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The Best Movies of 1986
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Movie: Chopping Mall ( 1987 )
A group of young shopping mall employees stay behind for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock-down before they can get out, the robot security system malfunctions, and goes on a killing spree.
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Movie: Wisdom ( 1987 )
Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American farmers.
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Movie: The Parent Trap II ( 1986 )
Two best friends plot to get their single parents together to stop one of them from moving to New York City.
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Movie: Class of Nuke 'Em High ( 1986 )
The pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after buying contaminated drugs from a plant worker.
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Movie: Heartburn ( 1986 )
An autobiographical look at the break-up of Screenwriter Nora Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, Rachel Samstat (Meryl Streep), is a food writer at a New York City magazine who meets Washington, D.C. columnist Mark Forman (Jack Nicholson) at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.
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Movie: That's Life! ( 1986 )
A wealthy yet depressed architect and his sympathetic wife strive to conquer their life issues in anticipation of Harvey's 60th birthday party.
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Movie: Solarbabies ( 1986 )
In a post-apocalyptic future ruled by the military, a group of renegade teenage orphans find a legendary orb, Bohdai, that can supposedly bring the rain back to dried up Earth.
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Movie: Salvador ( 1986 )
An American photojournalist gets caught in a political struggle at El Salvador in 1980.
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Movie: Down by Law ( 1986 )
Two innocent people are arrested. An interesting third person, with broken English, joins them in their cell. On his idea, they decide to escape from the prison. Their journey is the rest of the movie.
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Movie: Lady Jane ( 1986 )
The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son King Edward VI is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister John Dudley marries off his son, Guilford, to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. At first hostile to each other, Guilford and Jane fall in love. But they cannot withstand the course of power which will lead to their ultimate downfall.
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Movie: Children of a Lesser God ( 1986 )
A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.
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Movie: Troll ( 1986 )
A wicked troll king in search of a mystical ring that will transform him to human form invades a San Francisco apartment complex where a powerful witch lives.
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Movie: King Kong Lives ( 1986 )
Kong falls from the twin towers and he appears to be alive. However, his heart is failing, so it's replaced with an artificial one. All is well until he senses that there's a female Kong somewhere out there and escapes wreaking havoc.
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Movie: Last Resort ( 1986 )
George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers everywhere, an unhelpful staff, inhospitable accomodation and undesirable holiday makers, but everyone except for George manages to have fun in the sun.
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Movie: The Worst Witch ( 1986 )
Mildred is one of the young girls at a prestigious witch academy. She can't seem to do anything right and is picked on by classmates and teachers. The headmistress of the school, Miss Cackle, has an evil twin sister (Agatha) who plans to destroy the school. Can Mildred foil the plan before the Grand Wizard (Tim Curry) comes to the Academy for the Halloween celebration you'll never forget?!!
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Movie: Witchboard ( 1987 )
When his girlfriend becomes dangerously obsessed with a ghost she contacted using a Ouija board, Jim reluctantly joins forces with her ex-his own estranged childhood best friend-to identify and exorcise the evil spirit.
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Movie: She's Gotta Have It ( 1986 )
Story of a woman and her three lovers.
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Movie: Extremities ( 1986 )
A woman takes revenge on the man who invades her home and tries to rape her.
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Movie: Stagecoach ( 1986 )
In 1880, a motley group of passengers takes the stagecoach from Tonto, Arizona to Lordsburg, New Mexico via dangerous Apache territory.
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Movie: Wanted: Dead or Alive ( 1987 )
The bounty hunter Nick is offered $250,000 by CIA to get the terrorist behind the bombing of an LA movie theater. Nick quit CIA - he couldn't trust them. Can they be trusted now and can he stop the terrorists before...?
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Movie: Legal Eagles ( 1986 )
A New York district attorney works and flirts with his adversary and her kooky artist client, who is on trial for a murder she didn't commit.
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Movie: Clockwise ( 1986 )
An obsessively punctual comprehensive school headmaster sets out to give an important speech at the annual Headmasters' Conference.
