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#6:WEIRD, Rare, HARD-To-Find Big & Small Screen
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Part SIX: These are the movie, TV Series, Made-For-Television Movies, Specials, Documentary, Drive-In Mature/Action/Grindhouse, Disney, Music (Concerts). Just overall some things that were things I’ve seen over my LONG lifetime to things I’ve discovered…Enjoy! (I will ALWAYS be adding) ~~ Please be sure to check out my other playlists - Thanks For looking!~~


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Movie: Why Me? ( 1990 )
A jewel thief steals a sacred ruby which sets off a chase by the police, the Turkish government, nutty American terrorists, and the C.I.A.
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TV Show: Chancer ( 1990 )
A business adviser uses all means necessary to help his friends out of financial ruins. However he has a moral code. Also, his unresolved family past won't leave him alone.
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Movie: Rich Girl ( 1990 )
When a highly trained bodyguard is hired to protect a wealthy businessman's pampered daughter, he will have his work cut out for him. The beautiful young woman doesn't want or believe she needs protection.
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Movie: Max and Helen ( 1990 )
Based on the fact-based novel by Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal based on his 1962 prosecution of the head of a German factory whom he learns was a murderous labor camp commandant. To be able to take him to justice, he must find witnesses who can help him. This leads him to Max Rosenberg, a still tormented individual who lost his wife, Helen, in the camps. Initially Max refuses to cooperate, but gradually his story unfolds beginning before the Holocaust.
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Movie: Murder Weapon ( 1989 )
Two daughters of mobsters get out of the sanitarium after having killed a boyfriend in the shower, supposedly cured and on the right track. They hold a party and invite all their old boyfriends, making all of them think there is still hope for a relationship. Then the boyfriends start disappearing one by one.
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Movie: Perfect Witness ( 1989 )
This is the story of Sam Paxton (Aidan Quinn), who witnesses a mob killing, and rather than testify, he goes to prison. When released, he decides to finally testify, even though it means that he and his family will have to go into the Witness Protection Program, thereby disrupting their lives. However, an unexpected courtroom maneuver by District Attorney James Falcon (Brian Dennehy) changes the outcome for this man.
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TV Show: Around the World in 80 Days ( 1989 )
Actor and writer Michael Palin takes up the challenge to emulate the adventures of Phileas Fogg and circumnavigate the globe, travelling by land and sea.
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Movie: A Dry White Season ( 1989 )
Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
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Movie: Captive Rage ( 1989 )
An innocent group of college girls become the pawns in a deadly game of revenge when a South American cocaine baron retaliates against the chief of an American intelligence agency for jailing his son on drug charges.
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Movie: Deadline ( 1989 )
A series of heinous murders ends with the arrest of the supposed killer. But when similar grisly killings continue, a beautiful reporter sets out to prove that the police are holding the wrong man. Or are they?
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Movie: The Giftie ( 1989 )
What would happen if you could clone yourself? Two ordinary friends decide to try this with a new machine at work.Thinking this experiment has not worked the friends go home dejected.But further events prevail and a serious dose of mistaken identity ensues.Can the imposters be caught?
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Movie: Alien Terror ( 1989 )
In the European village of Gudenberg in 1890, Prof. Mayer and his assistant Isabel have created a powerful ray machine. One of the powerful rays is shot into space and attracts a flying saucer. The alien pilot decides that the ray poses too great a threat to the universe and must be destroyed.
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Movie: Superstition 2 ( 1989 )
A young girl and her brother take some friends on trip to check out a house the pair has just inherited. What they don't know is that the house is haunted by demons and the ghost of a woman who was burned at the stake as a witch, and
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TV Show: Around the World in 80 Days ( 1989 )
Phileas Fogg, a Victorian Age English gentleman, accepts a wager to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in just 80 days. After betting his entire fortune, he takes his new butler (a man hoping for a quite life) on a tour of the world. However, just before the time he leaves, the Bank of England is robbed and a Detective believes that Fogg is the guilty party and he sets out after him.
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Movie: The Man in the Brown Suit ( 1989 )
An American woman is getting involved in a diamond theft in South Africa.
