1980s
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Over the Top (1987) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Over the Top
director: Menahem Golan actor: Sylvester Stallone / Robert Loggia …
other title: O Lutador / Over the Top : Le Bras de fer …
Lincoln Hawk a hard-luck big-rig trucker takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship. Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life by capturing the first-place prize money, and the love of the son he abandoned years earlier into the keeping of his rich, ruthless father-in-law.
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Firewalker (1986) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Firewalker
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Chuck Norris / Louis Gossett Jr. …
other title: Il tempio di fuoco / Caminho de Fogo …
A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.
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Descent Into Hell (1986) IMDb WikiData
Descente aux enfers
director: Francis Girod actor: Claude Brasseur / Sophie Marceau …
other title: Discesa all'inferno / Abstieg zur Hölle …
The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future...
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Kamikaze (1986) IMDb WikiData
Kamikaze
director: Didier Grousset actor: Richard Bohringer / Dominique Lavanant …
other title: Kamikaze - TV-Tod live / Kamikaze – TV-Tod live
1986 film by Didier Grousset
Nov. 11, 2025 to watch > A crazy old and bored scientist invents a system which allows him to reach through the airwaves and transform live TV cameras into weapons to kill whoever is being filmed.
1980s France LucBesson RichardBohringer SciFi
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Terminus (1987) WikiData IMDb
Terminus
director: Pierre-William Glenn actor: Johnny Hallyday / Karen Allen …
A lone driver navigates a high-tech truck through dangerous territory in a deadly cross-country racing sport. After the guidance system fails, a new driver must bond with the truck's AI while dodging attacks and uncovering sinister plots.
Nov. 12, 2025 watched
Mad Max influenced-sci-fi that's an incomprehensible mess by the end of which I didn't know or care what happened to the characters.

Only earns that half-star by having Jürgen Prochnow in a red troll wig.
1980s Action ActionSciFi France JohnnyHallyday
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Red Scorpion (1988) IMDb WikiData
Red Scorpion
director: Joseph Zito actor: Dolph Lundgren / M. Emmet Walsh …
other title: Scorpione Rosso / Escorpião Vermelho …
A Soviet commando is sent to eliminate a rebel leader in Africa. Soon he finds himself doubting his mission and his loyalty.
Nov. 10, 2023 watched
Propaganda from apartheid regime to support them, especially in their war in Angola & occupation of Namibia
1980s Action DolphLundgren
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Thief (1981) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Thief
director: Michael Mann actor: James Caan / Tuesday Weld …
other title: Strade violente / Voldens gade …
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score.
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The Heroes (1980) IMDb WikiData
少林英雄
director: Pao Hsueh-Li / Wu Ma actor: Ti Lung / Shih Szu …
other title: Ti Lung - Die tödliche Kobra / 少林英雄 …
Former Shaolin man Marshal Kao takes his former classmates prisoner and, instead of executing them, proposes to his Qing commander that he torture them until they're willing to fight on behalf of the Qings. The 'torture' comes to look increasingly like strenuous kung fu training with Kao putting the prisoners through their paces. The Qing governor and his aides become suspicious of Kao's motives, although the beautiful Princess Shao Lung develops her own ideas about him.
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This Is Spinal Tap (1984) IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData
This Is Spinal Tap
director: Rob Reiner actor: Christopher Guest / Michael McKean …
other title: On the Rocks / Spinal Tap …
"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
director: John Hughes actor: Steve Martin / John Candy …
other title: Un biglietto in due / Røvtur på 1. klasse …
An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.
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¡Three Amigos! (1986) TMDB IMDb WikiData
¡Three Amigos!
director: John Landis actor: Chevy Chase / Steve Martin …
other title: I tre amigos! / De kom, de så, de løb! …
A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.
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Stripes (1981) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Stripes
director: Ivan Reitman actor: Bill Murray / Harold Ramis …
other title: Stripes - Un plotone di svitati / Røven af 4. division …
Hard-luck cabbie John Winger, directionless after being fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, enlists in the U.S. Army with his close pal, Russell Ziskey. After his barely satisfactory performance in basic training, the irreverent Winger emerges as the figurehead for a ragtag band of misfits. However, his hijinks threaten to cause an international scandal when he inadvertently commandeers a military assault vehicle behind enemy lines.
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Vampires on Bikini Beach (1988) TMDB IMDb
Vampires on Bikini Beach
director: Mark Headley actor: Jennifer Badham / Todd Kaufman …
Two teenagers find a book called "The Book of the Dead," and soon they discover that a vampire cult, which needs the book to raise the dead so they can take over the world, is after them.
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Fright Night Part 2 (1988) NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Fright Night Part 2
director: Tommy Lee Wallace actor: Roddy McDowall / William Ragsdale …
other title: Ammazzavampiri 2 / Gysertimen 2 …
After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandridge was a serial killer posing as a vampire. But when Regine, a mysterious actress and her entourage move into Peter Vincent's apartment block, the nightmare starts again - and this time it's personal!
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Critters 2 (1988) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Critters 2
director: Mick Garris actor: Scott Grimes / Liane Curtis …
other title: Critters - Seres do Espaço 2 / Critters 2 - Sie kehren zurück …
Three bounty hunters from space fly back to the town of Grovers Bend, hoping to save local residents from a new batch of Critter eggs.
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Mad Love (1985) TMDB
L'Amour braque
director: Andrzej Żuławski actor: Sophie Marceau / Tchéky Karyo …
other title: Amour braque - L'amore balordo / Skør kærlighed …
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Marie.