Film Index
British cinema: 1980s
The Meaning of Life (1983)
Terry Jones
The Monty Python team take up their greatest challenge yet, one that has defied the greatest philosophers, scientists, theologians and weather forecasters for countless millennia...
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Terry Jones
The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
Guy Hamilton
The peace of the quaint English village of St Mary's Mead is disturbed by the arrival of a Hollywood film crew who are about to start work on a production of Mary Queen of Scots...
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Guy Hamilton
The Monster Club (1980)
Roy Ward Baker
One evening, the author Chetwynd-Hayes is walking the streets when he runs into a courteous old vampire named Eramus. In return for a small blood donation, the vampire invites the writer to his favourite night-time haunt, the Monster Club, a place where fiends of all persuasion gather to let their hair down after a hard day's monstering...
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Roy Ward Baker
La Mort en direct (1980)
Bertrand Tavernier
Mindful of the need to drive up his network's viewing figures, television producer Vincent Ferriman has devised a new reality TV show named Death Watch in which he will beam into people's homes the last days of a terminally ill person...
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Bertrand Tavernier
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Stephen Frears
London in the mid-1980s. Omar is a young British Pakistani, the son of disillusioned journalist Hussein who has become a bedridden alcoholic after his wife's suicide...
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Stephen Frears
Never Say Never Again (1983)
Irvin Kershner
James Bond is not the man he used to be. When he under-performs in a training exercise, M sends him to a health clinic to rid himself of all those harmful free radicals... [More...]
Irvin Kershner
James Bond is not the man he used to be. When he under-performs in a training exercise, M sends him to a health clinic to rid himself of all those harmful free radicals... [More...]
The Nightmare Man [TV] (1981)
Douglas Camfield
The peace of a small island in the Hebrides is disturbed by the discovery of the mangled remains of a woman's body. At first, it looks like the work of a deranged psychopath with the strength of a gorilla but from the unusual teeth marks found on the corpse the resident dentist, Michael Gaffikin, becomes convinced that the killer was not human... [More...]
Douglas Camfield
The peace of a small island in the Hebrides is disturbed by the discovery of the mangled remains of a woman's body. At first, it looks like the work of a deranged psychopath with the strength of a gorilla but from the unusual teeth marks found on the corpse the resident dentist, Michael Gaffikin, becomes convinced that the killer was not human... [More...]
Octopussy (1983)
John Glen
Sickened by the concessions his leaders have made to Western governments, renegade Soviet General Orlov concocts a diabolical plan that will enable the Soviet Union to expand its territory using conventional forces... [More...]
John Glen
Sickened by the concessions his leaders have made to Western governments, renegade Soviet General Orlov concocts a diabolical plan that will enable the Soviet Union to expand its territory using conventional forces... [More...]
On Golden Pond (1981)
Mark Rydell
Norman Thayer is a retired college professor who been happily married to Ethel for almost five decades. As they have done for the past 48 years, the couple return to their summer cottage on Golden Pond, this time to celebrate Norman's eightieth birthday... [More...]
Mark Rydell
Norman Thayer is a retired college professor who been happily married to Ethel for almost five decades. As they have done for the past 48 years, the couple return to their summer cottage on Golden Pond, this time to celebrate Norman's eightieth birthday... [More...]
Othello [TV] (1981)
Jonathan Miller
Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army, has won the admiration and gratitude of all but one man. That man is Iago, a lowly ensign who bitterly resents Othello's decision to promote a less worthy soldier, Michael Cassio, in his place... [More...]
Jonathan Miller
Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army, has won the admiration and gratitude of all but one man. That man is Iago, a lowly ensign who bitterly resents Othello's decision to promote a less worthy soldier, Michael Cassio, in his place... [More...]
The Rainbow (1989)
Ken Russell
In the late 1800s, Ursula Brangwen is determined to lead her own life, in defiance of the conventions of the time and her parents' expectations... [More...]
Ken Russell
In the late 1800s, Ursula Brangwen is determined to lead her own life, in defiance of the conventions of the time and her parents' expectations... [More...]
