Movie Releases by Genre
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Lifeforce
June 21, 1985
A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, beginning an apocalyptic descent into chaos.
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A View to a Kill
May 24, 1985
An investigation of a horse-racing scam leads 007 to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley.
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Trancers
May 22, 1985
A gruff bounty hunter travels back in time to 1980s Los Angeles to stop a twisted criminal who can transform people into zombie-like creatures.
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Rambo: First Blood Part II
May 22, 1985
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
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Gotcha!
May 3, 1985
Jonathan plays a game called Gotcha in which he hunts and is hunted by other students with paint guns. After a big win, he goes off for a vacation in France where he meets the sexy Sasha who says she is only interested in him because he is a virgin. She takes him with her to East Germany where they are separated and he has to escape back to the west on his own, all the while being trailed by East German spies. He arrives home only to find the game is still going on, and a canister of film is in his backpack. Then Sasha re-appears.
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Gymkata
May 3, 1985
An American gymnast (Kurt Thomas) travels to a foreign country to compete in a deadly game not won by anyone other than a native in more than 900 years.
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Code of Silence
May 3, 1985
A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
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Stick
April 26, 1985
Released from prison, Stick meets up with a friend and joins him on a job delivering a bag. His friend gets killed in the setup. Stick gets away and is ready to forget all and see his daughter, but they won't forget.
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He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword
March 22, 1985
Prince Adam is sent to the world of Etheria to find his long abducted sister, Adora, and awaken her to her own destiny.
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The Last Dragon
March 22, 1985
In New York City, a young man searches for a Master to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the Glow.
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Certain Fury
March 1, 1985
During a shooting in court young prostitute Scarlet manages to flee. In a state of confusion, the black Tracy, who was arrested for a minor delict, follows her. When she decides to leave Scarlett, an accident makes it impossible. So they're bound together on a flight from the police and some of the meanest criminals of New York.
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Turk 182
February 15, 1985
Jimmy Lynch (Timothy Hutton) is angry because his older brother, who was injured as a result of an off duty fire rescue, is denied benefits by the city.
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Tuff Turf
January 11, 1985
The new kid in school must battle a gang of street toughs after stealing the gang leader's girl.
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Johnny Dangerously
December 21, 1984
Set in the 1930's, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
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Dune
December 14, 1984
Set in far away future the year 10191 where life in the universe and space travel is reliant upon a spice Melange found only on the desert planet Arrakis or Dune; where the natives of the planet eagerly anticipate the arrival of their Messiah who will lead them into a holy war against the evil Harkonnen empire.
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Runaway
December 14, 1984
In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.
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City Heat
December 7, 1984
Slick Private Investigator Mike Murphy (Burt Reynolds) and tough Police Lieutenant Speer (Clint Eastwood), once partners, now bitter enemies, reluctantly team up to investigate a murder.
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Beverly Hills Cop
December 5, 1984
Axel Foley, a freewheeling Detroit cop investigating the murder of his friend, finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.
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Supergirl
November 21, 1984
After losing a powerful orb, Kara, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.
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Missing in Action
November 16, 1984
Colonel Braddock launches a mission deep into the jungles of Vietnam to find the POW camp that he escaped from and free the Americans still held captive there.
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The Terminator
October 26, 1984
A cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is sent from the 21st century to present-day Los Angeles to assassinate a seemingly innocent women whose child will play an important part in the world from which the killer came. [MGM]
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The Evil That Men Do
September 21, 1984
A professional killer comes out of retirement to investigate and avenge the brutal murder of an old friend.
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Ninja III: The Domination
September 14, 1984
An evil ninja attempts to avenge his death from beyond the grave, by possessing an innocent woman's body.
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Flashpoint
August 31, 1984
Two Texas border guards, a young hotshot and his older and more cynical partner, find a jeep buried for 20 years in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. They decide to keep the money, but quietly check up on the cryptic info they've found on the dead driver. Soon, the Feds are running all over the place, and it looks like the jeep may be linked to the JFK assassination. But the Feds are trying to cover it up, and eliminate anyone who knows about the jeep.
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Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
August 17, 1984
The Green Knight challenges King Arthur's knights. But only young Gawain accepts and decapitates him. The knight takes his head and now gives Gawain one year to learn about virtues, knighthood and then face the challenge himself.
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Last Hurrah for Chivalry
August 17, 1984
A son tries to avenge his father, and gets two sword fighters to help him.
