Movie Timeline 1980-1989

1980

Airplane! (US…Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams)

Altered States (US…Ken Russell)

American Gigolo (US…Paul Schrader)

Atlantic City (US/Canada…Louis Malle)

The Aviator’s Wife (France…Eric Rohmer)

Aziza (Tunisia…Abdel-Latif Ben Ammar)

Bad Timing (US/UK…Nicolas Roeg)

Berlin Alexanderplatz (West Germany…Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

The Big Red One: The Reconstruction (US (2004)…Samuel Fuller)

Breaker Morant (Australia…Bruce Beresford)

Caught on a Train (UK…Peter Duffell)

Coal Miner’s Daughter (US…Michael Apted)

The Contract (Poland…Krzysztof Zanussi)

Cutting it Short (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Menzel)

Demon Lover Diary (US…Joel DeMott)

Le Dernièr Métro (France…François Truffaut)

Dressed to Kill (US…Brian de Palma)

The Elephant Man (UK/US…David Lynch)

The Empire Strikes Back: The Special Edition (US (1997)…Irwin Kershner)

The Falls (UK…Peter Greenaway)

La Femme Objet (France…Claude Mulot)

From the Cloud to the Resistance (France…Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet)

Germany, Pale Mother (West Germany…Helma Sanders-Brahms)

The Girl with the Golden Panties (Spain…Vicente Aranda)

Gloria (US…John Cassavetes)

Gregory’s Girl (UK…Bill Forsyth)

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (UK…Rodney Bennett)

Heaven’s Gate (US…Michael Cimino)

Hollywood (UK…Kevin Brownlow)

Insatiable (US…Stu Segall)

Kagemusha (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Kagero-za (Japan…Seijun Suzuki)

The Knight (Poland…Lech Majewski)

The Long Good Friday (UK…John McKenzie)

Loulou (France…Maurice Pialat)

Melvin and Howard (US…Jonathan Demme)

Mon Oncle d’Amérique (France…Alain Resnais)

The Nest (Spain…Jaime de Armiñán)

Out of the Blue (US…Dennis Hopper)

Prostitute (UK…Tony Garnett)

Raging Bull (US…Martin Scorsese)

The Return of the Secaucus Seven (US…John Sayles)

Sauve qui peut… (France…Jean-Luc Godard)

The Shining (US/UK…Stanley Kubrick)

Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (UK…Steve Roberts)

Somewhere in Time (US…Jeannot Szwarc)

Spetters (Netherlands…Paul Verhoeven)

Stardust Memories (US…Woody Allen)

The Stunt Man (US…Richard Rush)

The Taming of the Shrew (UK…Jonathan Miller)

Le Voyage en Douce (France…Michel Deville)

Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister (UK (until 1988)…Sydney Lotterby, Peter Whitmore)

 

1981

An American Werewolf in London (US/UK…John Landis)

And Then There Was Jazz (Poland…Feliks Falk)

Beau Père (France…Bertrand Blier)

Betrayal (Norway…Vibeke Lokkeberg)

Blow Out (US…Brian de Palma)

Body Heat (US…Lawrence Kasdan)

Das Boot: TV version (West Germany…Wolfgang Petersen)

The Borgias (UK…Brian Farnham)

Brideshead Revisited (UK…Charles Sturridge, Michael Lindsay-Hogg)

Celeste (West Germany…Percy Adlon)

La Cenerentola (West Germany…Jean-Pierre Ponnelle)

Chariots of Fire (UK…Hugh Hudson)

Christiane F (West Germany…Uli Edel)

Circle of Deceit (West Germany…Volker Schlöndorff)

Coup de Torchon (France…Bertrand Tavernier)

Cutter’s Way (US…Ivan Passer)

Deprisa, Deprisa (Spain…Carlos Saura)

Diva (France…Jean-Jacques Beineix)

Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (Yugoslavia…Emir Kusturica)

Docteur Jeckyll et les Femmes (France…Walerian Borowczyk)

Edo Porn (Japan…Kaneto Shindo)

Excalibur (UK…John Boorman)

Francisca (Portugal…Manoel de Oliveira)

