# film

title: Saturday Night Fever
released: 1977-12-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 06:21:08.773000000
year: 1977
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 8 nominations.
plot:
A Brooklyn teenager feels his only chance to succeed is as the king of the disco floor. His carefree youth and weekend dancing help him to forget the reality of his bleak life.

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Nineteen-year-old Brooklyn native Tony Manero lives for Saturday nights at the local disco, where he's king of the club, thanks to his stylish moves on the dance floor. But outside of the club, things don't look so rosy. At home, Tony fights constantly with his father and has to compete with his family's starry-eyed view of his older brother, a priest. Nor can he find satisfaction at his dead-end job at a small paint store. However, things begin to change when he spies Stephanie Mangano in the disco and starts training with her for the club's dance competition. Stephanie dreams of the world beyond Brooklyn, and her plans to move to Manhattan just over the bridge soon change Tony's life forever.


title: Telefon
released: 1977-12-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 01:00:27.087000000
year: 1977
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A Russian officer is sent to USA to try and stop sleeper agents who will mindlessly attack government entities when they hear certain coded words.

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The KGB is looking for one of their people, a man named Dalchimsky because he has stolen something important but, unfortunately, he manages to get through the border. Later in the U.S. some seemingly ordinary people after receiving a phone call go out and destroy key American military installations. Back in the U.S.S.R. General Strelsky and Colonel Malchenko send for Grigori Borzov, a KGB agent who has been to the U.S. on missions before. They inform him that after the U-2 incident in fear of the possibility that a war with the U.S. will occur; they were part of an operation called TELEFON that involved recruiting young agents and then brainwashing them into believing that they are Americans. They would assume the identity of an American who died a long time ago and who would be their age now. They would be situated in a city that is near or where a key U.S. military installation is located. They were also programmed to destroy upon receiving the command phrase. They have been fortunate that they have never had to send them on their missions. But they believe that Dalchimsky stole the book that lists all the TELEFON agents and is now sending them out on their suicide missions. It also seems that the current KGB Chairman is unaware of TELEFON so Strelsky and Malchenko want Borzov to go to America and find Dalchimsky before he starts World War 3. Borzov, who is endowed with a photographic memory, memorizes the second TELEFON book and goes to America and is aided by Barbara.


title: The Green Room
released: 1978-04-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:37:54.210000000
year: 1978
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago. He gathered in the green room all Julie's objects. When a fire destroys ...

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A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago. He gathered in the green room all Julie's objects. When a fire destroys the room, he renovates a little chapel and devotes it to Julie and his other dead persons.


title: Fedora
released: 1978-09-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 01:02:52.733000000
year: 1978
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress out of retirement.

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The former successful and famous Polish actress Fedora commits suicide at the Mortcerf Station, jumping off in front of a train. The broken Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attends the funeral at her house in Paris and recalls that he might have caused her death. Two weeks ago, Dutch traveled to Greece Island of Corfu seeking Fedora out in the Vila Calypso, located in an isolated island owned by the bitter Countess Sobryanski. Fedora has been living an unsocial reclusive life for the last years in the villa with the countess, the plastic surgeon Doctor Vando and her assistant Miss Balfour, since she abandoned the set of a film that she was shooting in London with Michael York. Dutch brings the screenplay with a version of "Anna Karenina" to offer to Fedora, with the promise that investors would finance the film if Fedora accepts the lead role. Fedora, who is impressively young, is receptive to the offer, but the countess and the doctor tell that she is mentally unstable and paranoid and can not act again. When Dutch discovers that Fedora will be secretly sent to a mental institution owned by Dr. Vando in Mortcert, he tries to rescue the actress from the island but he is hit on the head and faints with a concussion. One week later, when he awakes, he learns that Fedora is dead. Dutch travels to Paris and meets Countess Sobryanski that him the truth about Fedora.


title: The Hills Have Eyes
released: 1977-07-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:09:11.477000000
year: 1977
text: 1 win.
plot:
On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.

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A family going to California accidentally goes through an Air Testing range closed to the public. They crash and are stranded in a desert. They are being stalked by a group of people, which have not emerged into modern times.


title: Ice Castles
released: 1978-12-31 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:05:58.040000000
year: 1978
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
A young girl is on top of the world until a tragic accident dashes her hopes and dreams of becoming a world-class figure skater. Only with the help of those who love her can she prove to ...

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A young girl is on top of the world until a tragic accident dashes her hopes and dreams of becoming a world-class figure skater. Only with the help of those who love her can she prove to the world -- and herself -- that she still has the potential to realize her dreams.


title: The Mafu Cage
released: 1979-09-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-07 08:33:46.893000000
year: 1978
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Two strange sisters live in a crumbling mansion, where they keep a pet ape, which belonged to their late father, locked in a cage. While one of the sisters seems to be keeping her head on ...

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Two strange sisters live in a crumbling mansion, where they keep a pet ape, which belonged to their late father, locked in a cage. While one of the sisters seems to be keeping her head on straight, as it were, the other appears to be sinking further and further into barbarism and insanity.


title: Pretty Baby
released: 1978-04-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:30:02.897000000
year: 1978
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in the early decades of America, only to know her body is for bounty.

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In 1917, in the red light district Storyville, New Orleans, the prostitute Hattie lives with her twelve year-old daughter Violet in the fancy brothel of Madame Nell, where she works. Photographer Ernest J. Bellocq has an attraction to Hallie and Violet and he is an habituè of the whorehouse. One day, Madame Nell auctions Violet's virginity and the winner pays the fortune of US$ 400 to spend the night with the girl. Then Hattie marries a wealthy client and moves to Saint Louis, leaving Violet in the brothel alone. Violet decides to marry Bellocq and she moves to his house. Until the day that Hattie, who has overcome her past, comes to Bellocq's house with the intention to take Violet with her.


title: The Silent Partner
released: 1979-03-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 01:07:22.147000000
year: 1978
text: 2 wins.
plot:
A timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash.

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This is an imaginative plot, yet one with which the viewer can readily identify. A bank teller is held up at gun point in his bank. Luckily for him he receives a clue that this is going to occur and diverts most of the cash into his own safety deposit box, leaving only a nominal amount for the crook. The ruse works well, but for the fact that the crook resents the fact that he has been outsmarted. There ensues a terrific battle of wits involving the clever but basically "moral" teller, and the cunning and totally uninhibited bank robber, which involves several other people in ways which cannot be revealed here.


title: Apocalypse Now
released: 1979-08-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:36:40.273000000
year: 1979
text: Won 2 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 30 nominations.
plot:
During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.

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It is the height of the war in Vietnam, and U.S. Army Captain Willard is sent by Colonel Lucas and a General to carry out a mission that, officially, 'does not exist - nor will it ever exist'. The mission: To seek out a mysterious Green Beret Colonel, Walter Kurtz, whose army has crossed the border into Cambodia and is conducting hit-and-run missions against the Viet Cong and NVA. The army believes Kurtz has gone completely insane and Willard's job is to eliminate him! Willard, sent up the Nung River on a U.S. Navy patrol boat, discovers that his target is one of the most decorated officers in the U.S. Army. His crew meets up with surfer-type Lt-Colonel Kilgore, head of a U.S Army helicopter cavalry group which eliminates a Viet Cong outpost to provide an entry point into the Nung River. After some hair-raising encounters, in which some of his crew are killed, Willard, Lance and Chef reach Colonel Kurtz's outpost, beyond the Do Lung Bridge. Now, after becoming prisoners of Kurtz, will Willard & the others be able to fulfill their mission?


title: The Champ
released: 1979-04-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:21:37.390000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J., over whom he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven...

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Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J., over whom he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven years ago. T.J. worships The Champ who is now working on his come-back in order to give his boy a better future. But suddenly Annie shows up again ...


title: Beyond the Door II
released: 1977-08-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-06 00:05:00.663000000
year: 1977
text: 1 win.
plot:
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.

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A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.


title: A Bridge Too Far
released: 1977-06-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:12:17.990000000
year: 1977
text: Won 3 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 4 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A historical telling of the failed attempt to capture several bridges on a road to Germany in World War II, in a campaign called Operation Market-Garden.

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It is near the end of WWII. The Germans have lost most of France, and the Allied forces decide to give them the final hit. They plan to drop thousands of paratroopers in Holland and keep a few key positions there, until reenforcements arrive. The most important spot is the bridge of Arnhem; once it's captured, it can block everything west of Germany


title: Looking for Mr. Goodbar
released: 1978-03-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:49:35.290000000
year: 1977
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.

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Theresa is a successful teacher of deaf children during the day but after a short unhappy affair starts to spend her nights cruising bars. Her craving first for sex but later also for drugs leads into increasingly demeaning and dangerous situations completely at odds with her daytime commitment to her children.


title: La Cage aux Folles
released: 1979-03-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:31:07.850000000
year: 1978
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 7 wins.
plot:
Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of ...

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Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs when the fiancèe and her parents come for dinner.


title: El diputado
released: 1985-11-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:48:15.533000000
year: 1979
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Sex and politics collide in this tale of forbidden love, blackmail and murder. Set up by the secret police to compromise a prominent politician, a teenage hustler discovers himself ...

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Sex and politics collide in this tale of forbidden love, blackmail and murder. Set up by the secret police to compromise a prominent politician, a teenage hustler discovers himself passionately in love with the man he must betray.


title: Eyes of Laura Mars
released: 1978-08-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-07 00:08:48.350000000
year: 1978
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Suddenly Laura Mars can see through the eyes of a serial killer as he commits his crimes. She contacts the police and with the aid of a police detective, tries to stop the killer. But first...

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Suddenly Laura Mars can see through the eyes of a serial killer as he commits his crimes. She contacts the police and with the aid of a police detective, tries to stop the killer. But first, they have to figure out who it is.


title: Grease
released: 1978-06-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:16:37.363000000
year: 1978
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?

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A musical about teens in love in the 50's! It's California, 1959 and greaser Danny Zuko and Australian Sandy Olsson are in love. They spend time at the beach, but when they go back to school, what either of them don't know is that they both now attend Rydell High. Danny's the leader of the T-Birds, a group of black-jacket greasers while Sandy hangs with the Pink Ladies, a group of pink-wearing girls led by Rizzo. When they clash at Rydell's first pep rally, Danny isn't the same Danny at the beach. They try to be like each other so they can be together.


title: Halloween
released: 1978-10-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:57:23.510000000
year: 1978
text: 4 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
On Halloween night of 1963, 6-year old Michael Myers stabbed his sister to death. After sitting in a mental hospital for 15 years, Myers escapes and returns to Haddonfield to kill.

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The year is 1963, the night: Halloween. Police are called to 43 Lampkin Ln. only to discover that 15 year old Judith Myers has been stabbed to death, by her 6 year-old brother, Michael. After being institutionalized for 15 years, Myers breaks out on the night before Halloween. No one knows, nor wants to find out, what will happen on October 31st 1978 besides Myers' psychiatrist, Dr. Loomis. He knows Michael is coming back to Haddonfield, but by the time the town realizes it, it'll be too late for many people.


title: A Wedding
released: 1978-08-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-04 00:50:36.227000000
year: 1978
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
The daughter of a Louisville truck driver marries the scion of a very wealthy family, but reception at the family estate is boycotted by the invited guests.

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Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the aging priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather over-zealously, and Dino's grandma expires in bed just as the reception starts. Could be quite an occasion.


title: Being There
released: 1979-12-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 00:47:32.353000000
year: 1979
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 15 wins & 11 nominations.
plot:
A simple, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics.


title: Eagle's Wing
released: 1980-05-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:47:22.240000000
year: 1979
text: 1 win.
plot:
A white trapper steals a white mustang called Eagle Wing from a Kiowa Indian who pursues him to get his horse back.

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A white trapper steals a white mustang called Eagle Wing from a Kiowa Indian who pursues him to get his horse back.


title: That Obscure Object of Desire
released: 1977-10-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:57:39.423000000
year: 1977
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his 19-year old former chambermaid Conchita.

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Just after boarding a train, much to the surprise of his fellow passengers, a man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next few hours he explains (and we see in flashback) how he became obsessed by her (so much so that he failed to notice that she was played by two different actresses, representing different sides of her personality), and how she tantalised him, but would never allow him to satisfy his desire for her...


title: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
released: 1977-12-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:03:17.340000000
year: 1977
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 16 wins & 33 nominations.
plot:
After an encounter with U.F.O.s, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

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Roy Neary sets out to investigate a power outage when his truck stalls and he is bathed in light from above. After this, strange visions and five musical notes keep running through his mind. Will he find the meaning of the visions, and who - or what - placed them in his mind?


title: The Late Show
released: 1977-07-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 23:36:35.213000000
year: 1977
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A grumpy semi-retired private investigator partners with a quirky female client to catch the people who murdered his partner.

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Ira Wells is an aged retired Los Angeles based private investigator, who is slightly overweight, needs to wear a hearing aid, has a bum leg and an ulcer-laden stomach, and can only afford to rent a room in a house as a place to live. He decides to come out of retirement when a still active contemporary, Harry Regan, shows up on his doorstep with a bullet wound to the gut, from which he eventually dies. Ira wants to find out who killed Harry. Ira is contacted by another long-time acquaintance, Charlie Hatter, a self-proclaimed loser and Hollywood hack, about Harry's last case, something about which probably led to Harry's death. Harry's client was Margo Sterling, a former client of Charlie's who is a flaky penniless new-ageist actress/agent/dress maker. She hired Harry to retrieve her missing cat, Winston, who is still being held ransom by an acquaintance named Brian Hemphill. Ira learns from Margo that Brian hired her to transport goods for him, she unconcerned that those goods probably stolen and the drop-off person probably a fence. Brian stole Winston because Margo "borrowed" some money from one of those jobs. Ira will also eventually learn that Brian was recently involved in a high profile robbery gone wrong, that resulted in one person dead. With all these things Brian was involved in, Ira has to figure out what would be the reason for someone wanting to kill Harry. As big a problem for loner Ira is Margo, who wants to add another "/" to her already large resume, namely that of private investigator partner despite its inherent dangers.


title: The Chess Players
released: 1977-10-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-06-08 00:46:30.393000000
year: 1977
text: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Wazed Ali Shah is the ruler of one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British, intent on controlling this rich country, have sent general Outram on a secret mission to clear the...

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Wazed Ali Shah is the ruler of one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British, intent on controlling this rich country, have sent general Outram on a secret mission to clear the way for an annexation. While pressure is mounting amidst intrigue and political manoeuvres, Ali Shah composes poems and listens to music, secluded in his palace. The court is of no help, as exemplified by nobles Mir and Mirza, who, ignoring the situation of their country and all their duties towards their families, spend their days playing endless parties of chess.


title: Capricorn One
released: 1978-06-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:18:52.070000000
year: 1977
text: 4 nominations.
plot:
A NASA Mars mission won't work, and its funding is endangered, so they decide to fake it just this once. But then they have to keep the secret...

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Charles Brubaker is the astronaut leading NASA's first manned mission to Mars. Seconds before the launch, the entire team is pulled from the capsule and the rocket leaves earth unmanned much to Brubaker's anger. The head of the programme explains that the life support system was faulty and that NASA can't afford the publicity of a scratched mission. The plan is to fake the Mars landing and keep the astronauts at a remote base until the mission is over, but then investigative journalist Robert Caulfield starts to suspect something.


title: The Deer Hunter
released: 1979-02-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:16:39.490000000
year: 1978
text: Won 5 Oscars. Another 24 wins & 18 nominations.
plot:
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam war impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.

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Michael, Steven and Nick are young factory workers from Pennsylvania who enlist into the Army to fight in Vietnam. Before they go, Steven marries the pregnant Angela, and their wedding party also serves as the men's farewell party. After some time and many horrors, the three friends fall in the hands of the Vietcong and are brought to a prison camp in which they are forced to play Russian roulette against each other. Michael makes it possible for them to escape, but they soon get separated again.


title: Somebody Killed Her Husband
released: 1978-09-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:47:38.037000000
year: 1978
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.

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A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.


title: Alien
released: 1979-05-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:49:26.013000000
year: 1979
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 15 wins & 19 nominations.
plot:
The commercial vessel Nostromo receives a distress call from an unexplored planet. After searching for survivors, the crew heads home only to realize that a deadly bioform has joined them.

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A commercial crew aboard the deep space towing vessel, Nostromo is on its way home when they pick an SOS warning from a distant planet. What they don't know is that the SOS warning is not like any other ordinary warning call. Picking up the signal, the crew realize that they are not alone on the spaceship when an alien stowaway is on the cargo ship.


title: The Electric Horseman
released: 1979-12-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 05:02:04.433000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win.
plot:
Sonny Steele used to be a rodeo star, but his next appearance is to be on a Las Vegas stage, wearing a suit covered in lights, advertising a breakfast cereal. When he finds out they are ...

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Sonny Steele used to be a rodeo star, but his next appearance is to be on a Las Vegas stage, wearing a suit covered in lights, advertising a breakfast cereal. When he finds out they are going drug the horse in case its too frisky, he rides off into the desert...


title: The Devil, Probably
released: 1977-06-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:41:54.680000000
year: 1977
text: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, ...

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Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, he decides that suicide is the only option...


plot: A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.
title: Equus
released: 1977-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:59:39.307000000
year: 1977
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 4 nominations.
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A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.


title: Kingdom of the Spiders
released: 1977-11-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:25:57.077000000
year: 1977
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hoards of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the ...

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Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hoards of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group of towns folk in a remote hotel.


title: Providence
released: 1977-02-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:32:25.943000000
year: 1977
text: 12 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, ...

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Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his family is. But is this how they really are or is it his own vindictive slant on things?


title: The Purple Taxi
released: 1980-12-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 01:00:29.777000000
year: 1977
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
With its mauve taxi, the old philosopher Dr. Seamus Scully runs around the small green roads of the south of Ireland, becoming confident of his patients, while trying to help them find their way.

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With its mauve taxi, the old philosopher Dr. Seamus Scully runs around the small green roads of the south of Ireland, becoming confident of his patients, while trying to help them find their way.


title: Convoy
released: 1978-08-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:03:13.293000000
year: 1978
text: 1 win.
plot:
Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff...Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.

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While driving through the Arizona desert, Albuquerque based independent trucker Martin Penwald - who goes by the handle "Rubber Duck" - along with his fellow truckers "Pig Pen" and "Spider Mike", are entrapped by unscrupulous Sheriff Lyle "Cottonmouth" Wallace using a key tool of the trucker's trade, the citizens' band (CB) radio. Rubber Duck and Cottonmouth have a long, antagonistic history. When this encounter later escalates into a more physical one as Cottonmouth threatens Spider Mike, a man who just wants to get home to his pregnant wife, Rubber Duck and other the truckers involved, including Spider Mike, Pig Pen and "Widow Woman", go on the run, figuring the best thing to do being to head to New Mexico to avoid prosecution. Along for the ride is Melissa, a beautiful photographer who just wanted a ride to the airport. As news of what happened spreads over the CB airwaves, other truckers join their convoy as a show of support. Cottonmouth rallies other law enforcement officers throughout the southwest, they who soon learn that stopping Rubber Duck, the face of the now highly public standoff, is not as easy as shooting him and the truck due to his highly explosive cargo. As the standoff escalates, New Mexico Governor Jerry Haskins joins the fray, he who sees the strong public support for the truckers being something on which he can capitalize politically.


title: A Night Full of Rain
released: 1978-01-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 01:16:16.130000000
year: 1978
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Candice Bergen and Giancarlo Giannini star as two people from very different worlds who fall in love in A Night Full of Rain. When romantic Italian journalist Paolo (Giannini) rescues ...


title: Planet of Dinosaurs
released: 1979-08-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:45:35.020000000
year: 1977
text: 1 win.
plot:
A space-ship gets lost and is forced to make an emergency landing on an unknown planet. The planet looks much like Earth, only with no trace of civilization. Soon the crew discovers that ...

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A space-ship gets lost and is forced to make an emergency landing on an unknown planet. The planet looks much like Earth, only with no trace of civilization. Soon the crew discovers that there are dinosaurs on the planet, and blood-thirsty buggers at that. The crew hopes to be found and rescued, but they have to struggle to survive until then.


title: Superman
released: 1978-12-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:01:42.907000000
year: 1978
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 16 nominations.
plot:
An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.

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Unable to convince the ruling council of Krypton that their world will destroy itself soon, scientist Jor-El takes drastic measures to preserve the Kryptonian race: He sends his infant son Kal-El to Earth. There, gaining great powers under Earth's yellow sun, he will become a champion of truth and justice. Raised by the Kents, an elderly farm couple, Clark Kent learns that his abilities must be used for good. The adult Clark travels to Metropolis, where he becomes a mild-mannered reporter for the Daily Planet...and a caped wonder whose amazing feats stun the city: Superman! Meanwhile, Lex Luthor, the world's greatest criminal mind, is plotting the greatest real estate swindle of all time. Can't even the Man of Steel stop this nefarious scheme?


title: Watership Down
released: 1978-11-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:02:23.017000000
year: 1978
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
A group of rabbits flee their doomed warren and face many dangers to find and protect their new home.

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Based upon Richard Adam's novel of the same title, this animated feature delves into the surprisingly violent world of a warren of rabbits as they seek to establish a new colony free of tyranny and human intervention. Frightening and bloody in some scenes. Not recommended for young children.


title: That's Entertainment, Part II
released: 1976-05-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:11:37.100000000
year: 1976
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

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Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.


title: The Greatest
released: 1977-05-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:31:42.473000000
year: 1977
text: 1 win.
plot:
Muhammad Ali stars as himself in this dramatised version of his life story up to the late 1970s. It includes his Olympic triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of ...

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Muhammad Ali stars as himself in this dramatised version of his life story up to the late 1970s. It includes his Olympic triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of the Army draft and the legal battle after being stripped of his World Title.


title: Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
released: 1978-06-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:12:09.913000000
year: 1976
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
In a small city of Brazil, Flor (a very good looking woman) marries Vadinho, a very handsome and erotic man. Once married she finds he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking to ...

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In a small city of Brazil, Flor (a very good looking woman) marries Vadinho, a very handsome and erotic man. Once married she finds he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking to her neighbours but he takes all her money to gamble. One day he dies. Flor misses the goods of the marriage so she marries again with a very correct gentleman - the owner of the drugstore (Teodoro). Now she's very happy with her man, but misses the erotic moments with her previous husband. Then the ghost of Vadhino comes to earth to chase her.


title: Autumn Sonata
released: 1978-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:27:27.493000000
year: 1978
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
A married daughter who longs for her mother's love gets visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist.

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After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her daughter Eva in her home. To her surprise she finds her other daughter, Helena, there as well. Helena is mentally disabled, and Eva has taken Helena out of the institution where their mother had placed her. The tension between Charlotte and Eva only builds up slowly, until a nightly conversation releases all the things they have wanted to tell each other.


title: The Lord of the Rings
released: 1978-11-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:42:05.767000000
year: 1978
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle Earth.

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A young Hobbit named Frodo (Guard) is thrown on an amazing adventure, when he is appointed the job of destroying the one ring which was created by the dark lord Sauron. He is assigned with warriors including Gandalf (Squire), Aragorn (Hurt) and Boromir (Cox). It's not going to be an easy journey for the Fellowship of the Ring, on the ultimate quest to rid Middle-Earth of all evil.


title: Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
released: 1978-09-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:35:02.140000000
year: 1978
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that...

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Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.


title: The Black Hole
released: 1979-12-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 01:03:10.317000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 6 nominations.
plot:
A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole.

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It is the year 2130 A.D. An Earth exploratory ship, the USS Palomino, discovers a black hole with a lost ship, the USS Cygnus, just outside its event horizon. Deciding to solve the mystery of the Cygnus are: the Palomino's Captain, Dan Holland; his First Officer, Lieutenant Charlie Pizer; journalist Harry Booth; scientist and ESP-sensitive Dr. Kate McCrae, whose father was the Cygnus's First Officer; Dr. Alex Durant, the expedition's civilian leader; and the robot known as V.I.N.CENT. The Palomino attempts a dangerous fly-by of the darkened ship. As they come within close range of it, the buffeting they experience (due to the black hole's gravity) suddenly ceases. They bring more instruments to bear on the derelict, but do not even realize the gravity-free zone is artificial; slipping outside it, they are almost drawn into the black hole, an abyss from which no one can escape. Matters worsen when Reinhardt holds the crew captive, after realizing that they can help him reach his goal. The squad must now figure out a way to flee from Reinhardt -- before it's too late.


plot: Bugs Bunny reflects on his past cartoon exploits.
title: The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie
released: 1979-09-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:48:52.410000000
year: 1979
text: 1 nomination.
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The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie is basically a collection of Warner Bros. short cartoon features, "starring" the likes of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Wile.E.Coyote. These animations are interspersed by Bugs Bunny reminiscing on past events and providing links between the individual animations which are otherwise unconnected. The Road Runner feature at the end consists of sketches from various RR separates (well it does in the 78-minute version anyway).


plot: Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the lam.
title: Vengeance is Mine
released: 1979-10-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:25:02.647000000
year: 1979
text: 21 wins & 6 nominations.
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Iwao Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has an unexplainable urge to commit insane and violent murders. Eventually he is chased by the police all over Japan, but somehow he always manages to escape. He meets a woman who runs a brothel. They love each other but how long can they be together?


plot: A shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island with a mad scientist.
title: The Island of Dr. Moreau
released: 1977-07-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 01:04:34.097000000
year: 1977
text: 6 nominations.
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A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.


title: The Big Fix
released: 1978-10-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:15:03.020000000
year: 1978
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
An ex-'60s radical now working as a private eye is hired by an old flame to investigate a political smear campaign. The case becomes more dangerous as it unfolds.

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An ex-'60s radical now working as a private eye is hired by an old flame to investigate a political smear campaign. The case becomes more dangerous as it unfolds.


plot: Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
title: California Suite
released: 1978-12-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 02:50:34.463000000
year: 1978
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 7 nominations.
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Four totally different and separate stories of guests staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Maggie Smith and Michael Caine come from England to attend the Oscars; Jane Fonda comes from New York, Alan Alda is her ex who lives in California; in the slapstick part Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor and their wives come to the hotel to relax and play tennis, only to find there is only one room vacant; in the fourth segment Walter Matthau arrives a day before his wife for his nephew's Bar Mitzvah while his brother (Herb Edelman) sends a prostitute to his room.


title: Death on the Nile
released: 1978-09-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:32:17.430000000
year: 1978
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?

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Almost everyone on the S.S.Karnak, cruising the Nile, has a reason to want heiress Linnet Ridgeway dead. Her jewels are coveted by elderly Mrs. van Schuyler, her maid is upset because Linnet won't give her a promised dowry, writer Salome Otterbourne is facing a libel suit brought by Linnet, Salome's daughter Rosalie wants to protect her mother, American Andrew Pennington has been embezzling from the Ridgeway family, and former friend Jacqueline de Bellefort is upset that Linnet stole her fiance, Simon, away from her. Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot must unravel the mystery when Linnet (and some of the others) turn up dead.


title: Heaven Can Wait
released: 1978-06-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 01:10:48.810000000
year: 1978
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 8 wins & 13 nominations.
plot:
A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.

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Joe Pendleton is a football quarterback preparing to lead his team to the Superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he was not ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. Another body must be found without his death being discovered, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the Los Angeles Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl. At the same time, he falls in love with an English environmental activist who disapproves of his policies and actions.


plot: Politicians scheme to clone themselves, assuring immortal life.
title: The Clonus Horror
released: 1979-08-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:50:02.400000000
year: 1979
text: 1 nomination.
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A young man escapes from a government-run project called 'Clonus' only to find out that Jeff Knight (Peter Graves), a presidential candidate, is conspiring to keep Clonus a secret. Top government officials are aware of it and support the super-secret project, because they are cloning themselves to live longer and better lives at the expense of their slave-like clone counterparts. Ethical and moral values are explored as the escapee known as Richard (Tim Donnelly) returns to Clonus, only to find his girlfriend lobotomized for government security purposes.


title: Patrick
released: 1979-09-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:03:51.433000000
year: 1978
text: 2 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills though his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.

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After the shocking bathtub death of his mother and her lover, the sinister Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital, his only action being his involuntary spitting. When a pretty young nurse, just separated from her husband, begins work at the hospital, she senses that Patrick is communicating with her, and he seems to be using his psychic powers to manipulate events in her life.


title: Remember My Name
released: 1978-02-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:35:49.867000000
year: 1978
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.

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Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.


title: The Black Stallion
released: 1979-10-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 13:01:20.640000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion who is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks ...

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While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion who is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a desert island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued, both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once-successful trainer. Together they begin training the stallion to race against the fastest horses in the world.


title: Chapter Two
released: 1980-08-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 00:23:04.163000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 nominations.
plot:
George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory...

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George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.


title: Phantasm
released: 1979-03-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:51:57.663000000
year: 1979
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.

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Mike, a young teenage boy who has just lost his parents, is afraid to lose his brother. This fear causes him to follow his brother to a funeral, where Mike witnesses the Tall Man lift a coffin on his own. Mike decides to investigate and discovers a horrible world where the Tall Man, along with his flying spheres, shrink the to half their normal size and reanimate them as slaves. It is then up to Mike, his brother, and Reggie the ice cream man to stop the Tall man.


title: That Sinking Feeling
released: 1980-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:53:51.727000000
year: 1979
text: 1 win.
plot:
Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money ...

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Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a warehouse dressed as girls and using a stop-motion potion.


title: The War at Home
released: 1979-12-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 00:29:30.553000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
Interviews with people involved with and leading the Madison, Wisconsin area resistance to the Vietnam war.

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Interviews with people involved with and leading the Madison, Wisconsin area resistance to the Vietnam war.


title: Zulu Dawn
released: 1979-05-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:56:10.430000000
year: 1979
text: 1 win.
plot:
A dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation.

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In 1879 South Africa, the administrators of the British Cape Colony have designs to eliminate the Zulus as a hindrance to their colonial economy. To that end, the British present King Cetshwayo with an impossible ultimatum to provoke a war they are sure they can win easily with their rifles and artillery against native spears. However, that war proves more difficult than the arrogant British commander, Lord Chelmsford, expects as his overburdened army fruitlessly searches for the elusive enemy. However, in the shadow of a hill called Isandlwana, the overconfident British army learns to its sorrow just how badly they have underestimated the tactical skill and might of the Zulu nation.


title: Battle Beyond the Stars
released: 1980-11-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 01:01:59.587000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
A young farmer sets out to recruit mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet, which is under threat of invasion by the evil tyrant Sador and his armada of aggressors.

