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Hospital Massacre
California The 1980s The 1960sYou Have Nothing to Fear Until They Operate! — After making what should have been a routine visit to a local county hospital on Valentine's Day, divorcee Susan Jeremy finds herself detained for further observation. Meanwhile, a homicidal maniac disguised as a surgeon wanders around the hospital, killing all the staff members associated with her.
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The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Tennessee Georgia The 1980sYou're never too young to learn the score. — An aspiring country singer (Dennis Quaid) and his feisty younger sister/manager (Kristy McNichol) struggle to reach their dreams of Nashville stardom-as long as she can keep her brother out of trouble with the ladies and the law-in this drama "inspired by," but not really connected to, the hit '70s ballad. Mark Hamill and Don Stroud also star.
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Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story
California The 1980sThe life and death of the "Playboy" centerfold model/actress Dorothy Stratten.
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When old auntie Mirta succeeds in a lottery and wins a car, which she cannot use herself, different family members are suddenly there to 'be helpful' in favor to get the car after aunties' death, not to mention, they never have come before to help her. The funny rivalry between two parts of family, a foolish jealousy to the near living peasants' family, which had always non-selfishly been there for auntie, is a caricature of greasy human nature. This is a slight humor of the Soviet life details as well. But aunt Mirta isn't fool, and is still young in her heart until her last minute, that appears in her last will - to whom the car, the limousine in the color of St. John's night goes.
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They Don't Wear Black Tie
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1980sOtavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, Tião, one of the employees, is more of a realist and doesn't want to risk losing his job by striking. This clash of perspectives puts the father and son at odds. Fortunately, Tião's mother, Romana, is on hand to act as a moderator between the two opinionated men.
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The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
The 1980sJed Clamplett and his backwoods family help solve an energy crisis in their own rustic ways for their Beverly Hills neighborhood they still cannot adjust to.
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Bollenti spiriti
The 1980sGiovanni is a rich Italian aristocrat. He inherit a castle occupied by the ghost of an ancestor. Part of the inheritance is of a young beautiful blonde tourist, far relative of Giovanni. The two have to pay a ticket to the ghost to be free to own the castle. Guess what?
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Escape From Iran: The Canadian Caper
🇮🇷 Iran The 1970s The 1980sA dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution.
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The Party
The 1980sA thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
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The Blues Brothers
Illinois The 1980sThey're on a mission from God. — Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back togther to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
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The Shining
Colorado The 1980sHe came as the caretaker, but this hotel had its own guardians - who'd been there a long time — Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
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Airplane!
California Illinois The 1980sWhat's slower than a speeding bullet, and able to hit two tall buildings at a single bound? — The persons and events in this film are fictitious - fortunately! A masterpiece of off-the-wall comedy, Airplane! features Robert Hays as an ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning; Julie Hagerty as his girlfriend/stewardess/co-pilot; and a cast of all-stars including Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar... and more. Their hilarious high jinks spoof airplane disaster flicks, religious zealots, television commercials, romantic love... the list whirls by in rapid succession. And the story races from one moment of zany fun to the next.
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Friday the 13th
New Jersey The 1970s The 1950s The 1980sThey were warned...They are doomed...And on Friday the 13th, nothing will save them. — Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
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The Gods Must Be Crazy
🇧🇼 Botswana 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1980sThe critics are raving... the natives are restless... and the laughter is non-stop! — A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.
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Eaten Alive!
New York The 1980sTrapped in a jungle of crazy flesh eaters! The terrifying nightmare that became reality! — A woman's search for her missing sister leads her to the jungles of New Guinea, where she and an expatriate guide encounter a cult leader and flesh-hungry natives.
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The Final Countdown
Hawaii The 1980s The 1940sTrapped outside the boundaries of time and space... 102 aircraft... 6,000 men... all missing. — During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Caddyshack
Illinois Nebraska The 1980sThe snobs against the slobs! — At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist Judge Smails, and then the caddy golf tournament which Smails sponsors.
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Mother's Day
New Jersey The 1970s The 1980sIf you go down to the woods today. — Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her sons commit acts of rape and murder. Now these women are prisoners and lowered to pawns in the game of checkers between two dim wits and their Maniac Mommy and the question becomes, can any of them escape, alive?
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Somewhere in Time
Michigan Illinois The 1970s The 1980s The 1910sBeyond fantasy. Beyond obsession. Beyond time itself... he will find her. — Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.
