Movie Releases by Genre
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The Land Before Time
November 18, 1988
An orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in a valley.
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Oliver & Company
November 18, 1988
A lost and alone kitten joins a gang of dogs engaged in petty larceny in New York City.
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Mac and Me
August 12, 1988
An alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy.
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Big Top Pee-wee
July 22, 1988
Pee-wee Herman is now a small-town farmer with a fiancée, but when a traveling circus comes to town, he finds himself falling for the trapeze artist.
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Midnight Run
July 20, 1988
Bounty hunter Jack Walsh (De Niro) is offered $100,000 from a bail bondsman to capture fugitive accountant Jonathan "the Duke" Mardukas (Grodin) and bring him to Los Angeles in time for his trial date. Walsh must avoid a rival bounty hunter, the FBI, and the mob to earn his payday.
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Crocodile Dundee II
May 25, 1988
Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.
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Rambo III
May 25, 1988
Just when John Rambo thinks he can finally rest, he finds himself on one last mission to Soviet occupied Afghanistan to save his friend Clononel Trautman.
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Willow
May 20, 1988
A reluctant dwarf must play a critical role in protecting a special baby from an evil queen.
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Shoot to Kill
February 12, 1988
An F.B.I. Agent teams up with a tracker to pursue a murderer after he vanishes into the mountains and infiltrates a hiking group.
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Cherry 2000
February 5, 1988
In 2017, a successful businessman travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. He hires a sexy renegade tracker to find an exact duplicate of his android wife.
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Steel Dawn
November 6, 1987
In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of settlers who are being menaced by a murderous gang that is after the water they control.
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The Princess Bride
September 25, 1987
A young boy listens to while his grandfather reads him the adventures of Buttercup (Wright), the most beautiful woman in the world, and Westly (Elwes), the man she loves, in the fairy-tale kingdom of Florin. [MGM]
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The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
August 22, 1987
Dodger must confront the struggles of life as he is visited by the Garbage Pail Kids and intimidated by some older bullies.
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Masters of the Universe
August 7, 1987
The heroic warrior He-Man battles against lord Skeletor and his armies of darkness for control of Castle Grayskull.
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The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland
August 7, 1987
The Care Bears and Alice set out to stop an evil wizard from taking over Wonderland.
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The Living Daylights
July 31, 1987
James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov.
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
July 24, 1987
The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.
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Jaws: The Revenge
July 17, 1987
Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.
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Adventures in Babysitting
July 3, 1987
A babysitter must battle her way through the big city after being stranded there with the kids she's looking after.
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Innerspace
July 1, 1987
A hapless store clerk must foil criminals to save the life of the man who, miniaturized in a secret experiment, was accidentally injected into him.
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Spaceballs
June 24, 1987
When the evil Dark Helmet attempts to steal all the air from planet Druidia, a determined Druish Princess, a clueless rogue and a half-man/half-dog creature who's his own best friend set out to stop him! But with the forces of darkness closing in on them at ludicrous speed, they'll need the help of a wise imp named Yogurt and the mystical power of "The Schwartz" to bring peace - and merchandising rights - to the entire galaxy! (MGM)
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Predator
June 12, 1987
Schaefer (Schwarzenegger) and his elite military unit are recruited to rescue hostages held by guerrillas in the Latin American jungle. But once there, they encounter an enemy more deadly than any on earth! (20th Century Fox)
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Benji the Hunted
June 5, 1987
Benji is left in the wilderness after an accident. Will he survive?
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Ishtar
May 15, 1987
Chuck Clarke (Hoffman) and Lyle Rogers (Beatty) are a couple of no-talent New York singer-songwriters who agree to play the only gig they can find at the Chez Casablanca in Morocco. En route, they become embroiled in various international intrigues in the neighboring (fictional) Ishtar.
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Raising Arizona
March 13, 1987
A surreal, hyperactive farce in which a bumbling petty thief and the lady cop who keeps arresting him fall in love and decide to start a family. When they discover they can't have babies, they steal one from a furniture mogul who has just sired a set of quintuplets. The joys of parenthood are soon marred, however, by the difficulties of raising an infant on the run. The none-too-bright couple must flee across the southwestern desert in order to elude the villainous biker that has been hired to retrieve the tyke. [20th Century Fox]
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King Kong Lives
December 19, 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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The Golden Child
December 12, 1986
A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child who dark forces want to eliminate.
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The Mosquito Coast
November 26, 1986
Allie Fox (Harrison Ford) moves his wife (Helen Mirren) and their four young children to Central America to form his own Utopia.
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
November 26, 1986
To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to 20th century Earth to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it, humpback whales.
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Solarbabies
November 26, 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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Firewalker
November 21, 1986
A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache hoard of gold.