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Shad, a young farmer, assembles a band of diverse mercenaries in outer space to defend his peaceful planet from the evil tyrant Sador and his armada of aggressors. Among the mercenaries are Space Cowboy, a spacegoing truck driver from Earth; Gelt, a wealthy but experienced assassin looking for a place to hide; and Saint-Exmin, a Valkyrie warrior looking to prove herself in battle.


plot: A romantic comedy which explores the pressures on police officers.
title: The Black Marble
released: 1981-03-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:17:27.207000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win.
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Pragmatic Sgt. Natalie Zimmermann is paired with Valnikov, a romantic detective of Russian origin who is going through a midlife crisis. They fall in love while solving the case of the kidnapping of a socialite's pet dog.


title: The Formula
released: 1980-12-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:38:00.140000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 nominations.
plot:
A detective uncovers a formula that was devised by the Nazis in WW II to make gasoline from synthetic products, thereby eliminating the necessity for oil--and oil companies. A major oil ...

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A detective uncovers a formula that was devised by the Nazis in WW II to make gasoline from synthetic products, thereby eliminating the necessity for oil--and oil companies. A major oil company finds out about it and tries to destroy the formula and anyone who knows about it.


title: It's My Turn
released: 1981-02-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:21:51.383000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A successful but stressed mathematics professor (Clayburgh) goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son (Douglas), a prematurely retired pro baseball player...

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A successful but stressed mathematics professor (Clayburgh) goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son (Douglas), a prematurely retired pro baseball player. She must choose between him and her current boyfriend (Grodin), between Chicago and New York, and between research and administration.


title: A Good Marriage
released: 1982-08-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:32:41.570000000
year: 1982
text: 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues ...

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Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.


title: Cutter's Way
released: 1982-02-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:03:13.127000000
year: 1981
text: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

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John Heard came back from the war minus an eye, a leg and an arm. He drinks a lot and abuses his wife, who also drinks a lot. Jeff Bridges is a friend who witnesses a murder. From this point John is "after" the killer, along side the diseased sister, while Jeff doesn't really want to get involved in it.


title: The Four Seasons
released: 1981-05-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 01:12:48.727000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 4 Golden Globes. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.

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Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.


title: The Great Muppet Caper
released: 1981-06-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:29:12.240000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
Kermit, Gonzo and Fozzie are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy.

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Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.


title: Heavy Metal
released: 1981-08-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:02:50.543000000
year: 1981
text: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with a collection of stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

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A sweeping story of the battle of good against evil is told through an anthology of short animated films about a glowing green orb (the Loc-Nar) that is the personification of ultimate evil in the universe. Based loosely on the American magazine "Heavy Metal," and the French magazine "Mètal Hurlant".


title: Honky Tonk Freeway
released: 1981-11-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-29 00:25:21.537000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town. The ...

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Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town. The people of Ticlaw, led by its Mayor, will do anything in order to convince the governor to alter the project.


title: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
released: 1982-05-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:29:13.943000000
year: 1981
text: 8 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits.

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A former Australian policeman now living in the post-apocalyptic Australian outback as a warrior agrees to help a community of survivors living in a gasoline refinery to defend them and their gasoline supplies from evil barbarian warriors.


plot: A murderer comes back to life and stalks a summer camp.
title: Madman
released: 1982-01-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:48:27.227000000
year: 1982
text: 1 nomination.
fullplot:
At a summer camp for youths, cockey pre-teen calls out the name of mass serial killer "Madman Marz". Suddenly, counselors are being maimed and slaughtered in various ways by the backwoodsman who has returned when his name was called.


title: Saturn 3
released: 1980-02-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:49:24.213000000
year: 1980
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent 8-ft robot. Remember, in space no one can hear you scream.

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Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent 8-ft robot. Remember, in space no one can hear you scream...


title: Moonraker
released: 1979-06-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:28:09.247000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.

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James Bond is back for another mission and this time, he is blasting off into space. A spaceship traveling through space is mysteriously hi-jacked and Bond must work quickly to find out who was behind it all. He starts with the rockets creators, Drax Industries and the man behind the organisation, Hugo Drax. On his journey he ends up meeting Dr. Holly Goodhead and encounters the metal-toothed Jaws once again.


title: Rocky II
released: 1979-06-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:06:16.337000000
year: 1979
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Rocky struggles in family life after his bout with Apollo Creed, while the embarrassed champ insistently goads him to accept a challenge for a rematch.

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Rocky Balboa is enjoying life. He's got a lovely wife, Adrian, had a successful fight with Apollo Creed and is able to enjoy the wealth coming off the draw. Unfortunately, Rocky becomes embarrassed when failing to complete and advert and ends up working in a meat packing company. He believe that he will no longer have a career as a boxer. Apollo wants to rematch with Rocky to prove all his critics wrong that he can beat Rocky. Can Rocky once again have a successful fight?


title: The Seduction of Joe Tynan
released: 1979-08-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-07 01:03:28.880000000
year: 1979
text: 9 wins.
plot:
Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well...

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Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. But it could be a big boost to his career, so he takes it on. Helping him prepare the case is pretty southern researcher Karen Traynor, and their developing relationship further complicates and compromises his life.


title: The Awakening
released: 1980-10-31 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:45:01.720000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
An archeologist discovers his daughter is possessed by the spirit of an Egyptian queen. To save mankind he must destroy her.

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An American archaeologist is in Egypt with his pregnant wife, searching for the tomb of a long-lost Egyptian queen. At the same moment he discovers the tomb and opens it's accursed seal, his wife gives birth to his daughter. Years later it transpires that the malevolent spirit of the Egyptian queen left the tomb just as he was entering, and possessed his baby girl. As the truth becomes clear, the archaeologist realizes that he must destroy his daughter in a ceremonial ritual, before she uses her awesome powers to threaten the safety of mankind.


plot: This is a Pseudo autobiography of disco's The Village People
title: Can't Stop the Music
released: 1980-06-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:27:33.930000000
year: 1980
text: 2 wins & 8 nominations.
fullplot:
In this pseudo audio biography of the Village People, Jack Morell (a thinly disguised caricature of the group's founder, Jacques Morali) is a struggling composer desperate to gain fame with his songs, but all he needs is a group to sing them. With the help of his roommate Samantha and a lawyer named Ron, Jack forms a group of six "macho men" from his Greenwich Village neighborhood, and the rest of the film details their rise to fame from New York City to a climatic concert in San Francisco.


title: The Day After Trinity
released: 1981-01-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-03 00:07:53.600000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins.
plot:
Scientists and witnesses involved in the creation and testing of the first ever atomic bomb reflect on the Manhattan project and its fascinating leader, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who upon ...

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Scientists and witnesses involved in the creation and testing of the first ever atomic bomb reflect on the Manhattan project and its fascinating leader, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who upon completion of his wonderful and horrible invention became a powerful spokesperson against the nuclear arms race.


title: The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
released: 1980-08-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-07 01:05:32.757000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, ...

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Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu. Nayland suspects Fu will kidnap the king and queen and demand the George V diamond as ransom. Scotland Yard recruits Alice Rage to stand-in for the queen. Fu nabs the "fake" queen; Rage becomes enamored of Fu and aids him in his quest for the George V diamond.


title: Harlequin
released: 1980-03-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-26 00:42:52.303000000
year: 1980
text: 4 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
A modern-day politician is faced with an incomprehensible in this mystical-fantasy. Senator Rast is a very powerful man. But his is nothing compared to the extraordinary power of the ...

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A modern-day politician is faced with an incomprehensible in this mystical-fantasy. Senator Rast is a very powerful man. But his is nothing compared to the extraordinary power of the enigmatic stranger who mysteriously comes to "visit" him. Possessing uncanny magical prowess and miraculous psychic abilities, the peculiar, but seemingly benevolent, visitor quickly gains a spell-binding hold over the senator and his family. But a power-lusting political backer is also vying for control over the up-and-coming senator. And he would kill the influential stranger, without question, for that power. But he and the senator are about to be enlightened.


title: Revenge of the Stepford Wives
released: 1980-10-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:12:54.790000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A TV reporter arrives in Stepford to do a story on the American town with the lowest crime and divorce rates and the tightest real-estate market (no one ever leaves). She needs an assistant...

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A TV reporter arrives in Stepford to do a story on the American town with the lowest crime and divorce rates and the tightest real-estate market (no one ever leaves). She needs an assistant, and after interviewing the seemingly-plastic women of Stepford, jumps at the chance to hire the down-to-earth Megan, who's married to a newly-hired cop who hasn't yet moved into the town. Four times a day a siren sounds and every woman in town takes a pill (they each claim it's a thyroid condition). Accidents start to happen, Megan disappears for a couple of days, and the reporter realizes something is amiss. When Megan returns as a full-fledged Stepford wife, it's time for action.


title: Absence of Malice
released: 1981-12-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:07:37.673000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
When a prosecutor leaks a false story that a liquor warehouse owner is involved in the murder of an union head, the man's life begins to unravel.

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Mike Gallagher is a Miami liquor wholesaler whose deceased father was a local mobster. The FBI organized crime task force has no evidence that he's involved with the mob but decide to pressure him perhaps revealing something - anything - about a murder they're sure was a mob hit. The let Megan Carter, a naive but well-meaning journalist, know he is being investigated and Gallagher's name is soon all over the newspaper. Gallagher has an iron-clad alibi for when the murder occurred but won't reveal it to protect his fragile friend Teresa. When Carter publishes her story, tragedy ensues. Needing to make amends, Carter tells Gallagher the source of the first story about him and he sets out to teach the FBI and the Federal Attorney a lesson.


title: An American Werewolf in London
released: 1981-08-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:39:32.820000000
year: 1981
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.

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Two American college students are on a walking tour of Britain and are attacked by a werewolf. One is killed, the other is mauled. The werewolf is killed but reverts to its human form, and the local townspeople are unwilling to acknowledge its existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting on four feet at first but then finds that his friend and other recent victims appear to him, demanding that he commit suicide to release them from their curse, being trapped between worlds because of their unnatural deaths.


title: Eye of the Needle
released: 1981-07-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:34:00.423000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.

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A German spy carrying information that will reveal the target of Operation Overlord becomes involved with the wife of a crippled man on an isolated island off the Scottish coast while he waits to be picked up.


title: Thirst
released: 1979-09-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:44:34.193000000
year: 1979
text: 1 win.
plot:
The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.

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The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.


title: Zombie
released: 1980-07-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:44:02.587000000
year: 1979
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Strangers looking for a woman's father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.

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A zombie is found aboard a boat off the New York coast which belongs to do a famous scientist. Peter West, a journalist, travels to the Antilles with Ann, the daughter of the scientist. On the way, they meet with with Brian, a ethnologist, and Susan. When they arrive at Matul Island, they find Dr. Menard, and discover a terrifying disease which is turning the islanders into horrifying zombies which devour human flesh and seem indestructible....


title: Wise Blood
released: 1980-02-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 02:07:55.920000000
year: 1979
text: 2 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.


title: The Last Metro
released: 1981-02-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:47:46.400000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 14 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

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Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew and was compelled to leave the country. His wife Marion, an actress, directs the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive with a new play, and hires Bernard Granger for the leading role. But Lucas is actually hiding in the basement... A film about art and life.


title: The Last Flight of Noah's Ark
released: 1980-06-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:16:54.623000000
year: 1980
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
When a plane carrying various animals makes a forced landing on a desert island, the only chance to escape is to convert the plane into a boat.

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When Noah Dugan agrees to fly missionary Bernadette Lafleur and her cargo of animals to a remote island, its only because he is on the run from a couple of bookies. What neither of them know is that two of Miss Lafleur's young students have stowed away with the animals & Miss Lafleur's transistor radio has interfered with the plane's instruments and they're all now miles off course. After a forced landing on a remote island, Dugan, Bernadette, Bobby and Julie discover that they are not alone. Together with two Japanese soldiers who have been stranded on the island since WWII, they must turn the plane into a seaworthy boat if they are ever to make it home. When Bobby and Julie insist that they cannot leave the animals behind, the converted plane truly becomes a second Noah's Ark


title: Little Darlings
released: 1980-03-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-11 00:32:28.360000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Two 15-year old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.

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Fifteen year olds Ferris Whitney and Angel Bright meet when they attend the same summer camp and are assigned the bunks next to each other in the same cabin. It's hate at first sight as they are seemingly polar opposites: romantic and literate Ferris comes from a wealthy and thus privileged background, while streetwise and chain-smoking Angel is from the proverbial wrong side of the tracks. But they share one similarity: they are both virgins, the only ones of their age in their cabin. Due to pressure from their cabin mates, most specifically the aggressive Cinder Carlson, the two enter into a bet on who will lose their virginity first and by the end of the summer. Ferris, who initially seems more interested in the pursuit of the opposite sex, quickly sets her sights on Gary Callahan, the much older coach at the camp. But Angel finds her own target, namely Randy Adams, an equally streetwise boy attending the camp across the lake. The process becomes a bonding exercise for the two girls, who take divergent paths to their end goal and in dealing with the aftermath of the alleged big events.


title: Mother's Day
released: 1980-09-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:59:13.003000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Three female friends on a camping trip are kidnapped by a pair of brothers, who take the women back to their home and brutalize them, all for the pleasure of their demented mother.

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When you go into the woods today, you're in for a big surprise. When you go into the woods today you're not going to believe your eyes. But it ain't no "teddy bear picnic". Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her son commit acts of rape and murder. Now these women are prisoners and lowered to pawns in the game of checkers between two dim wits and their Maniac Mommy and the question becomes, can any of them escape, alive?


title: The Nude Bomb
released: 1980-05-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:35:44.177000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Maxwell Smart is recalled to duty to help fight a villian who threatens to detonate a weapon that destroys clothing.

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An unknown terrorist has developed a new type of bomb that will destroy clothing, but leave people unharmed. Agent Maxwell Smart (this time without 99 or Hymie) is taken out of retirement and sent back into the field to track down who this madman is and put a stop to his plans.


title: Scared to Death
released: 1981-03-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-04 00:50:57.740000000
year: 1980
text: 2 wins.
plot:
An ex-cop, now working as a hack novelist, is called out of retirement to help investigate a string of deaths that appear to be the work of a serial killer but soon are revealed to be the ...

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An ex-cop, now working as a hack novelist, is called out of retirement to help investigate a string of deaths that appear to be the work of a serial killer but soon are revealed to be the work of the Syngenor - the synthesized genetic organism!


title: Wholly Moses!
released: 1980-06-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-05 00:29:14.413000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Harvey and Zoey, two tourists travelling through Israel, discover an ancient scroll describing the life of Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from God to ...

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Harvey and Zoey, two tourists travelling through Israel, discover an ancient scroll describing the life of Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from God to free his people from Egyptian slavery, but Moses keeps blundering by and taking all the credit. Several other biblical stories, such as Lot and his wife, David and Goliath, and the miracles of Jesus, are also parodied in this story of the life of a man trying to follow the path to God, but somehow always seeming to lose his way.


title: Arthur
released: 1981-07-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:48:53.853000000
year: 1981
text: Won 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
Arthur is a happy drunk with no pretensions at any ambition. He is also the heir to a vast fortune which he is told will only be his if he marries Susan. He does not love Susan, but she ...

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Arthur is a happy drunk with no pretensions at any ambition. He is also the heir to a vast fortune which he is told will only be his if he marries Susan. He does not love Susan, but she will make something of him the family expects. Arthur proposes but then meets a girl with no money who he could easily fall in love with.


plot: A wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country car race.
title: The Cannonball Run
released: 1981-06-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:46:23.783000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
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A wild, illegal, and popular cross-country car race is organized, and the eccentric entrants will do anything to win, including low-down, dirty tricks.


title: Cattle Annie and Little Britches
released: 1981-04-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-04-25 00:30:40.433000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win.
plot:
In 19th century Oklahoma two teen girls, fans of stories about outlaws, are on a quest to meat and join up with them. They find a shadow of a former gang and although disappointed still try to help them escape from a vigorous marshal.

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In 19th century Oklahoma two teen girls, fans of stories about outlaws, are on a quest to meat and join up with them. They find a shadow of a former gang and although disappointed still try to help them escape from a vigorous marshal.


title: Conan the Barbarian
released: 1982-05-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:49:10.213000000
year: 1982
text: Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 9 nominations.
plot:
A vengeful barbarian warrior sets off to avenge his tribe and his parents whom were slain by an evil sorcerer and his warriors when he was a boy.

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A barbarian trained in the arts of war joins with thieves in a quest to solve the riddle of steel and find the sorcerer responsible for the genocide of his people in this faithful adaptation of Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery adventures. This film briefly sparked a wave of fantasy films including the sequel, Conan the Destroyer, in the early 80s.


title: Clash of the Titans
released: 1981-06-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:24:06.493000000
year: 1981
text: 2 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
A film adaption of the myth of Perseus and his quest to battle both Medusa and the Kraken monster to save the Princess Andromeda.

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Perseus is the favored son of the god Zeus, but he has unwittingly ticked off the sea goddess Thetis. Just to make things worse, Perseus falls in love with the lovely Princess Andromeda, who used to be engaged to Thetis's son. Soon Perseus is off on one quest after another, with Zeus helping, Thetis hindering, and lots of innocent bystanders getting stabbed, drowned, and squished.


title: The French Lieutenant's Woman
released: 1981-10-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:25:23.970000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 13 nominations.
plot:
A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah, whose melancholy makes her ...

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A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah, whose melancholy makes her leave him after a short, but passionate affair. Anna and Mike, who play the characters of Sarah and Charles, go, during the shooting of the film, through a relationship that runs parallel to that of their characters.


title: Halloween II
released: 1981-10-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 23:36:33.307000000
year: 1981
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
While Sheriff Brackett and Dr. Loomis hunt for Michael Myers, a traumatized Laurie is rushed to hospital, and the serial killer is not far behind her.

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It's the same night as the original Halloween. Michael Myers is around the neighborhood, after being gunned by Dr.Loomis six times. Now, he's in a hospital where the girl Laurie Strode was taken. And there's a reason why Michael is after her...


title: The Hand
released: 1981-04-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:00:16.943000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and ...

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Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.


title: History of the World: Part I
released: 1981-06-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 08:22:59.883000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.

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From the dawn of man to the distant future, mankind's evolution (or lack thereof) is traced. Often ridiculous but never serious, we learn the truth behind the Roman Emperor, we learn what REALLY happened at the Last Supper, the circumstances that surrounded the French Revolution, how to test eunuchs, and what kind of shoes the Spanish Inquisitor wore.


title: Lili Marleen
released: 1981-01-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:02:59.687000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
In Switzerland German singer 'Willie' falls in love with Jewish composer 'Robert' who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. But his family thinks that 'Willie' is also a Nazi ...

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In Switzerland German singer 'Willie' falls in love with Jewish composer 'Robert' who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. But his family thinks that 'Willie' is also a Nazi and may be a risk for them. One day 'Willie' helps 'Robert' but has to stay in Germany. As Willie starts to sing the song 'Lili Marleen' she becomes very famous and every soldier hears that song via radio at 8 pm. Although even Hitler wants to meet her she still does not forget 'Robert' and helps to smuggle photos of concentration camps to the free Switzerland. When 'Robert' wants to visit her he is captured he can finally get free again but he will never see Willie again until war is over.


title: The Legend of the Lone Ranger
released: 1981-05-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:49:17.677000000
year: 1981
text: 3 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
The sole surviving Texas Ranger of an ambush arranged by Butch Cavandish returns to fight back as a masked hero.

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When the young Texas Ranger, John Reid, is the sole survivor of an ambush arranged by the militaristic outlaw leader, Butch Cavendich, he is rescued by an old childhood Comanche friend, Tonto. When he recovers from his wounds, he dedicates his life to fighting the evil that Cavendich represents. To this end, John Reid becomes the great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger. With the help of Tonto, the pair go to rescue the President Grant when Cavendich takes him hostage.


title: A Little Romance
released: 1979-04-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:48:17.287000000
year: 1979
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius who enchants them with his storytelling. In an ...

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A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius who enchants them with his storytelling. In an attempt to ensure the teens' love forever, the three journey to Venice.


title: Running
released: 1979-10-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:23:01.103000000
year: 1979
text: 7 nominations.
plot:
American marathon runner Michael Andropolis sets his heart on representing his country at the Olympic games. Meanwhile his marriage has fallen apart and his children have no respect for him...

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American marathon runner Michael Andropolis sets his heart on representing his country at the Olympic games. Meanwhile his marriage has fallen apart and his children have no respect for him. He sets out on his task with determination and hope that his success will resolve his personal problems.


title: Star Trek: The Motion Picture
released: 1979-12-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:10:17.873000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 16 nominations.
plot:
When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine and hopefully stop the intruder.

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A massive alien spacecraft of enormous power is approaching Earth, destroying everything in its path. The only star ship in range is the USS Enterprise still in dry-dock after a major overhaul. As Captain Willard Decker readies his ship and his crew to face this menace, Admiral James T. Kirk arrives with orders to take command of the Enterprise and intercept the alien intruder. But it has been three years since Kirk last commanded the Enterprise on its historic five year mission... is he up to the task of saving the Earth?


plot: A man afraid to fly must ensure that a plane lands safely after the pilots become sick.
title: Airplane!
released: 1980-07-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:00:50.080000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations.
fullplot:
Still craving for the love of his life, Ted Striker follows Elaine onto the flight that she is working on as a member of the cabin crew. Elaine doesn't want to be with Ted anymore, but when the crew and passengers fall ill from food poisoning, all eyes are on Ted.


title: Dressed to Kill
released: 1980-07-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:39:50.583000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 8 nominations.
plot:
A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.

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While taking a shower, Kate Miller, a middle-aged, sexually frustrated New York City housewife, has a rape fantasy while her husband stands at the sink shaving. Later that day, after complaining to her psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott about her husband's pathetic performance in bed, she meets a strange man at a museum and returns to his apartment where they continue an adulterous encounter that began in the taxicab. Before she leaves his apartment, she finds papers which certify that the man has a venereal disease. Panicked, Kate rushes into the elevator, but has to return to his apartment when she realizes she's forgotten her wedding ring. When the elevator doors open, she's brutally slashed to death by a tall blonde woman wearing dark sunglasses. Liz Blake, a high-class call girl, is the only witness to the murder and she becomes the prime suspect and the murderess's next target. Liz is rescued from being killed by Kate's son Peter, who enlists the help of Liz to catch his mother's killer as Detective Marino who's in charge of the case is uncooperative in the investigation.


title: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
released: 1980-06-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:05:07.903000000
year: 1980
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 15 wins & 17 nominations.
plot:
After the rebels have been brutally overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywalker takes advanced Jedi training with Master Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke.

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After the Rebel base on the icy planet Hoth is taken over by the empire, Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO flee across the galaxy from the Empire. Luke travels to the forgotten planet of Dagobah to receive training from the Jedi master Yoda, while Vader endlessly pursues him.


title: Don't Answer the Phone!
released: 1980-02-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:00:26.803000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win.
plot:
A deeply disturbed photographer and Vietnam veteran, named Kirk Smith, terrorizes Los Angeles by going around strangling lingerie-clad young women in their homes while taunting Lindsay Gale...

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A deeply disturbed photographer and Vietnam veteran, named Kirk Smith, terrorizes Los Angeles by going around strangling lingerie-clad young women in their homes while taunting Lindsay Gale, a young psychologist, by calling her on a radio call-in show to describe his sexual hang-ups and misogynistic ways, while a local police detective, Lt. McCable, is always two steps behind in trying to catch the psycho.


title: Honeysuckle Rose
released: 1980-07-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-07 00:22:11.930000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win.
plot:
Willie Nelson is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.

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Buck Bonham is a county singer, with a good family, struggling to find national fame. He juggles his music career with his obligations to his long-suffering wife and their son. He has everything going his way until his longtime guitarist retires from the band. His plucky young daughter eagerly accepts the position meant to last several weeks. The road leads to temptation as the young woman admits a longtime crush on him, which leads to his downfall. The only question is will his family and friends stand by him before things come crashing down?


title: The Long Riders
released: 1980-05-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 04:00:07.640000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.

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The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of of revenge.


title: Motel Hell
released: 1980-10-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:10:10.727000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside ...

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Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand. His motto is: It takes all kinds of critters...to make Farmer Vincents fritters. The movie is gory, but is also a parody of slasher movies like Last House on the Left.


title: Tribute
released: 1980-12-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-10 01:01:05.363000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 12 nominations.
plot:
A shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit.

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A shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit.


title: Christiane F.
released: 1981-04-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:05:46.240000000
year: 1981
text: 2 wins.
plot:
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-story...

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This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-story apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by 'The Sound', a new disco with the most modern equipment. Although legally she's too young, she asks a friend to take her. There, she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.


plot: In a small town, a wrongfully killed man exacts revenge on those who murdered him beyond the grave.
title: Dark Night of the Scarecrow
released: 1981-10-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:49:19.710000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
fullplot:
An intellectually disabled man is unjustly accused of attacking a young girl. Disguised as a scarecrow, he hides in a cornfield, only to be hunted down and shot. Later, after it is revealed he saved the girl from a vicious dog attack, members of the search posse are killed by a mysterious scarecrow.


title: Escape from New York
released: 1981-07-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:14:03.153000000
year: 1981
text: 4 nominations.
plot:
In 1997, when the US President crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in for a rescue.

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In the future, crime is out of control and New York City is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed lone warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables.


title: My Brilliant Career
released: 1979-08-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 05:14:54.290000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 11 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
Sybylla Melvyn is an independent young woman who soon after arriving to live with her Grandmother Bossier and aunt Helen announces that she will never marry and plans on having a career ...

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Sybylla Melvyn is an independent young woman who soon after arriving to live with her Grandmother Bossier and aunt Helen announces that she will never marry and plans on having a career instead. She does attracts the interest of several suitors. The bumbling Englishman Frank Hawdon has only been in Australia for three months and proposes that she return home with him as his wife. She rejects him out of hand telling her grandmother that she does not love him. Then there's her neighbor, the handsome young farmer Harry Beecham, who she is attracted to and eventually accepts his proposal. Time passes however and in the end refuses to marry him while she seeks to become a writer.


plot: Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in New Mexico.
title: Nightwing
released: 1979-06-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:41:25.273000000
year: 1979
text: 1 win.
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A colony of vampire bats terrorize a small Indian community in New Mexico. Standard "Nature goes berserk" plot turns extra hokey toward the end when supernatural forces are discovered working through the bats.


title: The Blue Lagoon
released: 1980-07-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:17:32.233000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 5 nominations.
plot:
In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.

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On a journey to San Francisco, Richard, his father and cousin Emmeline find themselves on a ship about to explode. Rushed to a lifeboat with Paddy Button, the two children escape while their father (and uncle) are on another lifeboat. In the chaos following, the lifeboats are separated. Paddy, Richard and Emmeline find themselves with no food and no water stuck in the middle of nowhere. After some time, the three come across an uncharted paradise, where Paddy quickly teaches the children fishing, hunting and building. After maybe a month or two, Paddy gets very drunk off a barrel of rum found on the island when they first arrive, and drowns in the middle of the night. Emmeline and Richard, now alone and very scared, move location and rebuild their island home. Many years later, the two young teenagers have developed a very real home, but hormones and feelings between the two strain their friendship, until Richard, who is still very determined to reach San Francisco, is let down by Emmeline when a ship passes by the island and she does not light the signal fire. Throwing her out of the home they had built together, Emmeline attempts to survive on her own but is hurt. After Richard finds her dying, he realizes how he really feels for her and manages to save her. Nature runs its course and their friendship turns into love as the couple learn about the facts of life, when Emmeline has a baby and does not understand why.


title: Bye Bye Brasil
released: 1980-02-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 01:01:06.600000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomè dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion ...

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The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomè dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomè, and he begs to come along. The Gypsy Lord shrugs, and the accordionist and his pregnant wife, Dasdè, join the troupe. Television is their enemy as they go from the coast deep into the Amazon. Salomè lets the accordion player sleep with her once, with Dasdè's knowledge. He's moon-struck. Then, after Dasdè's baby is born and financial disaster hits the troupe, and the accordionist must choose between seeing his wife a prostitute and leaving the caravan.


plot: Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.
title: Coal Miner's Daughter
released: 1980-03-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:24:08.227000000
year: 1980
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 8 wins & 13 nominations.
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At only thirteen years of age, Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible for a sizeable family. Loretta appears destined to a life of homemaking, but Doolittle recognises his wife's musical talent, and buys her a guitar as an anniversary present one year. This gift sets Loretta Lynn on the gruelling, tumultuous path to country music greatness.


title: Fame
released: 1980-05-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:34:43.460000000
year: 1980
text: Won 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 17 nominations.
plot:
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

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At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. This movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation. They are the brazen Coco Hernandez, shy Doris Finsecker, sensitive gay Montgomery MacNeil, and brash, abrasive Raul Garcia.


title: The Final Countdown
released: 1980-08-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:06:55.330000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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An American nuclear aircraft carrier and its crew are caught in a classic dilemma when a supernatural storm sends them back in time just before the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor.


title: Heaven's Gate
released: 1980-11-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:20:36.993000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 6 nominations.
plot:
A dramatization of the real-life Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, in which a sheriff born into wealth attempts to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.

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In Michael Cimino's bleak anti-western based on events in 1890s Wyoming, Sheriff James Averill attempts to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests, and also clashes with a hired gun, Nathan Champion, over the woman they both love. Both men find themselves questioning their roles in the furious conflict between wealthy landowners and European immigrants attempting to build new lives on the American frontier, which culminates in a brutal pitched battle.


title: The Kidnapping of the President
released: 1980-08-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:15:08.590000000
year: 1980
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto. With a nondescript ...

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A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto. With a nondescript armored truck, crudely yet somehow elaborately rigged with high explosives (and the President trapped inside), the two terrorists keep the Secret Service at bay until in the end, Assanti is killed and Shatner has to find a way into the truck anyway.


title: Kagemusha
released: 1980-10-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:35:34.930000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

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When a powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, a poor thief recruited to impersonate him finds difficulty living up to his role and clashes with the spirit of the warlord during turbulent times in the kingdom.


title: My American Uncle
released: 1980-12-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:40:37.073000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 8 nominations.
plot:
Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. Renè is a technical manager at a ...

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Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. Renè is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.


title: Seems Like Old Times
released: 1980-12-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:09:47.910000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Wrongfully turned into a fugitive, a writer seeks the help of his ex-wife, who is now married to an attorney.

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Writer Nick Gardenia is kidnapped from his California cliffhouse and forced to rob a bank. Now a fugitive, he seeks help from his ex, Glenda. She is a public defender remarried to a prosecutor, and we get a houseful of hijinks.


title: Taxi zum Klo
released: 1981-01-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:33:48.850000000
year: 1980
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Frank Ripploh is a bit of a rascal: he's a bearded and shaggy-haired teacher, and he's gay with a very active sex life and an interest in making films. He keeps his personal life and ...

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Frank Ripploh is a bit of a rascal: he's a bearded and shaggy-haired teacher, and he's gay with a very active sex life and an interest in making films. He keeps his personal life and teaching separate, but he sometimes corrects student papers in public toilets as he waits to score. He cruises constantly, and one evening, he meets Bernd. They become lovers. While Bernd is attentive and caring, Frank gets bored and continues his polymorphously perverse ways. For how long will Bernd and Frank tolerate each other's habits, and for how long can Frank keep his sexual orientation out of the classroom? Things come to a head during Berlin's annual Queen's Ball and the morning after.


title: Used Cars
released: 1980-07-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 08:12:35.890000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.