Freak Orlando (West Germany…Ulrike Ottinger)

The French Lieutenant’s Woman (UK…Karel Reisz)

Gallipoli (Australia…Peter Weir)

The Gate of Youth (Japan…Kinji Fukusaku, Koreyoshi Kurahara)

The German Sisters (West Germany…Margarethe von Trotta)

Going Gently (UK…Stephen Frears)

The History Man (UK…Robert Knights)

In Search of Famine (India…Mrinal Sen)

Lili Marleen (West Germany…Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Lola (West Germany…Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Lonely Hearts (Australia…Paul Cox)

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (Australia…George Miller)

Man of Iron (Poland…Andrzej Wajda)

Mandala (South Korea…Im Kwon-Taek)

Mephisto (Hungary…Istvan Szabo)

Merry Go-Round (France…Jacques Rivette)

Mommie Dearest (US…Frank Perry)

Muddy River (Japan…Kohei Oguri)

My Dinner With André (US…Louis Malle)

Nightdreams (US…Francis Delia)

On Golden Pond (US…Mark Rydell)

Orderly or Disorderly (Iran…Abbas Kiarostami)

Passione d’Amour (Italy…Ettore Scola)

Pixote (Brazil…Hector Babenco)

Le Pont du Nord (France…Jacques Rivette)

Prince of the City (US…Sidney Lumet)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (US…Steven Spielberg)

Rat Trap (India…Adoor Gopalakrishnan)

Reds (US…Warren Beatty)

Shivers (Poland…Wojciech Marczewski)

Southern Comfort (US…Walter Hill)

They Don’t Wear Black Tie (Brazil…Leon Hirszman)

Thief (US…Michael Mann)

Three Brothers (Italy…Francesco Rosi)

Too Early, Too Late (West Germany/France…Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet)

The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (Italy…Bernardo Bertolucci)

True Confessions (US…Ulu Grosbard)

The Woman Next Door (France…François Truffaut)

You Only Love Once (Yugoslavia…Rajko Grlic)

 

1982

All Night Long (Belgium…Chantal Akerman)

Alsino and the Condor (Nicaragua…Miguel Littin)

L’Ange (France…Patrick Bokanowski)

Angel (Greece…George Katakouzinos)

Another Way (Hungary…Karoly Makk)

Le Bal (France/Italy…Ettore Scola)

La Balance (France…Bob Swaim)

The Barchester Chronicles (UK…David Giles)

Blade Runner: the director’s cut (US (1991)…Ridley Scott)

Boat People (Hong Kong…Ann Hui)

Boys from the Blackstuff (UK…Philip Saville)

Café Flesh (US…Stephen Sayadian)

Cheers (US (until 1993)…various)

Diary for My Children (Hungary…Márta Mészáros)

Dimensions of Dialogue (Czechoslovakia…Jan Svankmajer)

Diner (US…Barry Levinson)

The Draughtsman’s Contract (UK…Peter Greenaway)

E.T: the extra terrestrial (US…Steven Spielberg)

An Englishman Abroad (UK…John Schlesinger)

The Evil Dead (US…Sam Raimi)

The Executioner’s Song (European theatrical version) (US…Lawrence Schiller)

The Eyes, the Mouth (Italy…Marco Bellocchio)

Fanny and Alexander: Longer Version (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (US…Amy Heckerling)

Fitzcarraldo (West Germany…Werner Herzog)

Gandhi (UK…Richard Attenborough)

The Girl from Trieste (Italy…Pasquale Festa Campanile)

God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore (Austria…Axel Corti)

The Grey Fox (Canada…Philip Borsos)

Identification of a Woman (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)

Interrogation (Poland…Ryszard Bugajski)

Irezumi: Spirit of Tattoo (Japan…Yoichi Takabayashi)

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (UK…Jim Goddard)

Missing (US…Constantin Costa-Gavras)

Moonlighting (UK…Jerzy Skolimowski)

My Favorite Year (US…Richard Benjamin)

The Night of the Shooting Stars (Italy…Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani)

La Nuit de Varennes (France/Italy…Ettore Scola)

Onimasa (Japan…Hideo Gosha)

