Castle in the Sky
Castle in the Sky (1986)
Animation, Adventure, Family
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... [show more]
Mayumi Tanaka
Keiko Yokozawa
Kotoe Hatsui
Hayao Miyazaki
The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Animation, Adventure, Family
In Disney's beguiling animated romp, rebellious 16-year-old mermaid Ariel is fascinated with life on land. On one of her visits to the surface, which are forbidden by her controlling father, King Triton, she falls for a human prince. Determined to be with her new love, Ariel makes a dangerous deal... [show more]
Jodi Benson
Samuel E. Wright
Rene Auberjonois
Ron Clements
John Musker
The Goonies
The Goonies (1985)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
Mikey and his friends have always wanted to go on an adventure. One night they are all in Mikey's attic and Mikey stumbles across an old map. Mikey has always wanted to know if One-eyed Willy ever was a real person and now he might. They set off and later realize that they have to go through the... [show more]
Sean Astin
Josh Brolin
Jeff Cohen
Richard Donner
Flight of the Navigator
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
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.
Joey Cramer
Paul Reubens
Cliff De Young
Randal Kleiser
Stop Making Sense
Stop Making Sense (1984)
Documentary, Music
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.... [show more]
David Byrne
Bernie Worrell
Alex Weir
Jonathan Demme
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie, and the children... [show more]
Henry Thomas
Drew Barrymore
Peter Coyote
Steven Spielberg
Savannah Smiles
Savannah Smiles (1982)
Comedy, Family
The young daughter of a politician runs away due to lack of attention. She hides in the car of two not-so-bright crooks who are slowly converted into parent figures to her. A surprising bond of love and redirection forms among the trio as the police close down on the supposed kidnappers.
Mark Miller
Donovan Scott
Bridgette Andersen
Pierre De Moro
Phar Lap
Phar Lap (1983)
Biography, Drama, Family
Phar Lap, the legendary Australian racing horse, is as well-known today for his mysterious death as for his fabulous accomplishments in life. Beginning at the end, the film flashes back to the day that Phar Lap, despite his lack of pedigree, is purchased on impulse by trainer Harry Telford. Phar Lap... [show more]
Tom Burlinson
Judy Morris
Martin Vaughan
Simon Wincer
Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire (1987)
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Visible only to those like them and to human children, Damiel and Cassiel are two angels, who have existed even before humankind. Along with several other angels, they currently wander around West Berlin, generally on their own, observing and preserving life, sometimes trying to provide comfort to... [show more]
Bruno Ganz
Solveig Dommartin
Otto Sander
Wim Wenders
The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride (1987)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
An elderly man reads the book "The Princess Bride" to his sick and thus currently bedridden adolescent grandson, the reading of the book which has been passed down within the family for generations. The grandson is sure he won't like the story, with a romance at its core, he prefers something with... [show more]
Cary Elwes
Mandy Patinkin
Robin Wright
Rob Reiner
Matewan
Matewan (1987)
Drama, History
Mingo County, West Virginia, 1920. Coal miners, struggling to form a union, are up against company operators and the gun thugs of the notorious Baldwin-Felts detective agency. Black and Italian miners, brought in by the company to break the strike, are caught between the two forces. UMWA organizer... [show more]
Chris Cooper
James Earl Jones
Mary McDonnell
John Sayles
Once Upon a Time in America
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Crime, Drama
With the vivid memory of his long-gone childhood friends Max, Patsy, and Cockeye etched in his mind, his ferociously loyal partners-in-crime during their rise to prominence in New York's Prohibition-era Lower East Side, the defeated, penniless, and guilt-ridden former gangster David "Noodles"... [show more]
Robert De Niro
James Woods
Elizabeth McGovern
Sergio Leone
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Luke Skywalker battles Jabba the Hutt and Darth Vader to save his comrades in the Rebel Alliance and triumph over the Galactic Empire. Han Solo and Princess Leia reaffirm their love, and team with Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, the Ewoks, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 to aid in the disruption of the Dark... [show more]
Mark Hamill
Harrison Ford
Carrie Fisher
Richard Marquand
Lion of the Desert
Lion of the Desert (1980)
Biography, Drama, History
In Fascist Italy pre-World War II, the cruel General Rodolfo Graziani is directly assigned by Benito Mussolini to fight in the colonial war in Libya to vanquish the Arab nation. However, his troops are frequently defeated by the national leader Omar Mukhtar and his army of Bedouins. But the Butcher... [show more]
Anthony Quinn
Oliver Reed
Rod Steiger
Moustapha Akkad
Zelig
Zelig (1983)
Comedy
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
Woody Allen
Mia Farrow
Patrick Horgan
Woody Allen
Amadeus
Amadeus (1984)
Biography, Drama, Music
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... [show more]
F. Murray Abraham
Tom Hulce
Elizabeth Berridge
Milos Forman
The Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Adventure, Comedy, Crime
After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit "The Penguin", the last of the nuns who raised them in an orphanage. They learn the Archdiocese will stop supporting the school and will sell the place to the Education Authority. The only way to keep the place open is if... [show more]
John Belushi
Dan Aykroyd
Cab Calloway
John Landis
Mississippi Burning
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his former Sheriff partner.
