8.8

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

1979, USA

• Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Peter Mayhew, Kenny Baker, Frank Oz, Alec Guinness, Jeremy Bulloch, John Hollis, Jack Purvis, Des Webb, Clive Revill, Kenneth Colley, Julian Glover, Michael Sheard, Michael Culver, John Dicks, Milton Johns, Mark Jones, Oliver Maguire, Robin Scobey, Bruce Boa, Christopher Malcolm, Denis Lawson, Richard Oldfield, John Morton, Ian Liston
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Irvin Kershner
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Fleeing the evil Galactic Empire, the rebels abandon their new base on Hoth. Princess Leia, Han Solo and the droid C-3P0 escape in the damaged Millenium Falcon, but are later captured by Lord Darth Vader on Bespin. Skywalker and the droid R2-D2, meanwhile, follows Ben Kenobi's posthumous command and receives Jedi training by Yoda on Dagobah. Will Skywalker manage to rescue his friends from the dark lord?

  8.5

The Shining

1979, UK, USA

• Actors: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone, Joe Turkel, Anne Jackson, Tony Burton, Lia Beldam, Billie Gibson, Barry Dennen, David Baxt, Manning Redwood, Lisa Burns, Louise Burns, Robin Pappas, Alison Coleridge, Burnell Tucker, Jana Shelden, Kate Phelps, Norman Gay, Vivian Kubrick, Derek Lyons, Glenn Rinker
• Genre: Horror, Thriller
• Director(s): Stanley Kubrick
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A man, his son and wife become the winter caretakers of an isolated hotel where Danny, the son, sees disturbing visions of the hotel's past using a telepathic gift known as "The Shining". The father, Jack Torrance, is underway in a writing project when he slowly slips into insanity as a result of cabin fever and former guests of the hotel's ghosts. After being convinced by a waiter's ghost to "correct" the family, Jack goes completely insane. The only thing that can save Danny and his mother is "The Shining".

  8.5

Ko to tamo peva

1979, Yugoslavia

• Actors: Pavle Vujisic, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Aleksandar Bercek, Neda Arneric, Milivoje Tomic, Tasko Nacic, Boro Stjepanovic, Slavko Stimac, Miodrag Kostic, Nenad Kostic, Bora Todorovic, Slobodan Aligrudic, Petar Lupa, Stanojlo Milinkovic, Ljubomir Cipranic, Milovan Tasic
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Slobodan Sijan
• Available languages:
  • Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian.

On April 5, 1941, a date Serbs will recognize, men on a country road board Krstic's bus for Belgrade: two Gypsies who occasionally sing about misery, an aging war vet, a Nazi sympathizer, a dapper singer, a consumptive, and a man with a shotgun. Krstic is a world-weary cynic, out for a buck; the driver is his son, the simple, cheerful Misko. En route they pick up a priest and young newlyweds going to the seaside. Along the way, mis-adventure strikes: a flat tire, a rickety bridge, a farmer who's plowed the road, a funeral, two feuding families, an army detail, and a lost wallet slow the bus and expose rifts among the travelers. On April 6, amid rumors of war, they reach Belgrade...

  8.4

Raging Bull

1980, USA

• Actors: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana, Mario Gallo, Frank Adonis, Joseph Bono, Frank Topham, Lori Anne Flax, Charles Scorsese, Don Dunphy, Bill Hanrahan, Rita Bennett, James V. Christy, Bernie Allen, Floyd Anderson, Gene LeBell, Harold Valan, Victor Magnotta, Johnny Barnes, John Thomas, Kenny Davis, Paul Carmello, Jimmy Lennon Sr., Bobby Rings, Kevin Mahon, Marty Denkin, Shay Duffin
• Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
• Director(s): Martin Scorsese
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family's love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps it's his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up in the ring alone.

  8.3

The Elephant Man

1980, USA

• Actors: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Freddie Jones, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon, Helen Ryan, John Standing, Dexter Fletcher, Lesley Dunlop, Phoebe Nicholls, Pat Gorman, Claire Davenport, Orla Pederson, Patsy Smart, Frederick Treves, Stromboli, Richard Hunter, James Cormack, Robert Lewis Bush, Roy Evans, Joan Rhodes, Nula Conwell, Tony London, Alfie Curtis, Bernadette Milnes, Brenda Kempner, Carol Harrison
• Genre: Biography, Drama, History
• Director(s): David Lynch
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a side-show freak.

