1980s
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Gremlins (1984) NeoDB TMDB KevGa-NeoDB WikiData IMDb Douban
Gremlins
7.7 (10 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 (12 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 TMDB
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....
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The Red Spectacles (1987) WikiData IMDb TMDB
紅い眼鏡
director: Mamoru Oshii actor: Shigeru Chiba / Machiko Washio …
other title: 紅い眼鏡
Summer 1995. With the arrival of the "Age of Cats", the former Kerberos police unit is now disbanded. However one member remains, a stray dog who returns to his old roost after a three-years exile. This wild dog no longer has a master, but now the "Young Lady of Fate" will guide him on his journey.
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Dark Habits (1983) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Entre tinieblas
director: Pedro Almodóvar actor: Cristina Sánchez Pascual / Will More …
other title: L'indiscreto fascino del peccato / Negros Hábitos …
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.
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Ladyhawke (1985) TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Ladyhawke
director: Richard Donner actor: Matthew Broderick / Rutger Hauer …
other title: Ladyhawke og lommetyven / A Mulher Falcão …
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.
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Clue (1985) Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Clue
7.5 (6 ratings) director: Jonathan Lynn actor: Tim Curry / Eileen Brennan …
other title: Signori, il delitto è servito / Clue - O Jogo do Crime …
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.
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The Detached Mission (1986) IMDb WikiData
Одиночное плавание
director: Mikhail Tumanishvili (II) actor: Mikhail Nozhkin / Aleksandr Fatyushin …
other title: Il guerriero venuto dall'est / Im Alleingang …
In the waters of the Pacific Ocean, regular maneuvers of the Soviet and American squadrons are taking place. After months of autonomous navigation, our military frigate heads to its home base. The distress signal received forces sailors to change course. The CIA arranges a provocation: on a secret American base, one of the missile launchers was prepared for a real strike on the enemy’s squadron. Instead of saving people, Soviet sailors will have to intervene in the deadly game started by NATO. At the cost of tremendous effort, the crew of one of the Soviet ships managed to prevent the catastrophe provoked by CIA agents. They enter a real battle...
Nov. 27, 2025 stopped watching
I have sat through some challenging stuff. I have sat through some utter shit, to the bitter end. But I will NOT sit through an hour and a half of one guy reading out every character's lines in the most dull, lifeless voice imaginable.
1980s Action USSR
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Zerograd (1988) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Город Зеро
director: Karen Shakhnazarov actor: Leonid Filatov / Oleg Basilashvili …
other title: Città Zero / Ville Zéro …
Going on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity of everyday life here has become apparent.
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1980s Mystery Satire USSR
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Dune (1984) TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Dune
director: David Lynch actor: Kyle MacLachlan / Francesca Annis …
other title: Dune - Ørkenplaneten / Dune - Duna …
In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.
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The Hidden (1987) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Hidden
director: Jack Sholder actor: Kyle MacLachlan / Michael Nouri …
other title: L'alieno / Dødsruten …
When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behavior and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck is tasked with helping young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher determine the cause.
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Absolute Beginners (1986) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Absolute Beginners
director: Julien Temple actor: Eddie O'Connell / Patsy Kensit …
other title: Principiantes / Absolute Beginners – Junge Helden …
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...
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Pedicab Driver (1989) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
群龍戲鳳
director: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo actor: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo / Nina Li Chi …
other title: 群龍戲鳳
Lo Tung and his friend Malted Candy, pedicab drivers working the streets of Macao, have both fallen in love. The problem is that both their objects of affection - one a baker, the other a prostitute - are working under cruel and lecherous bosses. Somehow, the pair must find a way to win the ladies' hearts and free them from their unpleasant jobs.
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The Boxer's Omen (1983) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
魔
director: Kuei Chih-Hung actor: Phillip Ko Fai / Elvis Tsui Kam-Kong …
other title: Mo
After his brother was crippled in the ring by a cheating Thai boxer, Chan Hung goes to Thailand to avenge his brother, and finds the key to an omen which may release their family from an ancient curse. He is then caught up in a spiraling web of fate, Buddhist curses, and black magic.