Showing posts with label 1980's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1980's. Show all posts
February 21, 2015
February 20, 2015
No Mercy (1986) Trailer
No Mercy
When passion and hatred know no limits, expect no mercy.
No Mercy is a 1986 film starring Richard Gere and Kim Basinger about a cop who accepts an offer to kill a Cajun gangster.
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Eddie Jilette is a Chicago cop on the vengeance trail as he follows his partner's killers to New Orleans to settle his own personal score. Eddie and a Cajun sexpot, Michele, flee through the Louisiana bayous from a murderous crime lord who wants his baby doll back and to destroy the Chicago detective who would avenge his partner's murder. The sexy swamp girl finds herself falling for Eddie, although they clash repeatedly while handcuffed together as they attempt to elude the brutal underworld figure and his henchmen. *Wikipedia*
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1980's,
1986,
Action,
blonde,
Crime,
James Carabatsos,
Jeroen Krabbé,
Kim Basinger,
murder,
neo noir,
No Mercy,
partner,
police shootout,
Richard Gere,
Richard Pearce,
Romance,
Thriller
Hard Country (1981) Scene
Hard Country
Sometimes a woman has to leave the man she loves... to find herself.
Hard Country is a 1981 American drama film directed by David Greene and starring Jan-Michael Vincent, Kim Basinger, and Michael Parks.
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1980's,
1981,
attempted rape,
bigger dreams,
David Greene,
drinking contest,
Hard Country,
Jan-Michael Vincent,
Kim Basinger,
Michael Kane,
Michael Martin Murphey,
Michael Parks,
prank,
Texas
February 17, 2015
Miracle Mile (1988) Trailer
Miracle Mile
You just found out that you have 24 hours to live. What are YOU going to do?
Miracle Mile is a 1988 American apocalyptic thriller cult film written and directed by Steve De Jarnatt, and starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham that takes place mostly in real time.
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1980's,
1988,
Action,
Anthony Edwards,
chaos,
Drama,
helicopter,
John Agar,
la brea tar pit,
Mare Winningham,
Miracle Mile,
nuclear war,
one night,
Romance,
Sci-Fi,
Steve De Jarnatt,
Thriller
The Secret of My Succe$s (1987) Trailer
The Secret of My Succe$s
There's no such thing as an overnight success. Brantley Foster took two weeks.
The Secret of My Success (sometimes stylized as The Secret of My Succe$s) is a 1987 American comedy film produced and directed by Herbert Ross, and starring Michael J. Fox and Helen Slater.
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Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.
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1980's,
1987,
Comedy,
corporation,
dream girl,
Helen Slater,
Herbert Ross,
Jack Epps Jr.,
Jim Cash,
kansas,
Michael J. Fox,
police shootout,
Richard Jordan,
street shootout,
The Secret of My Succe$s
February 15, 2015
The Secret of Nikola Tesla (1980)
Tajna Nikole Tesle
The Secret of Nikola Tesla (Serbo-Croatian: 'Tajna Nikole Tesle'), is a 1980 Yugoslav biographical film which details events in the life of the discoverer Nikola Tesla (portrayed by Serbian actor Petar Božović).
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Tesla was a genius who lived what would become a tragic life for all of his amazing inventions that we still use every day.Without Tesla our recent history would be totally different.
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1980,
1980's,
Biography,
Drama,
Ivo Bresan,
John English,
Krsto Papic,
Oja Kodar,
Orson Welles,
Petar Bozovic,
science,
scientist,
The Secret of Nikola Tesla,
thomas alva edison,
visionary,
yugoslav
February 14, 2015
Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Trailer
Dangerous Liaisons
Lust. Seduction. Revenge. The Game As You've Never Seen It Played Before.
Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 historical drama film based upon Christopher Hampton's play Les liaisons dangereuses, which in turn was a theatrical adaptation of the 18th-century French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
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1980's,
1988,
aristocrat,
betrayal,
Choderlos de Laclos,
Christopher Hampton,
Dangerous Liaisons,
Drama,
france,
Glenn Close,
John Malkovich,
Love,
Michelle Pfeiffer,
passion,
Romance,
Stephen Frears
February 12, 2015
The Last of England (1988) Clip
The Last of England
The Last of England is a (1987) British film directed by Derek Jarman.