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Movie: Laser Mission ( 1989 )
Mercenary Gold is sent from the CIA to seize the laser expert Braun in Cuba, before the KGB catches him. A recently stolen giant diamond could be used together with Braun's knowledge to construct a laser cannon which could bring power over the whole world. Who will succeed: CIA or KGB - or none of them?
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Movie: My First Love ( 1988 )
A widow (Beatrice Arthur) gets in touch with her former high-school sweetheart, a divorced doctor (Richard Kiley) with a young girlfriend (Joan Van Ark).
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Movie: Purgatory ( 1988 )
Two Peace Corps volunteers in Africa are framed and put into an oppressive women's prison.
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Movie: Karate Warrior 2 ( 1988 )
After studying martial arts in the Philippines and defeating his opponent Quino, Anthony Scott heads back to the U.S. to attend college and makes a new friend named Luke. Making the promise to his teacher that he will not fight, Anthony finds himself the target of the Tigers, a local martial arts gang...
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Movie: Journey to the Center of the Earth ( 1988 )
Young people exploring a cave in Hawaii fall into a hole, wind up in the lost city of Atlantis.
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Movie: Cocktail ( 1988 )
Intent on becoming a successful businessman, and even a millionaire, the ex-military man, Brian Flanagan, waits for his big break while serving drinks at a New York City tavern, and studying for his degree. However, when the charismatic cynic and veteran bartender, Doug Coughlin, becomes the ambitious Brian's sage mentor, their chemistry, combined with the flamboyant tricks behind the bar, will soon yield fame and money until they decide to split ways. Now, as Flanagan struggles to raise money in Jamaica to open his dream bar someday, he falls hard for the striving waitress, Jordan Mooney, while a wealthy fashion executive wants to take him back to Manhattan to live with her. Is there a future between Brian and Jordan?
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Movie: Caribe ( 1988 )
Prepare to get tangled in the jungles of Belize when an arms smuggler loses her partner in a deadly shootout and finds herself on the run in the tropics of Central America. Helen is an amateur, making her money as an illegal arms trader to Central American terrorists. And as she runs for her life after the deal goes bad, she has no choice but to trusts Jeff, a British Intelligence Agent - it's a life and death chase, where passion and loyalty are easily confused...
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Movie: Stormquest ( 1988 )
In a female-ruled society where men are kept solely for breeding, two women come to believe that their society's treatment of men is wrong, and lead them in a revolt against the system.
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Movie: Splash, Too ( 1988 )
Allen and Madison return to New York - one to save his business, the other to save a dolphin in captivity.
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Movie: Frank Nitti: The Enforcer ( 1988 )
True story of Al Capone's notorious hitman.
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Movie: Skeleton Coast ( 1988 )
During the Angola Civil War, CIA agent Michael Smith is captured by the Communists, prompting a rescue mission organized by his father aided by hired mercenaries.
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Movie: Night of the Sharks ( 1988 )
David must fight for his life against the gangsters who killed his brother for a CD filled with proof of their illegal activities. When David gets possession of the CD they go down to Mexico where David lives as a shark hunter. Who will get David first, the gangsters or the shark?
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Movie: A New Life ( 1988 )
After a middle-aged couple divorces, they must each enter the frightening but funny world of blind dates and new relationships.
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Movie: Xue zai shao ( 1988 )
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Movie: Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train ( 1988 )
A convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled brother's habit by selling her favors regularly on a cross-country night sleeper. She makes sure she is in control of each encounter until one client reaches her more than she expects. As her orderly business plan turns to chaos, she is forced to commit political assassination to keep her life and her freedom, but is there another way out?
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Movie: Taffin ( 1988 )
An Irish tough-guy debt collector is asked by his local community to help rid the town of developers bent on building a chemical plant on the outskirts of town. The developers are ruthless and have sent their heavies into town to keep the locals quiet.
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Movie: Once Upon a Texas Train ( 1988 )
An outlaw and a Texas Ranger Captain have a life-long personal feud, but twenty years later, with old-age settling in, they must put their differences aside in order to face the latest Texas problem, the youngest generation of outlaws.
