Videodrome and Escape From New York
Brazil
(Country: UK; Year: 1985; Director: Terry Gilliam; Writer: Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard; Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Kim Greist, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin, Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Jim Broadbent, Charles McKeown)
A typo leads to an innocent man being confused with a revolutionary, plunging the life of a small time bureaucrat into chaos.
Born In Flames
(Country: US; Year: 1983; Director: Lizzie Borden; Writer: Lizzie Borden, Ed Bowes; Stars: Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield, Florynce Kennedy, Becky Johnston, Pat Murphy, Kathryn Bigelow, Hillary Hurst, Sheila McLaughlin, Marty Pottenger, Lynne Jones, Ron Vawter, John Coplans, John Rudolph, Warner Schreiner)
In a futuristic US feminist groups try to challenge male power.
Presented by Lizzie Borden
The Brother From Another Planet
(Country: US; Year: 1984; Director: John Sayles; Writer: John Sayles; Stars: Joe Morton, Rosanna Carter, Ray Ramirez, Yves Rene, Peter Richardson, Ginny Yang, Daryl Edwards, Steve James, Leonard Jackson, Bill Cobbs, Maggie Renzi, Olga Merediz, Tom Wright, Minnie Gentry, Renn Woods)
A mute alien in the form of a black man crash lands in New York.
Death Watch (La Mort En Direct)
(Country: France, Germany, Uk; Year: 1980; Director: Bertrand Tavernier; Writer: David Rayfiel, based on the book by David Compton.; Stars: Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, Thérèse Liotard, Max von Sydow)
A man with a camera implanted in his brain is commissioned to film a documentary about a terminally ill woman's last days.
Escape From New York
(Country: US; Year: 1981; Director: John Carpenter; Writer: John Carpenter, Nick Castle; Stars: Kurt Russell, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasance, Lee Van Cleef, Isaac Hayes, Season Hubley, Adrienne Barbeau, Harry Dean Stanton.)
Kurt Russell embarks on a one-man mission to save the US President in a futuristic prison city.
Death Watch and Repo Man
The Element Of Crime (Forbrydelsens element)
(Country: Denmark; Year: 1984; Director: Lars von Trier; Writer: Niels Vørsel, William Quarshie, Stephen Wakelam, Lars von Trier; Stars: Michael Elphick, Esmond Knight, Me Me Lai, Jerold Wells, Ahmed El Shenawi, Astrid Henning-Jensen, János Herskó, Stig Larsson, Harry Harper, Roman Moszkowicz, Lars von Trier, Frederik Casby, Duke Addabayo, Jon Bang Carlsen, Leif Magnusson)
A detective hunts a serial killer through a dystopian future world.
The Last Battle (Le dernier combat)
(Country: France; Year: 1983; Director: Luc Besson; Writer: Luc Besson, Pierre Jolivet; Stars: Pierre Jolivet, Jean Bouise, Fritz Wepper, Jean Reno, Christiane Krüger, Maurice Lamy, Pierre Carrive, Jean-Michel Castanié, Michel Doset, Bernard Havet, Marcel Berthomier, Petra Müller, Garry Jode)
In a post-apocalyptic future where everyone is mute, humans struggle to survive.
Outland
(Country: UK; Year: 1981; Director: Peter Hyams; Writer: Peter Hyams; Stars: Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James Sikking, Kika Markham, Clarke Peters, Steven Berkoff, John Ratzenberger, Nicholas Barnes, Manning Redwood, Pat Starr, Hal Galili, Angus MacInnes, Stuart Milligan, Eugene Lipinski)
A Jupiter moon mining settlement's marshall discovers deaths at the outpost are linked to a drug.
The Quiet Earth
(Country: New Zealand; Year: 1985; Director: Geoff Murphy; Writer: Craig Harrison, Bill Baer, Bruno Lawrence, Sam Pillsbury; Stars: Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Pete Smith, Anzac Wallace, Norman Fletcher, Tom Hyde)
A man wakes up to discover a cosmic 'event' has apparently destroyed the rest of the human race.
Repo Man (Repoman)
(Country: US; Year: 1984; Director: Alex Cox; Writer: Alex Cox; Stars: Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Olivia Barash, Susan Barnes, Tracey Walter, Tom Finnegan),
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The intense life of a young punk repo man in a city haunted by a car with a secret.
The Terminator and Brazil
The Terminator
(Country: US; Year: 1984; Director: James Cameron; Writer: James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd, William Wisher Jr.; Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen, Bess Motta, Earl Boen, Rick Rossovich, Dick Miller, Shawn Schepps, Bruce M Kerner, Franco Columbu, Bill Paxton, Brad Rearden, Brian Thompson)
Relentless cyborg tries to alter a planet's future by changing one woman's past.
Videodrome
(Country: Canada; Year: 1983; Director: David Cronenberg; Writer: David Cronenberg; Stars: James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky, Leslie Carlson, Jack Creley)
Looking for the next big thing, a cable TV station programmer finds himself losing control in the grip of a phenomenon that is ready to alter reality forever.