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best of the 80's
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just some great 80’s movies to definitely watch with more to come.
new movies added every day as i go through the list.


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Movie: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior ( 1981 )
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich community escape a horde of bandits.
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Movie: Modern Problems ( 1981 )
Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fiedler, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses not only to win her back, but to gain a little revenge.
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Movie: Swamp Thing ( 1982 )
After a violent incident with a special chemical, a research scientist is turned into a swamp plant monster.
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Movie: The Man from Snowy River ( 1982 )
Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the low lands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet. Kirk Douglas plays two roles as twin brothers who haven't spoken for years, one of whom was Jim's father's best friend and the other of whom is the father of the girl he wants to marry. A 20 year old feud re-erupts, catching Jim and Jessica in the middle of it as Jim is accused of letting a prize stallion loose.
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Movie: Conan the Barbarian ( 1982 )
A young boy, Conan, becomes a slave after his parents are killed and tribe destroyed by a savage warlord and sorcerer, Thulsa Doom. When he grows up he becomes a fearless, invincible fighter. Set free, he plots revenge against Thulsa Doom.
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Movie: Some Kind of Hero ( 1982 )
A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
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Movie: Rocky III ( 1982 )
After winning the ultimate title and being the world champion, Rocky falls into a hole and finds himself picked up by a former enemy.
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Movie: Poltergeist ( 1982 )
A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.
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Movie: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ( 1982 )
With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.
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Movie: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ( 1982 )
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.
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Movie: Annie ( 1982 )
A young orphan girl's adventures in finding a family that will take her.
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Movie: Grease 2 ( 1982 )
A British student at a 1960s American high school must prove himself to the leader of a girls' gang whose members can only date greasers.
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Movie: Blade Runner ( 1982 )
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
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Movie: The Last American Virgin ( 1982 )
The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.
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Movie: Class of 1984 ( 1982 )
There's something strange going on at the graffiti-covered Lincoln High, as teachers are carrying loaded guns, and the students have to walk through a metal detector before they enter the classroom. Before long, the school's new music teacher, Andrew Norris, will learn firsthand that it's even worse than it looks, as the drug-plagued institution is the territory of the charismatic Peter Stegman and his brutal gang of crazed followers. Now, under those dire circumstances, it's only a matter of time before the professor and the pupil lock horns, with unforeseen consequences. But, do drastic times call for drastic measures? In the end, is there a cure for violence?
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Movie: TRON ( 1982 )
A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.
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Movie: The Secret of NIMH ( 1982 )
Mrs. Brisby, a widowed mouse, lives in a cinder block with her children on the Fitzgibbon farm. She is preparing to move her family out of the field they live in as plowing time approaches, however her son Timothy has fallen ill, and moving him could prove fatal. Mrs. Brisby visits The Great Owl, a wise creature who advises her to visit a mysterious group of rats who live beneath a rose bush on the farm. Upon visiting the rats, Brisby meets Nicodemus, the wise and mystical leader of the rats, and Justin, a friendly rat who immediately becomes attached to Mrs. Brisby. While there, she learns that her late husband, Mr. Jonathon Brisby, along with the rats, was a part of a series of experiments at a place known only as N.I.M.H. (revealed earlier in the story as the National Institute of Mental Health). The experiments performed on the mice and rats there boosted their intelligence, allowing them to read without being taught and to understand things such as complex mechanics and electricity. The rats and Mr. Brisby escaped from N.I.M.H. and came to live on the Fitzgibbon farm. The rats created a home for themselves under Mrs. Fitzgibbon's rose bush, creating an elaborate habitation of beautiful chambers, elevators, and Christmas lights. However, the rats are unhappy in their dependence on the humans, who they are stealing electricity from, and have concocted a plan to leave the farm and live independently. Because of her husband's prior relationship with the rats, they agree to help Mrs. Brisby move her home out of the path of the plow. However, the evil Jenner and his unwilling accomplice Sullivan, who wish to remain beneath the rose bush, yet plot to kill Nicodemus during the move.
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Movie: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 )
A town's Sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a television reporter targets it as the Devil's playhouse.
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Movie: Fast Times at Ridgemont High ( 1982 )
A group of Southern California high school students are enjoying their most important subjects: sex, drugs, and rock n' roll.
