# film

title: Broadway Danny Rose
released: 1984-01-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:25:20.303000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.

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Danny Rose is a manager of artists, and although he's not very successful, he nevertheless goes out of his way to help his acts. So when Lou Canova, a singer who has a chance of making a come-back, asks Danny to help him with a problem, Danny helps him. This problem is Lou's mistress Tina. Lou wants Tina to be at his concerts, otherwise he can't perform, but he's married, so Danny has to take her along as if she was his girlfriend. Danny however gets more than he has bargained for when two mobsters come looking for the guy who has hurt their brother by stealing the heart of Tina, the girl he loves.


title: Falling in Love
released: 1984-11-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:29:12.333000000
year: 1984
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train ...

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During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married and Frank has two little kids, they meet more and more often, their friendship becoming the most precious thing in their lives.


plot: Thirty years after the original monster's rampage, a new Godzilla emerges and attacks Japan.
title: Godzilla 1985
released: 1985-08-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:59:24.507000000
year: 1984
text: 2 wins & 3 nominations.
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A reporter investigates the disappearance of a ship. He finds the ship and discovers that all the hands have been killed by a giant sea louse except for one. The lone survivor then tells the reporter that the ship was attacked by Godzilla (Gojira). Fearing a panic, the Japanese government then takes the survivor into custody to keep him from revealing that Godzilla has returned. However, a Soviet nuclear submarine is destroyed and the situation puts them and the United States on the brink of nuclear war, until the Japanese decide to come clean and admit that it was Godzilla. Soon the Japan and the rest of the world are on red alert as they wait for Godzilla to begin his rampage anew.


title: Heartbreakers
released: 1984-09-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:11:16.297000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
Blue and Eli, two friends, have problems with women. Blue, a yet-to-be discovered painter is left by his longtime girlfriend, because she considers him too immature for a longlsting ...

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Blue and Eli, two friends, have problems with women. Blue, a yet-to-be discovered painter is left by his longtime girlfriend, because she considers him too immature for a longlsting relationship. Eli on the other hand, who works in his father's aerobic suit business, is still searching for a woman who is interesting enough to spend more than one night with her. Their friendship is put to a severe test as both fall in love with Liliane, Blue's attractive new gallerist.


title: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
released: 1984-05-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:04:57.350000000
year: 1984
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 19 nominations.
plot:
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees, and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.

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Set in 1935, a professor, archaeologist, and legendary hero by the name of Indiana Jones is back in action in his newest adventure. But this time he teams up with a night club singer named Wilhelmina "Willie" Scott and a twelve-year-old boy named Short Round. They end up in an Indian small distressed village, where the people believe that evil spirits have taken all their children away after a sacred precious stone was stolen! They also discovered the great mysterious terror surrounding a booby-trapped temple known as the Temple of Doom! Thuggee is beginning to attempt to rise once more, believing that with the power of all five Sankara stones they can rule the world! Now, it's all up to Indiana to put an end to the Thuggee campaign, rescue the lost children, win the girl and conquer the Temple of Doom.


title: Purple Rain
released: 1984-07-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 05:39:24.340000000
year: 1984
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A young musician, tormented by an abusive situation at home, must contend with a rival singer, a burgeoning romance and his own dissatisfied band as his star begins to rise.

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A young man with a talent for music has begun a career with much promise. He meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn't all that he needs. A complicated tale of his repeating his father's self destructive behavior, losing Apollonia to another singer (Morris Day), and his coming to grips with his own connection to other people ensues.


title: Savage Streets
released: 1984-10-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 01:11:52.930000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win.
plot:
A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and killed her best friend.

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An altercation between a group of girls out for the night and a gang of local punks leaves the punks vowing revenge. It comes in the form of the gang-rape of a young mute (Heather) and her older sister (Brenda) starts hunting the gang in turn - armed with bear traps and crossbow.


title: Tank
released: 1984-03-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:19:26.883000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Sergeant Major Zak Carey is serving what is his final tour of duty at an Army base in Clemens, Georgia. Zak doesn't like the way the Army keeps the base and the bar is not what he's ...

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Sergeant Major Zak Carey is serving what is his final tour of duty at an Army base in Clemens, Georgia. Zak doesn't like the way the Army keeps the base and the bar is not what he's accustomed to. So he goes off base to get a beer. When he goes to the bar one of the local prostitutes tries to come on to Zak but Zak turns her down. That's when the deputy who appears to be her pimp beating her up. That's when Zak strikes him. Later he learns that the Sheriff is corrupt and takes what happened to the Deputy as an attack on him and tries to get Zak but the Army backs him and Zak is not intimidated. That's when they arrest his son on trumped up drug charges. Before Zak can fix it, his wife tries to get a lawyer for their son but this only pushes the Sheriff to send their son to a prison farm. With no other recourse Zak gets into his own vintage Sherman Tank and busts his son out and they try to make it to the state line so that they can expose the Sheriff.


title: Swann in Love
released: 1984-02-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:17:40.157000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 2 wins.
plot:
Elegant and educated bachelor, Charles Swann, moves in the most powerful and fashionable circles of Paris in the 1890's. When he falls in love with Odette de Crecy, a courtesan, his friends...

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Elegant and educated bachelor, Charles Swann, moves in the most powerful and fashionable circles of Paris in the 1890's. When he falls in love with Odette de Crecy, a courtesan, his friends warn him against marriage. Proving himself a silly and socially-foul goose, Swann ducks his social responsibilities, Odette ensnares him, and he is gently but firmly cast out of society amidst everyone's great politeness.


title: Alice in Wonderland
released: 1985-12-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 06:35:34.507000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 5 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
Alice is in Looking Glass land, where she meets many Looking Glass creatures and attempts to avoid the Jabberwocky, a monster that appears due to her being afraid.

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Classic tale of a girl named Alice who follows a white rabbit down a hole into Wonderland, where she can change sizes by eating and drinking and animals talk. After escaping the disturbing Queen of Hearts, she finds that she has ended up on the other side of the looking glass in Looking Glass Land and that there is a mind-created Jabberwocky after her. With the advice of a wise owl and royal chess pieces on her mind, she ventures home, vowing to grow up in this two-part movie which remains most faithful to the original stories written by Lewis Carroll.


title: F/X
released: 1986-02-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:16:22.557000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A movie special effects man is hired to fake a real-life mob killing for a witness protection plan, but finds his own life in danger.

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A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double crosses him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.


title: King Solomon's Mines
released: 1985-11-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:35:49.047000000
year: 1985
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing father lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.

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Allan Quatermain is a fortune hunter who is convinced by Jesse Huston to help her find her father, who's been lost somewhere in the African jungle during his last exploration.


title: Kiss of the Spider Woman
released: 1985-07-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:00:30.533000000
year: 1985
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison. Luis, a trans individual, is found guilty of immoral behavior and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape ...

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Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison. Luis, a trans individual, is found guilty of immoral behavior and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on the situation he's in. During the time they spend together, the two men come to understand and respect one another.


plot: A race of space vampires arrive in London and infect the populace.
title: Lifeforce
released: 1985-06-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:43:48.543000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
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The space shuttle Churchill is assigned to observe the Halley's Comet under the command of Col. Tom Carlsen. They see a strange form attached to the comet and Carlsen goes with a team to investigate. They find three humanoid life forms in caskets and they bring them to the Churchill. However, Earth loses contact with the shuttle and the Space Research Center sends another spacecraft to search the Churchill. They find the crew dead and the shuttle burnt and one rescue pod missing. They bring the humanoids to Earth and soon Dr. Hans Fallada and his team discover that the Space Girl is a sort of vampire and drains the life force from people transforming them into zombies. When the authorities find that Col. Tom Carlsen has survived, they summon him to explain what happened in the Churchill. Carlsen tells an incredible story about the three aliens and he teams up with Col. Colin Caine trying to save mankind from the evil vampires from the space.


title: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
released: 1985-11-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:19:57.283000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by Freddy Krueger who is out to possess him to continue his murdering in the real world.

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A new family moves into the house on Elm Street, and before long, the kids are again having nightmares about deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger. This time, Freddy attempts to possess a teenage boy to cause havoc in the real world, and can only be overcome if the boy's sweetheart can master her fear.


plot: In 1930s New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.
title: The Purple Rose of Cairo
released: 1985-05-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:33:33.797000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 17 wins & 11 nominations.
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Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey during the Depression and is searching for an escape from her dreary life. Tom Baxter is a dashing young archaeologist in the film "The Purple Rose of Cairo." After losing her job Cecilia goes to see the film in hopes of raising her spirits. Much to her surprise Tom Baxter walks off the screen and into her life. There's only one problem..Tom isn't real. Meanwhile Hollywood is up in arms when they dicover that other Tom Baxters are trying to leave the screen in other theatres. Will Tom ever return and finish the film or will he decide to stay in the real world?


title: Rocky IV
released: 1985-11-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:01:11.033000000
year: 1985
text: 9 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
After iron man Drago, a highly intimidating 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet athlete, kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition match, Rocky comes to the heart of Russia for 15 pile-driving boxing rounds of revenge.

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Rocky Balboa, heavyweight champion of the world, is the trainer for Apollo Creed in an exhibition match against Ivan Drago, a "superman" boxer from the Soviet Union. When Apollo is killed in the ring by the brutal Drago, Balboa blames himself and promises to avenge his friend's death in the ring.


plot: A misfit bunch of friends come together to right the injustices which exist in a small town.
title: Silverado
released: 1985-07-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:05:55.133000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
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In 1880, four men travel together to the city of Silverado. They come across with many dangers before they finally engage the "bad guys" and bring peace and equality back to the city.


title: The Toxic Avenger
released: 1986-04-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:51:22.620000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when mop boy Melvin Junko falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.

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This is the story of Melvin, the Tromaville Health Club mop boy, who inadvertently and naively trusts the hedonistic, contemptuous and vain health club members, to the point of accidentally ending up in a vat of toxic waste. The devastating results then have a transmogrification effect, his alter ego is released, and the Toxic Avenger is born, to deadly and comical results. The local mop boy is now the local Superhero, the saviour of corruption, thuggish bullies and indifference. Troma classic with good make-up effects and stunts, a pleasant surprise indeed.


title: Year of the Dragon
released: 1985-08-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:42:42.353000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 win & 7 nominations.
plot:
A police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders.

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Using unprecedented degrees of violence, young Joey Tai becomes the head of Chinese mafia in New York and undisputed leader of the Chinese community. Stanley White, the most decorated cop in New York and a Vietnam veteran, is put in charge of Chinatown. Both men are prone to breaking long-established rules and both men are unlikely to make compromises with each other, which leads to unavoidable and bloody conflict.


title: The Assault
released: 1986-02-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:44:39.040000000
year: 1986
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins.
plot:
In January 1945, during the 2nd world-war, the Dutch resistance kills a collaborator in the street where the 12 year old Anton Steenwijk lives. The man was shot in front of his neighbors ...

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In January 1945, during the 2nd world-war, the Dutch resistance kills a collaborator in the street where the 12 year old Anton Steenwijk lives. The man was shot in front of his neighbors house, but is moved by them to the house of the family Steenwijk. Because of this, his father, mother and brother are killed by the Germans, and their house is set to fire. During his life, Anton meets several people that tell him more about what really happened on the night of the assault.


title: The Boy Who Could Fly
released: 1986-08-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-15 00:34:42.567000000
year: 1986
text: 3 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
An autistic boy who dreams of flying touches everyone he meets, including a new family who has moved in after their father dies.

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Charlene Michaelson, her two children - teen-aged Amelia 'Milly' Michaelson and precocious adolescent Louis Michaelson - and their dog Max move into a new house in a new neighborhood after the passing of Charlene's husband/the kids' father, Donald Michaelson. Beyond life without Donald, they are all nervous about starting a new life, which, for Charlene, means getting back into the workforce after thirteen years. Milly quickly settles into the neighborhood if only because she becomes fascinated with their next door neighbor, teen-aged Eric Gibb, who authorities believe is autistic. Orphaned Eric has never spoken a word, and without having been told about the incident, began to think he could fly at the exact moment his parents died in a plane crash. Many believe Eric's belief is because he felt he could thus save his parents. Eric's guardian is his dipsomaniac Uncle Hugo Gibb. Milly's high school teacher, Mrs. Carolyn Sherman, who used to be a special needs teacher, looks after Eric as much as anyone. Mrs. Sherman believes that having Eric in her class with "normal" students is a positive environment for him, unlike the authorities who believe he should be institutionalized. Milly's official and unofficial tasks become to see what lies deep within Eric's psyche, and if there really is any validity to what people think Eric believes.


title: Crimes of the Heart
released: 1987-01-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:38:49.233000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and ...

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Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it in Hollywood as a singer/actress, has had a wild life filled with many men. Their reunion causes much joy, but also many tensions.


title: The Delta Force
released: 1986-02-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:41:47.510000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A 707 aircraft jetliner on its way from Athens to Rome and then to New York City is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists. The terrorists demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the ...

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A 707 aircraft jetliner on its way from Athens to Rome and then to New York City is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists. The terrorists demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandoes led by Major McCoy (Norris) and by Colonel Alexander (Marvin) as been called into service to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner and who's involved in the hijacking and try to retake the plane before the terrorists kill all the hostages.


title: Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI
released: 1986-08-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:23:05.657000000
year: 1986
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Tommy Jarvis goes to the graveyard to get rid of Jason Voorhees' body once and for all, but inadvertently brings him back to life instead. The newly revived killer once again seeks revenge, and Tommy may be the only one who can defeat him.

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Tommy Jarvis returns to the graveyard to make sure Jason Voorhees is dead and accidentally brings him back to life. Now it's up to Tommy to stop Jason's mindless killing and put him back where he belongs.


title: Half Moon Street
released: 1986-09-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:43:15.620000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Dr. Slaughter, a researcher in London who works as a high class hooker in her spare time, becomes a pawn in a dangerous political game, when her latest john Lord Bulbeck, who's negotiating an Arab-Israeli peace treaty, falls for her.

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Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated by her job. To supplement her income, she starts moonlighting at the Jasmine Escort Service, where she has more control over men and money than she does at the office. On one of her 'dates', Lauren meets the politician Lord Bulbeck who is trying to mediate a peace accord between the Arabs and Israelis. Bulbeck falls in love with his escort, and unwittingly, Lauren becomes a pawn in some very dirty politics.


title: Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
released: 1986-05-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:37:26.470000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
After severely burning himself in a drug incident, a comedian has a near death experience in which he reviews his life.

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In this film that closely parallels his own life story, Richard Pryor plays Jo Jo Dancer, a popular stand-up comedian who has severely burned himself in a drug incident. As he lies unconscious in a hospital, his spiritual alter ego gets up and begins a journey of his own. He revisits his life, from growing up in a brothel as a child and struggling to beat the long odds to become a top rated comedian. However, his success brings new problems as he develops a tragic pattern of substance abuse that begins to screw up his life. All the while, Jo Jo's spirit watches these events and attempts to convince his past self to turn off from his path of self destruction.


title: The Mission
released: 1986-10-31 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:03:44.947000000
year: 1986
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 14 wins & 25 nominations.
plot:
18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.

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Jeremy Irons plays a Spanish Jesuit who goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region. Robert DeNiro plays a slave hunter who is converted and joins Irons in his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.


title: The Name of the Rose
released: 1986-09-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 08:23:17.540000000
year: 1986
text: Won 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 15 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
An intellectually nonconformist monk investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.


title: Working Girls
released: 1987-03-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:59:54.593000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
A day in the life of several prostitutes in an upscale Manhattan whore house. The film is a stark portrayal of the women prostitutes, the male customers and the motivations of both. Watch ...

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A day in the life of several prostitutes in an upscale Manhattan whore house. The film is a stark portrayal of the women prostitutes, the male customers and the motivations of both. Watch as the madam manipulates her "girls". Watch as she answers the phone by saying "Hello John, what's new and different?" Watch as the "johns" try to manipulate the "girls". Part nudie exploitation, part sociological thesis.


title: Project A 2
released: 1987-08-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:37:10.790000000
year: 1987
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Dragon is now transferred to be the police head of Sai Wan district, and has to contend with a gangster kingpin, anti-Manchu revolutionaries, some runaway pirates, Manchu Loyalists and a corrupt police superintendent.

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Dragon Ma is back, having rid the seas of the dreaded Pirate Lo. Back on land, he is assigned to the police force, where he is to clean up corruption and crime in a local suburb. Along the way, he is caught up in the fate of several Chinese patriots attempting to secure sympathy and support for their revolutionary cause. The Chinese Manchu government is after these revolutionaries, and anyone that stands in their way is in trouble, even if they are in the police force.


title: Amazing Grace and Chuck
released: 1987-10-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 00:33:39.960000000
year: 1987
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A little league player named Chuck refuses to ever pitch again until nuclear weapons are disarmed. Basketball star "Amazing Grace" Smith follows the boy's example, and starts a trend.

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Chuck Murdock is an all American kid living in a sleepy town in Montana. He is the top pitcher of the little league team as well. After taking a tour of a nuclear silo, Chuck decides to quit playing little league until nuclear weapons are disarmed. Boston Celtic Amazing Grace Smith hears about Chuck's exploits, and decides to do the same thing. Amazing then moves to the young boy's town to live. More athletes follow suit as well. The town begins to hate Chuck and his family, and this makes Chuck's father angry. But can one kid's message make the world listen?


title: Tempest
released: 1982-08-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:04:59.897000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek ...

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A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island where he hopes to conjure meaning into his life - trying the patience of his new girlfriend and angst-ridden teenage daughter.


title: TRON
released: 1982-07-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:56:57.497000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 6 nominations.
plot:
A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.

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Hacker/arcade owner Kevin Flynn is digitally broken down into a data stream by a villainous software pirate known as Master Control and reconstituted into the internal, 3-D graphical world of computers. It is there, in the ultimate blazingly colorful, geometrically intense landscapes of cyberspace, that Flynn joins forces with Tron to outmaneuver the Master Control Program that holds them captive in the equivalent of a gigantic, infinitely challenging computer game.


title: Yol
released: 1982-09-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:00:17.877000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 6 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A harsh portrait of Turkey, its people and its authorities, shown through the stories of five prisoners given a week's home leave, and the problems they encounter in adjusting to the world ...

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A harsh portrait of Turkey, its people and its authorities, shown through the stories of five prisoners given a week's home leave, and the problems they encounter in adjusting to the world outside.


title: The Dresser
released: 1983-12-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:48:23.377000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 12 nominations.
plot:
An effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Lear.

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In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.


title: Halloween III: Season of the Witch
released: 1982-10-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:13:16.200000000
year: 1982
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Kids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween. Doctor Daniel Challis seeks to uncover a plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran.

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An apparent murder-suicide in a hospital emergency room leads to an investigation by the on-call doctor, which reveals a plot by an insane toymaker to kill as many people as possible during Halloween through an ancient Celtic ritual involving a stolen boulder from Stonehenge and Halloween masks.


title: Hanna K.
released: 1983-09-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-29 00:23:16.800000000
year: 1983
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
An Israeli lawyer is defending a Palestinian charged by The Military Court System in the Israeli-Occupied Territories. It's a tough case because of a strong political background.

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An Israeli lawyer is defending a Palestinian charged by The Military Court System in the Israeli-Occupied Territories. It's a tough case because of a strong political background.


plot: In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel while succumbing to greed.
title: Scarface
released: 1983-12-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:14:22.460000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 3 nominations.
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Tony Montana manages to leave Cuba during the Mariel exodus of 1980. He finds himself in a Florida refugee camp but his friend Manny has a way out for them: undertake a contract killing and arrangements will be made to get a green card. He's soon working for drug dealer Frank Lopez and shows his mettle when a deal with Columbian drug dealers goes bad. He also brings a new level of violence to Miami. Tony is protective of his younger sister but his mother knows what he does for a living and disowns him. Tony is impatient and wants it all however, including Frank's empire and his mistress Elvira Hancock. Once at the top however, Tony's outrageous actions make him a target and everything comes crumbling down.


title: Strange Invaders
released: 1983-09-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:30:26.937000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 6 nominations.
plot:
Charlie's ex-wife disappears, and he travels to where she grew up--a rural town in the Midwest--to look for her. But, surprisingly, nobody knows about her or any of her many relatives, the ...

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Charlie's ex-wife disappears, and he travels to where she grew up--a rural town in the Midwest--to look for her. But, surprisingly, nobody knows about her or any of her many relatives, the Newmans. He meets aliens; but when he contacts the FBI, they don't believe him. He tells his story to a tabloid; and suddenly, he is chased by the aliens.


title: Table for Five
released: 1983-03-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:48:55.687000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
J. P. Tannen takes his three children for a vacation cruise. They usually live with their mother and step-father, but now J. P. feels capable of taking them. Emotional tragedy strikes, ...

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J. P. Tannen takes his three children for a vacation cruise. They usually live with their mother and step-father, but now J. P. feels capable of taking them. Emotional tragedy strikes, causing battles parent against parent, and parent against child. J. P. tries to show his children that he loves them.


title: Tender Mercies
released: 1983-06-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 01:03:31.883000000
year: 1983
text: Won 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 10 nominations.
plot:
A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.

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Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.


plot: A joint U.S.-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn what happened to the Discovery.
title: 2010
released: 1984-12-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:30:25.533000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 1 win & 3 nominations.
fullplot:
In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, a joint American- Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to discover what went wrong with the U.S.S. Discovery against a backdrop of growing global tensions. Among the mysteries the expedition must explain are the appearance of a huge black monolith in Jupiter's orbit and the fate of H.A.L., the Discovery's sentient computer. Based on a novel written by Arthur C. Clarke.


title: Another Country
released: 1984-06-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:02:37.803000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 3 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.

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Based on the award winning play by Julian Mitchell, the film explores the effect of Public School life in the 1930's on Guy Bennett as his homosexuality and unwillingness to "play the game" turns him eastwards towards communist Russia.


title: Blind Date
released: 1984-06-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:16:48.313000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win.
plot:
A man goes blind when remembering his lost girlfriend, but the doctors can't find anything wrong with his eyes. They fit him with an experimental device which allows him to see with the aid...

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A man goes blind when remembering his lost girlfriend, but the doctors can't find anything wrong with his eyes. They fit him with an experimental device which allows him to see with the aid of a computer interface and brain electrodes. Meanwhile, a taxi driver is taking young women up to their apartments, giving them gas, and performing a little fatal amateur surgery on them. Their paths inevitably converge, and the blind man must try to stop the psychopath.


title: Bolero
released: 1984-08-31 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:42:21.750000000
year: 1984
text: 6 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
Follows the tale of a young woman's sexual awakening and subsequent journey around the world in pursuit of her ideal lover. Encounters include an Arabian sheik and a Spanish bullfighter. ...

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Follows the tale of a young woman's sexual awakening and subsequent journey around the world in pursuit of her ideal lover. Encounters include an Arabian sheik and a Spanish bullfighter. Her friend and butler accompany her and help to arrange her couplings. Moderate nudity and soft-porn.


title: Crimes of Passion
released: 1984-10-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:35:36.813000000
year: 1984
text: 3 wins.
plot:
The thirty year-old hard-worker Bobby Grady is married with two children with the frigid Amy Grady and their marriage is in crisis. Bobby is invited to work in the night shift for the owner...

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The thirty year-old hard-worker Bobby Grady is married with two children with the frigid Amy Grady and their marriage is in crisis. Bobby is invited to work in the night shift for the owner of a fashion designer studio that believes that his talented designer Joanna Crane, who is very introspective, is selling his designs to competitors. Bobby accepts the job to make money and please Amy with a bathtub and follows Joanna after hours. He discovers that she has a double life, working as a fifty-dollar hooker called China Blue in the red light district and practicing kinky sex with her clients to satisfy their fantasies. Bobby becomes obsessed by China Blue and when the true thief is found, he has sex with her and they have a crush on each other. Meanwhile the insane preacher Rev. Peter Shayne (Anthony Perkins) decides to save Joanna's soul and stalks her everywhere.


title: Footloose
released: 1984-02-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:53:02.620000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.

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Classic tale of teenage rebellion and repression features a delightful combination of dance choreography and realistic and touching performances. When teenager Ren McCormack and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small Midwestern town, he's in for a real case of culture shock. Though he tries hard to fit in, the streetwise Ren can't quite believe he's living in a place where rock music and dancing are illegal. However, there is one small pleasure: Ariel Moore, a troubled but lovely blonde with a jealous boyfriend. And a Bible-thumping minister, who is responsible for keeping the town dance-free. Ren and his classmates want to do away with this ordinance, especially since the senior prom is around the corner, but only Ren has the courage to initiate a battle to abolish the outmoded ban and revitalize the spirit of the repressed townspeople. Fast-paced drama is filled with such now-famous hit songs as the title track and "Let's Hear It for the Boy".


title: Once Upon a Time in America
released: 1984-09-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:01:35.550000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 13 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

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Epic tale of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York, from childhood, through their glory years during prohibition, and their meeting again 35 years later.


title: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
released: 1984-06-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:39:37.030000000
year: 1984
text: 7 nominations.
plot:
Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis planet to recover Spock's body.

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Following Kirk's encounter with Khan that left the Enterprise severely damaged and Spock dead, they return to Starfleet so that Enterprise could be repaired. Kirk's hoping to go back to the newly-created Genesis planet where he laid Spock to rest. But upon arriving, he is told that the Enterprise will not be repaired and that Genesis has become a delicate matter and until it is resolved, no one is allowed to go there or talk about it. McCoy is also acting strangely and is later detained when he starts talking about Genesis. Kirk is visited by Spock's father Sarek, who tells him that he betrayed Spock because being placed on Genesis was not what he would have wanted. He tells Kirk he is supposed to bring Spock's body along with his soul or katra as the Vulcans call it which he passes onto someone, and bring it to Vulcan for the final rites. Sarek assumes Kirk would have it but he does not. Kirk then thinks that Spock may have passed it someone else and realizes McCoy is the one who has which is why he is acting weird. Sarek tells Kirk he must bring both Spock's body and McCoy who has his soul to Vulcan so that they could be at peace. Kirk asks permission but his request is refused. Kirk then along with the others decides to take the Enterprise and proceed to Genesis to get Spock's body. But what they do not know is that the Klingons, who upon learning of Genesis, sets out to get it, so they go there and destroy the science vessel sent to evaluate Genesis. They capture Lieutenant Saavik and Kirk's son David who go to the planet and discover that Spock was somehow regenerated and that the planet is aging rapidly.


plot: An African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.
title: A Soldier's Story
released: 1984-11-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 01:03:34.567000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 6 nominations.
fullplot:
A black soldier is killed while returning to his base in the deep south. The white people of the area are suspected at first. A tough black army attorney is brought in to find out the truth. We find out a bit more about the dead soldier in flashbacks - and that he was unpopular. Will the attorney find the killer ?


plot: A expedition to Titan uncovers an alien being, that goes on a rampage.
title: Creature
released: 1985-05-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:12:35.727000000
year: 1985
text: 2 nominations.
fullplot:
A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans' bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures, awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them.


title: Defense of the Realm
released: 1986-11-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-01 00:54:23.563000000
year: 1986
text: Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 6 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
After a newspaper reporter helps expose a Member of Parliament as a possible spy, he finds that there's much more to the story than that.

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A reporter Mullen 'stumbles' on a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent. In fact it is also linked to a near Nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and an Americal USAF base. Has there been a Government cover-up,Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam the MP's assistant to find out the truth.


title: Dètective
released: 1985-08-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 01:16:42.147000000
year: 1985
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
In a palace of Paris. Two detectives are investigating a two-year-old murder. Emile and Francoise Chenal are putting pressure on Jim Fox Warner, a boxing manager, who owes them a huge ...

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In a palace of Paris. Two detectives are investigating a two-year-old murder. Emile and Francoise Chenal are putting pressure on Jim Fox Warner, a boxing manager, who owes them a huge amount of money. But Jim also owes money to the Mafia, and it seems the boxing match he is counting on to bail out will not be sufficient...


title: Fool for Love
released: 1986-05-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:13:31.383000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.

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May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.


title: Just One of the Guys
released: 1985-04-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:06:46.007000000
year: 1985
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
Terry Griffith has got it all -- looks, popularity, the perfect college boyfriend, and an article that's a shoo-in to win her a summer internship at the local newspaper... or so she thinks....

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Terry Griffith has got it all -- looks, popularity, the perfect college boyfriend, and an article that's a shoo-in to win her a summer internship at the local newspaper... or so she thinks. When Terry's journalism teacher passes her article up in favor of a couple of pieces written by boys, Terry is convinced that sexism is to blame. Determined to win the internship at any cost, Terry goes undercover at a rival high school to resubmit her article... as a boy. But Terry gets more than she bargained for when she finds herself fending off a bully and the advances of an oversexed female admirer, and falling for her new pal Rick.


title: Ladyhawke
released: 1985-04-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:23:34.657000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
Philipe Gastone, a thief, escapes from the dungeon at Aquila, sparking a manhunt. He is nearly captured when Captain Navarre befriends him. Navarre has been hunted by the Bishop's men for ...

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Philipe Gastone, a thief, escapes from the dungeon at Aquila, sparking a manhunt. He is nearly captured when Captain Navarre befriends him. Navarre has been hunted by the Bishop's men for two years, ever since he escaped with the Lady Isabeau who the Bishop has lusted after. Navarre and Isabeau have a curse that the Bishop has placed on them that causes Navarre to be a wolf during the night and Isabeau to be a hawk during the day. Navarre insists that Philipe help him re-enter the city to help him kill the heavily guarded Bishop.


plot: The Griswolds win a vacation tour across Europe where the usual havoc ensues.
title: National Lampoon's European Vacation
released: 1985-07-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 13:00:15.580000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
fullplot:
The Griswolds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and thus pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but they just don't know how to be be good tourists. Besides, they have trouble taking holidays in countries where they CAN speak the language...


title: When Father Was Away on Business
released: 1985-10-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:07:32.030000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper ...

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Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison. The story is told from the perspective of Malik, his young son who believes the mother's story about father being "away on business".


title: Plenty
released: 1985-09-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:40:27.133000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 4 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A young Englishwoman spends 20 years to make whatever kind of life for herself at the expense of others around her in post-World War 2 England.

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Susan Traherne has been irreparably changed by her wartime experiences as a Resistance fighter. She sets out in the post-war world to make her way to what she wants, no matter who is hurt, or how.


title: Lorca and the Outlaws
released: 1987-04-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-05-03 02:18:40.433000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Things are not going well on the mining planet Ordessa: the conditions are awful, the workers are disgruntled and the management is cracking down by using killer security robots. Only the ...

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Things are not going well on the mining planet Ordessa: the conditions are awful, the workers are disgruntled and the management is cracking down by using killer security robots. Only the underground resistence movement, led by Lorca, has a chance of turning around the brutal regime, but the management has hired Danny the bounty hunter to track him and his followers down. Will any of them stand a chance against the brutal hunter and his robot assistants?


plot: Two high school nerds attempt to create the perfect woman, but she turns out to be more than that.
title: Weird Science
released: 1985-08-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:47:47.567000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
fullplot:
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men. On their road to becoming accepted, they encounter many hilarious obstacles, which gives the movie an overall sense of silliness.


title: Young Sherlock Holmes
released: 1985-12-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:15:28.970000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by an Egyptian cult, they move to stop it.


title: El amor brujo
released: 1986-12-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-18 00:19:27.053000000
year: 1986
text: 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and Josè promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful Josè marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucèa in a brawl, he...