Parsifal (West Germany…Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)

Passion (France…Jean-Luc Godard)

Personal Best (US…Robert Towne)

Poltergeist (US…Tobe Hooper)

Querelle (West Germany…Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

A Question of Silence (Netherlands…Marleen Gorris)

Smiley’s People (UK…Simon Langton)

The Snowman (UK…Dianne Jackson)

Something in Between (Yugoslavia…Srdjan Karanovic)

Sophie’s Choice (US…Alan J.Pakula)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (US…Nicholas Mayer)

Sweet Hours (Spain…Carlos Saura)

Taboo II (US…Kirdy Stevens)

Tender Mercies (US…Bruce Beresford)

Tenebrae (Italy…Dario Argento)

They Don’t Wear Black Tie (Brazil…Leon Hirszman)

The Thing (US…John Carpenter)

Tootsie (US…Sydney Pollack)

La Traviata (Italy…Franco Zeffirelli)

The Verdict (US…Sidney Lumet)

Veronika Voss (West Germany…Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Videodrome (Canada…David Cronenberg)

White Dog (US…Samuel Fuller)

The World According to Garp (US…George Roy Hill)

The Year of Living Dangerously (US…Peter Weir)

Yol (Turkey/Switzerland…Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney)

The Young Ones (UK (until 1984)…various)

 

1983

À Nos Amours (France…Maurice Pialat)

Almanac of Fall (Hungary…Béla Tarr)

And the Ship Sails On (Italy…Federico Fellini)

Angst (Austria…Gerald Kargl)

Les années 80 (France…Chantal Akerman)

Another Time, Another Place (UK…Michael Radford)

L’Argent (France…Robert Bresson)

The Art of Love (France…Walerian Borowczyk)

The Ballad of Narayama (Japan…Shohei Imamura)

La Belle Captive (France…Alain Robbe-Grillet)

The Big Chill (US…Lawrence Kasdan)

The Big Snit (US…Richard Condie)

Blackadder (UK (until 1989)…John Lloyd)

Blue Mountains (USSR…Eldar Shengalaya)

A Christmas Story (US…Bob Clark)

The Cleopatras (UK…John Frankau)

Daniel Takes a Train (Hungary…Pál Sándor)

The Dead Zone (Canada…David Cronenberg)

The Dresser (UK…Peter Yates)

Family Game (Japan…Yoshimitsu Morita)

First Name: Carmen (France…Jean-Luc Godard)

Forbidden Relations (Hungary…Zsolt Kezdi-Kovacs)

In the White City (France/Switzerland…Alain Tanner)

The Key (Italy…Tinto Brass)

The King of Comedy (US…Martin Scorsese)

Local Hero (UK…Bill Forsyth)

Love Letters (US…Amy Jones)

Made in Britain (UK…Alan Clarke)

The Makioka Sisters (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)

Marlene (West Germany…Maximilian Schell)

Mickey’s Christmas Carol (US…Burney Mattinson)

The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (Czechoslovakia…Oldrich Lipsky)

El Norte (US…Gregory Nava)

Nostalgia (Italy/USSR …Andrei Tarkovsky)

One Deadly Summer (France…Jean Becker)

One Summer (UK…Gordon Flemyng)

Pauline à la Plage (France…Eric Rohmer)

The Ploughman’s Lunch (UK…Richard Eyre)

Return of the Jedi: The Special Edition (US (1997)…Richard Marquand)

The Right Stuff (US…Philip Kaufman)

Rue Cases Nègres (France…Euzhan Palcy)

Rumble Fish (US…Francis Ford Coppola)

Sans Soleil (France…Chris Marker)

Scarface (US…Brian de Palma)

Silkwood (US…Mike Nichols)

The South (Spain…Victor Erice)

Star 80 (US…Bob Fosse)

The Store (US…Frederick Wiseman)

Terms of Endearment (US…James L.Brooks)

The Thorn Birds (US/Australia…Daryl Duke)

Three Crowns of the Sailor (France…Raoul Ruiz)

Thriller video (US…John Landis)

Trading Places (US…John Landis)

Unknown Chaplin (UK…Kevin Brownlow)