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Movie: Scorpion Thunderbolt ( 1988 )
An evil witch seeks a magic ring which is currently in the possession of a mustachieod disciple of black magic. Meanwhile a snake monster terrorizes the city of Hong Kong.
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Movie: Bye Bye Baby ( 1988 )
Love triangles often provoke the most unpredictable behavior and "Bye Bye Baby" proves no exception to the rule. Will anybody end up happily in love at the end of this amorous debacle? One otrageous scene after another leads to a series of romantic escapades that will leave viewers bewitched, bewildered, and thoroughly entertained.
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Movie: The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper ( 1988 )
A panel of experts examines the five main suspects in the Jack the Ripper murders and determines which of them is the most likely to have committed the crimes.
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Movie: Strike Commando 2 ( 1988 )
After completing the deadly mission in Strike Commando (1986), hard-as-nails Sergeant Mike Ransom decides to hang up his spurs to lead a peaceful life somewhere in Central Asia. Instead, the abduction of his mentor and former commanding officer, Major Vic Jenkins, jolts Ransom into action. Now, murderous, heroin-smuggling terrorists demand 10 million dollars worth of diamonds to release Jenkins. But once a commando, always a commando. Do they really think they can stop Mike, the mean, one-man war machine?
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TV Show: Father Dowling Mysteries ( 1987 )
The show began as an NBC Made for TV Movie in 1987 and the show was to have begun weekly in 1988 though because of a writer's strike in 1988 it didn't begin weekly until 1989. After it's 1st season the show left NBC and ABC took the show from 1990 until 1991.
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Movie: Echoes in the Darkness ( 1987 )
Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Township in Pennsylvania, a case that lasted seven years.
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Movie: Deadly Illusion ( 1987 )
A detective is framed for a murder he didn't commit.
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Movie: The Rosary Murders ( 1987 )
A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.
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Movie: Karate Warrior ( 1987 )
Anthony is in the Phillipines visiting his father. He inadvertently interferes with the affairs of local gangster Quino, who also happens to be a champion Karate fighter. After embarrassing Quino near a local tournament, Anthony is beaten up and left for dead. An old monk nurses Anthony back to health and teaches him the ways of martial arts so he may go back and figh...Read all
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Movie: Friendship's Death ( 1987 )
In the 1970s, aliens send a female android diplomat to Earth on a mission of peace. She lands in war-torn Palestine instead of MIT by mistake and meets a friendly UK journalist there. They begin a series of insightful conversations.
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Movie: Pinocchio ( 1987 )
A fairly faithful adaptation of Carlo Collodi's classic novel about an animated puppet that desires to become a real boy.
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Movie: White of the Eye ( 1987 )
In a wealthy and isolated desert community, a sound expert is targeted as the prime suspect of a series of brutal murders of local suburban housewives who were attacked and mutilated in their homes. As he desperately tries to prove his innocence, his young wife starts to uncover mysteries of her own...
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Movie: Body Slam ( 1987 )
A down-on-his-luck music manager for the fictional rock band Kick finds his luck changing when he by mistake also starts managing a successful wrestling duo.
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Movie: Six Against the Rock ( 1987 )
In May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the island prison. His plan, carried out with five accomplices, falls apart when they can't obtain a key to unlock a door leading to the yard.
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Movie: Roses Are for the Rich ( 1987 )
In a small town in Appalachia, Autumn's young husband is killed in a suspicious mine explosion. She vows vengeance on mine owner Douglas Osborne and dedicates her life to destroying him, even at the cost of her own happiness. When her attempts at financial ruin fail, she manipulates Osborne into marriage by claiming she is carrying his child. After Osborne dies from cyanide poisoning, Autumn is arrested for his murder, but she professes her innocence.
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TV Show: Queenie ( 1987 )
A half-caste beauty emigrates from India to Great Britain, pursues fame and fortune at the cost of personal happiness, and becomes a Hollywood movie star while suppressing the truth of her heritage.
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Movie: Strike Commando ( 1987 )
In the Vietnam war, an American soldier survives a botched mission, with help from a group of locals who perceive him as a hero. He's sent back for a reconnaissance mission, only to find his helpers massacred by a brutal Russian soldier.