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In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and Josè promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful Josè marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucèa in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. Carmelo, who secretly loves Candela since he was a boy, is arrested while helping Josè and unfairly sent to prison. Four years later he is released and declares his love for Candela. However, the woman is cursed by a bewitched love and every night she goes to the place where Josè died to dance with his ghost.


title: The Boy in Blue
released: 1986-01-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:09:31.853000000
year: 1986
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
Based on the life of Ned Hanlan, the late-19th century Canadian sculler and world champion. Hanlan was one of the first scullers to successfully utilize the "sliding seat."

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Based on the life of Ned Hanlan, the late-19th century Canadian sculler and world champion. Hanlan was one of the first scullers to successfully utilize the "sliding seat."


plot: A woman takes revenge on the man who invades her home and tries to rape her.
title: Extremities
released: 1986-08-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:19:45.827000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win.
fullplot:
An intended rape victim manages to escape from her attacker but leaves her purse behind. Worried that he may visit her house and finish what he has started, she contacts the police but they are unable to help, saying that she has no proof. "If he calls, let us know and we'll send a man round!" A fat load of good that would be. Her worst fears are realised when, alone one day in the house, her attacker visits and attempts again to rape her. Circumstances allow her not only to resist the attack but to turn the tables and lock him away. And that is where her dilemma really starts. Does she release him and risk another attack? Does she go to the police and risk being called a liar? Or does she kill him - and become as low as him?


title: Gothic
released: 1987-04-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:50:48.603000000
year: 1986
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Story of the night that Mary Shelley gave birth to the horror classic "Frankenstein." Disturbed drug induced games are played and ghost stories are told one rainy night at the mad Lord ...

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Story of the night that Mary Shelley gave birth to the horror classic "Frankenstein." Disturbed drug induced games are played and ghost stories are told one rainy night at the mad Lord Byron's country estate. Personal horrors are revealed and the madness of the evening runs from sexual fantasy to fiercest nightmare. Mary finds herself drawn into the sick world of her lover Shelley and cousin Claire as Byron leads them all down the dark paths of their souls.


title: Howard the Duck
released: 1986-08-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:29:52.887000000
year: 1986
text: 5 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth where he must stop an alien invader.

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A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet. But then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...


title: Hoosiers
released: 1987-02-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 01:00:18
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship.

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Based on the true story of a small-town Indiana team that made the state finals in 1954, this movie chronicles the attempts of a coach with a spotty past, and the town's basketball-loving drunk to lead their high school team to victory.


title: Power
released: 1986-01-31 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:35:55.623000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit ...

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Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade. In parallel and unaware of the potential dangers, he proceeds to unravel the mystery surrounding Hastings dropping out with the aide of his ex-wife, a prominent Washington-based journalist. But interests more powerful than local arm wrestling are at stake and things start getting awry.


plot: An underemployed reporter finds himself literally purchased as a toy for a rich spoiled brat.
title: The Toy
released: 1982-12-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 17:30:34.087000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win.
fullplot:
On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.


plot: A teenager loses his horse in Morocco and gets him back after various daredevil adventures.
title: The Black Stallion Returns
released: 1983-03-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:11:18.033000000
year: 1983
text: 1 nomination.
fullplot:
The Black is stolen from Alec by his former Arabian owners. Alec sets off on an adventure to Arabia to reclaim his beloved horse. Based on the books by Walter Farley.


title: Cujo
released: 1983-08-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:42:02.890000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

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Donna Trenton is a frustrated suburban housewife whose life is a turmoil after her husband learns about her having an affair. Brett Camber is a young boy whose only companion is a Saint-Bernard named "Cujo", who in turn is bitten by a rabid bat. Whilst Vic, Donna's husband is away on business, and thinking over his marital troubles, Donna and her 5-year-old son Tad take her Pinto to Brett Cambers' dad's car shop... the car fails, and "Cujo" is very, very sick...


plot: A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.
title: Flashdance
released: 1983-04-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:46:55.150000000
year: 1983
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 14 nominations.
fullplot:
Alex Owens is a female dynamo: steel worker by day, exotic dancer by night. Her dream is to get into a real dance company, though, and with encouragement from her boss/boyfriend, she may get her chance. The city of Pittsburgh co-stars. What a feeling!


title: Last Night at the Alamo
released: 1984-07-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:51:44.200000000
year: 1983
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Cowboy, and assorted blue collar buddies, inneffectually try to save a true Texas Honky Tonk from closing for good.

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The cheerless events on the last night in the existence of a little suburban Houston pub. It has to be closed down for development reasons but one of the regular customers, Cowboy, seems to have friends in high places.


title: Local Hero
released: 1983-02-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 23:36:35.450000000
year: 1983
text: Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

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Oil billionaire Happer sends Mac to a remote Scotish villiage to secure the property rights for an oil refinery they want to build. Mac teams up with Danny and starts the negotiations, the locals are keen to get their hands on the 'Silver Dollar' and can't believe their luck. However a local hermit and beach scavenger, Ben Knox, lives in a shack on the crucial beach which he also owns. Happer is more interested in the Northern Lights and Danny in a surreal girl with webbed feet, Marina. Mac is used to a Houston office with fax machines but is forced to negotiate on Bens terms.


title: Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
released: 1983-05-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:05:08.857000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 15 nominations.
plot:
After rescuing Han Solo from the palace of Jabba the Hutt, the rebels attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to make Vader return from the dark side of the Force.

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Darth Vader and the Empire are building a new, indestructible Death Star. Meanwhile, Han Solo has been imprisoned, and Luke Skywalker has sent R2-D2 and C-3PO to try and free him. Princess Leia - disguised as a bounty hunter - and Chewbacca go along as well. The final battle takes place on the moon of Endor, with its natural inhabitants, the Ewoks, lending a hand to the Rebels. Will Darth Vader and the Dark Side overcome the Rebels and take over the universe?


title: Strange Brew
released: 1983-08-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 12:56:08.543000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win.
plot:
Canada's most famous hosers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, get jobs at the Elsinore Brewery, only to learn that something is rotten with the state of it.

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Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug Mackenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the brewery founder's daughter Pam regain the brewery founded by her recently-deceased father. But to do so, they must confront the suspicious brew master and two teams of vicious hockey players.


title: Stroker Ace
released: 1983-07-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:49:43.797000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
The title character, a popular NASCAR driver, clashes with the fried-chicken mogul that sponsors his racing team.

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Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he's told. In between rebelling against his sponsor (a fried chicken chain)'s promotion gimmicks (like making him dress up in giant chicken suit) he spends the rest of the movie trying to bed the buxom Pembrook.


title: Life Is a Bed of Roses
released: 1983-04-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:44:42.960000000
year: 1983
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. After the war he uses it to start a utopian society by ...

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Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. After the war he uses it to start a utopian society by brainwashing his friends, including his former fiancee, Livia, and her husband. In the present day, the castle is being used as an alternative school and, in the summer holidays, for an educational conference. At the conference, the American Nora Winkle bets Claudine that the ernest public school teacher Elisabeth Rousseau will be enticed into the bed of Robert Dufresne, even though the principal speaker, Walter Guarini, is obviously interested in Elisabeth. Meanwhile, the children staying at the castle over the holidays invent their own medieval tale about freeing prisoners from the dungeons.


title: è nos amours
released: 1983-11-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 01:17:02.210000000
year: 1983
text: 3 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
Suzanne is 15 and is having sex with many boys, just for fun, but did not manage to really love one of them. Her family does not understand her. The father does not like her behaviour. When...

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Suzanne is 15 and is having sex with many boys, just for fun, but did not manage to really love one of them. Her family does not understand her. The father does not like her behaviour. When he leaves home, the mother becomes a little bit neurotic. And Suzanne's brother Robert, begins to beat her as a punishment...


title: Harry & Son
released: 1984-03-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:13:20.240000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Harry Keach has been widowed for two years and works as a demolition crane operator on a demolition crew.

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Harry Keach has been widowed for two years and works as a bulldozer operator on a construction crew. Despite having a strong work ethic, that working life is cut short when health issues lead to him no longer being able to do the job. Harry has a strained relationship with his two grown children: Nina, who, with her insurance salesman husband, seems more concerned about what they can receive in material possessions through her relationship with Harry; and Howard, who still lives with Harry. Howard is an aspiring writer, but as a person who lives in the here and now would rather hang out having fun than find work in a steady job when he isn't writing. Despite Harry loving Howard and Howard loving Harry, the strain in their relationship is brought to the fore as Howard can work but won't while Harry wants to work but can't. Especially while they still live together, the two have to come to a new understanding as they move into the next phase of their respective lives, Howard's which includes his on-again, off-again relationship with girlfriend Katie Wilowski, that off again status due to Katie being pregnant with another man's child, and Harry's which includes Howard's want for him to start thinking about women again.


title: The Lift
released: 1985-07-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:01:19.123000000
year: 1983
text: 2 wins.
plot:
A lift begins displaying some erratic behavior, like trapping some party goers and nearly suffocating them, and decapitating a security guard. Felix, the technician from the lift company, ...

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A lift begins displaying some erratic behavior, like trapping some party goers and nearly suffocating them, and decapitating a security guard. Felix, the technician from the lift company, can't find anything wrong with the circuitry. When he and a nosy reporter begin asking questions of the lift company's electronics partner (Rising Sun Electronics) his boss puts him on a leave of absence. A subsequent visit to a professor leads them to believe that some evil experiments are being conducted with MICROCHIPS.


plot: Two closely bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.
title: Love Streams
released: 1984-08-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:10:32.120000000
year: 1984
text: 4 wins.
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The film describes a few days in the life of the writer Robert Harmon and his sister Sarah. The decadent life of Robert is made of alcohol, cigarettes, and short-time relationships with women; women he interviews for a book, he spends a weekend with at a casino or fall in love with for the fun of an evening. Having no constraints, he his unable to be responsible for anything including the care of his son, leaving him alone in an hotel room and teaching the 8-years old boy how to drink. His life is made of his own phantasms as an artist. His sister is divorcing from her husband because of her exuberant and insane behavior. She scares her daughter Debbie who prefers to stay with her father, a decision that hurts Sarah very deeply and reinforces her nervous breakdown. Most of the movie takes place in the house of Robert. We watch Robert and Sarah struggling with their own lives. As the movie progresses, the house gets empty little by little...


title: Places in the Heart
released: 1984-10-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:17:37.163000000
year: 1984
text: Won 2 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 11 nominations.
plot:
In 1930's Southern US, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate group of friends.

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Edna Spalding finds herself alone and broke on a small farm in the midst of the Great Depression when her husband the Sheriff is killed in an accident. A wandering black man, Moses, helps her to plant cotton to try and keep her farm and her kids together. She also takes on a blind boarder, Mr. Will, who lost his sight in the first World War. She must endure storms and harsh labor to try and make her mortgage payment on time.


plot: A country music star must turn an obnoxious New York cabbie into a singer in order to win a bet.
title: Rhinestone
released: 1984-06-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:26:06.690000000
year: 1984
text: 2 wins & 8 nominations.
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Jake an aspiring singer from Tennessee comes to New York and finds herself working in club owned by a sleazy guy named Freddy. It seems Jake is under contract and Freddy doesn't want to let her go. So Jake makes a bet; that she can train anyone to sing and if she does, he lets her out of her contract. And the guy she has to train is cabbie named Nick. They go to her home in Tennessee and Jake tries to teach him but it's very tough.


title: The Holy Innocents
released: 1984-04-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:38:25.333000000
year: 1984
text: 5 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
Spain, 1960's. People from a very poor family work in the country, at the service of a rich family of landowners...

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Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Règula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master "needs" their work. When Regula's brother is fired from where he has worked for 61 years, he settles down at their little place... An attack against the archaism of the spanish country of the 60s.


title: Where the Green Ants Dream
released: 1985-02-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-28 00:36:46.170000000
year: 1984
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is ...

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The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is impeded by some aborigines who explain that this is the place where the green ants dream. Disturbing their dreaming will destroy humanity they claim. Hackett informs the company which offers various "solutions" such as a large amount of money or a percentage of a possible revenue. Invited on a trip to a city some of the aborigines sees a military aeroplane and express the wish to own it. The company buys it and gives it to the aborigines as a sign of good will. A runway is made in the desert and the plane is flown to the location. All negotiations concerning the area fail and the dispute goes to a court of the Commonwealth. Parties and experts are heard, obstacles are met such as an aborigine who is the sole survivor of his tribe (and language) and therefore no-one understands what he is saying. Two of the aborigines take off in the plane despite that there is very little fuel left. The mining company wins legally and the aborigines morally. Some aborigines arrives from the mountains and tells about a big winged ant that had fallen from the sky.


title: Before Stonewall
released: 1985-06-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-28 00:30:12.230000000
year: 1984
text: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
The history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement.

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New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969. This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips and personal recollections to construct an audiovisual history of the gay community before the Stonewall riots.


title: Brazil
released: 1985-12-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 05:37:33.403000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.

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Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger.


title: Enemy Mine
released: 1985-12-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:06:27.500000000
year: 1985
text: 2 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
A soldier from Earth crash-lands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together ...

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A soldier from Earth crash-lands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.


plot: When a teenager learns that his next door neighbour is a vampire, no one will believe him.
title: Fright Night
released: 1985-08-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:56:26.977000000
year: 1985
text: 5 wins & 4 nominations.
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For young Charley Brewster, nothing could be better than an old horror movie late at night. Two men move in next door, and for Charley with his horror movie experience, there can be no doubt that their strange behavior is explained by the fact that they are a vampire and his undead day guardian. The only one who can help him hunt them down is a washed-up actor, Peter Vincent, who hosts Charley's favorite TV show, Fright Night. Vincent doesn't really believe that vampires exist, but does it for the money...


title: The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus
released: 1985-12-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-06-12 09:52:52.267000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
At a council convened by The Great Ak, the forest being tells the story of Santa Claus to explain why he deserves to made immortal.

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The Great Ak calls a council of the Immortals to ask that Santa Claus be given immortality. And to justify it, he tells the history of Santa Claus. The Ak found an abandoned baby and gave it to a lioness and a fairy to raise, who named him Claus. When Claus grew up, the Great Ak showed him the evil and hardship in world and Claus decides to live there and relieve some of the suffering. He decides to make toys for orphans, but King Agua, the ruler of the valley where Claus lives doesn't want the chidren to be happy. and there is a great battle among Immortals.


title: The Ninja Wars
released: 1982-12-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 01:10:56.917000000
year: 1982
text: 3 wins.
plot:
A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the world. Naturally, this makes her very popular with those vying for power, particularly the ...

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A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the world. Naturally, this makes her very popular with those vying for power, particularly the insatiably greedy Lord Donjo. Only the ninja Jotaro can stop Donjo's plan, but to do so, he must first battle the deadly team of "Devil Monks" serving the lord. Will Jotaro succeed in his mission? And if so, will Ukio marry him, thus making him the ruler of the world?


title: Colonel Redl
released: 1985-10-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 01:06:35.567000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become ...

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Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.


title: Out of Africa
released: 1985-12-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:42:06.710000000
year: 1985
text: Won 7 Oscars. Another 25 wins & 25 nominations.
plot:
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.

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Follows the life of Karen Blixen, who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is Complicated by a husband of convenience (Bror Blixen), a true love (Denys), troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives, war, and catching VD from her husband.


title: The Quiet Earth
released: 1985-10-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 01:11:00.023000000
year: 1985
text: 10 wins.
plot:
A man named Zac Hobson awakens to find himself alone in the world. In a desperate attempt to search for others, he finds only two who have their own agenda.

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A man wakes up to find himself literally alone in the world, and goes about trying to find other survivors, as well as to find out what happened. He suspects that a government research project he was involved in had something to do with the disappearance of everyone. Eventually he finds several other people, and once they begin to trust each other they try to figure out why they were left on earth.


title: Subway
released: 1985-11-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-04 00:23:51.397000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins & 11 nominations.
plot:
Fred is living in the Paris Metro system. He is blackmailing Helena, whose safe he has robbed. Fred has various 'friends' all living in this sureal setting. The Roller is a rollerskating ...

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Fred is living in the Paris Metro system. He is blackmailing Helena, whose safe he has robbed. Fred has various 'friends' all living in this sureal setting. The Roller is a rollerskating bag snatcher and Big Bill is a 'strongman'. The blackmail and Freds relationship with Helena and her heavies make up the bulk of the plot but on the side are Freds attempts to start a band using buskers from the Metro.


title: Turk 182!
released: 1985-02-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:55:01.343000000
year: 1985
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Jimmy Lynch is angry because his older brother, who was injured as a result of an off duty fire rescue, is denied benefits by the city. At the same time, Mayor Tyler is embroiled in a ...

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Jimmy Lynch is angry because his older brother, who was injured as a result of an off duty fire rescue, is denied benefits by the city. At the same time, Mayor Tyler is embroiled in a political scandal that he denies all previous knowledge of. Jimmy begins painting "Tyler Knew, Turk 182" as an embarrassment to the mayor. The mayor is furious at this grafitti appearing all over the city and orders the police to find the artist. Jimmy's "Turk 182" spraypaints continue to appear.


title: Band of the Hand
released: 1986-04-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:22:23.173000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
In an attempt of resocialisation, five hopeless juvenile criminals are sent away from prison into the Everglades for a survival training under the Indian Joe. When this is successful, they ...

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In an attempt of resocialisation, five hopeless juvenile criminals are sent away from prison into the Everglades for a survival training under the Indian Joe. When this is successful, they move back to Miami. However this offends the former illegal inhabitants of their house, all loyal customers of drug baron Cream. The conflict leads to armed fights.


title: Blindside
released: 1988-06-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:42:07.697000000
year: 1987
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Harvey Keitel plays Penfield Gruber, a once great scientist, reduced to managing a sleazy hotel. Gruber monitors the daily comings and goings of his tenants, mainly for his own interest, ...

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Harvey Keitel plays Penfield Gruber, a once great scientist, reduced to managing a sleazy hotel. Gruber monitors the daily comings and goings of his tenants, mainly for his own interest, until underworld figures ask him to spy on a suspected double-crosser. While watching the man, Gruber overhears a murder plot.


title: Nine 1/2 Weeks
released: 1986-02-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 01:08:12.040000000
year: 1986
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
A woman gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.

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An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.


title: Platoon
released: 1987-02-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:50:46.527000000
year: 1986
text: Won 4 Oscars. Another 22 wins & 10 nominations.
plot:
A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

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Chris Taylor is a young, naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. Upon arrival, he quickly discovers that his presence is quite nonessential, and is considered insignificant to the other soldiers, as he has not fought for as long as the rest of them and felt the effects of combat. Chris has two non-commissioned officers, the ill-tempered and indestructible Staff Sergeant Robert Barnes and the more pleasant and cooperative Sergeant Elias Grodin. A line is drawn between the two NCOs and a number of men in the platoon when an illegal killing occurs during a village raid. As the war continues, Chris himself draws towards psychological meltdown. And as he struggles for survival, he soon realizes he is fighting two battles, the conflict with the enemy and the conflict between the men within his platoon.


title: Playing Beatie Bow
released: 1986-08-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-31 00:43:00.817000000
year: 1986
text: 2 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A discontented Sydney teenager travels back in time to 1873, whilst watching an old fashioned children's game.

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A discontented Sydney teenager travels back in time to 1873, whilst watching an old fashioned children's game.


title: The Quest
released: 1986-05-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:52:35.227000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
American boy, Cody, whose parents have died, lives in Australia with his guardian, Gaza. Cody is very imaginative, inventive, and inquisitive. He comes across some strange events happening ...

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American boy, Cody, whose parents have died, lives in Australia with his guardian, Gaza. Cody is very imaginative, inventive, and inquisitive. He comes across some strange events happening in Devil's Knob national park associated with an aboriginal myth about "frog dreamings". Cody tries to investigate...


title: A Room with a View
released: 1986-04-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:56:37.253000000
year: 1985
text: Won 3 Oscars. Another 23 wins & 21 nominations.
plot:
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting...

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When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?


title: Under the Cherry Moon
released: 1986-07-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:31:37.680000000
year: 1986
text: 5 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
Two friends from Miami are in the Mediterranian are enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to inherit $50 million from her father. At ...

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Two friends from Miami are in the Mediterranian are enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to inherit $50 million from her father. At first, Tricky has Christopher Tracy talked into romancing her for her money, but as he gets to know her, Christopher falls in love with her. This love comes between the brothers, and Tricky tells all about the plan...


title: Boat People
released: 1982-10-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:30:28.537000000
year: 1982
text: 6 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the Liberation and learns harsh truths about its regime and its "New Economic Zones".

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A Japanese reporter arrives in Vietnam hoping to capture the essence the society under the rule of the Communist Party. With the help of a vietnamese girl, he eventually opens his eyes to the painful truth of postwar Vietnam.


title: Amityville 3-D
released: 1983-11-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 01:03:11.947000000
year: 1983
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A reporter moves into the ominous Long Island house to debunk it of the recent supernatural events and becomes besieged by the evil manifestations which are connected to a hell-spawn demon lurking in the basement.

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A man who is separated from his wife moves into the infamous Amityville House. Their daughter dies in a boating accident (after being told that she is not allowed to go to the house) and now the mother sees her deceased daughter "alive" in the house. Mr. Baxtor calls a paranormal investigator in to help and the investigator finds out the source of the household problems.


title: Brainstorm
released: 1983-09-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 01:03:29.187000000
year: 1983
text: 2 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
Brilliant researchers Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace have developed a system of recording and playing back actual experiences of people. Once the capability of tapping into "higher ...

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Brilliant researchers Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace have developed a system of recording and playing back actual experiences of people. Once the capability of tapping into "higher brain functions" is added in, and you can literally jump into someone else's head and play back recordings of what he or she was thinking, feeling, seeing, etc., at the time of the recording, the applications for the project quickly spiral out of control. While Michael Brace uses the system to become close again to Karen Brace, his estranged wife who also works on the project, others start abusing it for intense sexual experiences and other logical but morally questionable purposes. The government tries to kick Michael and Lillian off the project once the vast military potential of the technology is discovered. It soon becomes obvious that the government is interested in more than just missile guidance systems. The lab starts producing mind torture recordings and other psychosis inducing material. When one of the researchers dies and tapes the experience of death, Michael is convinced that he must playback this tape to honor the memory of the researcher and to become enlightened. When another researcher dies during playback the tape is locked away and Michael has to fight against his former colleagues and the government lackeys that now run his lab in order to play back and confront the "scariest thing any of us will ever face" - death itself.


title: The ComDads
released: 1984-03-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 01:06:26.083000000
year: 1983
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their ...

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Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.


title: The Day After
released: 1983-11-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:12:14.510000000
year: 1983
text: Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 4 wins & 10 nominations.
plot:
A graphic, disturbing film about the effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas.

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The frightening story of the weeks leading up to and following a nuclear strike on the United States. The bulk of the activity centers around the town of Lawrence, Kansas.


plot: A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic detective ability.
title: The Dead Zone
released: 1983-10-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:20:54.937000000
year: 1983
text: 7 wins & 4 nominations.
fullplot:
Christopher Walken wakes from a coma due to a car accident, only to find he has lost five years of his life, and yet gained psychic powers. Foreseeing the future appears to be a 'gift' at first, but ends up causing problems...


title: The King of Comedy
released: 1982-12-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:22:08.430000000
year: 1982
text: Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin wants to achieve success in show biz by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.

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Rupert Pupkin is obsessed with becoming a comedy great. However, when he confronts his idol, talk show host Jerry Langford, with a plea to perform on the Jerry's show, he is only given the run-around. He does not give up, however, but persists in stalking Jerry until he gets what he wants. Eventually he must team up with his psychotic Langford-obsessed friend Masha to kidnap the talk show host in hopes of finally getting to perform his stand-up routine.


title: Octopussy
released: 1983-06-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:24:30.887000000
year: 1983
text: 2 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
A fake Fabergè egg and a fellow agent's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces.

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James Bond's next mission sends him to the circus. A British agent was murdered and found holding onto a priceless Faberge egg. Kamal Kahn buys the egg at an auction, but Bond becomes suspicious when Kahn meets up with Russian General, Orlov. Bond soon finds out that Kahn's and Orlov's plan is to blow a nuclear device in an American Air Force Base. Bond teams up with a circus group, which are headed by the beautiful Octopussy, who is also close friend of Kahn. Will Bond be quick enough, before World War III begins?


title: The Burning Bed
released: 1984-10-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:37:03.073000000
year: 1984
text: Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 17 nominations.
plot:
An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it asleep.

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Abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it while asleep.


title: The Bostonians
released: 1984-09-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:32:53.383000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
A Boston feminist and a conservative Southern lawyer contend for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright girl unsure of her future.

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19th-century Boston woman dedicated to the suffrage movement, meets a faith healer's daughter, a Mississippi lawyer also has eyes for the young woman.


title: Camila
released: 1985-03-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:04:09.127000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins.
plot:
In 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ...

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In 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ultimately succumbs to her. The two later escape to a far off, secluded village where they assume new identities as husband and wife and begin running a children's school. After several months of relative happiness, the couple's identity is discovered by a local priest. Under moralistic pressure from both Camila's family and the Catholic church the authorities apprehend the lovers, and imprison them for sacrilege.


title: The Company of Wolves
released: 1985-04-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 11:07:13.433000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 4 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 10 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A teenage girl in a country manor falls asleep while reading a magazine and she has a disturbing dream involving wolves which appears to take place in the woods visible from her bedroom window.


title: The River
released: 1984-12-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:55:25.477000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
Farming family battles severe storms, a bank threatening to reposses their farm, and other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm.

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Farming family battles severe storms, a bank threatening to reposses their farm, and other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm.


title: Swing Shift
released: 1984-04-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:15:56.243000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an airport plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.

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In 1941 America Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, his wife takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way to whom she hadn't previously been all that nice. The two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers able to ride the jibes of the male workforce. As the war drags on Kay finally goes on a date with her trumpet playing foreman and life inevitably starts to get complicated.


title: D.A.R.Y.L.
released: 1985-06-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:27:08.850000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
A young boy is found wandering without any memory of who he is. A family takes him in and begin to look for clues to help him find his way home. In the meantime, they notice that the boy ...

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A young boy is found wandering without any memory of who he is. A family takes him in and begin to look for clues to help him find his way home. In the meantime, they notice that the boy seems to have certain special abilities, not usually found in kids his age, or even fully-grown adults.


title: The Peanut Butter Solution
released: 1985-12-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-06 00:24:11.943000000
year: 1985
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two friendly ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael loses all of his hair when he gets a fright and uses the potion to get his hair...

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Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two friendly ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael loses all of his hair when he gets a fright and uses the potion to get his hair back, but too much peanut butter causes things to get a bit hairy.


plot: A street rebel and his gang have trouble understanding themselves and their world.
title: Tuff Turf
released: 1985-01-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:24:07.507000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win.
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At the start of his senior year in high school, Morgan's father has lost his company, so the family moves from Connecticut, where they've been in the yacht club, to an apartment in the San Fernando Valley. Morgan has grown up in the shadow of his high-achieving older brother, and he seems to have a knack for getting into trouble. He also has a stubborn streak, so when he finds himself attracted to Frankie, the girlfriend of the leader of a local gang of youthful thugs, he can't stop himself from pushing her for a relationship. The thug thinks of Frankie as his property and sees the cool, urbane Morgan as dead meat. Is this a struggle to the death?


title: About Last Night...
released: 1986-07-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:26:07.463000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win.
plot:
A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.

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Danny and Bernie are two single men living their lives on the wild side. But when Danny meets Debbie at a bar and the two start a relationship with a one night stand, Danny's life takes a different turn. How does this passionate night become a full affair and what effect will this relationship have on both people and their friendship with their best mates ?


title: At Close Range
released: 1986-04-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:50:39.180000000
year: 1986
text: 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
In 1978 rural Pennsylvania an absentee father is reacquainted with his estranged teenage sons and they become intrigued with romanticized life of crime.

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Based upon the true story of Bruce Johnston Sr., his son, and his brothers; together, they constituted one of suburban Philadelphia's most notorious crime families during the 1970's. Their criminal activities ranged from burglary, theft... and ultimately, murder.


title: Club Paradise
released: 1986-07-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:28:59.757000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Injured while risking his life to save an angry German shepard, Chicago Firefighter Jack Moniker retires and moves to a small carribean island named St. Nicholas. There, he is befriended by...

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Injured while risking his life to save an angry German shepard, Chicago Firefighter Jack Moniker retires and moves to a small carribean island named St. Nicholas. There, he is befriended by the owner of a run-down resort, Ernest Reed. Greedy developers are schemeing to wrest Reed's coveted beach front property from him for non-payment of taxes. Jack comes to Ernest's rescue, and together they renovate and reopen the resort catering to affluent Americans. The film follows the zany exploits of the proprietors, guests and various colorful island denizans, as they break in the new "Club Paradise".


title: The Decline of the American Empire
released: 1986-11-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:22:58
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 13 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
Sexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.

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Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Meanwhile, their four female guests, Louise (Remy's wife of 15 years), Dominique (a spinster), Diane (a divorcèe) and Danielle (Pierre's girlfriend) are spending the time at a downtown health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening, they finally meet at the country house and have dinner. The discussion? Well, you can guess it... However, a ninth guest, named Mario, who used to know Diane, drops in on the group for some talk and has a surprise of his own.


title: Heartbreak Ridge
released: 1986-12-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:51:11.600000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins.
plot:
A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.

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1983. Tom Highway is a well-decorated career military man in the United States Marine Corps, he who has seen action in Korea and Vietnam. His current rank is Gunnery Sergeant. His experiences have led him to become an opinionated, no nonsense man, who is prone to bursts of violence, especially when he's drunk, if the situation does not suit him, regardless of the specifics or people involved. Because of these actions, he has spent his fair share of overnighters behind bars. Close to retirement, one of his last assignments, one he requested, is back at his old unit at Cherry Point, North Carolina, from where he was transferred for insubordination. He is to train a reconnaissance platoon. His superior officer, the much younger and combat inexperienced Major Malcolm Powers, sees Highway as a relic of an old styled military. Highway's commanding officer, Lieutenant Ring, the platoon leader, is also a younger man who has no combat experience, but is academically inclined and happy-go-lucky. Highway finds that his team is a rag-tag bunch of slackers, who includes wannabe rock musician Stitch Jones, with who Highway had an inauspicious earlier meeting. The men in the platoon, who truly believe Highway is crazy, hate him, and don't understand why they have to follow his harsh training regimen when the United States is not currently at war. The major, who is all about efficiency regardless of combat readiness, has the same views of Highway. He is clear that he sees Highway's platoon solely as a training mechanism for his own elite squad trained by Highway's nemesis, Staff Sergeant Webster. Things for Highway and his platoon change when the United States enters into war in Grenada. Through it all, Highway tries to reconnect with his bar waitress ex-wife Aggie, he even clandestinely reading women's magazines to understand her better. Two primary obstacles stand in his way: Roy Jennings, Aggie's boss and current suitor who hates Marines, and Aggie's own remembrance of how dysfunctional their marriage was.


title: Labyrinth
released: 1986-06-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 05:01:15.980000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 nominations.
plot:
A selfish 16-year old girl is given 13 hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue her baby brother when her wish for him to be taken away is granted by the Goblin King.

