Heatwave (1983)
Heatwave movie storyline. During a sweltering Sydney summer, architect Stephen West faces determined community opposition to his greatest opus, a $200 million inner-city development.
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Sally and Freedom (1981)
Sally and Freedom movie storyline. In a characterization that twists and turns like an insomniac, does the best she can with the female lead, Sally.
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The Breakfast Club (1985)
The Breakfast Club storyline. High school students has to sacrifice an entire Saturday in detention. A quintet of strangers–wrestling athlete, Andrew Clark; pampered daddy’s girl, Claire Standish
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Fanny and Alexander (1982)
It’s the early 20th century Sweden. Adolescent siblings Alexander and Fanny Ekdahl lead a relatively joyous and exuberant life with their well-off extended paternal family.
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Butterfly (1982)
At the Arizona-Nevada border in 1937, a seventeen-year-old girl hitches a ride with a truck driver going toward the town of Good Springs. She seduces him, and he pulls the truck over to the side of the road. When the truck stops, she grabs her suitcase and runs over the hill toward a small shack belonging to a rugged-looking man named Jess Tyler.
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Blade Runner (1982)
Blade Runner movie storyline. In 2019 Los Angeles, former policeman Rick Deckard is detained by Officer Gaff, and brought to his former supervisor, Bryant. Deckard, whose job as a “blade runner” was to track down bioengineered humanoids known as replicants and terminally “retire” them, is informed that four replicants are on Earth illegally. Deckard begins to leave, but Bryant ambiguously threatens him and Deckard stays.
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Author! Author! (1982)
Author! Author! movie storyline. Playwright Ivan Travalian (Al Pacino) has a new Broadway play (English with Tears) in rehearsal and the backers want rewrites. His wife, Gloria (Tuesday Weld), moves out, leaving him with custody of their five children: four from her previous marriages and his own son.
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Aphrodite (1982)
Aphrodite movie storyline. Harry (Horst Buchholz) is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mansion of his friend, Count Orloff. The Count organizes a feast there, for three days and three nights, which is the reenactment of the love cult of the Goddess Aphrodite.
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Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)
Palermo or Wolfsburg movie storyline. A poor Italian bricklayer (nonprofessional actor Nicola Zarbo) travels to Germany in search of work, only to land in more humiliating poverty and wind up on trial for manslaughter. Director Werner Schroeter divides his story into three acts, adopting a different style for each: the first, set in Italy, mimics postwar Italian neorealism (in particular the early films of Rossellini and Visconti).
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Crossroads (1986)
Eugene Martone, the “Lightening Boy” (Ralph Macchio), is a lover of blues. He studies guitar in Julliard, but he indeed is looking for the thirtieth unknown song of Roberto Johnson. One day, he meets Willie Brown, the “Blind Dog” in an old folk’s home and is convinced that he possess the lost song. Eugene helps Willie to escape the asylum and goes with him to Mississippi.
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