Take the Tour: "Movies from the 1980s"
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United States - 1982
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- Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace ...
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- E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL is Steven Spielberg's warmhearted classic delight for both children and adults. It tells the story of an alien creature, E.T., mistakenly left ...
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United States - 1987
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- Mel Gibson, Danny Glover ...
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- The first in a series of four Lethal Weapons. Mel Gibson plays an emotionally off-balanced undercover cop. His partner, Danny Glover, is good valued family man. The two ...
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United States - 1982
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- Richard Gere, Debra Winger ...
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- Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) has nothing--the son of an alcoholic, indifferent military father, hes grown up in the Philippines living on top of a brothel. But after college ...
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United States - 1986
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- Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis ...
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- Maverick (Tom Cruise) is a reckless F-14 pilot who flies by instinct and breaks all the rules. While attending the Navy's elite air combat training academy, ...
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United States - 1985
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- Emilio Estévez, Rob Lowe ...
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- Seven friends, fresh out of Georgetown University, cope with the fears and realities of adulthood while drinking at their favorite hangout, St. Elmo's. Alex (Judd Nelson) ...
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United States - 1981
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- Harrison Ford, Karen Allen ...
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- It is 1936. Archaeology professor Indiana Jones is recruited by the US government to find the Lost Ark of the Covenant, which once contained the tablets upon which the ...
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United States - 1980
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- Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford ...
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- The Empire Strikes Back - Three years later Imperial forces continue to pursue the Rebels. After the Rebellion’s defeat on the ice planet Hoth, Luke journeys to the ...
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United Kingdom - 1987
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- John Lone, Peter O'Toole ...
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- THE LAST EMPEROR is the true story of Pu Yi, the last monarch of a China that changed drastically during his lifetime. Though he comes to power at the age of three and is ...
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United States - 1989
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- Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal ...
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- Does sex make it impossible for men and women to be true friends? The film chronicles this dilemma through the eleven year relationship between Harry Burns (Billy ...
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United Kingdom - 1988
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- John Cleese, Kevin Kline ...
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- Diamond-loving American Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis) has come to London with her demented, self-loving, and Nietzsche-quoting boyfriend Otto (Kevin Kline) in hopes of pulling ...
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United States - 1986
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- Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall ...
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- When Jack Burton wins a card game against his long time friend Wang, Wang explains that he doesn't have Jack's earnings on him, and he'll pay Jack later, due to the fact ...
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United Kingdom - 1981
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- Ben Cross, Ian Charleson ...
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- This is the true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. One is a devout Scottish missionary who runs for God, the other is a Jewish ...
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United States - 1986
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- Woody Allen, Mia Farrow ...
- Synopsis:
- Hannah seems to have a balanced, perfect life. A successful actress, exemplary wife and mother, she has become the centre of gravity and reference for her entire family. ...
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United States - 1986
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- Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix ...
- Synopsis:
- STAND BY ME is the story of four kids on the precipice of early adulthood who embark upon a quest. Theres Gordie (Wil Wheaton), the intelligent, creative one with the ...
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United States - 1983
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- William Hurt, Kevin Kline ...
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- Seven members of a close-knit college group of friends are reunited fifteen years later after the eighth commits suicide. The funeral and reception lead to an extended ...
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United States - 1986
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- Paul Newman, Tom Cruise ...
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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 ...
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United States - 1988
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- Animation, Bob Hoskins ...
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- Roger Rabbit is a cartoon character who (along with many others) exists along side of real humans. Eddy is a private eye who has seen better days and has been on the ...
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United States - 1988
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- Tom Cruise, Elisabeth Shue ...
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- After leaving the Army, Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) tries to get a marketing job in New York. But without a college degree, this was not possible. He then decides to ...
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United States - 1983
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- Al Pacino, Steven Bauer ...
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- Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and ...
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Germany - West Germany (FRG) - 1987
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- Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk ...
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- The sky over Wenders' war-scarred Berlin is full of gentle, trenchcoated angels who listen to the tortured thoughts of mortals and try to comfort them. One, Damiel (Bruno ...
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United States - 1980
- Director:
- Jim Abrahams ...
- Cast:
- Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty ...
- Synopsis:
- The quintessential movie spoof that spawned an entire genre of parody films, the original Airplane! still holds up as one of the brightest comedic gems of the '80s, not ...
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United States - 1988
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- Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer ...
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- Willow stars Val Kilmer as Madmartigan, a swashbuckling warrior, and Warwick Davis as the title character. In a mythical kingdom, the evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda (Jean ...
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United Kingdom - 1982
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- Cast:
- Ben Kingsley, Roshan Seth ...
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- Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride ...
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United States - 1987
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- William Hurt, Holly Hunter ...
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- In James L. Brooks’ quirky, romantic comedy, three ambitious workaholics are set loose in a network TV newsroom where their professional and personal lives become ...
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United States - 1988
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- Cast:
- Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise ...
- Synopsis:
- Callous hustler Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is busy working on his next deal when he receives word that his estranged father has died. After traveling back to Ohio from ...
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United States - 1985
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- Cast:
- Sean Astin, Corey Feldman ...
- Synopsis:
- The Goonies are a crazy bunch of misfit kids whose only hope of saving their neighbourhood from greedy developers who want to use the area to build a new golf course, is ...
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United States - 1987
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- Kevin Costner, Sean Young ...
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- Thriller in which a naval commander begins dating an alluring woman who happens to be the girlfriend of his boss (the Secretary of Defense). When the woman is murdered, ...
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United States - 1987
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- Robin Wright, Cary Elwes ...
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- Once upon a time, a feisty old grandfather told his bedridden grandson a tongue-in-cheek fairy tale... In the mythical kingdom of Florin, farm boy Westley (Cary Elwes) ...
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United States - 1984
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- Cast:
- Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd ...
- Synopsis:
- Fired from their university research jobs, Drs. Venkman, Stantz, and Spengler promptly set up shop as parapsychologists specializing in psychic phenomena and soon they're ...
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United States - 1983
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- Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke ...
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- Rusty James (Matt Dillon) is an up-and-coming street hoodlum, lamenting the salad days of the gangs when his older brother (Mickey Rourke), The Motorcycle Boy, ran things ...
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United States - 1984
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- Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita ...
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- Daniel Larusso and his mother move from New Jersy to California. She has a wonderful new job but Daniel discovers that a dark haired Italian boy with a Jersey accent ...
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United States - 1987
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- Peter Weller, Nancy Allen ...
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- After Omni Consumer Products (OCP) announced that it bought out the Detroit police department, the department decides to go on strike. Alex Murphy, gets transferred from ...
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