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Movie: Working Girls ( 1987 )
A day in the life of several prostitutes in an upscale Manhattan whore house. The film is a stark portrayal of the women prostitutes, the male customers and the motivations of both. Watch as the madam manipulates her "girls". Watch a
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Movie: Australian Dream ( 1987 )
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Movie: Big Bad Mama II ( 1987 )
The evil local land baron forecloses on Angie's place, and she and her two daughters must leave and continue their life of crime. A reporter witnesses their heist of a bank, and helps them become folk legends by writing a story about them.
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Movie: Billy and Albert: Billy Connolly at the Royal Albert Hall ( 1987 )
Billy Connolly delivers his unique brand of humor in this Royal Albert Hall concert, filmed in July 1987.
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Movie: Maniac Killer ( 1987 )
A murderous cult kidnaps French prostitutes and tortures them to death to "purify" them of their evil ways. The local pimps, understandably upset, set out after them, as does a man whose girlfriend was kidnapped by the cult and may still be held by them.
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Movie: Intimate Encounters ( 1986 )
A bored suburban housewife embarks upon a series of affairs seemingly triggered by escapism and fantasy.
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TV Show: Ghostbusters ( 1986 )
Ghostbusters (later called Filmation's Ghostbusters) is a 1986 animated television seriescreated by Filmation and distributed by Tribune Entertainment, based on Filmation's 1975 live-action television show The Ghost Busters. It is not to be confused with Columbia Pictures' 1984 film Ghostbusters or that film's subsequent animated television show The Real Ghostbusters.Jake Kong, Eddie Spencer and Tracy the Gorilla are The Ghost Busters. Jake and Eddie Jr are the sons of the original Ghost Busters from the live action series of the same name; Tracy worked with their fathers.Their headquarters, termed Ghost Command, is located in a haunted mansion nestled between a number of tall skyscrapers (which resemble the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York City) They are supported by a number of secondary characters including Ansa-Bone, a talking skull phone; Skelevision, a talking skeleton television; Belfrey, a pink talking bat; and Ghost Buggy, their talking ghost car. They occasionally enlist the aid of Futura, a time travelling Ghostbuster from the future, and Jessica, a local TV news reporter.Together, they have dedicated themselves to ridding the world of the evil ghost wizard Prime Evil and his cast of henchmen. Prime Evil's headquarters, termed Hauntquarters (which resembles the British Houses of Parliament complete with a Big Ben-esque clock tower), is located in The Fifth Dimension. In a typical episode, Prime Evil uses his magical powers to open up a wormhole to enable one or more of his henchmen to complete a particular scheme that serves to help him take over the world.
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TV Show: The Monocled Mutineer ( 1986 )
The Monocled Mutineer TV series follows the rebellion that took place at the notorious Etaples Training Camp in northern France on the eve of "The Battle of Passchendaele" in 1917. After the mutiny, the dashing Percy Toplis (Paul McGann) takes flight, dressed as a British officer, soon to embark on a love affair with beautiful young widow, Dorothy, (Cherie Lunghie). A solder in the First World War, the real Percy Toplis was a rake, rogue and master of disguise who became the most wanted man in Britain. This controversial, acclaimed 1986 four-part BBC dramatisation of high romance, hilarious impudence and savage retribution was adapted by Alan Bleasdale from the book by William Allison and John Fairley.
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Movie: Billy Crystal: Don't Get Me Started - The Billy Crystal Special ( 1986 )
In this parody of "Spinal Tap," a documentary film crew follows comic Billy Crystal as he prepares for a concert; the second half of the film is the actual concert itself.
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Movie: The Zero Boys ( 1986 )
A group of friends travel to a wilderness area to play a survival game. Soon they unexpectedly find themselves in a real-life survival situation.