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Young Sarah is left home alone by her parents and she has to babysit her little brother Toby. But the baby keeps crying and Sarah, while telling him a story to make him sleep, inadvertently conjures from a fantasy world the Goblin King who steals the child and brings him to his castle in the middle of a labyrinth. Sarah has to rescue him before midnight, or the baby will became a goblin...


title: Mona Lisa
released: 1986-06-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:55:12.150000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 15 wins & 11 nominations.
plot:
George has just been released from prison, and manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer. Initially they don't get on; he doesn't fit in with the high class customers Simone services. Will they ever get on?

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George, after getting out of prison, begins looking for a job, but his time in prison has reduced his stature in the criminal underworld. The only job he can find is to be a driver for Simone, a beautiful high-priced call girl, with whom he forms an at first grudging, and then real affection. Only Simone's playing a dangerous game, and when George agrees to help her, they both end up in a huge amount of trouble with Mortwell, the local kingpin.


plot: An American photojournalist gets caught in a political struggle at El Salvador in 1980.
title: Salvador
released: 1986-04-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:13:07.370000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 6 nominations.
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A journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship, including the assasination of Archbishop Oscar Romero. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels. Meanwhile he has to find a way of protecting his Salvadorean girlfriend and getting her out of the country.


title: The Whistle Blower
released: 1987-07-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-10 00:47:17.410000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems impenetrable...

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Twenty-eight year old idealist Bob Jones is contemplating leaving his position as a Russian translator at Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) as those at the top have issued a new whistle blowing policy - encouraging employees to report any suspicious behavior - in light of the highly publicized case of Ramsay Dodgson, a Soviet spy who was working undetected in the organization for ten years before being caught. Bob does not like the idea of being at the mercy of work colleagues, most, like Dodgson, who he did and does not know. In private, he confides to his father, widowed businessman and retired Navy officer Frank Jones, that part of his want to leave the job, which also entails eavesdropping on private conversations between Soviet officials on a multitude of everyday topics, is that he believes the British and by association Americans are just as corrupt as the Russians in how they infiltrate institutions most of the public see as commonplace, this belief to which conservative, patriotic Frank takes offense. After a specific incident, Bob wants to use that whistle blowing policy to report against the operations of the GCHQ, but not knowing to who. Shortly thereafter, Frank learns that Bob has died from an apparent fall off his building roof. Frank begins to think that Bob's death was not an accident but has something to do with whatever Bob was planning on exposing. Knowing no one in high places, Frank, with Bob's girlfriend Cynthia Goodburn helping, goes on a mission of discovery, at his own peril, to find out why his son was killed, which may forever change his view of what he has believed in all his life.


title: Carmen
released: 1983-05-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 01:02:25.583000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
A group of flamenco dancers are rehearsing a very spanish version of the Prosper Merimee's drama. Antonio (the coreographer) falls in love with Carmen (the main dancer). Their story then ...

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A group of flamenco dancers are rehearsing a very spanish version of the Prosper Merimee's drama. Antonio (the coreographer) falls in love with Carmen (the main dancer). Their story then turns similar to the play.


title: A Christmas Story
released: 1983-11-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:55:45.397000000
year: 1983
text: 3 wins & 11 nominations.
plot:
Ralphie has to convince his parents, his teacher, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect gift for the 1940s.

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Christmas is approaching and 9 year-old Ralphie wants only one thing: a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun. When he mentions it at the dinner table, his mother's immediate reaction is that he'll put his eye out. He then decides on a perfect theme for his teacher but her reaction is like his. He fantasizes about what it would be like to be Red Ryder and catch the bad guys. When the big day arrives he gets lots of present under the tree including a lovely gift from his aunt that his mother just adores. But what about the BB gun?


title: Entre Nous
released: 1983-04-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 00:05:15.750000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the...

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In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point.


title: The Makioka Sisters
released: 1983-12-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:58:53.413000000
year: 1983
text: 6 wins & 8 nominations.
plot:
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of ...

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This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.


title: Space Raiders
released: 1983-07-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 00:21:29.703000000
year: 1983
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.

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A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.


title: The Wind in the Willows
released: 1983-12-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 06:31:34.913000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
One spring, Mole decides that he can ignore the spring cleaning for a little longer, and begins a series of adventures with his new friend Rat. They go for a picnic on the riverbank, on a ...

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One spring, Mole decides that he can ignore the spring cleaning for a little longer, and begins a series of adventures with his new friend Rat. They go for a picnic on the riverbank, on a caravan expedition with Toad, until Toad switches allegiance to his new car and his reckless driving makes Mole and Rat search out Badger for help in curbing Toad's profligate habits. But Toad gets away from them and gets a 20-year sentence from the magistrate for theft, reckless driving, and Gross Impertinence. While Toad works his wiles on the jailer's daughter and escapes jail dressed as a washer woman, Badger tries to guard Toad Hall from the machinations of the Weasels and is badly beaten. And it requires a plan of attack and all four comrades to regain Toad Hall.


title: Zelig
released: 1983-07-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:45:23.640000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 10 nominations.
plot:
"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.


title: Body Double
released: 1984-10-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:11:51.590000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A young actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences.

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Jake Scully comes home to find his girlfriend with another man and has to find a new place. In between his acting workshops and his job in a vampire B-movie, he scans the paper looking for anything. He happens to meet Sam Bouchard, a fellow actor who needs a house sitter. Both are pleased with the arrangement that will have Jake staying in the house and for a sweetener, Sam shows him his favorite neighbor, a well-built woman who strips with her window open each night. Jake becomes obsessed with meeting her and is able to help recover her purse from a thief, but shows his own phobia, he is incapacitated by claustrophobia when the thief runs through a tunnel. When Jake witnesses a murder, he finds out that the police love to pin crimes on peeping Toms. Jake discovers that here are just too many coincidences but must hunt them down himself without the police.


title: The Cotton Club
released: 1984-12-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:35:24.757000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 6 nominations.
plot:
The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous.

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The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous.


title: Gremlins
released: 1984-06-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:00:44.033000000
year: 1984
text: 7 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
A boy inadvertantly breaks 3 important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.

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Minature green monsters tear through the small town of Kingston Falls. Hijinks ensue as a mild-mannered bank teller releases these hideous loonies after gaining a new pet and violating two of three simple rules: No water (violated), no food after midnight (violated), and no bright light. Hilarious mayhem and destruction in a town straight out of Norman Rockwell. So, when your washing machine blows up or your TV goes on the fritz, before you call the repair man, turn on all the lights and look under all the beds. 'Cause you never can tell, there just might be a gremlin in your house.


title: Wheels on Meals
released: 1984-08-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 01:02:25.093000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia, a pickpocket. Action and humor abound in...

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Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia, a pickpocket. Action and humor abound in the streets of Barcelona, culminating with a battle in the castle hideout of the evil gang.


title: Micki + Maude
released: 1984-12-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:28:56.263000000
year: 1984
text: Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
A bigamist must keep his wives from meeting each other, which becomes tricky when they're both pregnant.

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TV reporter Rob Salinger is married to Micki, but because she's always busy working, they hardly ever spend time together. One night at which he got stood up by Micki again, Rob meets cellist Maude and they soon get romanticly involved. When it turns out Maude is pregnant with his baby, Rob decides to marry Maude. When he's on the verge of telling Micki, she tells him she's pregnant, so he doesn't have the heart to leave her, but he marries Maude anyway. Now married to two pregnant women who don't know about each other, Rob has a busy time taking care of both and keep them from finding out.


title: The Muppets Take Manhattan
released: 1984-07-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:14:24.653000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 nominations.
plot:
Kermit and his friends go to New York to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated.

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The Muppets graduate from college and decide to take their senior revue on the road. They hit the streets of Manhattan trying to sell their show to producers, finally finding one young and idealistic enough to take their show. After several mishaps and much confusion, things begin to come together for them.


title: Night Patrol
released: 1984-11-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:38:15.193000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win.
plot:
A hapless police officer is transferred to the night shift even as he clandestinely pursues a career as a stand up comedian.

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Melvin is a pathetic loser of a motorcycle cop who gets demoted to working the night shift as a punishment for his constant screw-ups. During his off-duty time, however, Melvin turns to his secret obsession: comedy. He puts a paper bag over his head and performs in front of audiences as "The Unknown Comic". Unable to balance his two lives, he seeks psychiatric help to try and resolve who he really wants to be.


plot: A man is found in the desert after four years.
title: Paris, Texas
released: 1984-09-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:48:51.197000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 16 wins & 7 nominations.
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A man wanders out of the desert after a four year absence. His brother finds him, and together they return to L.A. to reunite the man with his young son. Soon after, he and the boy set out to locate the mother of the child, who left shortly after the man disappeared.


title: My New Partner
released: 1985-03-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:37:57.397000000
year: 1984
text: 3 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
Rene is a "ripou", a rotten cop who makes ends meet by accepting bribes, presents and free drinks from the people he should be putting in jail. When his partner retires, he must team up ...

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Rene is a "ripou", a rotten cop who makes ends meet by accepting bribes, presents and free drinks from the people he should be putting in jail. When his partner retires, he must team up with Francois, a young police school graduate with a righteous attitude. He is hard to break and Rene has to trick him. He introduces Francois to a charming girl and forgets to mention she's a prostitute. Now Rene has something against Francois he can use in case his partner should want to reveal Rene's little commerce with the underworld. The partners ultimately become friends, get one another out of a tough situation, and manage to gather enough money to buy Rene his lifelong dream: a small cafè near the horse tracks.


title: Thief of Hearts
released: 1985-01-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-31 01:08:08.207000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man who seems able to read her mind. She doesn't know that he has broken into her house and read her diaries, where she...

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A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man who seems able to read her mind. She doesn't know that he has broken into her house and read her diaries, where she has recorded her deepest thoughts and fantasies.


title: Stranger Than Paradise
released: 1984-11-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:56:36.710000000
year: 1984
text: 8 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
A self-styled New York hipster is paid a surprise visit by his younger cousin from Budapest. From initial hostility and indifference a small degree of affection grows between the two. Along...

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A self-styled New York hipster is paid a surprise visit by his younger cousin from Budapest. From initial hostility and indifference a small degree of affection grows between the two. Along with a friend, they eventually end up visiting their aunt in the wastelands of Cleveland and then proceed to Florida where they lose all their money gambling before unwittingly gaining a fortune.


title: Under the Volcano
released: 1984-06-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:05:42.487000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic ...

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Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The Consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.


title: After Hours
released: 1985-10-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:28:44.987000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 4 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.

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A meek word processor impulsively travels to Manhattan's Soho District to date an attractive but apparently disturbed young woman and finds himself trapped there in a nightmarishly surreal vortex of improbable coincidences and farcical circumstances.


title: Bliss
released: 1986-02-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:46:47.757000000
year: 1985
text: 4 wins & 11 nominations.
plot:
An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products ...

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An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. But the notes he writes to himself to prove he hasn't gone insane are getting more disjointed, and he runs off with an ex-prostitute called Honey Barbera.


title: Jagged Edge
released: 1985-10-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:56:42.990000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 nominations.
plot:
San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires ...

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San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she hasn't handled a criminal case for many years. There's a certain chemistry between them and Teddy soon finds herself defending the man she loves.


title: Red Sonja
released: 1985-07-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:01:26.983000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
A vengeful woman sets out to retrieve a magic orb from an evil queen whom she vows vengeance upon after the evil queen slain her family and her loyal warriors raped her.

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The tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She attacks and kills the keepers of a powerful talisman just before it is destroyed. Gedren then uses the power of the talisman in her raid of the city Hablac. Red Sonja, sister of the keeper, sets out with her magic sword to overthrow Gedren. The talisman's master Kalidor follows to protect her. Of course they fall in love - however Red Sonja's power bases on the oath to never give herself to any man...


title: The Return of the Living Dead
released: 1985-08-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 01:15:51.443000000
year: 1985
text: 4 nominations.
plot:
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.

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When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage through Louisville, Kentucky seeking their favorite food, brains.


plot: A secret fling between a man and his mistress leads to blackmail and murder.
title: 52 Pick-Up
released: 1986-11-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:33:31.460000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
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Harry Mitchell, an L.A. manufacturer with a fancy car, a nice house, and a wife running for city council, has his life overturned when three hooded blackmailers appear with a video tape of Harry and his young mistress. He's been set up, and they want $100,000. To protect his wife's political ambitions, Harry won't go to the police; instead, he shines them on and then doesn't pay. They up their demands, so he goes on the offensive, tracking them down and trying to turn one against the other. Their sociopathic leader, Alan, responds with violence toward the mistress and menace toward Harry's wife. Will Harry let up and pay off Alan or can he find some other solution?


title: American Anthem
released: 1986-06-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:52:26.523000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Steve is a talented gymnast who has given up competition and is working at his father's bike shop. Julie is the new girl at his old gym, who has moved to town to train with their powerful ...

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Steve is a talented gymnast who has given up competition and is working at his father's bike shop. Julie is the new girl at his old gym, who has moved to town to train with their powerful coach. Inspired by Julie, Steve resumes training. While dealing with the conflicts in their personal lives and the stress of training, they prepare for the US Olympic Trials.


title: Deadly Friend
released: 1986-10-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 13:02:07.520000000
year: 1986
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
Paul Conway and his mother Jeannie Conway travel to a new town where Paul will join the local university invited by Dr. Johanson. They bring the robot BB that was developed by Paul, who is ...

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Paul Conway and his mother Jeannie Conway travel to a new town where Paul will join the local university invited by Dr. Johanson. They bring the robot BB that was developed by Paul, who is a genius in robotic. Paul befriends the paperboy Tom Toomey and has a crush on his next door neighbor Samantha Pringle, whose abusive alcoholic father Harry Pringle frequently hurts her. One day, Paul, Sam, Tom and BB are playing basketball and the ball fall in the field of their paranoid grumpy neighbor Elvira Parker that does not give it back to the teenagers. In Halloween, Tom convinces Paul to let BB open the padlock of the entrance to her house. However, there is an alarm system and Elvira blows up BB with her shotgun. Then Harry pushes her daughter down the stairs and the doctors let her brain-dead connected to the life support. However Paul convinces Tom to go to the hospital to rescue Sam and then he implants BB's chip into her brain resurrecting Samantha. But will she come back to life normal?


title: From Beyond
released: 1986-10-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 05:37:35.970000000
year: 1986
text: 3 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.

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Dr. Edward Pretorius and his assistant, the physician Crawford Tillinghast, have developed the Resonator, a machine to stimulate the sixth sense through the pineal gland. When Crawford activates the apparatus, he sees creatures flying in the air and he summons Dr. Pretorius. The experiment goes out of control and Dr. Pretorius refuses to turn off the Resonator. Meanwhile their neighbor calls the police, and when the police officers arrive, they see Crawford trying to escape from his house and Dr. Pretorius beheaded. Crawford is sent to a mental institution under the supervision of the sadistic Dr. Bloch. However, the prominent psychiatrist Dr. Katherine McMichaels requests the custody of Crawford and Detective Bubba Brownlee that is investigating the case stays with them. Katherine goes with Crawford and Bubba to see the Resonator and turns the machine on. Dr. Pretorius returns in a mutant shape and attacks them, in the beginning of a gore night with weird life forms.


title: Come and See
released: 1985-10-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:20:04.740000000
year: 1985
text: 2 wins.
plot:
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet Army and experiences the horrors of World War II.

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During WWII, a Belarusian boy is thrust into the atrocities of war, fighting with a hopelessly unequipped Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces. Witnessing scenes of abject terror and surviving horrifying situations, he loses his innocence and then his mind.


title: Invaders from Mars
released: 1986-06-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:33:53.883000000
year: 1986
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
In this remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other ...

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In this remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. Marines.


title: Monster in the Closet
released: 1987-01-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:36:13.687000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Monster is a spoof of horror/monster films. After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college professor, her son and a befuddled professor...

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Monster is a spoof of horror/monster films. After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college professor, her son and a befuddled professor band together to uncover the mystery but not without involving the U.S. Army and mass panic.


title: The Sacrifice
released: 1986-11-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 00:44:52.797000000
year: 1986
text: Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 8 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.

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Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to God, offering him everything to have the war not happen at all.


title: Solarbabies
released: 1986-11-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:36:19.283000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. ...

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In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. The group in question plays a hockey based game on roller skates and is quite good. It has given them a unity that transcends the attempts to bring them to heel by the government. Finding an orb of special power, they find it has unusual effects on them. They escape from the orphanage (on skates) and try to cross the wasteland looking for a place they can live free as the stormtroopers search for them and the orb.


plot: Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.
title: Crocodile Dundee II
released: 1988-05-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-15 00:57:41.553000000
year: 1988
text: 2 wins.
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Mick and Sue continue where they left off in "'Crocodile' Dundee". New York drug lords are pursuing Sue for having solid evidence against them for murder, so for her safety, Mick takes her back to Australia. When the gangsters follow them, Mick demonstrates his outback skills once more.


title: The Keep
released: 1983-12-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-09 00:29:53.897000000
year: 1983
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Nazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.

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Nazis are sent to guard an old, mysterious fortress in a Romanian pass. One of them mistakenly releases an unknown force trapped within the walls. A mysterious stranger senses this from his home in Greece and travels to the keep to vanquish the force. As soldiers are killed, a Jewish man and his daughter (who are both knowledgeable of the keep) are brought in to find out what is happening.


title: Never Cry Wolf
released: 1984-01-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:55:22.010000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins.
plot:
A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.

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This film dramatizes the true story of Farley Mowat, when he was sent to the Canadian tundra area to collect evidence of the grievous harm the wolf population was allegedly doing to the caribou herds. In his struggle to survive in that difficult environment he studies the wolves, and realizes that the old beliefs about wolves and their supposed threat are almost totally false. Furthermore, he learns that humans represent a far greater threat to the land, and also to the wolves, a species which plays an important role in the ecosystem of the north.


title: Staying Alive
released: 1983-07-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:08:40.280000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 5 nominations.
plot:
It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenge yet - succeeding as a dancer on the Broadway stage.

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In this sequel to Saturday Night Fever, former disco king Tony Manero has left Brooklyn and lives in Manhattan. He stays in a cheap hotel and works as a dance instructor and as a waiter at a dance club, trying to succeed as a professional dancer on Broadway. The breakaway from his Brooklyn life, family and friends seems to have matured Tony and refined his personality, represented by his diminished accent and his avoidance of alcohol and profanity. However, certain attitudes have not changed, as with his most recent girlfriend, who's also the singer of a local rock band.


plot: Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.
title: Terms of Endearment
released: 1983-12-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:16:54.407000000
year: 1983
text: Won 5 Oscars. Another 32 wins & 10 nominations.
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Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Breedlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways.


title: Acqua e sapone
released: 1985-10-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-29 01:02:37.893000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
An Italian-born actress turned stage mother brings her daughter Sandy to Rome for three months' work as a supermodel. Sandy, who's between "soap and water" and womanhood, needs a tutor. Mom...

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An Italian-born actress turned stage mother brings her daughter Sandy to Rome for three months' work as a supermodel. Sandy, who's between "soap and water" and womanhood, needs a tutor. Mom wants scholarly Father Spinelli, but when she calls his school, she reaches Rolando, a janitor who longs to teach. He's broke, so robed as a priest, he shows up to take the job. He's a terrific teacher, but Sandy soon realizes he's not Spinelli and will keep quiet only if he'll take her out under the guise of study. When mom meets the real Spinelli and sacks the child-like Rolando, Sandy sulks; then she figures out how to act on her feelings for Rolando and on her emerging maturity.


title: Amadeus
released: 1985-04-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:39:59.290000000
year: 1984
text: Won 8 Oscars. Another 34 wins & 13 nominations.
plot:
The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum.

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Antonio Salieri believes that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music is divine and miraculous. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. He began his career as a devout man who believes his success and talent as a composer are God's rewards for his piety. He's also content as the respected, financially well-off, court composer of Austrian Emperor Joseph II. But he's shocked to learn that Mozart is such a vulgar creature, and can't understand why God favored Mozart to be his instrument. Salieri's envy has made him an enemy of God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is ready to take revenge against God and Mozart for his own musical mediocrity.


title: Breakin'
released: 1984-05-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 05:40:28.480000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
'Breakin': A struggling young jazz dancer (Lucinda Dickey) meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds. Features ICE-T in his film debut as a club MC.

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'Breakin': A struggling young jazz dancer (Lucinda Dickey) meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds. Features ICE-T in his film debut as a club MC.


title: Cloak & Dagger
released: 1984-08-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 00:27:12.163000000
year: 1984
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
11-year-old Davey, whose mother is dead and whose father doesn't spend nearly enough time with him. So the boy loses himself in video games--and even has an imaginary friend, a ...

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11-year-old Davey, whose mother is dead and whose father doesn't spend nearly enough time with him. So the boy loses himself in video games--and even has an imaginary friend, a super-resourceful secret agent. When he accidentally comes into possession of a spy group's secret plans, and winds up on the run from them, he must learn to rely on himself and his imaginary pal to save his skin. But, in the end, Dad proves to be his real hero.


title: Country
released: 1984-09-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:42:52.703000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife ...

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Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife decides to fight for her family.


title: Nineteen Eighty-Four
released: 1984-12-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:00:44.247000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 5 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

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After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is a city in Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is one of the bureaucrats, rewriting history in one of the departments. One day he commits the crime of falling in love with Julia. They try to escape Big Brother's listening and viewing devices, but, of course, nobody can really escape...


plot: A troubled boy dives into a wonderous fantasy world through the pages of a mysterious book.
title: The NeverEnding Story
released: 1984-07-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:28:37.133000000
year: 1984
text: 5 wins & 7 nominations.
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Bastian is a young boy who lives a dreary life being tormented by school bullies. On one such occasion he escapes into a book shop where the old proprieter reveals an ancient story-book to him, which he is warned can be dangerous. Shortly after, he "borrows" the book and begins to read it in the school attic where he is drawn into the mythical land of Fantasia, which desperately needs a hero to save it from destruction.


title: A Sunday in the Country
released: 1984-04-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:48:42.473000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 17 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. ...

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In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.


title: City Limits
released: 1985-09-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 01:01:31.243000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A series of teenage gangs struggle against each other in a not-so-distant future. Eventually they united against an evil corporation, as represented by evil CEO Robby Benson who wants to control everything.

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Years after a mysterious plague has wiped out most of the adult population, the surviving children have grown up to form violent motorcycle gangs. Young Lee, tired of life on the farm, goes out in search of adventure and soon winds up in the middle of a war between a pair of rival gangs. Soon after Lee proves his worth and is accepted into one of the gangs, however, a new threat appears in the form of the evil Sunya Corporation, which wants to utilise the gangs for their own purposes. Can Lee lead his new-found friends to safety?


plot: A woman can not accept that her boyfriend dumped her.
title: Dance with a Stranger
released: 1985-08-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:25:34.453000000
year: 1985
text: 4 wins & 2 nominations.
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Ruth Ellis lives with her 10-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He breaks up with her, something which makes Ellis, obsessed by him, very upset...


plot: An aging traveling salesman recognizes the emptiness of his life and tries to fix it.
title: Death of a Salesman
released: 1985-08-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-30 00:16:35.270000000
year: 1985
text: Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 6 wins & 11 nominations.
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Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. He's about to lose his job, he can't pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Happy don't respect him and can't seem to live up to their potential. He wonders what went wrong and how he can make things up to his family.


title: The Emerald Forest
released: 1985-07-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:22:59.437000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 3 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
After the son of engineer Bill Markham is abducted by an aboriginal tribe on the edge of the rain forest, the engineer spends the next 10 years searching for him.

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Based on a true story, Powers Boothe plays an American dam engineer in Brazil. Boothe's son (played by Charlie Boorman - son of director John Boorman) is kidnapped by a rain forest tribe, and raised as one of their own. Boothe continues to look for him and after many trials and adventures, stumbles upon him.


title: Police Story
released: 1985-12-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 17:28:55.220000000
year: 1985
text: 2 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
A virtuous Hong Kong police officer must clear his good name when the drug lords he is after frame him for the murder of a dirty cop.

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Kevin Chan (aka Jackie) is a Hong-Kong cop, who scores his first big hit by virtually single-handedly capturing and arresting a big drug- lord. Of course, the drug-lord isn't too happy about this, and frames Kevin with the murder of another cop (who happened to be on the take). Kevin has to clear his name, whilst keeping himself from getting killed or arrested, and keeping his girlfriend from leaving him.


title: The Last Dragon
released: 1985-03-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:44:25.547000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 nominations.
plot:
In New York City, a young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way, he must fight an evil martial arts expert and ...

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In New York City, a young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way, he must fight an evil martial arts expert and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.


title: The Mean Season
released: 1985-02-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:35:35.900000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win.
plot:
Malcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper. He's had enough of reporting the local murders and so promises his school teacher girlfriend (Christine), they'll move away soon. ...

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Malcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper. He's had enough of reporting the local murders and so promises his school teacher girlfriend (Christine), they'll move away soon. Before Malcolm can hand in his notice, the murderer from his latest article phones him. The murderer tells Malcolm that he's going to kill again. The phone calls and murders continue, soon Malcolm finds that he's not just reporting the story, he is the story.


title: Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
released: 1985-10-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:35:03.123000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 nominations.
plot:
An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinarily unique assassin in service of the US president.

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An NYPD cop is 'killed' in an accident. The death is faked, and he is inducted into the organization CURE, dedicated to preserving the constitution by working outside of it. Remo is to become the enforcement wing (assassin) of CURE, and learns an ancient Korean martial art from Chiun, the Master of Sinanju. Based on the popular pulp series "The Destroyer," by Richard Sapir and Warren Murphy.


title: Re-Animator
released: 1985-10-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:58:18.437000000
year: 1985
text: 4 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.

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A medical student and his girlfriend become involved in a bizarre experiment into reanimating the dead conducted by the student's incorrigible housemate in this campy sendup of an H.P. Lovecraft story. The emphasis is on humour but once the dead walk, there is gore aplenty.


title: Seven Minutes in Heaven
released: 1985-05-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 00:00:17.593000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Natalie Becker, a beautiful A-student, is staying home alone Together and apart, the three 15-year-olds learn much about life, maturity, and love.

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Natalie Becker is staying at home studying and working on an essay to meet the president while her father is away. Jeffrey Moran, a childhood friend (whom her father does not know) is having trouble with his stepfather, Jeremy, who is an immature bully, so she lets him stay with her. All sorts of trouble and misunderstandings ensue. Natalie's best friend Polly tries to date a pro baseball player, Zoo Knudson, and is very intrusive on Natalie's personal life, jumping to hasty conclusions. She is also ready to jump on a plane to New York to be with Zoo.


title: White Nights
released: 1985-12-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:26:28.273000000
year: 1985
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to...

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An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to become a dancer for the Bolshoi again, but he wishes to escape, but can he trust the American?


title: Wild beasts - Belve feroci
released: 1984-02-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-11 00:03:43.657000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
The water supply for a large city zoo becomes contaminated with PCP, and the animals go crazy and get loose.

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The water supply for a large city zoo becomes contaminated with PCP, and the animals go crazy and get loose.


title: The Color of Money
released: 1986-10-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:57:45.173000000
year: 1986
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protègè the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.

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Pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson finds the young, promising pool player Vincent in a local bar and he sees in him a younger version of himself. To try and make it as in the old days, Eddie offers to teach Vincent how to be a hustler. After some hesitations Vincent accepts and Eddie takes him and Vincent's girlfriend Carmen on a tour through the country to work the pool halls. However, Vincent's tendency to show off his talent and by doing so warning off the players and losing money, soon leads to a confrontation with Eddie.


title: Desert Bloom
released: 1986-08-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 00:00:44.083000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win.
plot:
The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic...

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The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic step-father. Her memories of Robin, her first-love, are much happier and she also recalls her colorful Aunt Starr -- who's visit is fun but also detrimental to her family's health. The setting of 1950s Las Vegas' bomb testing is increasingly significant to the development of the story.


title: Dead End Drive-In
released: 1986-08-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 12:22:10.213000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
In the near future, drive-in theatres are turned into concentration camps for the undesirable and unemployed. The prisoners don't really care to escape because they are fed and they have a ...

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In the near future, drive-in theatres are turned into concentration camps for the undesirable and unemployed. The prisoners don't really care to escape because they are fed and they have a place to live which is, in most cases, probably better than the outside. Crabs and his girlfriend Carmen are put into the camp and all Crabs wants to do is escape.


plot: The story of three different men in a Louisiana prison and their eventual journey.
title: Down by Law
released: 1986-10-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:44:12.477000000
year: 1986
text: 5 wins & 5 nominations.
fullplot:
DJ Zack and pimp Jack end up in prison for being too laid-back to avoid being framed for crimes they didn't commit. They end up sharing a cell with eccentric Italian optimist Roberto, whose limited command of the English language is both entertaining and infuriating -but rather more useful to them is the fact that Roberto knows an escape route


title: Fortress
released: 1985-11-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:54:55.883000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win.
plot:
An Australian school teacher and her students are kidnapped. She and the children fight for their lives and try to escape from their captors.

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"Fortress" explores a shocking concept which shows how easily a borderline between a victim and an attacker can be crossed. The children and the teacher, calm and peaceful by nature, when driven beyond their limits by the kidnappers, eventually respond with a cruelty and fury extending that of their oppressors.


title: The Golden Child
released: 1986-12-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 17:30:53.367000000
year: 1986
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child who dark forces want to eliminate.


title: The Hitcher
released: 1986-02-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 01:08:10.120000000
year: 1986
text: 3 wins.
plot:
A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he escaped.

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A young man transporting a car to another state is stalked along the road by a cunning and relentless serial killer who eventually frames the driver for a string of murders. Chased by police and shadowed by the killer, the driver's only help comes from a truck stop waitress.


title: Manon of the Spring
released: 1987-12-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:51:05.853000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 5 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.

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In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She determines to take revenge upon the men responsible for the death of her father in the first film.


title: Summer
released: 1986-08-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 01:08:16.803000000
year: 1986
text: 4 wins.
plot:
It's July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer. She feels very bored and "empty", but this won't last; one day she accidently meets someone who seems to be totally made for her...

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Delphine's traveling companion cancels two weeks before her holiday, so Delphine, a Parisian secretary, is at loose ends. She doesn't want to travel by herself, but has no boyfriend and seems unable to meet new people. A friend takes her to Cherbourg; after a few days there, the weepy and self-pitying Delphine goes back to Paris. She tries the Alps, but returns the same day. Next, it's the beach: once there, she chats with an outgoing Swede, a party girl, and a friendship seems to bud; then, suddenly, Delphine bolts, heading back to Paris. As she waits at the Biarritz train station, a young man catches her eye; perhaps a sunset and the sun's green ray await.


title: Ruthless People
released: 1986-06-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:35:24.633000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.

