1980s
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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.
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Big (1988) IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData
Big
director: Penny Marshall actor: Tom Hanks / Elizabeth Perkins …
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
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Secret Admirer (1985) IMDb TMDB WikiData
Secret Admirer
director: David Greenwalt actor: C. Thomas Howell / Lori Loughlin …
other title: L'ammiratore segreto / O Admirador Secreto …
An anonymous love letter left in Michael Ryan's locker on the last day of school wreaks havoc on his life and the lives of everyone who comes in contact with it.
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Big Business (1988) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Big Business
director: Jim Abrahams actor: Bette Midler / Lily Tomlin …
other title: Affari d'oro / Alle disse kvinder …
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.
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Countdown to Looking Glass (1984) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Countdown to Looking Glass
director: Fred Barzyk actor: Scott Glenn / Michael Murphy …
A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons from the perspective of an on-going news broadcast.
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) NeoDB TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
7.8 (12 ratings) director: David Zucker actor: Leslie Nielsen / Priscilla Presley …
other title: Una pallottola spuntata / Høj pistolføring …
When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
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Magic Crystal (1986) NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
魔翡翠
director: Wong Jing actor: Cynthia Rothrock / Andy Lau …
other title: El cristal mágico / The Magic Crystal
Archaeologist Shum finds an antique jade with supernatural power in Greece. The stone is wanted both by KGB's agent Karoff and the Interpol. Shum asks his friend Nike for help. However, Shum is finally caught by KGB but the jade is slipped into the hands of a boy called Pan.
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The Return of the Living Dead (1985) TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
The Return of the Living Dead
7.7 (7 ratings) director: Dan O'Bannon actor: Clu Gulager / James Karen …
other title: Il ritorno dei morti viventi / Ligene er ligeglade …
When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout the town, and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss and a mysterious mortician.
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Xtro (1982) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Xtro
director: Harry Bromley Davenport actor: Philip Sayer / Bernice Stegers …
other title: Xtro - Attacco alla Terra / Estranhas Metamorfoses 1 …
Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide what her feelings are for her two men. Sam is not the same as when he left, and he begins affecting Tony in frightening ways.
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Defence of the Realm (1986) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Defence of the Realm
director: David Drury actor: Gabriel Byrne / Greta Scacchi …
other title: Dossier confidenziale / Em Defesa da Verdade …
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.