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The Toy
Louisiana The 1980sWhen U. S. Bates told his son he could have any present he wanted, he picked the most outrageous gift of all... Jack Brown. — 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.
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Zapped!
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1980sThey're getting a little behind in their classwork. — Peyton and Barney 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 accidently discovered a formula for telekinetic powers. Now, how much trouble can a high school boy who can move things with just his mind get into?
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The Verdict
New York Massachusetts New England The 1980sThe doctors want to settle, the Church wants to settle, their lawyers want to settle, and even his own clients are desperate to settle. But Galvin is determined to defy them all. He will try the case. — Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
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Hanky Panky
New York Maine Massachusetts Arizona The 1980sWhen you're wanted for a murder you didn't commit, chased for secrets you didn't steal, and running from people who want to kill you, the worst mistake you can make is falling in love... — The complete innocent, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of secrecy and government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she is later murdered, Michael is the chief suspect and on the run.
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Xtro
England The 1980sSome extra-terrestrials aren't friendly. — Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide what her feelings are for her two men. Sam is not the same as when he left, and he begins affecting Tony in frightening ways.
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Personal Best
Oregon 🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sWhen you run into yourself you run into feelings you never thought you had — Chris Cahill is a young athlete who competes unsuccessfully in the 1976 U.S. Olympic trials. She meets a more experienced lesbian track and field competitor, Tory Skinner, and their friendship evolves into a romantic relationship.
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Humongous
Michigan The 1980s The 1940sIt's loose... It's angry... And it's getting hungry! — The monstrous offspring of a violent crime grows up in seclusion on a remote island, where a boat-full of hapless teens have shipwrecked, unaware of what's lurking in the woods.
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Hey Good Lookin'
New York The 1980s The 1950sRalph Bakshi, creator of "Fritz the Cat" and "Heavy Traffic" brings you the outrageous '50s the way they really were. — An outrageous, affectionate look at coming of age in the Eisenhower era in Brooklyn.
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The Challenge
Kyoto Prefecture The 1980s The 1940sHe has trained every thought, every muscle, every nerve, for the moment of truth! — Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between two brothers, one who follows the traditional path of the samurai and the other a businessman. At the behest of the businessman, Rick undertakes samurai training from the other brother, but joins his cause. He also becomes romantically involved with the samurai's daughter.
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Le Grand Pardon
The 1980sLe clan Bettoun : Raymond (le patriarche), Maurice (le fils), Jacky (le neveu), Roland (le neveu), Albert (le cousin de Raymond), Pépé (l'ami de Raymond), Samy (le garde du corps) sont un clan familial de caïds pieds-Noirs juifs du crime organisé français. Leurs activités sont la gestion de casinos, l'organisation de match de boxe clandestins, les jeux clandestins, le proxénétisme, le racket et les règlements de compte sanguinaires contre d'autres clans arabes et français.
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The House on Sorority Row
The 1980s The 1960sSorority sisters... Sisters in life. Sisters in death. — After a seemingly innocent prank goes horribly wrong, a group of sorority sisters are stalked and murdered one by one in their sorority house while throwing a party to celebrate their graduation.
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Making Love
California The 1980sA provocative tale of hidden desire — A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when Zach confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men.
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Pieces
Massachusetts The 1980s The 1940sIt's exactly what you think it is! — A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
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Batch '81
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1980sA secret world... Where freedom is obedience and authority is violence. — Sid Lucero, a 26-year old pre-Med student is an aspiring neophyte of the Alpha Kappa Omega fraternity. Over a six-month initiation period, he and six other neophytes are subjected to severe physical and psychological torture in and outside the fraternity house. The neophytes come to accept the senseless violence as a requisite of their acceptance into the brotherhood. Only five of them survive the brutal, fascistic ordeal, due to the fraternity rumble with Sigma Omicron Sigma headed by Arvisu.
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Pour 100 briques t'as plus rien !
The 1980sInfluencés par une série de casses, Sam et Paul voient dans cette méthode un moyen facile de gagner l'argent qui leur fait cruellement défaut. Mais leur plan ne se déroule pas exactement comme ils l'avaient prévu...