Gene Hackman
Willem Dafoe
Frances McDormand
Alan Parker
Babette's Feast
Babette's Feast (1987)
Drama
In a remote 19th-century Danish village, two sisters lead a rigid life centered around their father, the local minister, and their church. Both had opportunities to leave the village: one could have married a young army officer and the other, a French opera singer. Their father objected in each... [show more]
Stéphane Audran
Bodil Kjer
Birgitte Federspiel
Gabriel Axel
Radio Days
Radio Days (1987)
Comedy
Woody Allen's sentimental reminiscence about the golden age of radio. A series of vignettes involving radio personalities is intertwined with the life of a working class family in Rockaway Beach, NY circa 1942.
Mia Farrow
Dianne Wiest
Mike Starr
Woody Allen
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Comedy, Crime
Wealthy native Brit Lawrence Jamieson, living in Beaumont-sur-Mer on the French Riviera, earns most of his money through big cons on wealthy unsuspecting women. With the help of his associates, corrupt Police Inspector Andre, who provides him most of his intel, and his butler Arthur, he pulls scams... [show more]
Steve Martin
Michael Caine
Glenne Headly
Frank Oz
My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Two young girls, 10-year-old Satsuki and her 4-year-old sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuki and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon... [show more]
Hitoshi Takagi
Noriko Hidaka
Chika Sakamoto
Hayao Miyazaki
The Terminator
The Terminator (1984)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Sent back from a dystopian 2029--where the cold machines have conquered the entire world--to 1984 Los Angeles, the indestructible cyborg-assassin known as the "Terminator" commences his deadly mission to kill humankind's most important woman: the unsuspecting Sarah Connor. However, from the same... [show more]
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Linda Hamilton
Michael Biehn
James Cameron
After Hours
After Hours (1985)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
A meek word processor in New York impulsively travels downtown to Soho for date with an attractive, but apparently disturbed young woman, and finds himself trapped in a nightmarishly surreal vortex of improbable coincidences and farcical circumstances.
Griffin Dunne
Rosanna Arquette
Verna Bloom
Martin Scorsese
The Long Good Friday
The Long Good Friday (1980)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Harold (Bob Hoskins), a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his action, and Harold wants to know who they are. He finds out soon enough, and bloody mayhem ensues.
Bob Hoskins
Helen Mirren
Paul Freeman
John Mackenzie
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and Chewbacca face attack by the Imperial forces and its AT-AT walkers on the ice planet Hoth. While Han and Leia escape in the Millennium Falcon, Luke travels to Dagobah in search of Yoda. Only with the Jedi Master's help will Luke survive when the Dark Side... [show more]
Mark Hamill
Harrison Ford
Carrie Fisher
Irvin Kershner
Blade Runner
Blade Runner (1982)
Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the early twenty-first century, the Tyrell Corporation, during what was called the Nexus phase, developed robots, called "replicants", that were supposed to aid society, the replicants which looked and acted like humans. When the superhuman generation Nexus 6 replicants, used for dangerous... [show more]
Harrison Ford
Rutger Hauer
Sean Young
Ridley Scott
The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff (1983)
Adventure, Biography, Drama
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... [show more]
Sam Shepard
Scott Glenn
Ed Harris
Philip Kaufman
The Killing Fields
The Killing Fields (1984)
Biography, Drama, History
Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist covering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with the local journalist 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... [show more]
Sam Waterston
Haing S. Ngor
John Malkovich
Roland Joffé
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Action, Adventure
Indiana Jones teams up with a nightclub singer named Wilhelmina "Willie" Scott and a twelve-year-old Chinese boy named Short Round. They end up in a small distressed village in India, where the people believe that evil spirits have taken all their children away after a sacred precious stone was... [show more]
Harrison Ford
Kate Capshaw
Ke Huy Quan
Steven Spielberg
Roger & Me
Roger & Me (1989)
Documentary
A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.
Michael Moore
Roger B. Smith
Rhonda Britton
Michael Moore
Top Secret!
Top Secret! (1984)
Comedy, Crime, Music
This time Zucker and Abrahams are spoofing, most notably, Elvis films and WWII spy movies. Val Kilmer stars as Nick Rivers, a handsome American 50s-style rock and roll singer. While performing in East Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful heroine and becomes involved with the French Resistance.
Val Kilmer
Omar Sharif
Jeremy Kemp
Jim Abrahams
David Zucker
Jerry Zucker
The Great Mouse Detective
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Animation, Adventure, Family
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.