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Movie: Babes in Toyland ( 1986 )
A young girl wakes up in the realm of Toyland, where she teams up with her family and friends to overthrow the evil villain, Barnaby.
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Movie: Captain EO ( 1986 )
Captain EO and his space crew are on a mission to save the world from the evil queen by giving her a song and dance.
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Movie: When the Wind Blows ( 1986 )
A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war.
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Movie: True Stories ( 1986 )
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
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Movie: Murphy's Law ( 1986 )
An action-packed thriller starring Charles Bronson as Jack Murphy, a cop who is running to stay alive long enough to even the score with his wife's killer.
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Movie: Thrashin' ( 1986 )
Two skateboarding gangs battle each other for supremacy, and a member of one gang falls in love with the sister of his rival.
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Movie: Every Time We Say Goodbye ( 1986 )
A Protestant World War II pilot and a Jewish girl fall in love in Jerusalem, even though their diverse backgrounds threaten to pull them apart.
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Movie: Crimes of the Heart ( 1987 )
Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when Babe, the youngest, has just shot her husband. Oldest sister Lenny takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid. Meg, who aspires to make it in Hollywood as a singer and actress, has had a wild, man-filled life. Their reunion is joyful but also stirs up much tension.
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TV Show: The Singing Detective ( 1986 )
The Singing Detective was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 in 1986 on Sunday nights from 16 November to 21 December with later PBS and cable television showings in the United States. Mystery writer Philip E. Marlow is suffering writer's block and is hospitalised because his psoriatic arthropathy, a chronic skin and joint disease, is at an acute stage forming lesions and sores over his entire body, and partially cripples his hands and feet. As a result of constant pain, a fever caused by the condition, and his refusal to take medication, Marlow falls into a fantasy world involving his Chandleresque novel, The Singing Detective, an escapist adventure about a detective (also named "Philip Marlow") who sings at a dance hall and takes the jobs "the guys who don't sing" won't take.
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Movie: Quicksilver ( 1986 )
Jack was doing great trading shares until he wasn't. He gets a job on a bike at Quicksilver speed delivery. There he befriends Hector and the cute Terri. Jack gets an enemy in the criminal Gypsy.
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Movie: Hamburger: The Motion Picture ( 1986 )
Russell Proco has been expelled from several schools for lewd, crude and nude conduct. Busterburger University is his last chance for an education and pleasing his disappointed parents.
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Movie: Mona Lisa ( 1986 )
A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.
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Movie: Slaughter High ( 1986 )
Eight people are invited to their old high school for their ten-year reunion where a fellow former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is out to seek revenge.
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Movie: Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling ( 1986 )
After severely burning himself in a drug incident, a comedian has a near death experience in which he reviews his life.
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Movie: Never Too Young to Die ( 1986 )
A top secret Agent is murdered, so his estranged son, a high school gymnast, teams up with his dad's attractive female partner to stop the psychopathic hermaphroditic gang leader who killed him, and now plans a major terrorist attack.
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Movie: A Fine Mess ( 1986 )
An actor and a chef fathom a plot to fix a horse race and attempt at capitalizing it, while striving to tackle two of the hitmen responsible for the scheme.
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Movie: My Chauffeur ( 1986 )
A free-spirited young woman (Deborah Foreman) upsets the status quo at a stuffy Brentwood limousine service.
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Movie: My Little Pony: The Movie ( 1986 )
Ponyland comes under attack from a talking blob of purple gunk.
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Movie: Nobody's Fool ( 1986 )
Cassie has a miserable job in a bar, is lonely and depressed. Her boyfriend left her when she told him that she's pregnant. After several failed suicide attempts, she'd given away her baby for adoption, and regrets it now. When a theater group from Los Angeles comes to the small town of Buckeye, she meets stage technician Riley. Discreetly he starts wooing her. She likes him very much, but still has feelings for her former boyfriend Billy, too.