The best movies 1980 Pagina 12

When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however,...

Jess Franco film about a woman returning home from an insane asylum only to discover her husband is now living with a man. The two men eventually...

Frequent Seas is a lyrical experimental film. It combines live action with hand-drawn animated mattes to create an abstract, sometimes disturbing...

Problems of the old usurer Domingo with his young wife Rosa due to the arrival of his godson from the mountains.

Anna Luna lives everywhere, that is to say nowhere, without a fixed address, without a room of her own. She finds herself in cafes, telephone booths,...

After a new cannery introduces scientifically augmented salmon to a seaside town in the Pacific Northwest, a species of mysterious, mutated sea...

When her husband abandons her and her son, she ends up as a nightclub singer and gets sick, so the boy travels to the United States because he wants...

A lonely wife has a love affair with the newly widowed neighbor while her husband is away on business.

The story of a witch who is victim to her own trickery.

A naive monk, named Brother Ambrose, is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5,000 in order to save their monastery from closing. He goes to...

Following the events of The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid, Sheriff Hall and H-725 (using the official identity of Charlie Warren) still get no rest...

A young teacher, Azmi is offered teaching post at a girl's school. The reaction from the students is quite hilarious as tis is the first time a male...

After being falsely accused of robbing a bank, a writer seeks the help of his lawyer ex-wife to clear his name. However, hilarity ensues when he must...

A new PE teacher arrives at a neglected provincial high school and turns it around with a handball team—until his obsessive control, blackmail,...

This documentary was produced in 1980 for WMTV in Madison, Wisconsin. It contains interviews with several Madison residents who were exploring...

Cult Explosion isn’t objective analysis—it’s sensational fearmongering that smears Christianity alongside obvious cults. This...

This is the last of the infamous German "Schoolgirl Report" movies. The story involves a bunch of teenagers and their teacher rehearsing "Romeo and...

Rodin's The Thinker raises his head to look ahead, just to return to his original position.

While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

After moving to Pasadena, Texas, country boy Bud Davis starts hanging around a bar called Gilley's, where he falls in love with Sissy, a cowgirl who...

A young girl witnesses the brutal murder of her stepfather at the hands of her brother, by mirror reflection. Years later, when the mirror is...

A faithful dramatization of Edgar Allan Poe's immortal poem, shot in a Spanish-style Catholic church in Harlan, Iowa.

Homage to the basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida.

Manolo (Fernando Esteso) is a porn actor who no longer has any attraction towards women, having become "a decent man". But, of course, there is a...

Salvadoran documentary about the revolutionary movement, produced by the Centro de Producciones Audiovisuales de Guazapa.

A plague ravages Buenos Aires. Those affected by it are executed on the spot; those who are healthy should report to the authorities. Escaping both...

In Nicaragua, 1977, corruption and abuse of power are everyday occurrences under the Somoza family’s dictatorship. Eruptions of violence lead...

Sister María de Guadalupe comes from Mexico to the convent that her congregation has in Spain. She is determined to change, as she has a knack...

Tour along the Amazon River¸ from its source to the mouth¸ observing the people on the banks and the areas they inhabit as well as the...

A businessman who receives his niece who comes from the interior experiences different situations in a hotel accommodation.

A bank employee, shy and skittish, is falling into the web of fear of the events he sees around him and the crime wave that seems to invade the city.

Following his mother`s death, wise son Sebastian attempts to organise dad Nestor to cope with basic household chores. Sebastian shows Nestor how to...

Third and final film in the Zorro-like series, following El Latigo / "The Whip" (1978) and El látigo contra Satanás / "The Whip vs....

A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost...

General Argumedo refuses to disband his troops at the end of the Mexican Revolution because he doesn't trust the new regime.

Eight young people have the opportunity to express themselves through film. They had no prior filmmaking experience. Once each project is finished...

In the world of women in prison, the Educational Reform makes changes possible for female inmates.

Gustavo is morbidly dominated by his mother, Doña Leticia, who refuses to accept another woman in her son's life.

Cinema entertainment creates a series of conditions for the viewer (a dark theater, credits, actors, types of films), elements that prepare us for...