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Movie: An Officer and a Gentleman ( 1982 )
A young man must complete his work at a Navy Officer Candidate School to become an aviator, with the help of a tough Gunnery Sergeant and his new girlfriend.
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Movie: The Beastmaster ( 1982 )
A sword-and-sorcery fantasy about a young man's search for revenge. Armed with supernatural powers, the handsome hero and his animal allies wage war against marauding forces.
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Movie: Amityville II: The Possession ( 1982 )
A family moves into their new home, which proves to be satanic, resulting in the demonic possession of the teenage son. Only the local priest can save him.
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Movie: Halloween III: Season of the Witch ( 1982 )
Kids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween. Doctor Daniel Challis seeks to uncover a plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran.
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Movie: Creepshow ( 1982 )
Five grisly tales from a kid's comic book about a murdered father rising from his grave, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.
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Movie: The Last Unicorn ( 1982 )
A brave unicorn and a magician fight an evil King who is obsessed with attempting to capture the world's unicorns.
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Movie: Trail of the Pink Panther ( 1982 )
A journalist attempts to uncover the mysterious disappearance of Inspector Clouseau.
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Movie: 48 Hrs. ( 1982 )
Oddball cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only survivor of a cop shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects Reggie Hammond from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help. The killer is searching for his stash of cash. Cates and Hammond who have the Black-white, cop-crook thing to work out make surprisingly good partners as they navigate through the city looking for their suspect.
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Movie: The Toy ( 1982 )
An underemployed reporter finds himself literally purchased as a toy for a rich spoiled brat.
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Movie: The Smurfs Christmas Special (TV Short 1982) ( 1982 )
At Christmas, the Smurfs and Gargamel cross paths with two children and a stranger out to kidnap them. Can the magic of Christmas prevail?
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Movie: The Dark Crystal ( 1982 )
Another planet, another time. One thousand years ago, the mysterious Dark Crystal was damaged by one of the Urskeks and an age of chaos has began. The evil race of grotesque birdlike lizards, the Skeksis, gnomish dragons who rule their fantastic planet with an iron claw. Meanwhile, orphan Jen, raised in solitude by a race of the peace-loving wizards called the Mystics, embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of the Dark Crystal which gives the Skeksis their power and restore the balance of the universe.
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Movie: Tootsie ( 1982 )
Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.
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Movie: The Snowman (TV Short 1982) ( 1982 )
On Christmas Eve, a young boy builds a snowman that comes to life and takes him to the North Pole to meet Father Christmas.
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Movie: The Evil Dead ( 1983 )
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
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Movie: Bad Boys ( 1983 )
Chicago crime kid Mick O'Brien is sent to reform school after accidentally killing a rival's kid brother.
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Movie: Spring Break ( 1983 )
Two sets of two college guys spend a spring break together in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. There they have lots of fun in and out of the sun.
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Movie: Max Dugan Returns ( 1983 )
An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.
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Movie: The Outsiders ( 1983 )
The rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, only heats up when one gang member kills a member of the other.
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Movie: Flashdance ( 1983 )
A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.
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Movie: My Tutor ( 1983 )
A rich father hires a tutor for his son. The son is a horny teenager and the tutor is a gorgeous blonde. Complications ensue.
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Movie: Private School ( 1983 )
Christine (Phoebe Cates), a student at an exclusive all-girls private school, is in love with Jim, who attends an academy for boys nearby. Christine's arch rival Jordan also has her eye on Jim, and she is willing to do whatever she can to steal him away. Jim's uber-slob buddy Bubba is going with Betsy, Christine's cynical friend, though he would probably be unfaithful if any other woman were willing to get near him. Bubba and his pals sneak into the girls' school dressed in drag in hopes of reaching the Promised Land (better known as the women's shower room), while Christine and Jim run away together for the weekend, though their escapade isn't as romantic as they had hoped.
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Movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes ( 1983 )
In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.
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Movie: Doctor Detroit ( 1983 )
A timid college professor, conned into posing as a flamboyant pimp, finds himself enjoying his new occupation on the streets.
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Movie: Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi ( 1983 )
After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.
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Movie: The Man with Two Brains ( 1983 )
A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.