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Used car salesman Rudy Russo needs money to run for State Senate, so he approaches his boss Luke. Luke agrees to front him the $10,000 he needs, but then encounters an "accident" orchestrated by his brother Roy, who runs the car lot across the street. Roy is hoping to claim title to his brother's property because Roy's paying off the mayor to put the new interstate through the area. After Luke disappears, it's all out war between the competing car shops, and no nasty trick is off limits as Rudy and his gang fight to keep Roy from taking Luke's property. Then Luke's daughter shows up.


title: Body Heat
released: 1981-09-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:44:15.630000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

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Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull it off?


plot: A caveman seeks revenge on a much larger competitor for the hand of a beautiful cavewoman.
title: Caveman
released: 1981-04-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:16:19.470000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
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A simple caveman accidently becomes leader of a clan of cavemisfits and outcasts. But he ultimately wants to outsmart the bigger, stronger leader of his former clan and win the affection of a beautiful cavewoman.


title: Friday the 13th Part 2
released: 1981-05-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:57:06.960000000
year: 1981
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Mrs. Voorhees is dead, and Camp Crystal Lake is shut down, but a camp next to the infamous place is stalked by an unknown assailant. Is it Mrs. Voorhees' son Jason, who did not really drown in the lake some 30 years before?

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After killing Mrs. Voorhees, who was avenging her son Jason's death, Alice Hardy can finally sigh with relief. But there is just one problem. Jason never drowned at Camp Crystal Lake and lived in the nearby woods as a hermit all this time. The day that Alice beheaded his mother, Jason saw everything and his heart filled with thirst for revenge. Two months later, Alice gets stabbed by an ice pick in the temple and disappears. Is Jason behind this? Five years later, a camp next do to Camp Crystal Lake is built and the counselors start snooping around the old, abandoned camp ruins. This makes Jason very upset, since his shack is next to the remains of Camp Crystal Lake and what is inside the shack shall be kept secret forever, even if it means killing nine people!


title: Ghost Story
released: 1981-12-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 01:12:37.507000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group ...

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Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.


title: Happy Birthday to Me
released: 1981-05-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 01:03:19.840000000
year: 1981
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
At the snobby Crawford Academy, Virginia's group of friends start to go missing years after horrible events that happened to her as a child around her birthday.

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Virginia Wainwright is a spirited young woman who has returned to a private school having survived a deadly accident and regenerative brain surgery. She is proud that she belongs to the Top Ten - the school's inner circle with the best students - and attempts to resume a normal life. But her friends are falling prey to a grueling series of murders, and soon there will be no one left to attend her 18th birthday party. Could it be her? Striving to rekindle the memory of her nightmarish accident, Virginia suffers from memory loss and traumatic blackouts. We soon learn the horrible truth behind her accident and what is going on before her birthday party...


title: Looker
released: 1981-10-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:20:18.870000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win.
plot:
Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts ...

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Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.


title: Long Weekend
released: 1979-03-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:52:32.097000000
year: 1978
text: 5 wins.
plot:
When a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

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When a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.


title: Murder by Decree
released: 1979-02-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-12 00:18:36.220000000
year: 1979
text: 5 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
Sherlock Holmes investigates the murders commited by Jack the Ripper and discovers a conspiracy to protect the killer.

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Sherlock Holmes investigates London's most infamous case, Jack the Ripper. As he investigates, he finds that the Ripper has friends in high places.


plot: An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.
title: Opening Night
released: 1978-04-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:50:27.083000000
year: 1977
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.
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A young woman gets killed in an accident trying to meet her favorite actress Myrtle Gordon after a play. Then Myrtle Gordon felt responsible for the killing leading her down to an emotional crisis that interferes with her professional work as an actress.


title: One More Minute
released: 1980-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-17 01:21:23.083000000
year: 1979
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Angela is a young hairdresser thrown out of home by her puritantical mother after too many nights out. She quickly falls in with the modeling crowd and does some modeling work herself, ...

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Angela is a young hairdresser thrown out of home by her puritantical mother after too many nights out. She quickly falls in with the modeling crowd and does some modeling work herself, while it seems she is being stalked by a mysterious figure driving an ice-cream van.


title: Woyzeck
released: 1979-08-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:25:55.563000000
year: 1979
text: 3 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.

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Everything in town appears calm, placid, lovely. But Woyzeck, a rifleman assigned as an orderly, hears voices -- the times are out of joint, at least in his cosmos. To his captain, Woyzeck is a comic marvel: ignorant but courageous, full of energy to little purpose. To a local doctor, Woyzeck is a curiosity, the object of cruel study. Woyzeck, 40, has a young wife, Marie, and a small child. He dotes on them, but Marie, even though she has periods of guilt and remorse, carries on affairs and flirtations. When the captain lets drop broad hints of Woyzeck's being a cuckold, his inner demons and the voices of the spheres take over. Will madness bring action? Of what sort?


title: The Changeling
released: 1980-03-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:52:36.830000000
year: 1980
text: 10 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A man staying at a secluded historical mansion finds himself being haunted by the presence of a spectre.

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It was the perfect family vacation for composer John Russell and his family when a freak automobile accident claims the lives of his wife and daughter. Consumed by grief, John, at the request of friends, rents an old turn of the century house. Mammoth in size, the house seems all the room that John needs to write music and reflect. He does not realize that he is not alone in the house. He shares it with the spirit of a murdered child who has homed in on John's despair and uses him to uncover decades of silence and deceit. With the help of Claire Norman, the one who aided John in procuring the house, they race to find the answers and soon learn that a devious and very powerful man guards them.


title: The Fog
released: 1980-02-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:30:55.913000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
Legend says that Antonio Bay was built in 1880 with blood money obtained from shipwrecked lepers but no one believes it. On the eve of the town's centennial many plan to attend the celebrations, including the murdered lepers.

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The centenary of the small seaside town of Antonio Bay, California is approaching. One hundred years ago, the wealthy leper Blake bought the clipper ship Elizabeth Dane and sailed with his people to form a leper colony. However, while sailing through a thick fog, they were deliberately misguided by a campfire onshore, steering the course of the ship toward the light and crashing her against the rocks. While the townsfolk prepare to celebrate, the victims of this heinous crime that the town's founding fathers committed rise from the sea to claim retribution. Under cover of the fog, they carry out their vicious attacks, searching for what is rightly theirs.


title: The Godsend
released: 1980-01-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:38:10.383000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win.
plot:
An English family of six takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth. They raise the baby girl as their own, but over the years the strange deaths of their children ...

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An English family of six takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth. They raise the baby girl as their own, but over the years the strange deaths of their children make them consider whether the little girl is more than she appears.


title: Hopscotch
released: 1980-10-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:43:47.607000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 nominations.
plot:
Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.

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CIA agent Miles Kendig decides to get out of 'the game' and to ensure he's left alone he threatens to send his memoirs to the world's intelligence agencies. When the CIA doesn't believe him, he calls their bluff and starts writing and sending out chapters one by one. Realizing that their operations would be compromised, the CIA (led by Myerson and Cutter) set out to put an end to Kendig's plan by whatever means necessary. The heart of the movie follows a game of cat and mouse between a fumbling CIA and an artful Kendig.


plot: The story of professional bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson.
title: The Hunter
released: 1980-08-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 12:56:03.950000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win.
fullplot:
In order to track down bail jumpers, Ralph 'Papa' Thorson goes on a series of routine and not-so-routine searches. Sometimes he takes down his quarry easily. At other times, he's forced to extreme measures which result in the injury or death of a lawbreaker. And then again, there are other moments when his own life is on the line. It's all enough to make Thorson question what he has done with his life.


title: The Long Good Friday
released: 1982-04-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:41:11.937000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins.
plot:
Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his ...

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Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his action, and Harold wants to know who they are. He finds out soon enough, and bloody mayhem ensues.


title: Maniac
released: 1981-03-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:46:16.197000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A psychopath, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in New York City, kills young women and takes their scalps as his trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in a photographer, and end his killing spree?

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Frank Zito misses his mother, who was killed in a car accident years before. She was abusive to him, and made money selling her body, but Frank still misses her. He tries to keep her from leaving him, and reform her evil ways, by killing young women and putting their scalps on mannequins which he displays around his apartment. Photographer Anna D'Antoni takes a picture of him in the park, and he pursues and befriends her. Is she the one he has been looking for or just another mother wannabe?


title: The Shining
released: 1980-05-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:14:27.827000000
year: 1980
text: 3 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

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Signing a contract, Jack Torrance, a normal writer and former teacher agrees to take care of a hotel which has a long, violent past that puts everyone in the hotel in a nervous situation. While Jack slowly gets more violent and angry of his life, his son, Danny, tries to use a special talent, the "Shining", to inform the people outside about whatever that is going on in the hotel.


title: Windows
released: 1980-01-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-26 00:00:35.460000000
year: 1980
text: 5 nominations.
plot:
Shire is the subject of a perverse obsession by a Lesbian neighbor, Andrea, who not only is in lust with her but hires a rapist in order to get audio tapes of her moaning. Ashley turns ...

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Shire is the subject of a perverse obsession by a Lesbian neighbor, Andrea, who not only is in lust with her but hires a rapist in order to get audio tapes of her moaning. Ashley turns pepping tom and watches Shire with a telescope as she begins an affair with Det. Cortese.


title: Circle of Deceit
released: 1981-10-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:47:04.230000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he...

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Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he meets some important people and discovers the everyday face of the war. He also has to figure out about his home life, where his marriage is in a big crisis.


plot: Two household robots run away and try to start a family.
title: Heartbeeps
released: 1982-01-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-06-17 19:02:00.940000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 nominations.
fullplot:
Val and Aqua are two household servant robots who start feeling emotions for each other. After falling in love, they decide to escape from their servitude and attempt to start a family of their own.


title: Kramer vs. Kramer
released: 1979-12-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:25:11.663000000
year: 1979
text: Won 5 Oscars. Another 38 wins & 17 nominations.
plot:
Ted Kramer's wife leaves her husband, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.

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Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. When he has learned to adjust his life to these new responsibilities, Joanna resurfaces and wants Billy back. Ted, however, refuses to give him up, so they go to court to fight for the custody of their son.


title: Love at First Bite
released: 1979-04-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:07:32.450000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
This vampire spoof has Count Dracula moving to New York to find his Bride, after being forced to move out of his Transylvanian castle. There with the aid of assistant Renfield, he stumbles ...

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This vampire spoof has Count Dracula moving to New York to find his Bride, after being forced to move out of his Transylvanian castle. There with the aid of assistant Renfield, he stumbles through typical New York city life situations while pursuing Cindy Soundheim. But her boyfriend, Doctor Jeff Rosenberg, realizes she is under the influence of a vampire, and tries his bumbling best to convince police Lt Ferguson of what is going on, and to help him stop Dracula.


title: The Onion Field
released: 1980-04-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:46:06.493000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Greg Powell is a disturbed ex-con who recruits Jimmy Smith (aka Jimmy Youngblood), a petty thief, as his partner in crime. Powell panics one night when the two of them are pulled over by a ...

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Greg Powell is a disturbed ex-con who recruits Jimmy Smith (aka Jimmy Youngblood), a petty thief, as his partner in crime. Powell panics one night when the two of them are pulled over by a pair of cops for broken brake-lights. Powell decides to kidnap the cops and Smith, as always, reluctantly goes along with Powell's crazy scheme. The group drives out to a deserted onion field in Bakersfield, California and one officer is shot while the other escapes. The remainder of the film explores the nature of the American justice system, as well as the devastating psychological effects of this event and the trial on the surviving officer.


title: Brubaker
released: 1980-06-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:56:47.470000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win.
plot:
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

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When the new warden comes in disguised as an inmate, he sees firsthand all the corruption and scams the guards and prison officials are running. When he reveals himself and starts to implement reforms to stop the corruption, the local business community, who had been benefiting from the scams, fights back, and the corrupt prison system starts making political trouble for the new warden.


title: The Man with Bogart's Face
released: 1980-05-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:54:39.620000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
A man with a fixation on Humphrey Bogart gets plastic surgery to make him look exactly like Bogart. Then he changes his name to Sam Marlowe (after Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe, two of ...

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A man with a fixation on Humphrey Bogart gets plastic surgery to make him look exactly like Bogart. Then he changes his name to Sam Marlowe (after Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe, two of Bogart's most famous characters), hires a ditzy blonde secretary, and opens up a detective agency. His first case is one that would do Bogie proud...


title: Terror Train
released: 1980-10-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:42:41.447000000
year: 1980
text: 5 nominations.
plot:
A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.

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A college fraternity prank goes wrong and a student ends up in the mental asylum. Three years later, it's graduation time, and the members of the fraternity decide to have a costume party aboard a train trip to celebrate their graduation. Unknowingly to them, a killer has slipped aboard, killing them off one by one, disguised in the costumes of the victims.


title: Bustin' Loose
released: 1981-05-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:02:39.330000000
year: 1981
text: 2 wins.
plot:
Joe Braxton is an ex-con who has been given a second chance to freedom after violating his probation. He has been hired by a school teacher named Vivian Perry to repair and drive an old ...

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Joe Braxton is an ex-con who has been given a second chance to freedom after violating his probation. He has been hired by a school teacher named Vivian Perry to repair and drive an old school bus and drive a group of Special kids to Ms. Perry's Washington Farm from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to give them a new home after The Clarmont Center for Children is shut down by the city. The kids have severe mental problems and Joe is not looking forward to the trip at all, but Joe later bonds with Vivian and the children, offering his support and love and changes his outlook on life. But Donald, the social worker and Vivian's lover who gave Joe his break is hot on their tail and wants Joe back in prison. Joe and Vivian must now prevent Donald from sending the children back to Philidelphia where they'll have no future.


title: Gallipoli
released: 1981-08-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:38:36.130000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 11 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.

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The story of a group of young Australian men who leave their various backgrounds behind and sign up to join the ANZACs in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the resolute Turkish army whose ally Germany had organized the defenses along the peninsula, Kemal Ataturk comes to the fore during this campaign.


title: The Girl with the Red Hair
released: 1981-09-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-02-16 00:28:08.943000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
The story of Hannie Schaft, Dutch Resistance, told in flashback as they try to bring collaborators and criminals to justice in 1945.

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Johanna 'Hannie' Schaft tells, in flash-backs, how she decides during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, to interrupt law studies to 'do something for real'. She joins the Dutch resistance, which uses her in missions to 'eliminate' collaborators. Even her parents may not know. Tough colleague Hugo initially looks down upon her girlish hesitations, but they fall in love. A failed attempt to shoot SD-informant de Ruyter puts the Germans on their trace.


title: Norma Rae
released: 1979-03-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:45:34.660000000
year: 1979
text: Won 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.

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Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.


title: Starcrash
released: 1979-03-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:56:52.567000000
year: 1978
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
An outlaw smuggler and her alien companion are recruited by the Emperor of the Galaxy to rescue his son and destroy a secret weapon by the evil Count Zarth Arn.

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Outlaw smugglers Stella Star and Akton manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zarth Arn. The smugglers are soon recruited by the Emperor of the Galaxy to complete the mission, as well as to rescue the Emperor's son, who has gone missing.


title: The Big Red One
released: 1980-05-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 07:41:47.073000000
year: 1980
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
The story of a sergeant and the inner core members of his unit as they try to serve in and survive World War II.

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The story of a hardened army Sergeant and four of his men from their first fight at the Kasserine Pass after the invasion of North Africa through to the invasion of Sicily, D-Day, the Ardennes forest and the liberation of a concentration camp at the end of the war. As the five of them fight - and survive to fight yet again in the next battle - new recruits joining the squad are swatted down by the enemy on a regular basis. The four privates are naturally reluctant to get to know any of the new recruits joining the squad, who become just a series of nameless faces.


title: Bronco Billy
released: 1980-06-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:34:03.517000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.

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Bronco Billy McCoy is the proud owner of a small traveling Wild West show. But the business isn't doing too well: for the past six months he hasn't paid his employees. At a gas station he picks up Antoinette, a stuck-up blonde from a rich family, who was left behind without a penny by her husband on their wedding night. Billy likes her looks and hires her as his assistant. She seems to bring them bad luck and the business gets even worse. In these hard times she loses her reluctance and starts to like her new way of life... and Bronco Billy.


title: Flash Gordon
released: 1980-12-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:04:31.883000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 1 win & 8 nominations.
plot:
A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

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In this update of the 1930s comic strip, Flash Gordon is a football hero who is skyjacked aboard Dr. Hans Zarkov's rocketship along with beautiful Dale Arden. The threesome are drawn into the influence of the planet Mongo, ruled by Emperor Ming the Merciless. Ming has been testing the Earth with unnatural disasters, and deeming it a threat to his rule, he plans to destroy it. He also intends to take Dale as his concubine. Flash must avoid the amorous attentions of Ming's daughter, and unite the warring kingdoms of Mongo to rescue Dale and save our world.


title: Galaxina
released: 1980-06-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-05 01:20:20.320000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win.
plot:
Main Plot: Crew of interstellar police ship is sent to recover a mysterious crystal, the Blue Star. Subplots: The ship's female android and a crew member fall in love. Alien is spoofed as ...

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Main Plot: Crew of interstellar police ship is sent to recover a mysterious crystal, the Blue Star. Subplots: The ship's female android and a crew member fall in love. Alien is spoofed as as the captain gives birth to an alien who grows up on the ship thinking the captain is its mother.


title: Foxes
released: 1980-02-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:34:31.093000000
year: 1980
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A group of four teenage girls come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley arranged with a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.

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Four best friends, with four different personalities, have issues of their own. Deidre is fascinated by her sexuality and has many boyfriend problems. Madge is unhappily overweight and has overprotective parents. Annie boozes and does drugs, and runs away from her abusive father, a policeman. Jeanie has to take care of them and is fighting with her divorced mother. The only way to loosen up, and forget all the bad things happening in their lives, is to party and have fun. Jeanie is ready to grow up and wants to stop acting like a child. Annie is the worst of them all and Jeanie is worried about her the most. She risks her neck more than once trying to keep Annie clean and free from trouble. But Annie's unstable behavior and flare keeps everyone on edge.


title: Melvin and Howard
released: 1980-09-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-07 00:12:22.803000000
year: 1980
text: Won 2 Oscars. Another 19 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

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This movie tells the possibly true story of Melvin Dummar. Melvin is a nice guy, but he is a total loser: unlucky, impractical and can't keep a job. One night, however, he helps an old man who has had a motorcycle accident in the desert. Melvin laughs when the old man says he is Howard Hughes, the eccentric multimillionaire. But when Howard Hughes dies, Melvin is mailed a will leaving him part of the estate!


title: My Bodyguard
released: 1980-09-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:30:44.507000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
When a boy comes to a new school and gets harassed by a bully, he acquires the services of the school's most feared kid as a bodyguard.

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Clifford Peache is the new kid in Lake View High School. Faced with all the stress that role entails he makes his situation worse by insulting Moody, the leader of a group of toughs who extort lunch money from kids. These punks pretend to be bodyguards for the kids to protect them from Linderman who, it is rumored, killed his brother in cold blood. Clifford befriends the sullen Linderman and hires him as his bodyguard. When Moody ups the ante, Linderman must decide whether fighting for what he believes in, with his haunted past and image, is justified.


title: Raging Bull
released: 1980-12-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:57:24.373000000
year: 1980
text: Won 2 Oscars. Another 27 wins & 19 nominations.
plot:
An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.

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When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family's love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps it's his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up in the ring alone.


plot: The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror.
title: Das Boot
released: 1982-02-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:08:48.523000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 5 nominations.
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It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so-called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy British shipping. With better escorts of the Destroyer Class, however, German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. "Das Boot" is the story of one such U-Boat crew, with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers and attempted to accomplish impossible missions, all the while attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served.


title: Butterfly
released: 1982-02-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:33:37.507000000
year: 1982
text: Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
Orson Welles, as judge Rauch, holds a lengthy trial against Jess Tyler, a caretaker deserted by his wife ten years before, who's accused of improper relations with his daughter Kady. ...

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Orson Welles, as judge Rauch, holds a lengthy trial against Jess Tyler, a caretaker deserted by his wife ten years before, who's accused of improper relations with his daughter Kady. Complications follows when Wash, father of Kady's baby, comes back to take her away.


title: Coup de torchon
released: 1981-11-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:34:33.930000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 10 nominations.
plot:
1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his...

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1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his wife Huguette) humiliates him. He never arrests anyone and looks at elsewhere when a dirty trick occurs. But one day, he turns into a machiavellian exterminating angel.


title: Deadly Blessing
released: 1981-08-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:43:37.987000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
This film is set in Amish Country, at a local farm, where a woman's husband is mysteriously killed by his own tractor!

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A former Hittite (a member of an Amish-like sect) dies in a mysterious tractor "accident", and his widow is left to face the frightening Hittites who view her as "the incubus" and may have sinister designs on her.


title: Death Wish II
released: 1982-02-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:46:10.777000000
year: 1982
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Architect Paul Kersey once again becomes a vigilante when he tries to find the five street punks who murdered his daughter and housekeeper, this time on the dark streets of Los Angeles.

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Paul Kersey, the vigilante, now lives in LA with his daughter, who is still recovering from her attack. He also has a new woman in his life. One day while with them, Kersey is mugged by some punks, Kersey fights back, but they get away. The leader, wanting to get back at Kersey, goes to his house, but Kersey and his daughter Carol are not there. The muggers rape his housekeeper, and when Kersey and his daughter arrive, they knock him out and kidnap her. After they assault her, she leaps out of a window to her death. Kersey then grabs his gun and goes after them. When the LA authorities, deduce they have a vigilante, they decide to consult with New York, who had their vigilante problem. Now the New York officials, knowing that Kersey lives in LA, fears that he's back to his old habit. Fearing that Kersey, when caught will reveal that they let him go instead of prosecuting him send Inspector Ochoa to make sure that doesn't happen.


title: First Monday in October
released: 1981-08-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:57:07.863000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.

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Ruth Loomis becomes the first woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court. A staunch conservative, she immediately runs into conflict with Dan Snow, the high court's resident liberal. Although, they never agree on the issues before the Court, they develop a respect and affection for one another after several comedic encounters.


title: Hardcore
released: 1979-04-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:08:55.510000000
year: 1979
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films in California's porno pits.

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Jake Van Dorn is a businessman from the American heartland who shares strong Calvinist convictions with most of his countrymen. His teenage daughter is missing from her church youth convention trip to California and Van Dorn hires a private investigator to find her. The result of the investigation is his daughter is spotted in a cheap X-rated movie. Van Dorn decides to bring her back personally and during the quest he becomes familiar with the pornographic underworld.


plot: Wacky hijinks of counselors and campers at a less-than-average summer camp.
title: Meatballs
released: 1979-06-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 02:59:59.687000000
year: 1979
text: 3 wins & 6 nominations.
fullplot:
Summer Camp highjinks centered around a camp counselor with a wacky sense of humor. He tries to help the campers have a good time. One camper named Rudy poses a particular challenge as he has a self-esteem problem


title: Breaker Morant
released: 1980-07-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:00:16.787000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 14 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

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During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.


title: Altered States
released: 1980-12-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:27:15.140000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.

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It's the late 1960's. Just for a lark, graduate student Eddie Jessup, known for being unconventional, brilliant and slightly mad, conducts experiments with an isolation chamber, using himself as the subject. His experiences in the chamber cause him to hallucinate, much of the imagery being religious-based despite he not being a religious man. Seven years later, he is a respected full professor in the Harvard Medical School. Believing he has lost his edge and has fallen into an unwanted state of respectability, Eddie decides to resume his work with sensory deprivation, this time using hallucinogens, specifically untested ones used in mystical Mexican rituals, to enhance the experience of being in the isolation tank. After initial tests, he claims he entered an alternate physical and mental state. Although unbelieving of Eddie's claims, his colleagues Arthur Rosenberg and Mason Parrish, as well as Eddie's wife, Emily, who is in her own right a respected academic, are concerned for Eddie's well being. However, if Eddie's claims are indeed true, he could do irreparable harm to himself and others around him, especially if his altered states are uncontrollable.


title: From the Life of the Marionettes
released: 1981-06-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:26:15.033000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win.
plot:
Made during Bergman's tax-related exile in Germany, the film continues the story of Katarina and Peter EGermann, the feuding, childless, professional couple who appear in one episode of "...

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Made during Bergman's tax-related exile in Germany, the film continues the story of Katarina and Peter EGermann, the feuding, childless, professional couple who appear in one episode of "Scenes From A Marriage." After Peter perpetrates a horrendous crime in its first scene, the rest of the film consists of a non-linear examination of his motivations, incorporating a police psychological investigation, scenes from the EGermanns' married life, and dream sequences.


title: The Jazz Singer
released: 1980-12-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:38:01.227000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of being a popular singer.

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Neil Diamond stars in this motion picture as Yussel Rabinovitch, a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career outside the synagogue in popular music as Jess Robin. Against the wishes of his rigid father and his loving wife, Yussel travels from New York City to Los Angeles to play his music. Swept up by the excitement, he meets a spunky manager who believes in his talent and shares his dream. He grows apart from his family, and becomes confused about what he should ultimately do with his life.


title: Just Tell Me What You Want
released: 1980-01-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:27:17.753000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win.
plot:
A TV producer who is the mistress of her boss, tries to have him make their relationship more permanent, and begins a relationship with a younger man. When her boss hears of this, he tries ...

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A TV producer who is the mistress of her boss, tries to have him make their relationship more permanent, and begins a relationship with a younger man. When her boss hears of this, he tries to stop it, and win her heart again.


title: Time Bandits
released: 1981-11-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 23:58:26.953000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win & 8 nominations.
plot:
A young boy accidentally joins a band of dwarves as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.

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A young boy's wardrobe contains a time hole. Through this hole an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping from their master, the supreme being. They take Kevin with them on their adventures through time from Napoleonic times to the Middle Ages to the early 1900s, to the time of Legends and the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness where they confront Evil.


title: Choices
released: 1981-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:14:28.873000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Partially deaf teenager Carafotes becomes alienated when prevented from playing football because of his handicap. He must deal with his parents, coach, teammates, his new girlfried and a ...

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Partially deaf teenager Carafotes becomes alienated when prevented from playing football because of his handicap. He must deal with his parents, coach, teammates, his new girlfried and a bad crowd he almost falls into, before confronting the school board.


title: The Chosen
released: 1982-04-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:24:40.637000000
year: 1981
text: 5 wins.
plot:
In 1944, in Brooklyn, two Jewish kids become friends. One is from a very conservative family, and the other is more liberal. The issues of importance of tradition, parental expectations and the formation of Israel cause constant friction.

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Brooklyn 1944. Despite being the same age, having grown up within blocks of each other, and both being Jewish, late teens Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter don't really know each other - knowing each other only by name and by sight - as Orthodox Danny stays largely within his own Hasidic community, which is just fine in Reuven's mind. An incident between the two which on the surface threatens to tear them even further apart instead blossoms into a friendship between the two. They begin to learn more and more about the other and their lives, which for Danny includes becoming a rabbi, solely as it is a several generations old family calling. In Reb Saunders' mind, he who rules his family by strict Hasidic traditions, Danny becoming the next rabbi in the family is not even a question, despite Danny, deep in his heart, wanting other secular pursuits which he has not told his father. Conversely, Reuven has modern sensibilities, being raised in a two-person household by his widowed academic father, Professor David Malter. Ultimately, the views of each father may tear Danny and Reuven's friendship apart, regardless of whether each son believes wholeheartedly in what his father espouses. Professor Malter is a confirmed Zionist who believes in a secular Jewish state in Palestine, while Reb Saunders believes such thinking against Judaism, with only the Messiah being able to lead his people into such. As they grow into adulthood, Danny and Reuven becoming his own man may further alter their relationship.


title: Dead & Buried
released: 1981-05-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:27:55.207000000
year: 1981
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A suspense horror film set in a small coastal town where, after a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses begin to come back to life.

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Sheriff Dan Gillis has a nice life with his wife, the teacher Janet Gillis, in the small coastal and friendly town of Potter's Bluff. When visitors are mysterious killed in the town, Sheriff Gillis investigates the cases carefully and finds that dead people are reanimating and coming back to life. Dan finds a book of witchcraft and voodoo in his wife's drawer and he suspects that she might be practicing black magic. Dan meets the coroner-mortician William G. Dobbs and learns the dreadful and surprising secret.


title: The Main Event
released: 1979-06-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:26:35.537000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win.
plot:
Hillary Kramer, successful Perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she ...

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Hillary Kramer, successful Perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write off. She decides to take Kid Natural, (Eddie Scanlon) who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.


title: Every Man for Himself
released: 1980-10-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-05-13 00:33:27.057000000
year: 1980
text: 3 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations.

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An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations.


plot: A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
title: Stalker
released: 1980-04-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:37:23.583000000
year: 1979
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
fullplot:
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers. Over his wife's objections, a man rises in the early morning and leaves her with their disabled daughter to meet two men. He's a Stalker, one of a handful who have the mental gifts (and who risk imprisonment) to lead people into the Zone to the Room, a place where one's secret hopes come true. His clients are a burned out popular writer, cynical, and questioning his talent; and a quiet scientist more concerned about his knapsack than the journey. In the deserted Zone, the approach to the Room must be indirect. As they draw near, the rules seem to change and the stalker faces a crisis.


title: Atlantic City
released: 1981-04-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:36:56.960000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 27 wins & 14 nominations.
plot:
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer finds themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs, and danger.

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Dreams. Becoming an Atlantic City croupier will help Sally realize her dream of going to Monte Carlo, a symbol of the glamorous life that has been evading her since escaping from Saskatchewan a decade ago. Lou dreams that he was a great mobster in the old days. Grace came to Atlantic City for a Betty Grable look-alike contest and stayed to become the wife of a mobster. A brief visit to Atlantic City by Sally's estranged husband will change the course of the lives of Sally and Lou.


plot: A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
title: City of Women
released: 1981-04-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-07 00:58:32.990000000
year: 1980
text: 6 wins.
fullplot:
Marcello is in the compartment of an Italian train, facing forward when the mineral water of the woman seated across from him starts to fall toward him. He catches the bottle and makes eye contact and follows her when she leaves the compartment. For a few moments she finds him attractive too. Then suddenly she gets off the train and starts walking through a field. Marcello follows her, loses her, finds himself in a large hotel surrounded by women. A feminist conference is taking place and he tries to escape.


title: One-Trick Pony
released: 1980-10-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 00:18:07.157000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Jonah (Paul Simon) is an aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's struggling to save his failing marriage.

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Jonah (Paul Simon) is an aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's struggling to save his failing marriage.


title: Raise the Titanic
released: 1980-08-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:31:44.583000000
year: 1980
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.

