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The Best Movies of 1986
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Movie: Lucas ( 1986 )
A socially inept fourteen year old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends -- Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love -- fall for each other.
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Movie: Aliens ( 1986 )
Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
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Movie: Highlander ( 1986 )
An immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his immortal opponent, a murderously brutal barbarian who lusts for the fabled "Prize".
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Movie: Top Gun ( 1986 )
As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.
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Movie: Big Trouble in Little China ( 1986 )
A rough-and-tumble trucker helps rescue his friend's fiance from an ancient sorcerer in a supernatural battle beneath Chinatown.
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Movie: Platoon ( 1987 )
Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
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Movie: Stand by Me ( 1986 )
After the death of one of his friends, a writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.
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Movie: Labyrinth ( 1986 )
Sixteen-year-old Sarah is given thirteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue her baby brother Toby when her wish for him to be taken away is granted by the Goblin King Jareth.
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Movie: Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 )
A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite what the Principal thinks of that.
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Movie: The Karate Kid Part II ( 1986 )
Daniel accompanies his mentor, Mr. Miyagi, to Miyagi's childhood home in Okinawa. Miyagi visits his dying father and confronts his old rival, while Daniel falls in love and inadvertently makes a new rival of his own.
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Movie: Little Shop of Horrors ( 1986 )
A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.
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Movie: Crocodile Dundee ( 1986 )
An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City.
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Movie: The Fly ( 1986 )
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
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Movie: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ( 1986 )
To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.
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Movie: Short Circuit ( 1986 )
Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.
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Movie: Flight of the Navigator ( 1986 )
In 1978, a boy travels 8 years into the future and has an adventure with an intelligent, wisecracking alien ship.
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Movie: Manhunter ( 1986 )
Former F.B.I. profiler Will Graham (William Petersen) returns to service to pursue a deranged serial killer named "the Tooth Fairy" (Tom Noonan) by the media.
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Movie: Blue Velvet ( 1986 )
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
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Movie: Maximum Overdrive ( 1986 )
A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.
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Movie: Cobra ( 1986 )
A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far-reaching plans.
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Movie: Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives ( 1986 )
Tommy Jarvis exhumes Jason Voorhees to cremate his corpse, but inadvertently brings him back to life instead. The newly revived killer seeks revenge, and Tommy may be the only one who can stop him.
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Movie: Pretty in Pink ( 1986 )
A poor girl must choose between the affections of dating her childhood sweetheart or a rich but sensitive playboy.
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Movie: The Clan of the Cave Bear ( 1986 )
A young Cro-Magnon woman is raised by Neanderthals.
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Movie: Howard the Duck ( 1986 )
A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth where he must stop a hellish alien invasion with the help of a nerdy scientist and a cute struggling female rock singer who fancies him.
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Movie: The Money Pit ( 1986 )
A young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house.
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Movie: Heartbreak Ridge ( 1986 )
1983. Thomas Highway (Clint Eastwood) is a well-decorated career military man in the United States Marine Corps, he who has seen action in Korea and Vietnam. His current rank is Gunnery Sergeant. His experiences have led him to become an opinionated, no nonsense man, who is prone to bursts of violence, especially when he's drunk, if the situation does not suit him, regardless of the specifics or people involved. Because of these actions, he has spent his fair share of overnighters behind bars. Close to retirement, one of his last assignments, one he requested, is back at his old unit at Cherry Point, North Carolina, from where he was transferred for insubordination and conduct unbecoming. He is to train a reconnaissance platoon. His superior officer, the much younger and combat inexperienced Major Malcolm Powers (Everett McGill), sees Highway as a relic of an old-styled military. Highway's commanding officer, Lieutenant Ring (Boyd Gaines), the platoon leader, is also a younger man who has no combat experience, but is academically inclined and happy-go-lucky. Highway finds that his team is a rag-tag bunch of slackers, who includes wannabe rock musician Corporal Stitch Jones (Mario Van Peebles), with whom Highway had an inauspicious earlier meeting. The men in the platoon, who truly believe Highway is crazy, hate him, and don't understand why they have to follow his harsh training regimen when the United States is not currently at war. The Major, who is all about efficiency regardless of combat readiness, has the same views of Highway. He is clear that he sees Highway's platoon solely as a training mechanism for his own elite squad trained by Highway's nemesis, Staff Sergeant Webster (Moses Gunn). Things for Highway and his platoon change when the United States enters into war in Grenada. Through it all, Highway tries to reconnect with his bar waitress ex-wife Aggie (Marsha Mason), he even clandestinely reading women's magazines to understand her better. Two primary obstacles stand in his way: Roy Jennings (Bo Svenson), Aggie's boss and current suitor who hates Marines, and Aggie's own remembrance of how dysfunctional their marriage was.