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Sam Stone is a clothing manufacturer, who married his wife Barbara, for the money that she was supposed to inherit from her dying father, but her father didn't die for another fifteen years. He is now planning to kill her and he tells his girlfriend Carol what he is going to do. He then on his way home to do just that but when he gets there, she's not there. He then receives a call from someone claiming to have kidnapped Barbara and threatening to kill her if he informs the police, which he does hoping that they do. What Stone doesn't know is that the kidnappers, Ken and Sandy are a couple whose idea for a garment he stole and made fortune off, are not that lethal, as a matter of fact Barbara's more lethal. And what Stone doesn't know is that Carol, has another boyfriend and they plan to blackmail Sam, by videotaping him disposing of Barbara's body. When her boyfriend, Earl goes there to do that, the person who goes there was not Sam but a guy with a hooker, and the guy instructs the hooker to scream her head off, Earl mistakenly believes that Barbara's not dead and that Sam was killing her there, and was so freaked out that he didn't bother to see if it was Sam. And Carol tries to put her plan in operation by sending Sam a copy of the tape, Sam thinks that it's for something kinky that Carol wants and when Sam tells her that he is going to do what was done on the tape to her, she assumes that he is going to kill her. So she sends another copy of the tape to the Chief of Police, and tells him that she wants him to arrest Sam for murdering Barbara, and the Chief is happy to oblige cause he is the guy who is on the tape. The Chief manages to find the instruments that Sam was going to use to kill Barbara and arrests him. Sam now has to get Barbara, alive, so that he can prove that he didn't kill her. And Barbara starts to bond with Sandy.


plot: After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.
title: Stand by Me
released: 1986-08-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:10:37.010000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 10 nominations.
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It's the summer of 1959 in Castlerock, Oregon and four 12 year-old boys - Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern - are fast friends. After learning of the general location of the body of a local boy who has been missing for several days, they set off into woods to see it. Along the way, they learn about themselves, the meaning of friendship and the need to stand up for what is right.


title: Tai-Pan
released: 1986-11-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:09:41.907000000
year: 1986
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Tai-Pan is Chinese for "supreme leader". This is the man with real power to his hands. And such a Tai-Pan is Dirk Struan who is obsessed by his plan to make Hong Kong the "jewel in the ...

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Tai-Pan is Chinese for "supreme leader". This is the man with real power to his hands. And such a Tai-Pan is Dirk Struan who is obsessed by his plan to make Hong Kong the "jewel in the crown of her British Majesty". In 1841 he achieves his goal but he has many enemies who try to destroy his plans. Will they succeed?


title: La traviata
released: 1983-02-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:11:22.313000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
Violetta meets Alfredo and quickly falls for him. After the lovers run away together, they live in bliss for a short time. However, Alfredo's father, Giorgio, starts to interfere, concerned...

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Violetta meets Alfredo and quickly falls for him. After the lovers run away together, they live in bliss for a short time. However, Alfredo's father, Giorgio, starts to interfere, concerned that Violetta's bad reputation will affect the marriage prospects of Alfredo's sister. Violetta reluctantly leaves Alfredo, but his love is so strong that it leads him to actions that have tragic consequences.


title: Vincent
released: 1982-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:24:04.297000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win.
plot:
Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.

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Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.


title: Jaws 3-D
released: 1983-07-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:04:45.343000000
year: 1983
text: 5 nominations.
plot:
The sons of police chief Brody must protect civilians at a Sea World theme park after a 35-foot shark becomes trapped in the park with them.

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Michael Brody and Sean Brody, the sons of former Amity police chief Martin Brody, work at Florida's Sea World, a seaside park run by Calvin Bouchard. Sean befriends Kelly Ann Bukowski, and Michael's girlfriend Kathryn Morgan is Sea World's head scientist who always works with Sea World's dolphins Cindy and Sandy. In its man-made lagoon, about 40 feet under the water, Sea World opens the Undersea Kingdom, a new set of underwater glass tunnels that have their own control room, and Calvin's friend Philip FitzRoyce is there to do some filming. When Sea World diver Shelby Overman vanishes, everyone is worried. Michael and Kathryn head into the water, where they find a baby great white shark and decide to bring it to Sea World to put it on display, but at Sea World, the baby shark dies. When Overman's body is found, Michael vomits when he sees it. Kathryn looks at the body and knows that the baby shark could not have been the shark that killed Overman, because the baby shark's bite radius is too small its 35-foot-long mother killed Overman. When Kathryn and Michael tell Calvin and Philip about the shark, they all try to evacuate the park, including the park's beach, as they try their best to protect Sea World's visitors from the shark.


title: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
released: 1983-09-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:47:34.483000000
year: 1983
text: Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 8 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
In 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a Japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honor and glory. In his view, the allied prisoners are ...

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In 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a Japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honor and glory. In his view, the allied prisoners are cowards when they chose to surrender instead of committing suicide. One of the prisoners, interpreter John Lawrence, tries to explain the Japanese way of thinking, but is considered a traitor.


title: The Right Stuff
released: 1983-10-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:55:32.947000000
year: 1983
text: Won 4 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 11 nominations.
plot:
The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.

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Tom Wolfe's book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be in it. Thrilling, funny, charming and electrifying all at once.


title: Star 80
released: 1983-11-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:40:28.947000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband becomes dangerously jealous. Based on the true story of 1980 Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten.

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Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen. Dorothy is a pretty but naive high school senior. Paul immediately falls for Dorothy, who sees in Paul a wise, worldly person unlike herself. Paul believes Dorothy is Playboy material, the magazine he sees as only a springboard to bigger and better things. Paul's dream does become a reality: not only does Dorothy eventually marry him, she becomes the August 1979 Playboy Playmate and ultimately Playboy Playmate of 1979, which does indeed lead to the start of an acting career. As Dorothy's star rises, Paul's life is one of a hanger-on as those in Dorothy's new circle, including Playboy publisher Hugh M. Hefner and movie director Aram Nicholas, don't much like Paul. Paul is unable to eke out a life of his own without using Dorothy's name, which she increasingly is reluctant to provide to her husband. Those that know the couple know their relationship cannot continue as is, and it's only a matter of how it will change or end is the question.


title: Superman III
released: 1983-06-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:13:20.383000000
year: 1983
text: 2 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
Synthetic kryptonite laced with tobacco tar splits Superman in two: good Clark Kent and bad Man of Steel.

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Wealthy businessman Ross Webster discovers the hidden talents of Gus Gorman, a mischievous computer genius. Ross decides to abuse his talents, in a way to help Webster with his plans for economic control. When the man of steel interferes, something must be done about Supes. When Gus' synthetic Kryptonite fails to kill Superman, it turns him in an evil incarnation of his former self. The tar-laced Kryptonite pits man against himself, setting up the Clark vs. Superman battle.


title: Videodrome
released: 1983-02-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:54:20.813000000
year: 1983
text: 3 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.

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Max Renn runs a TV channel, and when looking for new material to show--he discovers "Videodrome." His girlfriend, Nicki Brand, goes to audition for the show, and Max gets drawn into the underlying plot that uses the show as its front for a global conspiracy.


title: Almost You
released: 1985-03-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:55:18.563000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Alex and Erica Boyer's marriage is in a crisis: job and wife bore Alex. When Erica has an accident that has her staying in a wheel chair for some time, it changes their life: Alex meets ...

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Alex and Erica Boyer's marriage is in a crisis: job and wife bore Alex. When Erica has an accident that has her staying in a wheel chair for some time, it changes their life: Alex meets Erica's young therapy assistant Lisa and gets the idea that she'd be the end of his boredom and he could start over with her. However Lisa's boyfriend feels what's going on and isn't idle.


title: All of Me
released: 1984-09-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 01:04:17.170000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins.
plot:
A dying millionnaire has her soul transferred into a younger, willing woman. But something goes wrong, and she finds herself in her lawyer's body - together with the lawyer.

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Roger is called in to change the will of an aging millionairess. She has made arrangements for her soul to be 'captured' and transferred into the body of a younger girl. After an argument about the will, the millionairess dies, but her spirit somehow lands in Rogers body...


title: Bloodbath at the House of Death
released: 1984-03-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-05-26 01:02:18.063000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win.
plot:
Six scientists arrive at the creepy Headstone Manor to investigate a strange phenomena which was the site of a mysterious massacre years earlier where 18 guests were killed in one night. It...

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Six scientists arrive at the creepy Headstone Manor to investigate a strange phenomena which was the site of a mysterious massacre years earlier where 18 guests were killed in one night. It turns out that the house is the place of a satanic cult lead by a sinister monk who plans to kill the scientists who are inhabiting this house of Satan.


title: The Bounty
released: 1984-05-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:26:36.270000000
year: 1984
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British ...

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The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.


title: Carmen
released: 1984-03-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 02:05:40.573000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 10 wins & 10 nominations.
plot:
A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his feelings.


title: Electric Dreams
released: 1984-07-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:56:49.623000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman.

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Miles buys himself a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing thoughts and emotions after a having champagne spilled down on him. Things start getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, how the computer calls himself, fall in love with Madeline, an attractive neighbour.


title: A Passage to India
released: 1985-02-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:54:02.540000000
year: 1984
text: Won 2 Oscars. Another 21 wins & 24 nominations.
plot:
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.

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Circa 1920, during the Indian British rule, Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed was born and brought up in India. He is proficient in English, and wears Western style clothing. He meets an old lady, Mrs. Moore, at a mosque, who asks him to accompany her and her companion, Adela Quested, for sight-seeing around some caves. Thereafter the organized life of Aziz is turned upside down when Adela accuses him of molesting her in a cave. Aziz is arrested and brought before the courts, where he learns that the entire British administration is against him, and would like to see him found guilty and punished severely, to teach all native Indians what it means to molest a British citizen. Aziz is all set to witness the "fairness" of the British system, whose unofficial motto is "guilty until proved innocent."


title: Police Academy
released: 1984-03-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:24:11.847000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win.
plot:
A group of good-hearted but incompetent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors there are not going to put up with their pranks.

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The year is 1984 and the mayoress has removed set personal criteria form the requirements to join the police force. No longer is sex, weight, height and orientation a factor. This now allows for an insurgence of people applying. The Police Academy series follows a select group of misfits in their quest to become police men and women. The first film of the series follows these misfits in their time at the Police Academy. The main focus is on a petty criminal called Mahoney. Mahoney is busted for criminal damage and as punishment is forced to go to Police Academy. Mahoney initially feels that this isn't the right place for him and he makes it his mission to be thrown out as he is not allowed to quit. As the classes go by and the training exercises are played out, Mahoney soon realizes that he is actually enjoying the academy and does want to become a police officer. We are also introduced to the gun maniac Tackelberry, the very tall Hightower, voluptuous Callahan, squeaky Hooks, human beat box and sound effects master Jones and the ever confuzzled Commandant Lassard. This group become good friends and become the base for the rest of the series of films.


title: The Stone Boy
released: 1984-04-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-26 00:40:24.460000000
year: 1984
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A Midwestern farm family faces major emotional adjustment after a tragedy results in the death of an older brother.

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A Midwestern farm family faces major emotional adjustment after a tragedy results in the death of an older brother.


title: The Goonies
released: 1985-06-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 12:56:07.260000000
year: 1985
text: 2 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
In order to save their home from foreclosure, a group of misfits set out to find a pirate's ancient treasure.

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Mikey Walsh and Brandon Walsh are brothers whose family is preparing to move because developers want to build a golf course in the place of their neighborhood -- unless enough money is raised to stop the construction of the golf course, and that's quite doubtful. But when Mikey stumbles upon a treasure map of the famed "One-Eyed" Willy's hidden fortune, Mikey, Brandon, and their friends Lawrence "Chunk" Cohen, Clark "Mouth" Devereaux, Andrea "Andy" Carmichael, Stefanie "Stef" Steinbrenner, and Richard "Data" Wang, calling themselves The Goonies, set out on a quest to find the treasure in hopes of saving their neighborhood. The treasure is in a cavern, but the entrance to the cavern is under the house of evil thief Mama Fratelli and her sons Jake Fratelli, Francis Fratelli, and the severely disfigured Lotney "Sloth" Fratelli. Sloth befriends the Goonies and decides to help them.


title: The Official Story
released: 1985-11-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:00:17.710000000
year: 1985
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 24 wins & 8 nominations.
plot:
After the end of the Dirty War, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.

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Alicia Marnet de Ibèèez is a high school history professor and a well-to-do housewife in Buenos Aires, circa 1983, after the fall of the "junta militar" that had taken over the government since 1976. She has a husband, Roberto, who is a succesful lawyer and a five-year-old adopted daughter.


title: My American Cousin
released: 1986-03-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:48:34.777000000
year: 1985
text: 7 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
Twelve years old Sandy lives with her parents and two younger sisters on an idyllic ranch in Canada. However she's not quite happy: her parents keep on treating her like a child. One night ...

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Twelve years old Sandy lives with her parents and two younger sisters on an idyllic ranch in Canada. However she's not quite happy: her parents keep on treating her like a child. One night her cousin Buck from America arrives in a fancy car for a surprise visit. She thinks he's attractive and would like to be close with him, but he considers her too young, too. Only some time later her family learns that Buck ran away from home and took his mother's car. Sandy would like to fly with him further on...


title: Pee-wee's Big Adventure
released: 1985-08-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:41:48.707000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
When eccentric man-child Pee-Wee Herman gets his beloved bike stolen in broad daylight, he sets out across the U.S. on the adventure of his life.

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The cartoonish and childish character Pee Wee Herman goes on a big adventure for the first time ever when his beloved shiny new bicycle is stolen by his nemesis Francis Buxton, a fellow man-child and neighborhood rich "kid." And he sets off on an obsessive cross-country journey, determined to recover it. Pee-wee's awkward and childish attempts to be cool and mature.


plot: An elderly lord abdicates to his three sons, and the two corrupt ones turn against him.
title: Ran
released: 1985-06-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:41:22.287000000
year: 1985
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 29 wins & 18 nominations.
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A story of greed, a lust for power, and ultimate revenge. The Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji has decided to step aside to make room for the younger blood of his three sons, Taro, Jiro, and Saburo, the Lord's only wish now being to live out his years as an honored guest in the castle of each of his sons in turn. While the older two sons flatter their father, the youngest son attempts to warn him of the folly of expecting the three sons to remain united; enraged at the younger son's attempt to point out the danger, the father banishes him. True to the younger son's warning, however, the oldest Son soon conspires with the second son to strip The Great Lord of everything, even his title.


title: Runaway Train
released: 1985-12-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:52:41.873000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.

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A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.


title: Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird
released: 1985-08-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:38:37.930000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.

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Oscar, Bert, Ernie, Cookie Monster, and Sesame Street residents join Big Bird in a cross country adventure. Miss Finch, a meddling social worker, sends him off to Ocean View, Illinois, for the comforts of family life with his "own kind," the Dodos. But he is a disaster as a Dodo and, lonely and homesick, he soon sets off on foot for Sesame Street. Can his old friends find him before he runs "afowl" of trouble en route? Featuring guest stars Chevy Chase, Sandra Bernhard, John Candy, DaveThomas, Joe Flaherty, and Waylon Jennings.


title: Summer Rental
released: 1985-08-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 02:59:58.887000000
year: 1985
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in...

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Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to regain his pride and family's respect.


title: Black Moon Rising
released: 1986-01-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:32:01.003000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A professional thief is hired by the FBI to steal a data tape from a company under investigation. The analysis of this tape, will prove the criminal activities of this company. As this ...

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A professional thief is hired by the FBI to steal a data tape from a company under investigation. The analysis of this tape, will prove the criminal activities of this company. As this thief is discovered in his attempt, he hides the tape inside a prototype car, but unfortunately there is someone else interested in this vehicle.


title: Blue Velvet
released: 1986-10-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:34:05.213000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 23 wins & 11 nominations.
plot:
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

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College student Jeffrey Beaumont returns to his idyllic hometown of Lumberton to manage his father's hardware store while his father is hospitalized. Walking though a grassy meadow near the family home, Jeffrey finds a severed human ear. After an initial investigation, lead police Detective John Williams advises Jeffrey not to speak to anyone about the case as they investigate further. Detective Williams also tells Jeffrey that he cannot divulge any information about what the police know. Detective Williams' high school aged daughter, Sandy Williams, tells Jeffrey what she knows about the case from overhearing her father's private conversations on the matter: that it has to do with a nightclub singer named Dorothy Vallens, who lives in an older apartment building near the Beaumont home. His curiosity getting the better of him, Jeffrey, with Sandy's help, decides to find out more about the woman at the center of the case by breaking into Dorothy's apartment while he knows she's at work. What Jeffrey finds is a world unfamiliar to him, one that he doesn't truly understand but one that he is unable to deny the lure of despite the inherent dangers of being associated with a possible murder. Still, he is torn between this world and the prospect of a relationship with Sandy, the two who are falling for each other, despite Sandy already being in a relationship with Mike, the school's star football player.


plot: A race of small, furry aliens make lunch out of the locals in a farming town.
title: Critters
released: 1986-04-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 01:07:22.370000000
year: 1986
text: 3 nominations.
fullplot:
A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.


title: Peking Opera Blues
released: 1986-09-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:17:47.720000000
year: 1986
text: 6 nominations.
plot:
The movie is set in chaotic 1920's China, when warlords fought each other for power while Sun Yat-Sen's underground movement tried to establish a democratic republic. The movie tells the ...

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The movie is set in chaotic 1920's China, when warlords fought each other for power while Sun Yat-Sen's underground movement tried to establish a democratic republic. The movie tells the story of three young women and two young men who are thrown together. One young woman grabs a box of jewels during the looting when one warlord takes Peking. A deserting soldier joins her, but the jewels end up at the Peking Opera. Here we meet the daughter of the head of the troupe, who dreams of being an actress. But even female roles are played by men in the opera. Soon, the daughter of the currently ruling warlord and a male agent of the democratic underground are involved.


title: The Karate Kid, Part II
released: 1986-06-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:26:05.627000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
Daniel accompanies his mentor to Okinawa who is off to see his dying father and confront his old rival, while Daniel inadvertently makes an enemy of his own.

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Picks up where the first movie (Karate Kid) leaves off. Mr. Miyagi and Daniel take a trip to Okinawa to visit Mr Miyagi's dying father. After arriving Mr Miyagi finds he still has feelings for an old love. This stirs up trouble with an old rival that he originally left Okinawa to avoid. In the mean time Daniel encounters a new love and also makes some enemies.


title: Legal Eagles
released: 1986-06-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:24:59.220000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win.
plot:
A New York district attorney works and flirts with his adversary and her kooky artist client, who is on trial for a murder she didn't commit.

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District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea's crimes is the theft of a very valuable painting, but as the women persuade Logan to investigate further and to cut some official corners, a much more sinister scenario starts to emerge.


title: Legacy of Rage
released: 1986-12-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:46:13.003000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Brandon plays Brandon Ma, a regular working Joe who holds down two jobs, so he can support his girlfriend May and his dream of owning a motorcycle. Brandon's best friend is Michael (played ...

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Brandon plays Brandon Ma, a regular working Joe who holds down two jobs, so he can support his girlfriend May and his dream of owning a motorcycle. Brandon's best friend is Michael (played by Michael Wong), an ambitious and murderous dope peddler. How Brandon and Michael ever became friends is the biggest mystery in the film. In any case, Michael covets May and so he comes up with a plan that will win her for him, and solves a problem he's been having. It seems that an undercover cop named Sharky has been using his police connections to dominate the local cocaine trade, so Michael has him killed and uses Brandon as the fall guy. Brandon goes to jail, though he thinks that he will be released soon thanks to the efforts of his good buddy Michael. Eight years later Brandon finally gets out of jail.


title: Luxo Jr.
released: 1986-08-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:19:32.737000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins.
plot:
A larger lamp watches while a smaller, younger lamp plays exuberantly with a ball but doesn't pick up the knack of correct handling.

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A larger lamp watches while a smaller, younger lamp plays exuberantly with a ball but doesn't pick up the knack of correct handling.


title: Armour of God
released: 1987-01-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:48:49.520000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Jackie Chan and his bumbling sidekick are sent on a quest through Europe to find a mysterious treasure held by a shadowy organization of monks.

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Jackie Chan plays an ex-singer-turned-fortune-hunter, who's ex-girlfriend is kidnapped by an evil cult. Her finace, an old friend of Jackie's, turns to him for help - as the kidnappers intended... lots of cooool, Jackie style action and laughs.


title: The Mosquito Coast
released: 1986-11-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:09:25.127000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build a utopia in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher and ...

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An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build a utopia in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher and with nature are only small obstacles to his obsession. Based upon a Paul Theroux novel.


title: No Mercy
released: 1986-12-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 02:45:05.053000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win.
plot:
An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.

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Maverick Chicago cop Eddie Jillette poses as a hit man to meet with someone in from New Orleans looking to have a job done. The result is that both the guy and Jillette's partner wind up very dead, while a stunning blonde in on the setup disappears. He heads south to settle the score and soon finds himself being hunted, with the girl in tow and the local police anything but happy. New Orleans may never be the same again.


title: The Transformers: The Movie
released: 1986-08-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:41:30.217000000
year: 1986
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.

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It is the year 2005. And the battle between the heroic Autobots led by Optimus Prime and the evil Decepticons led by Megatron. Two warring factions of transforming robots from the planet Cybertron. The Autobots must save their homeworld from an evil entity known as Unicron, who's ready to consume anything that stands in its way. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons. Along the way, lives are lost, battles are fought, and a new Autobot leader is born as another dies.


title: Wildcats
released: 1986-02-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:44:25.080000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When the football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite ...

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Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When the football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite expecting sniggers from fellow staff members and her former husband.


title: Adventures in Babysitting
released: 1987-07-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:14:17.307000000
year: 1987
text: 2 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
Chris Parker agrees to babysit after her "dread" date stands her up. Expecting a dull evening, Chris settles down with three kids for a night of TV... and boredom. But when her frantic ...

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Chris Parker agrees to babysit after her "dread" date stands her up. Expecting a dull evening, Chris settles down with three kids for a night of TV... and boredom. But when her frantic friend Brenda calls and pleads to be rescued from the bus station in downtown Chicago, the evening soon explodes into an endless whirl of hair-raising adventures! Babysitter and kids leave their safe suburban surroundings and head for the heart of the big city, never imagining how terrifyingly funny their expedition will become!


title: And God Created Woman
released: 1988-03-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:57:42.027000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
In this variation on director Vadim's own, more acclaimed Et Dieu Crèa La Femme (1956, the same title in French), the vamp Robin Shea marries charming carpenter Billy Moran, only to get out...

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In this variation on director Vadim's own, more acclaimed Et Dieu Crèa La Femme (1956, the same title in French), the vamp Robin Shea marries charming carpenter Billy Moran, only to get out of prison, but soon decides to seduce James Tiernan, who runs for state governor.


title: That Championship Season
released: 1983-01-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:49:44.560000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
It started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their basketball coach and ended up in revealing the truth about their relationship. The meeting forces the five men to reveal ...

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It started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their basketball coach and ended up in revealing the truth about their relationship. The meeting forces the five men to reveal their true identity, to be honest with each other for the first time in their lives. When the night comes to an end they decide to go back to the old glorious days and reunite into the team which won that championship season, back in 1957...


title: Yes, Giorgio
released: 1982-09-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:48:55.780000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 nominations.
plot:
A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Pamela Taylor, whom he falls in love with.

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A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Pamela Taylor, whom he falls in love with.


title: Educating Rita
released: 1983-09-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:46:53.360000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
A young wife decides to complete her education and take her exams. She meets a professor who teaches her to value her own insights while still being able to beat the exams. The change in ...

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A young wife decides to complete her education and take her exams. She meets a professor who teaches her to value her own insights while still being able to beat the exams. The change in her status causes friction between her and her husband.


title: That Day, on the Beach
released: 1998-06-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 01:00:53.807000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.

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Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.


title: Heart Like a Wheel
released: 1983-04-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-12 00:42:53.847000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 nominations.
plot:
Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her ...

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Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family life, she perseveres in her dream.


title: Krull
released: 1983-07-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 03:42:49.227000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.

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From the sky will come the Black Fortress. From the Fortress will come the Slayers to devour the planet of Krull. Then shall a girl of ancient name become queen...she shall choose a king...and together they shall rule the planet. And their son shall rule the galaxy.


plot: The comedy team takes a look at life in all its stages in their own uniquely silly way.
title: The Meaning of Life
released: 1983-03-31 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 11:49:52.407000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
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Why are we here, what's it all about? The Monty Python-team is trying to sort out the most important question on Earth: what is the meaning of life? They do so by exploring the various stages of life, starting with birth. A doctor seems more interested in his equipment than in delivering the baby or caring for the mother, a Roman Catholic couple have quite a lot of children because 'every sperm is sacred'. In the growing and learning part of life, catholic schoolboys attend a rather strange church service and ditto sex education lesson. Onto war, where an officer's plan to attack is thwarted by his underlings wanting to celebrate his birthday and an officer's leg is bitten off by presumably an African tiger. At middle age a couple orders 'philosophy' at a restaurant, after which the film continues with live organ transplants. The autumn years are played in a restaurant, which, after being treated to the song 'Isn't It Awfully Nice to Have a Penis?' by an entertainer, sees the arrival of an extremely fat man. He can eat a lot, but also throw up quite copiously. The Grim Reaper brings for the final stage of human life, death, a visit to a mansion, where the people are rather interested in him. But life doesn't stop at death. It's onto heaven, where it's always Christmas.


plot: Chinese soldiers in an ancient civil war get caught up in a fantastical quest to save the universe.
title: Shu Shan - Xin Shu shan jian ke
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:00:22.243000000
year: 1983
text: 5 nominations.
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A college student (Yuen Biao) at a university in Canada is a fencing champion and when he has an accident one day, he "dreams" of being transported to ancient China and enters a conflict on Zu, the Magic Mountain. At the end of the story, he regains consciousness (this is in the longer English international version). The first and shorter version is about a warrior (Yuen Biao) who has become disillusioned with the constant civil wars in China and goes to the Magic Mountain. There he encounters ghosts and devils, and also good masters and their disciples who are out to stop the Blood Monster and his demons from destroying the world.


title: Dune
released: 1984-12-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:22:42.343000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis when they assassinate his father and free their desert world from the emperor's rule.

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In the far future, a duke and his family are sent by the Emperor to a sand world from which comes a spice that is essential for interstellar travel. The move is designed to destroy the duke and his family, but his son escapes and seeks revenge as he uses the world's ecology as one of his weapons.


title: After the Rehearsal
released: 1984-04-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:39:58.787000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win.
plot:
Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She ...

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Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Stindberg's "A Dream Play." She talks of her hatred for her mother, now dead, an alcoholic actress, who was Vogler's star and lover. Vogler falls into a reverie, remembering a day Anna's mother, Rakel, late in life, came after rehearsal to beg him to come to her apartment. He awakes and Anna reveals the reason she has returned: she jolts him into an emotional response, rare for him, and the feelings of a young woman and an older man play out.


title: The Falcon and the Snowman
released: 1985-01-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:40:21.993000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win.
plot:
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

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The true story of Christopher Boyce, a young All-American man whose job as a guard for sensitive documents shatters his faith in his country and leads him to a sometimes comic, sometimes chilling sideline as a spy for the Soviets, aided by his scruffy buddy, Daulton; it can't last, though, and the consequences are tremendous for Boyce and his family.


title: The Element of Crime
released: 1984-05-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 05:52:08.783000000
year: 1984
text: 12 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
A cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor.

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Fisher, an ex-cop, returns to his old beat somewhere in northern Europe after a thirteen-year hiatus in Cairo. His former mentor and role model, author of a treatise called "The Element of Crime", asks him to solve a series of murders involving lottery ticket sellers. Guided by the theories put forth in the book, Fischer retraces the steps of a suspect, Harry Grey, as recorded in a three-year-old police surveillance report.


title: Give My Regards to Broad Street
released: 1984-10-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:22:42.100000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
Paul McCartney's recording of his new album is complicated by the fact that the master tapes of his recordings are missing.

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Paul McCartney plays himself in another exaggerated "Day In the Life." Included are fictional scenes of the star preparing to film two videos, rehearsing in a loft, playing for the BBC, and even dreaming up a rather horrific nightmare. A loosely developed plot about missing master tapes ties all these events together


title: Irreconcilable Differences
released: 1984-09-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:27:23.660000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.

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Albert and Lucy fall in love, get married, and have a daughter Casey. Everything is wonderful, till success in business distract Albert and Lucy from each other and Casey. They soon divorce and start fighting so Casey beats sues to divorce her parents, to go live with the maid who has been taking care of her. Themedia has a field day, which is only making things worse.


title: The Killing Fields
released: 1985-02-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:48:17.477000000
year: 1984
text: Won 3 Oscars. Another 26 wins & 20 nominations.
plot:
A photographer is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody "Year Zero" cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million "undesirable" civilians.

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Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist covering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the American forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won't have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he's a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.


plot: Five stories by Luigi Pirandello set in turn-of-the-century Italy.
title: Kaos
released: 1986-02-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:47:50.460000000
year: 1984
text: 4 wins & 6 nominations.
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The film consists of four stories plus epilogue, set in 19th-century Sicily. THE OTHER SON - A mother spends her life waiting for news from her two sons (emigrated to America) while ignoring her third, because he is the reincarnation of the bandit who raped her. MOON SICKNESS - a newly-wed peasant girl discovers that her husband goes mad every full moon. She arranges for a male friend to protect her, but they end up in bed together just as the moon emerges from behind a cloud. THE JAR - a rich landowner hires a master craftsman to repair a giant olive jar, but the craftsman gets trapped inside. REQUIEM - villagers band together in an attempt to force their landlord to let them bury their dead. CONVERSATIONS WITH MOTHER - the writer Luigi Pirandello talks with his aged mother about a story he always wanted to write, but which he never managed to capture in words.


title: Old Enough
released: 1984-08-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:19:30.430000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win.
plot:
Twelve-year-old, well-bred Lonnie meets the impudent Karen on the street. They spend some time together and Karen teaches Lonnie some of her favorite pastimes, like make-up, shop-lifting, ...

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Twelve-year-old, well-bred Lonnie meets the impudent Karen on the street. They spend some time together and Karen teaches Lonnie some of her favorite pastimes, like make-up, shop-lifting, skipping school and lying to her parents about it, but confessing to the priest later. But Karen also learns some honesty from Lonnie. A film about social differences and growing up.


title: Supergirl
released: 1984-11-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:35:28.293000000
year: 1984
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
After losing a powerful orb, Kara, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.

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After a power source for the community of Krypton survivors is accidentally whisked to earth, Kara-El, cousin to Superman and niece to Jor-El, chooses to go to earth to find it, and bring it back. Upon her arrival, she becomes just a powerful and Super as her cousin, but encounters dangerous battles and unexpected obstacles when a mean spirited woman who practices rituals of the occult takes the power source for herself, and uses it to cause destruction and attempt zenith human status.


title: The Times of Harvey Milk
released: 1985-09-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:59:37.493000000
year: 1984
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
A documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay councilor.

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2 Members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk & San Francisco Mayor, 'George Moscone (I)' were assassinated by recently resigned Supervisor Dan White on Monday, November 27th, 1978, approximately 8:45 AM to 9:15 AM. Milk's life leading up to his election, his successful efforts to politically represent San Francisco's gay community, and the city's reaction to the assassinations are documented with extensive news film and personal recollections.


title: The Care Bears Movie
released: 1985-03-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:06:02.630000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
The Care Bears watch over a young brother and sister who have lost their trust in humanity. Meanwhile an evil wizard wishes to cover the Earth in concrete.

