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Dark Age (1987) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Dark Age
director: Arch Nicholson actor: John Jarratt / Nikki Coghill …
other title: Dark Age - Crocodile Hunter / Les Dents de la mort …
In the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant crocodile that has been killing and eating the local populace..
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C.H.U.D. (1984) TMDB IMDb WikiData
C.H.U.D.
director: Douglas Cheek actor: John Heard / Daniel Stern …
other title: C.H.U.D. - Panik in Manhattan / C.H.U.D. - Caníbales Humanoides Ululantes Demoníacos …
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photojournalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
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Time Trackers (1989) WikiData TMDB IMDb
Time Trackers
director: Howard R. Cohen actor: Ned Beatty / Wil Shriner …
When an evil scientist steals his colleague's time machine his colleague's beautiful, brilliant daughter, aided by an L.A. cop and a hapless admirer, pursues him back to twelfth century England where - disguised as a damsel in distress - she enlists the help of a knight errant whose secret past holds the key to her future.
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Basket Case (1982) IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB
Basket Case
director: Frank Henenlotter actor: Kevin Van Hentenryck / Terri Susan Smith …
other title: O Segredo do Cesto / Basket Case – Der unheimliche Zwilling …
A young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed, formerly conjoined twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.
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Time Walker (1982) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Time Walker
director: Tom Kennedy actor: Ben Murphy / Nina Axelrod …
other title: Pasajero del Tiempo / Time walker (Pasajero del tiempo) …
From deep within the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, Professor Douglas McCadden ships the coffin of Ankh-Vanharis to the California Institute of Sciences where X-rays reveal five diamond-like crystals hidden within the coffin. Technician Peter Sharpe steals the crystals but doesn't notice that the powerful X-ray has revived a green fungus. When the coffin is opened at a university press conference, the reporters uncover more than they bargained for. The mummy has disappeared... and the Time Walker is alive again!
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Turkey Shoot (1982) NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
Turkey Shoot
director: Brian Trenchard-Smith actor: Steve Railsback / Olivia Hussey …
other title: Fangejagten / Insel der Verdammten …
In the near future, after an unspecified holocaust, survivors are herded into prison camps. There, they are hunted for sport by the leaders of the camp. Paul, one of the newest prisoners, is determined not to go down as quietly as the others.
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Trading Places (1983) TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
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...
8.2 (9 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
9.1 (12 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) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
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 Douban TMDB WikiData
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 TMDB
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 IMDb
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.