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Movie: WarGames ( 1983 )
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
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Movie: Trading Places ( 1983 )
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
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Movie: Superman III ( 1983 )
Synthetic kryptonite laced with tar splits Superman in two: good Clark Kent and bad Man of Steel.
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Movie: The Survivors ( 1983 )
Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.
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Movie: Porky's II: The Next Day ( 1983 )
The naughty high schoolers of Angel Beach High now seek revenge on a group of KKK religious fanatics and corrupt politicians who want to shut down their Shakespeare production after they cast a Seminole transfer student in the lead.
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Movie: Twilight Zone: The Movie ( 1983 )
Four horror and science fiction segments, directed by four famous directors, each of them being a new version of a classic story from Rod Serling's landmark television series.
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Movie: Staying Alive ( 1983 )
In this sequel to Saturday Night Fever, former disco king Tony Manero has left Brooklyn and lives in Manhattan. He stays in a cheap hotel and works as a dance instructor and as a dance-club waiter, trying to succeed as a professional Broadway dancer. Breaking away from his Brooklyn life, family, and friends has matured Tony and refined his personality, represented by his diminished accent and his avoidance of alcohol and profanity. But certain attitudes have not changed, as with his most-recent girlfriend, who sings in a local rock band.
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Movie: Class ( 1983 )
A young man in private school spends one crazy night out, but soon realizes the woman he hooked up with is not who he expected.
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Movie: Jaws 3-D ( 1983 )
The sons of police chief Brody must protect customers at a SeaWorld theme park after a thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in the park with them.
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Movie: National Lampoon's Vacation ( 1983 )
The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the Walley World theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated.
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Movie: Krull ( 1983 )
A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet, Krull.
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Movie: Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island ( 1983 )
Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales find a treasure map that leads them to a wishing well, which for a penny will grant any wish (through old cartoon footage). Daffy sets up a resort around the well and various Looney Tunes characters have their dreams come true. Meanwhile, Yosemite Sam and the Tasmanian Devil hunt for the varmints who stole their treasure map!
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Movie: Risky Business ( 1983 )
A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.
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Movie: Cujo ( 1983 )
Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
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Movie: Curse of the Pink Panther ( 1983 )
Ensuing after the events of Clouseau's disappearance, his bosses at the Surete put a computer into service to elect a new shrewd detective, Sleigh, who turns up just as inept as Clouseau.
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Movie: Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann ( 1983 )
A maverick motorbike racer wanders into a top-secret time-travel research test site which unintentionally teleports him to the mid-1800s and ends up having to fight violent outlaws for his survival.
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Movie: Easy Money ( 1983 )
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard-living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before they get the best of him.
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Movie: Mr. Mom ( 1983 )
After he's laid off, a husband switches roles with his wife. She returns to the workforce, and he becomes a stay-at-home dad, a job he has no clue how to do.
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Movie: Mickey's Christmas Carol ( 1983 )
The classic Disney animated characters play the roles in this animated retelling of the Charles Dickens masterpiece.
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Movie: The Dead Zone ( 1983 )
A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability.
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Movie: All the Right Moves ( 1983 )
A high school football player desperate for a scholarship and his headstrong coach clash in a dying Pennsylvania steel town.
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Movie: A Christmas Story ( 1983 )
In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie attempts to convince his parents, his teacher and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
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Movie: Amityville 3-D ( 1983 )
A reporter moves into the ominous Long Island house to debunk the recent supernatural events, and finds himself besieged by the evil manifestations which are connected to a hell-spawn demon lurking in the basement.
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Movie: Never Cry Wolf ( 1984 )
A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.
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Movie: Scarface ( 1983 )
In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
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Movie: Christine ( 1983 )
A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.
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Movie: Sudden Impact ( 1983 )
When a woman exacts deadly revenge on the aggressors who raped her and her sister ten years earlier, Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to the case.
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Movie: Two of a Kind ( 1983 )
When God decides to destroy Earth, four angels aim to redeem mankind through a young man and woman with their own troubles.
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Movie: BMX Bandits ( 1983 )
Two BMX expert bikers and a friend of theirs (Nicole Kidman) become entangled with a group of bank robbers after discovering a carton of walkie-talkies.
