [More...]
The Living Daylights (1987)
John Glen
In Bratislava, agent James Bond is tasked with protecting General Koskov, a KGB officer, as he defects to the West. Having made it safely to England, Koskov informs the British secret service that the new head of the KGB, General Pushkin, has revived an old policy of killing western agents... [More...]
John Glen
In Bratislava, agent James Bond is tasked with protecting General Koskov, a KGB officer, as he defects to the West. Having made it safely to England, Koskov informs the British secret service that the new head of the KGB, General Pushkin, has revived an old policy of killing western agents... [More...]
The Martian Chronicles [TV] (1980)
Michael Anderson
In 1999, Zeus I, the first manned mission to Mars, ends in disaster when the two-man crew are killed by a native Martian to protect his world... [More...]
Michael Anderson
In 1999, Zeus I, the first manned mission to Mars, ends in disaster when the two-man crew are killed by a native Martian to protect his world... [More...]
Maurice (1987)
James Ivory
Shortly after going up to Cambridge in 1909, Maurice Hall makes the acquaintance of Clive Durham, the handsome young heir to a large country estate... [More...]
James Ivory
Shortly after going up to Cambridge in 1909, Maurice Hall makes the acquaintance of Clive Durham, the handsome young heir to a large country estate... [More...]