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Movie: El Towk Wa El Eswera ( 1986 )
In 1933 in the village of Karnak in Luxor, sad lives with her husband Bakhit Bishari paraplegic and TB disease. And their daughter, Fahima, hopes to return her son Mustafa, who is absent and displaced to the Sudan in search of a livelihood. Married Mourning Jabali of Fahima after the death of her father, and because he is impotent, it delayed childbearing and pushed her mother to the temple to bless Sheikh Harun and mixed with faith in corruption, and the solution to come by the temple guard himself, and give birth to baby girl Farhana, which is not recognized by the father because of his impotence sexually sick Fahima and die to remedy them are primitive, with the years and is seeking Farhana granddaughter with her grandmother sad for their livelihood. Farhana bear a serial killer. Back of her uncle Mustafa after his long and trying to change the concepts of the people of the village to no avail. Farhana die I'm dead at the hands of her aunt.
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Movie: Star Knight ( 1986 )
Princess Alba is abducted by a dragon, and it's up to Klever to save her. But, it turns out that this dragon is an alien spacecraft, and Alba falls in love with the human-alien inside it.
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Movie: Escape from Coral Cove ( 1986 )
A group of young people go to vacation but get killed one by one, the killer is an under water monster.
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Movie: Sweet Liberty ( 1986 )
After selling the rights of his book to a movie production company, a writer finds himself fighting the many egos and varying views around him.
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Movie: The Venetian Woman ( 1986 )
Venice, sixteenth century. Giulio, a foreign gentleman spends a memorable night in the city where he meets and beds two beautiful women. They are Angela, a widowed lady, and Valeria, whose husband has left for Florence.
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Movie: Inspecteur Lavardin ( 1986 )
Inspector Lavardin is induced to investigate the murder of a province's notable who was taking himself as the moral guardian of his village. The perspective of the inquiry changes when the inspector recognizes the widow as one of his youthful loves.
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Movie: Bröderna Mozart ( 1986 )
An opera director tries to put on a highly unconventional production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, but the cast and crew think all his ideas are terrible.
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Movie: F/X ( 1986 )
A movie special effects man is hired to fake a real-life mob killing for a witness protection plan, but finds his own life in danger.
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Movie: Murphy's Romance ( 1986 )
Emma is a divorced woman with a teen-aged son who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the widowed town druggist who steers business her way. Things are going along predictably until her ex-husband shows up, needing a place to stay. The three of them form an intricate circle, with Emma's son liking Murphy but desperately wanting his father back.
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Movie: Hostage ( 1986 )
The leader of a South African Nation is imprisoned. His followers, led by Zabo, hijack a plane with the intent to use the passengers as hostages to trade for his release. They select a plane carrying a religious leader to use as their main hostage. They soon learn that they have an added bonus of the daughter and grandson of Colonel Shaw, a bigwig in the country. The grandson all the while has to cope with the dual problems of being hijacked and held hostage while needing a kidney transplant. The hijackers have everything in their favor, except that the colonel's daughter is the sweetheart of Major Sam Striker. Striker puts together a band of mercenaries and sets about freeing the hostages.
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Movie: The Ultimate Ninja ( 1986 )
A twenty year old feud between Ronald, a benevolant village leader and Roger, an evil tyrant, leaves Ronald dead and Roger running the village with an evil bunch of ruffians. Ronald's three children have been split up and are now young adults. Jimmy, the eldest, has been in training for 20 years to extract revenge upon his father's killer and retain control of the village. Meanwhile, evil Ninja leader Victor has stolen the Black Ninja Warrior from Charles, the new leader of the Red Ninjas. Charles sets out to recapture the Black Ninja Warrior and prevent Victor from stealing the Gold Ninja Warrior. Jimmy heads for the village to get Roger as Charles begins his quest to find and destroy Victor. Jimmy has doubts: will he take back the village, will he be re-united with his brother and sister and will he deal with Roger? But Charles is confident that his good Ninja powers will defeat the evil power. The final battle is between good and evil, right and wrong, Ninja clans and justice.
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Movie: Copacabana ( 1985 )
A hit song is the inspiration for this movie. In 1948, an aspiring songwriter, Tony, is working as a pianist in a bar; he meets Lola who wants to make it in show business. Tony is immediately smitten with the beautiful woman. At Manhattan's Copacabana lounge, they both start finding fame. However, fate steps in and she is swept to Havana to work in a splashy night club act where she is convinced she will find her stardom. Instead she finds Rico, a suave gangster who manages the club.
