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Ticket (티켓)
Ticket (티켓, Tiket) is a 1986 South Korean drama by Im Kwon-taek about women in a Seokcho 'ticket dabang'; Kim Ji-mee's first film as producer for Jimee Films, censored at release, later restored by KOFA.
Track 29
Track 29 is a 1988 psychological drama directed by Nicolas Roeg from a Dennis Potter screenplay adapted from his BBC play Schmoedipus, starring Theresa Russell, Gary Oldman, and Christopher Lloyd for Handmade Films; a box-office failure about an imaginary son.
Vagabond (1985 film)
Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi) is Agnès Varda's 1985 French drama starring Sandrine Bonnaire as Mona, a drifter found frozen in a ditch; it won the Venice Golden Lion and the Best Actress César.
Veronica Voss
Veronika Voss (Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss), 1982 Fassbinder drama, second film of the BRD trilogy, based on Ufa star Sybille Schmitz; won the 1982 Golden Bear.
Victory (1981 film)
Victory, also released as Escape to Victory, is a 1981 sports war film directed by John Huston, in which Allied prisoners of war play a German team in a propaganda soccer match.
Vision Quest (film)
Vision Quest is a 1985 American coming-of-age wrestling drama directed by Harold Becker, starring Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorentino, based on Terry Davis's novel, with a hit soundtrack featuring Madonna's Crazy for You.
Wall Street (1987 film)
Wall Street (1987) is Oliver Stone's drama starring Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko and Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, released 11 December 1987; Douglas won the Best Actor Oscar, and "greed is good" became its famous mantra.
Wedding in Galilee (عرس الجليل)
Wedding in Galilee (عرس الجليل, Urs al-Jalil) is Michel Khleifi's 1987 debut feature, the first Palestinian feature film made in Palestine, about a mukhtar's wedding held past Israeli curfew; it won the 1987 Cannes FIPRESCI Prize.
Wend Kuuni
Wend Kuuni (Wênd Kûuni, "God's Gift") is Gaston Kaboré's 1982 Burkinabe feature in Moré about a mute orphan adopted by a Mossi village who regains speech after a shock; it won the 1985 César for Best French-language Film.
White Mischief
White Mischief is a 1987 Michael Radford British crime drama, also known by its source book title by James Fox, about the unsolved 1941 Happy Valley murder of the Earl of Erroll in Kenya, starring Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, and Joss Ackland.
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은?)
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은?) is Bae Yong-kyun's 1989 Korean Buddhist art film about three monks in a mountain temple; it won the 1989 Locarno Golden Leopard, the first Korean win there.
Wild Orchid (film)
Wild Orchid is a 1990 American erotic drama directed by Zalman King, starring Mickey Rourke, Jacqueline Bisset, and Carré Otis in Rio de Janeiro; initially rated X, cut to R, a critical and commercial disappointment.
Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (We Children from Bahnhof Zoo) is the 1978 non-fiction book by Stern journalists Kai Hermann and Horst Rieck on Christiane Felscherinow's heroin addiction in 1970s West Berlin, adapted into Uli Edel's 1981 film Christiane F. and a 2021 Amazon series.
Women (女人心)
Women (女人心, Nüren xin) is Stanley Kwan's 1985 Hong Kong directorial debut, a Shaw Brothers drama starring Chow Yun-fat, Cora Miao, and Cherie Chung about a divorcée and her single friends; it earned nine Hong Kong Film Award nominations.
Working Girls
Working Girls is Lizzie Borden's 1986 American independent drama about a day in the life of sex workers, led by Louise Smith as photographer Molly, in a Manhattan brothel. Premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, won a Sundance Special Jury Recognition, restored by Criterion in 2021.
Yellow Earth (黄土地)
Yellow Earth (黄土地) is Chen Kaige's 1984 debut feature, photographed by Zhang Yimou and scored by Zhao Jiping, adapted from Ke Lan's novella 深谷回声. Set in 1939 Shaanbei, it follows Cuiqiao's flight from an arranged marriage and won the Locarno Silver Leopard, founding the Fifth Generation's visual style.
Youngblood (1986 film)
Youngblood is a 1986 American sports drama directed by Peter Markle, starring Rob Lowe as a farm boy who joins a Canadian junior hockey team to reach the NHL.