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The Mission
October 31, 1986
Eighteenth century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
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Crocodile Dundee
September 26, 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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Shanghai Surprise
August 29, 1986
Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them on a hectic, exotic, and even romantic quest for stolen drugs. But they are up against every thug and smuggler in Shangai.
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Stand by Me
August 22, 1986
Stand by Me's screenplay by Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans is based on Stephen King's novella "The Body," a somewhat autobiographical account of an overnight hike by four Oregon youngsters to seek the body of a boy who had been struck by a train. [New York Times]
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The Transformers: The Movie
August 8, 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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Flight of the Navigator
August 1, 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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Howard the Duck
August 1, 1986
A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth where he must stop an alien invader.
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Pirates
July 18, 1986
The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
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Big Trouble in Little China
July 2, 1986
An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown.
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The Great Mouse Detective
July 2, 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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Labyrinth
June 27, 1986
Babysitting infant stepbrother Toby on a weekend night isn’t young Sarah’s idea of fun. Frustrated by his crying, she secretly imagines the Goblins from her favorite book, Labyrinth, carrying Toby away. When her fantasy comes true, a distraught Sarah must enter a maze of illusion to bring Toby back from a kingdom inhabited by mystical creatures and governed by the wicked Goblin King. (Sony Pictures)
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Never Too Young to Die
June 13, 1986
After a top-secret agent is murdered, 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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My Little Pony: The Movie
June 6, 1986
Ponyland comes under attack from the Smooze, a massive purple ooze created by an evil witch who plans to destroy the ponies' annual spring festival.
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SpaceCamp
June 6, 1986
The youthful attendees of a space camp find themselves in space for real when their shuttle is inadvertently launched into orbit.
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Jake Speed
May 30, 1986
In a world where, unbeknownst to the public, all famous pulp fiction heroes are real, one of them, Jake Speed, agrees to help desperate Margaret Winston save her sister from sadistic white slaver Sid, who's operating in Africa.
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Legend
April 18, 1986
A young man must stop the Lord of Darkness from both destroying daylight and marrying the woman he loves.
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Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation
March 21, 1986
The Care Bears try to help a young girl at summer camp who, in an effort to revamp her dorky social status to agility and skill, enters into a sinister bargain with a shape-shifting demon posing as a young boy.
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GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords
March 21, 1986
The Go-Bots fight to rescue the Rock People.
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Highlander
March 7, 1986
Connor Macleod, an immortal Scottish swordsman, must confront the last of his immortal opponents, a murderously brutal barbarian who lusts for the fabled "Prize".
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The Delta Force
February 14, 1986
After a plane is hijacked by terrorists, The Delta Force is deployed to resolve the crisis.
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
January 17, 1986
This film tells the story of one woman's struggle for acceptance amidst a barbaric clan. Daryl Hannah is Ayla in the film version of Jean M. Auel's best seller. No historian recorded their heartaches, triumphs or names. Yet Ayla and others like her left indelible imprints. They continued humankind's long march toward civilization.... and away from more primitive groups like The Clan of the Cave Bear. Separated from her Cro-Magnon people by a calamitous earthquake, Ayla lives with a less-developed, male-dominated Neanderthal clan. She's different in appearance, in resourcefulness, in her uncommon defiance of social taboos. And from those differences arise conflicts that underscore the Cro-Magnons' evolutionary ascendancy and the Neanderthals’ mysterious disappearance from our world. [Warner Bros.]
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Runaway Train
January 17, 1986
Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.
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Revolution
December 25, 1985
A trapper and his young son get pulled into the American revolution early as unwilling participants and remain involved through to the end.
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Enemy Mine
December 20, 1985
During a lengthy space war, the lives of two wounded enemies become dependent on their ability to forgive and to trust.
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The Jewel of the Nile
December 11, 1985
When Joan Wilder is abducted while on a trip along the Nile, her boyfriend, Jack Colton, and friend Ralph rush to rescue her and retrieve a fabled jewel.
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Spies Like Us
December 6, 1985
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.
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Young Sherlock Holmes
December 4, 1985
When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) decides to investigate.
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King Solomon's Mines
November 22, 1985
Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing father lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.
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Target
November 8, 1985
When American Donna Lloyd is kidnapped during a trip to Europe, her son Chris and her husband Walter start searching for her.
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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
October 11, 1985
An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the US President.
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Commando
October 4, 1985
A retired elite Black Ops Commando launches a one man war against a group of South American criminals who have kidnapped his daughter.
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The Journey of Natty Gann
September 27, 1985
In the 1930s, a tomboy runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away, where he has found work.
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Flesh+Blood
August 30, 1985
In medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors--commoners.
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American Ninja
August 30, 1985
American soldier, obviously very skilled in martial arts, single-handedly takes on mercenaries in the Philippines.