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A group of Americans are interested in raising the ill-fated Ocean liner Titanic. One of the team members finds out the Russians also have plans to raise the ship from its watery grave. Why all the interest ? A rare mineral on board could be used to power a sound beam that will knock any missile out of the air when entering us airspace.


title: Somewhere in Time
released: 1980-10-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:52:38.217000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to find the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.

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Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s, Elise McKenna. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, he manages, by self hypnosis, to travel back in time where he meets her. They fall in love, a matching that is not appreciated by her manager. Can their love outlast the immense problems caused by their "time" difference? And can Richard remain in a time that is not his?


plot: Bud is a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.
title: Urban Cowboy
released: 1980-06-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:19:48.437000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
fullplot:
Bud Davis is a country boy who moves to the city to visit his uncle and his family. He starts hanging out at Gilley's, the popular nightclub owned by Mickey Gilley himself. He takes a job at the oil refinery where his uncle works, hoping to save enough money to buy some land. He also meets a cowgirl named Sissy, they dance together, fall in love and suddenly get married. And then their marriage is shattered when Bud sees Sissy allegedly seeing con man Wes, who teaches her how to ride the mechanical bull... and plans to rob Gilley's. When a bull-riding contest at Gilley's is announced, Bud decides to sign up. Can he win the contest and save his marriage to Sissy?


title: Blow Out
released: 1981-07-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:31:12.580000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.

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This stylish Brian De Palma thriller plays off the theme of the unsuspecting witness who discovers a crime and is thereby put in grave danger, but with a novel twist. Jack Terry is a master sound recordist who works on grade-B horror movies. Late one evening, he is recording sounds for use in his movies when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him when the media become involved, and he begins to unravel the pieces of a nefarious conspiracy. As he struggles to survive against his shadowy enemies and expose the truth, he does not know whom he can trust.


title: Das Boot ist voll
released: 1981-12-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 01:00:29.453000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: ...

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During World War II, Switzerland severely limited refugees: "Our boat is full." A train from Germany halts briefly in an isolated corner of Switzerland. Six people jump off seeking asylum: four Jews, a French child, and a German soldier. They seek temporary refuge with a couple who run a village inn. They pose as a family: the deserter as husband, Judith as his wife, an old man from Vienna as her father, his granddaughter and the French lad, whom they beg to keep silent, as their children. Judith's teenage brother poses as a soldier. The fabrication unravels through chance and the local constable's exact investigation. Whom will the Swiss allow to stay? Who gets deported?


title: I Sent a Letter to My Love
released: 1980-04-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-02 00:49:51.513000000
year: 1980
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in ...

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A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in love, and she, knowing that it is her brother who is writing, discovers a new, tender side to him. But trouble looms when he asks to meet her in person.


title: Man of Iron
released: 1981-07-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:16:38.203000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
A worker becomes a "man of iron" forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love, a reporter searches for courage, and a nation undergoes historic change. ...

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A worker becomes a "man of iron" forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love, a reporter searches for courage, and a nation undergoes historic change. In Warsaw in 1980, the Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews people who know Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka. Their narrations become flashbacks using actual news footage of 1968 and 1970 protests and of the later birth of free unions and Solidarity.


title: The Howling
released: 1981-04-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:38:51.227000000
year: 1981
text: 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.

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Television newswoman Karen White takes some much-needed time off after a traumatic incident with a serial killer. Hoping to conquer her inner demons, she heads for The Colony, a secluded retreat where the creepy residents are a little too eager to make her feel at home. Also, there seems to be a bizarre connection between Eddie Quist and this supposedly safe haven. And when, after nights of being tormented by unearthly cries, Karen ventures into the forest and makes a terrifying discovery. Now she must not only fight for her life... but for her very soul! Helped launch the short-lived werewolf craze in the early 1980s.


title: Bad Timing
released: 1980-10-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 01:20:24.407000000
year: 1980
text: 3 wins.
plot:
The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt. A police detective suspects foul play on the part of her ...

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The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt. A police detective suspects foul play on the part of her lover, an American psychology professor. As doctors try to save her life, the detective interrogates the professor, and through flashbacks we see the events leading up to the woman's overdose; her stormy and intensely sexual relationship with the professor, her heavy drinking and numerous affairs, and her estrangement from her Czech husband. A darkly erotic study of several rather unsympathetic characters.


title: The Blues Brothers
released: 1980-06-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:09:39.130000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win.
plot:
Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised.

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After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit "The Penguin", the last of the nuns who raised them in a boarding school. They learn the Archdiocese will stop supporting the school and will sell the place to the Education Authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The Blues Brothers want to help, and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their "mission from God" they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?


title: Gloria
released: 1980-09-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:40:38.993000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.

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Mild mannered Jack Dawn has been secretly working as an accountant for the mob. He, his Puerto Rican wife Jeri, his teen-aged daughter Joan and his mother-in-law, all who were planning on going on the run, are murdered by the mob because Jack was going to inform on them to the FBI. Before they're killed, Jack and Jeri are able to send their six-year old son Phil to Jeri's friend and their neighbor, Gloria Swenson, for safe keeping. Also with Phil is the book which contains all the information Jack was going to turn over. Gloria and Phil have an antagonistic relationship, not so much for who they are but what they are, Phil a kid, and Gloria a strange white woman who hates kids. As an ex-mistress of a mobster, Gloria learns that the people that killed the Dawns are old friends of hers. As Gloria and Phil go on the run both from the mob and from the authorities (who believe she kidnapped Phil) throughout New York City, Gloria has to come up with a plan on how best to save themselves, which is not easy because of their love/hate relationship and the fact that precocious Phil has a mind of his own. That plan includes what to do with the book, but more importantly how to save Phil as the mob would still be after him regardless of the book just in case he knows something about his father's dealings. All through their ordeal, Gloria is not averse to shooting to kill, especially if those who she is trying to kill are trying to kill her and Phil first.


plot: God asks a young girl to help spread his word and influence with a slogan.
title: Oh, God! Book II
released: 1980-10-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 07:18:24.390000000
year: 1980
text: 2 nominations.
fullplot:
Second 'Oh God' movie has God appearing before 11-year-old Tracy Richards to ask for her help to spread his word and influence over the world which she suggests the slogan 'Think God.' Naturaly, Tracy's divorced parents Paula and Don think Tracy's just crazy and plot to halt her 'heaven-sent' mission to spread God's word.


title: Resurrection
released: 1980-09-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-06 00:48:56.210000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ...

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Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ability to heal physical infirmities. While most people simply accept her gift, her lover (Sam Shepard) becomes mentally unbalanced and dangerous because she does not place the healings within a religious context.


plot: The story of a girl who makes dreams come true.
title: Xanadu
released: 1980-08-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:31:11.257000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win & 8 nominations.
fullplot:
The Greek muses incarnate themselves on Earth to inspire men to achieve. One of them, incarnated as a girl named Kira, encounters an artist named Sonny Malone. With the help of Danny McGuire, a man Kira had inspired forty years earlier, Sonny builds a huge disco roller rink.


title: Excalibur
released: 1981-04-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:45:12.957000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the round table of Camelot even as forces conspire to tear it apart

fullplot:
The myth of King Arthur brought once again to the screen. Uthur Pendragon is given the mystical sword Excalibur by the wizard Merlin. At his death Uthur buries the sword into a stone, and the next man that can pull it out will be King of England. Years later Arthur, Uthur's bastard son draws Excalibur and becomes king. Guided by Merlin, Arthur marries Guenivere and gathers the Knights of the Round Table. Arthur's evil half-sister Morgana sires a son with him, who may prove his downfall.


title: Going Ape!
released: 1981-04-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:06:16.273000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
When his father - who owned a circus - dies, Foster inherits 5 million dollars - and 3 orangutans. However there's a condition connected to the money: if he gives away the orangutans or ...

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When his father - who owned a circus - dies, Foster inherits 5 million dollars - and 3 orangutans. However there's a condition connected to the money: if he gives away the orangutans or just one gets sick or dies during the next 3 years, the zoological society will get all the money. So he not only has to deal with 3 apes and an annoyed girlfriend, but also with Laszlo, a kooky new roommate who came from the circus to help with the apes, a greedy zoological society's president, 3 bumbling henchmen and a cranky landlord.


plot: Gregory is a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate. He must work to win her affection.
title: Gregory's Girl
released: 1982-05-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 01:06:11.500000000
year: 1981
text: Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 3 nominations.
fullplot:
In his Scottish New Town home, gangling Gregory and his school-friends are starting to find out about girls. He fancies Dorothy, not least because she has got into the football team - and is a better player than him. He finally asks her out, but it is obviously the females in control of matters here, and that very much includes Gregory's younger sister.


title: The Great Santini
released: 1979-10-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-07 00:24:18.070000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.

fullplot:
In 1962, the Marine Corps family, the Meechums - parents Lieutenant Colonel Wilbur "Bull" Meechum and Lillian Meechum, and their four children Ben Meechum, Mary Anne Meechum, Karen Meechum and Matthew Meechum - are moving like they do most years, this time to Beaufort, South Carolina. Bull - nicknamed "the Great Santini" - is known as a great pilot, but has gotten into much trouble in the past for his sophomoric behavior. He runs his family much as a military commander, where they are all to obey his orders without question. Everything he does within the family context he reasons is to build character, but in reality everything ends up being about him. The oldest Ben, approaching manhood, is the one of his offspring who has the greatest issue with his father. Ben wants his respect, but isn't sure if he really loves him. As Ben goes through his senior year in high school, his attempts to play varsity basketball and an incident between black Toomer Smalls - his friend and their cook Arrabella Smalls' son - and racist Red Petus may forever change the dynamic between father and son.


title: Hair
released: 1979-05-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 01:06:34.750000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
Claude leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture and subsequently drafted.

fullplot:
This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. There he strikes up a friendship with a group of hippies, led by Berger, and falls in love with Sheila, a girl from a rich family. However, their happiness is short because Claude must go to the Vietnam war.


title: Luna
released: 1979-09-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:22:16.567000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win.
plot:
While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

fullplot:
Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around Rome, Caterina is soon shocked to discover that her troubled and lonely son has become a heroin addict. Her desperate attempts to wean the youth off the drug result in an incestuous relationship, but also in a possibility to reunite Joe--maybe even herself--with his real father, whose existence she has kept a secret from him.


title: Mad Max
released: 1979-04-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:30:50.163000000
year: 1979
text: 4 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.

fullplot:
A vision of an apocalyptic future set in the wastelands of Australia. Total social decay is just around the corner in this spectacular cheap budget gang orientated road movie, where the cops do their best to lay down the law and the outlaw gangs try their hardest to defy the system. Leather clad Max Rockatansky husband, father and cop turns judge, juror and executioner after his best friend, wife and baby are killed. Here we see the final days of normality of a man who had everything to live for, and his slip into the abyss of madness. Mad Max is the antihero on the road to vengeance and oblivion.


title: Starting Over
released: 1979-10-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:10:46.937000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 nominations.
plot:
A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This affects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel.

fullplot:
Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ditched by his ambitious singer wife (Candice Bergen), until he begins to forge a new new relationship with an equally insecure teacher (Jill Clayburgh). But when the wife attempts a reconciliation - seduction followed by a truly excruciating song she has composed for him - he realizes where his loyalty lies.


title: Time After Time
released: 1979-08-31 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 07:21:10.590000000
year: 1979
text: 6 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.


title: Tim
released: 1979-07-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 05:40:37.903000000
year: 1979
text: 4 wins.
plot:
A somewhat mentally handicapped 20-year-old man works as a laborer, but everyone abuse his naivetè. A nice 40-year-old American woman hires him one day and they become close. However, the town and his family see her as predatory.

fullplot:
Tim is a young man with below average intelligence. He works as a builder's labourer, and is often taken advantage of by his fellow workers and other people. Mary asks Tim to work around her yard for a day. The day stretches into a few weekends, and the two soon become good friends. Some people, however, are suspicious of their friendship which seems to be continually strengthening, accusing Mary of taking advantage of Tim's innocence. Will changing circumstances in Tim's family life change his relationship with Mary?


title: Yanks
released: 1979-09-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-06-15 01:28:38.327000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 6 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, ...

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During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the lonely British girls, some whose boyfriends are also away for the war. One Yank/Brit relationship that develops is between married John, an Army Captain, and the aristocratic Helen, whose naval husband is away at war. Helen does whatever she needs to support the war effort. Helen loves her husband, but Helen and John are looking for some comfort during the difficult times. Another relationship develops between one of John's charges, Matt, a talented mess hall cook, and Jean. Jean is apprehensive at first about even seeing Matt, who is persistent in his pursuit of her. Jean is in a committed relationship with the kind Ken, her childhood sweetheart who is also away at war. But Jean is attracted to the respect with which Matt treats her. Despite Ken and Jean getting engaged during one of his leaves, Jean and Matt continue to see each other and fall in love. Beyond the issue of Jean's mother's disdain for Yanks and Ken and Jean's engagement, Matt and Jean still have to overcome the differences between the two worlds in which they live. Regardless, the goings-on of the war may override any of their immediate wishes.


title: Berlin Alexanderplatz
released: 1983-08-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:06:20.773000000
year: 1980
text: 5 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
In late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight; however he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld.

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This film, which is basically the longest narrative film ever made, is a 15-1/2 hour episodic exploration of the character of Franz Biberkopf, "hero" of Alfred Dèblin's acclaimed novel, as well as the Alexanderplatz area of Berlin that he inhabits.


title: The Apple
released: 1980-11-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:02:49.750000000
year: 1980
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Musical set in the 'future', e.g. 1994. A young couple enters the world of the music industry, but also the world of drugs.

fullplot:
Alphie and Bibi, two sweet, naive youths from Moose Jaw, Canada, have come to America to compete in the 1994 Worldvision Song Festival. Although the pair have talent, they are beaten out by the underhanded tactics of the festival favorites, another duo with the backing of BIM: Boogalow International Music, and its leader, Mr. Boogalow. Though crestfallen by their loss, Bibi and Alphie are soon delighted to hear that Mr. Boogalow has taken an interest in their music and wants to sign them to his label. All is looking up for the two until they begin to discover the dark underside of the rock and roll world.


title: Breaking Glass
released: 1980-09-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:23:17.040000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A rock singer is determined to rise to the top of the profession, letting nothing stand in the way of that goal.

fullplot:
A rock singer is determined to rise to the top of the profession, letting nothing stand in the way of that goal.


title: Friday the 13th
released: 1980-05-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:08:59.837000000
year: 1980
text: 5 nominations.
plot:
A group of camp counselors is stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was the site of a child's drowning.

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One summer at Camp Crystal Lake, a group of young counselors begin to get ready to lead campers. Unfortunately for the former, someone isn't happy about what's going on in the camp and enjoys playing kill the counselor. As bodies fall to the ground in the camp, no one is safe.


title: Galaxy Express 999
released: 1981-08-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:39:50.420000000
year: 1979
text: 1 win.
plot:
The adventures of a brave young boy who travels from planet to planet in a determined quest to avenge his mother's death.

fullplot:
Tetsuro Hoshino, orphaned by the Cyborgs, lives in a slum in the shadow of their megapolis. He steals a pass for Galaxy Express 999, and is saved by a mysterious woman called Maitre, a living image of his mother who had been killed by the Cyborgs. Wearing a special pendant, he sets out for Andromeda where he can obtain eternal life and avenge his parents' death. On his odyssey, he meets a gallery of fantastic characters that help him exterminate the evil Star of Andromeda which had been giving mechanical bodies to rich human beings.


title: The Island
released: 1980-06-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 00:19:37.703000000
year: 1980
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
In New York, the journalist Blair Maynard convinces his editor to travel to Florida to investigate the mysterious disappearance of ships in the Bermuda's Triangle area. Maynard is divorced ...

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In New York, the journalist Blair Maynard convinces his editor to travel to Florida to investigate the mysterious disappearance of ships in the Bermuda's Triangle area. Maynard is divorced and his ex-wife sends their son Justin to stay with him while she is traveling with her boyfriend. Maynard brings Justin with him and promises to go to the Disneyland with him. However he tells Justin that they will travel to the Bermuda's Triangle but their plane crashes in an island. Maynard rents the boat of the local Dr. Brazil to fish barracuda with his son. But they are attacked by pirates and Maynard kills one of them in self-defense. They are captured and find that they are trapped in an island with pirates under the command of John David Nau. Maynard is forced to be the substitute for the husband of the widow Beth and Justin is brainwashed and converted into a pirate. Now Maynard tries to find a way out from the pirate island.


title: The Ninth Configuration
released: 1980-02-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:52:26.197000000
year: 1980
text: Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for crazy and AWOL U.S. Army soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out ...

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A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for crazy and AWOL U.S. Army soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out their crazy fantasies while combating his own long-suppressed insanity.


title: The Watcher in the Woods
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:29:06.507000000
year: 1980
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
When a family moves to a country home, the young girls experience strange happenings that have a link to an occult event years past.

fullplot:
When a normal American family moves into a beautiful old English house in a wooded area, strange, paranormal appearances befall them in this interesting twist to the well-known haunted-house tale. Their daughter Jan sees, and daughter Ellie hears, the voice of a young teenage girl who mysteriously disappeared during a total solar eclipse decades before...


title: All Night Long
released: 1981-03-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-08 13:56:15.850000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie that he stop having an affair with suburban...

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Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie that he stop having an affair with suburban housewife Cheryl Gibbons, who is a distant cousin, Cheryl tries to seduce George. At home, in front of his mother, Freddie accuses his dad of stealing his girl, because he found Cheryl serving George a meal in the middle of the night, while her husband Bobby was on duty at the fire station. George then separates from his wife Helen, quits his job, moves into a warehouse, and asks Cheryl to move in with him.


title: The Amateur
released: 1982-02-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:42:19.193000000
year: 1981
text: 10 nominations.
plot:
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his ...

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A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.


title: Chariots of Fire
released: 1982-04-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:11:17.267000000
year: 1981
text: Won 4 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 16 nominations.
plot:
Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.

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The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a Sunday, refuses to run despite pressure from the Olympic committee. A compromise is reached when a nobleman allows Eric to compete in his 400 meter slot. Eric and Harold win their respective races and go on to achieve fame as missionary and businessman/athletic advocate, respectively.


title: Dragonslayer
released: 1981-06-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:11:04.360000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 nominations.
plot:
A young wizarding apprentice is sent to kill a dragon which has been devouring girls from a nearby kingdom.

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A King has made a pact with a dragon where he sacrfices virgins to it, and the dragon leaves his kingdom alone. An old wizard, and his keen young apprentice volunteer to kill the dragon and attempt to save the next virgin in line - the Kings own daughter.


title: Diva
released: 1982-04-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:57:52.790000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 9 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed. All these characters twist their way through an intricate and stylish French language thriller.

fullplot:
A young opera-loving mailman, Jules, becomes inadvertently entangled in murder, when a young woman fleeing two mob hit men drops an incriminating cassette into his mailbag. Jules has just recently recorded opera star Cynthia Hawkins' latest concert, something of a coup as Hawkins refuses to make recordings of any kind. Soon Jules finds himself the target of the hit men, who want the voice recording, and also of another couple of ominous and mysterious agents.


title: The Incredible Shrinking Woman
released: 1981-01-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:01:26.017000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
When an ordinary woman is exposed to a unique mix of chemicals, she begins to uncontrollably physically shrink.

fullplot:
After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.


title: Nine to Five
released: 1980-12-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:01:57.470000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.

fullplot:
Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage in the grossest manner of the women who work with him. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house they assume control of his department and productivity leaps, but just how long can they keep Hart tied up?


title: La cage aux folles II
released: 1981-02-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:40:39.880000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Sequel to La Cage aux folles has homosexual nightclub owner Renato and his transvesitite companion/lover Albin becoming involved with the local cops and foreign spies when Albin unwittingly...

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Sequel to La Cage aux folles has homosexual nightclub owner Renato and his transvesitite companion/lover Albin becoming involved with the local cops and foreign spies when Albin unwittingly gets his hands on a role of stolen microfilm. The gay couple then hide out in Renato's native Italy, but find little peace there with their frequent bickering among themselves.


title: The Idolmaker
released: 1980-11-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 01:14:37.250000000
year: 1980
text: Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 nominations.
plot:
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marcucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.

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Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marcucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.


title: Death Watch
released: 1982-04-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 10:39:02.627000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win & 7 nominations.
plot:
Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will then be run ...

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Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will then be run on the popular TV series, "Death Watch"...


title: Prom Night
released: 1980-07-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:22:43.353000000
year: 1980
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A masked killer stalks four teenagers, responsible for the accidental death of a little girl six years earlier, at their high school's senior prom.

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For six long years, Hamilton High School seniors Kelly Lynch, Jude Cunningham, Wendy Richards and Nick McBride have been hiding the truth of what happened to ten-year-old Robin Hammond the day her broken body was discovered near an abandoned convent. The foursome kept secret of how they taunted Robin - backed her into a corner until, frightened, she stood on a window ledge... and fell to her death. Though an accident, the then-twelve-year-olds feared they would be held responsible and vowed never to tell. But someone else was there that day... watching, and now, that someone is ready to exact murderous revenge on prom night.


title: Windwalker
released: 1983-11-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 01:01:58.620000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win.
plot:
An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of 'Indians ...

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An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of 'Indians without a single cowboy.'


title: Fear No Evil
released: 1981-01-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:49:57.773000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win.
plot:
High school student turns out to be personification of Lucifer. Two arch angels in human form (as women) take him on.

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High school student turns out to be personification of Lucifer. Two arch angels in human form (as women) take him on.


plot: Two childhood friends find themselves forced to become enemies.
title: The Fox and the Hound
released: 1981-07-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 04:38:16.590000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
fullplot:
A young fox named Tod is taken in by an old woman after his mother is killed by a hunter. Full of mischief, Young Tod befriends Copper, a hound dog pup. As they grow up, however, their friendship becomes endangered by what they have become; Copper is a hunting dog, and Tod is his prey.


title: The Muppet Movie
released: 1979-06-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:30:38.787000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
Kermit and his new found friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog-legs merchant is after Kermit.

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Kermit the Frog is persuaded by agent Dom DeLuise to pursue a career in Hollywood. Along the way, Kermit picks up Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy, 'The Great Gonzo', and a motley crew of other Muppets with similar aspirations. Meanwhile, Kermit must elude the grasp of a frog-leg restaurant magnate.


title: Manhattan
released: 1979-04-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:23:49.600000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 16 nominations.
plot:
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

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Forty-two year old Isaac Davis has a romanticized view of his hometown, New York City, most specifically Manhattan, as channeled through the lead character in the first book he is writing, despite his own Manhattan-based life being more of a tragicomedy. He has just quit his job as a hack writer for a bad television comedy, he, beyond the ten second rush of endorphins during the actual act of quitting, now regretting the decision, especially as he isn't sure he can live off his book writing career. He is paying two alimonies, his second ex-wife, Jill Davis, a lesbian, who is writing her own tell-all book of their acrimonious split. The one somewhat positive aspect of his life is that he is dating a young woman named Tracy, although she is only seventeen and still in high school. Largely because of their differences a big part of which is due to their ages, he does not see a long term future with her. His life has the potential to be even more tragicomical when he meets journalist Mary Wilkie, the mistress of his best friend, college professor Yale Pollack. Although Isaac's first impression of Mary is that she is a pretentious intellectual, he falls for her. They do become friends with the potential of becoming more than just friends as she knows that being the "other woman" in Yale's life is not a long term role that she wants. An Isaac/Mary coupling may complicate matters even more with Yale being mutually in their lives. Regardless, Isaac may be able to rationalize events after they happen, no matter what those events are.


title: North Dallas Forty
released: 1979-08-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:42:54.860000000
year: 1979
text: 3 wins.
plot:
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.

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A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.


title: Nosferatu the Vampyre
released: 1979-01-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 10:54:04.087000000
year: 1979
text: 5 wins & 8 nominations.
plot:
Jonathan and Lucy live in Wismar and the Count wants a house there. Varna is a port on the Black Sea, close to Dracula's castle.

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Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Varna, where Jonathan lives. But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off of men's blood. Inspired by a photograph of Lucy Harker, Jonathan's wife, Dracula moves to Varna, bringing with him death and plague... An unusually contemplative version of Dracula, in which the vampire bears the curse of not being able to get old and die.


title: Salem's Lot
released: 1979-11-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-11 00:08:56.407000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
Vampires are invading a small New England town. It's up to a novelist and a young horror fan to save it.

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The successful writer Benjamin "Ben" Mears returns to his hometown Salem's Lot, Maine, expecting to write a new novel about the Marsten House. Ben believes that the manor is an evil house that attracts evil men since the place has many tragic stories and Ben saw a ghostly creature inside the house when he was ten. Ben finds that the Marsten House has just been rented to the antique dealers Richard K. Straker and his partner Kurt Barlow that is permanently traveling. Ben meets the divorced teacher Susan Norton that is living with her parents and they have a love affair. Ben also gets close to her father Dr. Bill Norton and his former school teacher Jason Burke. When people start to die anemic, Ben believes that Straker's partner is a vampire. But how to convince his friends that he is not crazy and that is the truth?


plot: A strong-willed young peasant girl becomes the affection of two men.
title: Tess
released: 1980-12-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:47:44.570000000
year: 1979
text: Won 3 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 12 nominations.
fullplot:
Wessex County, England during the Victorian era. Christian values dominate what are social mores. These mores and her interactions with two men play a large part in what happens in the young life of peasant girl, the shy, innocent, proper yet proud Tess Durbeyfield. The first of these men is Alec d'Urberville. After learning from a local historian that they are really descendants of the aristocratic d'Urberville family which has died out due to lack of male heirs, Tess' parents send her to a nearby mansion where they know some d'Urbervilles actually reside. This move is in order for the family to gain some benefit from their heritage. Upon her arrival at the mansion, Tess quickly learns that the family of Tess' "cousin" Alec are not true d'Urbervilles, but rather an opportunistic lot who bought the family name in order to improve their own standing in life. Tess is pulled between what she was sent to accomplish for her family against her general disdain for Alec, who will give her anything she wants in return for sexual favors. The second of these men is Angel Clare, the son of a parson and an apprentice farmer. Angel and Tess fall in love with each other. Tess has to decide if she will divulge to Angel her past relationship with Alec, which if she does may jeopardize their own relationship. But if she doesn't, Tess also has to figure out if the secret will haunt her and thus jeopardize their relationship in other ways.


title: Alligator
released: 1980-07-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 01:13:33.437000000
year: 1980
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded laboratory rats injected with growth hormones. The small reptile grows gigantic, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage.

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Ramon the alligator is flushed down the toilet as a baby and grows into a gargantuan monster by eating the corpses of laboratory animals who have undergone dubious hormone experiments, thus providing all the ecological and social subtext that one could possibly wish for, even if one doesn't normally go for films about giant alligators eating people left, right, and center--which is the inevitable and tragic result of Ramon's decision that the outside world looks rather more interesting than the sewers....


title: The Elephant Man
released: 1980-10-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:40:35.587000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 8 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 13 nominations.
plot:
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

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John Merrick (whose real name was Joseph, as this is based on a true story) is an intelligent and friendly man, but he is hated by his Victorian-era English society because he is severely deformed. Once he is discovered by a doctor, however, he is saved from his life in a freak show and he is treated like the human being that he really is.


title: Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers
released: 1980-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-26 00:43:49.930000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win.
plot:
A documentary on the history of garlic. Blank interviews chefs, garlic lovers, and historians about the their love of the 'stinking rose.'

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A documentary on the history of garlic. Blank interviews chefs, garlic lovers, and historians about the their love of the 'stinking rose.'


title: Ordinary People
released: 1981-02-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:28:32.707000000
year: 1980
text: Won 4 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.

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Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.


title: Simon
released: 1980-02-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:51:48.670000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A group of scientist take Simon, a psychology professor, as a test person for a brainwash experiment. After that they try to convince him that he was a living-being from another planet.

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A group of scientist take Simon, a psychology professor, as a test person for a brainwash experiment. After that they try to convince him that he was a living-being from another planet.


title: Stir Crazy
released: 1980-12-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:08:26.593000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a ...

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Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural talent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up.


title: Tell Me a Riddle
released: 1982-08-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-15 00:08:45.317000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their granddaughter Jeannie in San Francisco.

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Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their granddaughter Jeannie in San Francisco.


title: The Entity
released: 1983-02-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:31:41.287000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Supposedly based partially on a true story, a woman is tormented and sexually molested by an invisible demon.

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Carla Moran awakens one night to find herself being beaten and raped by an unseen presence. Terrified of what's happening to her, and shunned by friends and family who think she's lost her mind, she seeks help from parapsychologists. The researchers soon discover that evil spiritual force has been drawn to Carla and is responsible for the violent attacks. The question now, however, is how do they stop it? Based on a supposedly true story.


title: Quest for Fire
released: 1982-02-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:28:50.140000000
year: 1981
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
This story takes place in prehistoric time when three prehistoric tribesmen search for a new fire source.

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Anthony Burgess created the primitive language for the early humans in this prehistoric adventure about a trio of warriors who travel the savanna, encountering sabre-toothed tigers, mammoths and cannibalistic tribes in search of a flame that would replace the fire their tribe has lost.


title: The Rose
released: 1979-11-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 00:56:45.720000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
The tragic life of a self-destructive female rock star who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.

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Bette Midler plays The Rose, a female rock star strikingly similar to Janis Joplin. The film follows Rose's career during her last tour, as she's determined to return to her Florida hometown. Although a success, she's exhausted and lonely but continued working by her gruff and greedy manager. Through loud and brassy, Rose is an insecure alcoholic and former drug user who seems to crave approval in her life. She begins a romance with a limousine driver, who's actually an AWOL sergeant from the United States Army. Her rock and roll lifestyle of Drugs, Sex, and Rock and Roll and constant touring lead her to an inevitable breakdown.


title: Saint Jack
released: 1979-12-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:41:25.867000000
year: 1979
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win.
plot:
Compelling character study, revolving around Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara), an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. He dreams of building a ...

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Compelling character study, revolving around Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara), an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. He dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States to lead a life of luxury. Savvy but not unsavory he strikes up a friendship with William Leigh (Denholm Elliot), a genial and decent auditor who travels to Singapore every year. Ultimately, the background of the Vietnam War comes into the picture as Jack is offered the opportunity by the CIA to run a brothel for the R&R activities of U.S. soldiers on leave in Singapore.


plot: A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
title: When a Stranger Calls
released: 1979-10-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:23:51.873000000
year: 1979
text: 1 win.
fullplot:
High school student Jill Johnson is traumatized over an evening of babysitting by a caller who repeatedly asks, "Have you checked the children lately?" After notifying the police, Jill is told that the calls are coming from inside the house...


title: The Competition
released: 1980-12-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-02 00:50:32.903000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 nominations.
plot:
The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will ...

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The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her teacher, Greta, or will she condemn Paul to obscurity?


title: The Earthling
released: 1980-07-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:16:57.570000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Patrick Foley has been on the move all his life. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets ...