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Dreamscape
August 17, 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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Cloak & Dagger
August 10, 1984
Davey Osborne (Henry Thomas) is an imaginative youngster who loves role-playing games, and who often enlists the aid of his best friend, an imaginary super-spy named Jack Flack (Dabney Coleman). One day he witnesses a real murder of an FBI agent who passes a videogame called "Cloak & Dagger" to him before he dies. When the police come, the body is gone, and no one will believe him, including his father, Col. Hal Osborne. Soon Davey finds himself up to his neck in hairbreadth escapes, real bullets, and slam-bang action as the hitmen close in. Can Jack save him before time runs out?
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Red Dawn
August 10, 1984
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.
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The Last Starfighter
July 13, 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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Conan the Destroyer
June 29, 1984
Conan leads a ragtag group of adventurers on a quest for a princess.
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Cannonball Run II
June 29, 1984
The original personalities from the first Cannonball movie race across the country once more in a bunch of cars and trucks.
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The Karate Kid
June 22, 1984
A martial arts master agrees to teach karate to a bullied teenager.
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The Pope of Greenwich Village
June 22, 1984
Two cousins unknowingly rob the mob and face the dangerous consequences.
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Streets of Fire
June 1, 1984
A mercenary is hired to rescue his ex-girlfriend, a singer who has been kidnapped by a motorcycle gang.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
June 1, 1984
Admiral Kirk and his crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis planet to recover Spock's body.
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
May 23, 1984
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees, and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
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Firestarter
May 11, 1984
A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telekinetic ability and then have a child (Drew Barrymore) who is pyrokinetic.
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The Bounty
May 4, 1984
Fed up with their captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship crew decides to take action.
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Romancing the Stone
March 30, 1984
After her sister is kidnapped by thugs amidst their search for a priceless gem in the Colombian jungle, a romance novelist (Kathleen Turner) realizes that her own life is in danger! And when she sets out to rescue her sister, she meets a handsome fortune seeker (Michael Douglas), who more than sidetracks her!
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Tank
March 16, 1984
Sergeant Major Zack arrives at a new army base with his wife, son and Sherman tank. One night at a bar he "stops" a pimp/deputy from beating a girl. The corrupt sheriff uses Zack's son for revenge and Zack uses his tank.
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The Ice Pirates
March 16, 1984
In a distant future scarce of water, space pirates get caught after stealing ice from a spaceship. They are sold to a princess looking for her dad. He might have found a planet abundant with water.
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Against All Odds
March 2, 1984
Terry Brogan (Bridges), a football player who is fired from the team, is recruited by an old friend (Woods) to track down a girlfriend in Mexico.
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Repo Man
March 2, 1984
Otto (Estevez) loses his job as a stock boy in a supermarket in Los Angeles and spends his evenings in the punk underground before encountering Bud (Stanton) who brings him into the life of professional car repossessing. Meanwhile, a nuclear physicist (Harris) has stolen something dangerous and glowing which he stashes into the trunk of his 1964 Chevy Malibu. A mid-eighties cult classic.
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Lassiter
February 17, 1984
A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.
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The Keep
December 16, 1983
Nazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.
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D.C. Cab
December 16, 1983
The story of a shiftless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes to town with a dream of starting his own cab company but needs to motivate Harold's employees to want to make something out of themselves. It is only when Albert is kidnapped that the cabbies must decide whether or not they are loyal to Albert and his cause.
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Uncommon Valor
December 16, 1983
With money from an oil tycoon (Stack), Col. Rhodes (Hackman) recruits marines to go back into the jungles to find his son, who he believes is being held as a POW in Laos.
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Sudden Impact
December 9, 1983
The fourth of the Dirty Harry films starring Clint Eastwood, and the first of them to be directed by Eastwood. In it, a rape victim is exacting revenge on her aggressors in a small town outside San Francisco. "Dirty" Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), on suspension for angering his superiors (again), is assigned to the case.
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Never Say Never Again
October 7, 1983
A SPECTRE agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.
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Revenge of the Ninja
September 16, 1983
After ninjas killed his family, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new life. He opens a doll shop but is unwittingly importing heroin in the dolls. When his friend betrays him, Cho must prepare for the ultimate battle.
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Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
August 12, 1983
Big and Little Enos are opening a sea food restaurant. They bet Sheriff Buford T. Justice that he cannot drive from Miami to the Enos ranch in Texas in a given amount of time. If Buford loses he has to give up his badge.
