Nomads (1986 film)

Nomads is a 1986 horror and thriller film which was written and directed by John McTiernan and stars Pierce Brosnan and LesleyAnne Down. The story involves a French anthropologist who is an expert on nomads. He stumbles across a group of urban nomads who turn out to be more than he expected.

After travelling abroad and studying the spiritual beliefs and religious practices of primitive peoples, Pommier finally settles down with his patient wife Niki Anna Maria Monticelli in Los Angeles to teach at UCLA.His home in the suburbs is vandalized one night by a gang of street punks who travel about in a black van. They are very interested in his house and he finds that they have built a macabre shrine in his garage to a murderer who recently killed two girls who lived in the house. He then starts to study them because they are an urban nomad culture that is strikingly similar to the ones he has studied. ........

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