Vassa (USSR…Gleb Penfilov)

Yentl (US…Barbra Streisand)

The Wind (Mali…Souleymane Cissé)

Zelig (US…Woody Allen)

Zu Warriors (Hong Kong…Tsui Hark)

Zydecko Mulatto (US…Jacob Munch)

 

1984

Abnormal Family: Brother’s Wife (Japan…Masayuki Suo)

After the Rehearsal (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)

Amadeus: the director’s cut (US (2001)…Milos Forman)

An Amorous Woman of the Tang Dynasty (Hong Kong…Eddie Fong)

L’Amour à Mort (France…Alain Resnais)

Antonio Gaudi (Japan…Hiroshi Teshigahara)

Bayan Ko: My Own Country (Philippines…Lino Brocka)

Birdy (US…Alan Parker)

Blood Simple (US…Joel Coen)

Broadway Danny Rose (US…Woody Allen)

Carmen (Italy/Spain…Francesco Rosi)

Colonel Redl (Hungary…Istvan Szabo)

The Company of Wolves (UK…Neil Jordan)

Crimes of Passion (UK…Ken Russell)

Death Japanese Style (Japan…Juzo Itami)

Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Hong Kong…Lau Kar-leung)

Farewell to the Ark (Japan…Shuji Terayama)

La Femme Publique (France…Andrzej Zulawski)

Fireflies in the North (Japan…Hideo Gosha)

Heimat (West Germany…Edgar Reitz)

The Homecoming (Hong Kong…Yim Ho)

The Jewel in the Crown (UK…Jim O’Brien, Christopher Morahan)

Kaos (Italy…Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani)

The Killing Fields (UK…Roland Joffé)

Long Arm of the Law (Hong Kong…Johnny Mak)

Love Streams (US…John Cassavetes)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (US…Wes Craven)

No End (Poland… Krzysztof Kieslowski)

Once Upon a Time in America (US…Sergio Leone)

Paris, Texas (West Germany/France/US…Wim Wenders)

A Passage to India (UK…David Lean)

Repentance (USSR…Tengiz Abuladze)

Repo Man (US…Alex Cox)

The Runner (Iran…Amir Nedari)

Shanghai Blues (Hong Kong…Tsui Hark)

Sherlock Holmes… (TV (until 1994)…various)

Stop Making Sense (US…Jonathan Demme)

Stranger Than Paradise (US…Jim Jarmusch)

A Summer at Grandpa’s (Taiwan…Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

A Sunday in the Country (France…Bertrand Tavernier)

Swann in Love (France…Volker Schlöndorff)

The Terence Davies Trilogy (UK…Terence Davies)

The Terminator (US…James Cameron)

Thais (Poland…Ryszard Ber)

This is Spinal Tap (US…Rob Reiner)

Threads (UK…Mick Jackson)

Under the Volcano (US/UK…John Huston)

Wet and Swinging (Japan…Shusuke Kaneko)

Yellow Earth (China…Chen Kaige)

 

1985

A.D. Anno Domini (US/UK…Stuart Cooper)

A.K. (France…Chris Marker)

Abel (Netherlands…Alex van Warmerdam)

After Hours (US…Martin Scorsese)

Alpine Fire (Switzerland…Fredi R.Murer)

The Angelic Conversation (UK…Derek Jarman)

Back to the Future (US…Robert Zemeckis)

Bleak House (UK…John Devenish)

Brazil (UK…Terry Gilliam)

The Breakfast Club (US…John Hughes)

Butterfly and Flowers (Thailand…Euthana Mukdasanit)

The Color Purple (US…Steven Spielberg)

Come and See (USSR…Elem Klimov)

Contact (UK…Alan Clarke)

Dance With a Stranger (UK…Mike Newell)

Desert Hearts (US…Donna Deitch)

Les Destins de Manoel (France/Portugal…Raoul Ruiz)

Edge of Darkness (UK…Martin Campbell)

Hail Mary (France…Jean-Luc Godard)

Himatsuri (Japan…Mitsuo Yanagimachi)

Huey Long (US…Ken Burns)

An Impudent Girl (France…Claude Miller)