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Krull
July 29, 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.
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Stroker Ace
July 1, 1983
Stroker Ace (Burt Reynolds), a popular NASCAR driver, clashes with the fried-chicken mogul that sponsors his racing team.
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Yellowbeard
June 24, 1983
After serving two decades in prison, Yellowbeard (Graham Chapman) breaks out determined to recover the treasure that he buried so long ago, alongside his son, old crew, and the British Navy.
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Superman III
June 17, 1983
Synthetic kryptonite laced with tobacco tar splits Superman in two: good Clark Kent and evil Man of Steel.
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Octopussy
June 10, 1983
A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed up by the mysterious Octopussy, used to disguise a nuclear attack on NATO forces.
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Chained Heat
May 27, 1983
Young Carol Henderson ends up in prison where she must learn how to survive in an environment plagued by violence, murder, rape, racism, drugs and staff corruption and brutality.
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
May 25, 1983
The Millennnium Falcon flashes through hyperspace and creatures from all over the galaxy defy the Galactic Empire. After rescuing Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Leia (Carrie Fisher) from certain doom at the hands of crime lord Jabba the Hutt, Luke (Mark Hamill) rejoins Yoda. Only by completing his Jedi training can he become a true Jedi Knight and defeat Darth Vader and the dark side of the Force.
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Breathless
May 13, 1983
When Jesse Lujack steals a car in Las Vegas and drives down to LA, his criminal ways only escalate- but when will it end?
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Blue Thunder
May 13, 1983
The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle.
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Lone Wolf McQuade
April 15, 1983
The classic renegade Texas Ranger goes to war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably culminates a martial arts showdown between the drug lord and the ranger, and involving the woman they each love.
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Losin' It
April 8, 1983
In 1965, Woody, Dave, Spider and Wendell travel to Tijuana, Mexico to lose their virginity before the night is over.
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48 Hrs.
December 8, 1982
Detective Jack Cates (Nolte) takes convict Reggie Hammond (Murphy) out of jail for forty-eight hours to solve a case.
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First Blood
October 22, 1982
John Rambo (Stallone) escapes from jail and utilizes the skills he learned in war to evade the sheriff who arrested him.
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Class of 1984
August 20, 1982
A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with the delinquent leader of a punk posse that runs the school.
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The Beastmaster
August 20, 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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Things Are Tough All Over
August 4, 1982
Cheech and Chong are hired to drive a limo from Chicago to Las Vegas by two shady dudes - Mr. Slyman (Cheech) and Prince Habib (Chong). Unbeknownst to them, five million dollars of dirty money has been stuffed throughout the car.
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TRON
July 9, 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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Blade Runner
June 25, 1982
In a future of high-tech possibility soured by urban and social decay, detective Rick Deckard hunts for fugitive, murderous replicants—and is drawn to a mystery woman whose secrets may undermine his soul. [Warner Bros.]
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Megaforce
June 25, 1982
Story about a rapid deployment defense unit that is called into action whenever freedom is threatened.
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Firefox
June 18, 1982
A pilot is sent into the Soviet Union on a mission to steal a prototype jet fighter that can be partially controlled by a neuralink
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
June 4, 1982
With the aide of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.
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The Road Warrior
May 21, 1982
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, Max (Mel Gibson), a cynical drifter, agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community fight a roving band of marauders. Originally titled Mad Max 2.
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Conan the Barbarian
May 14, 1982
Conan (Schwarzenegger) seeks revenge from the group lead by Thulsa Doom who killed his parents and enslaved him.
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The Sword and the Sorcerer
April 30, 1982
A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage's dangerous future when he is recruited to help a princess foil the designs of a brutal tyrant and a powerful sorcerer in conquering a land.
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Silent Rage
April 2, 1982
A sheriff (Chuck Norris) tries to stop the killing spree of a mute maniacal murderer who, as the result of years of medical experimentation, has the ability to self-heal.
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Death Wish II
February 19, 1982
Architect Paul Kersey once again becomes a vigilante when he tries to find the five street punks who murdered his daughter and housekeeper, this time on the dark streets of Los Angeles.
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Das Boot
February 10, 1982
It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy English shipping. With better escorts of the Destroyer Class, however, German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. Das Boot is the story of one such U-Boat crew, with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers, attempted to accomplish impossible missions, while all the time attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served. (Sony Pictures)
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Sharky's Machine
December 18, 1981
Tom Sharky is demoted to vice after a bust goes terribly wrong. He and his team stumble across a mob murder tied to prostitution and government.