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Movie: Hostage Flight ( 1985 )
Trans Allied Flight 136 is hijacked in flight and diverted by its four captors to New York's JFK Airport. When the plane departs for London and the terrorists begin murdering hostages, the passengers begin to fight back.
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Movie: Rasputin ( 1985 )
Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
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Movie: Billy Connolly: An Audience with Billy Connolly (TV Special 1985) ( 1985 )
Billy Connolly delivers his special brand of stand-up comedy and abrasive humour in front of a celebrity audience.
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Movie: The Empty Beach ( 1985 )
A down-on-his-luck P.I. is hired by a beautiful woman to find her missing husband who disappeared after receiving some tapes.
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Movie: Wild Maneuvres ( 1985 )
A unit of green Afrikaner army reservists must take on a dangerous gang of psychopaths straight out of Mad Max and hook up with some pretty girls along the way.
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TV Show: Bulman ( 1985 )
Bulman was an ITV crime drama series which aired from 1985–1987.Detective Chief Inspector George Bulman has retired from the police and is now a private investigator, with Lucy McGinty as his assistant. They are frequently drawn into the world of the secret service through the machinations of security chief Dugdale or Bulman's one-time police boss Lambie.
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Movie: Treasure of the Amazon ( 1985 )
Three groups of adventurers all vying to find treasure in the jungle clash against each other, the merciless natives, and the dangerous wildlife.
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Movie: Manchurian Avenger ( 1985 )
Joe returns to Colorado after many years to help the man who brought him up, Kim. Joes father was killed by a gang looking to find some gold they believe he had found. Joe finds that Kim has also been murdered by them and tries to help his sister and her man to beat the gang and perhaps find the gold.
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Movie: The Swimmer ( 1985 )
A family of swimmers distinguish themselves in sport but run into trouble with Stalin's police, in this period portrait of how even the light side of life was poisoned by terror.
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Movie: Obsessed with a Married Woman ( 1985 )
A man falls in love with a married co-worker and wants her to divorce her husband, but she refuses because she has a ten-year-old son.
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Movie: The Execution ( 1985 )
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will "execute" him, drawing lots to determine which one will perform the act, without letting the others know who it is.
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Movie: Water ( 1985 )
A British diplomat to a West Indian island nation finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when a large American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.
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Movie: Flesh and Bullets ( 1985 )
Two men meet in a bar in Las Vegas and discover that they have one big problem in common - their wives. They decide to do something drastic about it.
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Movie: The Ripper ( 1985 )
An old antique ring turns a college professor into a homicidal maniac when he puts it on. The ring originaly belonged to Jack the Ripper, and the Ripper's spirit possesses whoever wears it.
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Movie: Lorca and the Outlaws ( 1984 )
Things are not going well on the mining planet Ordessa: the conditions are awful, the workers are disgruntled and the management is cracking down by using killer security robots. Only the underground resistence movement, led by Lorca, has a chance of turning around the brutal regime, but the management has hired Danny the bounty hunter to track him and his followers down. Will any of them stand a chance against the brutal hunter and his robot assistants?
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Movie: Just the Way You Are ( 1984 )
Susan Berlanger, a New York based concert flutist, is currently in the pit orchestra for a ballet company where her best friend Lisa Elliott is a dancer. Susan's parents are helping arrange a European concert tour to increase her professional profile. She is considering accepting the marriage proposal of straight-laced investment banker Frank Bantam, it a marriage of convenience for both with Frank still in the closet, and Susan facing her own man problems. Having contracted a case of viral encephalitis...
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Movie: The Boy Who Loved Trolls ( 1984 )
Paul feels life should be an adventure, and sets out on one to prove that Trolls really exist.
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Movie: American Dreamer ( 1984 )
Frustrated housewife/writer Cathy Palmer ghostwrites a story about Rebecca Ryan, a dashing international spy, and wins a trip to Paris. While there, she is involved in an accident, and awakens in the hospital believing she IS Rebecca Ryan. Much craziness ensues as she meets the writer of the Rebecca Ryan books, thwarts real international spies, and eventually gets her memory back.
