1980s
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Thief (1981) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Thief
director: Michael Mann actor: James Caan / Tuesday Weld …
other title: Strade violente / Voldens gade …
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score.
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The Heroes (1980) IMDb WikiData
少林英雄
director: Pao Hsueh-Li / Wu Ma actor: Ti Lung / Shih Szu …
other title: Ti Lung - Die tödliche Kobra / 少林英雄 …
Former Shaolin man Marshal Kao takes his former classmates prisoner and, instead of executing them, proposes to his Qing commander that he torture them until they're willing to fight on behalf of the Qings. The 'torture' comes to look increasingly like strenuous kung fu training with Kao putting the prisoners through their paces. The Qing governor and his aides become suspicious of Kao's motives, although the beautiful Princess Shao Lung develops her own ideas about him.
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This Is Spinal Tap (1984) IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData
This Is Spinal Tap
director: Rob Reiner actor: Christopher Guest / Michael McKean …
other title: On the Rocks / Spinal Tap …
"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
director: John Hughes actor: Steve Martin / John Candy …
other title: Un biglietto in due / Røvtur på 1. klasse …
An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.
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¡Three Amigos! (1986) TMDB IMDb WikiData
¡Three Amigos!
director: John Landis actor: Chevy Chase / Steve Martin …
other title: I tre amigos! / De kom, de så, de løb! …
A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.
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Stripes (1981) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Stripes
director: Ivan Reitman actor: Bill Murray / Harold Ramis …
other title: Stripes - Un plotone di svitati / Røven af 4. division …
Hard-luck cabbie John Winger, directionless after being fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, enlists in the U.S. Army with his close pal, Russell Ziskey. After his barely satisfactory performance in basic training, the irreverent Winger emerges as the figurehead for a ragtag band of misfits. However, his hijinks threaten to cause an international scandal when he inadvertently commandeers a military assault vehicle behind enemy lines.
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Vampires on Bikini Beach (1988) TMDB IMDb
Vampires on Bikini Beach
director: Mark Headley actor: Jennifer Badham / Todd Kaufman …
Two teenagers find a book called "The Book of the Dead," and soon they discover that a vampire cult, which needs the book to raise the dead so they can take over the world, is after them.
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Fright Night Part 2 (1988) NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Fright Night Part 2
director: Tommy Lee Wallace actor: Roddy McDowall / William Ragsdale …
other title: Ammazzavampiri 2 / Gysertimen 2 …
After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandridge was a serial killer posing as a vampire. But when Regine, a mysterious actress and her entourage move into Peter Vincent's apartment block, the nightmare starts again - and this time it's personal!
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Critters 2 (1988) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Critters 2
director: Mick Garris actor: Scott Grimes / Liane Curtis …
other title: Critters - Seres do Espaço 2 / Critters 2 - Sie kehren zurück …
Three bounty hunters from space fly back to the town of Grovers Bend, hoping to save local residents from a new batch of Critter eggs.
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Mad Love (1985) IMDb TMDB
L'Amour braque
director: Andrzej Żuławski actor: Sophie Marceau / Tchéky Karyo …
other title: Amour braque - L'amore balordo / Skør kærlighed …
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Marie.
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L'unique (1986) TMDB IMDb WikiData
L'Unique
director: Jérôme Diamant-Berger actor: Julia Migenes / Sami Frey …
other title: L'Unique / The Original
A famous rock singer is being overtaken. Vox, the album and live producer of the singer, prepares a real revolution with the help of a scientist. With holography, they would like to create the perfect copy of the star.
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Blue Hell (1986) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bleu comme l'enfer
director: Yves Boisset actor: Lambert Wilson / Myriem Roussel …
other title: Das Blau der Hölle / Bleu comme l'enfer …
Ned, a petty criminal, falls into the trap laid by Frank, a sadistic cop who, after having beaten him, takes him home. But Frank's wife Lily helps Ned escape and they fall in love.
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Critters (1986) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Critters
director: Stephen Herek actor: Dee Wallace / M. Emmet Walsh …
other title: Critters - Gli extraroditori / Critters - Seres do Espaço …
Carnivorous aliens arrive unannounced at a Kansas family farm; two intergalactic bounty hunters soon follow, determined to blow them off the planet.
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Threads (1984) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Threads
director: Mick Jackson actor: Karen Meagher / Reece Dinsdale …
other title: Ipotesi sopravvivenza
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Oct. 29, 2025 to watch Legit free online sources (adjust for your country)
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/threads

Ones that work in MX, maybe elsewhere too:
https://fawesome.tv/movies/10647273/threads
https://tubitv.com/es-mx/movies/531445/threads
https://flixhouse.com/video/2599/threads
https://cinetimes.org/en/t/loading-17835-23-09-1984-1
1980s NuclearWar UK drama
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Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982) TMDB WikiData IMDb
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
director: William Dear actor: Fred Ward / Peter Coyote …
other title: Timerider - una moto contro il muro del tempo / Timerider - Das Abenteuer des Lyle Swann …
Lyle Swann is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a band of outlaws robs Swann of his motorcycle, he's forced to outfox the gangsters and give in to the seductions of a gorgeous local lady. With only his smarts and a map from an Exxon station, Lyle must try to make it out of the Old West alive and find a way back to modern times.
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Children of the Corn (1984) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Children of the Corn
director: Fritz Kiersch actor: Peter Horton / Linda Hamilton …
other title: Grano rosso sangue / Os Filhos da Terra …
A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfields.
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Used Cars (1980) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Used Cars
director: Robert Zemeckis actor: Kurt Russell / Jack Warden …
other title: La fantastica sfida / Brugte biler …
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.