1980s – rarefilmm | The Cave of Forgotten Films https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st The Cave of Forgotten Films Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:38:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cropped-rrficon2-32x32.png 1980s – rarefilmm | The Cave of Forgotten Films https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st 32 32 DE STEDELING (1984) https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/de-stedeling-1984/ https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/de-stedeling-1984/#respond Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:38:34 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=36543 A young man from the city decides to travel into the Dutch countryside. There, he notices strange mound-like shapes in the fields covered by white plastic tarps. The local farmers casually explain that the mounds contain silage or hay, but the man becomes suspicious. When he secretly peeks underneath, he discovers something bizarre instead: stacks of consumer goods like sugar, canned soup, and sliced bread.

Director: Alex van Warmerdam.
Writer: Alex van Warmerdam.
Stars: Alex van Warmerdam.

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IMAGINING OCTOBER (1984) https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/imagining-october-1984/ https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/imagining-october-1984/#respond Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:07:37 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=36527 Produced for the 1984 London Film Festival, Derek Jarman’s Imagining October is a dreamlike meditation on art and politics in the final years of the Cold War. In this film Jarman explores art and politics in the final years of the Cold War, drawing connections between pre-Perestroika Russia and Thatcherite Britain. The title refers to the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and Sergei Eisenstein’s propaganda film October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928).

Director: Derek Jarman.
Writers: Shaun Allen (commentary), Derek Jarman (commentary).
Stars: Angus Cook, Peter Doig, Toby Mott, Stephen Thrower, Keir Wahid, John Watkiss, Peter Wollen.
Cinematographers: Richard Heslop, Derek Jarman, Carl Johnson, Sally Potter, Cerith Wyn Evans
Composers: Dave Ball, Genesis P-Orridge

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L’OEUVRE AU NOIR (1988) https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/loeuvre-au-noir-1988/ https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/loeuvre-au-noir-1988/#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:53:26 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=36508 André Delvaux’s final feature film, based on the novel L’oeuvre au noir (Het hermetisch zwart/The Abyss) by Belgian-born novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, tells the story of Zeno, a doctor and alchemist whose quest for knowledge takes him around 16th-century Europe. The film focuses on the end of Zeno’s travels, when he has returned to Bruges to contemplate his life. Living quietly under an assumed name, he treats the sick in one of the town’s religious houses. But once his identity becomes known, the church authorities put him on trial.

Director: André Delvaux. AKA The Abyss
Writers: André Delvaux, Marguerite Yourcenar (novel).
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Sami Frey, Jacques Lippe, Anna Karina, Philippe Léotard, Jean Bouise, Marie-Christine Barrault, Marie-France Pisier, Mathieu Carrière, Pierre Dherte, Johan Leysen, Mathieu Carrière, Senne Rouffaer, Geert Desmet, Michel Poncelet, Harry Cleven, Roger Van Hool, Jules-Henri Marchant, Christian Maillet.
Cinematographer: Charles Van Damme.
Composer: Frédéric Devreese.

1998 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.

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DZĪVĪTE (1989) https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/dzivite-1989/ https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/dzivite-1989/#respond Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:08:12 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=36361 A homage to Krišjānis Barons and his life’s work – to collect and catalogue Latvian folksongs or dainas, thus creating the encyclopaedia of Latvian life, a poetic reflection of the knowledge of life accumulated over the centuries. The film is based on Krišjānis Barons’ life during late 1800s and early 1900s – his childhood and youth in Latvia, studies and work in St. Petersburg and other places in Russia, his relationship with his faithful wife Dārta, and the awakening of the Latvian national self-awareness.

Director Aivars Freimanis and poet Jānis Peters worked on the screenplay for the film on Krišjānis Barons for many years, creating a sincere story about a great personality, but trying to avoid the traditional glorification of the Father of Dainas. The director wanted to make a film about a true personality, therefore he let loose his creative spirit, and Dear Life is not a “regular” biopic by any means. It surprises with various artistically and professionally challenging methods that attract the audience’s attention. The main characters, Krišjānis and Dārta, are played by two pairs of great actors, but the story is full of unexpected plot twists, merging the characters and events of the first national awakening with elements of the third national awakening that took place at the time when the film was made.

Director: Aivars Freimanis.
Writers: Aivars Freimanis, Janis Peters.
Stars: Valdemars Zandbergs, Leonîds Grabovskis, Velta Line, Indra Brike, Gundars Abolins, Maija Apine, Janis Baltvilks, Juris Bartkevics, Bruno Egle, Ivars Brakovskis, Dace Eversa, Ingmars Freimanis, Alvis Hermanis, Peteris Korsaks, Dita Krenberga, Vizma Kvepa, Kristine Lipina, Peteris Lucis, Aivars Neibarts, Arturs Nikitins, Regina Razuma, Aris Rozentals, Askolds Saulitis, Haralds Ulmanis, Hermanis Vazdiks, Varis Vetra, Juris Zagars.
Cinematographer: Valdis Eglitis.
Composer: Martins Brauns.