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Nine to Five
California The 1980sGetting even is a full-time job — Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage in the grossest manner of the women who work with him. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house they assume control of his department and productivity leaps, but just how long can they keep Hart tied up?
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Bronco Billy
Idaho Montana The 1980sThe most outrageous of 'em all. — An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.
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Raise the Titanic
New York The 1910s The 1980sThey've found the Titanic. There's just one thing left to do... — To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.
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Christmas Evil
New Jersey The 1980s The 1940sBetter Watch Out... Better Not Cry... Or You May DIE! — A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.
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The Formula
California 🇩🇪 Germany The 1980s The 1940sBig Oil. Big Money. Big Mystery. Everyone’s out to make a killing. — A detective uncovers a formula that was devised by the Nazis in WW II to make gasoline from synthetic products, thereby eliminating the necessity for oil--and oil companies. A major oil company finds out about it and tries to destroy the formula and anyone who knows about it.
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Prom Night
The 1970s The 1980sIf you're not back by midnight... you won't be coming home! — This slasher movie follows a relentless killer who is out to avenge the death of a young girl who died after being bullied and teased by four of her classmates. Now high-school students, the guilt-ridden kids have kept their involvement a secret, but when they start being murdered, one by one, it's clear that someone knows the truth. Also coping with the past are members of the dead girl's family, most notably her prom-queen sister, Kim Hammond (Jamie Lee Curtis).
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Virus
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan 🇩🇪 Germany Tokyo Prefecture 🇦🇶 Antarctica The 1980sAutumn 1982: Mankind has been wiped out except 863 persons on Antarctica. Who will inherit the earth? — Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
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How to Beat the High Cost of Living
Oregon The 1980sA hilarious new comedy for everyone who ever wanted to give the oil companies gas pains, turn off the power companies lights and make the banks stand in line for a change. — Oregon, 1980: Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford the high cost of living. Jane cannot afford a babysitter or get married and if she wants privacy with her boyfriend, she has to sleep in the car. Even worse, her war veteran father comes to live with her to turn her life upside down. Louise lives a happy life with her veterinarian husband, Albert. She runs an antique shop on the side, but since it doesn't take in any profit, the IRS considers it a hobby. She needs to come up with the money to keep it going, or she will be trouble with the IRS. Elaine's husband has left her for another woman and without any money. She is in a constant struggle with banks, power companies, and gas stations. She needs money to get by and also catches the eye of police officer Jack. The local mall is having a contest that features a giant money ball that states it will help fight the inflation.
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Romance on Lushan Mountain
Jiangxi Province The 1980sThe film tells the story about the daughter of a Nationalist general who revisits the famous summer resort Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi province in 1980 and falls in love with the son of a senior general of the Chinese Communist Party.
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O Sport, You Are Peace!
🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sA 1981 documentary film directed by Yuri Ozerov. It showed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow. The director was awarded the State Prize of the USSR in 1982. The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 54th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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A Step Away
🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sThe only and official movie of the VIII Puerto Rico 1979 PanAmerican Games — Focuses on the performance of various elite athletes during the PanAmerican Games held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1979. Athletes showcased in the documentary include USA team swimmer of Puerto Rican origin Jesse Vassallo; legendary Cuban track and field athlete Alberto Juantorena; Mexican diver Carlos Girón; American diver Greg Louganis; and the Puerto Rico national basketball team, among others. At the end of the film, the athletes expressed their hopes of being "a step away" from the 1980 Olympics Games; however, these hopes were shattered by the political crisis and the eventual USA-led boycott to the Olympic Games held in Moscow in 1980.
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Illinois The 1980sCapt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter recruit for the Earth Defense Directorate, where his closest colleagues are Dr. Huer (Tim O'Connor), squadron leader Col. Wilma Deering (former model Erin Gray), the wisecracking robot Twiki (voiced by cartoon legend Mel Blanc), and a portable computer-brain named Dr. Theopolis.
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Mad Max
🇦🇺 Australia The 1980sThe Maximum Force Of The Future. — In a dystopian world, a vengeful Australian policeman named Max sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
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Rock 'n' Roll High School
The 1980sWill your school be NEXT? — A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
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The Medic
The 1980sThe film is set in a modern war, probably between a European country and a country in the Far East. Behind the battle lines, in a medical unit, a surgeon falls in love with an idealistic nurse after an initially difficult meeting.