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The Care Bears live in a country high in the clouds, where they have a lot of fun together. But they also do care for the human children on Earth, who they watch through huge telescopes from the sky, and come to help whenever there is need. Nikolas, a magician's apprentice, is in danger of getting under the influence of a bad spirit, which resides in an ancient spell book. The siblings Kim and Jason don't trust anyone anymore after being disappointed once too often. The Care Bears take them into their wonderland where they experience exciting and dangerous adventures together and quickly become good friends.


plot: Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.
title: A Chorus Line
released: 1985-12-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:04:40.453000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 5 nominations.
fullplot:
A director is casting dancers for a large production. Large numbers of hopefulls audition, hoping to be selected. Throughout the day, more and more people are eliminated, and the competition gets harder. Eventually, approximately a dozen dancers must compete for a few spots, each hoping to impress the director with their dancing skill. But, is this really what the director is looking for?


title: Demons
released: 1986-05-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 01:07:07.913000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A group of people are trapped in a large movie theater in West Berlin that is infected by ravenous demons who proceed to kill and posses the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.

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Art imitating art is the basis of this demonic tale of a group of invited guests who are granted a free lunch in the form of a screening of a horror film that brings naturalism to life. Baited and penned in, this walled-in feeling quickly turns to screams and fear as those who are dead lust after the flesh of those living. The free lunch has turned full circle in the cinema of hell and it is only a question of time before the demons from the abyss are asking for second portions.


plot: The son of a German General becomes part of a mysterious conspiracy to gain hidden Nazi funds.
title: The Holcroft Covenant
released: 1985-10-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-07 00:15:10.913000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
fullplot:
Noel Holcroft is a foreign-born American citizen working in New York as an architect. In Geneva he meets with a respected Swiss banker who tells him he has been designated to be executor of a huge 4 1/2 billion dollar trust fund designed to make reparations for the war crimes of the Nazis. Holcroft's father, who committed suicide in 1945, was a key Hitler financial advisor who became conscience-stricken about German war atrocities, turned against the Fuehrer, and covertly diverted Nazi funds to a secret Swiss account. Under the terms of the covenant Holcroft must locate the sons of his father's two associates so they can jointly activate their fathers' account. They battle the sinister forces seem to be trying to prevent them from signing the document as it is believed that it will be used to establish a Fourth Reich.


title: Mr. Vampire
released: 1985-09-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:16:20.463000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 11 nominations.
plot:
The planned reburial of a village elder goes awry as the corpse resurrects into a hopping, bloodthirsty vampire, threatening mankind. Therefore, a Taoist Priest and his two disciples attempt to stop the terror.

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A ghost sucks the life-force out of a one of Uncle Nine's student. The other is slowly turned into a vampire. They halt his transformation by filing down his teeth! The female ghost throws her head around like a boomerang to protect herself. Can Mr. Vampire chase away the Succubus and the hopping ghost and save his two students?


title: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
released: 1985-07-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:16:45
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 6 nominations.
plot:
After being exiled from the most advanced town in post apocalyptic Austrailia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.

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Bartertown is a city on the edge of a desert that has managed to retain some technology if no civilization. Max has his supplies stolen and must seek shelter there in a post apocalyptic world where all machines have begun to break down and barbarians hold what is left. He becomes involved in a power struggle in this third Mad Max film where he must first survive the town, survive the desert and then rescue the innocent children he has discovered.


title: Mask
released: 1985-03-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:22:09.043000000
year: 1985
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempts to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

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Rusty Dennis is the mother of Rocky, a seriously deformed but extremely intelligent and emotionally warm teenager. Rusty is a no-nonsense mother whose wild lifestyle is often at odds with her tenderness and protectiveness towards Rocky. She is determined that Rocky be given the same chances and happiness that everyone else takes for granted.


title: Restless Natives
released: 1986-09-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-22 00:53:21.047000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Two Scottish friends become local folk heroes and tourist attractions when they start holding up tour buses with novelty items.

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Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In the process they become folk heroes to the locals. Their adventures make for a whimsical and gentle comedy, in the Bill Forsyth vein.


title: The Slugger's Wife
released: 1985-03-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:10:50.943000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A major league star who is on the verge of breaking a record, meets a singer and they get married, but they have different goals, so they separate, jeopardizing his opportunity in sports and the possibility of making up with his wife.

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A major league star who is on the verge of breaking a record, meets a singer and they get married, but they have different goals, so they separate, jeopardizing his opportunity in sports and the possibility of making up with his wife.


plot: A group of friends, just out of college, struggle with adulthood.
title: St. Elmo's Fire
released: 1985-06-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:32:17.017000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
fullplot:
Seven friends - Alec, Billy, Jules, Kevin, Kirby, Leslie and Wendy - are trying to navigate through life and their friendships following college graduation. Alec, who aspires to political life, has just shown his true colors by changing his allegiance from Democrat to Republican, which freaks out girlfriend Leslie, who he wants to marry. Budding architect Leslie, on the other hand, has an independent streak. She believes she has to make a name for herself to find out who she is before she can truly commit to another person in marriage. But Leslie and Alec have decided to live together. Because Leslie refuses to marry Alec, he believes that justifies certain behavior. Kirby, who wants to become a lawyer and who pays for his schooling by working as a waiter at their local hangout called St. Elmo's Bar, and struggling writer Kevin are currently roommates. They are on opposite extremes of the romance spectrum. Kirby has just reconnected with Dale Biberman, a slightly older woman he knew in college who is now a doctor. He is madly in love with her and will do *anything* to impress her. Kevin, on the other hand, doesn't date and states he doesn't believe in love, making his friends speculate that he's a closet homosexual who is secretly in love with Alec. Kevin will eventually open himself up to the one friend who matters the most. Billy, married with a child, is the irresponsible one of the group who would rather sleep around and play the saxophone than face the realities of being an adult with family commitments. He still lives for the memory of his fraternity glory days. Virginal and sheltered Wendy, who comes from a wealthy family, works in a low paying social services job. Her family provides for all her financial needs. She is in love with Billy, who in turn takes advantage of her adoration of him. And most are concerned about Jules, who works in a bank, lives a life of excess in all facets and doesn't have the financial means to live that lifestyle. The question for all seven becomes whether their friendship can survive adult real life.


title: 3 hommes et un couffin
released: 1986-04-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 01:11:20.860000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
Jacques, steward de Air France, accepte de garder un paquet pour le compte de Paul. Le paquet sera remis chez lui è la maison, oè il vit avec deux amis, Pierre et Michel. Mais Jacques ...

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Jacques, steward de Air France, accepte de garder un paquet pour le compte de Paul. Le paquet sera remis chez lui è la maison, oè il vit avec deux amis, Pierre et Michel. Mais Jacques oublie de prèvenir ses amis et part en Thailande pour un voyage de travail. Effectivement, un paquet arrive, mais il s'agit d'un couffin avec un bèbè, Marie, fille de Sylvia et de Jacques. Les deux, et ensuite les trois hommes, se retrouvent piègès entre engagements de travail, bouillies et couches. Et ensuite, un vrai paquet arrive: il contient de la drogue. Et avec le paquet, d'autres ennuis, avec les propriètaires de la drogue et la police è sa recherche. La vie des trois cèlibataires a vraiment changè.


title: A View to a Kill
released: 1985-05-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:03:44.083000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
An investigation of a horse-racing scam leads 007 to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley.

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James Bond has one more mission. Bond returns from his travels in the USSR with a computer chip. This chip is capable of withstanding a nuclear electromagnetic pulse that would otherwise destroy a normal chip. The chip was created by Zorin Industries, and Bond heads off to investigate its owner, Max Zorin. Zorin may only seem like a innocent guilty man, but is really planning to set off an earthquake in San Andreas which will wipe out all of Silicon Valley. As well as Zorin, Bond must also tackle May Day and equally menacing companion of Zorin, whilst dragging Stacy Sutton along for the ride.


title: Witness
released: 1985-02-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:29:39.063000000
year: 1985
text: Won 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 26 nominations.
plot:
A young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder; policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial.

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Samuel Lap is a young Amish boy who witnesses a murder in Philadelphia while traveling with his mother Rachel. A good cop named John Book must go with them into hiding when the killers come after them. All three retreat to Amish country and Book has to adjust to the new life style, and his feelings for the boy's mother. Of course the killers are still on their trail.


title: An American Tail
released: 1986-11-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:34:27.553000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.

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Fievel is a young Russian mouse separated from his parents on the way to America, a land they think is without cats. When he arrives alone in the New World, he keeps up hope, searching for his family, making new friends, and running and dodging the cats he thought he'd be rid off.


title: Down and Out in Beverly Hills
released: 1986-01-31 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:34:32.687000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
A rich but troubled family find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.

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Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman are very rich but not happy Dave is a hard working business man, his wife is only interested in yoga, aerobics and other meditation classes, and he sleeps with the house maid. Their teenage son is confused about his sexuality and their daughter is suffering from eating disorders. While they are celebrating thanksgiving having plenty of food, street tramp Jerry is hungry, homeless, sleeping rough and has lost his dog. Jerry decides to end his life by drowning himself in their swimming pool. Dave rescues him and invites him to stay for a while. How does this stranger change the life style of this family?


title: The Great Wall Is a Great Wall
released: 1986-05-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-27 00:08:13.467000000
year: 1986
text: 2 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
When computer programmer, Leo Fang, is passed up for promotion, he feels it is because he is Chinese, and quits. He takes his Chinese-American family to Mainland China to visit his ...

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When computer programmer, Leo Fang, is passed up for promotion, he feels it is because he is Chinese, and quits. He takes his Chinese-American family to Mainland China to visit his relatives, the Chao's for a vacation. The clash of cultures, between the men, wives, and teenagers, leads to some confusion, and misunderstanding.


plot: A patient in a mental hospital claims to be an extraterrestial. Could he be right?
title: Man Facing Southeast
released: 1987-03-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-03 00:50:36.180000000
year: 1986
text: 13 wins & 2 nominations.
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A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himself unhappy, and affected by the patient's insight. But he is ordered to treat the patient according to institutional procedure.


title: Heart of a Dragon
released: 1985-10-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-30 00:17:42.597000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
Story of a cop who forsakes his dreams of sailing around the world so that he can care for his mentally retarded brother. Innocently caught up in a gangland fight, the brother is kidnapped ...

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Story of a cop who forsakes his dreams of sailing around the world so that he can care for his mentally retarded brother. Innocently caught up in a gangland fight, the brother is kidnapped to force the cop to turn over a police informant.


title: Manhunter
released: 1986-08-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 01:00:06.133000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Former FBI profiler Will Graham returns to service to pursue a deranged serial murderer named "the Tooth Fairy" by the media.

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Will Graham is a former FBI agent who recently retired to Florida with his wife Molly and their young son. Graham was a 'profiler'; one who profiles criminal's behavior and tries to put his mind into the minds of criminals to examine their thoughts while visiting crime scenes. Will is called out of his self-imposed retirement at the request of his former boss Jack Crawford to help the FBI catch an elusive serial killer, known to the press as the 'Tooth Fairy', who randomly kills whole families in their houses during nights of the full moon and leaves bite marks on his victims. To try to search for clues to get into the mind of the killer, Will has occasional meetings with Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, a charismatic but very dangerous imprisoned serial killer that Will captured years earlier which nearly drove him insane from the horrific encounter that nearly cost Will's life. With some help and hindrance, Will races against the clock before the next full moon when the 'Tooth Fairy' will strike again. Elsewhere, a local photographer named Francis Dollarhyde, the killer that Will is looking for, struggles to stay undetected while seeing a hope of redemption when be begins a relationship with a blind woman who is not aware of his double life.


title: Otello
released: 1986-09-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:37:57.093000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
Based on Shakesphere's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon". Believing Otello has promoted the...

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Based on Shakesphere's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon". Believing Otello has promoted the fast-rising Cassio over himself, Iago plots to destroy both Cassio and Otello. Iago convinces the jealous Otello that his beautiful wife Desdemona is unfaithful, and that Cassio is her lover. Jealousy is followed by tragedy, then retribution, "Has Heaven no more thunderbolts?"


plot: The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
title: Pirates
released: 1986-07-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:40:19.853000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.
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Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks to his inventiveness, he raises the crew to mutiny, takes over the ship, and kidnaps the niece of the governor of Maracaibo. The question is, can he keep this pace up?


title: Running Scared
released: 1986-06-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:42:11.663000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins.
plot:
Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed them in the past.

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Danny and Ray are two street wise cops in Chicago. When they are almost killed on a case, they are forced to take a vacation by their captain. Key West offers a substantial change over frozen Chicago. They decide to quit and open a bar in Key West. Upon returning, they find that Julio, the drug dealer who nearly killed them has made bail and is trying to complete a giant drug deal. They decide to complete their case against Julio before quitting, but then begin being careful. Their effectiveness drops as they find they can't operate the way they did before if they don't have the edge of a long time commitment.


title: True Stories
released: 1986-10-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:00:27.303000000
year: 1986
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.

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David Byrne of Talking Heads fame visits a typical (and fictional) Texas town, on the eve of the town's celebration of the state's sesquicentennial. He meets various colorful local characters, most notably Lewis Fyne, a big-hearted bachelor in search of matrimony.


title: Swamp Thing
released: 1982-02-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:41:36
year: 1982
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
After a violent incident with a special chemical, a research scientist is turned into a swamp plant monster.

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Dr. Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species - a combination of animal and plant capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions. Unfortunately he becomes subject of his own creation and is transformed . . . Arcane, desperate for the formula attempts to capture the Swamp Thing. An explosive chase ensues that ultimately ends with a confrontation between Holland and a changed Arcane . . .


title: Tex
released: 1982-07-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:41:06.443000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 nominations.
plot:
Coming-of-age adventure about two teenage brothers and their struggles to grow up, on their own, after their mother dies and their father leaves them.

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Coming-of-age adventure about two teenage brothers and their struggles to grow up, on their own, after their mother dies and their father leaves them.


title: Betrayal
released: 1983-02-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:35:13.687000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best ...

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Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told from the husband's point of view, with the scenes in precise reverse chronological order.


title: Chained Heat
released: 1983-05-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-07 00:29:36.180000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after killing a man (by accident). The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where...

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Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after killing a man (by accident). The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where the other female inmates are sadistic crack-selling lesbian rapists and the guards and warden are no better. Racial tensions are high as the inmates is divided into two factions, blacks and whites, who must either join together against the management or kill each other trying. A sleazy blend of sexploitation and blaxploitation make this movie a real winner.


title: Christine
released: 1983-12-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:43:04.213000000
year: 1983
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.

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In 1957, in Detroit, a red Plymouth Fury is built and is the cause of two accidents, one of them fatal, still in the assembly line. Twenty-one years later, the outcast and bullied nerd Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham is getting a ride with his best and only friend Dennis Guilder and he sees the wrecked car in a junkyard. Arnie immediately falls in love with the car and calls it Christine. He brings the car to a repair shop of the despicable Will Darnell and works hard to restore the classic car. While he works in the restoration, he changes his personality to a cocky teenager and he dates the most beautiful girl in the high-school, Leigh Cabot. Soon Arnie becomes selfish and jealous of the supernatural Christine that kills everyone that is a threat to them.


title: The Grey Fox
released: 1983-03-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-11 00:36:14.717000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 12 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
When an aging, but gentlemanly stagecoach robber is released from prison, he decides to go to Canada to become a train robber.

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Old West highwayman Bill Miner, known to Pinkertons as "The Gentleman Bandit," is released in 1901 after 33 years in prison, a genial and charming old man. He goes to Washington to live and work with his sister's family. But the world has changed much while he has been away, and he just can't adjust. So he goes to Canada and returns to the only thing familiar to him -- robbery (with stagecoaches changed to trains).


title: High Road to China
released: 1983-03-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:49:59.933000000
year: 1983
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
During WW1, an alcoholic American biplane pilot is hired by the spoiled daughter of an industrialist to find her father who disappeared in Asia.

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A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.


plot: Retrospective on the career of enigmatic screen diva Marlene Dietrich.
title: Marlene
released: 1984-03-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:03:51.673000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 1 nomination.
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Acclaimed, award-winning filmmaker Maximillian Schell reconstructs the life and career of the enigmatic film diva. This is accomplished through use of archival footage and commentary from the actress recorded at her home. Schell's job was complicated by the aging actresses's stipulation that her face not be photographed directly.


plot: Anthology of four horror tales with a supernatural twist based on urban legends.
title: Nightmares
released: 1983-09-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:16:13.580000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
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A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In the third a small town priest loses his faith and decides to leave town, but in the desert is stalked by a mysterious black pick-up truck. In the final story, a family's problem with a rat is larger than they think.


title: The Pirates of Penzance
released: 1983-02-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-12 00:06:06.690000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
This movie is an adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta of the same name, with parts of other of their operettas stirred in. Frederic has fallen in love with sweet innocent ...

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This movie is an adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta of the same name, with parts of other of their operettas stirred in. Frederic has fallen in love with sweet innocent Mabel. Yet his vocation is an impediment to their union. Perhaps the situation can be rectified by his old nurse, Ruth, who made a dreadful blunder years before. A highlight is the song/dance A Policeman's Lot is Not a Happy One.


title: Risky Business
released: 1983-08-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:45:20.133000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 nominations.
plot:
A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.

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A suburban Chicago teenager's parents leave on vacation, and he cuts loose. An unauthorised trip in his father's Porsche means a sudden need for lots of money, which he raises in a creative way.


title: Silkwood
released: 1984-01-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:40:25.290000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 8 nominations.
plot:
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.

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Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood, the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate.


title: Still Smokin
released: 1983-05-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-12 00:18:01.283000000
year: 1983
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Cheech & Chong are invited to a celebrity party/festival in Amsterdam. When they get there, however, it turns out that the guy who invited them has taken off with all the money, and the ...

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Cheech & Chong are invited to a celebrity party/festival in Amsterdam. When they get there, however, it turns out that the guy who invited them has taken off with all the money, and the rest of the hosts have a VERY limited budget. They are actually expecting Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, so our heroes gets to be Mr. Burt and Mr. Dolly. We follow them around Amsterdam, at their hotel, (still) smokin' joints and doing shows.


title: Streamers
released: 1984-04-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:02:41.610000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
Four young soldiers waiting to be shipped to Viet Nam deal with racial tension and their own intolerance when one soldier reveals he's gay.

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Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is homosexual.


title: The 4th Man
released: 1983-03-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-06 00:52:45.710000000
year: 1983
text: 4 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
A man who has been having visions of an impending danger begins an affair with a woman who may lead him to his doom.

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The morbid Catholic writer Gerard Reve who is bisexual, alcoholic and has frequent visions of death is invited to give a lecture in the literature club of Vlissingen. While in the railway station in Amsterdam, he feels attracted to a handsome man who embarks on another train. Gerard is introduced to the treasurer of the club and beautician Christine Halsslag, a wealthy widow who owns the Spider beauty shop, and they engage in a one night stand. On the next morning, Gerard sees the picture of Christine's boyfriend Herman and recognizes him as the man he saw in the train station. He urges her to bring Herman to her house to spend a couple of days together, but with the secret intention of seducing the man. Christine travels to Kèln to bring her boyfriend and Gerard stays alone in her house. He drinks whiskey and snoops through her safe, finding three film reels with names of men; he decides to watch the footage and discovers that Christine had married each; all of whom died in tragic accidents. Later Gerard believes Christine is a Black Widow and questions whether Herman or he will be her doomed fourth husband.


title: WarGames
released: 1983-06-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:06:18.117000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 11 nominations.
plot:
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.

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A young computer whiz kid accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3. Can he convince the computer he wanted to play a game and not the real thing ?


title: The Year of Living Dangerously
released: 1983-01-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:48:30.920000000
year: 1982
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 8 wins & 15 nominations.
plot:
A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.

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Guy Hamilton is a journalist on his first job as a foreign correspondent. His apparently humdrum assignment to Indonesia soon turns hot as President Sukarno electrifies the populace and frightens foreign powers. Guy soon is the hottest reporter on the story with the help of his photographer, half- Chinese dwarf Billy Kwan, who has gone native. Guy's affair with diplomat Jill Bryant also helps. Eventually Guy must face some major moral choices and the relationship between Billy and him reaches a crisis at the same time the politics of Indonesia does.


title: Angel
released: 1984-01-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:41:48.650000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win.
plot:
15 year-old Molly is the best in her class in high school. Nobody suspects that the model pupil earns her money at night: as prostitute "Angel" on Sunset Blvd. The well-organized separation...

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15 year-old Molly is the best in her class in high school. Nobody suspects that the model pupil earns her money at night: as prostitute "Angel" on Sunset Blvd. The well-organized separation of her two lives is shattered when two of her friends are slain by a necrophile serial killer. She's the only eye witness and becomes a target herself. The investigating Detective Andrews helps her, not only to survive, but also to query why she keeps on humiliating herself and to stop it.


title: And the Ship Sails On
released: 1983-10-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-07 00:58:29.850000000
year: 1983
text: 11 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.

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In July 1914 a luxury cruise ship leaves Italy with the ashes of the famous opera singer Tetua. The boat is filled with her friends, opera singers, actors and all kinds of exotic people. Life is sweet the first days, but on the third day the captain has to save a a large number of Serbian refugees from the sea, refugees who has escaped the first tremors of WWI.


title: Firestarter
released: 1984-05-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:17:03.913000000
year: 1984
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telekinetic ability and then have a child who is pyrokinetic.

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Andrew and Vicky McGee met while earning money as guinea pigs for an experiment at college. The experiment was shrouded in suspicion and mystery, and seemed to be related to psychic abilities. The two were married and had a daughter Charile, who has the ability to start fires by merely thinking about it. Naturally, the government takes a great interest in Charlie, and operatives from the secret department known as "The Shop" want to quarrantine and study her.


title: The Karate Kid
released: 1984-06-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:09:53.913000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
A handyman/martial arts master agrees to teach a bullied boy karate and shows him that there is more to the martial art than fighting.

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Daniel and his mother move from New Jersey to California. She has a wonderful new job, but Daniel quickly discovers that a dark haired Italian boy with a Jersey accent doesn't fit into the blond surfer crowd. Daniel manages to talk his way out of some fights, but he is finally cornered by several who belong to the same karate school. As Daniel is passing out from the beating he sees Miyagi, the elderly gardener leaps into the fray and save him by outfighting half a dozen teenagers. Miyagi and Daniel soon find out the real motivator behind the boys' violent attitude in the form of their karate teacher. Miyagi promises to teach Daniel karate and arranges a fight at the all-valley tournament some months off. When his training begins, Daniel doesn't understand what he is being shown. Miyagi seems more interested in having Daniel paint fences and wax cars than teaching him Karate.


title: Maria's Lovers
released: 1985-01-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 01:02:44.940000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ...

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Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ethnic Yugoslavian virgin Maria Bosic. She dates him again, thus ruining a virtual engagement to captain Al Griselli. Against Ivan's dad's advice, they get married. But Ivan became psychologically impotent, feels unworthy of her and starts wondering, even looking for another girl. Meanwhile slick guitar-and-song-busker Clarence Butts moves in to South-Western PA, and seduces Maria.


title: Moscow on the Hudson
released: 1984-04-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 04:50:26.027000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win.
plot:
When a Russian musician defects in Bloomingdale's department store in New York, he finds adjusting to American life more difficult than he imagined.

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A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in love with the Italian immigrant from behind the perfume counter. We follow his life as he works his way through the American dream and tries to find work as a musician.


title: Secret Honor
released: 1986-01-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:05:41.423000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win.
plot:
A fictionalized former President Richard M. Nixon offers a solitary, stream-of-consciousness reflection on his life and political career - and the "true" reasons for the Watergate scandal and his resignation.

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In this speculative one-man drama, we see former President Richard Milhous Nixon alone in his study, dictating his thoughts into a tape recorder. His only company are a four-screen closed-circuit TV setup, the portraits on the walls, a bottle of Chivas Regal - and a loaded pistol. At times addressing an imaginary judge in a court of public opinion, at other times speaking to an aide named Roberto, and sometimes just talking to himself, the former chief executive reflects, in a series of meandering monologues, on his humble Quaker upbringing, his school days, his family and a political career that reached all the way to the White House. Nixon rails at his treatment by the likes of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the "goddam Kennedys," J. Edgar Hoover, Henry Kissinger, Jews, liberals, the media, "East Coast shits," among others, as he leads up to the "true" reasons for the Watergate scandal that resulted in his resignation - an act he regards as one of "secret honor."


title: The Color Purple
released: 1986-02-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:13:54.260000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 11 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
A black Southern woman (Whoopi Goldberg) struggles to find her identity after suffering years of abuse from her father and others over 40 years.

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This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life...


title: Explorers
released: 1985-07-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:36:50.580000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 5 nominations.
plot:
A boy obsessed with 50s Sci-Fi movies about aliens has a recurring dream about a blueprint of some kind, which he draws to his inventor friend. With the help of a third kid, they follow it and build themselves a spaceship. Now what?

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Ben Crandall, an alien-obsessed kid, dreams one night of a circuit board. Drawing out the circuit, he and his friends Wolfgang and Darren set it up, and discover they have been given the basis for a starship. Setting off in the ThunderRoad, as they name their ship, they find the aliens Ben hopes they would find... but are they what they seem?


title: A Private Function
released: 1985-03-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:32:20.053000000
year: 1984
text: Won 3 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
1947 in a small town in England. The war has been won two years ago, but there's still rationing of meat. When princess Elizabeth is going to marry, a group of businessmen wants to impress ...

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1947 in a small town in England. The war has been won two years ago, but there's still rationing of meat. When princess Elizabeth is going to marry, a group of businessmen wants to impress (or probably bribe) the local government by giving a big party. They want to slaughter an illegally raised pig for this event. Unfortunately someone steals the pig.


title: Vagabond
released: 1986-05-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-11 00:02:20.827000000
year: 1985
text: 10 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
In winter in the south of France, a young woman is found frozen in a ditch. She's unkempt, a vagabond. Through flashbacks and brief interviews, we trace her final weeks as she camps alone ...

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In winter in the south of France, a young woman is found frozen in a ditch. She's unkempt, a vagabond. Through flashbacks and brief interviews, we trace her final weeks as she camps alone or falls in with various men and women, many of whom project their needs onto her or try to give her life direction. She squats in an old house smoking hash with a man, falls for a Tunisian laborer and works beside him pruning grape vines, stays with a couple shepherding goats, meets an agronomist trying to save plane trees, gets tipsy with an old woman, and has an offer to appear in porn films.


plot: A group of teens are stalked and killed by a Shaman at a cursed camping site.
title: Body Count
released: 1987-05-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-25 00:58:37.977000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
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A bodybuilder, a junk-food addict and a wild blonde nymph and their friends are stalked by a terrifying figure. An horrific tale of murder as a fun-loving group of college students explore the Colorado wilderness.


title: The Fly
released: 1986-08-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 00:04:06.570000000
year: 1986
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 9 nominations.
plot:
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.

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Seth Brundle, a brilliant but eccentric scientist attempts to woo investigative journalist Veronica Quaife by offering her a scoop on his latest research in the field of matter transportation, which against all the expectations of the scientific establishment have proved successful. Up to a point. Brundle thinks he has ironed out the last problem when he successfully transports a living creature, but when he attempts to teleport himself a fly enters one of the transmission booths, and Brundle finds he is a changed man. This Science-Gone-Mad film is the source of the quotable quote "Be afraid. Be very afraid."


title: Hannah and Her Sisters
released: 1986-03-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:22:09.250000000
year: 1986
text: Won 3 Oscars. Another 27 wins & 20 nominations.
plot:
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

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During a Thanksgiving Day party we make acquaintance with a numerous and problematic family. The leading characters are three sisters: Lee, the woman of Frederick, an old misanthrope painter; Holly, who dreams of becoming a writer, or an actress, or who knows who...; Hannah, famous actress, beautiful, intelligent, good mother, good wife, good sister, in short perfect, the pivot of the family. The balance begins to break up when Hannah's husband, Elliot, falls in love with Lee, who leaves Frederick. Holly goes through a deep crisis and meets Mickey, the former husband of Hannah, a hypochondriac TV producer. The affairs evolve and at the last Thanksgiving ...


title: Gung Ho
released: 1986-03-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:24:00.817000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win.
plot:
When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liason must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor.

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Hunt Stevenson works for a large car manufacturer that has just been bought out by a Japanese firm. Suddenly finding himself having to justify his own job, he's forced to choose between redundancy or the seemingly inhuman Japanese work ethic that the new owners have brought with them.


title: Matador
released: 1986-03-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-11 00:19:18.217000000
year: 1986
text: 6 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
An ex-bullfighter who gets turned on by killing, a lady lawyer with the same fetish and a young man driven insane by his religious upbringing - these are the main characters in this stylish...

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An ex-bullfighter who gets turned on by killing, a lady lawyer with the same fetish and a young man driven insane by his religious upbringing - these are the main characters in this stylish black comedy about dark sides of human nature.


plot: A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.
title: Maximum Overdrive
released: 1986-07-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 01:36:46.310000000
year: 1986
text: 3 nominations.
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When Earth passes through the tail of Rea-M rogue comet, the machines come to life and threaten and kill the mankind. A group of survivors is under siege of fierce trucks in the Dixie Boy truck stop in a gas station and they have to fight to survive.


title: Peggy Sue Got Married
released: 1986-10-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:00:39.707000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 7 nominations.
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Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.

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A 43-year-old mother and housewife who's facing divorce is thrust back in time when she attends her high-school reunion. Given the chance to change the course of her life, she finds herself making many of the same choices.


title: Psycho III
released: 1986-07-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:17:26.197000000
year: 1986
text: 2 nominations.
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Norman Bates is back again running his "quiet" little motel a month after the events in Psycho II. Norman meets three new people, one being a beautiful young nun with whom his budding ...

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Norman Bates is back again running his "quiet" little motel a month after the events in Psycho II. Norman meets three new people, one being a beautiful young nun with whom his budding relationship is beginning to make his "Mother" jealous. He also hires a young man in need of a job to take care of the motel. A snooping reporter is showing interest in Norman's case. What will these new friends do for Norman?


plot: A Nobel prize winner returns to his natal city looking for his home.
title: Volver a empezar
released: 1982-03-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-15 00:25:51.927000000
year: 1982
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination.
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Antonio Albajara is a successful poet and teacher in the Berkeley University that returns to Gijèn (Principality of Asturias, north to Spain). He travels there looking for everything that he left behind in his youth when he turned a well-known poet and writer in Mexico and USA, winning the Nobel prize with time. In Gijèn he meets again with his past in Roxiu, an old friend (both played in the Sporting of Gijèn's soccer team years ago) and Elena, his great-love of past times. Through his memory, his friends and Elena, Antonio starts an unforgettable journey by everyone.


title: El Norte
released: 1984-01-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-09 00:52:22.537000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.
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Peasants escaping mindless labor and a murderous Guatemalan government head to America in hopes for something better.

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Mayan Indian peasants, tired of being thought of as nothing more than "brazos fuertes" ("strong arms", i.e., manual laborers) and organizing in an effort to improve their lot in life, are discovered by the Guatemalan army. After the army destroys their village and family, a brother and sister, teenagers who just barely escaped the massacre, decide they must flee to "El Norte" ("the North", i.e., the USA). After receiving clandestine help from friends and humorous advice from a veteran immigrant on strategies for traveling through Mexico, they make their way by truck, bus and other means to Los Angeles, where they try to make a new life as young, and undocumented immigrants.


title: Of Unknown Origin
released: 1983-11-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:21:44.440000000
year: 1983
text: 2 wins.
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A man who recently completed rebuilding a townhouse becomes obsessed with a rat infestation until it becomes an interspecies duel.

