Kiss Of The Spider Woman (2 disc set)
(1985) [M]

Set in the kind of Latin American gaol where even the clean linen is bloodstained, this explosive, sad yet stirring story tells of two prisoners with nothing in common except an extraordinary friendship that grows as they step into each other's worlds.  More

Another Country
(1984) [M]

Rupert Everett turns in an electric performance playing Guy Burgess, a key figure in the Cambridge spy ring of the 1940's who eventually defected to Russia in 1951.*MR  More

Paris, Texas
(1984) [M]

Travis (Harry Dean Stanton), a seemingly mute, semi-catatonic, amnesiac man wanders out of the desert and into a small, rural Texan town, his sole possession a piece of paper bearing the Los Angeles telephone number of his younger brother, Walt (Dean Stockwell). Returning to LA with Walt,...  More

Carmen
(1983) [M]

The director of a dance company in modern-day Spain decides to stage a dance production of Bizet's 'Carmen', and goes in search of an appropriate leading lady. During the course of the rehearsals, the plot of the production and reality becomes inextricably intertwined. Spanish dialogue with...  More

Nostalghia
(1983) [M]

A haunting, enigmatic film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, his first made outside of the Soviet Union. It is a portrait of a misanthropic poet, Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky): an expatriate in Italy who is researching the life of an exiled Russian composer who committed suicide. Gorchakov finds himself...  More

L'Argent
(1983) [M]

Robert Bresson won Best Director at Cannes in 1983 for this contemporary revision of Tolstoy's short story. When an innocent prank goes wrong, it becomes the definitive moment in a man's life. A forged 500 franc note is accidentally passed to an unsuspecting young man. Ignorant of its origins, he...  More

Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life - Special Edition (2 Disc Set)
(1983) [M]

Those six pandemonium-mad Pythons are back with their craziest adventure ever! John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin have returned to explain The Meaning of Life. These naughty Brits offer the usual tasteful sketches involving favorite body parts and...  More

Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life
(1983) [M]

Those six pandemonium-mad Pythons are back with their craziest adventure ever! John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin have returned to explain The Meaning Of Life. These naughty Britons offer the usual tasteful sketches involving favourite bodily...  More

The Ballad Of Narayama
(1983) [R]

In this second, award-winning interpretation of a novel by Shichiro Fukazawa, director Shohei Imamura has inserted some scenes of violence and ritual sex that are shocking and were absent in the first, 1958 film. The story is set in the 19th century in a remote and severely impoverished mountain...  More

Fitzcarraldo
(1982) [PG]

Fitzcarraldo is a legendary film for many reasons - the background to the making of it, the battles between star Klaus Kinski and director Werner Herzog, the resulting masterwork. These factors combined to bring a vision to the screen unlike anything seen before (or since). A driven Irish...  More