Johnny yesno (1982)

"We even slept together, which was kind of cosy, if you know what I mean."
Johnny YesNo (Jack Elliot) tells the story of how he met the girl of his dreams (Jude Calvert-Toulmin), but she belongs to a local gangland boss, and trouble is not far behind her.
A modern take on the film noir, from the prefered director for Cabaret Voltaire's music video's, and soundtracked by them.

caligula II: the untold story (1981)

aka Caligula: The Untold Story.
"Let me listen to my god, who speaks of vengeance."
A version of the Caligula story, where a young woman (Laura Gemser) inveigles her way into Caligula's court and his arms in an attempt to get close enough to assassinate the emperor (David Brandon). In doing so she gets to witness his debauched lifestyle.
This throws all the excess it can at the screen, the only thing it lacks is a real plot, and any sense of historical accuracy.

amityville II: the possession (1982)

"We're a very lucky family."
The house has some new occupants, a nice Italian American family, where the father (Burt Young) rules by the belt and a rod of iron. Whilst the mother (Rutanya Alda) tries to keep the family together and tries to involve the local priest (James Olson), knowing there is a maleviolent force at work in the house, but it's too late as the eldest son (Jack Magner) quickly becomes possessed. You know this isn't going to end well.
It lacks originality, and scares, but Damiani delivers a good solid prequel to the first Amityville.

ok connery (1967)

aka Operation Kid Brother. Operation Double 007.
"Freedom always has a price tag attached to it."
A crime syndicate tries to take over the world. Unfortunately for us a certain Scottish spy is unavailable, so the secret service call in his plastic surgeon brother, Neil (Neil Connery). Fortunately he seems more than capable of taking the bad guys on.
Unable to make a James Bond movie, these Italians decide to employ many of the actors from the series, including Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell, and make their own version. Giving us a kitsch run through of the 007 cliches, featuring a bad guy (Adolfo Celi), and plenty of beautiful women. Even the music riffs off the famous 007 theme, courtesy of Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai.

frankenhooker (1990)

"I'm anti-social - I'm becoming dangerously amoral."
A young woman dies, shredded in a lawnmower accident. Fortunately her boyfriend (James Lorinz) is a medical school dropout, and he decides to bring her back from the dead. His only problem is that he could only save the head. Where is he going to get a body from?
Classic trash cinema from the maker of Basket Case and Brain Damage.

pink angels (1976)

"Jesus Christ you're all faggots!"
Six savage bikers come together to travel to Los Angeles, but they hide a secret...this gang is gay.
A surprisingly well made and enjoyable film, that spoofs the Easy Rider biker flick about finding yourself in the real America. I especially loved the worst Liverpudlian accent I've ever heard.

vampire in venice (1988)

aka Nosferatu in Venice
"It's bad luck to kill a bat."
A vampire hunter (Christopher Plummer) arrives in Venice on the hunt for Nosferatu (Klaus Kinski)) during Carnival season. He stays with an old family and is helped in the hunt by their family priest (Donald Pleasence).
Atmospheric film that makes great use of its location, using the unease that pervades the city to full effect, creating a creepy vampire chiller, though it does drag due to its pacing.

breakin' (1984)

aka Breakdance: The Movie.
"With a little work you'll be poppin and lockin in no time."
Kelly (Lucinda Dickey) is an aspiring dancing, getting nowhere in LA. Then one day she's introduced to a couple of Break dancers, Ozone (Adolfo 'Shabado' Quiñones) and Turbo (Michael 'Boogaloo Shrimp' Chambers), and she struggles to get street dance accepted in the jazz dance world.
The usual Hollywood clean up an underground movement, in this case the Cali hip hop scene. This took some participants from a German documentary Breakin' and Enterin, added a love story to a flimsy plot and watched the money roll in. Watch it for Ice-T's first on screen performance and some great dance moves.

breakin' n enterin' (1983)

"Are you about ready to rock."
A very basic documentary about the LA street dance scene in '83. Previous doc's had concentrated on the NY originators. This flips over to the West Coast and catches it in the early days of creating its own style of poppin' and tuttin', as well as gangsta rap courtesy of Ice-T.
Whilst it doesn't show you anything that Style wars or Wild Style hadn't already covered, it at least shows that hip hop was definitely a national, if not global movement by 1983.