In Search of the Trojan War (UK…Bill Lyons)

Kiss of the Spider Woman (US…Hector Babenco)

Lost in America (US…Albert Brooks)

Love Hotel (Japan…Shinji Somei)

Ma no toki (Japan…Yasuo Furuhata)

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (US…Paul Schrader)

Mix-Up (France…Françoise Romand)

My Beautiful Laundrette (UK…Stephen Frears)

My Life as a Dog (Sweden…Lasse Hallström)

My Sweet Little Village (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Menzel)

The Official Version (Argentina…Luis Puenza)

Out of Africa (US…Sydney Pollack)

Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (US…Tim Burton)

Prizzi’s Honor (US…John Huston)

The Purple Rose of Cairo (US…Woody Allen)

Ran (Japan…Akira Kurosawa)

Rendez-Vous (France…André Techine)

A Room With a View (UK…James Ivory)

Shoah (France…Claude Lanzmann)

Silas Marner (UK…Giles Foster)

Taipei Story (Taiwan…Edward Yang)

The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Taiwan…Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

To Live and Die in L.A. (US…William Friedkin)

Vagabonde (France…Agnès Varda)

Vertiges (France…Christine Laurent)

Victoria Wood as Seen on TV (UK (until 1986)…various)

Witness (US…Peter Weir)

Year of the Quiet Sun (Poland…Krzysztof Zanussi)

 

1986

Aliens: the Special Edition (US (1987)…James Cameron)

The Assault (Netherlands…Fons Rademakers)

Backyard (US…Ross McElwee)

A Better Tomorrow (Hong Kong…John Woo)

Betty Blue: Version Integrale (France (1991)…Jean-Jacques Beineix)

Blue Velvet (US…David Lynch)

Captured for Sex 2 (Japan…Ryuichi Hiroki, Hitoshi Ishikawa, Genji Nakamura)

Caravaggio (UK…Derek Jarman)

Castle in the Sky (Japan…Hayao Miyazaki)

Charlotte For Ever (France…Serge Gainsbourg)

Comrades (UK…Bill Douglas)

The Decline of the American Empire (Canada…Denys Arcand)

The Devil in the Flesh (Italy/France…Marco Bellocchio)

Down by Law (US…Jim Jarmusch)

Fake Fruit Factory (US…Chick Strand)

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (US…John Hughes)

The Fly (US…David Cronenberg)

Forest of Bliss (US…Robert Gardner)

Frida, naturaleza viva (Mexico…Paul Leduc)

Ginger and Fred (Italy…Federico Fellini)

A Girl from Hunan (China…Xie Fei, Lan U)

Gonza the Spearman (Japan…Hideo Gosha)

The Green Ray (France…Eric Rohmer)

Hannah and Her Sisters (US…Woody Allen)

Henry – Portrait of a Serial Killer (US…John McNaughton)

Hibiscus Town (China…Xie Jin)

Horse Thief (China…Tian Zhuangzhuang)

House on Fire (Japan…Kinji Fukasaku)

Jean de Florette (France…Claude Berri)

Kin Dza-Dza (USSR…Georgi Daneliya)

The Life and Loves of a She Devil (UK…Philip Saville)

Manhunter (US…Michael Mann)

Manon des Sources (France…Claude Berri)

Mauvais Sang (France…Leos Carax)

The Mission (UK/US…Roland Joffé)

Mona Lisa (UK…Neil Jordan)

My Friend Ivan Lapshin (USSR…Aleksei German)

Peking Opera Blues (Hong Kong…Tsui Hark)

Platoon (US…Oliver Stone)

A Promise (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)

Rosa Luxembourg (West Germany…Margarette Von Trotta)

The Sacrifice (Sweden/France…Andrei Tarkovsky)

Salvador (US…Oliver Stone)

Santa Fe (Austria…Axel Corti)

Sherman’s March (US…Ross McElwee)

She’s Gotta Have It (US…Spike Lee)

Sid and Nancy (US…Alex Cox)

The Singing Detective (UK…Jon Amiel)

Something Wild (US…Jonathan Demme)

Stammheim (West Germany…Reinhard Hauff)