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It is a poetic, rather than realistic, depiction of what Jarman felt was the loss of traditional English culture in the 1980s.
February 11, 2015
To Our Loves (1983) Trailer
À nos amours.
À nos amours (French pronunciation: [a noz‿amuʁ], For Our Loves) is a 1983 French drama film directed by Maurice Pialat, written by Arlette Langmann and Pialat.
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The film is a character study focusing on Suzanne, a promiscuous sixteen-year-old Parisian, played by Sandrine Bonnaire. Despite her age, Suzanne engages in a number of affairs in reaction to her miserable situation at home.
*Wikipedia*
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16 year old,
1980's,
1983,
Arlette Langmann,
Christophe Odent,
Drama,
Flirting,
Maurice Pialat,
promiscuity,
promiscuous woman,
Romance,
sailor,
Sandrine Bonnaire,
To Our Loves
February 10, 2015
The Formula (1980) Trailer
The Formula
From the best-selling mystery thriller that rips the truth from behind today's headlines
The Formula is a mystery film directed by John G. Avildsen released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1980.
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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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1980,
1980's,
Crime,
gasoline,
George C. Scott,
John G. Avildsen,
Marlon Brando,
Marthe Keller,
oil,
oil company,
Steve Shagan,
The Formula,
Thriller,
west berlin west germany,
writing in blood
Action Jackson (1988) Trailer
Action Jackson
It's Time For "Action"
Action Jackson is a 1988 American action film directed by Craig R. Baxley and starring Carl Weathers, Vanity, Craig T. Nelson and Sharon Stone.
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Like a blast from a .44 Magnum, Carl Weathers makes "Action Jackson" a hero who delivers the goods in Charisma and excitement. He plays Detroit Police Sgt. Jericho Jackson, pitted against the brutal thugs of ruthless auto tycoon Peter Dellaplane, who is out to murder his way to political power.
February 09, 2015
Talk Radio (1988) Trailer
Talk Radio
The last neighborhood in America.
Talk Radio is a 1988 American drama film, starring Eric Bogosian, Ellen Greene, and Leslie Hope.
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February 08, 2015
Dreamchild (1985) Trailer
Dreamchild
Dreamchild is a 1985 British drama film written by Dennis Potter, directed by Gavin Millar and produced by Rick McCallum and Kenith Trodd.
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An elderly Alice (Coral Browne) travels to New York to be a special guest in the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Dodgson's birth. Flustered by press and public attention, she begins to call up hidden memories from that period and reflect on her childhood and her friendship with Dodgson (Ian Holm). She has trouble reconciling these memories, and the complex feelings she has toward them, within the bittersweet scope of her memory of her life through time; a life that has lead her to her present state of reflection in her autumnal years. Phantoms of ambivalence and contradiction and nostalgia begin to spill over into her reality and into the reality of the film, as manifestations of characters from Carroll's text (brought to boldly realized life by Jim Henson and his Creature Shop) are conjured up, as the film sifts through her memories and staged scenes from the books.
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1980's,
1985,
Alice in Wonderland,
Biography,
centenary,
Comedy,
Coral Browne,
Dennis Potter,
Drama,
Dreamchild,
Fantasy,
Gavin Millar,
Ian Holm,
Love,
old woman,
Peter Gallagher,
Romance,
tween girl
Gregory's Girl (1981) Trailer
Gregory's Girl
What Gregory Doesn't Know About Women Fills A Wonderful New Comedy
Gregory's Girl is a 1981 Scottish coming-of-age romantic comedy film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn and Clare Grogan.
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February 07, 2015
Powwow Highway (1989) Trailer
Powwow Highway
Powwow Highway is a 1989 comedy-drama road movie based on the novel of the same name by David Seals.