Rising Damp (1980)
Joseph McGrath
Mr Rigsby is the self-deluding, mean-spirited landlord of a town house that has definitely seen better days. Long since divorced, he rents out his rooms to carefully scrutinised tenants, who presently include Miss Jones, a repressed spinster prone to amorous delusions, and Philip Smith, a black medical student who claims to be the son of an African chief with ten wives... [More...]
Joseph McGrath
Mr Rigsby is the self-deluding, mean-spirited landlord of a town house that has definitely seen better days. Long since divorced, he rents out his rooms to carefully scrutinised tenants, who presently include Miss Jones, a repressed spinster prone to amorous delusions, and Philip Smith, a black medical student who claims to be the son of an African chief with ten wives... [More...]
The Sacrifice (1986)
Andrey Tarkovskiy
Alexander is a man in his early sixties who leads a tranquil existence with his wife Adelaide, stepdaughter Marta and young son in a large house by the sea on a remote island... [More...]
Andrey Tarkovskiy
Alexander is a man in his early sixties who leads a tranquil existence with his wife Adelaide, stepdaughter Marta and young son in a large house by the sea on a remote island... [More...]
Sapphire & Steel - Assignment Four [TV] (1981)
David Foster
Sapphire and Steel arrive at a seemingly deserted old building, the ground floor of which functions as a shop that buys and sells lost property... [More...]
David Foster
Sapphire and Steel arrive at a seemingly deserted old building, the ground floor of which functions as a shop that buys and sells lost property... [More...]
Sapphire & Steel - Assignment Three [TV] (1981)
Shaun O'Riordan
In a typical urban apartment in the present day a couple are leading what seems to be a perfectly normal urban family life... [More...]
Shaun O'Riordan
In a typical urban apartment in the present day a couple are leading what seems to be a perfectly normal urban family life... [More...]
Sapphire & Steel: Assignment Five [TV] (1981)
Shaun O'Riordan
Successful businessman Lord Mulrine has organised a party at his house to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of his company... [More...]
Shaun O'Riordan
Successful businessman Lord Mulrine has organised a party at his house to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of his company... [More...]
Sapphire & Steel: Assignment Six [TV] (1982)
David Foster
Sapphire and Steel arrive at a seemingly deserted service station in the early 1980s, a place where time appears to be standing still... [More...]
David Foster
Sapphire and Steel arrive at a seemingly deserted service station in the early 1980s, a place where time appears to be standing still... [More...]
The Shining (1980)
Stanley Kubrick
Jack Torrance is delighted when he is offered the job of winter caretaker at the Overlook, a sprawling luxury hotel set in a remote mountain location in Colorado... [More...]
Stanley Kubrick
Jack Torrance is delighted when he is offered the job of winter caretaker at the Overlook, a sprawling luxury hotel set in a remote mountain location in Colorado... [More...]
Superman II (1980)
Richard Lester
In the nick of time, Superman manages to thwart a plot by terrorists to blow up Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower with a hydrogen bomb, but when the bomb detonates in deep space it releases three criminals from the planet Krypton from their two-dimensional prison... [More...]
Richard Lester
In the nick of time, Superman manages to thwart a plot by terrorists to blow up Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower with a hydrogen bomb, but when the bomb detonates in deep space it releases three criminals from the planet Krypton from their two-dimensional prison... [More...]
The Winter's Tale [TV] (1981)
Jane Howell
Polixenes, the King of Bohemia, has enjoyed visiting his old friend Leontes, King of Sicilia, but decides he must return to his own country... [More...]
Jane Howell
Polixenes, the King of Bohemia, has enjoyed visiting his old friend Leontes, King of Sicilia, but decides he must return to his own country... [More...]
Withnail & I (1987)
Bruce Robinson
Marwood and Withnail are two unemployed young actors who eke out a squalid existence in London in the late 1960s. Unable to find work, their most pressing concern is to avoid starvation and freezing to death in their grimy, rat-infested Camden Town flat... [More...]
Bruce Robinson
Marwood and Withnail are two unemployed young actors who eke out a squalid existence in London in the late 1960s. Unable to find work, their most pressing concern is to avoid starvation and freezing to death in their grimy, rat-infested Camden Town flat... [More...]