1980s
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Silent Rage (1982) WikiData IMDb TMDB
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 1985-08-30 publisher: Fiction
The Head on the Door is the sixth studio album by the English rock band the Cure. It was released on 30 August 1985 by Fiction Records.

The album is the first to feature drummer Boris Williams, while bassist Simon Gallup and guitarist Porl Thompson both returned to the band after several years' absence. The Head on the Door is the first Cure album where all the songs were composed solely by singer and guitarist Robert Smith.
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Lonesome Dove (1989) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
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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The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
The Decline of Western Civilization
director: Penelope Spheeris actor: Eugene Tatu / Alice Bag …
The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.
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A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
倩女幽魂
8.1 (24 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)
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)
Prince of Darkness
7.2 (8 ratings) 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) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
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) WikiData IMDb 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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Dreamscape (1984) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
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)
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) WikiData IMDb TMDB
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)
刀馬旦
8.1 (7 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.
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Lady Reporter (1989) IMDb TMDB NeoDB
師姐大晒
director: Mang Hoi actor: Cynthia Rothrock / Elizabeth Lee Mei-Fung …
other title: Born to Fight / Une Flic de Choc 2 …
Cindy, an American FBI agent, travels to Hong Kong to investigate a newspaper editor, Ronny Dak, who is suspected of printing counterfeit money using the newspaper’s presses. The American teams up with a rival reporter and her friend Yu, an undercover law enforcer. Cindy’s investigation takes a sharp turn, however, when Yu’s father, the prosecuting lawyer in the counterfeiting case, is kidnapped.
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Hercules (1983) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Hercules
director: Luigi Cozzi actor: Lou Ferrigno / Sybil Danning …
other title: Herkules / Hercule …
Hercules, a semi-divine being, squares off against King Minos, who is attempting to use science to gain power and take over the world. With the help of a benevolent sorceress, Circe, Hercules tries to save his beloved Cassiopeia from being sacrificed by Minos, and struggles against laser-breathing creatures and an evil sorceress.