Movie Releases by Genre
|
Any Which Way You Can
December 17, 1980
A trucker turned prize fighter, his brother and their pet orangutan have a series of misadventures involving the mob, corrupt cops, motorcycle gangs and pretty dames.
|
|
Flash Gordon
December 5, 1980
Emperor Ming of planet Mongo is bored, and the only thing that seems to appease his ennui is to slowly destroy that celestial trifle known as Earth-- bombarding his new plaything with hailstorms and earthquakes. While Earth’s inhabitants scramble to understand what is happening to their planet, Dr. Hans Zarkov figures out the space coordinates of the origin of attack and commandeers a rocket. But before take-off, he inadvertently kidnaps beautiful New York reporter, Dale Arden, and famed football player, Flash Gordon. Will these mere Earthlings be able to stop the wrath of Emperor Ming? Maybe not, but Flash Gordon is no mere Earthling; he’s a New York Jet.
|
|
Battle Beyond the Stars
September 8, 1980
A young farmer sets out to recruit mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet, which is under threat of invasion by the evil tyrant Sador and his armada of aggressors.
|
|
The Octagon
August 15, 1980
A martial artist must defeat a plan by ninjas to create a worldwide training camp for terrorists.
|
|
Smokey and the Bandit II
August 15, 1980
Get ready for a wild ride as the notorious Bandit (Burt Reynolds) and his feisty sidekick Carrie (Sally Field) find themselves in a mission of epic proportions: transporting a pregnant elephant across the country in just 24 hours. Hot on their heels is arch-nemesis Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason), who’s determined to finally put the Bandit in the big house.
|
|
The Hunter
August 1, 1980
The story of professional bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson (Steve McQueen).
|
|
The Final Countdown
August 1, 1980
A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
|
|
The Big Red One
July 18, 1980
World War I veteran Sergeant Possum (Lee Marvin) wants to get the job done and to get himself and his squad of green recruits out alive. It's just a job: Kill the enemy before they kill you. And through the seemingly endless bloodshed from North Africa, to Sicily, the Normandy Invasion and the push into Germany, his now-veteran squad—Gruff (Mark Hamill), Zab (Robert Carradine), Vinci (Bobby CiCicco) and Johnson (Kelly Ward)—learns both the brutal horror of war and to never become emotionally close with a new recruit.
|
|
The Stunt Man
June 27, 1980
A fugitive stumbles on a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady.
|
|
The Blues Brothers
June 20, 1980
Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised.
|
|
Bronco Billy
June 11, 1980
The Wild West has been tamed, leaving no place for a group of romantic roustabouts except their small traveling show. Meanwhile a desperate heiress (Sondra Locke), who has been left stranded by her con-artist husband, will do anything for a ride to the next town—even if that means allowing a blindfolded Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood) to throw knives at her for a scant audience. So begins a tumultuous relationship and roller coaster adventure.
|
|
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
May 21, 1980
Three years after the events of Star Wars, Imperial forces continue to pursue the Rebels. After the Rebellion?s defeat on the ice planet Hoth, Luke journeys to the planet Dagobah to train with Jedi Master Yoda, who has lived in hiding since the fall of the Republic. In an attempt to convert Luke to the dark side, Darth Vader lures young Skywalker into a trap in the Cloud City of Bespin. In the midst of a fierce lightsaber duel with the Sith Lord, Luke faces a startling revelation. [20th Century Fox]
|
|
The Nude Bomb
May 9, 1980
Maxwell Smart is recalled to duty to help fight a villian who threatens to detonate a weapon that destroys clothing.
|
|
ffolkes
April 18, 1980
When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.
|
|
When Time Ran Out...
March 28, 1980
An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.
|
|
The Lady Vanishes
March 1, 1980
While travelling in pre-war Nazi Germany, a young couple realize a passenger seems to have been kidnapped off of their train, but, no other passenger aside from themselves, recalls her.
|
|
Mad Max
February 15, 1980
Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson), an Australian policeman, sets out to avenge his wife and son.
|
|
The Black Hole
December 21, 1979
The U.S.S. Cygnus is perched precariously at the edge of a black hole – the vast, empty nothingness where space and time end. Anything that crosses its border enters a universe of the complete unknown. A story of robots and humanoids, human genius and madness, and a spectacular descent into nature's ultimate mystery – The Black Hole. [Disney]
|
|
1941
December 14, 1979
Pandemonium erupts in Los Angeles after the WWII attack on Pearl Harbor in the wartime spoof, 1941. This epic comedy soufflé features lavish special effects and screwball characters in an all-star extravaganza set on the streets of Hollywood. As hysterical Californians prepare for an imagined Japanese invasion, a motley crew of defenders attempt to guard their beloved palm-tree-lined coast. [Universal Pictures]
|
|
Meteor
October 19, 1979
The U.S. must join forces with the U.S.S.R. in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth.