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Patrick Foley has been on the move all his life. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets Shawn, a little desperate city-boy whose parents were killed in an accident in this remote inhospitable territory. Being unable to accompany the boy back to the civilized world he reluctantly takes him with him on his trip to that valley and teaches him in a rugged way how to survive ...


title: The Mirror Crack'd
released: 1980-12-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 01:11:16.140000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

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The year is 1953. The small English village of St. Mary Mead, home to Miss Jane Marple, is delighted when a big American movie company arrives to make a movie telling of the relationship between Jane Grey and Elisabeth I, starring the famous actresses Marina Rudd and Lola Brewster. Marina arrives with her husband, Jason, and when she discovers that Lola is going to be in the movie with her she hits the roof as Lola and Marina loathe each other on sight. Marina has been getting death threats and at a party at the manor house, Heather Babcock, after boring Marina with a long story, drinks a cocktail made for Marina and dies from poisoning. Everybody believes that Marina is the target but the police officer investigating the case, Inspector Craddock isn't sure so he asks Miss Marple, his aunt, to investigate...


title: The Monster Club
released: 1981-05-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 06:31:24.623000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win.
plot:
A writer of horror stories is invited to a "monster club" by a mysterious old gentleman. There, three gruesome stories are told to him; between each story some musicians play their songs.

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A writer of horror stories is invited to a "monster club" by a mysterious old gentleman. There, three gruesome stories are told to him; between each story some musicians play their songs.


title: Return of the Secaucus Seven
released: 1980-09-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:37:44.570000000
year: 1979
text: 5 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC.

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The Secaucus 7 of the film's title are seven friends who, during their college days, were arrested in New Jersey on their way to a protest in Washington. The film takes place ten years after all that, as the friends gather at the home of Mike and Katie, now schoolteachers in New Hampshire, bringing with them old problems and new: Maura has left Jeff and seeks consolation with his best friend, J.T.; J.T., arguably the least successful of the friends, finally gets the courage to move to Los Angeles to start a career as a songwriter; Irene brings her new boyfriend along, hoping he'll like and be liked by her friends and expecting them to challenge him for his more-conservative politics; and more. This is the film that inspired "The Big Chill."


plot: A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him.
title: Scanners
released: 1981-01-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:19:35.203000000
year: 1981
text: 3 wins & 9 nominations.
fullplot:
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their victims. Doctor Paul Ruth finds a scanner that Revok hasn't, and converts him to their cause - to destroy the underground movement.


title: The Stunt Man
released: 1981-02-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:34:19.773000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
A fugitive stumbles on a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out, and falls for the leading lady.

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While on the run from the police, Steve Railsback hides in a group of moviemakers where he pretends to be a stunt man. Both aided and endangered by the director (Peter O'Toole) he avoids both the police and sudden death as a stuntman. The mixture of real danger and fantasy of the movie is an interesting twist for the viewer as the two blend in individual scenes.


title: Superman II
released: 1981-06-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:15:15.257000000
year: 1980
text: 3 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.

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Picking up where "Superman: The Movie" left off, three criminals from the planet Krypton are released from the Phantom Zone by a nuclear explosion in space. They descend upon Earth where they could finally rule. Superman, meanwhile, is in love with Lois Lane, who finds out who he really is. Lex Luthor escapes from prison and is determined to destroy Superman by joining forces with the three criminals.


title: ...All the Marbles
released: 1981-10-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:26:48.423000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win.
plot:
Harry manages The California Dolls, a female wrestling tag team endlessly touring America, and he's also romantically involved with one of them. Their fortunes seem on the slide (...

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Harry manages The California Dolls, a female wrestling tag team endlessly touring America, and he's also romantically involved with one of them. Their fortunes seem on the slide (particularly when Harry accepts an engagement involving mud wrestling!) but then the big grudge match beckons.


title: Endless Love
released: 1981-07-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:51:43.430000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
A high school student's love for a 15-year-old girl is thwarted by parental disapproval, circumstance and accident.

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Two young teenagers, Jade Butterfield and David Axelrod, fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for Jade's bohemian parents. Her parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent to a mental hospital. This doesn't stop him from seeing her. When he gets out, he goes to look for her and remains in love with her. But in the end, the passion for his first love is too strong and she has to leave or this love will kill both of them.


title: Kent State
released: 1981-02-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-04-13 01:17:05.980000000
year: 1981
text: Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
Based on the true story of the student protests at Kent State University in Ohio. This film focuses on the four students who were killed when the National Guard attempted to quell the riots...

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Based on the true story of the student protests at Kent State University in Ohio. This film focuses on the four students who were killed when the National Guard attempted to quell the riots that began on May 4, 1970, after President Nixon announced that American troops would begin bombing the heretofore neutral country of Cambodia.


title: Lola
released: 1982-08-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:36:26.833000000
year: 1981
text: 4 wins.
plot:
Ten years after the war, West Germany's market economy is booming. Into an unnamed city that's rife with corruption comes a new building commissioner, Herr von Bohm, committed to progress ...

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Ten years after the war, West Germany's market economy is booming. Into an unnamed city that's rife with corruption comes a new building commissioner, Herr von Bohm, committed to progress but also upright. He's smitten by Marie-Louise, a single mother who's his landlady's daughter. Von Bohm does not realize she is also Lola, a singer at a bordello and the mistress of Schuckert, a local builder whose profits depend on von Bohm's projects. When von Bohm discovers Marie-Louise's real vocation and looks closely at Schuckert's work, will this social satire play out as a remake of "Blue Angel," a visit of Chekhov to West Germany, or an update of Jean Renoir's "Rules of the Game"?


title: Oblomov
released: 1980-09-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 01:21:05.130000000
year: 1980
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' ...

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St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle whenever he's in the city, and Oblomov's life changes when Stoltz introduces him to Olga, lovely and cultured. When Stoltz leaves for several months, Oblomov takes a country house near Olga's, and she determines to change him: to turn him into a man of society, action, and culture. Soon, Olga and Oblomov are in love; but where, in the triangle, does that leave Stoltz?


title: Rich Kids
released: 1979-08-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:54:37.287000000
year: 1979
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Two 12 year olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings

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Two ultra-precocious Upper West Side twelve-year-olds, Franny and Jamie, are best friends. Jamie, the "new boy" in town, has experienced his parents' divorce and guides his friend Franny in the art of surviving her own folks' imminent split. Franny senses the divorce because she has been secretly watching her father arrive home at 5:00 every morning and pathetically try to brush off (to his wife) and hide (from his daughter) the fact that he has been away all night. She is down in the dumps and finds a kindred spirit in her buddy Jamie, whose mother and father split up long ago. He points out the advantages of being a "child of divorce" - and is so persuasive that he almost convinces himself as well as Franny. When Franny connivingly convinces her parents to let her go to a sleep-over with Jamie, they explore their budding curiosity for the opposite sex. When Franny's mother finds the book "The Joy of Sex" in her daughter's bedroom and discovers that her daughter has deceived her, four frantic "adult" couples converge on the sleep-over site, Jamie's father's swanky, fantastical bachelor pad, to catch the two young ones in a compromising position. Ultimately, Jamie and Franny realize that, in order to survive the undeniable disadvantages of their parents' divorce, they must try to weather the hard times together as friends...if not more.


title: Cruising
released: 1980-02-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 12:22:13.680000000
year: 1980
text: 4 nominations.
plot:
A police detective goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men.

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A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S&M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated from his department, he has to learn and practice the complex rules and signals of this little society. While barely seeing his girlfriend Nancy anymore, the work starts changing him.


title: Fade to Black
released: 1980-10-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:38:37.133000000
year: 1980
text: 2 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
A shy, lonely, film geek goes on a killing spree against those who bully and browbeat him, while at the same time, he stalks his idol; a Marilyn Monroe look-alike.

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Eric Binford watches a lot of movies. He is the truest definition of a film geek. One day, his sanity takes a turn for the worse and he begins acting out his favorite scenes from the movies. In doing so, he manages to involve his enemies and the scenes usually result in death.


title: Fatso
released: 1980-02-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-06-29 00:39:27.243000000
year: 1980
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Dominick DiNapoli has always been a big kid who loved eating. It was his favorite thing. Then his cousin dies from health complications due to a lack of exercise and improper diet. ...

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Dominick DiNapoli has always been a big kid who loved eating. It was his favorite thing. Then his cousin dies from health complications due to a lack of exercise and improper diet. Antoinette, Dominick's sister, makes him promise to see a diet doctor and lose some weight. This is very hard for Dominick, but he tries. He also finds motivation when he meets Lydia, and he discovers a love that is more intense than his love of food. He spends so much time kissing and walking around with Lydia that he no longer eats as many unhealthy things, and he loses weight without even trying.


title: Forbidden Zone
released: 1980-03-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 01:18:49.133000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
The bizarre and musical tale of a girl who travels to another dimension through the gateway found in her family's basement.

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A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When Frenchy slips through the door, King Fausto falls in love with her. The jealous Queen Doris takes Frenchy prisoner, and it is up to the Hercules family and friend Squeezit Henderson to rescue her.


title: The Gods Must Be Crazy
released: 1980-09-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:14:21.880000000
year: 1980
text: 3 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
A comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.

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A Sho in the Kalahari desert encounters technology for the first time--in the shape of a Coke bottle. He takes it back to his people, and they use it for many tasks. The people start to fight over it, so he decides to return it to the God--where he thinks it came from. Meanwhile, we are introduced to a school teacher assigned to a small village, a despotic revolutionary, and a clumsy biologist.


title: Little Miss Marker
released: 1980-03-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 01:11:40.157000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in 1930's. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his ...

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Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in 1930's. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations.


title: Out of the Blue
released: 1982-04-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 01:09:32.297000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.

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A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.


title: Private Benjamin
released: 1980-10-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:52:50.430000000
year: 1980
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A sheltered young high society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.

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When her husband dies on their wedding night, Judy decides to join the United States Army. She realizes that she has never been independent in her entire life. What looks like a bad decision at first, turns out not so bad at all. That is, until her superior officer makes sexual advances on her. She has been transferred to NATO headquarters in Europe and (re)meets the Frenchman Henri Tremont. Judy and Henri decide to marry, but will they?


title: Stardust Memories
released: 1980-09-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 01:09:13.023000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

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Renowned filmmaker Sandy Bates is in a professional transition, directing largely comedies early in his career now wanting to direct more serious movies so that he can explore the meaning of life, most specifically his own. Most are fighting him all along the way, including the movie going public, who continually tell him that they love his movies especially the earlier funny ones, to studio executives who are trying to insert comic elements wherever possible into his current movie in production. He reluctantly agrees to attend a weekend long film festival of his movies. Despite the throng of requests for his time, he is further able to reflect on his life as he addresses the questions at the post screening Q&A sessions. He also reflects specifically on his love life as his current girlfriend, married Isobel, shows up unexpectedly, and as he starts to fall for festival attendee Daisy - at the festival with her Columbia professor boyfriend, Jack Abel - who reminds him of Dorrie, a neurotic former girlfriend who he probably considers the one that unfortunately got away.


title: Body and Soul
released: 1981-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:38:58.797000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win.
plot:
A young man struggles to become a boxing champ, but success blinds him. It is only through the love of his girlfriend that he is brought back to reality.

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A young man struggles to become a boxing champ, but success blinds him. It is only through the love of his girlfriend that he is brought back to reality.


title: The Woman Next Door
released: 1981-09-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:52:22.437000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

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Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives... A somber study of human feelings.


title: The Fan
released: 1981-05-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 01:28:22.630000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A record salesman is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen (Lauren Bacall). However when his letters are rejected, the fan strikes out at the actresses friends, then at her.

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Douglas is a lonesome record salesman and a true fan of the actress Sally Ross. Every day he writes her gleaming letters of love. But the only response he gets are formal letters. So his love turns into hatred.


title: For Your Eyes Only
released: 1981-06-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:14:49.027000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands.

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After disposing of a familiar looking face, Bond is sent to recover a communication device, known as an ATAC, which went down with a British Spy ship as it sunk. Bond must hurry though, as the Russians are also out for this device. On his travels, he also meets Melina Havelock, whose parents were brutally murdered. Bond also encounters both Aristotle Kristatos and Milos Colombo. Each of them are accusing the other of having links with with the Russian's. Bond must team up with Melina, solve who the true ally is and find the ATAC before it's too late.


title: Hell Night
released: 1981-08-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-18 00:17:27.757000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds.

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Before being able to join Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity and its sister sorority, four pledges must spend the night in Garth Manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family. Some, however, say that one member of the Garth family survived, and still resides somewhere in the now-deserted mansion.


title: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
released: 1982-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:18:20.037000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win.
plot:
The media and disaffected teens mistake the acerbic rants of an obnoxious teenage punk rocker as a rallying cry for the women of America, launching her and her talentless group to national stardom.

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Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death. So far that she gets them (she and two cousins) on a tour with a washed-out glam-rock group and a rising British punk band, radically changes her appearance, attracts a cult following and national media attention. With luck like this, what could go wrong?


title: Night Warning
released: 1982-02-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:14:52.320000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
An orphaned teenager finds himself being dominated by his aunt who's hell-bent on keeping him with her...at all costs.

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Since the death of his parents fourteen years ago, Billy Lynch has been raised by his over-protective aunt Cheryl. But once he turns seventeen, he is soon set on planning his life...without her. He's planing on going on to college and is dating local girl Julie. None of which sits well for his aunt, who's lost everyone else in her life and now with her nephew ready to leave, ensures she starts on a campaign to keep him with her...forever.But as her plans misfire she becomes swept up in a cycle of psychosis and frenzied violence all being blamed on Billy by everyone else...including a homophobic detective, who's anti-gay prejudice is steadily reaching its zenith...leading to an unforeseeable outcome.


title: Night Crossing
released: 1982-02-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-10 00:29:30.957000000
year: 1982
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.

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In 1978 in East Germany two families, the Strelzyks and the Wetzels,make plans to escape the Communist East and flee to the West. Peter Strelzyk comes up with a daring idea to construct a homemade air balloon big enough to carry the two families across the East-West militarized border. The border between East and West Germany is heavily militarized, complete with watch towers, guard dogs, barbed-wire, alarms, sensors, search lights and patrols. Rumors have it that some areas of the militarized border are mined. The only chance of crossing the border is by air. The Strelzyks and the Wetzels commence their risky venture by purchasing lots of taffeta fabric and sewing it together with a sewing machine in the attic. Peter Strelzyk builds an experimental homemade hot air balloon burner. In 1979 when the balloon is ready Peter and his son test it but the Wetzel family becomes hesitant. The Strelzyks decide to go alone but bad weather causes the balloon to crash inside the Communist zone. The Strelzyks leave the crash area but the incriminating evidence litters the ground. They wonder if they will be able to evade the ensuing police investigation and whether they will be able to build another balloon for their next attempt. They also are determined to persuade the Wetzel family to maybe join them in their second try. That is,if the East German Communist secret police, the Stasi, won't get to them first.


title: Reds
released: 1981-12-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:00:20.987000000
year: 1981
text: Won 3 Oscars. Another 32 wins & 21 nominations.
plot:
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.

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This movie tells the true story of John Reed, a radical American journalist around the time of World War I. He soon meets Louise Bryant, a respectable married woman, who dumps her husband for Reed and becomes an important feminist and radical in her own right. After involvement with labor and political disputes in the US, they go to Russia in time for the October Revolution in 1917, when the Communists siezed power. Inspired, they return to the US, hoping to lead a similar revolution. A particularly fascinating aspect of the movie is the inclusion of interviews with "witnesses", the real-life surviving participants in the events of the movie.


plot: Three men face their mother's death.
title: Three Brothers
released: 1981-03-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:00:35.783000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 3 nominations.
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In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each encounters the past and engages in reveries of what may come: Raffaele imagines his death, Rocco dreams of lifting the youth of Naples out of violence, drugs, and corruption, Nicola pictures embracing his estranged wife. Meanwhile, the old man and his young granddaughter explore the rhythms of the farm and grieve together.


title: The Unseen
released: 1981-09-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:30:52.127000000
year: 1980
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A trio of female reporters find themselves staying overnight in a house occupied by a hostile being lurking in the basement.

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Freelance reporter Jennifer and her two friends, Karen and Vicki, accept an invitation for cheap room and board in a large farmhouse offered by a friendly, but shady, museum owner named Ernest Keller since all the motels in and around town are booked for a holiday parade fair Jennifer is covering. But unknown to the women, some unseen "thing" has been living in the basement of the house for over 20 years and is looked after by Keller and his shy sister Virginia, in which the "thing" soon gets out and begins harassing and killing the women one by one in various violent, but seemingly accidental, means.


title: Best Friends
released: 1982-12-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:55:31.123000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
When a professional couple who have lived & worked together for many years finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpectedly funny and awkward difficulties. They soon...

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When a professional couple who have lived & worked together for many years finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpectedly funny and awkward difficulties. They soon find that being married is often quite different from being "best friends."


title: Diner
released: 1982-03-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:15:49.117000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
A group of college-age buddies struggle with their imminent passage into adulthood in 1959 Baltimore.

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Early twenty-something Baltimoreans Eddie, Shrevie, Boogie, Billy, Fenwick and Modell have been friends since they were kids, where the center of their lives has been and still is the Fells Point Diner. It's the last week of 1959. Baltimore Colts fanatic Eddie is scheduled to get married to Elyse on New Year's Eve, but may call off the wedding if Elyse doesn't pass his Colts quiz which he will hold two days before the scheduled wedding. Inexperienced Eddie turns to the only other married one among the bunch, electronics salesman and music aficionado Shrevie, for advice, he who may not be the best person from who to ask advice on marriage since he doesn't yet realize that he probably got married to his wife Beth for the wrong reasons. Indeed, Beth, who has lost her sense of identity, is unhappy in their marriage, and contemplates having an affair with someone who provides what she believes is a sympathetic shoulder. Hairdresser and law school student Boogie is the player of the bunch, he who has some major financial problems because of his quest for the fast buck. Generally straight laced Billy, Eddie's best man who has been away getting his MBA, has come back to Baltimore a few days early to clarify his relationship with his girlfriend, Barb. Smart-aleck Fen is a college drop out who lives off his trust fund. He doesn't much like his family but likes what their money can afford him. And insecure Modell is afraid to ask for anything directly. As 1960 approaches, they collectively deal with how to be truly adults.


plot: The story of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who lobbied for his own execution.
title: The Executioner's Song
released: 1982-11-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:58:44.390000000
year: 1982
text: Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 3 nominations.
fullplot:
Based on the true story of murderer Gary Mark Gilmore, spanning the last nine months of his life (May 1976-January 1977) in which at age 35, after being released for serving a long prison term in Utah for armed robbery, the unstable Gilmore murdered two men in two seperate and senseless robberies in which after a brief public trial in October, he was sentenced to death by firing squad which drew a lot of media attention when Gilmore insisted that his execution be carried out and he became the first man to be executed in the USA since the government reinstated the death penalty in 1976.


title: Honkytonk Man
released: 1982-12-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 01:23:39.370000000
year: 1982
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the ...

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As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus' brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a success. However, this is way back in Nashville, Red clearly drives terribly, and he's broke and sick with tuberculosis to boot. Whit, 14, seeing his own chance of a lifetime to avoid "growing up to be a cotton picker all my life," begs Ma to let him go with Uncle Red as driver and protege. Thus begins a picaresque journey both hilarious and poignant.


title: Moonlighting
released: 1982-09-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:52:11.573000000
year: 1982
text: 4 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as ...

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A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.


title: Veronika Voss
released: 1982-02-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-12 00:21:40.950000000
year: 1982
text: 4 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
Munich, 1955: A sports journalist meets Veronika Voss, an UFA actress who supposedly had an affair with Goebbels. Now declining, Voss is kept by her "kind" doctor, Dr. Katz, supplying her ...

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Munich, 1955: A sports journalist meets Veronika Voss, an UFA actress who supposedly had an affair with Goebbels. Now declining, Voss is kept by her "kind" doctor, Dr. Katz, supplying her house, food, clean clothes and her favourite: morphine. Voss, trying to come back towards the cinema, cannot perform an absurdly simple scene, but it attracts the attention of the journalist, who suspects that something's very wrong regarding her doctor.


title: The Secret of NIMH
released: 1982-07-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:14:36.937000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she ever suspected.

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Mrs. Brisby, a widowed mouse, lives in a cinder block with her children on the Fitzgibbon farm. She is preparing to move her family out of the field they live in as plowing time approaches, however her son Timothy has fallen ill, and moving him could prove fatal. Mrs. Brisby visits The Great Owl, a wise creature who advises her to visit a mysterious group of rats who live beneath a rose bush on the farm. Upon visiting the rats, Brisby meets Nicodemus, the wise and mystical leader of the rats, and Justin, a friendly rat who immediately becomes attached to Mrs. Brisby. While there, she learns that her late husband, Mr. Jonathon Brisby, along with the rats, was a part of a series of experiments at a place known only as N.I.M.H. (revealed earlier in the story as the National Institute of Mental Health). The experiments performed on the mice and rats there boosted their intelligence, allowing them to read without being taught and to understand things such as complex mechanics and electricity. The rats and Mr. Brisby escaped from N.I.M.H. and came to live on the Fitzgibbon farm. The rats created a home for themselves under Mrs. Fitzgibbon's rose bush, creating an elaborate habitation of beautiful chambers, elevators, and Christmas lights. However, the rats are unhappy in their dependence on the humans, who they are stealing electricity from, and have concocted a plan to leave the farm and live independently. Because of her husband's prior relationship with the rats, they agree to help Mrs. Brisby move her home out of the path of the plow. However, the evil Jenner and his unwilling accomplice Sullivan, who wish to remain beneath the rose bush, yet plot to kill Nicodemus during the move.


title: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
released: 1982-06-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:39:26.920000000
year: 1982
text: 2 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using a life-generating device, the Genesis Device, as the ultimate weapon.

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The Federation along with a group of scientists are working on Project Genesis, which is to bring a dead planet to life. So far the preliminary experiments have been a success. Now for the next phase which is to actually bring a planet to life, a dead planet is required. So the Federation sends a starship, the USS Reliant to find one and its first officer is Commander Pavel Chekov. They come across what appears to be a dead planet in the Ceti Alpha system. But the sensors detect something which makes it not a dead planet. But the Captain thinks maybe they can remove it, so he and Chekov go and investigate. But they find what appears to be a lifepod. When Chekov sees something, he tells the Captain they should leave, but they are captured by the inhabitants. When they meet the leader, Chekov recognizes him as Khan Noonien Singh, the genetic superman from late 20th century whom Kirk found 15 years ago. Khan tried to take over the Enterprise and kill Kirk, but Kirk subdued him and left him on Ceti Alpha V. Khan reveals that Ceti Alpha VI exploded shortly after they were left and the force shifted Ceti Alpha V's orbit which turned the planet into a wasteland. Khan deduces that Chekov and the Captain thought they were on Ceti Alpha VI. When he asks them why they are there, they don't answer, and Khan puts wormlike creatures in them, which makes them susceptible to suggestion. Upon learning why there are there, Khan takes over the Reliant, tries to steal Genesis and have revenge on Kirk. He starts by making Chekov contact the scientist in charge of Genesis and telling her that Kirk has ordered him to take possession of Genesis. She then calls Kirk who has no knowledge of what she is talking about but before they can talk any further, they lose contact. Admiral James T. Kirk is attended by Mr. Spock, who is now in command of the Enterprise, and is taking some cadets on a training cruise. But now he tells them they have to investigate what is happening. So they go and meet the Reliant, that's when Khan attacks the Enterprise crippling it. Khan then calls Kirk and demands that Kirk turn himself and all data on Genesis. Kirk uses the time to come with a counter move which he executes. So while Khan repairs the Reliant, Kirk heads off to find the Genesis scientists.


title: Possession
released: 1983-10-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 10:54:01.197000000
year: 1981
text: 5 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.

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During a secretive business trip away, Mark learns that his wife Anna is growing restless in what he believed was their happy marriage. Upon his return home, he learns from her that she wants a divorce. They both go through a series of different emotions related to their situation, Mark's which is generally obsessive about learning why Anna, who he still loves, wants the divorce, and Anna's which is generally increasingly histrionic in getting away from Mark. Caught in the middle is their infant son Bob, who Mark uses as a gage to Anna's mental state. Anna states that her want for the divorce is not because of another man, but Mark finds out that Anna has a lover named Heinrich. In the meantime, Mark also meets Bob's teacher Helen, who looks exactly like Anna, but is her polar opposite in temperament. Starting a relationship with Helen lessens his obsession with Anna. But as Mark and Anna's encounters together reach more emotional and violent levels, Mark, with help of a private investigative firm, learns that Anna's love life is not all that it appears. Anna's true obsession has a somewhat gruesome process and nothing will stop her from reaching her end goal.


title: Threshold
released: 1983-01-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:16:45.220000000
year: 1981
text: 3 wins & 8 nominations.
plot:
The celebrated heart surgeon Dr. Vrain supports the research of the offbeat scientist Aldo Gehring, who is inventing an artificial heart. Dr. Vrain performs the first artificial human heart...

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The celebrated heart surgeon Dr. Vrain supports the research of the offbeat scientist Aldo Gehring, who is inventing an artificial heart. Dr. Vrain performs the first artificial human heart transplant against the advice of the Ethics Committee.


title: Android
released: 1982-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-04 00:45:28.287000000
year: 1982
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
Strange doctor secretly experiments with androids on his space station. His assistant is Max, a curious android who wants to see the world and meet a girl. Criminals Maggie and two other hide on their station and soon violence erupts.

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Eccentric scientist Dr.Daniel and his shy, clumsy assistant Max, lead a quiet life on their space station where they carry out illegal research into androids, until they receive an unwelcome visit from three fugitives from justice, one of whom is female. Dr.Daniel and Max are both interested in her, but one of them has rather more sinister intentions than just romance. At first, they all get along, but when one of the criminals becomes psychotic, violence erupts. Meanwhile, the space police is on their trail.


plot: A young orphan girl's adventures in finding a family that will take her.
title: Annie
released: 1982-06-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:05:44.863000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 11 nominations.
fullplot:
In the depths of the 1930's, Annie is a fiery young orphan girl who must live in a miserable orphanage run by the tyrannical Miss Hannigan. Her seemingly hopeless situation changes dramatically when she is selected to spend a short time at the residence of the wealthy munitions industrialist, Oliver Warbucks. Quickly, she charms the hearts of the household staff and even the seemingly cold-hearted Warbucks cannot help but learn to love this wonderful girl. He decides to help Annie find her long lost parents by offering a reward if they would come to him and prove their identity. However, Miss Hannigan, her evil brother, Rooster, and a female accomplice, plan to impersonate those people to get the reward for themselves which put Annie in great danger.


title: Heat and Dust
released: 1983-01-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 23:36:32.743000000
year: 1983
text: Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 8 nominations.
plot:
Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. The search leads back to the early 1920s, when Olivia, recently married to ...

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Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. The search leads back to the early 1920s, when Olivia, recently married to Douglas, a civil servant in the colonial administration, comes to live with him in India. Slowly, Olivia becomes fascinated by India and by the local ruler, a nawab who combines British distinction with Indian pomp and ruthlessness. This fascination is not without risks: the region is being ransacked by a group of sanguinary bandits, and intrigues are opposing the prejudiced British community led by Major Minnies and Dr. Saunders against the nawab. As Anne delves into the history of her grand-aunt, she is led to reconsider her own life.


title: Identification of a Woman
released: 1996-11-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:45:42.593000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
The movie director Niccolo has just been left by his wife. This gives him the idea of making a movie about women's relationships. He starts to search for a woman who can play the leading ...

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The movie director Niccolo has just been left by his wife. This gives him the idea of making a movie about women's relationships. He starts to search for a woman who can play the leading part in the movie - but also in his own life...


plot: A family's home is haunted by a host of ghosts.
title: Poltergeist
released: 1982-06-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:17:55.617000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 4 nominations.
fullplot:
A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorise the family before they "kidnap" the youngest daughter.


title: Shoot the Moon
released: 1982-02-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 01:16:13.837000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
A fifteen year marriage dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. He's preoccupied with a career and a mistress, she with a career and caring for ...

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A fifteen year marriage dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. He's preoccupied with a career and a mistress, she with a career and caring for four young children. While they attempt to go their separate ways, jealousy and bitterness reconnect them.


title: Piranha Part Two: The Spawning
released: 1982-11-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:00:07.050000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.

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A sunken US supply ship off a Caribbean island resort is the focus for a series of mysterious piranha attacks. Investigating the death of one of her son's companions after a scuba-diving trip, Anne Kimbrough breaks into the morgue with holidaymaker Tyler Sherman, only to discover that the fish have wings and can fly. But the hotel manager refuses to call off the annual fish fry on the beach, with inevitable consequences...


title: On Golden Pond
released: 1982-02-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 00:13:53.283000000
year: 1981
text: Won 3 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 20 nominations.
plot:
The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage. This summer their ...

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The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage. This summer their daughter Chelsea -- whom they haven't seen for years -- feels she must be there for Norman's birthday. She and her fiance are on their way to Europe the next day but will be back in a couple of weeks to pick up the fiance's son. When she returns Chelsea is married and her stepson has the relationship with her father that she always wanted. Will father and daughter be able to communicate at last?


title: Tarzan, the Ape Man
released: 1981-07-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:24:30.453000000
year: 1981
text: 2 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters with Tarzan establish a (sexual) bond ...

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The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters with Tarzan establish a (sexual) bond between her and Tarzan. When the expedition is captured by savages, Tarzan comes to the rescue.


title: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
released: 1982-06-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:09:55.417000000
year: 1982
text: Won 4 Oscars. Another 50 wins & 28 nominations.
plot:
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home-world.

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While visiting the Earth at Night, a group of alien botanists is discovered and disturbed by an approaching human task force. Because of the more than hasty take-off, one of the visitors is left behind. The little alien finds himself all alone on a very strange planet. Fortunately, the extra-terrestrial soon finds a friend and emotional companion in 10-year-old Elliot, a lonely boy whose parents have separated. While E.T. slowly gets acquainted with Elliot's older brother Michael, his sister Gertie and the customs of Earth, members of the task force work day and night to track down the whereabouts of Earth's first visitor from outer space. The wish to go home again is strong in E.T., and after being able to communicate with Elliot and the others, E.T. starts building an improvised device to send a message home for his people to come and pick him up. But before long, E.T. gets seriously sick, and because of his special connection to Elliot, the young boy suffers, too. The situation gets critical when the task force finally intervenes. By then, all help may already be too late, and there's no alien spaceship in sight.


title: Forbidden World
released: 1982-05-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:19:41.417000000
year: 1982
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten lose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.

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On planet Xarbia, an experimental life form, Subject 20, has been created by an elite group of researchers in hopes of preventing a galactic food crisis. However, when Subject 20 becomes deadly, the best troubleshooter in the Galaxy is called in to investigate.


title: First Blood
released: 1982-10-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:07:43.883000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
A Vietnam Veteran uses his combat skills against the lawman of a small town when they arrest and abuse him.

