1980s Film
"1980s film" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Wall Street
Synopsis:
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
Starring:
Sean Young,
Michael Douglas,
James Spader
#2
Twins
Synopsis:
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a south seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate low life and is about to be killed by loan sharks.
Starring:
Danny DeVito,
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
David Caruso
#3
The Living Daylights
Synopsis:
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.
Starring:
John Rhys-Davies,
Timothy Dalton,
Jeroen Krabbé
#4
Sixteen Candles
Synopsis:
A teenage girl deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school's heartthrob.
Starring:
Paul Dooley,
Anthony Michael Hall,
Haviland Morris
#5
RoboCop
Synopsis:
In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's …
Starring:
Peter Weller,
Miguel Ferrer,
Kurtwood Smith
Plot:
robot,
police,
cyborg,
graphic violence,
cyberpunk,
robocop,
future,
violence,
weapon,
cyborg versus robot
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#6
Red Heat
Synopsis:
A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.
Starring:
Laurence Fishburne,
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Ed O'Ross
#7
Never Say Never Again
Synopsis:
James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond has an ally in Largo's girlfriend, the willowy Domino, who falls for Bond and seeks revenge.
Starring:
Kim Basinger,
Sean Connery,
Rowan Atkinson
#8
Licence to Kill
Synopsis:
After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside.
Starring:
Anthony Starke,
Robert Davi,
Benicio del Toro
#9
Kickboxer
Synopsis:
If your enemy refuses to be humbled... Destroy him. Accompanied by his brother Kurt (Van Damme), American kickboxing champion Eric Sloane (Dennis Alexio), arrives in Thailand to defeat the Eastern warriors at their own sport. His opponent: ruthless fighter and Thai champion, Tong Po. Tong not only defeats Eric, he paralyzes him for life. Crazed with anger, Kurt vows revenge.
Starring:
Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Dennis Alexio,
Dennis Chan Kwok-San
#10
For Your Eyes Only
Synopsis:
A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.
Starring:
Carole Bouquet,
Roger Moore,
Chaim Topol
#11
Bloodsport
Synopsis:
U.S. soldier Frank Dux has come to Hong Kong to be accepted into the Kumite, a highly secret and extremely violent martial arts competition. While trying to gain access into the underground world of clandestine fighters, he also has to avoid military officers who consider him to be AWOL. After enduring a difficult training and beginning a romance with journalist Janice Kent, Frank is given the op…
Starring:
Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Forest Whitaker,
Philip Chan Yan-Kin
#12
An American Werewolf in London
Synopsis:
Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
Starring:
Jenny Agutter,
David Schofield,
Griffin Dunne
#13
Turner & Hooch
Synopsis:
Scott Turner has 3 days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some 'real' cases—not just misdemeanors. When Amos Reed is murdered, Scott sets himself on the case, but the closest thing to a witness to the murder is Reed's dog, Hooch, which Scott has to take care of—to avoid Hooch being 'put to sleep'.
Starring:
Tom Hanks,
Mare Winningham,
Reginald VelJohnson
#14
Rocky IV
Synopsis:
After iron man Drago, a highly intimidating 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet athlete, kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition match, Rocky comes to the heart of Russia for 15 pile-driving boxing rounds of revenge.
Starring:
Sylvester Stallone,
Dolph Lundgren,
Brigitte Nielsen
#15
Rambo III
Synopsis:
Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.
Starring:
Sylvester Stallone,
Alon Aboutboul,
Richard Crenna
#16
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Synopsis:
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
Starring:
Sylvester Stallone,
Richard Crenna,
Martin Kove
Plot:
1980s,
male nudity,
muscleman,
sequel,
navajo indian,
arizona,
reference to arizona,
arizona desert,
russophobia,
propaganda
...
#17
Predator
Synopsis:
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Starring:
R. G. Armstrong,
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Bill Duke
Plot:
jungle,
survival,
commando,
predator,
commando mission,
shaving,
self destruction,
booby trap,
severed arm,
latin america
...
#18
Mad Max 2
Synopsis:
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
Starring:
Mel Gibson,
Vernon Wells,
Bruce Spence
Plot:
post apocalypse,
gasoline,
car truck chase,
car chase,
desert,
australian,
flamethrower,
feral child,
surprise ending,
fuel
...
#19
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
Synopsis:
Presumed dead after a shoot-out with the Haddonfield police, Michael Myers is secretly nursed back to health -- and returns a year later to kill again and once more targets his young niece, Jamie. Jamie is now recovering in the local children's hospital after attacking her stepmother and losing her voice. Her mental link with her evil uncle may be the key to uprooting her family tree.
Starring:
Danielle Harris,
Donald Pleasence,
Ellie Cornell
#20
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Synopsis:
The apparently comatose Michael Myers is being transferred from one hospital to another, but he wakes up when the ambulance crew talk about his surviving niece, Jamie. After slaughtering his attendants, Myers sets out to find his one living relative who is, fortunately, being cared for by a kind and resourceful foster sister named Rachel. Meanwhile, the ever-cautious Dr. Loomis remains on the kil…
Starring:
Danielle Harris,
Donald Pleasence,
Ellie Cornell
Plot:
teenager,
fourth part,
gore,
slasher,
sequel,
serial killer,
halloween,
small town,
escaped mental patient,
psychopathic killer
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