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Siberiade
🇷🇺 Russia The 1960s The 1940s The 1930s The 1910s The 1900s The 1920s The 1950s The 1970s The 1980sThe history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. — The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil. The oil is found but the destruction of the old cemetry and everything the people of the village cared for followed to get the 'black treasure' of Siberia.
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Goldengirl
🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sThese five men have developed, trained and programmed this stunning blonde to accomplish feats no human being has ever done before. They all stand to make a fortune, if they can just keep her together. — A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised & Conditioned since she was a child to run in the Olympics.
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The Third Generation
🇩🇪 Germany The 1980sA mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms, after crippling of the violent Red Army Faction. International capitalist PJ Lurz's secretary is a gang member, while her police commissioner father-in-law/lover hired Lurz' corporate security force.
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One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story
Michigan The 1970s The 1980sOne in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story was a 1978 made for TV movie telling the story of Ron LeFlore, a troubled Detroit youth who rose from Michigan prisons to star in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers. The movie was based on LeFlore's autobiography, Breakout: From Prison to the Big Leagues. It follows LeFlore from his heroin addiction, to his time in Michigan's Jackson State Penitentiary, and tells of his discovery in prison by Billy Martin, who was then the manager of the Detroit Tigers. The role of Ron LeFlore was played by LeVar Burton. Larry B. Scott portrayed Ron LeFlore's younger brother. Former Detroit manager Billy Martin played himself, and former Tiger players Norm Cash, Bill Freehan, Al Kaline, and Jim Northrup also appeared as themselves. The movie first aired on CBS Television on September 26, 1978.
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The War in Space
The 1980sThe Space War to Decide the Fate of All Mankind! — Earth is attacked by alien spacecraft from Venus. But a Japanese scientist has constructed a space craft, the Gohten, with which he may save humanity.
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Futureworld
The 1980sWhere the only way to survive is to kill yourself — Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited to review the park. Just prior to arriving at the park, however, Browning is given a clue by a dying man that something is amiss.
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Tunnel Vision
The 1980sLaugh or get off the pot. — A committee investigating TV's first uncensored network examines a typical day's programming, which includes shows, commercials, news programs, you name it. What they discover will surely crack you up! This outrageous and irreverent spoof of television launched the careers of some of the greatest comedians of all time.
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Westworld
The 1980sWhere robot men and women are programmed to serve you for ...Romance ...Violence ...Anything. — In a futuristic resort, wealthy patrons can visit recreations of different time periods and experience their wildest fantasies with life-like robots. But when Richard Benjamin opts for the wild west, he gets more than he bargained for when a gunslinger robot goes berserk.
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A Clockwork Orange
England The 1980sBeing the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven. — In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
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The Shoes of the Fisherman
🇻🇦 Holy See The 1980sIn a last desperate effort to prevent World War III, a secret meeting is arranged. One man is called upon to succeed where all the world leaders have failed. That man was once a prisoner in a Russian labor camp. He is now the Pope. — All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at stake. The new pontiff may be the only person who can bring peace to a world on the brink of nuclear nightmare.
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Way... Way Out
The Moon The 1980sBy Gemini, here's the wildest crew on Earth, Saturn, Mars, Moon etc. — A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.
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Gorath
Tokyo Prefecture 🇦🇶 Antarctica The 1970s The 1980sThe crisis of the colliding mystery star is imminent! Can the Earth break free of its orbit? — In 1980, a giant planetoid named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Even though it is smaller than Earth, its mass is huge enough to crush the Earth and destroy it. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after all the orbiting ships are drawn into the planetoid. A later mission is sent to observe and the crew barely leaves before suffering the same fate. However Astronaut Tatsuo Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. The Earth's scientists then come up with a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move Earth out of Gorath's path before it is too late.
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The Phantom Planet
The 1980sIt Begins Where Others End! On the Moon! — After an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere.
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First Spaceship on Venus
New York 🇷🇺 Russia 🇲🇳 Mongolia The 1980sYou are there... on man's most incredible journey! — A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated from Venus. A rocket expedition to Venus is launched to discover the origin of the spool and the race that created it.
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Queen of Outer Space
The 1980sMankind's first fantastic flight to Venus - the female planet! — A mission to Venus discovers the planet inhabited only by women led by their evil Queen Yllana. Yllana had all the men of Venus killed, now that's she met Earth men, she wants them dead, too.
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