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John J. Rambo is a former United States Special Forces soldier who fought in Vietnam and won the Congressional Medal of Honor, but his time in Vietnam still haunts him. As he came to Hope, Washington to visit a friend, he was guided out of town by the Sheriff William Teasel who insults Rambo, but what Teasel does not know that his insult angered Rambo to the point where Rambo became violent and was arrested. As he was at the county jail being cleaned, he escapes and goes on a rampage through the forest to try to escape from the sheriffs who want to kill him. Then, as Rambo's commanding officer, Colonel Samuel Trautman tries to save both the Sheriff's department and Rambo before the situation gets out of hand.


title: The House Where Evil Dwells
released: 1982-05-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 02:12:49.017000000
year: 1982
text: 4 nominations.
plot:
A young American family moves to a House in Kyoto, Japan. It turns out to be haunted by the ghosts of a woman and her lover, who were killed by the woman's husband, as well as the ghost of the husband, who killed himself afterward.

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In 1840, a samurai comes home to find his wife in bed with another man, so he kills them both and then himself. Flash-forward to the present day, and an American family of three moves into this since-abandoned house and starts to experience incidents of haunting and possession.


title: Savannah Smiles
released: 1982-05-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:49:14.693000000
year: 1982
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
The young daughter of a politician runs away due to lack of attention. She hides in the car of two not too bright crooks who are slowly converted into parent figures as the police web ...

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The young daughter of a politician runs away due to lack of attention. She hides in the car of two not too bright crooks who are slowly converted into parent figures as the police web closes down on the supposed kidnappers.


title: Sans Soleil
released: 1983-03-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:52:17.243000000
year: 1983
text: 4 wins.
plot:
"He wrote me...." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, ...

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"He wrote me...." A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.


title: Six Weeks
released: 1982-12-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:21:01
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 2 nominations.
plot:
A wealthy cosmetic tycoon and her 12-year-old daughter who's dying from leukemia, strike up a sentimental friendship with a California politician. Since the girl has only six weeks or less ...

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A wealthy cosmetic tycoon and her 12-year-old daughter who's dying from leukemia, strike up a sentimental friendship with a California politician. Since the girl has only six weeks or less to live, the trio fly to New York City where the daughter skates the ice rink at Rockefeller Center, assumes the lead in The Nutcracker ballet, and sightsees most of the city.


title: Raiders of the Lost Ark
released: 1981-06-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:09:19.517000000
year: 1981
text: Won 4 Oscars. Another 28 wins & 22 nominations.
plot:
Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.

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The year is 1936. An archeology professor named Indiana Jones is venturing in the jungles of South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap but miraculously escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The Ark of the Covenant, which can hold the key to humanly existence. Jones has to venture to vast places such as Nepal and Egypt to find this artifact. However, he will have to fight his enemy Rene Belloq and a band of Nazis in order to reach it.


title: 48 Hrs.
released: 1982-12-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-12 00:04:07.940000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

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Oddball cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only survivor of a cop shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects Reggie Hammond from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help. The killer is searching for his stash of cash. Cates and Hammond who have the Black-white, cop-crook thing to work out make surprisingly good partners as they navigate through the city looking for their suspect.


title: The Dark Crystal
released: 1982-12-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:05:01.867000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal, and so restore order to his world.

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Another planet, another time. 1000 years ago the mysterious Dark Crystal was damaged by one of the Urskeks and an age of chaos has began! The evil race of grotesque birdlike lizards the Skeksis, gnomish dragons who rule their fantastic planet with an iron claw. Meanwhile the orphan Jen, raised in solitude by a race of the peace-loving wizards called the Mystics, embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of the Dark Crystal which gives the Skesis their power and restore the balance of the universe.


title: Endangered Species
released: 1982-09-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 01:07:21.297000000
year: 1982
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
About a retired New York cop on Vacation in America's West who is drawn into a female sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.

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Thriller about a New York ex-cop and an attractive female sheriff who fall in love while investigating a string of mysterious cattle mutilations in a small Colorado town. Urich is great as Reuben Castle, the retired alcoholic police lieutenant out visiting the town with his tomboy daughter. At first he tries to stay out of the case but finds himself involved after the mysterious death of his friend Joe Hiatt, the editor of the local paper whose theories about black helicopters have aroused the ire of cattle baron Ben Morgan. Trying miserably to stay sober, Castle finds himself back in danger and in love, as he and the sheriff work together to get to the bottom of the mystery, encountering incredible danger and resistance from the frightened locals.


title: Friday the 13th Part III
released: 1982-08-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:40:36.617000000
year: 1982
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Having revived from his wound, Jason Voorhees; now donning a new appearance, refuges at a cabin near Crystal Lake. As a group of co-eds reside there for their vacation, Jason continues his spree.

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Jason Voorhees, having barely survived a wound to his shoulder from his own machete, is back to revenge on all that visit "his" woods. A new group of friends come over to party at an area close to the campsite. This time, Jason will be stronger than ever, and getting a hockey mask from one of those friends.


title: Megaforce
released: 1982-06-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:56:22.573000000
year: 1982
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
Story about a rapid deployment defense unit that is called into action whenever freedom is threatened.

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Ace Hunter is the leader of Megaforce, an elite group of American soldiers who travel the world to fight Evil. In this case, Evil is represented by a third rate dictator who they must blow to bits.


title: A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
released: 1982-07-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 01:08:08.197000000
year: 1982
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A wacky inventor and his wife invite two other couples for a weekend party at a romantic summer house in the 1900s countryside.

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Centred around a weekend party at the home of inventor Andrew Hobbs and his wife Adrian, attended by randy doctor Maxwell Jordan, his nurse Dulcy, renowned philosopher Dr.Leopold Sturgis and his fiancèe, this is a light comedy concerning their various emotional, intellectual and sexual entanglements, loosely based on Ingmar Bergman's 'Smiles of a Summer Night' .


title: Blind Chance
released: 1987-01-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 23:47:36.703000000
year: 1987
text: 2 wins.
plot:
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

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Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.


title: Pennies from Heaven
released: 1982-01-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:04:33.103000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.

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In Chicago during the 1930s depression, sheet music salesman Arthur Parker is trying to sell his products, but it's not easy to convince unwilling music store owners to buy them. Although he's already married to the somewhat drab Joan, when he meets school teacher Eileen in a music store, he falls in love with her.


title: The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
released: 1981-11-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:28:27.133000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win.
plot:
A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains, has Cooper following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite ...

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A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains, has Cooper following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop.


title: Raggedy Man
released: 1981-09-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:57:17.637000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcèe Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to...

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It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcèe Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to be at the switchboard day and night. She was originally told by her boss Mr. Rigby that this job would only be a stepping-stone to a more lucrative job with regular working hours, which Mr. Rigby seems to be reneging on since he has now told her that her position is frozen due to the war. As such, Nita feels trapped by this situation. Nita lives in the telephone switchboard office building with her two sons, adolescent Harry and infant Henry. Because of her marital status, many of the townsfolk, especially the men, view Nita either with contempt or as a loose woman. One evening, Teddy Roebuck, a sailor on a four day furlough who is hitchhiking back to his home in Ardmore, Oklahoma, stops by to make a telephone call. When he learns that the reason for his trip home no longer exists, Teddy decides to stay in Gregory instead. Teddy strikes up a friendship with Nita and her two boys, which blossoms into love. The appearance of this stranger does not sit well with locals Calvin and Arnold, who had plans of having their way with loose Nita, who earlier rebuked their advances. The town's unidentified disfigured man, who Nita fears, may ultimately provide her with the ability to move on with her life.


title: Victory
released: 1981-07-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:55:11.260000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
As allied POWs prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.

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In World War II, a group of Nazi officers come up with a propaganda event in which an all star Nazi team will play a team composed of Allied Prisoners of War in a Soccer (Football) game. The Prisoners agree, planning on using the game as a means of escape from the camp.


title: Zoot Suit
released: 1982-01-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-31 00:03:02.097000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win.
plot:
A kind of musical accompanying the story of the early 1940's and the effect that the "zoot suit" (a man's suit of long jacket and pegged pants, always worn with a long keychain that looped ...

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A kind of musical accompanying the story of the early 1940's and the effect that the "zoot suit" (a man's suit of long jacket and pegged pants, always worn with a long keychain that looped almost to the ankle.... the rebellious fashion of young men) had on the morals and attitudes of the people of that era.


title: The Beastmaster
released: 1982-08-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 01:19:46.797000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
A sword-and-sorcery fantasy about a young man's search for revenge. Armed with supernatural powers, the handsome hero and his animal allies wage war against marauding forces.

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Dar, the son of a king, is hunted by a priest after his birth, so he is sent to grow up in another family. When he becomes a grown man, his new father is murdered by savages. He discovers that he has the ability to communicate with the animals, and after that, Dar begins his quest for revenge in this Conan-like movie.


title: Danton
released: 1983-01-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:21:53.840000000
year: 1983
text: Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 7 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre's incitement, has begun a ...

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Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre's incitement, has begun a series of massive executions, The Terror. Confident in the peoples' support, Danton clashes with his former ally, but calculating Robespierre soon rounds up Danton and his followers, tries them before a revolutionary tribunal and dipatches them to the guillotine.


plot: A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
title: Deathtrap
released: 1982-03-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:09:43.817000000
year: 1982
text: 6 nominations.
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To make Sidney's slump all the more painful, Clifford Anderson, a student of one of Sidney's writing seminars, has recently sent his mentor a copy of his first attempt at playwrighting for Sidney's review and advice. The play, "Deathtrap," is a five character, two act thriller so perfect in its construction that, as Sidney says, "A gifted director couldn't even hurt it." Using his penchant for plot, and out of his desperate desire to once again be the toast of Broadway, Sidney, along with Myra, cook up an almost unthinkable scheme: They'll lure the would-be playwright to the Bruhl home, kill him, and market the sure-fire script as Sidney's own. But shortly after Clifford arrives, it's clear that things are not what they seem! Indeed, even Helga Ten Dorp, a nosey psychic from next door, and Porter Milgram, Sidney's observant attorney, can only speculate where the line between truth and deception lies.


title: Porky's
released: 1982-03-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 08:23:00.837000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Set in 1954, a group of Florida high schoolers seek out to help a buddy lose his virginity, which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them.

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1954. The sexual hijinks of a group of mid-teen male students of Angel Beach High School in Florida are presented. Their main goal is to lose their collective virginity. In the process, they embark on games of sexual innuendo with their female classmates, as witnessed by the activities of Billy, Tommy and Pee Wee in their secret surveillance. Pee Wee is the most desperate, that desperation which gets him into one predicament after another, especially as he is the butt of many a prank. A side issue for Tim, basically a good guy, is dealing with his learned racism, which comes to the surface with the arrival to their school of new student, Jewish Brian Schwartz. The sexual pursuits at the school are not limited to the student body as new boys Phys Ed coach, Roy Brackett, has a mutual attraction with cheer-leading coach, Miss Lynn Honeywell, who doesn't want to go all the way; Coach Brackett's goal is to find out why Coach Warren has nicknamed Miss Honeywell "Lassie". All these goings-on offend the sensibilities of female Phys Ed coach, Miss Beulah Balbricker, who takes it upon herself to maintain the moral standards of the school. The boys' mission seems to be stalled, so Mickey, whose brother Ted is the local sheriff, suggests they go to Porky's, a bar and unofficial brothel in neighboring Wallacetown in the middle of the Everglades, to lose their virginity. Porky's is owned by the violent Porky, whose actions are supported by his sheriff brother. The boys' experience at Porky's leads to a continuing feud between the boys and Porky and his posse, the boys' collective anger fueled by Mickey. They will learn that they may not be able to beat Porky with their fists, but may be able to do so with a little ingenuity, which may hurt Porky more in the long run.


title: Prince of the City
released: 1981-08-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 18:06:10.783000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 11 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption. However, he soon discovers that he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.

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New York City cop Daniel Ciello is involved in some questionable police practices. He is approached by internal affairs and in exchange for him potentially being let off the hook, he is instructed to begin to expose the inner workings of police corruption. Danny agrees as long as he does not have to turn in his partners but he soon learns that he cannot trust anyone and he must decide whose side he is on and who is on his.


title: Quartet
released: 1981-10-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:22:17.993000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Marya finds herself penniless after her art dealer husband, Stephan, is convicted of theft. Marya accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who lets her live in their house.

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It's 1927 Paris. Following the conviction of her art dealer husband, Stephan Zelli, for theft for which he was handed a one-year prison sentence, Marya Zelli, originally from West India, moves in with her acquaintances, expatriate Brits H.J. and Lois Heidler. Marya knows that H.J. in particular has more in mind than just providing her lodging out of the goodness of his heart. From behind bars, Stephan encourages Marya to move in with them not knowing H.J.'s intentions. Marya agrees in part because she, being a foreigner, cannot get work and would thus become destitute otherwise. She learns she is the latest in a long line of lodgers. She also learns that H.J. and Lois' marriage is not all that it appears on the surface. The Heidler's hold on Marya becomes stronger when they convince her that Stephan not only has no money but has no future in France after his release. Their collective lives become more complicated when Stephan is released from jail and tries to figure out what he's going to do with his life to regain the high standard of living to which he became accustomed.


title: S.O.B.
released: 1981-07-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:35:03.670000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.

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A film-within-a-film: a fading movie producer has a plan for a successful movie: get a actress famous for her wholesome image to appear in the nude on the screen.... much like this film itself.


title: Britannia Hospital
released: 1982-05-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:43:26.447000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
Mick Travis is a reporter who is about to shoot a documentary on Britannia Hospital, an institution which mirrors the downsides of British Society. It's the day when Her Royal Highness is ...

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Mick Travis is a reporter who is about to shoot a documentary on Britannia Hospital, an institution which mirrors the downsides of British Society. It's the day when Her Royal Highness is to visit the hospital to inaugurate a new wing, where advanced (and sinister) scientific experiments led by Prof. Millar will take place. Everybody in the hospital, from the cooks who refuse to cook, to the painters who couldn't care less to get their job done, to an African cannibalistic dictator (a la Amin Dada) whom demonstrators want expelled from the hospital and tried, will contribute to making HRH's visit (and Mick Travis's life) a true nightmare.


title: Cat People
released: 1982-04-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:36:22.903000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
A young woman's sexual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.

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The Cat People originated way back in time, when humans sacrificed their women to leopards, who mated with them. Cat People look similar to humans, but must mate with other Cat People before they transform into panthers. Irene Gallier was raised by adoptive parents and meets her older brother Paul for the first time since childhood. We follow brother and sister - who seem to be the only ones of their kind left.


title: Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
released: 1983-05-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:05:27.917000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated lives. Who is the...

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The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated lives. Who is the mysterious Joanne and what's the real story behind Mona's son, James Dean Junior ?


title: Class of 1984
released: 1982-08-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:04:47.970000000
year: 1982
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Andrew Norris is a new teacher in an inner city high school that is like nothing he has ever seen before. This school is so dangerous that the students have to go through a metal detector ...

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Andrew Norris is a new teacher in an inner city high school that is like nothing he has ever seen before. This school is so dangerous that the students have to go through a metal detector at the front door and almost everything is run by a punk posse lead by a delinquent named Peter Stegman. Soon, Norris and Stegman clash and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.


title: Eating Raoul
released: 1982-03-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 05:41:10.810000000
year: 1982
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discover a bizarre, if not murderous way to get funding for opening a restaurant.

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When a Paul enters his apartment to find Mary fighting off a swinger who has gotten into the wrong apartement (and thinks that Mary is just playing hard to get) he hits the man with a frying pan, killing him. Their dreams of running a small resturant seem to be in jeopardy until they decide to dispose of the body, keep the wallet, and to advertise for other sexually oriented visitors who are summarily killed, bagged, robbed and disposed of. This goes along quite well until one night a burglar named Raoul breaks in and cuts himself in for a piece of the action.


title: Eureka
released: 1983-05-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-06 00:27:50.180000000
year: 1983
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Arctic prospector Jack McCann, after fifteen years of solitary searching, becomes one of the world's wealthiest men when he literally falls into a mountain of gold in 1925. Years later, in ...

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Arctic prospector Jack McCann, after fifteen years of solitary searching, becomes one of the world's wealthiest men when he literally falls into a mountain of gold in 1925. Years later, in 1945, he lives in luxury on a Caribbean island that he owns. But his wealth brings him no peace of mind as he copes with Helen, his bored, alcoholic wife; Tracy, his dear, but headstrong, daughter who has married a dissolute, philandering social-climber; and Miami mobsters who want his island to build a casino. His life is entangled with the obsessions of those around him with greed, power, and debauchery against a background of occult symbolism.


plot: A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan.
title: If You Could See What I Hear
released: 1982-04-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:44:12.430000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
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Tom Sullivan is in many ways a typical student attending a Boston area college, he, showing his immaturity, partaking in, often leading, mainly harmless student hijinks with his pipe smoking friend, Will Sly. He funnels many of his energies into his music as a singer/pianist. Tom also happens to be blind, which he's been since a newborn due to being provided too much oxygen while in an incubator. Tom is independently minded, and wants to be treated just like any sighted person. Like most men his age, he is also in the pursuit of the opposite sex, in the process of which he finds that he falls in love easily. Through all these activities, Tom is affected by real life including the temporariness of college life, some not being able to get over their own prejudices of being sighted in their dealings with him, and coming to the realization that there are some things more difficult to do in life when one is blind.


title: Parsifal
released: 1982-05-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:16:21.287000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win.
plot:
Richard Wagner's last opera has remained controversial since its first performance for its unique, and, for some, unsavory blending of religious and erotic themes and imagery. Based on one ...

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Richard Wagner's last opera has remained controversial since its first performance for its unique, and, for some, unsavory blending of religious and erotic themes and imagery. Based on one of the medieval epic romances of King Arthur and the search for the holy grail (the chalice touched by the lips of Christ at the last supper), it recounts over three long acts how a "wild child" unwittingly invades the sacred precincts of the grail, fulfilling a prophecy that only such a one can save the grail's protectors from a curse fallen upon them. Interpreters of the work have found everything from mystical revelation to proto-fascist propaganda in it. Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's production doesn't avoid either aspect, but tries synthesize them by seeking their roots in the divided soul of Wagner himself. The action unfolds on a craggy landscape which turns out to be a gigantic enlargement of the composer's death mask, among deliberately tatty theatrical devices: puppets, scale models, magic-lantern projections. The eponymous hero is sung by the specified tenor voice (Reiner Goldberg) but mimed on screen by a male and a female performer alternately, reflecting what the director takes to be the creator's own sexual conflicts. Syberberg's pacing, dictated by the majestic pace of Wagner's score, is slow, but enlivened by constant subtle shifts in point of view, and memorable performances by actress Edith Clever as the villainess/heroine Kundry (sung by Yvonne Minton), orchestra conductor Armin Jordan as the remorseful knight Amfortas (sung by Wolfgang Schoene), and Robert Lloyd (the faithful retainer Gurnemanz).


title: Split Image
released: 1982-10-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-02-22 01:06:49.763000000
year: 1982
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Young man is sucked into an unnamed religious cult by beautiful girl and gets increasingly under the mind control of the cult leader. After his parents fail in their efforts to talk him out...

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Young man is sucked into an unnamed religious cult by beautiful girl and gets increasingly under the mind control of the cult leader. After his parents fail in their efforts to talk him out of it, they hire a guy who kidnaps and then de-programs him.


title: Mephisto
released: 1982-03-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 00:20:56.970000000
year: 1981
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and ...

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A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.


title: Road Games
released: 1981-11-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:31:59.570000000
year: 1981
text: 6 nominations.
plot:
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer who uses a young female hitchhiker as bait to lure victims on a desolate Australian highway.

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Pat Quid is driving a semi across Australia. On the way he encounters various other travellers, and the occasional hitchhikers repeatedly as they're traveling the same road. A favorite pastime of Pat is to play games to pass the time on the journey. (Such as to make up backgrounds of the other people on the road.) Pamela is one hitchhiker he picks up. But when she disappears, he suspects that the driver of a van who has been acting a little strange, (Smith or Jones) maybe the serial killer mentioned on the radio. But his pursuit of the van driver brings him to the attention of the police, who begin to suspect him.


title: Under the Rainbow
released: 1981-07-31 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-28 00:25:40.920000000
year: 1981
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A visiting dignitary, a CIA agent, a Nazi spy, Japanese tourists, an assassin and a group of "midget" actors from The Wizard of Oz (1939) all check into an elite Los Angeles hotel called Under the Rainbow.

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In 1938 Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel Rainbow and overbooks with royalty, assassins, secret agents, Japanese tourists, and munchkins (from the cast of _Wizard of Oz, The (1939)_). Secret Service agent Bruce Thorpe and casting director Annie Clark find romance amidst the intrigue and confusion.


plot: A New York cop investigates a series of brutal deaths that resemble animal attacks.
title: Wolfen
released: 1981-07-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:53:01.883000000
year: 1981
text: 2 wins & 4 nominations.
fullplot:
A city cop is assigned to solve a bizarre set of violent murders where it appears that the victoms were killed by animals. In his pursuit he learns of an Indian legend about wolf spirits.


title: Evil Under the Sun
released: 1982-03-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:55:26.877000000
year: 1982
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.

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Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate a case for an insurance company regarding firstly a dead woman's body found on a moor and then a important diamond sent to the company to be insured turns out to be a fake. Poirot discovers that the diamond was bought for Arlena Marshall by Sir Horace Platt and Arlena is on her honeymoon with her husband and step-daughter on a tropical island hotel. He joins them on the island and finds that everybody else starts to hate Arlena for different reasons - refusing to do a stage show, stopping a book, and for having an open affair with Patrick Redfern, another guest, in full view of his shy wife. So it's only a matter of time before Arlena turns up dead, strangled and Poirot must find out who it is...


title: Frances
released: 1983-02-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 11:18:31.450000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

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The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.


title: An Officer and a Gentleman
released: 1982-08-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:19:18.053000000
year: 1982
text: Won 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 13 nominations.
plot:
A young man must complete his work at a Navy Flight school to become an aviator, with the help of a tough gunnery sergeant and his new girlfriend.

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Zack Mayo is a young man who has signed up for Navy Aviation Officer Candidate School. He is a Navy brat who has a bad attitude problem. GySgt Foley is there to train and evaluate him and will clearly find Zack wanting. Zack meets Paula, a girl who has little beyond family and must decide what it is he wants to do with his life.


title: The Pirate Movie
released: 1982-08-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:01:26.547000000
year: 1982
text: 3 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
The crew of a large ship sail the high seas encountering other pirates from other ships. The boy from the ship end up having saves his girlfriend who is kidnapped by a bunch of other pirates.

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A parody/homage to Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, The Pirate Movie is a comedy/musical utilizing both new songs and parodies from the original, as well as references to popular films of the time, including Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. In your typical boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy fights girl with swords plot, the story revolves around Mabel, the youngest of Maj. Gen. Stanley's many daughters, and Frederic, an ex-Pirate of Penzance. They fall in love and proceed to retrieve the Stanley's fortune from the Pirates (stolen 20 years ago). The Pirate King informs Frederic that due to him being born on Feb. 29th (during a leap year), Frederic is still technically the King's apprentice. Frederic must then decide between duty and honor, the only good qualities the King taught him, and true love.


title: Querelle
released: 1982-09-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 01:10:34.210000000
year: 1982
text: 4 nominations.
plot:
French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady owner, Lysiane. Here, you can play dice ...

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French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady owner, Lysiane. Here, you can play dice with Nono, Lysiane's husband : if you win, you are allowed to make love with Lysiane, if you lose, you have to make love with Nono... Querelle loses on purpose...


title: Reuben, Reuben
released: 1984-06-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-03 00:14:37.333000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.

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Gowan McGland is a half-Irish/half-Welsh Scottish poet with some renown. He is also a total s*** - a boozer, a womanizer (his conquests more frequently married than not), lazy, and a leech, with a deteriorating body and bad teeth, losing which he equates with death. He also has his charms, which, in combination with his renown, leads to him usually being able to get what he wants. His wife, Edith McGland, also a writer, is well aware of who he is, their marriage which is in name only, although they are still good friends. It is because of her profession and her connection that she has been commissioned to write his biography. Because he is lazy, he has not written anything in five years. He is on a speaking tour to earn what little money he has, currently on an extended stop in Woodsmoke, Connecticut. His reputation in almost every sense precedes him in Woodsmoke - including his womanizing where probably only the husbands of his conquests are unaware of what's going on, and his excessive drinking. He is able to sponge off the generosity of the people who hear him speak, but worse he steals the tips they leave when they take him out for meals. His life may change when he meets college student Geneva Spofford, with who he falls in love. She, in return, is not immune to his charms. The question is whether there is a future for Gowan and Geneva, or if his life will catch up with him. Reuben, the sheepdog belonging to Geneva's grandfather and Gowan's friend Frank Spofford, may have some say in what happens.


title: The Scarlet Pimpernel
released: 1982-11-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 00:19:23.600000000
year: 1982
text: Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 2 nominations.
plot:
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while ...

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During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin.


title: My Dinner with Andre
released: 1981-10-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:27:39.470000000
year: 1981
text: 2 wins.
plot:
Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant. Gregory, a theater director from New York, is the more ...

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Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant. Gregory, a theater director from New York, is the more talkative of the pair. He relates to Shawn his tales of dropping out, traveling around the world, and experiencing the variety of ways people live, such as a monk who could balance his entire weight on his fingertips. Shawn listens avidly, but questions the value of Gregory's seeming abandonment of the pragmatic aspects of life.


title: Only When I Laugh
released: 1981-09-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-05 00:19:51.680000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the ...

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A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.


plot: Who's been decapitating the innocent girls at a local night school? The police are baffled.
title: Night School
released: 1981-04-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:46:49.133000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win.
fullplot:
A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds commited by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer which leads him to suspect a well known anthropology professor as well as his female live-in assistant.


title: Burden of Dreams
released: 1982-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:41:27.757000000
year: 1982
text: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A documentary on the chaotic production of Werner Herzog's epic Fitzcarraldo (1982), showing how the film managed to get made despite problems that would have floored a less obsessively ...

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A documentary on the chaotic production of Werner Herzog's epic Fitzcarraldo (1982), showing how the film managed to get made despite problems that would have floored a less obsessively driven director. Not only does he have major casting problems, losing both Jason Robards (health) and Mick Jagger (other commitments) halfway through shooting, but the crew gets caught up in a war between Peru and Ecuador, there are problems with the weather and the morale of cast and crew is falling rapidly.


title: Funeral Home
released: 1982-08-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-11 00:00:18.813000000
year: 1980
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.

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An old funeral parlor now converted into a tourist home during certain periods such as the summer, develops a problem, when a escaped mental patient with a split personality moves in and proceeds to do away with those specific/certain guests or staff, he/she feels are nosy or immoral.


title: Gandhi
released: 1983-02-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:01:14.143000000
year: 1982
text: Won 8 Oscars. Another 31 wins & 16 nominations.
plot:
The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.

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In 1893, Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian and traveling in a first class compartment. Gandhi realizes that the laws are biased against Indians and decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all Indians in South Africa. After numerous arrests and the unwanted attention of the world, the government finally relents by recognizing rights for Indians, though not for the native blacks of South Africa. After this victory, Gandhi is invited back to India, where he is now considered something of a national hero. He is urged to take up the fight for India's independence from the British Empire. Gandhi agrees, and mounts a non-violent non-cooperation campaign of unprecedented scale, coordinating millions of Indians nationwide. There are some setbacks, such as violence against the protesters and Gandhi's occasional imprisonment. Nevertheless, the campaign generates great attention, and Britain faces intense public pressure. Too weak from World War II to continue enforcing its will in India, Britain finally grants India's independence. Indians celebrate this victory, but their troubles are far from over. Religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims erupt into nation-wide violence. Gandhi declares a hunger strike, saying he will not eat until the fighting stops. The fighting does stop eventually, but the country is divided. It is decided that the northwest area of India, and eastern part of India (current day Bangladesh), both places where Muslims are in the majority, will become a new country called Pakistan (West and East Pakistan respectively). It is hoped that by encouraging the Muslims to live in a separate country, violence will abate. Gandhi is opposed to the idea, and is even willing to allow Muhammad Ali Jinnah to become the first prime minister of India, but the Partition of India is carried out nevertheless. Gandhi spends his last days trying to bring about peace between both nations. He thereby angers many dissidents on both sides, one of whom finally gets close enough to assassinate him.


title: Missing
released: 1982-03-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:07:18.140000000
year: 1982
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 16 nominations.
plot:
When an idealistic writer disappears during the Right Wing military coup in 1973 Chile, his wife and American businessman father try to find him.

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In September1973, in Chile, the American journalist Charles Horman arrives in Valparaiso with his friend Terry Simon to meet his wife Beth and bring her back to New York with him. However, they are surprised by the military coup d'ètat sponsored by the US Government to replace President Salvador Allende and Charles is arrested by the military force. His father Ed Horman, a conservative businessman from New York, arrives in Chile to seek out his missing son with Beth. He goes to the American Consulate to meet the Consul that promises the best efforts to find Charles while the skeptical Beth does not trust on the word of the American authorities. The nationalism and confidence of Ed in his government changes when he finds the truth about what happened with his beloved son.


title: Monsignor
released: 1982-10-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:14:09.147000000
year: 1982
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
An ambitious priest seduces a nun and leads the Vatican into shady business during and after World War II.

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John Flaherty is a young and ambitious American priest who arrives in the Papal sovereign city state of the Vatican in 1944 to take his holy orders as a Catholic priest. After distinguishing himself in combat in the World War II battlefields of northern Italy, he's assigned as the Vatican treasurer. With the Vatican strapped for money during the war, Flaherty soon makes illegal business deals with a corrupt U.S. Army sergeant named Varese, who deals goods on the local black market, which is connected to a ruthless Sicilian mobster named Don Appolini. Appolini agrees to fund Flaherty's operation for profit through his Swiss bank connections. Flaherty's mentor, Cardinal Santoni, the secretary to the elderly but powerful Pope, learns of Flaherty's business deals, but covers for Flaherty in order for them to rise in the ranks of the church against Santoni's rival, Cardinal Vinci. But Flaherty's double life as a black marketeer and priest takes a turn when he falls in love with a young French nun, named Clara, who knows of his dealings, but not of his true identity in the Catholic Church.


title: The Ballad of Narayama
released: 1983-04-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 00:42:41.490000000
year: 1983
text: 9 wins & 8 nominations.
plot:
In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An old woman is getting close to the cut-off age, and we follow her last days with her family.

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In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse he or she would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.


title: Starstruck
released: 1983-01-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:56:22.707000000
year: 1982
text: 4 nominations.
plot:
Young woman wants to become the next big singer with the help of her friends and despite the wishes of her working class family.

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Young woman wants to become the next big singer with the help of her friends and despite the wishes of her working class family.


title: Outland
released: 1981-05-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:53:54.983000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 6 nominations.
plot:
In the distant future, a police marshal stationed at a remote mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy, and gets no help from the populace when he later finds himself marked for murder.

