The Mission
(1986) [PG]

Jeremy Irons plays a Spanish Jesuit who goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region. Robert DeNiro plays a slave hunter who is converted and joins Irons in his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to...  More

Colonel Redl
(1985) [M]

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.  More

Insignificance
(1985) [M]

A New York night in 1953. Fans crowd the sidewalks and the famous hide out in bars. Four 20th Century icons, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe Dimaggio and Senator Joseph McCarthy are dropped into a melting pot of the sexual and the cerebral. The group is forced into conversation and each of...  More

The Official Story
(1985) [M]

An intelligent political film about the 'disappeared' in Argentina. Buenos Aires schoolteacher Aleandro (Norma Aleandro, in a rivetting performance) lives in middle-class comfort with her husband and their adopted daughter. But she starts on a moral and political reawakening when she suspects her...  More

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

Stranger Than Paradise
(1984) [M]

Willie (John Lurie) is annoyed to learn that his younger cousin, Eva (Eszter Balint), is flying in from Hungary and plans on staying with him for ten days. When she arrives, she and Willie waste their days doing nothing. Eventually, Eva gets bored and leaves New York in order to visit her Aunt...  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

Sunday In The Country
(1984) [PG]

A sunny Sunday in 1910. Painter Monsieur Ladmiral is visited by his wife and rowdy children. French dialogue with English subtitles.  More

Cal
(1984) [M]

Despite being involved in her husband's murder, a young Catholic IRA supporter falls for an older, Protestant woman, but love is no match for the political and social ideals which divide them. An impressive first feature from Pat O'Connor with a fine score from Mark Knopfler.  More

The Holy Innocents (Los santos inocentes)
(1984) [PG]

'Los santos inocentes' is a masterpiece of European cinema. The movie brings us back to times in Spain where most people were nothing more than property of the few rich. The 'master' even had the right to be the one to make the daughters of his serfs lose their virginity. A man and wife living...  More