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ABEL (1986) https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/abel-1986/ https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/abel-1986/#respond Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:42:47 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=36484 Abel has never left home (literally). After failing with doctors and psychiatrists, Abel’s father Victor brings home Christine, a friend, in an attempt to teach Abel basic social skills. But Victor’s wife Duif accuses him of having an affair, and in the ensuing row Abel is thrown out into the street. But help is at hand when he runs into kind-hearted stripper Zus – whose show Victor is obsessed with…

Abel was the big surprise of the 1986 cinema year. Out of nowhere, the film by debut director Alex van Warmerdam drew more than 400,000 visitors to Dutch cinemas. And this despite the fact that Van Warmerdam, a theatre director at Orkater and De Mexicaanse Hond, had no film experience whatsoever. Truly everything about Abel was idiosyncratic, authentic, and unpredictable. The press praised the dialogue, the design, and the “vintage” Van Warmerdam atmosphere. 

Director: Alex van Warmerdam. AKA Voyeur
Writers: Alex van Warmerdam, Otakar Votocek, Frans Weisz.
Stars: Alex van Warmerdam, Henri Garcin, Olga Zuiderhoek, Annet Malherbe, Loes Luca, Arend Jan Heerma van Voss, Anton Kothuis, Peer Mascini, Elmar Schiphorst, Marc van Warmerdam, Jan-Willem Hees, Jeroen Henneman, Mieke Verdin, Josse De Pauw, Otakar Votocek, Aat Ceelen, Dorien de Jonge, Rien Bogaart, Paul Hoehner, Vedette van de Harginahof.
Cinematographer: Marc Felperlaan.
Composer: Vincent van Warmerdam.

1986 Chicago International Film Festival – Nominated for the Gold Hugo.

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AZ UTOLSÓ KÉZIRAT (1987) https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/az-utolso-kezirat-1987/ https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/az-utolso-kezirat-1987/#respond Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:18:15 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=36342 Adapted by Károly Makk and Zoltán Kamondi from a 1955 work by Tibor Déry, the film follows celebrated writer György Nyári, who unexpectedly rises from his coffin during his own funeral and heads toward the cemetery. As rumors spread about a secret diary exposing the intellectual elite, the story reflects with irony on Hungary’s late Kádár-era cultural circles.

Director: Károly Makk. AKA The Last Manuscript 
Writers: Tibor Déry (novel “Vidám temetés”), Zoltán Kamondi, Károly Makk.
Stars: Jozef Kroner, Aleksander Bardini, Eszter Nagy-Kálózy, Irén Psota, Béla Both, Hédi Váradi.
Cinematographer: János Tóth.
Composer: László Vidovszky.

1987 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.

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IHMISELON IHANUUS JA KURJUUS (1988) https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/ihmiselon-ihanuus-ja-kurjuus-1988/ https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/06/ihmiselon-ihanuus-ja-kurjuus-1988/#respond Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:01:03 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=36384 Based on the novel by FE Sillanpää and directed by Matti Kassila, the film is about an aging writer, Martti Hongisto, who makes his last trip to visit his childhood sweetheart. The writer’s ultimate goal is to go over the missed opportunities with his former lover and what life could have been like if they had not broken up. 

Director: Matti Kassila.
Writers: Matti Kassila, F.E. Sillanpää (novel).
Stars: Lasse Pöysti, Liisamaija Laaksonen, Tuula Nyman, Antti Litja, Johanna Kerttula, Nina Sallinen, Jarmo Perälä, Antti Vierikko, Jasper Pääkkönen, Nina Jääskeläinen, Mikko Rasila, Konsta Mäkelä, Leena Rapola, Olli Johansson, Raili Tiensuu, Esko Roine, Riitta Elstelä, Tarja Keinänen, Maija-Liisa Márton, Mats Långbacka, Minna Turunen, Pia Hattara, Olavi Ahonen, Heikki Kujanpää, Jaakko Saariluoma, Mikko Haapanen, Henriikka Salo, Annaleena Sipilä, Maarit Peltomaa, Kaija Kiiski, Christina Laurent, Matti Poika Kassila, Samuli Edelmann, Katariina Kaitue, Christina Indrenius-Zalewski, Valtter Kaukaranta, Jeppe Tuomainen, Martti Nyberg, Seppo Kulmala, Boris Haakana, Reima Kuusinen, Keijo Komppa, Stiina Laakso.
Cinematographer: Kari Sohlberg.
Composer: Jukka Linkola.

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ONE WOMAN WAITING (1984) https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/05/one-woman-waiting-1984/ https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/2026/05/one-woman-waiting-1984/#comments Thu, 14 May 2026 06:45:11 +0000 https://rarefilm.torrentbay.st/?p=36278 One Woman Waiting evokes questions of subjectivity in the mirrored performance of two women. The single take, tableau composition forms the structure for catalytic change between the characters. The sensuous desert environment accentuates the poetic and ephemeral quality of this film.

Director: Josephine Massarella.
Writer: Josephine Massarella.
Stars: Marianne Kaplan, Karen Stanley.
Cinematographer: Josephine Massarella.
Composer: Hildegard Westerkamp.

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If you enjoy experimental cinema check out Black Zero, an independent company putting out a lot of rare and previously unavailable Canadian experimental films on Bluray, including a collection of Massarella’s films.

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