|
|
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
September 20, 1979
A 20th-century astronaut emerges out of 500 years of suspended animation into a future time to become Earth's greatest hero.
|
|
Love and Bullets
September 14, 1979
Arizona cop is sent to Switzerland to bring in the girlfriend of a dangerous mobster so she can testify against him. The mobster sends someone too - assassins.
|
|
Hanover Street
September 13, 1979
Margaret (Lesley-Anne Down) is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David (Harrison Ford), an American pilot.
|
|
The Concorde... Airport '79
August 17, 1979
A supersonic airborne disaster. In order to survive a flight headed for the Moscow Olympics, passengers of the Concorde must endure aerial acrobatics to dodge missiles and survive a device that decompresses the plane.
|
|
Apocalypse Now
August 15, 1979
During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.
|
|
Sunburn
August 10, 1979
After a rich old man dies in a suspicious car accident in Acapulco, Mexico, his widow wants his insurance company to pony up five million dollars. Hotshot investigator Jake Decker (Charles Grodin) and charming model Ellie (Farrah Fawcett-Majors) come in to check it out.
|
|
The Lady in Red
July 27, 1979
A naive farm girl's life turns upside down after being in the wrong place at the wrong time. She moves to Chicago and becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime.
|
|
Moonraker
June 29, 1979
James Bond, Agent 007, investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.
|
|
The In-Laws
June 15, 1979
On the eve of their children's marriage, NYC in-laws Sheldon Kornpett and Vince Ricardo embark on a series of misadventures involving the CIA, the Treasury Department and Central American dictators.
|
|
Game of Death
June 8, 1979
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.
|
|
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
May 18, 1979
An extension of the previous film, wherein a cache of adventurers return to the overturned ship to seek several fortunes.
|
|
A Force of One
May 18, 1979
When the detectives of an undercover police unit are being mysteriously killed by a martial artist, a professional kickboxer is hired to assist them.
|
|
The Passage
March 9, 1979
During World War II, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees while being pursued by a sadistic German.
|
|
The Warriors
February 9, 1979
In 1979 a charismatic leader summons the street gangs of New York City in a bid to take it over. When he is killed, The Warriors are falsely blamed and now must fight their way home while every other gang is hunting them down to kill them.
|
|
Every Which Way But Loose
December 20, 1978
The San Fernando Valley adventures of trucker turned prize-fighter Philo Beddoe and his pet orangutan Clyde.
|
|
Superman
December 15, 1978
An adventure re-told, spanning the Man of Steel's life from his Krypton infancy and Midwest boyhood to his career as Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent and through his titanic struggle with archnemesis Lex Luthor. [Warner Bros.]
|
|
Force 10 from Navarone
December 8, 1978
During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.
|
|
Battlestar Galactica
September 17, 1978
After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet on a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.
|
|
Who'll Stop the Rain
August 2, 1978
Vietnam veteran Ray Hicks gets conned into helping his buddy John Converse smuggle some heroin, only to wind up on the lam with John's wife when the deal goes sour.
|
|
The Driver
July 28, 1978
A getaway driver becomes the latest assignment for a tenacious detective.
|
|
Hooper
July 28, 1978
Hollywood aging stuntman Sonny Hooper wants to prove that he's still got what it takes to be a great professional in this risky and under-recognized line of work.
|
|
Convoy
June 28, 1978
Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff...Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.
|
|
Capricorn One
June 2, 1978
A NASA Mars mission won't work, and its funding is endangered, so they decide to fake it just this once. But then they have to keep the secret.
|
|
Deathsport
April 1, 1978
Futuristic Science Fiction about a sport to the death, using "destructocycles".
|
|
The Gauntlet
December 21, 1977
A hard but mediocre cop is assigned to escort a prostitute into custody from Las Vegas to Phoenix, so that she can testify in a mob trial. But a lot of people are literally betting that they won't make it into town alive.
|
|
The Spy Who Loved Me
August 3, 1977
James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads with the help of a KGB agent whose lover he killed.