Stand by Me (US…Rob Reiner)

The Street of Crocodiles (Canada…Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay)

Summer (France…Eric Rohmer)

Tampopo (Japan…Juzo Itami)

The Terroriser (Taiwan…Edward Yang)

Thérèse (France…Alain Cavalier)

38 – Vienna Before the Fall (Austria…Wolfgang Glück)

36 Fillette (France…Catherine Breillat)

A Very Peculiar Practice (UK (until 1988)…various)

Welcome in Vienna (Austria…Axel Corti)

Withnail & I (UK…Bruce Robinson)

Working Girls (US…Lizzie Borden)

X (Norway…Oddvar Einarson)

 

1987

Angel Heart (US…Alan Parker)

Anita: Dances of Vice (West Germany…Rosa von Praunheim)

Au Revoir les Enfants (France…Louis Malle)

Babette’s Feast (Denmark…Gabriel Axel)

Bagdad Café (West Germany/US…Percy Adlon)

Broadcast News (US…James L.Brooks)

Camp de Thiaroye (Senegal…Ousmane Sembene)

Christine (UK…Alan Clarke)

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Italy…Francesco Rosi)

City on Fire (Hong Kong…Ringo Lam)

Cry Freedom (UK/US…Richard Attenborough)

The Cyclist (Iran…Mohsen Makhmalbaf)

Damned If You Don’t (US…Su Friedrich)

The Dante Quartet (US…Stan Brakhage)

Dark Eyes (Italy…Nikita Mikhalkov)

The Dead (UK/Ireland…John Huston)

Diary for My Loves (Hungary…Márta Mészáros)

Dust in the Wind (Taiwan…Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (Japan…Kazuo Hara)

Empire of the Sun (US…Steven Spielberg)

The Evil Dead II (US…Sam Raimi)

The Family (Italy…Ettore Scola)

Fatal Attraction (US…Adrian Lyne)

Freckled Max and the Spooks (Czechoslovakia…Juraj Jakubisko)

Full Metal Jacket (US…Stanley Kubrick)

Gap Toothed Women (US…Les Blank)

Le Grand Chemin (France…Jean-Loup Hubert)

Hope and Glory (UK…John Boorman)

House of Games (US…David Mamet)

Housekeeping (US…Bill Forsyth)

The Ice Palace (Norway…Per Blom)

Inspector Morse (UK (until 2000)…various)

Intervista (Italy…Federico Fellini)

Is It Easy to be Young (USSR…Juris Podnieks)

The Journey (Sweden/Canada…Peter Watkins)

King of the Children (China…Chen Kaige)

The Last Emperor: the director’s cut (UK/Italy/China (1998)…Bernardo Bertolucci)

Law of Desire (Spain…Pedro Almodóvar)

The Man who Planted Trees (Canada…Frédéric Back)

Matewan (US…John Sayles)

Maurice (US…James Ivory)

Moonstruck (US…Norman Jewison)

Near Dark (US…Kathryn Bigelow)

Pathfinder (Norway…Nils Gaup)

Pelle the Conqueror (Denmark…Bille August)

Prick Up Your Ears (UK…Stephen Frears)

The Princess Bride (US…Rob Reiner)

Radio Days (US…Woody Allen)

Raising Arizona (US…Joel Coen)

Red Sorghum (China…Zhang Yimou)

Road (UK…Alan Clarke)

RoboCop (US…Paul Verhoeven)

Rouge (Hong Kong…Stanley Kwan)

Sleep Walk (US…Sara Driver)

Someone to Watch Over Me (US…Ridley Scott)

Star Trek: The Next Generation (US (until 1994)…various)

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (US…Todd Haynes)

Swimming to Cambodia (US…Jonathan Demme)

A Taxing Woman (Japan…Juzo Itami)

Tokyo Bordello (Japan…Hideo Gosha)

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (Canada…Guy Maddin)

The Untouchables (US…Brian de Palma)

Urotsukidoji Part I: The Legend of the Overfiend (Japan…Hideki Takayama)

Wall Street (US…Oliver Stone)

Where is the Friend’s House? (Iran…Abbas Kiarostami)

