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High Hopes (1988 film)
High Hopes is Mike Leigh's 1988 British comedy-drama about working-class couple Cyril and Shirley in Thatcher-era London, made by improvisation, contrasting class lives, and a 1989 European Film Awards winner.
Insignificance
Insignificance is a 1985 Nicolas Roeg film adapted by Terry Johnson from his play, in which unnamed characters based on Einstein, Monroe, DiMaggio, and McCarthy meet in a 1954 New York hotel room; it competed at Cannes 1985.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World (富贵逼人)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World (富貴逼人) is a 1987 Hong Kong Lunar New Year comedy directed by Clifton Ko for D&B Films, starring Bill Tung and Lydia Sum as a public-housing family whose Mark Six lottery win brings misfortune; it grossed over HK$27 million and spawned two sequels.
L'Étudiante
L'Étudiante (The Student) is a 1988 French romantic comedy by Claude Pinoteau starring Sophie Marceau as Valentine, an agrégation candidate in love with musician Édouard (Vincent Lindon); a La Boum follow-up written for Isabelle Adjani.
La Chèvre
La Chèvre (The Goat) is Francis Veber's 1981 French-Mexican comedy starring Pierre Richard as unlucky accountant François Perrin and Gérard Depardieu as detective Campana, first of their trilogy, with 7,079,836 French admissions.
Labyrinth of Passion
Labyrinth of Passion (Laberinto de pasiones) is Pedro Almodóvar's 1982 screwball sex comedy, his second feature, starring Cecilia Roth and Imanol Arias in Madrid during the movida madrileña, with Antonio Banderas's film debut.
Les Fugitifs
Les Fugitifs is a 1986 French comedy directed by Francis Veber, starring Gérard Depardieu as a reformed bank robber taken hostage by Pierre Richard's clumsy robber.
Letter to Brezhnev
Letter to Brezhnev (1985) is a British romantic comedy-drama directed by Chris Bernard, written by Frank Clarke, starring Margi Clarke, Alexandra Pigg, Peter Firth, and Alfred Molina, about two Liverpool women and two Soviet sailors.
Lola (1981 film)
Lola is a 1981 West German satirical drama directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the third and chronologically final film of his BRD Trilogy, adapted from Heinrich Mann's Professor Unrat.
Men (1985 film)
Men... (Männer) is a 1985 West German comedy by Doris Dörrie starring Heiner Lauterbach, Uwe Ochsenknecht, and Ulrike Kriener, about a husband who secretly rooms with his wife's lover; it won three 1986 German Film Awards.
Merry Christmas (1984 film)
Merry Christmas (圣诞快乐, Sing dan fai lok) is a 1984 Hong Kong comedy directed by Clifton Ko and starring Karl Maka, Paula Tsui, Danny Chan, and Leslie Cheung.
Micki + Maude
Micki + Maude is a 1984 American romantic comedy directed by Blake Edwards, starring Dudley Moore as a television reporter married to two pregnant women who do not know about each other.
Moonstruck
Moonstruck is a 1987 American romantic comedy directed by Norman Jewison and written by John Patrick Shanley, starring Cher as a Brooklyn widow engaged to Danny Aiello but in love with his estranged brother, Nicolas Cage.
My Bodyguard
My Bodyguard is Tony Bill's 1980 comedy-drama, directed in his debut from Alan Ormsby's screenplay, about a Chicago teen (Chris Makepeace) who hires feared classmate Ricky Linderman (Adam Baldwin) against bully Matt Dillon; it grossed $22.5 million and holds 79% on Rotten Tomatoes.
My Dinner with Andre
My Dinner with Andre is Louis Malle's 1981 American film, written by and starring Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory as versions of themselves in a long Upper West Side restaurant conversation, shot in two weeks on a Cafe des Artistes set.
My Sweet Little Village
My Sweet Little Village (Czech: Vesničko má středisková) is a 1985 Czechoslovak tragicomedy directed by Jiří Menzel, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
My Twentieth Century
My Twentieth Century (Az én XX. századom) is Ildikó Enyedi's 1989 Hungarian black-and-white debut feature, winner of the Cannes Caméra d'Or, about separated twins Dóra and Lili reunited on the Orient Express around 1900.
Mystic Pizza
Mystic Pizza (1988) is an American coming-of-age romantic comedy directed by Donald Petrie, starring Julia Roberts, Annabeth Gish, and Lili Taylor as waitresses in Mystic, Connecticut; based on the real 1973 pizzeria, grossing about $12.8 million.
Night Shift (1982 film)
Night Shift is a 1982 American comedy directed by Ron Howard, in which morgue attendants Chuck Lumley and Bill Blazejowski run a prostitution business out of their morgue.
Nothing in Common
Nothing in Common is a 1986 American comedy-drama directed by Garry Marshall and starring Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason, and Eva Marie Saint, Gleason's final film role.
Nothing Personal (1968 film)
Nothing Personal: 1980 George Bloomfield comedy (not 1968) written by Robert Kaufman, starring Donald Sutherland and Suzanne Somers as a professor and lawyer saving Alaska harbor seals from a military-base developer; AFI Catalog, 96 min, PG.
Parenthood (film)
Parenthood is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Ron Howard, starring Steve Martin as Gil Buckman, and following four adult Buckman siblings raising children.
Passion (1982 film)
Passion (le travail et l'amour) is Jean-Luc Godard's 1982 French-Swiss drama, 88 minutes, starring Huppert, Schygulla, Piccoli, and Radziwilowicz, about a Polish director lighting painted tableaux amid factory and hotel conflicts; in competition at Cannes 1982.
Paternity
Paternity (1981) is an American romantic comedy directed by David Steinberg, starring Burt Reynolds as Buddy Evans, a Madison Square Garden manager who hires Beverly D'Angelo as a surrogate mother; released October 2, 1981 by Paramount.
Pepi, Luci, Bom
Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón (Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap) is Pedro Almodóvar's 1980 Spanish comedy debut, an 80-minute Figaro Films cult film about three Madrid women during La Movida, shot on 16mm for about 500,000 pesetas.
Perfect (1985 film)
Perfect (1985) is a James Bridges drama starring John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis, based on Aaron Latham's 1983 Rolling Stone story 'Looking for Mr. Goodbody' about health clubs as singles bars; critically panned, it grossed about $13 million.
Personal Services
Personal Services is a 1987 British comedy-drama directed by Terry Jones, written by David Leland, starring Julie Walters as a madam inspired by Cynthia Payne, released 12 February 1987.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a 1987 American comedy directed by John Hughes, starring Steve Martin and John Candy as mismatched travelers trying to get home for Thanksgiving.
Private Benjamin (1980 film)
Private Benjamin is a 1980 American comedy film starring Goldie Hawn as a sheltered young woman who enlists in the Army after her husband dies.
Punchline
Punchline is a 1988 American comedy-drama written and directed by David Seltzer, starring Sally Field as aspiring comedienne Lilah Krytsick and Tom Hanks as comic Steven Gold at a New York club; released 30 September 1988 by Columbia Pictures.