Timeframe 1980s
"timeframe 1980s" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Airwolf
Synopsis:
As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter.
Starring:
Geraint Wyn Davies,
Anthony Sherwood,
Michele Scarabelli
Plot:
female gunfighter,
vietnam war veteran,
cult favorite,
fictional spy agency,
spy,
mission,
1980s,
cold war,
military,
technology
...
#2
Magnum, P.I.
Synopsis:
A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.
Starring:
Tom Selleck,
John Hillerman,
Roger E. Mosley
#3
Tetris
Synopsis:
In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain.
Starring:
Toby Jones,
Anthony Boyle,
Taron Egerton
Plot:
video game,
cold war,
nintendo,
based on true story,
salesman,
based on real people,
tetris,
reference to tetris,
game,
job
...
#4
The A-Team
Synopsis:
A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit".
Starring:
Mr. T,
Dwight Schultz,
George Peppard
Plot:
crime fighter,
framed,
special forces,
ex soldier,
escaped prisoner,
gmc vandura,
mercenary,
van,
fugitive,
commando
...
#5
Love & Death
Synopsis:
Candy and Pat Montgomery and Betty and Allan Gore — two churchgoing couples — enjoy their small town Texas life… until an extramarital affair leads somebody to pick up an axe.
Starring:
Jesse Plemons,
Elizabeth Olsen,
Patrick Fugit
#6
The Communion Girl
Synopsis:
Spain, late 1980s. Newcomer Sara tries to fit in with the other teens in this tight-knit small town in the province of Tarragona. If only she were more like her extroverted best friend, Rebe. They go out one night at a nightclub, on the way home, they come upon a little girl holding a doll, dressed for her first communion. And that's when the nightmare begins.
Starring:
Carla Campra,
Aina Quiñones,
Marc Soler
#7
Tin & Tina
Synopsis:
After a traumatic miscarriage, Lola and her husband Adolfo adopt Tin and Tina, a lovely albino brother and sister with an ultra-catholic education that makes them interpret Holy Bible verbatim.
Starring:
Jaime Lorente,
Teresa Rabal,
Milena Smit
Plot:
1980s,
year 1981,
timeframe 1980s,
hospital,
ghost
...
#8
Cocaine Bear
Synopsis:
Inspired by a true story, an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.
Starring:
Keri Russell,
Isiah Whitlock Jr.,
O'Shea Jackson Jr.
#9
Wild at Heart
Synopsis:
After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula's mother, Marietta, desperate to keep them apart, hires a hitman to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru, an old buddy who's also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store. When Sailor lands in jail yet again, the young lovers appear further than ever…
Starring:
Nicolas Cage,
Crispin Glover,
Harry Dean Stanton
#10
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Synopsis:
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
Starring:
Bob Hoskins,
Christopher Lloyd,
Charles Fleischer
#11
When Harry Met Sally...
Synopsis:
During their travel from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally debate whether or not sex ruins a friendship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they're still no closer to finding the answer.
Starring:
Meg Ryan,
Billy Crystal,
Carrie Fisher
#12
Weird Science
Synopsis:
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men.
Starring:
Bill Paxton,
Robert Downey Jr.,
Anthony Michael Hall
#13
WarGames
Synopsis:
High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armaged…
Starring:
Matthew Broderick,
Barry Corbin,
John Wood
Plot:
hacker,
cold war,
computer,
modem,
phreaking,
telephone call,
nuclear attack,
game,
norad,
war game
...
#14
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
#15
Videodrome
Synopsis:
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that th…
Starring:
Julie Khaner,
James Woods,
Jack Creley
Plot:
snuff film,
hallucination,
surrealism,
suicide,
satire,
cyberpunk,
cult,
body horror,
canuxploitation,
illegality
...
#16
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
#17
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Synopsis:
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura P…
Starring:
Heather Graham,
Miguel Ferrer,
Ray Wise
#18
Tron
Synopsis:
When brilliant video game maker Flynn hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world...and becomes part of the very game he is designing. In his mission through cyberspace, Flynn matches wits with a maniacal Master Control Program and teams up with Tron, a security measure created to bring balance to the digital environment.
Starring:
Jeff Bridges,
Vince Deadrick Jr.,
David Warner
#19
Trading Places
Synopsis:
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Starring:
Eddie Murphy,
Jamie Lee Curtis,
Dan Aykroyd
#20
Tootsie
Synopsis:
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego - Dorothy Michaels - in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
Starring:
Teri Garr,
Geena Davis,
Jessica Lange