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Enter the Ninja
October 2, 1981
After just completing his training at a ninja school, an army vet travels to the Phillippines and finds himself battling a land grabber who wants his war-buddy's property. He must also fight his rival.
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Galaxy of Terror
October 1, 1981
A science fiction suspense thriller, in which a rescue space ship crew meets up with horrors projected by their own imaginations.
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Southern Comfort
September 25, 1981
During a routine exercise, a team of National Guards are threatened by angry and violent locals.
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An Eye for an Eye
August 14, 1981
A SFPD undercover narcotics cop aims to avenge his partner's death and destroy a drug-smuggling ring operated by the Chinese Triads.
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Condorman
August 7, 1981
Cartoonist Woody becomes the superhero he draws. Using his gadgets he helps a Soviet spy defect to the West.
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Zorro: The Gay Blade
July 17, 1981
Mexico, 1840s. When the new Spanish Governor begins to grind the peasants under his heel, wealthy landowner Don Diego Vega follows in his late father's footsteps and becomes Zorro, the masked man in black with a sword who rights wrongs and becomes a folk hero to the people of Mexico. When Vega sprains his ankle and cannot figure out how to continue his campaign against the corrupt Captain Esteban, luck stays with Vega when his long-lost twin brother Ramon, who was sent off by their father to the British Royal Navy to make a "man" of him, whom is also flamboyantly gay, and now known as Lt. Bunny Wigglesworth, appears for a visit. 'Bunny' agrees to temporarily take his brother's place as Zorro, but wishes to make some changes. Bunny becomes 'the Gay Blade' in which his new suits are lemon, plum, and scarlet colored, and Bunny insists on using a whip. Bunny also becomes the liaison between Don Vega and the liberal American activist/feminist Charlotte a long-time critic of Captain Esteban's policies, and who has a crush on her masked hero.
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Escape from New York
July 10, 1981
In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber (Kurt Russell) is sent in to rescue him.
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For Your Eyes Only
June 26, 1981
James Bond, Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.
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Dragonslayer
June 26, 1981
A young wizarding apprentice is sent to kill a dragon which has been devouring girls from a nearby kingdom.
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The Cannonball Run
June 19, 1981
A motley crew of eccentric competitors participate in a frenetic and illegal cross-country road race. However, the entrants will do anything to win the road race, including low-down, dirty tricks.
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Superman II
June 19, 1981
A trio of Krypton villains threaten havoc on Earth, while Superman and Lois Lane are just becoming involved in a long awaited love affair -- an affair which may cost Superman his super powers. [Warner Bros.]
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
June 12, 1981
You're in for thrills as Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) confronts snakes, Nazis and one astonishing cliffhanger after another -- all topped off by the discovery and opening of the mystical Ark of the Covenant. [Paramount Pictures]
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Clash of the Titans
June 12, 1981
Perseus must battle both Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda.
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Outland
May 22, 1981
In the distant future, a police marshal stationed at a remote mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy, and gets no help from the populace when he later finds himself marked for murder.
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Death Hunt
May 21, 1981
In 1931 Canada, Yukon trapper Johnson has a feud with a dog owner who later retaliates by publicly accusing Johnson of murder and thus triggering a police manhunt in the wilderness.
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Nighthawks
April 10, 1981
Conservative street cop Deke DaSilva (Sylvester Stallone) reluctantly agrees to terminate an international terrorist who has demanded media attention. But DaSilva's "at-home" tactics are very much put to the challenge.
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Knightriders
April 10, 1981
The members of a traveling Renaissance Faire, who saddle up on motorcycles instead of horses, ride from town to town to stage medieval jousting tournaments with combatants in suits of armor and wielding lances, battle-axes, maces and broadswords. The spectacle of this violent pageant soon garners national attention, much to the dismay of the current king of this Camelot. A challenger to his throne arises as they try to maintain their fairytale existence in a world wrought with corruption.
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Thief
March 27, 1981
Becoming closer to his dream of leading a normal life, a professional safecracker agrees to do a job for the mafia, who have other plans for him.
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The Dogs of War
February 13, 1981
Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.
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Drunken Master
December 19, 1980
Wong Fei-Hung (Jackie Chan) is a mischievous, yet righteous young man, but after a series of incidents, his frustrated father has him disciplined by Beggar So (Siu-Tin Yuen), a Master of drunken martial arts.
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