|
|
Greased Lightning
July 1, 1977
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper tier NASCAR race.
|
|
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
June 24, 1977
Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. Unbeknownst to Herbie's driver, thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get them back.
|
|
Tentacles
June 15, 1977
A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community.
|
|
Smokey and the Bandit
May 27, 1977
Get ready to tear up the highway with the Bandit (Burt Reynolds), a fun-loving, fast-talking trucker who takes on his craziest haul yet - delivering 400 cases of beer from Texarkana to Atlanta in just 28 hours. With Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason) hot on his trail and eager to teach him some respect for the law, the Bandit joins forces with good ol' boy, Cledus (Jerry Reed) and runaway bride Carrie (Sally Field).
|
|
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
May 25, 1977
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) is held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to quell the rebellion against the Galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Captain Han Solo (Harrison Ford) team together with the lovable droid duo, R2-D2 and C-3PO, to rescue the beautiful princess and restore justice in the galaxy. [20th Century Fox]
|
|
The Car
May 13, 1977
A small desert town is terrorized by a powerful, seemingly possessed car, and the local sheriff may be the only one who can stop it.
|
|
The White Buffalo
May 1, 1977
At the closing of 1874 a haunted, dying Wild Bill Hickok teams up with a grieving Crazy Horse to hunt a murderous albino buffalo.
|
|
Airport '77
March 11, 1977
Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water.
|
|
The Enforcer
December 22, 1976
Dirty Harry must foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans. But this time, he's teamed with a rookie female partner that he's not too excited to be working with.
|
|
Silver Streak
December 3, 1976
On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.
|
|
Two-Minute Warning
November 12, 1976
A crazed sniper is set to kill spectators at an L.A. Coliseum football championship game and the police race against time to eliminate him.
|
|
The Next Man
November 10, 1976
Influential Arab diplomat becomes the target of numerous assassination attempts, after he announces his plan to make peace with Israel by letting them join the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (O.P.E.C.).
|
|
Assault on Precinct 13
November 5, 1976
The lone inhabitants of an abandoned police station are under attack by the overwhelming numbers of a seemingly unstoppable street gang.
|
|
J.D.'s Revenge
August 25, 1976
Murdered on Bourbon Street in 1942 New Orleans, a gangster returns from the dead 34 years later possessing the body of a young, black law student in his quest for revenge.
|
|
Gator
August 20, 1976
Agents force a former con man to help them nab a corrupt politician.
|
|
Cannonball!
July 6, 1976
This is another story of the secret Coast to Coast auto race across America The only rule is, the first to finish is the winner. Naturally, anyone driving 55 isn't going to win. They'll need to drive a little faster than that. Well actually, they will need to drive a LOT faster that 55.
|
|
Logan's Run
June 23, 1976
Live it up today, your time is up tomorrow. In the Year of the City 2274, humans forsake the ravaged outer environment by living in a vast, bubbled metropolis. There, computerized servo-mechanisms provide all needs and everyone can pursue endless hedonism. Endless, that is, until Lastday. That's when anyone who's 30 must submit to Carrousel, a soaring, spinning trip to eternity and supposed rebirth.
|
|
Midway
June 18, 1976
A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
|
|
Eat My Dust
April 7, 1976
Darlene's into going fast, Hoover's into Darlene, but when they both get into a red-hot race car, the reckless fun accelerates into a trunk-full of hot pursuits.
|
|
The Killer Elite
December 19, 1975
Mike Locke, who works for a private security firm affiliated with the C.I.A., is betrayed by his partner and left apparently crippled for life.
|
|
The Drowning Pool
July 18, 1975
A big-city private detective travels to the Deep South to help out an old girlfriend who is worried that her husband will find out that she is cheating on him.
|
|
Race with the Devil
June 27, 1975
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
|
|
Rollerball
June 25, 1975
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
|
|
Bite the Bullet
June 25, 1975
A pair of ex-Rough Riders, a former prostitute, a gunfighter, an aging cowboy and an English gentleman enter a 700-mile horse race through the Southwest desert in 1908.
|
|
The Wind and the Lion
May 22, 1975
In early twentieth century Morocco, a Sharif kidnaps an American woman and her children, forcing President Theodore Roosevelt to send in forces to conduct a rescue mission.
|
|
Breakout
May 22, 1975
A bush pilot is hired for fifty thousand dollars to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.
|
|
French Connection II
May 21, 1975
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseille to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who eluded him in New York.