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Bart Hughes has a pretty good life, a beautiful wife, a young son, a good job with promotion prospects, and a renovated brownstone in New York. When wife and kid leave for a vacation, Bart stays behind to work on a project that will earn him that promotion, unaware that a certain inhabitant of his basement has other plans for his time. Bart goes a bit bonkers trying to kill this rat, destroying most of his house in the process. Certain allegorical elements tie the household conflict to the "rat race" in his office, but the main event is certainly the night-and-day contest of wills between man and rodent.


title: Pauline at the Beach
released: 1983-03-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:21:22.567000000
year: 1983
text: 5 wins & 1 nomination.
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Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece Pauline on a vacation to Granville. She meets an old love...

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Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin, model-shaped Marion, go to the emptying Atlantic coast for an autumn holiday. Marion ignores the approaches of a surfer and falls for Henri, a hedonist who is only interested in a sexual adventure and drops her soon. Pauline's little romance with a young man (Sylvain) is also spoiled by Henri.


title: Porky's II: The Next Day
released: 1983-06-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:48:59.303000000
year: 1983
text: 1 nomination.
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The naughty high schoolers of Angel Beach High now seek revenge on a group of KKK religious fanatics and corrupt politicians who want to shut down their Shakespeare production after they cast a Seminole transfer student in the lead.

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When the students of Angel Beach High decide to stage "An Evening With Shakespeare," their efforts are threatened by Miss Balbricker, who views the works of Shakespeare as obscene. She enlists the help of Reverend Bubba Flavel, a religious fanatic who brings along his flock of followers to pressure the school into shutting down the production. When they succeed with the help of corrupt city officials seeking re-election, the gang don't get mad... they get even!


title: The Return of Captain Invincible
released: 1984-02-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:19:00.687000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
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In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis, and he was a hero. But when they accused him of supporting the communists, he retired to Australia. Now, after a US super...

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In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis, and he was a hero. But when they accused him of supporting the communists, he retired to Australia. Now, after a US super secret super weapon is stolen, he's asked to come back, to help. Unfortunately, he's an alcoholic now... -- parody of superhero comic strips.


title: Rumble Fish
released: 1983-10-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:43:51.233000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.

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Rusty James is the leader of a small, dying gang in an industrial town. He lives in the shadow of the memory of his absent, older brother -- The Motorcycle Boy. His mother has left, his father drinks, school has no meaning for him and his relationships are shallow. He is drawn into one more gang fight and the events that follow begin to change his life.


title: City Heat
released: 1984-12-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:14:03.503000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
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A slick private eye and tough police lieutenant--once partners, now bitter enemies--reluctantly team up to investigate a murder.

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Kansas City in the 1930s: private investigator Mike Murphy's partner is brutally murdered when he tries to blackmail a mobster with his secret accounting records. When a rival gang boss goes after the missing records, ex-policeman Murphy is forced to team up again with his ex-partner Lieutenant Speer, even though they can't stand each other, to fight both gangs before KC erupts in a mob war.


plot: Three unemployed parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.
title: Ghostbusters
released: 1984-06-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:15:08.537000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 6 nominations.
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Three odd-ball scientists get kicked out of their cushy positions at a university in New York City where they studied the occult. They decide to set up shop in an old firehouse and become Ghostbusters, trapping pesky ghosts, spirits, haunts, and poltergeists for money. They wise-crack their way through the city, and stumble upon a gateway to another dimension, one which will release untold evil upon the city. The Ghostbusters are called on to save the Big Apple.


title: Beyond the Walls
released: 1985-02-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-07 02:44:13.707000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win.
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In Israel's Central Prison, the security officer is corrupt, supplying drugs and stirring the hatred between Jewish and Arab prisoners to his advantage. Uri, in for 12 years for armed ...

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In Israel's Central Prison, the security officer is corrupt, supplying drugs and stirring the hatred between Jewish and Arab prisoners to his advantage. Uri, in for 12 years for armed robbery, and Issan, in for 50 years for PLO violence, command the respect of their cells. When the Arabs are framed for the murder of a Jewish prisoner and a young inmate commits suicide rather than lie about what happened, Uri and Issan form an unlikely partnership, leading the security block on a strike. Prison officials try to break it. In the background are Uri's daughter and Issan's wife, women of beauty and passion who embody the distance from inside a cell to the outside.


title: Romancing the Stone
released: 1984-03-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:22:35.767000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure.

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Joan Wilder, a mousy romance novelist, receives a treasure map in the mail from her recently murdered brother-in-law. Meanwhile, her sister Elaine is kidnapped in Colombia and the two criminals responsible demand that she travel to Colombia to exchange the map for her sister. Joan does, and quickly becomes lost in the jungle after being waylayed by Zolo, a vicious and corrupt Colombian cop who will stop at nothing to obtain the map. There, she meets an irreverent soldier-of-fortune named Jack Colton who agrees to bring her back to civilization. Together, they embark upon an adventure that could be straight out of Joan's novels.


plot: An innovative concert movie for the rock group The Talking Heads.
title: Stop Making Sense
released: 1984-11-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:56:16.837000000
year: 1984
text: 3 wins.
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David Byrne walks onto the stage and does a solo "Psycho Killer." Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz join him for two more songs. The crew is busy, still setting up. Then, three more musicians and two back-up singers join the band. Everybody sings, plays, harmonizes, dances, and runs. They change instruments and clothes. Bryne appears in the Big Suit. The backdrop is often black, but sometimes it displays words, images, or children's drawings. The band cooks for 18 songs, the lyrics are clear, the house rocks. In this concert film, the Talking Heads hardly talk, don't stop, and always make sense.


title: Tightrope
released: 1984-08-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:04:27.673000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women, that he rapes and murders. The killings are getting personal when the killer ...

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Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women, that he rapes and murders. The killings are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.


plot: A stray cat is the linking element of three tales of suspense and horror.
title: Cat's Eye
released: 1985-04-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 01:00:22.870000000
year: 1985
text: 2 nominations.
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Three horror-thriller tales revolve around a mysterious stray cat which is attempting to find a little girl in trouble. In "Quitters, Inc.": the cat is picked up by a shady New York "doctor" who uses experimental techniques to get people to quit smoking. His latest client is a man named Morrison, who learns he'll suffer some terrible consequences if he tries to cheat. In "The Ledge": the cat is picked up by Cressner, a shady Atlantic City millionaire who forces tennis pro Norris (his wife's lover), to walk a narrow ledge around his high-rise penthouse apartment. In "The General": the cat arrives in Wilmington, North Carolina, where it is found by Amanda, the young girl it has been sent to protect. What she needs protection from is a tiny, evil troll who lives behind the skirting board in her bedroom.


title: Day of the Dead
released: 1985-07-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-13 00:35:09.903000000
year: 1985
text: 2 wins.
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A small group of military officers and scientists dwell in an underground bunker as the world above is overrun by zombies.

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Zombies rule the world, except for a small group of scientists and military personnel who reside in an underground bunker in Florida. The scientists are using the undead in gruesome experiments; much to the chagrin of the military. Finally the military finds that their men have been used in the scientists' experiments, and banish the scientists to the caves that house the Living Dead. Unfortunately, the zombies from above ground have made their way into the bunker.


title: Fuk sing go jiu
released: 1985-02-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-30 00:16:40.537000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
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Two Hong-Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to catch an ex-cop who stole a large amount of money in diamonds. After one is captured by the Ninja-gang protecting the rogue cop, the other one gets ...

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Two Hong-Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to catch an ex-cop who stole a large amount of money in diamonds. After one is captured by the Ninja-gang protecting the rogue cop, the other one gets his old Orphanage gang, dubbed the "Five Lucky Stars," to help him. They don't like this much, but they do it.


title: Into the Night
released: 1985-02-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 05:38:24.560000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win.
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Ed Okin's life is somewhat out of control. He can't sleep, his wife betrays him and his job is dull. One night he starts to drive through Los Angeles and he finally ends in the parking ...

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Ed Okin's life is somewhat out of control. He can't sleep, his wife betrays him and his job is dull. One night he starts to drive through Los Angeles and he finally ends in the parking garage of L.A. Airport. Moments later a beautiful young lady jumps onto his bonnet and he finds himself being chased by four Iranians. What follows is a wild chase through the streets of Los Angeles and a very funny one too.


title: Macaroni
released: 1985-10-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:55:42.427000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
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A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.

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Robert Traven, a dyspeptic, edgy American businessman, arrives in Naples and is received by a friendly but officious local company representative. Exhausted by the pressures and inconveniences of a long flight, he is looking forward to rest and relaxation in his hotel room when he is visited by buoyant and upbeat Antonio Jassiello, a clerk in a bank record room, who is surprised when his old friend from the War does not recognize him. The annoyed and exhausted Traven feels he's being scammed, and the two part on bad terms. Jassiello does leave a photo of Traven and his sister taken 40 years earlier, and the time and the setting seen to stir the American's memory, so he seeks out Antonio to apologize. Jassiello brings him back home to renew acquaintances with his family including his now middle-aged, married sister, Her hospitable husband is friendly and not the least bit jealous, and Traven soon discovers why he has not faded from their memories as they have from his. Antonio has been long forging letters from Bob, claiming all manner of heroics as he globe-trots around the world. Jassiello and his family's warmth and genuine affection for him causes Traven to prioritize the family's needs over his best interests and his company's.


title: 'Master Harold'... and the Boys
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:54:07.500000000
year: 1985
text: 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
When Harold, a young white man, learns that his alcoholic, handicapped father is returning home, his frustration turns into racist viciousness against the two black men who work for the family.

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Master Harold" is what the black employees are ordered to call young Hally, the son of a well-to-do white couple who own a fashionable tea room. Hally wanders into the establishment one day and sees two black male workers practicing for an upcoming ballroom competition by dancing together. The two employees and Hally exchange kidding rebukes, not meant to offend anyone. But after Hally receives some bad news about his father, he takes out his anger upon the workers. Efforts to smooth out the situation erupt into an all-out racial conflict.


plot: Teenage geniuses deal with their abilities while developing a laser.
title: Real Genius
released: 1985-08-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:12:08.553000000
year: 1985
text: 2 wins & 2 nominations.
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Mitch is one of the youngest students ever accepted to a university known for its programs for geniuses. He's partnered up with his roommate, science club legend Chris Knight, on a project to develop a high-powered laser. Together with their hyper-kinetic friends, they employ their intellects in the pursuit of bigger blasts, practical jokes, and a deeper understanding of what real genius is. When their final, functional laser is stolen by their teacher for a military weapon, they decide to get even.


title: Revolution
released: 1985-12-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:46:28.990000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find...

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New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.


title: In a Glass Cage
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:29:52.710000000
year: 1986
text: 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
In Spain, the former Nazi doctor Klaus tries to commit suicide jumping off the roof of his manor. However, he survives with the entire body paralyzed and dependable of an iron lung with ...

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In Spain, the former Nazi doctor Klaus tries to commit suicide jumping off the roof of his manor. However, he survives with the entire body paralyzed and dependable of an iron lung with glass sides. His wife Griselda decides to hire a nurse since she does not bear the situation. Klaus asks Griselda to hire Angelo, a mysterious teenager that appears in their house. Angelo befriends Klaus' daughter Rena and sooner it is shown that Klaus was a pedophile that loved to feel the fear of death in young boys before abusing and killing them. Further, Angelo is a disturbed and totally insane victim of his experiments that intends to follow the insanities described in Klaus' diary and incorporate his personality.


title: 'Round Midnight
released: 1986-10-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:45:21.543000000
year: 1986
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 12 wins & 8 nominations.
plot:
In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from ...

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In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from his family, and hanging on by a thread in the 1950's New York jazz world. Dale gets an offer to play in Paris, where, like many other black American musicians at the time, he enjoys a respect for his humanity that is not based upon the color of his skin. A Parisian man who is obsessed with Turner's music befriends him and attempts to save Turner from himself. Although for Dale the damage is already done, his poignant relationship with the man and his young daughter re-kindles his spirit and his music as the end draws near.


title: Aliens
released: 1986-07-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:35:55.670000000
year: 1986
text: Won 2 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 22 nominations.
plot:
The planet from Alien (1979) has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough?

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Fifty seven years after Ellen Ripley survived her disastrous ordeal, her escape vessel is recovered after drifting across the galaxy as she slept in cryogenic stasis. Back on earth, nobody believed her story about the "Aliens" on the planet LV-426. After the "Company" orders the colony on LV-426 to investigate, however, all communication with the colony is lost. The Company enlists Ripley to aid a team of tough, rugged space marines on a rescue mission to the now partially terraformed planet to find out if there are aliens or survivors. As the mission unfolds, Ripley will be forced to come to grips with her worst nightmare, but even as she does, she finds that the worst is yet to come.


title: Blue City
released: 1986-05-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:14:51.083000000
year: 1986
text: 5 nominations.
plot:
Returning to the small Florida town where he grew up, Billy Turner (Nelson) learns that his father has been killed. With little help from the police, Billy will take matters into his own ...

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Returning to the small Florida town where he grew up, Billy Turner (Nelson) learns that his father has been killed. With little help from the police, Billy will take matters into his own hands and go up against a ruthless local mob boss in a desperate search to find the killer.


title: Children of a Lesser God
released: 1986-10-31 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:51:50.357000000
year: 1986
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 11 nominations.
plot:
James is a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. She shuns him at first, ...

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James is a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. She shuns him at first, refusing to read his lips and only using signs. Will her feelings change over time?


title: Ginger and Fred
released: 1986-03-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 02:01:38.807000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 13 wins & 15 nominations.
plot:
Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act (imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) on a TV variety show. It's both a touchingly nostalgic ...

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Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act (imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) on a TV variety show. It's both a touchingly nostalgic journey into the past, and a viciously satirical attack on television in general and Italian TV in particular, portraying it as a mindless freakshow aimed at morons


title: Jean de Florette
released: 1987-08-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:04:59.880000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 12 wins & 15 nominations.
plot:
A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.

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In a rural French village an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, so are dismayed to hear the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts they think only of getting the water.


title: Little Shop of Horrors
released: 1986-12-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 00:10:34.507000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 11 nominations.
plot:
A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.

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Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day as Seymour is seeking a new mysterious plant, he finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for his supper. Soon enough, Seymour feeds Audrey's sadistic dentist boyfriend to the plant and later, Mushnik for witnessing the death of Audrey's ex. Will Audrey II take over the world or will Seymour and Audrey defeat it?


title: Native Son
released: 1986-12-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-02 00:58:03.763000000
year: 1986
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.

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Bigger Thomas, an African American who lives in an impoverished neighborhood, is employed by a prosperous white family who live in the suburbs of a major city. The money Bigger makes at his new job will be used to supplement his mother's income. As a chauffeur, he is directed by the father of the family to take Mary, the daughter, to the university. Instead, Mary decides to pick up her Socialist boyfriend, Jan, and to spend the time drinking and partying. Jan and Mary portray a young liberal couple who venture into a black neighborhood with Bigger for the sole purpose of being entertained at Ernie's, a black nightclub. On the way home, Mary becomes inebriated and Bigger must get her to her bedroom without being detected. Mary's mother, who is blind, enters the room and Bigger panics at the thought of being caught with a white woman. He accidentally kills Mary by placing a pillow over her head to keep her quiet. Still frightened, Bigger disposes of the body in the furnace, possibly because he feels he would not get a fair trial for the accidental death of a white woman. Meanwhile, Jan is wanted by the police for Mary's murder and Bigger plays a role in the accusations against him.


title: Rawhead Rex
released: 1987-04-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 02:49:25.033000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, ...

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Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.


title: TerrorVision
released: 1986-02-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:34:55.310000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A family's new satellite TV system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.

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A civilization on a distant planet has found a way to solve its garbage problem: turning it into energy and beaming it into outer space. A flaw in this system is found when the signal is accidentally picked up on Earth by the Putterman Family's home satellite dish. While this would ordinarily be just another mess, this particular transmission contains a hungry trash monster who quickly begins snacking on the Puttermans and their guests. Only young Sherman Putterman has any clue what is going on, but nobody will believe him. Is there any hope for the Earth?


plot: A radio host is victimized by the cannibal family as a former Texas Marshall hunts them.
title: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
released: 1986-08-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 01:15:13.770000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
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Young DJ Vantia Block is hosting a music show when two renegade hoodlums phone her and start making trouble. The situation changes rapidly as the kids drive to a passageway and get sawed to pieces by Leatherface while the shocked DJ listens the kids' screams. Local sheriff approaches Block and convinces her to play the recording made from the phone call on radio, hoping that the killers would show up.


title: Zapped!
released: 1982-07-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-01 01:01:28.567000000
year: 1982
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A high school science nerd gains telekinetic powers after a laboratory accident and uses them for revenge upon bullies.

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Barney Springboro and Peyton Nichols are fun-loving high school students working on a science project with white mice. When one of the mice begins to move food toward itself with out touching it, Barney finds he has accidentally discovered a formula for telekinetic powers. Now, how much trouble can a high school kid who can move things with just his mind get into?


plot: College assassination game turns deadly as someone starts playing for real.
title: Tag: The Assassination Game
released: 1982-04-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-05-21 00:28:47.377000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win.
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Susan participates in The Assassination Game, in which every player tries to shoot another with a toy dart gun, until only one remains. Pretending to do research for his newspaper, college student Alex Marsh teams up with the attractive Susan Swayze. While doing his best to win her over, and helping her finding her targets, Alex discovers that this year the Game may be more serious than most contenders realize...


title: Bad Boys
released: 1983-03-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:33:31.383000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win.
plot:
Chicago crime kid Mick O'Brien is sent to reform school after accidentally killing Paco Moreno's kid brother.

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Chicago crime kid Mick O'Brien has been sent to a juvenile prison for vehicular manslaughter. Most unfortunately, the person he kills is the kid brother of his nemesis Paco Moreno, who vows revenge by raping Mick's girlfriend. Paco is caught and sent to the same prison where he re-works his revenge plan, and Mick has no choice but to defend himself.


title: The Prodigal Son
released: 1981-12-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 08:16:22.097000000
year: 1981
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
A rich man's son (Yuen Biao) believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a ...

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A rich man's son (Yuen Biao) believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of an actor in a traveling theatre company, the son resolves to find a better teacher. Furious kung fu battles and slapstick comedy.


title: House of the Long Shadows
released: 1984-04-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 05:01:12.167000000
year: 1983
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers...

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An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers that the manor, thought empty, actually has several, rather odd, inhabitants.


title: The Moon in the Gutter
released: 1983-05-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:33:45.337000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
He is a revenge-obssessed stevedore whose sister was brutally raped and murdered. She is a wealthy, elusive woman. They try hard to get together... or do they?

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In Marseilles, a woman commits suicide after she is raped in an alley. Nightly, her brother Gerard broods at the scene hoping to catch the rapist. He lives with his lover Bella whom he neglects, an alcoholic brother who lurks about, and his father who's stayed drunk since the daughter's death, ignoring work and his own companion. At a seedy bar, Gerard meets a wealthy, nihilistic hedonist and his beautiful sister. Gerard flips for her and thinks she's his ticket out of the slum. Bella warns him otherwise and also, in jealousy, sets two thugs on him. Then Gerard thinks he's found his sister's rapist. These emotional crises force Gerard to choose what's most important.


title: Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn
released: 1983-08-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:39:40.213000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win.
plot:
On a desert planet, warlord Jared-Syn is trying to convince a tribe of mutants that he's their messiah and gain unlimited power hidden in a crystal. Ranger Dogen and explorer Dhyana, who's father was murdered by Syn, must stop him.

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A seeker named Dogen rescues Dhyana after her father is murdered by the evil Jared-Syn. To avenge her father's death, Dogen must find Jared-Syn's hideout in the mysterious "Lost City", but the only person who knows where it is an aging, burned-out seeker named Rhodes. Along the way, they will need to do battle against the hunter Baal and his Cyclopean minions for engaging Jared-Syn in a final encounter.


title: The Outsiders
released: 1983-03-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 02:50:38.430000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
The rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, only heats up when one gang member kills a member of the other.

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The movie details a town split between the wealthy South Zone gang called 'The Socials' and the poor North Zone gang called 'The Greasers'. Dallas Winston, Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade from 'The Greasers' befriend the rich Cherry Valance and Marcia at a drive-in. Later that night, a group of 'The Socs' chase and beat up Johnny and attempt to drown Ponyboy in a fountain. However, Johnny stabs one Soc and kills him, saving Ponyboy. The desperate boys seek Dallas who finds a hideout for them in a nearby town. One week later, Johnny and Ponyboy decide to return to their hometown, with Dallas, to claim the murder as self-defense. But on their way back, they see the church on fire and Ponyboy and Johnny help the children trapped in the church and become heroes. However Johnny is badly wounded and confined to the hospital. Meanwhile The Socs and The Greasers prepare to fight.


title: Spasms
released: 1984-05-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-05 01:26:35.303000000
year: 1983
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation. A British millionaire and an American scientist find themselves in hot pursuit of ...

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A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation. A British millionaire and an American scientist find themselves in hot pursuit of the beast when it escapes from captivity and starts to kill innocent people.


plot: The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.
title: Testament
released: 1984-01-05 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 01:16:05.657000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations.
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Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San Francisco. After the nuclear attack, contact with the outside world is pretty much cut off.


title: Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
released: 1982-12-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-12 00:21:13.907000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Lyle, a motorcycle champion is traveling the Mexican desert, when he find himself in the action radius of a time machine. So he find himself one century back in the past between rapists, ...

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Lyle, a motorcycle champion is traveling the Mexican desert, when he find himself in the action radius of a time machine. So he find himself one century back in the past between rapists, thiefs and murderers....


title: Suburbia
released: 1984-10-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 02:11:50.483000000
year: 1983
text: 2 wins.
plot:
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family...

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When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart. Directed by Penelope Spheeris of "Decline of Western Civilization."


title: One Deadly Summer
released: 1983-05-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 01:19:53.553000000
year: 1983
text: 4 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She ...

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In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?


title: V: The Final Battle
released: 1984-05-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:26:26.150000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 win.
plot:
A small group of human resistance fighters fight a desperate guerilla war against the genocidal extra-terrestrials who dominate Earth.

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The Battle begun in the Miniseries 'V' continues. The war is told from the view point of the resistance group based in Los Angeles, CA as they struggle to find weaknesses of the aliens they can exploit. In addition, not all the aliens feel their invasion was right, and also work to stop the war.


title: Birdy
released: 1984-12-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:42:17.720000000
year: 1984
text: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.

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Philly boys Al and Birdy became friends in high school despite the extreme difference in their personalities, Al being the popular and athletic extrovert, Birdy the antisocial "weird" introvert. Al gave Birdy his nickname because of his fascination - obsession really - with birds, especially with flight. Al and Birdy have just completed their service of duty in the Vietnam War and have returned to the States. Al sustained some serious physical injuries, which required major reconstructive surgery to his face. Birdy, however, returned from Vietnam seemingly emotionally scarred. He was missing in action for one month. He has not spoken since he was found. Despite his own medical issues, Al travels to the institution where Birdy is being kept to see if he can assist in getting Birdy out of his near comatose state. Having always had issues with authority, Al is less than forthright with the doctors about Birdy's mental state prior to the war. As Al tries whatever he can to help Birdy using tools from their shared history prior to the war, he deals with his own post-war mental state.


title: The Brother from Another Planet
released: 1984-09-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:35:45.850000000
year: 1984
text: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.

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The Brother is an alien who has crash-landed on Earth, in New York City. While mute, strongly empathic, and able to fix things, he resembles a Black man with strange feet. His attempt to make a place for himself in Harlem is an allegory for the immigrant experience in the United States. Meanwhile, two bounty hunters from the Brother's home planet arrive and try to capture him.


title: Cal
released: 1984-08-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-15 00:31:51.600000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.

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Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.


title: C.H.U.D.
released: 1984-08-31 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:57:59.900000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
A bizarre series of murders in New York City seems to point toward the existence of a race of mutant cannibals living under the streets.

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A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.


title: Cannonball Run II
released: 1984-06-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:38:06.483000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win & 8 nominations.
plot:
The original characters from the first Cannonball movie race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.

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Our racers are back for a second cannonball run - the illegal race that takes place all over the country... Almost every star of the first film is here, along with new ones. Will J.J. McClure finally be the winner this time?


title: Comfort and Joy
released: 1984-10-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-27 00:29:13.670000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win.
plot:
Radio host Alan Bird witnesses how an ice cream van is attacked and destroyed by an angry competitor. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families, the Bernardis and the ...

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Radio host Alan Bird witnesses how an ice cream van is attacked and destroyed by an angry competitor. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families, the Bernardis and the Rossis, over whose ice cream vans can sell where in Glasgow.


title: Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
released: 1985-08-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 01:16:16.290000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 nominations.
plot:
In San Francisco, an immigrant Chinese widow welcomes the new year with some unhappiness: she's 62 now, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors, a fortune ...

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In San Francisco, an immigrant Chinese widow welcomes the new year with some unhappiness: she's 62 now, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors, a fortune teller has told her this is the year she'll die, and a daughter, Geraldine, remains unmarried. Geraldine does have a boyfriend, but she's not sure she's ready for marriage, and, anyway, he lives in Los Angeles and Geraldine doesn't want to leave her mother alone in her declining years. Mrs. Tan's cheerful brother-in-law tries to help out. Is there any solution that will enable Mrs. Tan to hold onto her culturally-influenced and deep-seated hopes, yet keep those hopes from suffocating Geraldine?


title: Dreamscape
released: 1984-08-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:19:39.993000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
A young psychic on the run from himself is recruited by the government to save the US president whose mind is trapped inside the dreamworld.

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A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in his sleep from a heart attack Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in the dreams somehow and that is causing them to die in real life. He must find a way to stop the abuse of the power to enter dreams.


plot: A young boy sets out to revive his dead pet using the monstrous power of science.
title: Frankenweenie
released: 1994-12-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-22 00:23:14.187000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
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When young Victor's pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor's home-made monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them (and his parents) that despite his appearance, Sparky's still the good loyal friend he's always been.


plot: A discouraged video-gaming boy finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force.
title: The Last Starfighter
released: 1984-07-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 00:00:06.967000000
year: 1984
text: 4 nominations.
fullplot:
Alex Rogan lives in a trailer court where his mother is manager and everyone is like a big extended family. He beats the Starfighter video game to the applause of everyone in the court and later that day finds he has been turned down for a student loan for college. Depressed, he meets Centauri, who introduces himself as a person from the company that made the game, before Alex really knows what is going on he is on the ride of his life in a "car" flying through space. Chosen to take the skills he showed on the video game into real combat to protect the galaxy from an invasion. Alex gets as far as the Starfighter base before he really realized that he was conscripted and requests to be taken back home. When he gets back home, he finds a Zando-Zan (alien bounty hunter) is stalking him. Unable to go home and live, Alex returns to the Starfighter base to find all the pilots have been killed and he is the galaxy's only chance to be saved from invasion. To defeat the invaders, who are paying the bounty on him, he must be victorious.


title: Red Dawn
released: 1984-08-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:01:45.863000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.

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From out of the sky, Soviet, Nicaraguan, and Cuban troops begin landing on the football field of a Colorado high school. In seconds, the paratroopers have attacked the school and sent a group of teenagers fleeing into the mountains. Armed only with hunting rifles, pistols, and bows and arrows, the teens struggle to survive the bitter winter and the Soviet KGB patrols hunting for them. Eventually, trouble arises when they kill a group of Soviet soldiers on patrol in the highlands. Soon they will wage their own guerrilla warfare against the invading Soviet troops-under the banner of 'Wolverines!'


title: Sheena
released: 1984-08-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:07:21.117000000
year: 1984
text: 5 nominations.
plot:
Sheena's white parents are killed while on Safari. She is raised by the mystical witch woman of an African tribe. When her foster mother is framed for the murder of a political leader, ...

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Sheena's white parents are killed while on Safari. She is raised by the mystical witch woman of an African tribe. When her foster mother is framed for the murder of a political leader, Sheena and a newsman, Vic Casey are forced to flee while pursued by the mercenaries hired by the real killer, who hopes to assume power. Sheena's ability to talk to the animals and knowledge of jungle lore give them a chance against the high tech weapons of the mercenaries.


title: Songwriter
released: 1984-10-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-06-27 00:15:22.623000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
Doc Jenkins is a singer/songwriter who tries to leave his singer/songwriter roots to be a music "mogul", and gets tangled up in a bad publishing deal. He enlists a team of cronies, ...

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Doc Jenkins is a singer/songwriter who tries to leave his singer/songwriter roots to be a music "mogul", and gets tangled up in a bad publishing deal. He enlists a team of cronies, including a young singer and his former singing partner, Blackie Buck, and together they execute his plan to get out of the deal. He gets help from a stereotypical small-time concert promoter. Honey Carder is the love interest/ex-wife.


title: Splash
released: 1984-03-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-15 00:27:58.600000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
A young man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is.

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Allen Bauer is rescued from drowning as a young boy off Cape Cod by a young mermaid. Years later, he returns to the same location, and once again manages to fall into the sea, and is rescued once more by the mermaid (Allen isn't sure what he has seen and what he has imagined). Using maps from a sunken ship, the mermaid decides to search for Allen in New York City, sprouting legs when her tail dries. On finding Allen, they fall in love, but she has a secret, which will no longer be a secret if she gets her legs wet.


title: The Woman in Red
released: 1984-08-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-20 00:53:01.220000000
year: 1984
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
On his way to work, Teddy spots Charlotte - an incredibly beautiful Woman in Red. He really wants to meet her - but what would his wife say?

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Teddy is a middle-aged man who has a good wife, kids, friends, a fine job and a girlfriend. You could say that he has everything he wants; but he doesn't. One day he sees a gorgeous woman in a red dress, and gets crazy!!! He must have her...


title: Agnes of God
released: 1985-09-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:00:05.890000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.

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At a convent, fragile, unearthly Sister Agnes gives birth, but the child dies and Agnes retains no memory of the event. The police soon are involved because of the death of the baby. However, the main conflict is between Mother Superior Miriam Ruth, who wants Agnes left alone, and Dr. Martha Livingston, a psychiatrist determined to help Agnes gain a stronger grasp on reality and uncover any wrongdoers.


title: Bring on the Night
released: 1985-11-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-01 00:04:50.297000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win.
plot:
Documents the preparation and rehearsals for Sting's first solo concert, as well as his supporting band's opinions on their leader and his controversial efforts.

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A documentary about the making of the first Sting album. Not only is some time spent in the studio (much of was recorded in an interesting mansion), but there is also some interesting information about what was going on in the lives of the members of his band during that time, including Sting's child being born.


title: The Coca-Cola Kid
released: 1985-07-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:34:41.413000000
year: 1985
text: 8 nominations.
plot:
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own ...

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An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.


title: Gymkata
released: 1985-05-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-06 00:51:08.757000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Johnathan Cabot is a champion gymnast. In the tiny, yet savage, country of Parmistan, there is a perfect spot for a "star wars" site. For the US to get this site, they must compete in the ...

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Johnathan Cabot is a champion gymnast. In the tiny, yet savage, country of Parmistan, there is a perfect spot for a "star wars" site. For the US to get this site, they must compete in the brutal "Game". The government calls on Cabot, the son of a former operative, to win the game. Cabot must combine his gymnastics skills of the west with fighting secrets of the east and form GYMKATA!


title: Joshua Then and Now
released: 1985-09-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:45:14.613000000
year: 1985
text: 5 wins & 8 nominations.
plot:
The story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.