  8.0

'Breaker' Morant

1980, Australia

• Actors: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Terence Donovan, Vincent Ball, Ray Meagher, Chris Haywood, Russell Kiefel, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Rod Mullinar, Alan Cassell, Rob Steele, Chris Smith, Bruno Knez, John Pfitzner, Frank Wilson, Michael Procanin, Ray Ball, Wayne Bell, Halifa Cisse, Norman Currer, Bridget Cornish, Judy Dick, Barbara West, Ria Erskine, Ian Gray, Sylvia Horseman, Dick Henderson
• Genre: Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Bruce Beresford
• Available languages:
  • English English.

During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.

  7.9

The Blues Brothers

1979, USA

• Actors: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Steve Cropper, Donald Dunn, Murphy Dunne, Willie Hall, Tom Malone, Lou Marini, Matt Murphy, Alan Rubin, Carrie Fisher, Henry Gibson, John Candy, Kathleen Freeman, Steve Lawrence, Twiggy, Frank Oz, Jeff Morris, Charles Napier, Steven Williams, Armand Cerami, Tom Erhart, Gerald Walling, Walter Levine, Alonzo Atkins, Chaka Khan
• Genre: Action, Comedy, Music
• Director(s): John Landis
• Available languages:
  • English English.

After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit "The Penguin", the last of the nuns who raised them in a boarding school. They learn the Archdiocese will stop supporting the school and will sell the place to the Education Authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The Blues Brothers want to help, and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their "mission from God" they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?

  7.9

Kagemusha

1979, Japan

• Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu, Hideji Ôtaki, Daisuke Ryû, Masayuki Yui, Kaori Momoi, Mitsuko Baisho, Hideo Murota, Takayuki Shiho, Kôji Shimizu, Noboru Shimizu, Sen Yamamoto, Shuhei Sugimori, Kota Yui, Yasuhito Yamanaka, Kumeko Otowa, Tetsuo Yamashita, Kai Ato, Takashi Ebata, Hiroshi Shimada, Yu Shimaka, Toshiaki Tanabe, Yoshimitsu Yamaguchi, Eiichi Kanakubo, Akihiko Sugizaki, Yugo Miyazaki, Masatsuga Kuriyama, Norio Matsui
• Genre: Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Akira Kurosawa
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When a powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, a poor thief recruited to impersonate him finds difficulty living up to his role and clashes with the spirit of the warlord during turbulent times in the kingdom.

  7.8

Airplane!

1979, USA

• Actors: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Julie Hagerty, Robert Hays, Leslie Nielsen, Lorna Patterson, Robert Stack, Stephen Stucker, Otto, Jim Abrahams, Frank Ashmore, Jonathan Banks, Craig Berenson, Barbara Billingsley, Lee Bryant, Joyce Bulifant, Mae E. Campbell, Ted Chapman, Jesse Emmett, Norman Alexander Gibbs, Amy Gibson, Marcy Goldman, Bob Gorman, Rossie Harris, Maurice Hill, David Hollander, James Hong, Howard Honig, Gregory Itzin
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Director(s): Jim Abrahams
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Still craving for the love of his life, Ted Striker follows Elaine onto the flight that she is working on as a member of the cabin crew. Elaine doesn't want to be with Ted anymore, but when the crew and passengers fall ill from food poisoning, all eyes are on Ted.

  7.8

The Long Good Friday

1980, UK

• Actors: Paul Freeman, Leo Dolan, Kevin McNally, Patti Love, P.H. Moriarty, Derek Thompson, Bryan Marshall, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Ruby Head, Charles Cork, Olivier Pierre, Pierce Brosnan, Daragh O'Malley, Dave King, Karl Howman, Brian Hall, Alan Ford, Dave Ould, Paul Kember, Bill Moody, Alan Devlin, Eddie Constantine, Stephen Davies, Bruce Alexander, Nigel Humphreys, Brian Hayes, Georgie Phillips, Mary Sheen, Pauline Melville
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): John Mackenzie
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his action, and Harold wants to know who they are. He finds out soon enough, and bloody mayhem ensues.

