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An Eye for an Eye (1981) IMDb WikiData TMDB
An Eye for an Eye
director: Steve Carver actor: Chuck Norris / Christopher Lee …
other title: Triade chiama canale 6 / Olho por Olho …
Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.
April 5, 2026 watched
As an action fan, I've seen some real dreck. But this was actually a pretty well made thriller.

Sure it has its fair share of tropes, the fights aren't the most impressive I've seen, and I saw the twist coming a mile off, but it was coherent and well-paced and kept me engaged. After having just seen Norris in Slaughter in San Francisco and Lee in Starship Invasions, An Eye for An Eye was a relief!

(NB brief but delightful hamming from Stuart Pankin.)

Missed watching it in #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon, caught up with it later.
Mako SteveCarver ChristopherLee MattClark ProfessorToruTanaka
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The Natural (1984) IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
The Natural
director: Barry Levinson actor: Robert Redford / Robert Duvall …
other title: Il migliore / Den bedste …
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.
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Silent Rage (1982) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Silent Rage
director: Michael Miller actor: Chuck Norris / Ron Silver …
other title: Terrore in città / Raiva Silenciosa …
A mentally ill man in a small Texas town goes on a killing rampage and is fatally wounded by police. When doctors use an experimental serum to bring him back to life, the killer develops superhuman strength and the town sheriff must pursue him.
March 29, 2026 watched
A sub-Carpenteresque scifi-horror, not great but Chuck does manage to emote and is fully manscaped. Not enough martial arts.

Watched in #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon.
USA SciFi RonSilver Action Horror
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The Head On The Door Douban Discogs NeoDB
The Cure genre: Electronic / Rock
release date Aug. 13, 1985 publisher: The Town House / Angel Studios …
The Head on the Door is the sixth studio album by English rock band The Cure, released in August 1985 on record label Polydor.
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Lonesome Dove (1989) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Lonesome Dove
actor: Robert Duvall / Tommy Lee Jones …
other title: Weg in die Wildnis / Paloma solitaria …
A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
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A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB
倩女幽魂
8.0 (22 ratings) director: Tony Ching Siu-Tung actor: Leslie Cheung / Joey Wong Cho-Yin …
other title: Uma História Chinesa de Fantasmas / Una historia china de fantasmas …
A naïve young tax collector for the imperial government winds up spending the night in a haunted temple. There he falls in love with a beautiful woman who, unfortunately, is dead. With the aid of a powerful Daoist Swordsman, he must defeat undead hordes, overcome a sinister Tree Demoness, and descend to the pits of hell, to fight for the spirit he loves.
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Eastern Condors (1987) NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
東方秃鷹
director: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo actor: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo / Yuen Biao …
other title: Operation Eastern Condors / Comando infernal …
A motley group of Chinese prisoners held in the US is sent on a covert mission with the promise of a pardon: to go deep into Vietnam and destroy a secret depot of missiles that the US left behind during the pull-out.
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Prince of Darkness (1987) NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
Prince of Darkness
director: John Carpenter actor: Donald Pleasence / Lisa Blount …
other title: Il signore del male / I en kælder sort som kul …
A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open it, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all of humanity.
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Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Hard Ticket to Hawaii
director: Andy Sidaris actor: Ronn Moss / Dona Speir …
other title: Agguato alle Hawaii / Hawaii Raiders …
A Molokai-based civilian pilot and an undercover DEA agent intercept a delivery of diamonds intended for druglord Seth Romero. Seth, his henchmen, and other island undesirables launch a full-scale assault on the duo. If they're going to survive, they'll need the help of agent Rowdy Abilene and his partner/kickboxing expert Jade.
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Looker (1981) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Looker
director: Michael Crichton actor: Albert Finney / James Coburn …
other title: Troppo belle per vivere / Kein Mord von der Stange …
Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.
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The Adventures of Hercules (1985) IMDb WikiData
The Adventures of Hercules
director: Luigi Cozzi actor: Lou Ferrigno / Milly Carlucci …
other title: Le avventure dell'incredibile Ercole / Die neuen Abenteuer des Herkules …
Hercules searches for the Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus, which have been stolen by renegade gods.
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Dreamscape (1984) IMDb NeoDB WikiData TMDB
Dreamscape
director: Joseph Ruben actor: Dennis Quaid / Max von Sydow …
other title: Dreamscape: fuga nell'incubo / A Morte nos Sonhos …
In order to diagnose the psychic traumas suffered by his patients, Dr. Paul Novotny gets young Alex Gardner to enter their dreams.
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Winners & Sinners (1983) Douban NeoDB WikiData IMDb
奇謀妙計五福星
director: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo actor: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo / Richard Ng Yiu-Hon …
other title: Winners & Sinners: Five Lucky Stars / Winners and Sinners …
Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. While trying to mind their own business (and run their 5-Star Cleaning Service), they are caught up in a war between rival Triad gangs fighting for control of the counterfeit currency market.
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Righting Wrongs (1986) TMDB IMDb WikiData
執法先鋒
director: Corey Yuen actor: Yuen Biao / Cynthia Rothrock …
other title: Tage des Terrors / Une flic de choc …
Jason Chan, a Hong Kong lawyer, is angry at the way the law protects criminals and decides to take the law into his own hands, dishing out vigilante justice when a key witness and his entire family are murdered. But hotshot cop Cindy Si is soon on Chan's case, and the situation unravels into a fight that only a few will survive.
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Peking Opera Blues (1986) NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
刀馬旦
8.0 (5 ratings) director: Tsui Hark actor: Brigitte Lin / Sally Yeh …
other title: Peking Action Blues / Peking opera blues
In 1913 Beijing, three fierce women—disguised rebel Tsao Wan, jewel-seeking Sheung Hung, and opera heiress Pat Neil—embark on a daring quest filled with intrigue and betrayal, challenging societal norms amidst political turmoil and the vibrant world of Peking Opera.