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SportLotto - 82
🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sAdventurous comedy about a bunch of people hunting the winning lottery ticket.
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Blood Song
Oregon The 1980s The 1950sWhen he whistles this tune... The time for killing begins. — A psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the pursuing of a young handicapped girl, who once got a blood transfusion from him.
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The House Where Evil Dwells
Kyoto Prefecture The 1980s The 1840sAn ancient curse has turned their lives into a nightmare of lust and revenge. — At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday. Alex finds a house for them in Kyoto, Japan, and the Fletchers move in, laughing off rumors that the place is haunted. But the ghost of 19th-century samurai Shigero turns out to be very real, and is intent on making the family re-enact an ancient murder-suicide.
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Carry on Pickpocket
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1980sPopular Hong Kong actor-filmmaker Sammo Hung directed himself in this amusing action-comedy in which he stars as Rice Pot, a highly skilled pickpocket who falls in love with a beautiful female police inspector. The inspector (Deanie Yip) decides that she will overlook Rice Pot's prodigious list of legal offenses if he steals a pouch from a gangster's courier (Peter Chan). Rice Pot's partner, Chimney (Frankie Chan), carries out the assignment, only to discover that the pouch contains a veritable trove of stolen diamonds. Before long, Rice Pot and Chimney are running for their lives from the mobsters, who are willing to kill to get the diamonds back.
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A Nameless Band
🇧🇬 Bulgaria The 1970s The 1980sThe misfortunes of a couple of guys who form a music group and think they can get rich and famous easy.
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Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!
New York The 1970s The 1980sProduced by Frank Zappa in 1982, The Dub Room Special combines footage from a performance at the KCET studios in Los Angeles on August 27, 1974, a concert performed at The Palladium, NYC on October 31, 1981, some clay animation by Bruce Bickford, and several interviews. Previously only available through mail-order, it was made widely available on DVD on October 17, 2005.
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That Championship Season
Pennsylvania The 1980sIt 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.
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Cry for the Strangers
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1980s The 1930sViolent Storms can unleash powerful forces, some calming... some deadly. — The little coastal town of Clark's Harbor seems like the perfect place for psychiatrist Brad Russell and his wife to get a little peace and spend more time with each other. But the locals don't seem very friendly and every time a storm rolls in another mysterious death occurs... Could an ancient Indian legend of ghostly tribes and human sacrifice have anything to do with it?
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Ben's Mill
Vermont The 1980s1982 documentary film directed by Michel Chalufour and John Karol. The film portrays how the energy from the river is used to drive the multitudes of leather belts used to drive the various machines. The film focuses on the steps one man, Ben, uses to make one of his white pine watering tanks.
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Moral
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1970s The 1980sSomewhere in this movie you will find yourself. — Joey, Kathy, Sylvia and Maritess are not only classmates they are the best of friends. Joey is a drug user who sleeps around. Kathy is a mediocre singer who will stop at nothing to fulfill her dream of the big-time. Sylvia is a liberated woman who finds security in the love of her ex-husband who is now living in with another man. Maritess plays the role of a conventional housewife, who is reduced to a baby-making machine. In the span of three years from 1979 to 1982 the film traces the lives of these four women through their seemingly desperate but also interwoven experiences, and in their attempts to resolve their individual problems, are mirrored the different faces of the woman in our society today.
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The Wrestlers
🇨🇬 Congo The 1980sThis film illustrate through physical struggle, the clash between generations and civilizations.
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Citizen
California The 1980sA group of anonymous young people embark on an apparently random journey through a disjointed San Francisco cityscape. Along their travels they encounter a succession of madmen and eccentrics, portrayed by various West Coast performance artists, whose impassioned monologues and improvisations satirize the institutions of contemporary American society.
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Man of Iron
🇵🇱 Poland The 1980sIn Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
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The Evil Dead
Tennessee The 1980sThe Ultimate Experience In Grueling Terror — When a group of college students finds a mysterious book and recording in the old wilderness cabin they've rented for the weekend, they unwittingly unleash a demonic force from the surrounding forest.