  7.3

The Big Red One

1980, USA

• Actors: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco, Kelly Ward, Stéphane Audran, Siegfried Rauch, Serge Marquand, Charles Macaulay, Alain Doutey, Maurice Marsac, Colin Gilbert, Joseph Clark, Ken Campbell, Doug Werner, Perry Lang, Howard Delman, Marthe Villalonga, Giovanna Galletti, Gregori Buimistre, Shimon Barr, Matteo Zoffoli, Abraham Ronai, Galit Rotman, Samuel Fuller, Pascal Breuer, Luther Fear, Walter Flesch, Anat Harel, Ulli Kinalzik
• Genre: Action, Drama, War
• Director(s): Samuel Fuller
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Grim story of a WWII squad consisting of an anonymous sergeant and four long-time survivors who ignore the faceless replacements who continually arrive and die.

  7.3

Shogun Assassin

1980, Japan, USA

• Actors: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Oki, Akiji Kobayashi, Shin Kishida, Akihiro Tomikawa, Lamont Johnson, Marshall Efron, Sandra Bernhard, Vic Davis, Lennie Weinrib, Lainie Cooke, Sam Weisman, Mark Lindsay, Robert Houston, David Weisman, Gibran Evans
• Genre: Action, Adventure
• Director(s): Robert Houston
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Long ago there was a great samurai warrior who served his Shogun honorably. The Shogun however grew paranoid as he became more and more senile. The Shogun sought to destroy all those who might stand to oppose his rule, and so he sent his ninja spies to the samurai's home. The ninjas failed to kill the samurai, but did kill his beloved wife. From then on, the samurai swore on his honor to seek out the Shogun and avenge the death of his love. The samurai roams the countryside with his toddler son taking on mercenary work for money until the final battle with the Shogun's three Masters of Death.

  7.2

The Lathe of Heaven

1979, USA, West Germany

• Actors: Bruce Davison, Peyton E. Park, Niki Flacks, Kevin Conway, Vandi Clark, Bernadette Whitehead, Jo Livingston, Jane Roberts, Tom Matts, Frank Miller, Joye Nash, Gena Sleete, Margaret Avery, Ben McKinley III, R.A. Mihailoff, James Bodean, Ben Stephenson
• Genre: Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Fred Barzyk
• Available languages:
  • English English.

George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist, discovers the gift to be real and hypnotically induces Mr. Orr to change reality for the benefit of mankind --- with bizarre and frightening results.

  7.0

Sauve qui peut (la vie)

1980, France, Austria, West Germany, Switzerland

• Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye, Roland Amstutz, Cécile Tanner, Anna Baldaccini, Roger Jendly, Fred Personne, Nicole Jacquet, Dore De Rosa, Monique Barscha, Michel Cassagne, Paule Muret, Catherine Freiburghaus, Bernard Cazassus, Marie-Luce Felber, Erik Desfosses, Nicole Wicht, Claude Champion, Gérard Battaz, Angelo Napoli, Maurice Buffat, Georgiana Eaton, Irène Floersheim, Michèle Gleizer, Guy Lavoro, Serge Maillard, Edmond Vullioud, Marguerite Duras
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Jean-Luc Godard
• Available languages:
  • French French.

An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations.

  7.0

Bad Timing

1980, UK

• Actors: Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Massey, Dana Gillespie, William Hootkins, Eugene Lipinski, George Roubicek, Stefan Gryff, Sevilla Delofski, Robert Walker, Gertan Klauber, Ania Marson, Lex van Delden, Rudolf Bissegger, Hans Christian, Ellan Fartt, Fritz Goblirsch, Nino LaRocca, Roman Scheidl, Carolyn Seymour, Carl Lawrence Ludwig
• Genre: Drama, Mystery
• Director(s): Nicolas Roeg
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt. A police detective suspects foul play on the part of her lover, an American psychology professor. As doctors try to save her life, the detective interrogates the professor, and through flashbacks we see the events leading up to the woman's overdose; her stormy and intensely sexual relationship with the professor, her heavy drinking and numerous affairs, and her estrangement from her Czech husband. A darkly erotic study of several rather unsympathetic characters.