Wicked City (Japan…Yoshiaki Kawajiri)

Wings of Desire (West Germany…Wim Wenders)

The Wings of Honneamise (Japan…Hiroyuki Yamaga)

Wish You Were Here (UK…David Leland)

The Year My Voice Broke (Australia…John Duigan)

Yeelen (Mali…Souleymane Cissé)

 

1988

The Accidental Tourist (US…Lawrence Kasdan)

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (US/UK…Terry Gilliam)

The Age of Success (South Korea…Jang Seon-woo)

Akira (Japan…Katsuhiro Otomo)

Alice (UK/Czechoslovakia…Jan Svankmajer)

Another Woman (US…Woody Allen)

Ariel (Finland…Aki Kaurismäki)

As Tears Go By (Hong Kong…Wong Kar-Wai)

Ashik Kerib (USSR…Sergei Paradjanov, Dado Abashidze)

Big (US…Penny Marshall)

The Big Blue: Version Longue (France…Luc Besson)

Bull Durham (US…Ron Shelton)

The Cat Came Back (US…Cordell Barker)

Celia (Australia…Ann Turner)

Chocolat (France…Claire Denis)

Cinema Paradiso: the Special Edition (Italy (1994)…Giuseppe Tornatore)

Colors (US…Dennis Hopper)

Damnation (Hungary…Béla Tarr)

Dangerous Liaisons (US…Stephen Frears)

The Days of Eclipse (USSR…Aleksandr Sokurov)

Dead Ringers (Canada…David Cronenberg)

Death in the Seine (UK…Peter Greenaway)

Dekalog (Poland…Krzysztof Kieslowski)

Die Hard (US…John McTiernan)

Distant Voices, Still Lives (UK…Terence Davies)

Drowning by Numbers (UK…Peter Greenaway)

Eight Men Out (US…John Sayles)

A Fish Called Wanda (UK…Charles Crichton)

Frantic (US…Roman Polanski)

Grave of the Fireflies (Japan…Isao Takahata)

Heat and Sunlight (US…Rob Nilsson)

Histoire(s) du Cinema (France (up to 1998)…Jean-Luc Godard)

Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (France…Marcel Ophuls)

Ivan and Alexandra (Bulgaria…Ivan Nitchev)

Jack the Ripper (UK…David Wickes)

King Lear (France…Jean-Luc Godard)

Landscape in the Mist (Greece…Theo Angelopoulos)

The Last Temptation of Christ (US…Martin Scorsese)

La Lectrice (France…Michel Deville)

Legend of the Holy Drinker (Italy…Ermanno Olmi)

Little Dorrit: Parts I & II (UK…Christine Edzard)

Little Vera (USSR…Vasili Pichul)

Medea (Denmark…Lars Von Trier)

Midnight Run (US…Martin Brest)

Mignon Has Left (Italy…Francesca Archibugi)

Mississippi Burning (US…Alan Parker)

The Moderns (US…Alan Rudolph)

My Neighbour Totoro (Japan…Hayao Miyazaki)

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (US…David Zucker)

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (New Zealand…Vincent Ward)

La Passion Beatrice (France…Bertrand Tavernier)

Prosperities of Vice (Japan…Akio Jissoji)

Rain Man (US…Barry Levinson)

The Rainbow (UK …Stuart Burge)

Salaam Bombay! (India…Mira Nair)

A Short Film About Killing (Poland… Krzysztof Kieslowski)

A Short Film About Love (Poland… Krzysztof Kieslowski)

South (Argentina…Fernando E.Solanas)

Splendor (Italy…Ettore Scola)

The Summer of Aviya (Israel…Eli Cohen)

A Tale of the Wind (France…Joris Ivens)

Tales of the Gimli Hospital (Canada…Guy Maddin)

Talking Heads (UK (& 1998)…various)

Talking to Strangers (US…Robert Tregenza)

Testimony (UK…Tony Palmer)

The Thin Blue Line (US…Errol Morris)

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (Japan…Akio Jissoji)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (US…Philip Kaufman)

The Vanishing (Netherlands/France…George Sluizer)

A Very British Coup (UK…Mick Jackson)