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Marshal W.T. O'Niel is assigned to a mining colony on Io, one of Jupiter's moons. During his tenure miners are dying - usually violently. When the marshal investigates he discovers the one thing all the deaths have in common is a lethal amphetamine-type drug, which allows the miners to work continuously for days at a time until they become "burned out" and expire. O'Niel follows the trail of the dealers, which leads to the man overseeing the colony. Now O'Niel must watch his back at every turn, as those who seek to protect their income begin targeting him...


title: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
released: 1982-07-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:41:29.593000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 nominations.
plot:
Town Sheriff and regular patron, fights to keep a historical whorehouse open when a TV preacher targets it as the Devils playhouse.

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Founded in 1910 just outside of the city limits of Gilbert located in Lanville County, Texas, the Chicken Ranch has for generations been known as the best whorehouse in Texas for its wholesome fun, strict moral code and cleanliness, all perpetuated by its original owner, Miss Wulla Jean. Seven years ago, Miss Wulla Jean passed on, leaving the Chicken Ranch to her favorite working girl, Miss Mona Stangley, who wants to keep the same traditions of Miss Wulla Jean. The Chicken Ranch has always had the unofficial blessing of the local authorities, who see the ranch providing an important community service, one which most in local authority have used at one time or another in their life. In fact, Miss Mona and Lanville County Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd have been in a relationship for years, Ed Earl who is Miss Mona's protector, albeit one with a hot temper and good ol' boy attitude that doesn't exactly match the needs of his law upholding position. That blessing may change when television personality and consumer watchdog, Melvin P. Thorpe, one of the most powerful men in the state, starts an on-air exposè of the illegal activities at the Chicken Ranch, the exposè which includes Ed Earl's role in letting it happen. Ed Earl and Miss Mona's relationship goes through some difficult times on how to deal with this issue, especially with the upcoming annual party night with the players following the Thanksgiving Day football game between the University of Texas and Texas A&M, this party which is arguably the Chicken Ranch's busiest night of the year and one filled with tradition for the ranch and the participating schools. Will the Chicken Ranch be able to remain open especially in light of a spineless Governor who sways to the direction of polls, and will Ed Earl and Miss Mona's relationship be able to withstand the pressure?


title: The Night of the Shooting Stars
released: 1982-09-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:03:03.173000000
year: 1982
text: 19 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that ...

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The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow it up and that the Americans are about to arrive to liberate them.


title: Paradise
released: 1982-05-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 02:39:00.387000000
year: 1982
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
In the Victorian period, two teenagers, David and Sarah, travel with a caravan from Baghdad to Damascus. At an oasis, the white slave agent known as the Jackal raids them, mainly to add the...

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In the Victorian period, two teenagers, David and Sarah, travel with a caravan from Baghdad to Damascus. At an oasis, the white slave agent known as the Jackal raids them, mainly to add the beautiful young Sarah to his harem. Only David and Sarah narrowly escape, and all the others are slayed in the massacre. Their flight leads them to a beautiful oasis - their paradise - where they discover love and sex. However, the Jackal has not given up on Sarah yet, and David must lure him to his death, or be killed by him.


title: Ms .45
released: 1981-04-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:44:04.283000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day, in which she takes to the streets of New York after dark and randomly kills men with a .45 caliber gun.

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A timid and mute woman gets raped twice coming home from work and decides to take matters into her own hands. She dresses suggestively and roams the streets alone, wreaking vengeance upon anyone who tries to take advantage of her. Eventually, her secret life spills over into her regular life in the fashion industry.


title: Mommie Dearest
released: 1981-09-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:11:31.490000000
year: 1981
text: 8 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
Mommie Dearest, best selling memoir, turned motion picture, depicts the abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother...screen queen Joan Crawford.

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Based on the book about Joan Crawford, one of the great Hollywood actresses of our time, written by her adopted daughter Christina Crawford. Joan decides to adopt children of her own to fill a void in her life. Yet, her problems with alcohol, men, and the pressures of show business get in the way of her personal life, turning her into a mentally abusive wreck seen through the eyes of Christina and her brother Christopher, who unwillingly bore the burden of life that was unseen behind the closed doors of "The Most Beautiful House in Brentwood."


title: The House by the Cemetery
released: 1984-03-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:10:47.160000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
In New York, Dr. Norman Boyle assumes the research about Dr. Freudstein of his colleague Dr. Petersen, who committed suicide after killing his mistress. Norman heads to Boston with his wife...

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In New York, Dr. Norman Boyle assumes the research about Dr. Freudstein of his colleague Dr. Petersen, who committed suicide after killing his mistress. Norman heads to Boston with his wife Lucy Boyle and their son Bob to live in an isolated house in the woods that belonged to Dr. Petersen. Bob befriends the girl Mae that only he can see and she warns him to leave the house. Soon his parents hire the mysterious babysitter Ann and creepy things happen in the house, When Bobby goes to the basement, his parents discover the secret of the house.


title: Creepshow
released: 1982-11-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-11 00:26:02.453000000
year: 1982
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A.Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen.

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Five tales of terror are presented. The first deals with a demented old man returning from the grave to get the Father's Day cake his murdering daughter never gave him. The second is about a not-too-bright farmer discovering a meteor that turns everything into plant-life. The third is about a vengeful husband burying his wife and her lover up to their necks on the beach. The fourth is about a creature that resides in a crate under the steps of a college. The final story is about an ultra-rich businessman who gets his comeuppance from cockroaches.


title: Grease 2
released: 1982-06-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:14:29.383000000
year: 1982
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
An English student at a 1960's American high school has to prove himself to the leader of a girls' gang whose members can only date greasers.

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Return to rockin' Rydell High for a whole new term! It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors - and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is the new kid in school - but he's been branded a brainiac. Can he fix up an old motorcycle, don a leather jacket, avoid a rumble with the leader of the T-Birds, and win the heart of Pink Lady Stephanie Zinone? He's surely going to try!


title: Rich and Famous
released: 1981-09-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:39:49.527000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win.
plot:
Liz and Merry Noel become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected "serious" novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes...

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Liz and Merry Noel become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected "serious" novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes, too: "trash" fiction which becomes enormously successful. Their story begins in college and jumps ahead some years at a time to show their relationship with each other and those in their orbits as they grow and mature.


title: Fitzcarraldo
released: 1982-10-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:02:45.610000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 4 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.

fullplot:
Fitzcarraldo is an obsessed opera lover who wants to build an opera in the jungle. To accomplish this he first has to make a fortune in the rubber business, and his cunning plan involves hauling an enormous river boat across a small mountain with aid from the local Indians.


plot: The life of a boy in the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with little crimes, prostitution, etc
title: Pixote
released: 1981-09-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 01:10:02.287000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 10 wins & 1 nomination.
fullplot:
Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old transvesite hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape where they make their living by the life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.


title: Ragtime
released: 1982-01-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:54:31.920000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 8 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 13 nominations.
plot:
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

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The story runs in the 1910's New York. Coalhouse Walker Jr. is a black piano player. He has won fame and fortune playing with a jazz band. Some white men do not like this situation, and one day they assault him and spoil his brand new car. Walker tries by all means to get justice, without an answer...


title: Alone in the Dark
released: 1982-11-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:06:54.837000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win.
plot:
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.

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Thanks to a major power cut, a gang of psychopaths breaks out of the Haven maximum security mental institute in order to lay siege to the psychiatrists who have tormented them over the years with their bizarre theories...


title: They All Laughed
released: 1981-08-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:43:13.283000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win.
plot:
A mad cap private-eye caper about a team of detectives who are following, and are being followed by, a group of beautiful women.

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New York's Odyssey Detective Agency is hired by two different clients to follow two women suspected of infidelity. Ladies' man John Russo trails Angela Niotes, the elegant wife of a wealthy Italian industrialist, while Charles Rutledge and Arthur Brodsky follow Dolores Martin, the beautiful young wife of a jealous husband. Their respective cases are complicated when John falls for Angela, and Charles falls for Dolores.


title: Author! Author!
released: 1982-06-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:15:16.127000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
While facing the stress of his play being produced on Broadway, a playwright deals with having to raise his son, his stepdaughters, and his stepsons.

fullplot:
Playwright Travalian feels pulled limb from limb these days. He has a Broadway play in rehearsal and they want rewrites. His tramp wife is leaving him, leaving him as well with four children from her previous marriages plus his own son. And his lead actress wants to move in with him but isn't used to kids.


title: The Man from Snowy River
released: 1982-11-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 01:14:15.720000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
In 1880s Australia when young Jim Craig's father dies Jim takes a job at the Harrison cattle ranch and he is forced to become a man.

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Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the low lands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet. Kirk Douglas plays two roles as twin brothers who haven't spoken for years, one of whom was Jim's father's best friend and the other of whom is the father of the girl he wants to marry. A 20 year old feud re-erupts, catching Jim and Jessica in the middle of it as Jim is accused of letting a prize stallion loose.


title: The Return of the Soldier
released: 1985-02-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-12 00:12:44.330000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
Kitty Baldry (Julie Chirstie) is a haughty society queen with a tunneled view of life. Kitty's complacency is rocked when her husband, Captain Chris Baldry (Alan Bates), returns from the ...

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Kitty Baldry (Julie Chirstie) is a haughty society queen with a tunneled view of life. Kitty's complacency is rocked when her husband, Captain Chris Baldry (Alan Bates), returns from the front during the First World War shell-shocked and suffering amnesia, not knowing who she is and determined for a reunion with Margaret Grey (Glenda Jackson), a working class lover from his past. Kitty employs psychiatrist Dr. Gilbert Anderson (Ian Holm), to help unscramble her husband's feelings for the women in his new disoriented life including his all-too caring cousin Jenny (Ann-Margret), but ultimately comes to realize that the man she knew is unreachable, as dead as the past he pines for.


title: Visiting Hours
released: 1982-05-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:02:19.347000000
year: 1982
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A crazed, women-hating killer (Ironside) attacks journalist Deborah Ballin (Grant). When he discovers that his attack didn't kill Deborah, he comes to the hospital to finish what he started.

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Deborah Ballin is a controversial middle-aged TV journalist, who is campaigning on air on behalf of a battered woman who murdered her abusive husband, claiming justifiable defense against the so-called victim. But her outspoken views championing women's rights incense one of the studio's cleaning staff, closet homicidal psycho (and misogynist) Colt Hawker whose deep seated despising all all things female occurred from seeing his Mother throwing boiling oil in the face of his abusive Father when he was a small child (and who's M.O. is to photograph victims he stabs as they're spasming to death). So much so that he decides there and then to shut her up...PERMANENTLY! Managing to beat her home, he soon dispatches her maid Francine, before turning his rage onto her as she come home (greeting her in only wearing her jewelry and make-up). Despite the brutal injuries he lashes out on her, she manages to survive and is rushed off to hospital. But undaunted he catches up to her in hospital and disguised as a florist... he enter the building to continue his mission to finish her off...along with anyone else who gets under his skin.


title: Smithereens
released: 1983-08-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:25:32.357000000
year: 1982
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.

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An restless and abrasive young woman eschews the affections of a sensitive young portrait artist, preferring to chase punk singers in a misguided desire for fame and fortune in New York's Greenwich Village.


title: Amityville II: The Possession
released: 1982-09-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:29:58.167000000
year: 1982
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A family moves into their new home, which proves to be evil, resulting in the demonic possession of the teenage son. Only the local priest can save him.

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An Italian-American family move into a house built on an ancient Indian burial ground. The oldest son is possessed by an evil spirit, and is forced to murder his family. The family's priest feels responsible, and tries to save the possessed boy's soul.


title: Rocky III
released: 1982-05-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:01:07.690000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
After winning the ultimate title and being the world champion, Rocky falls into a hole and finds himself picked up by a former enemy.

fullplot:
Three years and 10 successful title defenses after beating Apollo Creed, with whom he has become great friends, a now wealthy Rocky Balboa is considering retirement. Fame and complacency soon cause Balboa to lose his title to Clubber Lang, who inadvertently causes the death of Rocky's trainer Mickey. Rocky sinks into a depression, and Apollo decides to train Rocky for a rematch against Lang so Rocky can try to win the title back.


title: Montenegro
released: 1981-10-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:39:49.730000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
A bored wealthy housewife on the verge of insanity cuts loose with some lively Yugoslavian immigrants who delight in their bohemian lifestyle.

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Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she crawls under the dining table to sing. While detained at airport customs for carrying pruning shears, she meets a young Yugoslav woman and goes with her to a Gypsy enclave where she's fought over, takes a lover, helps with the sordid entertainment at a bar, and returns home more dangerous than before. The film also tells parallel stories of Marilyn's daughter becoming a junior homemaker as the young immigrant practices her striptease.


title: Rollover
released: 1981-12-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-02 00:18:51.683000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

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An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.


title: Zorro: The Gay Blade
released: 1981-07-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 01:04:41.707000000
year: 1981
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
Mexico, 1840s. When the new Spanish Governor begins to grind the peasants under his heel, wealthy landowner Don Diego Vega follows in his late father's footsteps and becomes Zorro, the ...

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Mexico, 1840s. When the new Spanish Governor begins to grind the peasants under his heel, wealthy landowner Don Diego Vega follows in his late father's footsteps and becomes Zorro, the masked man in black with a sword who rights wrongs and becomes a folk hero to the people of Mexico. When Vega sprains his ankle and cannot figure out how to continue his campaign against the corrupt Captain Esteban, luck stays with Vega when his long-lost twin brother Ramon, who was sent off by their father to the British Royal Navy to make a "man" of him, whom is also flamboyantly gay, and now known as Lt. Bunny Wigglesworth, appears for a visit. 'Bunny' agrees to temporarily take his brother's place as Zorro, but wishes to make some changes. Bunny becomes 'the Gay Blade' in which his new suits are lemon, plum, and scarlet colored, and Bunny insists on using a whip. Bunny also becomes the liaison between Don Vega and the liberal American activist/feminist Charlotte a long-time critic of Captain Esteban's policies, and who has a crush on her masked hero.


title: Blade Runner
released: 1982-06-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:05:51.990000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 15 nominations.
plot:
A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

fullplot:
In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop who specializes in terminating replicants. Originally in retirement, he is forced to re-enter the force when four replicants escape from an off-world colony to Earth.


plot: A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.
title: Brimstone & Treacle
released: 1982-11-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:34:11.867000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
fullplot:
Brimstone and Treacle is a modern gothic tale about the evil that men do and the price that must be paid to make things right. The film, a remake of a 1976 teleplay that included Denholm Elliot in its original cast as Mr. Bates, the film also included an incredibly cool soundtrack of songs by artists like The Go-Go's, The Police, Squeeze and an irreverently stylish 1930's little diddy called "Spread A Little Happiness", performed by Sting by himself.


title: Horror Planet
released: 1982-11-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-23 00:46:01.180000000
year: 1981
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.

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A group of scientists are working in a lab located on a distant planet. One of them, Sandy, is attacked, raped and impregnated by a monstrous creature. She then begins to stalk her colleagues one by one, killing them and drinking their blood.


plot: A troubled tattoo artist has designs on a model.
title: Tattoo
released: 1981-10-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-27 00:23:03.590000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
fullplot:
Karl Kinsky, an unbalanced tattoo artist, becomes dangerously obsessed with Maddy, a model he meets when he's hired to paint temporary tattoos on a group of women for a photo shoot. As his obsession grows, Kinsky becomes increasingly determined that Maddy should bear his "mark" ... forever.


title: Thief
released: 1981-03-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:25:06.390000000
year: 1981
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Becoming closer to his dream of leading a normal life, a professional safecracker agrees to do a job for the mafia, who have other plans for him.

fullplot:
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specializing in high-profile diamond jobs. After having spent many years in prison, he has a very concrete picture of what he wants out of life--including a nice home, a wife, and kids. As soon as he is able to assemble the pieces of this collage, by means of his chosen profession, he intends to retire and become a model citizen. In an effort to accelerate this process, he signs on to take down a huge score for a big-time gangster. Unfortunately, Frank's obsession for his version of the American Dream allows him to overlook his natural wariness and mistrust, when making the deal for his final job. He is thus ensnared and robbed of his freedom, his independence, and, ultimately, his dream.


title: The Draughtsman's Contract
released: 1983-06-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:06:31.187000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
Mr. Neville, a cocksure young artist is contracted by Mrs. Herbert, the wife of a wealthy landowner, to produce a set of twelve drawings of her husband's estate, a contract which extends ...

fullplot:
Mr. Neville, a cocksure young artist is contracted by Mrs. Herbert, the wife of a wealthy landowner, to produce a set of twelve drawings of her husband's estate, a contract which extends much further than either the purse or the sketchpad. The sketches themselves prove of an even greater significance than supposed upon the discovery of the body of Mr. Herbert.


title: The Evil Dead
released: 1983-04-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:16:54.720000000
year: 1981
text: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.

fullplot:
As a vacation, five friends travel to a small cabin in a deserted jungle. When their first target has been to reach peace, they should fight restlessly as they find themselves surrounded by an evil force that turns its victims into heartless monsters.


plot: Two young Swedish children experience the many comedies and tragedies of their family, the Ekdahls.
title: Fanny and Alexander
released: 1982-12-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:24:03.630000000
year: 1982
text: Won 4 Oscars. Another 21 wins & 8 nominations.
fullplot:
It's the early twentieth century Sweden. Adolescent siblings Alexander and Fanny Ekdahl lead a relatively joyous and exuberant life with their well-off extended paternal family, led by the family matriarch, their grandmother, Helena Ekdahl. The openness of the family culture is exemplified by Helena's now deceased husband ending up becoming best friends with one of her lovers, a Jewish puppet maker named Isak Jacobi, and their Uncle Gustav Adolf's open liaison with one of the family maids, Maj, who everyone in the family adores, even Gustav Adolf's wife, Alma. Between the siblings, Alexander in particular has inherited the family's love of storytelling, his parents and his grandmother who are actors and who manage their own theater. Things change for Alexander and Fanny when their father, Oscar, dies shortly after Christmas 1907. Although she truly does believe she loves him, the children's mother, Emilie, decides to marry Bishop Edvard Vergèrus, who she first met as the officiate at Oscar's funeral. She also wants a father figure for the children. Going into the marriage, Emilie has inclinations that it will be a much different life than she had with the Ekdahls, but is not prepared for the harsh, austere and strict life Edvard rules with an iron fist. Emilie, Alexander and Fanny end up being prisoners in the bishop's stark and humorless house. As Alexander butts head with his stepfather and tries to learn how to keep to his own principles while obeying Edvard, Emilie tries to figure out a way to regain her and her children's own destiny, as Edvard will not consent to divorce, and her "desertion" in the eyes of the law means that Alexander and Fanny would become his wards.


title: Labyrinth of Passion
released: 1982-09-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:06:22.373000000
year: 1982
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner). When Riza ...

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A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner). When Riza Niro discovers that Sadec and his colleagues are after him, he disguises himself as a punk rocker, and falls in love with the stunning Sexilia, his first straight relationship. Meanwhile Queti, Sexilia's "biggest fan", helps Sexilia come to terms with her new life-style.


title: Let's Spend the Night Together
released: 1982-10-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 01:18:06.240000000
year: 1982
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
The Rolling Stones' shows in Tempe, Arizona and East Rutherford, New Jersey during their 1981 US tour.

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The Rolling Stones' shows in Tempe, Arizona and East Rutherford, New Jersey during their 1981 US tour.


title: That Night in Varennes
released: 1983-02-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:18:33.043000000
year: 1982
text: 6 wins & 12 nominations.
plot:
In June of 1791, a group of passengers in a stagecoach find themselves caught up in the events of the French Revolution, when they find themselves in the city of Varennes when ...

fullplot:
In June of 1791, a group of passengers in a stagecoach find themselves caught up in the events of the French Revolution, when they find themselves in the city of Varennes when revolutionists arrest the fleeing King Louis.


title: Pink Floyd The Wall
released: 1982-09-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:08:13.157000000
year: 1982
text: Won 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.

fullplot:
The movie tells the story of rock singer "Pink" who is sitting in his hotel room in Los Angeles, burnt out from the music business and only able to perform on stage with the help of drugs. Based on the 1979 double album "The Wall" by Pink Floyd, the film begins in Pink's youth where he is crushed by the love of his mother. Several years later, he is punished by the teachers in school because he is starting to write poems. He slowly begins to build a wall around himself to be protected from the world outside. The film shows all this in massive and epic pictures until the very end where he tears down the wall and breaks free.


title: The Postman Always Rings Twice
released: 1981-03-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:58:56.627000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.

fullplot:
This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafè owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder.


title: True Confessions
released: 1981-09-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:39:35.107000000
year: 1981
text: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A worldly ambitious monsignor clashes with his older brother, a cynical Los Angeles homicide detective who is investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

fullplot:
De Niro (a Catholic Priest) and Duvall (a Homicide Detective) play brothers drawn together after many years apart, in the aftermath of the brutal murder of a young prostitute.


title: The Atomic Cafe
released: 1982-10-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 17:29:01.033000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.

fullplot:
A compilation of 1960's films about what to do in case of a Nuclear attack and the effects of radiation, also footage of troop tests of the exposure to an atomic bomb.


title: La balance
released: 1982-11-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:51:52.543000000
year: 1982
text: 3 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
Nicole is a Parisian streetwalker and Dede is her racketeer boyfriend, on the outs with his mob bosses because of a dispute over Nicole. When a police informant ("balance") is murdered, the...

fullplot:
Nicole is a Parisian streetwalker and Dede is her racketeer boyfriend, on the outs with his mob bosses because of a dispute over Nicole. When a police informant ("balance") is murdered, the cops have to scramble for a replacement. Deciding on Dede, they begin to put a nasty squeeze on him and Nicole.


title: Fast Times at Ridgemont High
released: 1982-09-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:01:37.963000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
A group of Southern California high school students are enjoying their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock n' roll.

fullplot:
Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope.


title: The Last Unicorn
released: 1982-11-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 00:09:37.600000000
year: 1982
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A brave unicorn and a magician fight an evil king who is obsessed with attempting to capture the world's unicorns.

fullplot:
From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard...


title: Dragon Strike
released: 1982-01-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-15 00:38:23.443000000
year: 1982
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
The adventures of a restless martial arts student called Dragon, who, while constantly pursuing a girl, gets involved in the affairs of a gang of thieves.

fullplot:
The adventures of a restless martial arts student called Dragon, who, while constantly pursuing a girl, gets involved in the affairs of a gang of thieves.


plot: A dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show.
title: My Favorite Year
released: 1982-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:19:25.757000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 4 nominations.
fullplot:
Benjy Stone is the junior writer on the top rated variety/comedy show, in the mid 50s (the early years). Its a new medium and the rules were not fully established. Alan Swann, an Erol Flynn type actor with a drinking problem is to be that weeks guest star. When King Kaiser, the headliner wants to throw Swann off the show, Benjy makes a pitch to save his childhood hero, and is made Swann's babysitter. On top of this, a union boss doesn't care for Kaiser's parody of him and has plans to stop the show.


title: Night Shift
released: 1982-07-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 17:30:29.053000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win.
plot:
A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a...

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A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbour complains about the loss of her pimp. His partner, upon hearing the situation, suggests that they fill that opening themselves using the morgue at night as their brothel. Against his better judgement, he gets talked into the idea, only to find that it's more than his boss that has objections to this bit of entrepreneurship.


title: Godard's Passion
released: 1982-05-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:39:28.930000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
On a movie set, in a factory, and at a hotel, Godard explores the nature of work, love and film making. While Solidarity takes on the Polish government, a Polish film director, Jerzy, is ...

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On a movie set, in a factory, and at a hotel, Godard explores the nature of work, love and film making. While Solidarity takes on the Polish government, a Polish film director, Jerzy, is stuck in France making a film for TV. He's over budget and uninspired; the film, called "Passion," seems static and bloodless. Hanna owns the hotel where the film crew stays. She lives with Michel, who runs a factory where he's fired Isabelle, a floor worker. Hanna and Isabelle are drawn to Jerzy, hotel maids quit to be movie extras, people ask Jerzy where the story is in his film, women disrobe, extras grope each other off camera, and Jerzy wonders why there must always be a story.


plot: A mother has to make a very difficult decision.
title: Sophie's Choice
released: 1983-03-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:13:49.140000000
year: 1982
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 11 nominations.
fullplot:
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live in Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the movie's narrator, a young American writer new to New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and Nathan is endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions.


title: Wrong Is Right
released: 1982-04-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:25:07.103000000
year: 1982
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A satire of American news reporting, Covert Agencies, and political system. The theft of two suitcase sized nuclear weapons, and their sale to a terrorist group, leads TV Newsman Patrick ...

fullplot:
A satire of American news reporting, Covert Agencies, and political system. The theft of two suitcase sized nuclear weapons, and their sale to a terrorist group, leads TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track them down, and uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.


title: The Big Chill
released: 1983-09-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:13:37.983000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina winter house after the funeral of one of their friends.

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A seminal Thirty-Something movie in which a group of old college friends who are now all grown up and hardened by the big wide world come together for the funeral of Alex, a barely glimpsed corpse, who was at one time the brightest and the best of them, and yet who never managed to achieve half as much as any of the others. The friends use the occasion to reacquaint themselves with each other and to speculate as to what happened to their idealism which had been abundant when they were younger.


title: Cross Creek
released: 1983-10-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:22:16.103000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
In 1930's Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

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In 1930's Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.


title: Le Dernier Combat (The Last Battle)
released: 1984-06-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:01:40.080000000
year: 1983
text: 8 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
In the post-apocalyptic future, only a few humans are left. No one is able to speak; the film contains no dialogue, and characters communicate non-verbally. A determined loner befriends a ...

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In the post-apocalyptic future, only a few humans are left. No one is able to speak; the film contains no dialogue, and characters communicate non-verbally. A determined loner befriends a reclusive older man and these two battle against vicious thugs for food, shelter and life itself.


title: Psycho II
released: 1983-06-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:48:04.103000000
year: 1983
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
After twenty-two years of psychiatric care, Norman Bates attempts to return to a life of solitude... but the specters of his crimes -- and his mother -- continue to haunt him.

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Now declared legally sane, Norman Bates is released from a mental institution after spending 22 years in confinement over the protests of Marion Crane's sister Lila Loomis, who insists that he's still a killer and that the court's indifference to his victims by releasing him is a gross miscarriage of justice. Norman returns to his motel and the old Victorian mansion where his troubles started, and history predictably begins to repeat itself.


title: To Be or Not to Be
released: 1984-02-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:06:24.843000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 nominations.
plot:
A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when what should intrude but World War II in the form of an invasion. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while ...

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A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when what should intrude but World War II in the form of an invasion. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while he's on stage which is also a source of depression to him. When one of her officers comes back on a Secret Mission, the actor takes charge and comes up with a plan for them to escape.


title: Twilight Zone: The Movie
released: 1983-06-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:51:44.360000000
year: 1983
text: 3 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
Four horror/sci-fi segments directed by four famous directors which are their own versions of classic stories from Rod Serling's landmark television series.

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Four directors collaborated to remake four episodes of the popular television series 'The Twilight Zone' for this movie. The episodes are updated slightly and in color (the television show was in black-and-white), but very true to the originals, where eerie and disturbing situations gradually spin out of control.


title: Confidentially Yours
released: 1983-08-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:40:02.003000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 nominations.
plot:
Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers...

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Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers that Marie-Christine Vercel, Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is very suspected. But his secretary, Barbara Becker, while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations...


title: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
released: 1984-08-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:50:58.250000000
year: 1984
text: 5 nominations.
plot:
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.

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Neurosurgeon/Rock Star/Superhero Buckaroo has perfected the oscillation overthruster, which allows him to travel through solid matter by using the eighth dimension. The Red Lectroids from Planet 10 are after this device for their own evil ends, and it's up to Buckaroo and his band and crime-fighting team The Hong Kong Cavaliers to stop them.


title: Crackers
released: 1984-02-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:42:19.860000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner ...

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Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner is out of town. During the elaborate planning process, Dillard falls for a Hispanic woman, the sister of a friend. Also, Boardwalk is assigned to case a local apartment, where he meets and falls for the maid. Amidst all these romantic hijinks, Weslake puts together a burglary plan, which is executed by the makeshift gang.


title: In Heaven There Is No Beer?
released: 1984-05-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-18 00:12:18.007000000
year: 1984
text: 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
A portrait of the life, culture and food surrounding the lovers of Polka music. The title is taken from an old Polka standard. Stars of the Polka world are highlighted.

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A portrait of the life, culture and food surrounding the lovers of Polka music. The title is taken from an old Polka standard. Stars of the Polka world are highlighted.


title: Misunderstood
released: 1984-03-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:21:15.220000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Busy and often absent father must take care of his two boys after his wife dies. They all live in Tunisia because of their father's job. The older boy is handling the difficult changes much better than the younger one.

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Busy and often absent father must take care of his two boys after his wife dies. They all live in Tunisia because of their father's job. The older boy is handling the difficult changes much better than the younger one.


title: Murder-Rock: Dancing Death
released: 1990-04-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:43:12.923000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win.
plot:
The owner of a prestigious New York ballet school teams up with a male model to solve a series of bizarre murders of a few of the students.

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A series of murders rock a dance academy in New York in which the mysterous directress, Candice, sets out to find the kiler, with a little assistance from a shady male model, named George, who has a hidden agenda for her as does she for him.


title: The Naked Face
released: 1984-06-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 01:07:07.727000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens (Roger Moore) is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. After repeated attempts to ...

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Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens (Roger Moore) is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. After repeated attempts to convince cops Rod Steiger and Elliott Gould of his innocence, Dr.Stevens is forced to go after the real villains himself, and he finds himself up against one of the city's most notorious Mafia kingpins.


plot: An unknown comes out of seemingly nowhere to become a legendary player with almost divine talent.
title: The Natural
released: 1984-05-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:27:08.047000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations.
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An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league in this magical sports fantasy. With the aid of a bat cut from a lightning struck tree, Hobbs lives the fame he should have had earlier when, as a rising pitcher, he is inexplicably shot by a young woman.


title: Dreamchild
released: 1985-10-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-08 09:15:38.923000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 6 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the ...

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Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters she was once so amused by. As she thinks back on it, she starts to see her relationship with the shy author/professor in a new way and realizes the vast change between the young Alice and the old.


title: Mala Noche
released: 1987-06-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:02:37.427000000
year: 1986
text: 2 wins.
plot:
A story of amour fou. Walt is madly in love/lust with a young illegal Mexican immigrant. However, the object of his unrequited affection doesn't even speak any English and finds Walt really...

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A story of amour fou. Walt is madly in love/lust with a young illegal Mexican immigrant. However, the object of his unrequited affection doesn't even speak any English and finds Walt really strange and undesirable.


title: Perfect
released: 1985-06-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:20:54.980000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight.

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A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight.


title: Perry Mason Returns
released: 1985-12-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 01:33:48.410000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
When his former secretary (Barbara Hale) is accused of a murder, Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) gives up a judgeship to defend her.