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Movie: The Name of the Rose ( 1986 )
An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
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Movie: The Golden Child ( 1986 )
Eddie Murphy plays a detective with a speciality of finding lost children. He is told he is the 'Chosen one' who will find and protect the Golden Child, a Bhuddist mystic who was kidnapped by an evil sorcerer. Murphy disbelieves the mysticism but finds more and more evidence of demon worship as he investigates.
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Movie: ¡Three Amigos! ( 1986 )
Three actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to perform their onscreen bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing.
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Movie: From Beyond ( 1986 )
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
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Movie: Critters ( 1986 )
A group of small, furry aliens makes lunch out of the locals in a farming town.
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Movie: The Mosquito Coast ( 1986 )
An inventor spurns his city life to move his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.
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Movie: 9½ Weeks ( 1986 )
A woman gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
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Movie: The Transformers: The Movie ( 1986 )
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.
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Movie: The Color of Money ( 1986 )
Pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson finds the young, promising pool player Vincent in a local bar and he sees in him a younger version of himself. To try and make it as in the old days, Eddie offers to teach Vincent how to be a hustler. After some hesitations Vincent accepts and Eddie takes him and Vincent's girlfriend Carmen on a tour through the country to work the pool halls. However, Vincent's tendency to show off his talent and by doing so warning off the players and losing money, soon leads to a confrontation with Eddie.
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Movie: Police Academy 3: Back in Training ( 1986 )
The alumni of Commandant Lassard's Police Academy (1984) return to the school to train new recruits and prevent its closure.
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Movie: Night of the Creeps ( 1986 )
Alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.
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Movie: Ruthless People ( 1986 )
A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
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Movie: An American Tail ( 1986 )
While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
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Movie: The Wraith ( 1986 )
In a small town in Arizona, a mysterious man/spirit descends from the sky and manifests in a sports car and targets a local violent road-racing gang of motor heads, headed by a ruthless bully who'll do anything to get what he wants.
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Movie: Raw Deal ( 1986 )
A former FBI agent turned small-town sheriff agrees to help the FBI chief infiltrate the Chicago mafia when the FBI chief's son is killed by them.
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Movie: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 ( 1986 )
A radio host is victimized by the cannibal family as a former Texas Marshall hunts them.
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Movie: The Hitcher ( 1986 )
A young man who escapes the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked by the hitcher and framed for his crimes.
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Movie: Jocks ( 1986 )
The coach of a college tennis team is given an ultimatum: put together a winning team, or else.
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Movie: Poltergeist II: The Other Side ( 1986 )
The Freeling family have a new house, but their troubles with supernatural forces don't seem to be over.
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Movie: Sid and Nancy ( 1986 )
The relationship between Sid Vicious, bassist for British punk group Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen is portrayed.
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Movie: The Great Mouse Detective ( 1986 )
Basil, the rodent Sherlock Holmes, investigates the kidnapping of a toy-maker and uncovers its link to his arch-enemy, Professor Ratigan.
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Movie: Crossroads ( 1986 )
Ralph Macchio is Lightning Boy. A kid who can make a slide guitar sing. Blind Dog is an old pro who knows it. Together, they're headed to a place where deals are made. And legends are born.
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Movie: The Mission ( 1986 )
Jeremy Irons plays a Spanish Jesuit who goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region. Robert De Niro plays a slave hunter who is converted and joins the Jesuit in his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.
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Movie: River's Edge ( 1987 )
A high school slacker commits a shocking act and proceeds to let his friends in on the secret. However, the friends' reaction is almost as ambiguous and perplexing as the crime itself.
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Movie: Peggy Sue Got Married ( 1986 )
Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
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Movie: Rad ( 1986 )
The story of one young man, Cru Jones, who has the intensity and desire to win a BMX race called Helltrack.
