1980s
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Trading Places (1983) TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData NeoDB
Trading Places
6.8 (5 ratings) director: John Landis actor: Dan Aykroyd / Eddie Murphy …
other title: Una poltrona per due / Bossen og bumsen …
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
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When Harry Met Sally... (1989) TMDB Douban IMDb NeoDB WikiData
When Harry Met Sally...
8.0 (7 ratings) director: Rob Reiner actor: Billy Crystal / Meg Ryan …
other title: Harry, ti presento Sally... / Da Harry mødte Sally …
Sex always gets in the way of friendships between men and women. At least, that's what Harry Burns believes. So when Harry meets Sally Albright and a deep friendship blossoms between them, Harry's determined not to let his attraction to Sally destroy it. But when a night of weakness ends in a morning of panic, can the pair avoid succumbing to Harry's fears by remaining friends and admitting they just might be the perfect match for each other?
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A Christmas Story (1983) TMDB
A Christmas Story
director: Bob Clark actor: Melinda Dillon / Darren McGavin …
other title: Una storia di Natale / En Julehistorie …
The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.
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Comfort and Joy (1984) IMDb
Comfort and Joy
director: Bill Forsyth actor: Bill Paterson / Eleanor David …
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
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Ran (1985) Douban WikiData NeoDB IMDb TMDB Bangumi
乱
9.0 (11 ratings) director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Akira Terao …
other title: Ran - Os Senhores da Guerra / 乱
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) TMDB WikiData NeoDB Douban IMDb
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
director: Jeremiah S. Chechik actor: Chevy Chase / Beverly D'Angelo …
other title: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Un Natale esplosivo! / Fars fede juleferie …
It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going, knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.
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The Revenger (1980) TMDB IMDb
金劍殘骨令
director: Pao Hsueh-Li actor: Ti Lung / Dorian Tan Tao-Liang …
other title: 金劍殘骨令
A kung fu warrior, devoted to helping the oppressed, makes many deadly enemies along the way, including the leader of an army, who plots his demise.
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Volunteers (1985) IMDb WikiData
Volunteers
director: Nicholas Meyer actor: Tom Hanks / John Candy …
other title: Un ponte di guai / Broen, der kvajede sig …
After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.
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The Seventh Curse (1986) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
原振俠與衛斯理
director: Lam Nai-Choi actor: Chin Siu-Ho / Maggie Cheung …
other title: La 7eme Malédiction / 原振俠與衛斯理
When Dr. Yuen attempts to rescue a girl about to be sacrificed by the Worm Tribe in the middle of a jungle in Thailand, he is damned with seven deadly "blood curses" and must return there to find a permanent cure.
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Fear City (1984) IMDb WikiData
Fear City
director: Abel Ferrara actor: Tom Berenger / Billy Dee Williams …
other title: Paura su Manhattan / Cidade do Medo …
Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and murdered by a psycho. A hard-nosed police detective and a conflicted ex-boxer-turned-private-eye, hired by the strip club owners, set out to find him before he strikes again.
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Radioactive Dreams (1986) IMDb WikiData
Radioactive Dreams
director: Albert Pyun actor: John Stockwell / Michael Dudikoff …
other title: Sogni radioattivi / Le Dernier Missile …
After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, 19 years old, they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants, freaks and cannibals. They become famous detectives in the struggle for the two keys that could fire the last nuclear weapon.
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Maniac Cop (1988) TMDB
Maniac Cop
director: William Lustig actor: Tom Atkins / Bruce Campbell …
other title: Maniac Cop - Poliziotto sadico
Innocent people are brutally killed on the streets of New York by a uniformed police officer. A young cop, Jack Forrest, finds himself marked as the chief suspect after his wife is murdered.
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Rolling Vengeance (1987) IMDb WikiData
Rolling Vengeance
director: Steven Hilliard Stern actor: Don Michael Paul / Lawrence Dane …
other title: Monster Truck / Les Roues de la Mort …
A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton monster truck to help get revenge against the rednecks who killed his family.
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Laser Mission (1989) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Laser Mission
director: BJ Davis actor: Brandon Lee / Debi A. Monahan …
other title: fire mission / Misión láser …
A CIA agent is sent to get Professor Braun before the KGB can seize him as the Prof's knowledge, together with a recently stolen diamond, could be used to make a laser cannon.
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Gremlins (1984) NeoDB TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Gremlins
8.0 (7 ratings) director: Joe Dante actor: Zach Galligan / Phoebe Cates …
other title: Gremlins - O Pequeno Monstro / Gremlins - Kleine Monster
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
director: Tommy Lee Wallace actor: Tom Atkins / Stacey Nelkin …
other title: Halloween III - Il signore della notte / Maskernes nat 3 …
A terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked, and at the hospital, babbles and clutches the year's most popular Halloween costume, an eerie pumpkin mask. Suddenly, Doctor Daniel Challis finds himself thrust into a terrifying nightmare.
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Samurai Reincarnation (1981) IMDb WikiData
魔界転生
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Sonny Chiba / Kenji Sawada …
other title: 魔界転生 / Makai tenshô: Samurai Reincarnation
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.
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Possession (1981) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb
Possession
7.7 (9 ratings) director: Andrzej Żuławski actor: Isabelle Adjani / Sam Neill …
other title: Possessão / La posesión
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
8.3 (6 ratings) director: Robert Zemeckis actor: Bob Hoskins / Christopher Lloyd …
other title: Chi ha incastrato Roger Rabbit / Hvem Snørede Roger Rabbit? …
'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.
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Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare (1987) IMDb WikiData
Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare
director: John Fasano actor: Jon Mikl Thor / Jillian Peri …
other title: Im Angesicht der Hölle / Al filo del infierno
At an old farmhouse, a family mysteriously dissapears at the hands of evil. Years later, hair metal band The Tritons comes to the farmhouse, whose barn now features a 24-track recording studio. Lead singer John Triton gets the band to perform their first night in the farmhouse after dinner, and weird little beasties suddenly appear, and strange things start to happen. Band members (and their tagalong girlfriends) begin to act strangely and vanish one by one. Soon, only John Triton remains, and he holds a secret. Finally, the evil shows itself and a battle between heaven and hell ensues....