1980s
Blue Thunder (1983) IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB
Blue Thunder
director: John Badham actor: Roy Scheider / Warren Oates
other title: Tuono Blu / Operação Thor
Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences during the Vietnam War, and Lymangood, his resourceful new partner, are tasked with testing an advanced and heavily armed experimental chopper known as Blue Thunder.
Painted Faces (1988) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
七小福
director: Alex Law Kai-Yui actor: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo / Lam Ching-Ying
other title: Leben hinter Masken
This is a story about the Peking Opera School that Jackie Chan, Samo Hung and Yuen Biao attended as young men. The story is about their teacher Master Yu and his school.
Fright Night (1985) TMDB IMDb
Fright Night
director: Tom Holland actor: Chris Sarandon / William Ragsdale
other title: Ammazzavampiri / Gysertimen
Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; but no one seems willing to believe him.
Clash of the Titans (1981) TMDB Douban IMDb
Clash of the Titans
director: Desmond Davis actor: Harry Hamlin / Judi Bowker
other title: Scontro di titani / Titanernes Kamp
To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa's head and battling the feared Kraken.
Maximum Overdrive (1986) TMDB IMDb
Maximum Overdrive
director: Stephen King actor: Emilio Estevez / Pat Hingle
other title: Brivido / Rhea M - Es begann ohne Warnung
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
Polyester (1981) TMDB IMDb
Polyester
director: John Waters actor: Divine / Tab Hunter
Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart -- until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow.
Hopscotch (1980) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hopscotch
director: Ronald Neame actor: Walter Matthau / Glenda Jackson
other title: Due sotto il divano / Den vilde flugt
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.
Oct. 3, 2025 watched
A light dramedy of an aging irrrascible man having some fun at the expense of those passing him over.

Watched in the #Comedon #WatchParty on Mastodon, I was the guest host
1980s Comedon Comedy GeorgeBaker GlendaJackson