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Rich business man Mr Gordon has many enemies and a family that wouldn't miss him if he dropped dead. Someone hires a hitman to kill him and it is carried out in such a way to frame Gordon's secretary Della Street. When Della is accused of the murder, Perry mason resigns his position as judge to defend her and employs the son of his old colleague, Paul Drake, the act as private investigator on the case.


title: 8 Million Ways to Die
released: 1986-04-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:47:33.777000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win.
plot:
Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his ...

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Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage. During his recovery through Alcoholics Anonymous, he meets a mysterious stranger who draws him back into a world of vice. In trying to help this beautiful woman, he must enter a crime-world of prostitution and drugs to solve a murder, while resisting the temptation to return to his alcohol abuse.


plot: An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown.
title: Big Trouble in Little China
released: 1986-07-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:10:39.773000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
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Truck driver Jack Burton arrives in Chinatown, San Francisco, and goes to the airport with his Chinese friend Wang Chi to welcome his green-eyed fiancèe Miao Yin who is arriving from China. However she is kidnapped on the arrival by a Chinese street gang and Jack and Wang chase the group. Soon they learn that the powerful evil sorcerer called David Lo Pan, who has been cursed more than two thousand years ago to exist without physical body, needs to marry a woman with green eyes to retrieve his physical body and Miao is the chosen one. Jack and Wang team-up with the lawyer Gracie Law, the bus driver and sorcerer apprentice Egg Shen and their friends and embark in a great adventure in the underground of Chinatown, where they face a world of magicians and magic, monsters and martial arts fighters.


title: Back to School
released: 1986-06-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 00:11:05.380000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself.

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Millionaire businessman Thornton Melon is upset when his son Jason announces that he is not sure about going to college. Thornton insists that college is the best thing he never had for himself, and to prove his point, he agrees to enroll in school along with his son. Thornton is a big hit on campus: always throwing the biggest parties, knowing all the right people, but is this the way to pass college?


title: Shanghai Express
released: 1986-01-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 01:06:37.803000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Multi-genre flick (western, martial arts, comedy, adventure, etc.) with an all-star cast about a man who returns to his home town, buys everything in sight, and tries to improve its ...

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Multi-genre flick (western, martial arts, comedy, adventure, etc.) with an all-star cast about a man who returns to his home town, buys everything in sight, and tries to improve its municipal (and his personal) profits by sabotaging a train so the passengers all have to stop in his town and spend lots o' money! Throw in various subplots involving some Japanese swordsmen, some bungling bankrobbers (one of whom is the head of security), and a gang of no-goods who try to mess up the town.


plot: A troubled writer moves into a haunted house after inheriting it from his aunt.
title: House
released: 1986-02-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:50:21.347000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
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Roger Cobb is a Vietnam vet whose career as a horror novelist has taken a turn for the worse when his son Jimmy mysteriously disappears while visiting his aunt's house. Roger's search for Jimmy destroys his marriage and his writing career. The sudden death of his aunt brings Roger back to the house where his nightmares began. The evil zombies in the house force Roger to endure a harrowing journey into his past.


title: The Manhattan Project
released: 1986-06-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 01:00:34.833000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
A teen and his girlfriend make an atomic bomb with plutonium stolen from a scientist dating his mother.

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A teen and his girlfriend make an atomic bomb with plutonium stolen from a scientist dating his mother.


title: My Beautiful Laundrette
released: 1986-04-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:51:16.860000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
An ambitious Asian Briton and his white lover strive for success and hope, when they open up a glamorous laundromat.

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Much of the Pakistani Hussein family has settled in London, striving for the riches promised by Thatcherism. Nasser and his right hand man, Salim, have a number of small businesses and they do whatever they need to make money, even if the activities are illegal. As such, Nasser and his immediate family live more than a comfortable lifestyle, and he flaunts his riches whenever he can. Meanwhile, his brother, alcoholic Ali, once a famous journalist in Pakistan, lives in a seedy flat with his son, Omar. Ali's life in London is not as lucrative in part because of his left leaning politics, which does not mesh with the ideals of Thatcherism. To help his brother, Nasser gives Omar a job doing menial labor. But Omar, with bigger plans, talks Nasser into letting him manage Nasser's run down laundrette. Omar seizes what he sees as an opportunity to make the laundrette a success, and employs an old friend, Johnny - who has been most recently running around with a gang of white punks - to help him. Johnny and Omar have a special relationship, but one that has gone through its ups and downs, the downs fostered by anti-immigration sentiments of white England. Omar and Johnny each have to evaluate if their ideals of success are worth it at all cost.


title: Top Gun
released: 1986-05-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:18:22.953000000
year: 1986
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.

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Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is an expert United States Naval Aviator. When he encounters a pair of MiGs over the Persian Gulf, his wingman is clearly outflown and freaks. On almost no fuel, Maverick is able to talk him back down to the carrier. When his wingman turns in his wings, Maverick is moved up in the standings and sent to the Top Gun Naval Flying School. There he fights the attitudes of the other pilots and an old story of his father's death in combat that killed others due to his father's error. Maverick struggles to be the best pilot, stepping on the toes of his other students and in another way to Charlie Blackwood, a civilian instructor to whom he is strongly attracted.


title: A Better Tomorrow
released: 1986-08-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:15:22.287000000
year: 1986
text: 4 wins & 12 nominations.
plot:
A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.

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This story is the tale of two brothers: one a successful counterfeiter and the younger a fledgling graduate of the HK police academy. The plot revolves around the split when the younger brother learns the other is a criminal and the efforts of the criminal brother to reform. Along the way are plenty of heists, double-crosses, and shoot outs.


title: Angel Heart
released: 1987-03-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:25:16.680000000
year: 1987
text: 2 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
Harry Angel is a private investigator. He is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer called Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.

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Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really really nasty.


title: Une chambre en ville
released: 1982-10-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-15 00:15:21.317000000
year: 1982
text: 2 wins & 10 nominations.
plot:
A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background...

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A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background. Franèois abandons his pregnant girlfriend Violette. She feels treated even more unjust when he tries to defend and excuse his behaviour. He had met a very beautiful over-class girl, Edith, and both were immediately overwhelmed by genuine and reciprocal passion. Edith lived in a very unsatisfactory marriage. She was the daughter of the widow from which Franèois rented his room. Nevertheless, he met her in the street, where she just opened her fur coat and was starch naked under it. They will be together in great passion for just one night and day. At the demonstration Franèois is shot by the police and dies in Edith's arms. - The music is closer to opera than in any other film musical by Jacques Demy. But the greatest difference is that he has devoted much more effort to the task of instructing the singers to reveal the psychic emotions of the text and events.


title: Victor Victoria
released: 1982-04-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 01:15:36.067000000
year: 1982
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 13 nominations.
plot:
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

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In 1934 Paris, trained coloratura soprano Victoria Grant, a native Brit, can't get a job as a singer and is having trouble making ends meet. She doesn't even have enough money for the basics of food and shelter. Gay cabaret singer Carole 'Toddy' Todd may befall the same fate as Victoria as he was just fired from his singing gig at a second rate club named Chez Lui. To solve both their problems, Toddy comes up with what he considers an inspired idea: with Toddy as her manager, Victoria, pretending to be a man, get a job singing as a female impersonator. If they pull this scheme off, Toddy vows Victoria, as her male alter ego, will be the toast of Paris and as such be extremely wealthy. That alter ego they decide is Polish Count Victor Grazinski, Toddy's ex-lover who was disowned by his family when they found out he was gay. The Count auditions for the city's leading agent, Andre Cassell, who, impressed, gets him a gig performing in the city's best nightclub. In the audience on the successful opening night is Chicago nightclub owner and "businessman" King Marchand, a stereotypical macho male who falls in the love with the woman he sees on stage, which doesn't sit well with his current girlfriend, Norma Cassady. King is shocked to learn that that woman is a man named Count Grazinski. While King tries to reconcile his romantic feelings for "Victoria" (in truth, King doesn't truly believe the Count is a man), his business associates won't tolerate his change in sexual orientation. Although feeling emancipated being treated as a man, Victoria, as herself, in turn falls in love with King. To pursue something with him as a woman would mean giving up this lucrative career. But the career may also come to an end in a jail term if the authorities find out that Victoria and Toddy have committed fraud in this impersonation.


plot: A warrior seeks his true origins in a seemingly prehistoric wasteland.
title: Yor, the Hunter from the Future
released: 1983-08-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:12:12.247000000
year: 1983
text: 3 nominations.
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Yor, an extremely blond prehistoric warrior, comes to question his origins, particularly with regard to a mysterious medallion he wears. When he learns of a desert goddess who supposedly wears the same medallion, Yor decides that he must find her and learn his true identity. Along the way, he encounters ape-men, dinosaurs, and a strange futuristic society.


plot: A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.
title: The Lonely Lady
released: 1983-09-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 01:00:23.187000000
year: 1983
text: 6 wins & 8 nominations.
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Jerilee Randall, a simple schoolgirl living in San Fernando, dreams of becoming a famous writer. While at a party, she meets the son of a famous screenwriter. The son invites her over to his house; she accepts. They drive away with some other people, and that night, she is assaulted by one of the son's friends with a garden hose. The "friend" is interrupted in his assault by screenwriter Walter Thornton, who arrives in time to save her from an even more disgusting fate. Walter's rescue of Jerilee begins a friendship between the two, and before you know it, the two fall in love. They marry. Their marriage falls apart when Jerilee's script rewrites actually improve one of Walter's screenplays and he feels one-upped. Jerilee then goes through affair after sordid affair in her attempt to write her own screenplay and get it produced.


title: The Osterman Weekend
released: 1983-10-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:50:31.283000000
year: 1983
text: 2 wins.
plot:
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security in ...

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The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security in this adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel.


title: One Dark Night
released: 1983-02-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:25:29.037000000
year: 1982
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
As part of an initiation into a club called the Sisters, a young girl must spend the night in a mausoleum.

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A strange man named Karl Rhamarevich dies shortly after discovering a way to become even more powerful in death through telekinesis. On the night of his burial in a crypt, Julie is to spend the night there as part of an initiation rite, supervised by two other girls. The crypt becomes a scene of horror as Raymar returns to life and deploys his horrifying telekinetic powers, with coffins sliding out and splintering open to release decaying bodies on Raymar's command. The bodies soon begin to menace the three girls trapped inside. Will they survive the horrific night in the crypt?


title: Phar Lap
released: 1984-04-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:53:02.573000000
year: 1983
text: 4 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
The true story of a Australian racehorse that becomes a champion with the help of a local stableboy.

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Phar Lap, the legendary Australian racing horse, is as well-known today for his mysterious death as for his fabulous accomplishments in life. Beginning at the end, the film flashes back to the day that Phar Lap, despite his lack of pedigree, is purchased on impulse by trainer Harry Telford. Phar Lap loses his first races, but Telford's faith in the animal is unshakable. Suddenly the horse becomes a winner, thanks to the love and diligence of stableboy Tommy Woodcock. American-promoter Dave Davis arranges for Phar Lap to be entered in several top races, where his "long shot" status results in heavy losses for the professional gamblers. Just after winning an important race in Mexico, Phar Lap collapses and dies; though the film never comes out and says as much, it is assumed that the horse was "murdered" by the gambling interests.


title: Sahara
released: 1984-03-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:21:13.517000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.

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After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.


plot: In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.
title: Something Wicked This Way Comes
released: 1983-04-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:02:34.830000000
year: 1983
text: 2 wins & 7 nominations.
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In Green Town, Illinois, the twelve year-old boys Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade are neighbors and best friends. Will's father Charles Halloway is an old man and the local librarian while Jim and his mother wait for the return of the return of their father and husband that will never occur. The boys know everyone in town, including their school teacher Miss Foley that misses her beauty and youth; the lonely barber Mr. Crosetti that has no girlfriend or wife; the greedy owner of a cigar store Mr. Tetley that is obsessed with money; and the bartender Ed that has severed arm and leg and dreams on being a football hero. One day, Jim buys a lightning rod from the salesman Tom Fury that tells that a storm is coming. During the night, the boys overhear a mysterious train and they run through the woods to see the arrival but they do not see a living soul. However, they find the Mr. Dark's Pandemonium Carnival ready to be enjoyed and they snoop around. Soon they realize that frustrated and greedy people are vanishing in town and the evil Mr. Dark and the Dust Witch make their dreams come true. In return, Mr. Dark seizes their souls. Now Mr. Dark is seeking them out but Charles Halloway has a journal from his father about the autumn carnival that might be their last chance to defeat the evil.


plot: A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.
title: Yentl
released: 1984-01-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:31:07.970000000
year: 1983
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 14 nominations.
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Dramatization of "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy," by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991); originally published in Yiddish c. 1960, then in English c. 1983. The story: In an Ashkenazic shtetl in Poland, Yentl Mendel is the boyishly klutzy daughter and only child of long widowed Rebbe ("Talmud Teacher") Mendel, who teaches Talmud (a codification of Jewish Law) to local boys - and to Yentl, but secretly because girls were not allowed to learn the law in those days. When her father dies, Yentl is all alone in the world. She takes the momentous decision to leave the village and - disguised as a boy and calling herself by the name of her late brother, Anshel - seeks and gets admitted to a Yeshiva, to study the texts, traditions, subtleties and complexities of Torah, Talmud, etc. She befriends Avigdor who is engaged to Haddas, but her family discovers his brother committed suicide so they call off the wedding (in case Avigdor possesses the same madness). Anshel then finds "him"-self in the awkward position of being called into service as substitute bridegroom, so that the wedding can go ahead and Haddas will have a husband. It is a marriage that never gets consummated - apart from the more obvious reasons, because Haddas still wants Avigdor (though she eventually falls in love with Yentl, too). After numerous complications (including Avidor and Yentl falling in love with each other, briefly, after she reveals her secret to him, along with her bosom), the film ends with everybody getting what they always wanted - Haddas and Avigdor to live happily ever after with each other, while Anshel, now Yentl once again, goes off to America to pursue her dream of serious study in Yeshiva, where she will be able to study without needing to hide her identity as a woman.


title: Blood Simple.
released: 1985-01-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 00:28:33.580000000
year: 1984
text: 4 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
A rich but jealous man hires a private investigator to kill his cheating wife and her new man. But, when blood is involved, nothing is simple.

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A bar-owner in Texas is certain that his wife is cheating on him and hires a private detective to spy on her. This is just the beginning of a complex plot which is full of misunderstandings and deceit. Ethan and Joel Cohen's first feature film.


plot: Best friends and their daughters holiday in Rio only for one to fall for the other's daughter.
title: Blame It on Rio
released: 1984-02-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:43:05.603000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
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Caine plays a man on holiday in Rio with his best friend. Both men have teenage daughters with them. When Caine falls for the amorous daughter (played by Michelle Johnson) of his best friend, they embark on a secret, if slightly one-sided relationship. Johnson's father is furious when he finds out about the 'older man' in his daughter's life, and sets out to hunt him down with the aid of Caine!


title: Body Rock
released: 1984-09-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 01:01:39.693000000
year: 1984
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Chilly is just a guy from the streets with a talent for break-dancing. When his wicked moves catch the eye of an inustry pro, Chilly finds his dreams of fame and fortune coming true, for better or for worse.

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Chilly D is a young man in New York who just lives for the thrill of rapping and breakdancing with his gang, the Body Rocks. One night after performing in a club with his friends, Chilly gets an offer to perform at a high-class nightspot with a chance at becoming a star. He grabs the opportunity and soon he's on top of the world. Surrounded by all the trappings of his new-found fame, however, Chilly loses touch with the people and lifestyle that made him what he is. Will he turn his back forever on his past, or remain true to his roots?


title: The Hit
released: 1985-03-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:17:26.813000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former "colleagues" and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance. But one day, ten years later, two hitmen (Braddock ...

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Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former "colleagues" and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance. But one day, ten years later, two hitmen (Braddock and Myron) show up and kidnap Willie. They are ordered to escort him back to Paris where he should stand trial. But it is a long way to Paris...


title: Nausicaè of the Valley of the Wind
released: 1984-03-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 13:02:06.767000000
year: 1984
text: 3 wins.
plot:
Warrior/pacifist Princess Nausicaè desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.

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In the far future, man has destroyed the Earth in the "Seven Days of Fire". Now, there are small pockets of humanity that survive. One pocket is the Valley of Wind where a princess named Nausicaè tries to understand, rather than destroy the Toxic Jungle. Note that the old US release titled Warriors of the Wind is an entirely kiddiefied version which edits the original movie heavily, thus creating an entirely different story. -Andre


title: The Little Drummer Girl
released: 1984-10-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:15:44.263000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.

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A Palestinian bomber has killed an Israeli diplomat and his family and the Israeli plot to neutralise him becomes convoluted as they select an American Actress (Charlie) to impersonate the Bomber's brother's girlfriend after the Israeli's capture and kill the brother. Charlie is placed into a world where she begins being an actress, then becomes a spy, then is trained by the Palestinians as a guerrilla and finally is sent to deliver a bomb. She is chronically confused by how far she is really supposed to go in her impersonations and how much of herself she must give up. From the book by John Le Carre


title: Mrs. Soffel
released: 1984-12-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:57:09.673000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
Peter Soffel is the stuffy warden of a remote American prison around the turn of the century. His wife, Kate, finds herself attracted to prisoner Ed Biddle. She abandons her husband and ...

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Peter Soffel is the stuffy warden of a remote American prison around the turn of the century. His wife, Kate, finds herself attracted to prisoner Ed Biddle. She abandons her husband and children to help Ed and his brother Jack escape and accompanies them into the wintery wasteland.


title: Night of the Comet
released: 1984-11-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:09:14.570000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls to fight the evil types who survive.

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Two pretty high school girls (one a cheerleader!) don't like their stepmother or her new boyfriend ("Daddy would have gotten us Uzis!"). One morning, they wake up to find that everybody in Los Angeles has been turned to dust by a Comet except them, a guy who looks like Erik Estrada, some zombies and the occupants of a secret underground government installation.


title: The Philadelphia Experiment
released: 1984-08-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:38:37.897000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy "invisibility" experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors 40 years into the future.

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Reportedly based on a true incident during World War II involving an anti-radar or invisibility experiment that caused the U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS Eldridge to disappear from Philadelphia Harbor. Two of the ship's sailors finds themselves thrown 40 years into the future to 1984.


title: Michael Jackson: Thriller
released: 1983-12-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:43:01.960000000
year: 1983
text: 2 wins.
plot:
A night at the movies turns into a nightmare when Michael and his date are attacked by a hoard of bloody-thirsty zombies - only "Thriller" can save them now.

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Michael Jackson and his date are watching a movie. They leave, and take a shortcut through the graveyard on the way home. Michael turns into a werepanther-type creature, and then later a zombie, as he gets down and funky in a tremendous dance scene to the tune of his song "Thriller."


plot: Freak fatal accidents force a widow to realize her precocious 9-year-old daughter was born to kill.
title: The Bad Seed
released: 1985-02-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:27:05.500000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 1 nomination.
fullplot:
Rachel is a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself - unless she's crossed or challenged. Several disturbing recent incidents have led Rachel's mother Christine to suspect that her child is a latent murderess. Upon discovering that she herself is the daughter of a convicted killer, Christine becomes convinced that sweet little Rachel is a "bad seed" - an inherent killer who feels no remorse because she doesn't know any better.


title: Hail Mary
released: 1985-10-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:07:52.283000000
year: 1985
text: 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel ...

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In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel Gabriel must school Joseph to accept Mary's pregnancy, while Mary comes to terms with God's plan through meditations that are sometimes angry and usually punctuated by elemental images of the sun, moon, clouds, flowers, and water. Godard intercuts a brief parallel story of Eva and her nameless lover; their adulterous affair, rife with philosophical discussions, leads nowhere.


title: Joey
released: 1985-11-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-15 00:09:51.177000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
When Joey's dad dies Joey is starting to act strange. He's got psychic powers. He can talk to him on the phone! His red toy telephone! But what he doesn't know is that he is not talking to ...

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When Joey's dad dies Joey is starting to act strange. He's got psychic powers. He can talk to him on the phone! His red toy telephone! But what he doesn't know is that he is not talking to his dad. He is talking to an evil dummy and the evil dummy is starting to make Joey's world a living nightmare.


title: The Lightship
released: 1986-09-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:40:45.630000000
year: 1985
text: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.

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Just when US Coast Guard captain Miller takes his teenage son Alex to his lightship off the coast of Virginia, Calvin Caspary and two criminal accomplices, on the run for the police, decide to hijack it. What the crazy trio didn't count on is that this small crew doesn't just keep taking it lying low, they will put up a fight. Alex hides dad's gun and wrestles his his war past and courage.


title: Lost in America
released: 1985-08-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:03:38.743000000
year: 1985
text: 2 wins.
plot:
A husband and wife in their 30s decide to quit their jobs, live as free spirits and cruise America in a Winnebago.

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David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives travelling around America...in a Winnebago! (This is a kind of large, luxurious mobile home which suits a 1980's yuppie more than the counterculture dropout approach of Easy Rider.) His idealized, unrealistic plans soon begin to go spectacularly wrong.


plot: A professional hit man and hit woman fall in love.
title: Prizzi's Honor
released: 1985-06-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:44:34.570000000
year: 1985
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 30 wins & 19 nominations.
fullplot:
Charley Partanna is a hit-man who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime syndicate families in the country. Unbeknownst to Charley,the Prizzis just hired Irene Walker, a free-lance killer, to eliminate someone who double-crossed them. When Irene and Charley fall in love their jobs become complicated. Their jobs become impossible when each is given a contract that neither can go through with.


title: To Live and Die in L.A.
released: 1985-11-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:38:23.857000000
year: 1985
text: 3 wins.
plot:
A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.

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Two cops in Los Angeles try to track down the vicious criminal Eric Masters. Then, one of them is killed by Masters and the other one swears revenge no matter what the cost. After that, the hunt becomes an ob- session and the law he once swore to uphold becomes meaningless to him.


title: 84 Charing Cross Road
released: 1987-02-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 01:36:48.277000000
year: 1987
text: Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.

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When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.


title: Alex: The Life of a Child
released: 1986-04-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-15 00:34:34.003000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 4 nominations.
plot:
Based on true events, 'Alex: The Life of a Child' follows former 'Sports Illustrated' writer Frank Deford and his wife Carole when their happy, all-American family is rocked to the core ...

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Based on true events, 'Alex: The Life of a Child' follows former 'Sports Illustrated' writer Frank Deford and his wife Carole when their happy, all-American family is rocked to the core when their baby daughter Alex is diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis. While CF sufferers were almost certainly doomed to an early death in the Seventies, Alex grew into a child who showed remarkable courage and strength in face of her illness. Her loving family were quick to rally around her, determined to show the same bravery as the little girl as they supported and cherished her through life and struggled to move on after her death at the tragically young age of eight.


title: Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:26:48.883000000
year: 1990
text: 4 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A coming-of-age comedy/drama set in Tunisia. Twelve-year-old Noura is an impressionable boy who must learn to reconcile two conflicting worlds - the loving world of Muslim women and the ...

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A coming-of-age comedy/drama set in Tunisia. Twelve-year-old Noura is an impressionable boy who must learn to reconcile two conflicting worlds - the loving world of Muslim women and the vastly different, harsher world of men - while also dealing with his own budding sexuality.


title: Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation
released: 1986-03-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:21:32.717000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
In this second installment to the original Care Bear Movie trilogy of the 1980s, the Care Bear Family goes on their first Caring Mission--to stop the evil doings of a demon villain, named ...

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In this second installment to the original Care Bear Movie trilogy of the 1980s, the Care Bear Family goes on their first Caring Mission--to stop the evil doings of a demon villain, named Dark Heart, from taking over a summer camp while making the Bears and Cousins vanish forever. In exchange for the Family's capture, he gives a camper named Christy the chance to succeed as the "Camp Champ" over her so-named rival. While starting the Kingdom of Caring, its founders (True Heart Bear and Noble Heart Horse) will stop at nothing to end the wrath of the Bears' first villain. Christy's friends, Dawn and John, and the rest of the Family join them in doing so. Narrating the tale is the Great Wishing Star (voiced by Chris Wiggins), who also helps True Heart and Noble Heart start the Kingdom, as both of them take care of the little orphan Cubs.


title: Singing the Blues in Red
released: 1988-01-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-06-16 00:41:56.280000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
A singer swaps the political intimidation of working in East Germany for the equally controlling capitalist music industry in the West.

fullplot:
Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to West Berlin, where the representatives of an American record company are eagerly waiting for him. They plan to exploit his defection from communism both ideologically and financially. But Klaus, as ill-at-ease in the West as he was in the East, is reluctant to be used as an expendable commodity. Leaving his contract unsigned (or signed in his manner), he leaves for Cambridge to meet his father, a concert player, who -just like him - left East Berlin thirty years ago as Klaus was a little boy. He is accompanied by a young French journalist, Emma, who knows where his father has been living since he disappeared for more than a decade. The young lady is cooperative but might hide things from him...


title: Nutcracker
released: 1986-11-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 01:07:26.973000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
The colorful holiday classic is finally brought to the big screen, designed by famed children's story author and artist Maurice Sendak, and written for the first time to be as close as ...

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The colorful holiday classic is finally brought to the big screen, designed by famed children's story author and artist Maurice Sendak, and written for the first time to be as close as possible to the original story. A lavish, exciting and heart-warming celebration of dance, of music, and of life. Based upon the Pacific Northwest Ballet's original production.


title: Pretty in Pink
released: 1986-02-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:51:47.507000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win.
plot:
A poor girl must choose between the affections of her doting childhood sweetheart and a rich but sensitive playboy.

fullplot:
Teenager Andie is one of the not-so-popular girls in high school. She usually hangs out with her friends Iona or Duckie. Duckie has always had a crush on her, but now she has met a new guy at school, Blane. He's one of the rich and popular guys but can the two worlds meet?


title: Radioactive Dreams
released: 1986-09-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-09 00:55:53.680000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, 19 years old, they leave...

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After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, 19 years old, they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants, freaks and cannibals. They become famous detectives in the struggle for the two keys that could fire the last nuclear weapon.


title: Shanghai Surprise
released: 1986-08-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:35:44.620000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win & 6 nominations.
plot:
Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them on a hectic...

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Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them on a hectic, exotic, and even romantic quest for stolen drugs. But they are up against every thug and smuggler in Shangai.


title: Short Circuit
released: 1986-05-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:16:45.500000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.

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Number 5, one of a group of experimental military robots, undergoes a sudden transformation after being struck by lightning. He develops self-awareness, consciousness, and a fear of the reprogramming that awaits him back at the factory. With the help of a young woman, Number 5 tries to evade capture and convince his creator that he has truly become alive.


title: Battletruck
released: 1982-04-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:11:24.407000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win.
plot:
Post World War III futuristic tale of collapsed governments & bankrupt countries heralding a new lawless age.

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Post World War III futuristic tale of collapsed governments & bankrupt countries heralding a new lawless age.


title: Bianca
released: 1984-02-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 01:02:19.423000000
year: 1984
text: 4 nominations.
plot:
Michele is a mathematics professor who just started a new job in a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman in his neighborhood is murdered, Michele meets beautiful ...

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Michele is a mathematics professor who just started a new job in a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman in his neighborhood is murdered, Michele meets beautiful colleague Bianca, and a relationship begins between the two. Where is this relationship heading, and will Michele be able to help the police catch the murderer?


title: Nostalgia
released: 1992-03-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:41:37.960000000
year: 1983
text: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, ...

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The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had imprisoned his own family in his house for seven years to save them from the evils of the world. Seeing some deep truth in Domenico's act, Andrei becomes drawn to him. In a series of dreams, the poet's nostalgia for his homeland and his longing for his wife, his ambivalent feelings for Eugenia and Italy, and his sense of kinship with Domenico become intertwined.


title: Black Shack Alley
released: 1983-09-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-10 00:11:13.637000000
year: 1983
text: 7 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young Josè and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly everyone works cutting cane and barely earning a living. The overseer can fine a worker for ...

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Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young Josè and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly everyone works cutting cane and barely earning a living. The overseer can fine a worker for the smallest infraction. The way to advance is to do well in school. Josè studies hard and succeeds in an exam allowing him to attend school in the capital. With only a partial scholarship, the tuition is very costly. Josè and his grandmother move to Fort-de-France to make Josè's studies easier...


title: Two of a Kind
released: 1983-12-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:05:38.870000000
year: 1983
text: 6 nominations.
plot:
God has had just about enough of the human's attitude so he will destroy the planet very soon. It is up to a struggling inventor and a bank teller, both with very amateur criminal minds, to...

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God has had just about enough of the human's attitude so he will destroy the planet very soon. It is up to a struggling inventor and a bank teller, both with very amateur criminal minds, to save the world...


title: Xtro
released: 1983-01-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:21:10.313000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win.
plot:
Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't...

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Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide what her feelings are for her two men. Sam is not the same as when he left, and he begins affecting Tony in frightening ways.


title: Against All Odds
released: 1984-03-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:38:19.640000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
A gangster hires an ex-football player to find his girlfriend. When he finds her, they fall in love, and the twists start to appear.

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Terry Brogan, an aging football player in L.A., is cut early in the season; he needs money, so he takes a job from a shady friend of his, Jake Wise, to track down Wise's girlfriend, Jessie, who's somewhere in Mexico. She's also the daughter of a very wealthy land developer, who owns Terry's team. He heads for Cozumel, finds Jessie, and promptly falls in love with her. He thinks it's mutual, then without warning, she heads back to L.A. and Jake. What's going on with her, and what's the connection between Jake's hold on Jessie and the various politicians, lawyers, and environmentalists who seem to be converging on some sort of land deal? Terry keeps looking for answers.


title: The Bay Boy
released: 1985-02-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:49:22.883000000
year: 1984
text: 6 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
A teenage boy living in a Cape Breton coal mining community during the 1930's finds himself contemplating life and is haunted by a murder he witnessed in town.

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A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should he become a priest? What should he do about the murder he witnessed, committed by a local cop and upstanding parishioner? And how far should he go with his girl friend, who happens to be the murderer's daughter?


title: Beverly Hills Cop
released: 1984-12-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:42:27.040000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.

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Detroit cop Axel Foley is delighted when he receives a surprise visit from his best friend Mikey Tandino, who lives in California. Not long after Mikey arrives in Detroit, Mikey is killed, right in front of Axel, by a man named Zack. Axel follows Zack to Beverly Hills, California, where Beverly Hills police department Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil assigns Detective Billy Rosewood and Rosewood's partner, Sergeant John Taggart, to keep an eye on Axel. Axel visits his friend Jenny Summers, who works in an art gallery. With Jenny's help, Axel discovers that Zack works for Jenny's boss, Victor Maitland, the man who owns the art gallery. Maitland is a drug kingpin who is using the gallery as a front, and Maitland had Zack kill Mikey after Maitland accused Mikey of stealing some of Maitland's bonds. With the help of Jenny, Billy, and Taggart, Axel does what he can to make sure Maitland and Zack won't kill any more people.