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The road movie gets a smart update with this seriocomic tale of two Cheyenne men traveling from their reservation in Montana to New Mexico. For one of them, Buddy Red Bow (A Martinez), a quick-tempered activist, the journey is a practical one; his sister has been arrested and he is the only family member who can help her out. Buddy has no transportation, so he's forced to ride with Philbert Bono (Gary Farmer), a phlegmatic hulk of a man who is using his 1964 Buick as a vehicle for a spiritual journey of his own. Philbert's easygoing ways and insistence on frequent stops to meditate prove irritating at first to Buddy, but the men reach an accommodation as the trip wears on. Buddy comes to see that blaming the white man and what he sees as system rigged against Native Americans is distracting him from his true mission: to better understand himself and his place in the world.
February 05, 2015
Drugstore Cowboy (1989) Trailer
Drugstore Cowboy
Drugstore Cowboy is a 1989 American crime drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Van Sant and Daniel Yost, based on an autobiographical novel by James Fogle.
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The story follows Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon) and his crew of drug addicts as they travel across the U.S. Pacific Northwest in 1971, supporting their habit by robbing pharmacies and hospitals. After a tragedy strikes the group, Bob decides to try to "go straight", but finds that there is more to extricating himself from the drug user's lifestyle than just giving up drugs.
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February 02, 2015
The Quiet Earth (1985) Trailer
The Quiet Earth
Zac Hobson was the last man on Earth
The Quiet Earth is a 1985 New Zealand science fiction post-apocalyptic film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge and Pete Smith as three survivors of a cataclysmic disaster.
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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.
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1980's,
1985,
Alison Routledge,
apocalypse,
Bill Baer,
Bruno Lawrence,
Craig Harrison,
Drama,
experiment,
Geoff Murphy,
hair dryer,
laboratory,
maori,
Mystery,
Pete Smith,
Sci-Fi,
The Quiet Earth
Fire with Fire (1986) Trailer
Fire with Fire
Based on a true story
Fire with Fire is a 1986 American romantic drama film about a young woman from a Catholic boarding school who runs away with an escapee from a nearby prison camp.
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A tough, street smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby covent. When a forbidden love blossoms between them , they must fight the prison authorities, parents, and the law.
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1980's,
1986,
Bill Phillips,
catholic,
catholic school,
Craig Sheffer,
Drama,
Duncan Gibbins,
escape,
Fire with Fire,
Jon Polito,
prison camp,
Romance,
student,
Virginia Madsen,
Warren Skaaren
Date with an Angel (1987) Trailer
Date with an Angel
Jim is about to marry a princess... but he's in love with an angel.
Date with an Angel is a 1987 American fantasy comedy film, starring Emmanuelle Béart, Phoebe Cates and Michael E. Knight.
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Jim is soon to be married to Patty, but when he wakes up after a bachelor party thrown by his friends, he finds an injured angel in his pool. When Patty sees her, she thinks he's seeing someone else and gets upset and tells her father. Now he has to figure out how to; cure the angel, tell Patty what happened, keep his friends from taking the angel to the papers, and keep Patty's father from killing him. It's no wonder he has a headache.Written by Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>
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1980's,
1987,
angel,
bachelor party,
cartoon on tv,
Comedy,
Date with an Angel,
Emmanuelle Béart,
Fantasy,
mental disorder,
Michael E. Knight,
Phoebe Cates,
Romance,
supernatural,
Tom McLoughlin
February 01, 2015
The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981) Trailer
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Lily Tomlin has a little problem...
The Incredible Shrinking Woman is a 1981 science fiction/comedy film directed by Joel Schumacher (in his directing debut), written by Jane Wagner and starring Lily Tomlin,Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, John Glover and Elizabeth Wilson.
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After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.
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1980's,
1981,
betsy wetsy doll,
changing size,
Charles Grodin,
Comedy,
Fantasy,
Jane Wagner,
Joel Schumacher,
latin music,
Lily Tomlin,
Ned Beatty,
Richard Matheson,
Sci-Fi,
The Incredible Shrinking Woman,
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