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An American Werewolf in London
England The 1980sBeware the Moon. — Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
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Escape from New York
New York The 1990s The 1980s1997. New York city is now a maximum security prison. Breaking out is impossible. Breaking in is insane — In the future, crime is out of control and New York City's Manhattan is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed lone warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables.
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Teheran '43
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇷 Iran The 1980s The 1940sDocuments reveal in 1980 that the Germans planned to kill the Big Three in Teheran in 1943.This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin (Igor Kostolevsky), a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard (Armen Dzhigarkhanian) to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni (Natalia Belokhvostikova), living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max lives at Françoise (Claude Jade), a young French woman, who hides him.
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Miracle on Ice
Minnesota New York Massachusetts Colorado The 1970s The 1980sHockey coach Herb Brooks leads Mike Eruzione, Jim Craig and team to a gold medal in the 1980 Olympics.
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Scanners
The 1980s10 Seconds: The Pain Begins. 15 Seconds: You Can’t Breathe. 20 Seconds: You Explode. — After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
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Friday the 13th Part 2
New Jersey The 1970s The 1980sThe body count continues... — Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, it seems Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are in the past. Paul opens up a new camp close to the infamous site, ignoring warnings to stay away, and a sexually-charged group of counselors follow -- including child psychologist major Ginny. But Jason has been hiding out all this time, and now he's ready for revenge.
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Taps
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1980sThis school is our home, we think it's worth defending. — Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.
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Stripes
🇨🇿 Czechia 🇩🇪 Germany Kentucky New York The 1980sThe story of a man who wanted to keep the world safe for democracy...and meet girls. — John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the U.S. Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.
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The Great Muppet Caper
England The 1980sKermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.
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The Beyond
Louisiana The 1920s The 1980sBeyond death... Beyond Evil... Beyond the dreaded gates of hell. — A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
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The Decline of Western Civilization
California The 1980sSee it in a theater.... where you can't get hurt. — The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.
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Student Bodies
Texas The 1980s13½ Murders + 1423 Laughs = Student Bodies — This zany send-up of teen slasher flicks features a maniacal psycho known as the Breather (played by Jerry Belson), who stalks –and murders– promiscuous students at a suburban high school. The fanatical killer's unusual weapons include paper clips, blackboard erasers and eggplants. Kristen Riter, Matthew Goldsby, Joe Flood, Kevin Mannis and Sara Eckhardt head the cast.
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Nighthawks
New York England 🇫🇷 France The 1980sA terrorist holds New York in a grip of fear - and only Stallone can take him on. — An international terrorist has New York in a grip of panic and it's up to Det. Sgt. Deke DaSilva to take him down.
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The House by the Cemetery
New York Massachusetts The 1980sRead the fine print. You may have just mortgaged your life. — After a doctor kills his mistress and himself while researching the mysterious previous owner of his Boston home, his colleague, Dr. Norman Boyle, takes over his research and moves his family from New York City to the Boston mansion. Soon after, Boyle's young son Bob becomes plagued by visions of a young girl, who warns him of the danger within the house.
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American Pop
Kansas California The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sAll those years, all those dreams, all those sons... one of them is going to be a star. — The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing different musical abilities.
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St. Helens
Washington The 1980sDramatization of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. — The movie begins with the volcano's awakening on March 20 and ends with its eruption on May 18, 1980.
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An Eye for an Eye
California The 1980sKane's justice is revenge. Kane's weapon is himself. — Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.
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Time for Revenge
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1980sAn honest man is something very dangerous nowadays. — A union organizing demolition worker and a friend of his decide to blackmail the corrupt company they work for setting up a fake accident. Because of a miscalculation the friend dies, but he sticks with the plan and demands a big sum of money as indemnity. When the company refuses to pay, determined to prove the worker is lying, he is forced to make a tragic decision in order to win.
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The Prowler
California New Jersey The 1980s The 1940sIt will freeze your blood. — A masked killer, wearing World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35-year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.
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Bloody Birthday
California The 1970s The 1980sThe Nightmare Begins With The Kids Next Door — In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent facades. A boy and his teenage sister become endangered when they stumble onto the bloody truth.
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