War Requiem (UK…Derek Jarman)

When the Wind Blows (UK…Jimmy T.Murakami)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (US…Robert Zemeckis)

Why Has Bodhi Dharma Left for the East? (South Korea…Bae Yong-kyun)

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Spain…Pedro Almodóvar)

A World Apart (UK…Chris Menges)

Wuthering Heights (Japan…Yoshishige Yoshida)

 

1989

The Abyss: Special Edition (US (1993)…James Cameron)

Arietta (Japan…Akio Jissoji)

Around the World in 80 Days (UK…Roger Mills, Clem Vallance)

The Asthenic Syndrome (USSR…Kira G.Muratova)

Batman (US…Tim Burton)

Blackeyes (UK…Dennis Potter)

Blood (Portugal…Pedro Costa)

Born on the Fourth of July (US…Oliver Stone)

Casualties of War (US…Brian de Palma)

Circus Boys (Japan…Kaizo Hayashi)

City of Sadness (Taiwan…Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (UK…Peter Greenaway)

Creature Comforts (UK…Nick Park)

Crimes and Misdemeanors (US…Woody Allen)

Darkness/Light/Darkness (Czechoslovakia…Jan Svankmajer)

Dead Poets Society (US…Peter Weir)

Do the Right Thing (US…Spike Lee)

Driving Miss Daisy (US…Bruce Beresford)

Drugstore Cowboy (US…Gus van Sant)

Eat a Bowl of Tea (US…Wayne Wang)

Enemies, a Love Story (US…Paul Mazursky)

The Fabulous Baker Boys (US…Steve Kloves)

Field of Dreams (US…Phil Alden Robinson)

The Firm (UK…Alan Clarke)

For All Mankind (US…Al Reinert)

Gang of Four (France…Jacques Rivette)

Heathers (US…Michael Lehmann)

Henry V (UK…Kenneth Branagh)

The Iceman Cometh (Hong Kong…Clarence Fok)

The Icicle Thief (Italy…Maurizio Nichetti)

Jesus of Montreal (Canada…Denys Arcand)

Kiki’s Delivery Service (Japan…Hayao Miyazaki)

The Killer (Hong Kong…John Woo)

Last Exit to Brooklyn (West Germany/US…Uli Edel)

Life and Nothing But (France…Bertrand Tavernier)

The Little Mermaid (US…John Musker, Ron Clements)

Lonesome Dove (US…Simon Wincer)

The Mahabharata (UK/France/India…Peter Brook)

The Match Factory Girl (Finland…Aki Kaurismäki)

Milou en Mai (France…Louis Malle)

Monsieur Hire (France…Patrice Leconte)

My Left Foot (UK/Ireland…Jim Sheridan)

Mystery Train (US…Jim Jarmusch)

The Nasty Girl (West Germany…Michael Verhoeven)

The Needle (USSR…Rashid Nagmanov)

Niu-Peng (China…Dai Sijie)

Noce Blanche (France…Jean-Claude Brisseau)

Parenthood (US…Ron Howard)

Recollections of the Yellow House (Portugal…Joao César Monteiro)

Roselyne et les Lions: director’s cut (France…Jean-Jacques Beineix)

Santa Sangre (Mexico…Alejandro Jodorowsky)

Scandal (UK…Michael Caton-Jones)

The Seventh Continent (Austria…Michael Haneke)

Sex, Lies and Videotape (US…Steven Soderbergh)

The Simpsons (US (until present)…various)

Sweetie (Australia…Jane Campion)

Talvisoto (Finland…Pekka Parikka)

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Spain…Pedro Almodóvar)

The Time of the Gypsies (Yugoslavia…Emir Kusturica)

Traffik (UK…Alastair Reid)

Under the Glacier (Iceland…Gundy Halldorsdottir)

Valmont (US…Milos Forman)

A Village Romeo and Juliet (West Germany/UK…Petr Weigl)

Violent Cop (Japan…Takeshi Kitano)

When Harry Met Sally… (US…Rob Reiner)

Yaaba (Burkino Faso…Idrissa Ouedraogo)

Zamri umri voskresni! (USSR…Vitaly Kanevski)