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Movie: The Lonely Guy ( 1984 )
A writer for a greeting card company discovers the struggles and tribulations of living alone after breaking up with his unfaithful girlfriend.
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Movie: Repo Man ( 1984 )
A young punk, recruited by a car repo agency, finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu with a huge, $20,000 bounty--and something otherworldly stashed in its trunk.
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Movie: The Hotel New Hampshire ( 1984 )
The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.
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Movie: Children of the Corn ( 1984 )
A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believes that everyone over age 18 must be killed.
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Movie: Romancing the Stone ( 1984 )
A mousy romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue.
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Movie: Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes ( 1984 )
A shipping disaster in the nineteenth century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. The mother dies soon afterwards. An ape enters the house and kills the father, and a female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captaine Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
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Movie: Moscow on the Hudson ( 1984 )
When a Russian musician defects in Bloomingdale's department store in New York, he finds adjusting to American life more difficult than he imagined.
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Movie: Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter ( 1984 )
After being mortally wounded and taken to the morgue, murderer Jason Voorhees spontaneously revives and embarks on a killing spree as he makes his way back to his home at Camp Crystal Lake.
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Movie: Swing Shift ( 1984 )
A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.
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Movie: Breakin' ( 1984 )
A struggling young jazz dancer meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds.
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Movie: Hardbodies ( 1984 )
Three middle-aged daddies visit California to have a marvelous time at the beach. When they learn that a nice apartment and an expensive cabriolet isn't enough for them to score with the chicks, they employ a student to help them. At first he's as disgusted of them and his job as his girlfriend, but soon they find out how to use the situation to everyone's benefit.
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Movie: Firestarter ( 1984 )
A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telekinetic ability and then have a child who is pyrokinetic.
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Movie: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ( 1984 )
Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned U.S.S. Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis Planet to recover Spock's body.
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Movie: Gremlins ( 1984 )
A young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
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Movie: Cannonball Run II ( 1984 )
The original characters from The Cannonball Run (1981) race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.
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Movie: Conan the Destroyer ( 1984 )
Conan leads a ragtag group of adventurers on a quest for a princess.
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Movie: Bachelor Party ( 1984 )
A soon-to-be-married man's friends throw him the ultimate bachelor party.
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Movie: The Last Starfighter ( 1984 )
Video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best starfighters to defend their world from the attack.
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Movie: Supergirl ( 1984 )
After losing a powerful orb, Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.
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Movie: Best Defense ( 1984 )
A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years later.
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Movie: Meatballs Part II ( 1984 )
The first in-name-only sequel to the first Meatballs summer camp movie sets us at Camp Sasquash where the owner Giddy tries to keep his camp open after it's threatened with foreclosure after Hershey, the militant owner of Camp Patton located just across the lake, wants to buy the entire lake to expand Camp Patton. Giddy suggests settling the issue with the traditional end-of-the-summer boxing match over rights to the lake. Meanwhile, a tough, inner city punk, nicknamed Flash, is at Camp Sasquash for community service as a counselor-in-training where he sets his sights on the naive and intellectual Cheryl, while Flash's young charges befriend an alien, whom they name Meathead, also staying at the camp for the summer. Fresh Face Jeremy O. arrives to Camp Sasquash after his car broke down and he stumbles upon the mess hall. Jeremy O provides Flash and Meathead with encouragement and indepth analytics to counter all of Hershey's diabolical intent.
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Movie: Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers ( 1984 )
Two brothers who can feel each others' pain and pleasure mess up the French revolution.
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Movie: Revenge of the Nerds ( 1984 )
At Adams College, a group of bullied outcasts and misfits resolve to fight back for their peace and self-respect.
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Movie: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension ( 1984 )
Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth.
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Movie: The Woman in Red ( 1984 )
On his way to work, Teddy spots Charlotte, an incredibly beautiful Woman in Red. He really wants to meet her, but what would his wife say?
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Movie: Dreamscape ( 1984 )
A young psychic on the run from himself is recruited by a government agency experimenting with the use of the dream-sharing technology and is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of the U.S. president.
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Movie: Hot Moves ( 1984 )
Four Venice Beach boys make a pact to lose their virginity before beginning their senior year of high school.