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Movie: Back to School ( 1986 )
To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself.
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Movie: Iron Eagle ( 1986 )
A young pilot plans a rescue mission when his father, an Air Force Colonel, is shot down over enemy territory and captured.
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Movie: Deadly Friend ( 1986 )
After his friend is killed by her abusive father, the new kid in town attempts to save her by implanting a robotic microchip into her brain.
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Movie: One Crazy Summer ( 1986 )
An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.
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Movie: Down and Out in Beverly Hills ( 1986 )
A rich but troubled family find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.
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Movie: Armed and Dangerous ( 1986 )
Frank Dooley (John Candy) , a cop wrongly sacked for corruption, teams up with a useless defense lawyer named Norman Kane (Eugene Levy) in their new careers - as security guards. When the two are made fall guys for a robbery at a location they are guarding, the pair begin to investigate corruption within the company and their union. They soon make enemies of everyone, but can the unlikely duo save the day ?
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Movie: Youngblood ( 1986 )
A 17 year old farm boy is offered an ice hockey tryout. His brother drives him to Canada. He has fast legs, slow fists, but is chosen. Will he learn to use his fists and play ice hockey the Canuck way? Will he get the coach's cute daughter?
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Movie: Soul Man ( 1986 )
To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship.
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Movie: Armour of God ( 1986 )
Asian Hawk (Jackie Chan) and his bumbling sidekick are sent on a quest through Europe to find a mysterious treasure held by a shadowy organization of monks.
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Movie: Hoosiers ( 1987 )
A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship.
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Movie: Jumpin' Jack Flash ( 1986 )
An American computer wiz who works at a New York bank is suddenly thrust into the world of international espionage after she inadvertently receives a coded message from a British spy.
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Movie: The Delta Force ( 1986 )
After a plane is hijacked by terrorists, The Delta Force is sent in to resolve the crisis.
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Movie: Running Scared ( 1986 )
Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer who nearly killed them in the past.
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Movie: Pirates ( 1986 )
The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
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Movie: Half Moon Street ( 1986 )
A brilliant researcher in London who works as a high-class hooker in her spare time, becomes a pawn in a dangerous political game, when her latest client, a nobleman who is negotiating an Arab-Israeli peace treaty, falls for her.
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Movie: Black Moon Rising ( 1986 )
A thief, Quint, is hired by the Justice Department to steal incriminating tapes from a corrupt corporation. The tapes vanish when Quint hides them in the back of a hydrodynamic powered racing car that is stolen by a hot car ring.
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Movie: Meatballs III: Summer Job ( 1987 )
A dead porno movie star returns from the beyond to help a nerdy teen to score with the beautiful wife of the owner of the camp he is spending the summer working at. Wow.
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Movie: Blue City ( 1986 )
A drifter returns to his Florida hometown only to discover that his father, the local mayor, was mysteriously murdered during his absence. Vowing to find the killer and avenge his father's death, he starts his own investigation.
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Movie: At Close Range ( 1986 )
In 1978 Pennsylvania, an absentee father is reacquainted with his estranged teenage sons who become intrigued with his romanticized life of crime.
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Movie: Vamp ( 1986 )
Two fraternity pledges travel to a sleazy bar in search of a stripper for their college friends, unaware it is occupied by vampires.
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Movie: Return to Mayberry ( 1986 )
This was a reunion bringing back most of the characters from The Andy Griffith Show. It begins with Andy Taylor returning to Mayberry and planning to run for his old job of Sheriff but when he arrives, he discovers that his old deputy and friend, Barney Fife, is planning to run also. So Andy decides to back down. And at the same time there are some strange things going on, and Barney's stumped, so Andy has to help him out. Also Barney's planning to propose to his old girlfriend Thelma Lou, and Opie, Andy's son is about to become a father.
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Movie: The Big Easy ( 1987 )
A corrupt lieutenant in the homicide division is threatened by the righteous DA while trying to solve a string of mysterious murders.
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Movie: About Last Night... ( 1986 )
A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.
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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: Haunted Honeymoon ( 1986 )
Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater, wants to marry. For the marriage, he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up, among his eccentric relatives. His uncle decides that he needs to be cured from a neurotic speech defect and exaggerated bursts of fear. He gives him shock therapy with palace ghosts.