|
|
The Eiger Sanction
May 21, 1975
A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
|
|
Death Race 2000
April 27, 1975
In a dystopian future, a cross country car race compels contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to earn points that are tallied based on each kill's brutality.
|
|
Dolemite
April 26, 1975
After he is released from jail, a pimp takes on the criminals and corrupt police officers who framed him in the first place.
|
|
Brannigan
March 26, 1975
Chicago Police Lieutenant Jim Brannigan is sent to the U.K. to escort organized crime boss Ben Larkin back to the U.S., but Larkin's hitmen prepare an ambush for Brannigan.
|
|
The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge
February 26, 1975
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.
|
|
The Wilby Conspiracy
February 13, 1975
Black anti-apartheid activist and British engineer are forced to run from South African secret police.
|
|
The Man with the Golden Gun
December 20, 1974
James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder.
|
|
The Towering Inferno
December 17, 1974
At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
|
|
Earthquake
November 15, 1974
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
|
|
Airport 1975
October 18, 1974
A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.
|
|
Big Bad Mama
September 19, 1974
A tough single mother and her two daughters are forced by circumstances into a life of crime, and quickly become outlaws on the run, picking up partners along the way, and traveling to different states, pursued by the law.
|
|
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
August 7, 1974
An American bar room pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
|
|
Gone in 60 Seconds
July 28, 1974
When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one is in the bag - thereby, the police precipitate in a desperate car chase against Pace and his Eleanor across Southern California.
|
|
Death Wish
July 24, 1974
A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks in which he randomly goes out and kills would-be muggers on the mean streets after dark.
|
|
Mr. Majestyk
July 17, 1974
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.
|
|
The Black Windmill
May 17, 1974
A British Agent's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
|
|
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
May 17, 1974
Larry Rayder is an aspiring NASCAR driver, Deke Sommers is mechanic. As they feel they collectively are the best, the only thing that is holding them back is money to build the best vehicle possible. As such, they decide to rob a supermarket's office of the money in its safe to pursue their dream. On the most part, their robbery is successful, although their plan breaks down in its end phase, which doesn't allow them as much getaway time as they wanted. Another problem they face is an unexpected third person in their getaway, Larry's one night stand Mary Coombs, who doesn't like the fact that Larry ran off on her, although she eventually also says that she doesn't want any of the money. With a police scanner and two-way radio in their souped up Dodge Charger, they try to outrun the police, who have an identification of their vehicle, and a general description of the three. The police pursuit is led by the tenacious Sheriff Everett Franklin, who knows he and his team can catch them, but also knows that the three may be able to get out of the state to "freedom" through a grove of walnut trees, which Larry, Deke and Mary may or may not know. At every literal and figurative turn, Larry needs to show his superiority as a driver, while trying to ditch Mary, who is a little more resourceful in staying with them than he anticipates.
|
|
Caged Heat
April 19, 1974
In a women's prison, a group of inmates band together to combat the repressive and abusive policies of the warden.
|
|
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
April 5, 1974
Sinbad and the vizier of Marabia, followed by evil magician Koura, seek the three golden tablets that can gain them access to the ancient temple of the Oracle of All Knowledge.
|
|
Foxy Brown
April 5, 1974
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
|
|
The Three Musketeers
March 29, 1974
A young swordsman comes to Paris and faces villains, romance, adventure and intrigue with three Musketeer friends.
|
|
Lady Snowblood
March 22, 1974
A strikingly beautiful young woman is raised from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.
|
|
Magnum Force
December 25, 1973
Dirty Harry is on the trail of vigilante cops who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city's undesirables.
|
|
Westworld
November 21, 1973
For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the theme park called Westworld. They can bust up a bar or bust out of jail, drop in on a brothel or get the drop on a gunslinger. It's all safe: the park's lifelike androids are programmed never to harm the customers. But not all droids are getting with the program. [Warner Bros.]
|
|
Enter the Dragon
August 19, 1973
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
|
|
White Lightning
August 8, 1973
An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.
|
|
Cleopatra Jones
July 13, 1973
During the 1970s, U.S. Special Agent Cleopatra Jones proves to be an invaluable asset to the local police forces in the war on drugs.
|



































































