  6.8

The Fog

1979, USA

• Actors: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman, Tom Atkins, James Canning, Charles Cyphers, Nancy Kyes, Ty Mitchell, Hal Holbrook, John F. Goff, George 'Buck' Flower, Regina Waldon, Jim Haynie, Darrow Igus, John Vick, Jim Jacobus, Fred Franklyn, Ric Moreno, Lee Socks, Tommy Lee Wallace, Bill Taylor, Rob Bottin, Charles Nicklin, Darwin Joston, Laurie Arent, Lindsey Arent, Shari Jacoby, Christopher Cundey, John Strobel
• Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): John Carpenter
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The Centenary of the small sea town, Antonio Bay, is approaching. While the townsfolk prepare to celebrate, the victims of the crime that founded the town rise from the sea to claim retribution. Under cover of the fog, they carry out their vicious attacks, searching for what is rightly theirs.

  6.6

Stir Crazy

1980, USA

• Actors: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown, JoBeth Williams, Miguel Ángel Suárez, Craig T. Nelson, Barry Corbin, Charles Weldon, Nicolas Coster, Joel Brooks, Jonathan Banks, Erland van Lidth, Lewis Van Bergen, Karmin Murcelo, Franklyn Ajaye, Estelle Omens, Peter Looney, Cedrick Hardman, Doug Johnson, Henry Kingi, Joe Massengale, Herman Poppe, Luis Avalos, Esther Sutherland, Pamela Poitier, James Oscar Lee, Rod McCary, Claudia Cron, Bill Bailey, Donna Kei Benz
• Genre: Comedy, Crime
• Director(s): Sidney Poitier
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural talent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up.

  6.6

The Final Countdown

1979, USA

• Actors: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, Charles Durning, Victor Mohica, James C. Lawrence, Soon-Tek Oh, Joe Lowry, Alvin Ing, Mark Thomas, Harold Bergman, Dan Fitzgerald, Lloyd Kaufman, Peter Douglas, Ted Richert, George Warren, Gary Morgan, Phil Philbin, Robert Goodman, Richard Liberty, Neil Ronco, Bill Couch, Jack McDermott, Masayuki Yamazuki, George H. Strohsahl Jr., Ronald R. Stoops, Kenneth J. Jaskolski, Sergei M. Kowalchik
• Genre: Drama, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War
• Director(s): Don Taylor
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An American nuclear aircraft carrier and its crew are caught in a classic dilemma when a supernatural storm sends them back in time just before the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbour.

  6.7

Inferno

1980, Italy

• Actors: Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi, Daria Nicolodi, Sacha Pitoëff, Alida Valli, Veronica Lazar, Gabriele Lavia, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Leopoldo Mastelloni, Ania Pieroni, James Fleetwood, Rosario Rigutini, Ryan Hilliard, Paolo Paoloni, Fulvio Mingozzi, Luigi Lodoli, Rodolfo Lodi, Dario Argento
• Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Dario Argento
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Young poetess Rose Elliot buys a book from a local antique dealer, a diary in Latin of an architect, E. Varelli. She learns of the Three Mothers, and believes her apartment building is one of their houses. She pleads her brother Mark, who is studying musicology in Rome, to come, because she is afraid. Mark's friend Sara reads her letter, which he left behind in class, and discovers the school is run by the Mater Lacrimarum, and is killed for this knowledge. The house of Mater Suspiriorum has already been destroyed, and by the time Mark arrives in New York City, he is investigating his sister's murder.

  6.5

Rude Boy

1980, UK

• Actors: Dave Armstrong, Barry Baker, Terry Barry, Reg Bazell, Stephen Behan, Graham Brown, Lizard Brown, Caroline Coon, John Daly, Hickey Etienne, Plaxy Exton, Tig Exton, Ian Galland, Ray Gange, Ben Gaze, Boss Goodman, Willy Graham, Johnny Green, Vic Hardwick, Topper Headon, Jerry Healey, Dave Johnson, Mick Jones, David McDonald, Terry McQuade, Roy Menuir, Tommy O'Reilley, Jimmy Pursey, Howard Rainey, Paul Simonon
• Genre: Drama, Music
• Director(s): Jack Hazan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Rude Boy is a semi-documentary, part character study, part 'rockumentary', featuring a British punk band, The Clash. The script includes the story of a fictional fan juxtposed with actual public events of the day, including political demonstrations and Clash concerts. Filmed over a period of years, the written dialog takes on the appearance of improvisation.