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Movie: Wise Guys ( 1986 )
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose two hundred fifty thousand dollars, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City, and comedy follows.
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Movie: Wildcats ( 1986 )
A rookie high school football coach has a harder time than she expected trying to whip her tough inner city team into shape.
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Movie: Link ( 1986 )
When a Jane Chase, a young zoology student, is invited to assist anthropologist Steven Phillips with his experiments involving chimpanzees, mysterious events occur that all center around Phillip's super intelligent simian servant, Link.
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Movie: April Fool's Day ( 1986 )
Nine college students staying at a friend's remote island mansion begin to fall victim to an unseen murderer over the April Fool's Day weekend.
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Movie: TerrorVision ( 1986 )
A family's new satellite TV system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.
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Movie: Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 )
Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
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TV Show: Shaka Zulu ( 1986 )
This 10-part 10 hour docu-drama depicts the life of Zulu warrior Shaka, an early 19th century soldier and King who through brilliant but ruthless tactics, united the smaller neighboring kingdoms in his Southeast African region, into a single Zulu nation. Interweaving historic fact with cultural practices, rituals, and mythologies, Shaka is revealed to be one of the greatest modern military figures on the African continent
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Movie: SpaceCamp ( 1986 )
American kids go to a space camp during the summer holidays. They learn how to operate the Space Shuttle. A team consisting of a guy who just entered to meet girls, a wanna be astronaut and an instructor who wanted to go on a mission instead of teaching can sit in the Shuttle while testing the engines. Then they're launched by mistake ...
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Movie: The Manhattan Project ( 1986 )
A high school prodigy builds an atomic bomb with stolen plutonium to win the 45th National Science Fair and expose a nuclear weapons lab posing as nuclear medicine in Ithaca NY.
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Movie: The Best of Times ( 1986 )
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
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Movie: Gung Ho ( 1986 )
When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liaison must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor.
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Movie: Nothing in Common ( 1986 )
A highly successful advertising executive decides to put his job on hold after getting an update from his father that he and his wife are divorced and decides to extend his break after revealing that his father is a diabetic.
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Movie: Invaders from Mars ( 1986 )
A boy tries to stop aliens who have taken over his town and are attempting to brainwash its inhabitants.
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Movie: Psycho III ( 1986 )
Norman Bates falls in love with a fallen nun who stays at the Bates Motel alongside a drifter and a curious reporter. Meanwhile, "mother" is still watching.
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Movie: The Adventures of Milo and Otis ( 1986 )
The adventures of a young cat and a dog as they find themselves accidentally separated and each swept into a hazardous trek.
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Movie: Firewalker ( 1986 )
A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache hoard of gold.
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Movie: No Mercy ( 1986 )
A Chicago detective, seeking to avenge his partner's death, travels to New Orleans, where he unexpectedly becomes involved in a cat and mouse game of survival.
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Movie: The Morning After ( 1986 )
A washed up, alcoholic actress who is prone to blackouts wakes up next to a murdered man. Did she kill him and, if not, is she in danger?
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Movie: Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold ( 1986 )
Allan Quatermain once again teams up with Jesse Huston where the discovery of a mysterious old gold piece sends Quatermain looking for his long-lost brother, missing in the wilds of Africa after seeking a lost white race.
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Movie: Rawhead Rex ( 1987 )
An ancient creature called Rawhead is awakened from its slumber near an Irish village and goes on a rampage killing anyone in sight.
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Movie: Tough Guys ( 1986 )
Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone.
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Movie: Club Paradise ( 1986 )
Injured while risking his life to save an angry German shepard, Chicago Firefighter Jack Moniker retires and moves to a small carribean island named St. Nicholas. There, he is befriended by the owner of a run-down resort, Ernest Reed. Greedy developers are schemeing to wrest Reed's coveted beach front property from him for non-payment of taxes. Jack comes to Ernest's rescue, and together they renovate and reopen the resort catering to affluent Americans. The film follows the zany exploits of the proprietors, guests and various colorful island denizans, as they break in the new "Club Paradise".
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Movie: Something Wild ( 1986 )
A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-convict husband shows up.