1980s
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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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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.
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Trouble in Mind (1985) WikiData TMDB IMDb
Trouble in Mind
director: Alan Rudolph actor: Kris Kristofferson / Keith Carradine …
other title: Stati di alterazione progressiva / Vidas em Conflito …
The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the hypnotic Rain City.
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Die Hard (1988) NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban
Die Hard
8.3 (14 ratings) director: John McTiernan actor: Bruce Willis / Alan Rickman …
other title: Trappola di cristallo / Assalto ao Arranha-Céus …
NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.
Dec. 27, 2025 watched
One of my all time faves! An action movie with just the right sprinkling of vulnerability, character and humour.

1st watched in the cinema, in Leicester Square.
Last rewatched: in #FridayThrillerClub watch party on Mastodon.
USA JohnMcTiernan Action BruceWillis 1980s
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Come and See (1985) NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
Иди и смотри
8.4 (5 ratings) director: Elem Klimov actor: Aleksei Kravchenko / Olga Mironova …
other title: Va' e vedi / Gå og Se …
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
Nov. 19, 2025 watched
Wrenching tale of a boy during the Nazi invasion of the USSR and the horrors he witnesses. Based on tales of survivors brought to the screen by director Elem Klimov after a years-long battle with Soviet censors in his last film, and especially scary now that fascism is on the rise again.

Watched in #EuroKino #WatchParty on Mastodon
War Tragedy USSR 1980s Drama
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Top Secret! (1984) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Top Secret!
7.2 (6 ratings) director: Jim Abrahams / Jerry Zucker … actor: Val Kilmer / Lucy Gutteridge …
other title: Ultra Secreto / Top Secret ! …
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.
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Alligator (1980) IMDb TMDB
Alligator
director: Lewis Teague actor: Robert Forster / Robin Riker …
other title: Alligator: Uhyret under byens gader / Der Horror-Alligator …
A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.
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The Octagon (1980) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Octagon
director: Eric Karson actor: Chuck Norris / Karen Carlson …
other title: Mænd uden nåde / A Fortaleza Secreta …
Scott James, a veteran martial arts expert, is recruited as the protector of the wealthy and beautiful Justine after she becomes the target of a ninja clan. When Scott finds out that his ruthless arch-nemesis, McCarn , is involved with the stealthy and dangerous criminals, he is eager to settle old scores. Soon Scott is facing off against McCarn and the entire ninja horde in an effort to take them all down.
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Yes, Madam! (1985) TMDB IMDb
皇家師姐
director: Corey Yuen Kwai actor: Michelle Yeoh / John Shum Kin-Fun …
other title: Yes, Madam / Ultra Force 2 …
Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport with a hidden microfilm wanted by a triad boss. Two ass-kicking women cops—one Chinese, one British—are on the case.
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Caravaggio (1986) NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Caravaggio
director: Derek Jarman actor: Nigel Terry / Sean Bean …
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.