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure
August 9, 1985
When Pee Wee's beloved bike is stolen, he goes on a cross-country trip to the Alamo because a "physic" tells him it's there. On the way, he finds himself in one oddball encounter after another, from posing as an escaped convict's alibi girlfriend to dancing his way out of a biker brawl in a bar to riding in a big-rig with cackling Large Marge (one year after her death). With so much going on, Pee Wee's adventure could be a Hollywood movie.
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My Science Project
August 9, 1985
A high school student and his friend find a strange, orb-like piece of equipment to use as a science project, but must stop it when it begins to threaten mankind.
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Follow That Bird
August 2, 1985
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.
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National Lampoon's European Vacation
July 26, 1985
The Griswolds win a vacation tour across Europe where the usual havoc ensues.
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The Black Cauldron
July 24, 1985
Fantasy, magic, and fun are all brewed together in Disney's legendary adventure The Black Cauldron. Whoever releases the mysterious Black Cauldron's power will be invincible. The fearsome Horned King will do anything to possess it, but he is challenged by the most unlikely adversary: a young assistant pig keeper named Taran, who dreams of doing heroic deeds. With a motley team of the brave Princess Eilonwy, a minstrel named Fflewddur Fflam and Hen Wen, a remarkable pig who can predict the future, Taran embarks on a quest to stop the Black Cauldron's evil once and for all. Will he have the courage to succeed? [Disney] The story is based on "The Chronicles of Prydain," a series of books for young people by Lloyd Alexander that won critical and popular acclaim in the mid-1960's.
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Explorers
July 12, 1985
Ben Crandall, an alien-obsessed kid, dreams one night of a circuit board. Drawing out the circuit, he and his friends Wolfgang and Darren set it up, and discover they have been given the basis for a starship. Setting off in the ThunderRoad, as they name their ship, they find the aliens Ben hopes they would find... but are they what they seem?
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
July 10, 1985
After his belongings are stolen, Max (Mel Gibson) strikes a deal with Aunty Entity (Tina Turner), the ruler of Bartertown. But when the deal goes bad, Max is bound and sent into the desert, only to find himself saved by a primitive group of children.
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Back to the Future
July 3, 1985
Marty McFly goes back in time, in a DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents get together, so he doesn't cease to exist.
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Red Sonja
July 3, 1985
A vengeful woman sets out to retrieve a magic orb from an evil queen whom she vows vengeance upon after the evil queen slain her family and her loyal warriors raped her.
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Return to Oz
June 21, 1985
Dorothy finds herself back in the land of her dreams where she makes delightful new friends like Tik Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead, and the Gum, as well as dangerous new enemies, the creepy Wheelers, the head-hunting Princess Mombi, and the evil Nome King. With every twist in the yellow brick road, Dorothy's struggle to return home becomes more challenging and foreboding. And the future of Oz rests in her hands. Will Dorothy be able to restore its rightful heir to the throne of the Emerald City? (Disney)
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
June 13, 1985
Warrior/pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.
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The Goonies
June 7, 1985
Following a mysterious treasure map into a spectacular underground realm of twisting passages, outrageous booby-traps and a long-lost pirate ship full of golden dubloons, the kids race to stay one step ahead of a family of bumbling bad guys... and a mild-mannered monster with a face only a mother could love. [Warner Bros.]
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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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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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Ladyhawke
April 12, 1985
The thief Gaston escapes dungeon of medieval Aquila thru the latrine. Soldiers are about to kill him when Navarre saves him. Navarre, traveling with his spirited hawk, plans to kill the bishop of Aquila with help from Gaston.
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The Care Bears Movie
March 29, 1985
The Care Bears team up with a troubled brother and sister who just moved to a new town to help a neglected young magician's apprentice whose evil spell book causes sinister things to happen.
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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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A Passage to India
February 1, 1985
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
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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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Starman
December 14, 1984
An alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona.
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2010
December 7, 1984
A joint U.S.-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to glean what happened to the Discovery.
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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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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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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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Sheena: Queen of the Jungle
August 17, 1984
Sheena grew up in the African wild, raised by a mystical witch woman. When her foster mother is framed for a murder Sheena is forced to flee, helped by her ability to talk to animals and her knowledge of the jungle.
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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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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
August 10, 1984
Neurosurgeon. Physicist. Rock Star. Hero. Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller) is a true 80s renaissance man. With the help of his uniquely qualified team, The Hong Kong Cavaliers, Buckaroo is ready to save the world on a moment's notice. But after his successful test of the Oscillation Overthruster – a device that allows him to travel through solid matter – he unleashes the threat of "evil, pure and simple from the 8th Dimension"… the alien Red Lectroids.
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The Philadelphia Experiment
August 3, 1984
A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy invisibility experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors forty years into the future.
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The NeverEnding Story
July 20, 1984
A dreamy young boy discovers an extraordinary storybook-and the fantastical world within its pages. (Warner Bros.)
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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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The Muppets Take Manhattan
July 13, 1984
Kermit and his friends go to New York to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated.
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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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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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