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TV Show: Finder of Lost Loves ( 1984 )
After Cary Maxwell's wife Kate dies, he decides to set up a private detective agency specializing in reuniting clients with a former loved one.
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TV Show: Chance in a Million ( 1984 )
For as long as he can remember, Tom Chance has had a life which lived up to his surname, from the coincidence that led to meeting his true love to his run-ins with the law for crimes he didn't commit (run-ins that eventually have the police sergeant ordering his men not to arrest Tom, no matter what the circumstances!). Tom Chance is a very likeable bloke to whom bizarre things which are a-million-to-one-chance for most people happen to Tom Chance as a matter of course. For example, his shy librarian girlfriend Alison Little becomes enmeshed in Tom's bizarre world when a series of strange "coincidences" lead to the pair being arrested for housebreaking while dressed only in underwear. Nothing is ever Tom's fault, of course, just the inevitable chain of coincidence that seems to follow him wherever he goes.
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Movie: Final Mission ( 1984 )
Vince Deacon, a higly decorated Vietnam War veteran, serves as a SWAT team captain for LAPD. When his family gets attacked by thugs and he kills one of them in self defense he's being suspended by his boss. Deacon and his family decide to spend the weekend camping at a lake to forget about everything but an explosion on their boat kills both his wife and kid. He finds out that Slater, a war buddy-turned-traitor is responsible for the murders. Deacon tracks him down to a small town in the mountains and gets his revenge only to be haunted by a redneck sheriff who happens to be Slater's brother. Not even his former commander, Col. Cain, or the National Guard can stop him now...
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Movie: The Last Battle ( 1984 )
In a post-apocalyptic future where no one is able to speak, the few remaining humans fight over resources in order to survive.
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Movie: Summer Fantasy ( 1984 )
Summer isn't all that's hot when a high school grad gets a job as a lifeguard in LA and falls desperately in love with a much older lifeguard.
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Movie: Run Chrissie Run! ( 1984 )
The action moves along quickly in this made-for-television drama about Eve, an ex-terrorist from Germany who is forced to escape to Australia with her teenage daughter Chrissie when she is sought by Riley, a lover from 17 years in the past. In turn, the IRA has sent two members after Riley because he shot an IRA soldier and must pay the consequences. The two IRA operatives looking for Riley come across a really nasty biker who wants vengeance on Eve for setting his car on fire -- and the three men finally track her and Chrissie to the wine-growing country of Barossa Valley. The final denouement is about to explode, as Riley also arrives on the scene. With under-par acting and a patchy plot, this film was never released theatrically.
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Movie: Charlie Steel ( 1984 )
When Dlamini's daughter, Dudu, is kidnapped for ransom, he calls on his old friend Charlie Steel, a renowned Private Investigator. Charlie attempts to infiltrate the gang responsible, but is soon exposed by one of his ex-army comrades, a vicious murderer by the name of Jimmy, working for the gangster known as Sonny.
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Movie: The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter ( 1984 )
Mongols with the help of an insider, ambush the influential Yang Family, defenders of the dynasty. The Mongols must hunt down all Yang survivors so their insidious plot to overthrow the dynasty will not be uncovered.
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Movie: Surf II ( 1984 )
A disgruntled nerd, who was bullied in high school, creates Buzz Cola, a soft drink that turns surfers into mindless zombies.
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TV Show: Blue Thunder ( 1984 )
Based on the action-packed blockbuster film of the same name, Blue Thunder stars James Farentino (Police Story), Dana Carvey (Saturday Night Live) and NFL greats Dick Butkus and Bubba Smith, dishing out their own brand of justice. The high-tech, turbo-speed aircraft known as the Blue Thunder was created by the federal goverment as the ultimate weapon in the war on crime. It can see through walls, record a whisper or even level an entire city block in seconds. When terror rains down, Blue Thunder will always follow.
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Movie: Ray Parker Jr.: Ghostbusters ( 1984 )
Music video for 'Ghostbusters' by Ray Parker Jr.