Vincent Price
Barrie Ingham
Val Bettin
Ron Clements
Burny Mattinson
Dave Michener
Entre Nous
Entre Nous (1983)
Biography, Drama, Romance
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... [show more]
PG
110 min
Miou-Miou
Isabelle Huppert
Guy Marchand
Diane Kurys
PG
110 min
Unknown
The Adventures of Milo and Otis
Adventure, Drama, Family
The story of two animals and their adventures. Milo, the cat, and Otis, the dog, are two animals who grew up together on the same farm. One day, the two are separated and begin a journey to find each other. The adventurous, and often perilous quest finds the two animals traveling across mountains,... [show more]
Kyôko Koizumi
Dudley Moore
Chatran
Masanori Hata
Benji the Hunted
Benji the Hunted (1987)
Adventure, Family
Benji is left in the wilderness after an accident. Can he survive?
Red Steagall
Frank Inn
Benjean
Joe Camp
Scarface
Scarface (1983)
Crime, Drama
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... [show more]
Al Pacino
Michelle Pfeiffer
Steven Bauer
Brian De Palma
Sign 'o' the Times
Sign 'o' the Times (1987)
Documentary, Music
Music legend Prince and his band perform 13 numbers, most of them from his double album, "Sign 'o' the Times." This is high-energy stuff: neon signs flash above the stage, suggesting the honky-tonk district of a big city, and between numbers there are vignettes of street life. Sheila E., Boni Boyer... [show more]
Prince
Sheila E.
Sheena Easton
Prince
David Hogan
Albert Magnoli
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Drama, Fantasy, Music
Rock star Pink Floyd is a tortured soul. Because of his childhood, he has always tried to make meaningful emotional connections to other living creatures. That childhood includes not having a male role model with his father having been killed in the war, his overprotective mother smothering him, and... [show more]
Bob Geldof
Christine Hargreaves
James Laurenson
Alan Parker
My Left Foot
My Left Foot (1989)
Biography, Drama
Christy Brown is born with cerebral palsy to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs. Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous artist who uses his dexterous left foot to write and paint.
Daniel Day-Lewis
Brenda Fricker
Alison Whelan
Jim Sheridan
Glory
Glory (1989)
Biography, Drama, History
Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.
Matthew Broderick
Denzel Washington
Cary Elwes
Edward Zwick
Longtime Companion
Longtime Companion (1989)
Drama, Romance
Longtime Companion follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1981. First referred to as "Gay-Related-Immune-Disorder," we watch the effect of the disease as it devastates the lives of our protagonists. Jumping between Manhattan and... [show more]
Stephen Caffrey
Patrick Cassidy
Brian Cousins
Norman René
Dangerous Liaisons
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Drama, Romance
In 18th century France, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont play a dangerous game of seduction. Valmont is someone who measures success by the number of his conquests and Merteuil challenges him to seduce the soon to be married Cecile de Volanges and provide proof in writing of his... [show more]
Glenn Close
John Malkovich
Michelle Pfeiffer
Stephen Frears
High Hopes
High Hopes (1988)
Comedy, Drama
The life of a working class couple living in London and their complicated relationships with other members of the family.
Phil Davis
Ruth Sheen
Edna Doré
Mike Leigh
Moonlighting
Moonlighting (1982)
Drama
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only... [show more]
Jeremy Irons
Eugene Lipinski
Jiri Stanislav
Jerzy Skolimowski
National Lampoon's Vacation
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
Adventure, Comedy
Having it all planned down to the last detail, the American, well-meaning paterfamilias, Clark Griswold, and his supportive wife, Ellen, take their two teenage children, Rusty and Audrey, on a cross-country trip from the suburbs of Chicago, all the way to sunny California's Walley World amusement... [show more]
Chevy Chase
Beverly D'Angelo
Imogene Coca
Harold Ramis
Pale Rider
Pale Rider (1985)
Drama, Western
A gold mining camp in the California foothills is besieged by a neighboring landowner intent on stealing their claims. A preacher (Clint Eastwood) rides into camp and uses all of his powers of persuasion to convince the landowner to give up his attacks on the miners.
Clint Eastwood
Michael Moriarty
Carrie Snodgress
Clint Eastwood
Powaqqatsi
Powaqqatsi (1988)
Documentary, Music
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
Christie Brinkley
David Brinkley
Patrick Disanto
Godfrey Reggio
Deathtrap
Deathtrap (1982)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
To make Sidney's slump all the more painful, Clifford Anderson, a student of one of Sidney's writing seminars, has recently sent his mentor a copy of his first attempt at playwrighting for Sidney's review and advice. The play, "Deathtrap", is a five character, two-act thriller so perfect in its... [show more]
Michael Caine
Christopher Reeve
Dyan Cannon
Sidney Lumet
The Road Warrior
The Road Warrior (1981)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Wandering the deserted highways of an energy-starved dystopian Australia after eradicating the Night Rider's followers in Mad Max (1979), the former patrolman, Max Rockatansky, finds himself roaming the endless wasteland scavenging for food and precious petrol. Suddenly, in the scorched wilderness,... [show more]
Mel Gibson
Bruce Spence
Michael Preston
George Miller
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