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The story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.


title: Letter to Brezhnev
released: 1986-05-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-05-20 00:37:01.127000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins.
plot:
Two Soviet sailors, Peter and Sergei, go ashore in Liverpool to spend one night on the town. Peter can speak a minimal amount of English but it's enough to make contact with two ...

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Two Soviet sailors, Peter and Sergei, go ashore in Liverpool to spend one night on the town. Peter can speak a minimal amount of English but it's enough to make contact with two Liverpudlian natives, Elaine and Theresa. Elaine and Peter immediately fall in love with each other, but the night is short and they must leave with the ship. Elaine can't forget him and writes a letter to Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, asking him to make it possible for them to reunite.


title: Louie Bluie
released: 1985-10-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:09:14.640000000
year: 1985
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
About the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America.

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About the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America.


plot: When a new gang moves into town it's up to the screwball police team to stop them.
title: Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
released: 1985-03-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:29:51.770000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win.
fullplot:
Mahoney and friends have graduated from the Police Academy (1984) and are issued with their first assignments. As before, their cheerfulness and devotion to duty outweighs any shortcomings, but are even they ready to do battle with a band graffiti daubing terrorists?


title: Rambo: First Blood Part II
released: 1985-05-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:05:26.053000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

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John Rambo is removed from prison by his former superior, Colonel Samuel Troutman, for a top-secret operation to bring back POW's still held in Vietnam. Rambo's assignment is to only take pictures of where the POWs are being held, but Rambo wants to get the POWs out of Vietnam. Teamed up with female Vietnamese freedom fighter Co Bao, Rambo embarks on a mission to rescue the POWs, who are being held by sadistic Vietnamese Captain Vinh and his Russian comrade, Lieutenant Colonel Padovsky. Rambo starts killing every enemy in sight while still focusing on his intentions to rescue the POWs. There are also corrupt American officials involved in the mission, including Marshall Murdock, one of Rambo's superiors.


title: Silver Bullet
released: 1985-10-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:52:28.930000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A werewolf terrorizes a small city where lives Marty Coslaw, - a paralytic boy - his uncle and his sister - the narrator of the story.

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The small town of Tarker's Mills was a place that was very peaceful, where nothing extraordinary ever happened until one night when murders began. The townspeople believe it's some maniacal killer on the loose whom they intend to hunt down. Marty, a young handicapped boy, believes the killer is no man at all, but a werewolf. After a run-in with the werewolf, Marty and his sister Jane hunt all over town for the man who is the werewolf.


title: Sweet Dreams
released: 1985-10-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:55:25.977000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins.
plot:
Jessica Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.

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Patsy Cline was the first female solo artist to be elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Thirty-two years after her untimely death in a plane crash in Tennessee, her "Greatest Hits" album sold over six million copies. Loved by her fans today as much - if not more - than she was at the height of her fame, the life, the loves and most of all the voice of Patsy Cline is legendary. This film tells the story of the passionate, fun-loving, soft-spoken, loud-living life of one of country music's - and one of popular music's - greatest singing stars. This film covers the years 1956 through 1963, from her rise to fame and the top of the charts through TB talent shows and country bars - through her turbulent marriage to Charlie Dick and the demands of touring which would lead to the fatal plane crash.


title: Crocodile Dundee
released: 1986-09-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:05:29.760000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City.

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Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee is an Australian crocodile hunter who lives in the Australian outback and runs a safari business with his trusted friend and mentor Walter Reilly. After surviving a crocodile attack, a New York journalist named Sue arrives to interview Mick about how he survived and learns more about the crocodile hunter. After saving Sue from a crocodile, Sue invites Mick to visit New York City, since Mick has never been to a city. Mick finds the culture and life in New York City a lot different than his home and he finds himself falling in love with Sue.


title: Heartburn
released: 1986-07-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:29:42.583000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win.
plot:
An autobiographical look at the breakup of Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, Rachel is a food writer at...

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An autobiographical look at the breakup of Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.


title: Nothing in Common
released: 1986-07-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:04:44.613000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A successful ad man (Hanks) must juggle his ever-demanding career while his parents' marriage breaks up.

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David Basner is a successful advertising executive who has it all: Money, happiness, and women who want him. Then one day his world falls apart when his mother leaves his father. Now, he must balance his life between his mother, who is happy with her newfound independence, and his father, a recently laid off salesman who is hard-headed, stubborn, and hides a lot from David. Now David must cope with the downfall of his family and his life.


title: The Thing
released: 1982-06-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:21:51.397000000
year: 1982
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.

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An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and shooting a dog. The helicopter pursuing the dog explodes, eventually leaving no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that investigate. The team soon realizes that an alien life-form with the ability to take over other bodies is on the loose and they don't know who may already have been taken over.


title: The Verdict
released: 1982-12-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-11 00:19:21.160000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.

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Frank Galvin was once a promising Boston lawyer with a bright future ahead. An incident early in his career in which he was trying to do the right thing led to him being fired from the prestigious law firm with which he was working, almost being disbarred, and his wife leaving him. Continually drowning his sorrows in booze, he is now an ambulance chasing lawyer, preying on the weak and vulnerable, and bending the truth whenever necessary to make what few dollars he has, as he has only had a few cases in the last few years, losing the last four. His only friend in the profession is his now retired ex-partner, Mickey Morrissey, who gets Frank a case, his fee solely a percentage of what his clients are awarded. The case should net Frank tens of thousands of dollars by settling out of court, that money which would at least get him back on his feet. It is a negligence suit brought on behalf of Deborah Ann Kaye by her sister and brother-in-law, Sally and Kevin Doneghy, against St. Catherine Labourè Hospital, operated by the Archdiocese of Boston, and Drs. Towler and Marks. Kaye was admitted to the hospital for what should have been a routine delivery, but something that happened while Kaye was on the operating room table led to her brain being deprived of oxygen, resulting in permanent brain damage, and Kaye now being in a totally vegetative state requiring hospitalization for the rest of her life. Frank eventually learns that the cause seems to be that Dr. Towler, the anesthesiologist and an expert in the field, used the incorrect anesthetic for the situation. However, all but one person that was in the operating room that day has provided depositions that nothing improper occurred in the operating room. The one holdout is the operating room head nurse, Maureen Rooney, who is not talking, period, to Frank or the other side. Upon seeing the state Kaye is in, Frank unilaterally decides to do what he believes is the right thing by declining the lucrative out of court settlement offered by the Archdiocese and take the case to court. In doing so, he hopes the truth that the hospital and the doctors truly were negligent comes to light. Feeling that this case may be a turning point in his life, Frank has a new spring in his step, enough that he attracts the attention of Laura Fischer, the two who begin a relationship. Despite having whatever the truth is on his side, that truth which he does not know, and having an expert witness of his own, Frank has an uphill battle in that the Archdiocese has retained the services of Ed Concannon, a high priced lawyer who has a large team of associates whose task is to help Concannon and the Archdiocese win at any cost. Concannon's task seems even easier as Judge Hoyle, the presiding judge, is already biased against Frank for taking the case to court.


title: Blue Thunder
released: 1983-05-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:13:14.393000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle.

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Blue Thunder is a specially modified helicopter. It is for police work, but is armed and designed to counter street insurgencies. Its makers want to show what it will do, but have to train Los Angeles Police pilot Frank Murphy to fly and use it in order to allow it to operate in the city. Murphy and the project pilot have differences going back to Vietnam. The conflict between them continues to heat up as Murphy begins to suspect that Blue Thunder is more than has been disclosed.


title: Champions
released: 1984-04-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 00:30:47.943000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
The true story of Bob Champion, a British steeple chase jockey who, in the late 1970s, was diagnosed with cancer. Rather than succumb to the disease, however, Bob stages a miraculous ...

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The true story of Bob Champion, a British steeple chase jockey who, in the late 1970s, was diagnosed with cancer. Rather than succumb to the disease, however, Bob stages a miraculous recovery and goes on to win the 1981 Grand National steeple chase on the horse Aldaniti.


title: Gorky Park
released: 1984-01-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:30:35.703000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park. He finds that no one really wants him to solve the ...

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An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park. He finds that no one really wants him to solve the crime because it is just the tip of a complex conspiracy which involves the highest levels of the Moscow city government.


title: Koyaanisqatsi
released: 1983-08-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:48:57.370000000
year: 1982
text: 5 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on nature, humanity and the relationship between them.

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This documentary looks at the world and more specifically the effect man has had on the landscape and the environment. Without narration, the film shows the world in a pristine condition and untouched: blue skies, beautiful landscapes and endless vistas. The man-made world is much less appealing. Essentially a montage using a variety of film techniques to provide a visually stunning montage of images.


title: A Night in Heaven
released: 1983-11-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:58:21.917000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win.
plot:
Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a male strip-club for a girl's night out, ...

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Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a male strip-club for a girl's night out, where she discovers that one of the dancers is her failing student Rick Monroe, a.k.a. "Ricky the Rocket". A heated affair between teacher and student ensues, as Faye struggles to reconcile her emotions and make consequential life choices: Continue her lustful sessions with the studly-but-shallow teen stripper? Or break it off with Ricky and work to salvage her marriage to the loving-but-distant husband?


title: Antarctica
released: 1983-07-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 01:11:52.583000000
year: 1983
text: 3 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search ...

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Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search for the dogs inadvertently marooned there.


title: Never Say Never Again
released: 1983-10-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:24:17.280000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
A SPECTRE agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.

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SPECTRE agents under the command of Ernst Blofeld infiltrate a US air force base situated in the UK and steal two Tomahawk cruise missiles. When NATO is held to ransom, the British reactive their "00" agents and send James Bond to recapture the warheads and kill Blofeld.


title: Hearts and Armour
released: 1983-09-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:36:26.337000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
Bradamante, a woman wearing an invincible suit of armor, is travelling the countryside at the time of the Crusades. After ending up in the middle of a web of romantic and cultural tangles, ...

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Bradamante, a woman wearing an invincible suit of armor, is travelling the countryside at the time of the Crusades. After ending up in the middle of a web of romantic and cultural tangles, she finds herself in love with a Moor prince, while one of the Christian knights has fallen in love with a Moor princess. Others, however, are against the cross-cultural romance, and Bradamante's love is soon forced into a duel to the death. Will she ever be with her true love?


title: Under Fire
released: 1983-10-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:45:54.023000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.

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Nicaragua 1979: Star photographer Russel Price covers the civil war against president Somoza. Facing the cruel fighting - people versus army - it's often hard for him to stay neutral. When the Guerillas have him take a picture of the leader Rafael, who's believed to be dead, he gets drawn into the happenings. Together with his reporter friends Claire and Alex he has to hide from the army.


title: Firstborn
released: 1984-10-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-31 00:04:46.287000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Because he's the oldest, Jake has been the man of the house, since his parents divorce. When Mom starts seeing Sam, who always seems to be trying some new way to get rich quick, and ...

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Because he's the oldest, Jake has been the man of the house, since his parents divorce. When Mom starts seeing Sam, who always seems to be trying some new way to get rich quick, and declares he's the man of the house now, Jake puts up with it. Until he discovers Sam's illegal activities.


title: Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
released: 1984-04-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:16:23.200000000
year: 1984
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
After being mortally wounded and taken to the morgue, murderer Jason Voorhees spontaneously revives and embarks on a killing spree as he makes his way back to his home at Camp Crystal Lake.

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Thought to be killed by the sole survivor of the last massacre at Camp Crystal Lake, Jason Voorhees kills his way back to the camp to once again murder its inhabitants. This time, has Jason met his match in the little boy Tommy Jarvis?


title: Oh, God! You Devil
released: 1984-11-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 02:17:38.960000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
George Burns is back as God, but oops, here he is as Satan, too. A young rock star is ready to sell his soul to Satan, and Satan is all too happy to oblige. Oops! Seems the fellow was ...

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George Burns is back as God, but oops, here he is as Satan, too. A young rock star is ready to sell his soul to Satan, and Satan is all too happy to oblige. Oops! Seems the fellow was watched over by God as a baby, so now the almighty and his nemesis have to duke it out over the soul.


title: Runaway
released: 1984-12-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:08:58.760000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.

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In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.


title: The Terminator
released: 1984-10-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:42:19.307000000
year: 1984
text: 5 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
A human-looking indestructible cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs.

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A cyborg is sent from the future on a deadly mission. He has to kill Sarah Connor, a young woman whose life will have a great significance in years to come. Sarah has only one protector - Kyle Reese - also sent from the future. The Terminator uses his exceptional intelligence and strength to find Sarah, but is there any way to stop the seemingly indestructible cyborg ?


title: Commando
released: 1985-10-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:04:30.323000000
year: 1985
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
A retired elite Black Ops Commando launches a one man war against a group of South American criminals who have kidnapped his daughter to blackmail him into starting a revolution and getting an exiled dictator back into power.

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A retired special agent named John Matrix led an elite unit and has left the armed forces to live in a secluded mountain home with his daughter Jenny. But now he is forced out of retirement when his daughter is kidnapped by a band of thugs intent on revenge! Unbeknownst to Matrix, the members of his former unit are being killed one by one. Even though Matrix' friend General Franklin Kirby gives Matrix armed guards, attackers manage to kidnap Matrix and Jenny. Matrix learns that Bennett, a former member of his Matrix' unit who was presumed dead has kidnapped him to try to force Matrix to do a political assassination for a man called Arius (who calls himself El Presidente), a warlord formerly bested by Matrix who wishes to lead a military coup in his home country. Since Arius will have Jenny killed if Matrix refuses, Matrix reluctantly accepts the demand.


title: Desperately Seeking Susan
released: 1985-04-12 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:43:32.877000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
A bored suburban housewife, seeking adventure to her life, accidentally gets hit on the head, wakes up with amnesia, and is mistaken for a free-spirited New York City drifter named Susan.

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Bored Roberta spots a regular personal ad in the paper titled 'Desperately Seeking Susan'. She heads off to New York, following one of the ads, and finds Susan. When Susan sells her jacket, Roberta - trying to emulate her mystery ad writer - buys the jacket and wears it. Little does she know someon is looking for the jacket - and its owner...


title: Fletch
released: 1985-05-31 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:10:56.493000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, Los Angeles journalist, really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. Now, Fletch is at it...

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Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, Los Angeles journalist, really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. Now, Fletch is at it again: In disguise as a bum, he lives at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is addressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favour. For the sum of $50,000, Fletch should kill poor cancer-ridden Mr. Stanwyk with a gun, so that his wife will get the insurance money. What the guy didn't think of was Fletch's real profession. Returning into normal life, Fletch instantly takes up research not only to find out that Mr. Stanwyk is healthy as life itself but he also runs into certain connections between drug dealing at the beach, Alan Stanwyk, his private jet, the police and a very expensive piece of Land in Utah.


title: Impure Thoughts
released: 1985-11-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:41:25.233000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Four male friends are reunited after not being in contact with each other for several years. However, the meeting place is Purgatory, the afterlife state of limbo between heaven and hell. ...

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Four male friends are reunited after not being in contact with each other for several years. However, the meeting place is Purgatory, the afterlife state of limbo between heaven and hell. In Purgatory, these friends reflect on their pasts while they were living. They especially focus on their years in Catholic School and their coming of age. This film talks a lot about sexual issues. One of the characters is an 18-year old sent to Vietnam who dies without ever losing his virginity and there is a middle-aged, homosexual alcoholic playwright who has still has problems dealing with his identity.


title: Insignificance
released: 1985-08-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 01:00:23.433000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Four 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.

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Four 1950's cultural icons (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joseph MacCarthy) who conceivably could have met and probably didn't, fictionally do in this modern fable of post-WWII America. Visually intriguing, the film has a fluid progression of flash-backs and flash-forwards centering on the fictional Einstein's current observations, childhood memories and apprehensions for the future.


title: The Journey of Natty Gann
released: 1985-09-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:09:00.303000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
In the 1930s, a tomboyish girl runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away, because there was work there.

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Natty Gann (played by Meredith Salenger) is a twelve year old Depression era girl whose single-parent father leaves her behind in Chicago while he goes to Washington State to look for work in the timber industry. Natty runs away from the guardian she was left with to follow Dad. She befriends and is befriended by a wolf that has been abused in dog fights, hops a freight train west, and is presumed dead when her wallet is found after the train crashes. Dad gets bitter and endangers himself in his new job. Meanwhile Natty has a series of adventures and mis- adventures in various farmhouses, police stations, hobo camps, reform schools, and boxcars.


title: Smooth Talk
released: 1985-11-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:45:18.967000000
year: 1985
text: 2 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
A free-spirited 15-year-old girl flirts with a dangerous stranger in the Northern California suburbs and must prepare herself for the frightening and traumatic consequences.

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Based on the short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates, this film chronicles 15-year-old Connie Wyatt's sexual awakening in the Northern California suburbs. Before she enters her sophomore year in high school, she spends the summer moping around her family cottage. Connie passes the time cruising the shopping mall with her friends and flirting with boys at a local burger stand. However, her flirting begins to get out of hand when the mysterious stranger Arnold Friend takes an interest in her.


title: 'night, Mother
released: 1987-01-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:00:36.890000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination.
plot:
What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night and calmly told you that they were going to end their life before morning? This is Thelma Cates' dilemma. Her daughter, ...

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What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night and calmly told you that they were going to end their life before morning? This is Thelma Cates' dilemma. Her daughter, Jessie, has had it. A middle-aged epileptic unable to hold a job or drive with a failed marriage and a drug-addicted runaway son on the wrong side of the law, Jessie can find no reason to go on living. Adapted from the play by Marsha Norman, "'night, Mother" is the story of a parent's worst nightmare. How can Thelma convince her daughter that life is worth living if she can't feel her pain? How can she end her daughter's embrace of death before morning?


title: Crossroads
released: 1986-03-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:18:32.983000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win.
plot:
Ralph Macchio is Lightning Boy. A kid who can make a slide guitar sing. Blind Dog is an old pro who knows it. Together, they're headed to a place where deals are made. And legends are born.

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Eugene is an extraordinary talent in classic guitar, but he dreams of being a famous Blues guitarist. So he investigates to find a storied lost song. He asks the legendary Blues musician Willie Brown to help him, but Willie demands to free him from the old-people's prison first and to really learn the blues on the way to its origin: Mississippi Delta. Eugene doesn't know yet about Willie's deal with the devil, that he now wants to revoke.


title: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
released: 1986-06-11 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:41:45.227000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win.
plot:
A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite what the principal thinks of that.

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High school student Ferris Bueller wants a day off from school and he's developed an incredibly sophisticated plan to pull it off. He talks his friend Cameron into taking his father's prized Ferrari and with his girlfriend Sloane head into Chicago for the day. While they are taking in what the city has to offer school principal Ed Rooney is convinced that Ferris is, not for the first time, playing hooky for the day and is hell bent to catch him out. Ferris has anticipated that, much to Rooney's chagrin.


title: The Night Is Young
released: 1986-11-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:00:27.680000000
year: 1986
text: 3 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
Marc (Michel Piccoli) recruits Alex (Denis Lavant), son of his former, now dead colleague. Alex is a card shark with a big dream to go out to the world and leave his own mark. His ...

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Marc (Michel Piccoli) recruits Alex (Denis Lavant), son of his former, now dead colleague. Alex is a card shark with a big dream to go out to the world and leave his own mark. His determination leads him to break up with his girl friend, Lise (Julie Deply). Alex initially refuses to help Marc and Hans for their "job" of stealing the culture of new drug. But Anna (Juliette Binoche)'s charm and beauty were irresistible. Alex joins the elders. Alex's dance to David Bowie's Modern Love illustrates unfolding emotions of young Alex moving into an adult (graying if not dying) world. The interplay among the generations, between genders, among social classes, memory and hopes, all played against black and white and occasional red back drop. Anna's cobalt blue robe punctuates the moment when Alex confesses his love for her.


title: Rad
released: 1986-08-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 00:37:12.173000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
The story of one young man, Cru Jones, who has the intensity and desire to win a BMX race called Helltrack.

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The story of Cru Jones, a young man who can overcome all obstacles that prevent him from participating in the BMX race "Helltrack." As he works towards his dream, Cru falls in love with Christian, an amateur racer. With the help of Christian and her friends, can Cru's "Rad Racing Team" defeat the top BMX factory rider, Bart Taylor ?


title: Seize the Day
released: 1986-09-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 01:06:34.830000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the ...

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Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but caught in a downward spiral, he must, in addition, face the father who never really understood him, while trying to balance his newly precarious existence


plot: Story of a woman and her three lovers.
title: She's Gotta Have It
released: 1986-08-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:37:52.210000000
year: 1986
text: 3 wins & 1 nomination.
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The story of Nola Darling's simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three men wanted her to commit solely to them; Nola resists being "owned" by a single partner.


title: Castle in the Sky
released: 1986-08-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:30:23.687000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win.
plot:
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

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A young boy stumbles into a mysterious girl who floats down from the sky. The girl, Sheeta, was chased by pirates, army and government secret agents. In saving her life, they begin a high flying adventure that goes through all sorts of flying machines, eventually searching for Sheeta's identity in a floating castle of a lost civilization.


title: That's Life!
released: 1986-10-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 00:00:16.977000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 nominations.
plot:
Harvey and Gillian Fairchild face a very difficult weekend. Harvey, celebrating his 60th birthday, is stressed and depressed. Gillian is awaiting the results of a throat biopsy. Their lives...

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Harvey and Gillian Fairchild face a very difficult weekend. Harvey, celebrating his 60th birthday, is stressed and depressed. Gillian is awaiting the results of a throat biopsy. Their lives are further complicated by their three grown children, a ditsy neighbor, a fortune teller, and an alcoholic priest.


title: Vamp
released: 1986-07-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:40:07.573000000
year: 1986
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar looking for strippers to entertain their college friends. They have problems with transportation, Biker gangs, and worst of all, the staff of the ...

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Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar looking for strippers to entertain their college friends. They have problems with transportation, Biker gangs, and worst of all, the staff of the bar, all of whom seem to be vampires, with Grace Jones playing the head vampire.


plot: A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress.
title: Still of the Night
released: 1982-11-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-09 01:05:10.863000000
year: 1982
text: 1 nomination.
fullplot:
George Bynum, a patient of Manhattan psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice, is brutally murdered. Soon afterward, Dr. Rice is visited by Bynum's co-worker and mistress Brooke Reynolds and by the investigating officer Detective Vitucci. As Dr. Rice reviews the case notes on his sessions with Bynum, he starts his own investigation. At the same time, he finds himself falling for enigmatic blonde Brooke, despite her increasingly suspicious behavior. The closer Rice comes to the truth, the more he puts his own life in danger...


title: Tootsie
released: 1982-12-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:44:27.850000000
year: 1982
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 29 wins & 23 nominations.
plot:
Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.

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Michael Dorsey is an unemployed actor with an impossible reputation. In order to find work and fund his friend's play he dresses as a woman, Dorothy Michaels, and lands the part in a daytime drama. Dorsey loses himself in this woman role and essentially becomes Dorothy Michaels, captivating women all around the city and inspiring them to break free from the control of men and become more like Dorsey's initial identity. This newfound role, however, lands Dorsey in a hot spot between a female friend/'lover,' a female co-star he falls in love with, that co-star's father who falls in love with him, and a male co-star who yearns for his affection.


title: The World According to Garp
released: 1982-08-13 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-15 00:06:17.723000000
year: 1982
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an ...

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Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.


title: V
released: 1984-07-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-28 00:47:53.720000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
plot:
When aliens come to Earth to ask for our help, a few suspicious humans discover their horrific true intentions and prepare to resist.

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Aliens pretending to be friendly come to Earth and are received openly. The aliens have masqueraded themselves to look just like humans. When it is discovered that the aliens' planet is dying and that they have come to rape the Earth of its natural resources, the war for Earth begins. An important key to the humans' success is distinguishing their own from who the aliens are.


plot: A happy family goes through turbulent times because of a big mistake by one of the family members.
title: Masoom
lastupdated: 2015-08-14 00:02:48.863000000
year: 1983
text: 5 wins.
fullplot:
D.K. Malhotra lives a comfortable lifestyle with his wife, Indu, and two school-going daughters, Pinky and Minni. He works in the office of an Architect. One day while the family is relaxing, D.K. gets a phone call that results in him bringing home a young school-going boy by the name of Rahul. Indu is shocked to learn that Rahul is D.K.'s son from another woman, Bhavana, who is no more. D.K. does his best to make Rahul comfortable, but fails. Rahul also feels that Indu does not really like him, though Pinky and Minni have taken to him in a big way. Finally, D.K. decides to admit Rahul in a boarding school in far off Nainital. Rahul reluctantly goes along with this new-found uncle/friend. It is when Rahul is asked to put his papers together for school that Rahul finds out that D.K. is his biological father. Watch what happens when Rahul disappears from D.K.'s house, and the impact this has on D.K., Indu, and her two daughters.


title: Mr. Mom
released: 1983-08-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:19:49.997000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
After he's laid off, a husband switches roles with his wife. She returns to the workforce and he becomes a stay-at-home dad - a job he has no clue how to do.

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Jack and Caroline are a couple making a decent living when Jack suddenly loses his job. They agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It's just that he's never done it before, and really doesn't have a clue.


title: Trading Places
released: 1983-06-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:39:03.683000000
year: 1983
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

fullplot:
Louis Winthorpe is a businessman who works for commodities brokerage firm of Duke and Duke owned by the brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke. Now they bicker over the most trivial of matters and what they are bickering about is whether it's a person's environment or heredity that determines how well they will do in life. When Winthorpe bumps into Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler and assumes he is trying to rob him, he has him arrested. Upon seeing how different the two men are, the brothers decide to make a wager as to what would happen if Winthorpe loses his job, his home and is shunned by everyone he knows and if Valentine was given Winthorpe's job. So they proceed to have Winthorpe arrested and to be placed in a compromising position in front of his girlfriend. So all he has to rely on is the hooker who was hired to ruin him.


title: Twilight Time
released: 1982-11-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-29 00:10:20.270000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win.
plot:
An elderly man, returning to Yugoslavia after 20 years in America, is saddled with the upbringing of his two grandchildren in a small farming village. In HD.

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An elderly man, returning to Yugoslavia after 20 years in America, is saddled with the upbringing of his two grandchildren in a small farming village. In HD.


title: Winners & Sinners
released: 1983-07-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-29 00:29:23.847000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
Fresh from prison, five friends try to stay crime free but inadvertently find themselves caught in a Triad war.

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Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. Trying to mind their own business (and run their Five Star Cleaning Service), they are unfortunately caught up in a war between rival Triad gangs fighting for control of the counterfeit currency market.


title: Best Defense
released: 1984-07-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 08:37:01.327000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years later.


title: Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
released: 1984-03-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:36:44.877000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 11 nominations.
plot:
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes...

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A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captaine Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.


title: A Nightmare on Elm Street
released: 1984-11-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:04:54.710000000
year: 1984
text: 2 wins & 3 nominations.
plot:
Several people are hunted by a cruel serial killer who kills his victims in their dreams. When the survivors are trying to find the reason for being chosen, the murderer won't lose any chance to kill them as soon as they fall asleep.

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On Elm Street, Nancy Thompson and a group of her friends including Tina Gray, Rod Lane and Glen Lantz are being tormented by a clawed killer in their dreams named Freddy Krueger. Nancy must think quickly, as Freddy tries to pick off his victims one by one. When he has you in your sleep, who is there to save you?


title: Razorback
released: 1984-11-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:35:33.573000000
year: 1984
text: 3 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
A vicious wild boar terrorizes the Australian outback. The first victim is a small child who is killed. The child's granddad is brought to trial for killing the child but acquitted. The ...


title: Starman
released: 1984-12-14 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:38:29.173000000
year: 1984
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 5 nominations.
plot:
An alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona. The government tries to stop them.

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Jenny Hayden never did get over the death of her husband. So when an alien life form decides to model "himself" on the husband, Jenny is understandably confused if not terrified. The alien, or Starman, as he is called, has a deadline to meet, and kidnaps Jenny in order to meet it.


title: Where the Boys Are
released: 1984-04-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:50:07.743000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
Remake of the 1960 movie of the same name has four college coeds; virginal Jennie, outgoing Carole, wealthy and spoiled Southern belle Sandra, and horny Laurie traveling to Fort Lauderdale ...

fullplot:
Remake of the 1960 movie of the same name has four college coeds; virginal Jennie, outgoing Carole, wealthy and spoiled Southern belle Sandra, and horny Laurie traveling to Fort Lauderdale for their Easter week of Spring Break and the series of adventures and mis-adventures they encounter, which include the naive Jennie persued by musician drifter Scott and Sandra's snobish musician cousin Camden. Meanwhile, Carole is seeking a break in her relationship with the jealous Chip who follows her down to Florida. Sandra pursues a romance with local policeman Ernie who arrests her on the first night for being drunk and disorderly, while Laurie just seeks any man she can get her hands on.


title: Cocoon
released: 1985-06-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 07:21:25.840000000
year: 1985
text: Won 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 11 nominations.
plot:
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigour.

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A group of aliens return to earth to retrieve cocoons containing the people they'd left behind from an earlier trip. These cocoons had been resting at the bottom of the ocean. Once retrieved, they stored these recovered cocoons in the swimming pool of a house they'd rented in a small Florida town. Their mission is hampered by a number of elderly people from a nearby retirement community who had been secretly using the pool, and who discover unusual powers from within these cocoons.


title: Desert Hearts
released: 1986-03-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:27:51.483000000
year: 1985
text: 2 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She's unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly...

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It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She's unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Cay Rivers, an open and self-assured lesbian, and the ranchowner's daughter. The emotions released by their developing intimacy, and Vivian's insecurities about her feelings towards Cay, are played out against a backdrop of rocky landscapes and country and western songs.


title: Flesh+Blood
released: 1985-08-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:34:37.883000000
year: 1985
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction...

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A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.


title: My Life as a Dog
released: 1987-03-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 01:18:23.373000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
A boy and his brother don't get along well. In order to let their ill mother rest, they're separated and sent each one with their relatives.

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Ingemar lives with his brother and his terminally ill mother. He may have a rough time, but not as bad as Laika - the russian dog sent into space... He gets sent away to stay with relations for the summer. While there, he meets various strange characters, giving him experiences that will affect him for the rest of his life.


title: Morons from Outer Space
released: 1985-09-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-02 00:34:45.170000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
The story begins when three aliens get a bit hacked off at their 'friend' Bernard, who keeps making a prat of himself playing space ball. It is while he is playing space ball that the ...

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The story begins when three aliens get a bit hacked off at their 'friend' Bernard, who keeps making a prat of himself playing space ball. It is while he is playing space ball that the others start playing around with the space ship controls. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded while they crash into a large blue planet close by...


title: Murphy's Romance
released: 1986-01-31 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:17:38.013000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 nominations.
plot:
Emma is a divorced woman with a teen aged boy who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the town druggist who steers business her way. Things are going ...

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Emma is a divorced woman with a teen aged boy who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the town druggist who steers business her way. Things are going along predictably until her ex husband shows up, needing a place to stay. The three of them form an intricate circle, Emma's son liking Murphy, but desperately wanting his father back.


title: One Magic Christmas
released: 1985-11-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 03:00:10.497000000
year: 1985
text: 2 wins & 7 nominations.
plot:
An angel must show a mother the true meaning of Christmas. It's not just presents and materialistic things, but the people she cares about.


title: Rustlers' Rhapsody
released: 1985-05-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-03 00:33:31.727000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
While the audience watches a black and white horse opera, a narrator's voice wonders what such a movie would be like today. Rex O'Herlihan, The Singing Cowboy, finds himself in color and ...

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While the audience watches a black and white horse opera, a narrator's voice wonders what such a movie would be like today. Rex O'Herlihan, The Singing Cowboy, finds himself in color and enters a clichè-ridden town, in which the evil cattle baron (Andy Griffith) and the new Italian cowboys (who always wear raincoats no matter how hot it gets) join forces to get him and the sheep ranchers to leave the valley.


title: Twice in a Lifetime
released: 1985-10-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-10 00:24:32.097000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 nominations.
plot:
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate....

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A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy barmaid--and, to his surprise, he finds that she is also very attracted to him.


title: Wetherby
released: 1985-07-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 01:02:29.840000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 6 wins.
plot:
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.

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The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.


plot: A controlling mother uses telepathic powers to send her middle-aged son on a killing spree.
title: Anguish
released: 1988-01-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-13 00:02:26.193000000
year: 1987
text: 5 wins & 2 nominations.
fullplot:
A film-within-a-film thriller about two teen girls among a small group of people whom are terrorized in a movie theater by a killer while watching a horror film about a murderous optometrist who stalks his victims in a movie theater in the film.


title: Clockwise
released: 1986-10-10 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-18 00:21:37.563000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win.
plot:
An uncompromising British school headmaster finds himself beset by one thing going wrong after another.

fullplot:
Brian Stimpson is the headmaster of a comprehensive (high) school in England. He sets himself, his staff and pupils very high standards. On the way to a conference at which he is to talk, all manner of disasters strike.


title: Flight of the Navigator
released: 1986-07-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 17:28:41.330000000
year: 1986
text: 4 nominations.
plot:
In 1978, a boy is moved 8 years into the future and has an adventure with the alien ship that is responsible for that.

fullplot:
A 12-year-old boy goes missing in 1978, only to reappear once more in 1986. In the eight years that have passed, he hasn't aged. It is no coincidence that at the time he "comes back", a flying saucer is found, entangled in power lines.


title: Haunted Honeymoon
released: 1986-07-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-17 04:02:36.467000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win.
plot:
Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancèe home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric ...

fullplot:
Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancèe home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric relatives. His uncle decides that he needs to be cured from a neurotic speech defect and exaggerated bursts of fear: he gives him a shock therapy with palace ghosts.


title: King Kong Lives
released: 1986-12-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-23 00:22:46.610000000
year: 1986
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Kong falls from the twin towers and he appears to be alive. However, his heart is failing, so it's replaced with an artificial one. All is well until he senses that there's a female Kong somewhere out there and escapes wreaking havoc.

fullplot:
A giant ape King Kong, which was shot and fell off the World Trade Center tower, appears to be alive, but is in coma for 10 years and desperately needs a blood transfusion in order to have an artificial heart implanted. Suddenly, in the rainforest, another gigantic ape is found - this time a female. She is brought to the USA, and the heart is successfully implanted. But then King Kong, having sensed the female ape, breaks loose.


title: Poltergeist II: The Other Side
released: 1986-05-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 00:16:46.797000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 4 nominations.
plot:
The Freeling family have a new house, but their troubles with supernatural forces don't seem to be over.

fullplot:
The Freeling family move in with Diane's mother in an effort to escape the trauma and aftermath of Carol Anne's abduction by the Beast. But the Beast is not to be put off so easily and appears in a ghostly apparition as the Reverend Kane, a religeous zealot responsible for the deaths of his many followers. His goal is simple - he wants the angelic Carol Anne; but the love of her family and the power of psychic Tangina once again unite, along with an elderly native American, to fight for her life.


title: Sid and Nancy
released: 1986-11-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:18:39.580000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 5 wins.
plot:
Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious, bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour, ...

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Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious, bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour, Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning, Nancy is found stabbed to death and Sid is arrested for her murder.


title: Something Wild
released: 1986-11-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:17:33.140000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 4 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-convict husband shows up.

fullplot:
The uneventful life of the businessman Charles Driggs suddenly changes when he meets the wild and sexy Lulu. When he accepts her offer to drive him back to his office, she instead takes him out of town and on a trip, leaving behind his old life. Posing as a married couple, Charles and "Audrey" (which turns out to be Lulu's real name) visit her mother and her high school reunion. At this reunion they meet Audrey's violent ex-husband Ray, who has just released from prison. When Ray makes it clear that he wants Audrey back, that is when the real trouble begins.


title: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
released: 1986-11-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:26:27.270000000
year: 1986
text: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 13 nominations.
plot:
To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to 20th century Earth to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it, humpback whales.

fullplot:
James T. Kirk who after rescuing Mr. Spock and bringing him to Vulcan where he is fully restored, is now the most hated man in the universe, because he disobeyed his superiors, killed a Klingon crew and took their ship. After three months on Vulcan, Kirk decides to return to Earth to face the consequences of his actions along with his crew who aided him. Also accompanying them is Mr. Spock, who is still trying to understand his human side. What they don't know is that an alien probe approaches Earth and is emitting a signal that nullifies all power systems. And it is now vaporizing the planet's oceans covering the planet in a cloud that covers the earth cutting them off from the sun - the planet's main source of energy. The President of the Federation sends a transmission telling everyone about what is happening and to stay away from Earth. Kirk upon hearing it, checks out the probe's transmission and Spock postulates that the alien is not hostile merely unaware that its transmissions are disruptive. Spock thinks it's trying to communicate with another species other than man. And upon analyzing it, Spock learns that the probe is sending the songs of whales, specifically humpback whales. The only problem is that the species has been extinct for two centuries. With little choice, Kirk decides to get some humpback whales from the only place they can from Earth in the past so that they can communicate with the probe. So they travel through time and arrive in the late 20th century. And they discover a pair of humpback whales in San Francisco. So Kirk and Spock set out to find them. While Scotty, McCoy and Sulu try to find the materials they need to make a whale tank. And also the ship's dilithium crystals are failing. So Uhura and Chekov try to find a nuclear reactor so that they can drain some radiation which they hope can restore the ship's power. And they have to contend with the ways of the 20th century.


title: *batteries not included
released: 1987-12-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:28:03.100000000
year: 1987
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
Apartment block tenants seek the aid of alien mechanical life-forms to save their building from demolition.

fullplot:
A group of tenants in an apartment block are being forced to move out so that it can be demolished. The tenants are reluctant to move, so the developers hire a local gang to 'persuade' them to leave. Fortunately, visiting alien mechanical life-forms come to town. When they befriend the tenants, the aliens use their extraterrestrial abilities to defeat the developers.


title: Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
released: 1987-01-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:02:18.173000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Allan Quatermain once again teams up with Jesse Huston where the discovery of a mysterious old gold piece sends Quatermain looking for his long-lost brother, missing in the wilds of Africa after seeking a lost white race.

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After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary 'white tribe', Alan Quatermain decides to follow in his footsteps to learn what became of him. Soon after arriving, he discovers the los City of Gold, controlled by the evil lord Agon, and mined by his legions of white slaves. Is this where Robeson met his end?


title: Boyfriends and Girlfriends
released: 1988-07-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 09:11:07.633000000
year: 1987
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
In Paris outskirts Blanche, a young clerk, befriends Lea, a girl livelier than she is. Lea is going steady with Fabien who is a friend to Alexandre who is going steady with Adrienne but is ...

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In Paris outskirts Blanche, a young clerk, befriends Lea, a girl livelier than she is. Lea is going steady with Fabien who is a friend to Alexandre who is going steady with Adrienne but is however loved by Blanche. Somehow a way has to be found to get out of this emotional chaos!


title: The Sword and the Sorcerer
released: 1982-04-30 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-27 00:01:47.197000000
year: 1982
text: 1 win & 5 nominations.
plot:
A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage's dangerous future when he is recruited to help a princess foil the designs of a brutal tyrant and a powerful sorcerer in conquering a land.

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A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage's dangerous future when he is recruited to help a princess foil the designs of a brutal tyrant and a powerful sorcerer in conquering a land.


title: Project A
released: 1983-12-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-12 00:47:40.453000000
year: 1983
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
Fighting against pirates in "old Hong Kong". Chinese costume drama with plenty of over-the-top tongue in cheek action and music.

fullplot:
In late 19th Century Hong Kong the British may rule the land, but the pirates rule the waters. Reluctantly, the Coast Guard is given money to fight these pirates, but the pirates themselves have many contacts (that is, bribed officials) in the government, and seek to thwart the Coast Guard's efforts to eliminate them. One Coast Guard officer is Dragon Ma, who is determined that his beloved Coast Guard will not be made fools of.


title: Hammett
released: 1982-09-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 00:03:08.180000000
year: 1982
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
The novel writter Dashiell Hammett is involved in the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful chinese cabaret actress in San Francisco.

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The novel writter Dashiell Hammett is involved in the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful chinese cabaret actress in San Francisco.


title: The Hunger
released: 1983-04-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-17 01:14:31.500000000
year: 1983
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
The Egyptian vampire lady Miriam subsists upon the blood of her lovers. In return the guys or girls don't age... until Miriam has enough of them. Unfortunately that's currently the case ...

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The Egyptian vampire lady Miriam subsists upon the blood of her lovers. In return the guys or girls don't age... until Miriam has enough of them. Unfortunately that's currently the case with John, so his life expectancy is below 24 hours. Desperately he seeks help from the famous Dr. Sarah Roberts. She doesn't really belive his story, but becomes curious and contacts Miriam ... and gets caught in her ban, too.


title: Liquid Sky
released: 1983-04-15 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-06 00:44:11.600000000
year: 1982
text: 7 wins.
plot:
Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual ...

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Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear. This increasingly bizarre scenario is observed by a lonely woman in the building across the street, a German scientist who is following the aliens, and an equally androgynous, drug-addicted male model. (Both models are played by Anne Carlisle, in a dual role.) Darkly funny and thoroughly weird.


title: Max Dugan Returns
released: 1983-03-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:10:29.390000000
year: 1983
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.

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Nora is a single mother who lives with her son Michael in a small house. They don't have much money but at least they have each other. Out of the blue comes Nora's father Max Dugan, who left her and her mother when Nora was nine years old. He brings a suitcase with dollar bills and showers her and Michael with gifts, trying to make up for lost time, knowing that he has a fatal heart ailment. The money comes from his shady career in Las Vegas and Nora is dating a police who is very interested in meeting him...


title: A Question of Silence
released: 1982-02-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:25:10.133000000
year: 1982
text: 3 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
Three women, all strangers to each other, meet in a dress boutique. One of the three is approached by the male proprietor as she is shoplifting a garment. When he approaches her the other ...

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Three women, all strangers to each other, meet in a dress boutique. One of the three is approached by the male proprietor as she is shoplifting a garment. When he approaches her the other two join her in beating the man to death. Other female shoppers ignore the whole situation and leave when the crime is complete. The court appoints a female psychriatrist to examine the women; contrary to public opinion the psychiatrist finds they are not insane but implies the rage expressed by the crime is a result of the male dominated society. An interesting study of extreme behavior. The prisoner's cells were a revelation.


title: Utu
released: 1984-06-27 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-07-07 08:26:24.173000000
year: 1984
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the British until betrayal ...

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In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the British until betrayal leads him to seek utu (revenge). The settler Williamson in turn seeks revenge after Te Wheke attacks his homestead. Meanwhile Wiremu, an officer for the British, seems to think that resistance is futile.


title: Children of the Corn
released: 1984-03-09 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 01:06:27.780000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believe everyone over the age of 18 must be killed.

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A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town. A young couple have a murder to report and they go to the nearest town (Gatlin) to seek help but the town seems deserted. They are soon trapped in Gatlin with little chance of getting out alive.


title: Choose Me
released: 1984-08-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:22:09.670000000
year: 1984
text: 3 wins.
plot:
Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and ...

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Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and anxieties about love and acceptance.


plot: Conan leads a ragtag group of adventurers on a quest for a princess.
title: Conan the Destroyer
released: 1984-06-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-29 00:02:17.530000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
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The wandering barbarian, Conan, alongside his goofy rogue pal, Malak, are tasked with escorting Queen Taramis' virgin niece, Princess Jehnna and her bodyguard, Bombaata, to a mystical island fortress. They must retrieve a magical crystal that legends say can awaken the god of dreams, Dagoth. Along the way, Conan reunites with the wise wizard, Akiro and befriends the fierce female fighter, Zula. Together the heroes face ancient traps, powerful Wizards, plots of betrayal, and even the dream god, Dagoth, himself!


title: Full Moon in Paris
released: 1984-08-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:34:11.257000000
year: 1984
text: 2 wins & 6 nominations.
plot:
Louise, a young woman, who recently finished her studies in arts, is working as a interior decorator trainee. Playing the game of seduction, her life becomes more and more complicated.

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Louise, a young woman, who recently finished her studies in arts, is working as a interior decorator trainee. Playing the game of seduction, her life becomes more and more complicated.


title: Phenomena
released: 1985-08-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:40:07.720000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.

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Jennifer Corvino, the daughter of a famous actor, has had trouble with sleepwalking for some time. Her doctor said that it can develop a split personality. She discovers her alternate personality when she stays at a boarding school that was once the home a Richard Wagner. But someone has been killing the students, and it relates only indirectly to the criminal sanitorium nearby. So it's up to "the two greatest detectives the world has ever known, or should I say, unknown"


title: Racing with the Moon
released: 1984-03-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-24 01:06:53.120000000
year: 1984
text: 1 win.
plot:
In 1942 California, two young men await induction into the U.S. Marines and say goodbye to their girlfriends.

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Henry and Nicky are small town pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievious and irresponsible, Nicky gets into trouble which forces the other two to become involved, testing their relationship, as well as the friendship between the boys.


title: Repo Man
released: 1984-03-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 04:50:22.493000000
year: 1984
text: 3 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
Young punk Otto becomes a repo man after helping to steal a car, and stumbles into a world of wackiness as a result.

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Frustrated punk rocker Otto quits his supermarket job after slugging a co-worker, and is later dumped by his girlfriend at a party. Wandering the streets in frustration, he is recruited in the repossession of a car by a repo agent. After discovering his parents have donated his college fund to a televangelist, he joins the repossession agency (Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation) as an apprentice "repo man". During his training, he is introduced into the mercenary and paranoid world of the drivers, befriended by a UFO conspiracy theorist, confronted by rival repo agents, discovers some of his one-time friends have turned to a life of crime, is lectured to near cosmic unconsciousness by the repo agency grounds worker, and finds himself entangled in a web of intrigue concerning a huge repossession bounty on a 1964 Chevy Malibu driven by a lunatic government scientist, with Top Secret cargo in the trunk.


title: Sixteen Candles
released: 1984-05-04 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-16 00:11:35.430000000
year: 1984
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A young girl's "sweet sixteenth" birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible.

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Samantha's life is going downhill fast. The sixteen-year-old has a crush on the most popular boy in school, and the geekiest boy in school has a crush on her. Her sister's getting married, and with all the excitement the rest of her family forgets her birthday! Add all this to a pair of horrendously embarrassing grandparents, a foreign exchange student named Long Duk Dong, and we have the makings of a hilarious journey into young womanhood.


plot: A mercenary goes after his ex-girlfriend, a singer who has been kidnapped by a gang.
title: Streets of Fire
released: 1984-06-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-31 00:50:40.543000000
year: 1984
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
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Rock and Roll singer is taken captive by a motorcycle gang in a strange world that seems to be a cross of the 1950's and the present or future. Her ex-boyfriend returns to town and to find her missing and goes to her rescue.


title: Surfacing
released: 1981-07-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-11 00:20:38.577000000
year: 1981
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A young girl and her friends set off on an expedition into the wilderness in order to find her missing father.

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A young girl and her friends set off on an expedition into the wilderness in order to find her missing father.


title: This Is Spinal Tap
released: 1984-03-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-10 17:06:40.720000000
year: 1984
text: 3 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DeBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.

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In 1982 legendary British heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary, interspersed with powerful performances of Tap's pivotal music and profound lyrics, candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis, culminating in the infamous affair of the eighteen-inch-high Stonehenge stage prop.


title: Back to the Future
released: 1985-07-03 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-12 00:29:36.890000000
year: 1985
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 18 wins & 24 nominations.
plot:
A young man is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence.

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Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean "time machine" invented by slightly mad scientist. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and fall in love - so he can get back to the future.


title: The Bride
released: 1985-08-16 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-06 01:06:53.273000000
year: 1985
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
After years of research, the doctor finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, who gets the name "Eva".

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After years of research, the doctor finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, who gets the name "Eva".


title: Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
released: 1985-03-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-16 12:11:33.707000000
year: 1985
text: 2 nominations.
plot:
Still haunted by his past, Tommy Jarvis - who, as a child, killed Jason Voorhees - wonders if the serial killer is connected to a series of brutal murders occurring in and around the secluded halfway house where he now lives.

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Five years after killing the goalie hockey-masked killer Jason Voorhees, Tommy Jarvis has grown up in various mental hospitals unable to get over the nightmares about Jason's return. When Tommy is sent to a rural halfway house in New Jersey for mentally disturbed teenagers, a series of grisly murders begin anew as another hockey-masked killer begins killing off all people at and around the residence. Has Jason returned from the dead to re-start his killing spree? Has Tommy decided to take over the reign of Jason, or has someone else?


title: The Heavenly Kid
released: 1985-07-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:48:04.413000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win.
plot:
When Bobby dies in a car accident he is not allowed to enter heaven but has to stay in one of the lower levels until he has worked enough as an guardian angel in order to deserve paradise. ...

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When Bobby dies in a car accident he is not allowed to enter heaven but has to stay in one of the lower levels until he has worked enough as an guardian angel in order to deserve paradise. One of his jobs is Lenny, a gifted boy, who loves his schoolmate Sharon who is the most beautiful girl of the class. But she does not even notice him so that he is about to commit suicide. Bobby prevents this and dresses Lenny up making him a playboy and tough guy so that he gets what he wants although Bobby knows that this is not the best. Thinking that his job is done, Bobby realizes that Lenny's mother is his former girlfriend who has married another guy. Although not being allowed he makes himself visible to her...


title: Krush Groove
released: 1985-10-25 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:53:34.843000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
In this movie based on the early days of Def Jam Recordings, up-and-coming manager Russell Walker manages all the hottest acts on the record label Krush Groove Records, which include ...

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In this movie based on the early days of Def Jam Recordings, up-and-coming manager Russell Walker manages all the hottest acts on the record label Krush Groove Records, which include Run-D.M.C., Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and Kurtis Blow, while Rick (Rubin) produces the label's records. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell doesn't have the money to press records, he borrows money from a street hustler. At the same time, Russell and and his brother Run both compete for the heart of R&B singer Sheila E.


title: Legend
released: 1986-04-18 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-25 00:01:46.400000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 10 nominations.
plot:
A young man must stop the Lord of Darkness from both destroying daylight and marrying the woman he loves.

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A demon who seeks to create eternal night by destroying the last of the unicorns and marrying a fairy princess is opposed by the forest boy Jack and his elven allies in this magical fantasy. Two different versions of this picture feature soundtracks by either Tangerine Dream or Jerry Goldsmith.


title: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
released: 1985-09-20 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:32:28.943000000
year: 1985
text: 1 win & 1 nomination.
plot:
A fictionalized account in four segments of the life of Japan's celebrated twentieth-century author Yukio Mishima. Three of the segments parallel events in Mishima's life with his novels (...

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A fictionalized account in four segments of the life of Japan's celebrated twentieth-century author Yukio Mishima. Three of the segments parallel events in Mishima's life with his novels (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku-ji), Kyoko's House, and Runaway Horses), while the fourth depicts 25 November 1970, "The Last Day"...


title: Pale Rider
released: 1985-06-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:08:56.633000000
year: 1985
text: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
plot:
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.

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A gold mining camp in the California foothills is besieged by a neighboring landowner intent on stealing their claims. A preacher rides into camp and uses all of his powers of persuasion to convince the landowner to give up his attacks on the miners.


title: Porky's Revenge
released: 1985-03-22 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 00:00:27.287000000
year: 1985
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
As graduation nears for the class of 1955 at Angel Beach High, the gang once again faces off against their old enemy, Porky, who wants them to throw the school's championship basketball game because he's betting on the opposing team.

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Meat, an Angel Beach high school student, picks up a shapely girl when she appears to have broken down by the side of the road; he is, however, shocked when her face doesn't match her figure. Not only that, she turns out to be the daughter of Porky, who has re-opened his nightclub in a Mississippi riverboat. Is this Porky's opportunity for revenge, or will the Angel Beach crowd outwit him once again?


title: Return to Oz
released: 1985-06-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:35:11.920000000
year: 1985
text: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 nominations.
plot:
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.

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Dorothy Gale has recently come home to Kansas from the Land of Oz is now almost back to perfect health since the incident of the tornado, only she cannot get that wonderful place out of her head. She frequently talks about it and cannot get any sleep at night. Aunt Em worries about her health/well-being. Thinking that she is suffering delusional depression and acute insomnia, she decides to take her to see a special doctor in another town. While he tries to treat her with electro-shock treatment and take those nasty dreams away from her head, she is rescued by a mysterious girl who leads her back to Oz for a new adventure.


title: Shoah
released: 1985-11-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-30 00:52:22.790000000
year: 1985
text: 14 wins.
plot:
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.

fullplot:
Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film secretly since they only agreed to be interviewed by audio). His style of interviewing by asking for the most minute details is effective at adding up these details to give a horrifying portrait of the events of Nazi genocide. He also shows, or rather lets some of his subjects themselves show, that the anti-Semitism that caused 6 million Jews to die in the Holocaust is still alive and well in many people who still live in Germany, Poland, and elsewhere.


plot: In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.
title: The Trip to Bountiful
released: 1986-01-24 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:17:14.443000000
year: 1985
text: Won 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 6 nominations.
fullplot:
Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940's Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish -- just once before she dies -- is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home." The trouble is her son, Ludie, is too concerned for her health to allow her to travel alone and her petty daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae, insists they don't have money to squander on bus tickets. This prompts "escape" attempts each month which coincide with the arrival of Mrs. Watts' Social Security check. Then, Mrs. Watts makes a successful escape and last trip home.


title: Trouble in Mind
released: 1986-03-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-08 00:25:28.880000000
year: 1985
text: 3 wins & 2 nominations.
plot:
The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City.

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In the metropolis of Rain City which is run under a military state, Wanda's Cafè is the meeting point for several individuals, who, in the words of Lt. Gunther of the police department, are converging on "the shit (they're) wallowing in". Former Rain City police officer John Hawkins - Hawk to his friends - has just been released from prison where he served eight years for murder, a crime to which he readily admits. He killed Fat Adolph, a mobster, in an effort to clean up the streets and protect the ones he loved. He has returned to Wanda's - Wanda who was his former lover - to restart his life. Straightforward Wanda still loves Hawk, but is not in love with him, and as such offers him a place to stay with no strings. Wanda has just hired largely innocent Georgia to work in the cafè. Penniless Georgia and her husband Coop have just arrived in Rain City with their infant son Spike in the run-down camper in which they live. They believed moving to the city - their first time ever in such - would solve all their problems. Frustrated Coop has been unable to find work, so he ends up hooking up with another Wanda's regular, a criminal named Solo. The power and money associated with this new criminal life changes Coop. His and Solo's problem is that their criminal activities are impinging on that of a more ruthless criminal named Hilly Blue, who will not sit idly by without getting what he considers his fair share of the activity. In the meantime, Hawk starts to fall for Georgia, who is torn between the love she felt for the man she married as opposed to who Coop has become, and the support provided by Hawk, who wants to care for her and Spike. Hawk has to decide what to do to help Georgia while getting what he wants for his renewed life.


title: Bullies
released: 1986-08-29 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:11:21.937000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
When the peaceful Morris family move to a small town and buy the town grocery store, they run afoul of the Cullen family. The Cullen's have been bullying the town's folk for years, and now ...

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When the peaceful Morris family move to a small town and buy the town grocery store, they run afoul of the Cullen family. The Cullen's have been bullying the town's folk for years, and now they are harassing the Morris family every chance they get. Matt meanwhile meets and starts seeing a lot of Becky who also likes him. Unfortunately her last name is Cullen, and when the rest of the family finds out about their relationship, they decide to get even, and their harassment is elevated to vicious assault.


title: Cobra
released: 1986-05-23 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-15 03:34:08.050000000
year: 1986
text: 6 nominations.
plot:
A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.

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A gang of neo-fascist thugs, led by the self-proclaimed 'Night Slasher', are breaking into people's homes & cars, then killing them at random. When of of these thugs holds up a food store & takes hostages, Lt. Marian Cobretti - an intense, take-no-prisoners cop, is brought onto the scene to end the hostage-taking. Ranting bizarrely about a 'New World', the man levels a sawed-off shotgun at Cobretti, who hits him with a knife, then guns him down when the man refuses to put down his weapon. Later that night, another murder occurs, attributed to the Night Slasher - and the next day, another one. This one is witnessed by a young woman, Ingrid Knutsen. She drives away before the thugs can kill her, but it isn't long before some creepy-looking people start making attempts on her life - and Cobretti's. Cobretti plans to move the only witness to the blood spree upstate, but with inside information, the thugs follow them. And a battle for survival rages between Cobretti and the thugs...


title: The Dirt Bike Kid
released: 1985-11-01 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-21 00:29:51.970000000
year: 1985
text: 2 wins.
plot:
When his mother sends Jack off with money to buy groceries, he comes home with a magic supercharged dirt bike instead. His mother is furious, but when Jack uses the magic bike to save the ...

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When his mother sends Jack off with money to buy groceries, he comes home with a magic supercharged dirt bike instead. His mother is furious, but when Jack uses the magic bike to save the local hot dog stand from the clutches of corrupt big business, he becomes the town hero.


title: The Great Mouse Detective
released: 1986-07-02 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:46:16.853000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win & 3 nominations.
plot:
Basil, the rodent Sherlock Holmes, investigates the kidnapping of a toy-maker and uncovers its link to his arch-enemy, Professor Ratigan.

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In Victorian London, England, a little mouse girl's toymaker father is abducted by a peglegged bat. She enlists the aid of Basil of Baker Street, the rodent world's answer to Sherlock Holmes. The case expands as Basil uncovers the crime's link to a plot against the Crown itself.


plot: A zoology student must try to out smart a murderous and super-intelligent orangutan.
title: Link
released: 1986-09-19 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-06 00:05:01.680000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win & 2 nominations.
fullplot:
Student Jane jobs as an assistant for the animal researcher Phillip in a lonesome old house. They live alone except for the chimpanzees and butler Link: a 45 years old very intelligent orangutan. Phillip wants to put Link to death. However before he can do this he's vanished tracelessly one morning. Link starts behaving more and more aggressive and prohibits Jane from using the phone or reaching the next village. When she punishes him by locking him out, he becomes violent.


title: Lucas
released: 1986-03-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:32:31.207000000
year: 1986
text: 3 nominations.
plot:
A socially inept fourteen year old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends -- Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love -- fall for each other.

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A socially inept fourteen year old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends--one an older-brother figure, the other a girl with whom he is in love-- fall for each other.


title: Police Academy 3: Back in Training
released: 1986-03-21 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-19 00:44:26.343000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win.
plot:
The alumni of Commandant Lassard's Police Academy (1984) return to the school to train new recruits and prevent its closure.

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When police funding is cut, the Governor announces he must close one of the academies. To make it fair, the two police academies must compete against each other to stay in operation. Mauser persuades two officers in Lassard's academy to better his odds, but things don't quite turn out as expected...


title: River's Edge
released: 1987-05-08 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-22 01:20:00.233000000
year: 1986
text: 4 wins & 5 nominations.
plot:
A high school slacker kills his girlfriend and shows off her dead body to his friends. However, the friends' reaction is almost as ambiguous and perplexing as the crime itself.

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A group of high school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Reactions vary, as Layne is intent on protecting Samson and smuggling him out of the state, while others think it's best to go to the police. Matt's tough little brother also finds out about the body and no one knows quite how the police will learn about the murder or who will be blamed for it.


title: SpaceCamp
released: 1986-06-06 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-05 00:25:04.923000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
The young attendees of a space camp find themselves in space for real when their shuttle is accidently launched into orbit.

fullplot:
American kids go to a space camp during the summer holidays. They learn how to operate the Space Shuttle. A team consisting of a guy who just entered to meet girls, a wanna be astronaut and an instructor who wanted to go on a mission instead of teaching can sit in the Shuttle while testing the engines. Then they're launched by mistake ...


title: Troll
released: 1986-01-17 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-07 00:36:45.620000000
year: 1986
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
A wicked troll king in search of a mystical ring that will return him to his human form invades a San Francisco apartment complex where a powerful witch lives.

fullplot:
The Potter family has just moved to a rented apartment in San Francisco. Harry Potter Sr. and his wife Anne are bringing the packages to the apartment and their son Harry Jr. and their little daughter Wendy Anne stays on the sidewalk. Wendy goes to the laundry room, she meets the wicked troll Torok that uses his magic ring to possess Wendy and to use her form to transform the dwellers and their apartment into other trolls and his kingdom. Harry Jr. feels that something is wrong with his sister and seeks out help with the good witch Eunice St. Clair that lives in the building.


title: Youngblood
released: 1986-01-31 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-02 00:20:16.443000000
year: 1986
text: 1 win.
plot:
A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his stay in a Canadian minor hockey town. ...

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A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his stay in a Canadian minor hockey town. His on-ice activities are complicated by his relationship with the coach's daughter.


title: The Big Easy
released: 1987-08-28 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-14 07:21:24.120000000
year: 1986
text: 4 wins & 4 nominations.
plot:
Set in New Orleans. Remy McSwain, lieutenant in Homicide finds that he has two problems, the first of a series of gang killings and Ann Osborne, a beautiful attorney from the D.A.'s police ...

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Set in New Orleans. Remy McSwain, lieutenant in Homicide finds that he has two problems, the first of a series of gang killings and Ann Osborne, a beautiful attorney from the D.A.'s police corruption task force in his office. He begins a relationship with her as the killings continue only to have charges filed against him for accepting bribes as he stumbles on a police corruption Sting. While this is happening, the criminals insist that none of the crime gangs are behind the killings.


title: Bloodsport
released: 1988-02-26 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-09-04 00:04:05.100000000
year: 1988
text: 1 nomination.
plot:
Follows Frank Dux, an American martial artist serving in the military, who decides to leave the army to compete in a martial arts tournament in Hong Kong where fights to the death can occur.

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Frank Dux has spent most his life being trained by Tanaka to participate in the Kumite, the ultimate martial arts tournament, where participants are seriously injured, even killed. Frank decides to go despite being told by his superiors in the army that he can't because they need him. Two army officers are sent to get him and the trail leads to Hong Kong but Frank eludes them. While Frank advances, he knows that he may have to face Chong Li, the defending champion, who has killed a few participants.


plot: The Care Bears and Alice set out to stop an evil wizard from taking over Wonderland.
title: The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland
released: 1987-08-07 00:00:00
lastupdated: 2015-08-26 00:05:11.587000000
year: 1987
text: 3 nominations.
fullplot:
The cuddly Care Bears star in this charming feature-length adaption of the classic story of Alice in Wonderland. A young girl named Alice and the Care Bears travel together into the whimsical land of the Mad Hatter and the March Hare. In this magical story about friendship and trust, Alice and the Care Bears try to thwart an evil wizard's attempt to become the King of Wonderland.


