Movie Releases by Genre
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Creepshow 2
May 1, 1987
Three more bone-chilling tales that include a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and a hitchhiker who wants revenge and will not die.
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Project X
April 17, 1987
An Air Force pilot (Matthew Broderick) joins a top secret military experiment involving chimps, but begins to suspect there might be something more to the mysterious "Project X".
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The Secret of My Succe$s
April 10, 1987
A talented young man can't get an executive position without rising through the ranks, so he comes up with a shortcut, which also benefits his love life.
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Three for the Road
April 10, 1987
A crafty political aide and his soft-spoken pal are assigned the job of delivering a senator's out-of-control teenage daughter to an institution.
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Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
April 3, 1987
The motley crew of Police Academy graduates have been assigned to train a group of civilian volunteers to fight crime that is plaguing their streets.
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Blind Date
March 27, 1987
Walter Davis is a workaholic. His attention is all to his work and very little to his personal life or appearance. Now he needs a date to take to his company's business dinner with a new important Japanese client. His brother sets him up with his wife's cousin Nadia, who is new in town and wants to socialize, but he was warned that if she gets drunk, she loses control and becomes wild. How will the date turn out - especially when they encounter Nadia's ex-boyfriend David?
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Hollywood Shuffle
March 20, 1987
An actor (Robert Townsend) limited to stereotypical roles because of his ethnicity, dreams of making it big as a highly respected performer. As he makes his rounds, the film takes a satiric look at African American actors in Hollywood.
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Evil Dead II
March 13, 1987
Ash (Campbell), the sole survivor of "The Evil Dead," continues his struggle with the forces of the dead, with his girlfriend Linda. The two discover a mysterious tape recorder and hear the voice of Professor Knoby reciting passages from the Necronomicon, or Book of the Dead. The professor's words invoke a spell that unleashes the spirit of evil alive in the remote forest surrounding them. Watch in terror as the plot sickens and the supernatural demons invade the cabin on a gory crusade for human victims. In desperation, Ash attempts to escape his horrific fate by battling with the gruesome ghouls with the help of some unexpected visitors. However, he discovers that he is no match for the unspeakable creatures lurking behind every door, and waiting beyond every corner. (Anchor Bay Entertainment)
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Tin Men
March 13, 1987
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
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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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Mannequin
February 13, 1987
A young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a job there and his creation comes to life.
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Radio Days
January 30, 1987
A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.
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Outrageous Fortune
January 30, 1987
Two women unknowingly share the same man, but when he disappears, both go out looking for him and enter his surprisingly dangerous life.
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Crimes of the Heart
January 23, 1987
Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when Babe, the youngest, has just shot her husband. Oldest sister Lenny takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid. Meg, who aspires to make it in Hollywood as a singer and actress, has had a wild, man-filled life. Their reunion is joyful but also stirs up much tension.
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Brighton Beach Memoirs
December 25, 1986
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.
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Little Shop of Horrors
December 19, 1986
When geeky Seymour Krelborn discovers a very strange and unusual plant, business starts to turn around at the flower shop where he works and (sadly) lives. When the plant's health is threatened, Seymour desperately discovers the gory secret to keeping it alive. As Seymour grows more and more anemic and the number of bandages adorning his fingers mounts, the plant thrives, business booms and Seymour gets the girl. But as the plant grows bigger, so does its demand for the life-nourishing liquid is craves and Seymour must discover other, bigger sources for feeding it...like the sadistic dentist next door.
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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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Three Amigos!
December 12, 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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Heartbreak Ridge
December 5, 1986
A old-school, hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant Tom Highway (Clint Eastwood) clashes with his superior officers and his ex-wife (Marsha Mason) as he takes command of a motley crew recon platoon with a bad attitude. He teaches them to improvise, adapt and overcome like Stoney Jackson used to say.
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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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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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An American Tail
November 21, 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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The Decline of the American Empire
November 14, 1986
Eight friends who spend a weekend discussing their feelings about sex, love and marriage.
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Something Wild
November 7, 1986
Charles (Daniels) accepts a ride from Lulu (Griffith) and finds himself on the road to her hometown. At her high school reunion they meet her ex-husband Ray Sinclair (Liotta) who wants her back.
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Soul Man
October 24, 1986
To achieve his dream of attending Harvard law school, a rich UCLA Grad (C. Thomas Howell) poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship.
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Trick or Treat
October 24, 1986
Sammi Curr was an infamous rock star who died under mysterious circumstances. Now, he wants to come back to life. Doing so requires possessing radio waves and automobiles, and making a few human sacrifices.
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True Stories
October 10, 1986
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
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Jumpin' Jack Flash
October 10, 1986
Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day she gets a coded message from an unknown source. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout she remains in contact with this unknown person, who needs Terry to help save his life.
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Peggy Sue Got Married
October 10, 1986
Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) 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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Tough Guys
October 3, 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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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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Down by Law
September 20, 1986
Two innocent people are arrested. An interesting third person, with broken English, joins them in their cell. On his idea, they decide to escape from the prison. Their journey is the rest of the movie.
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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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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
August 22, 1986
A radio host is victimized by the cannibal family as a former Texas Marshall hunts them.
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Night of the Creeps
August 22, 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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Armed and Dangerous
August 15, 1986
A fired cop and useless lawyer sign up as security guards and find they've joined a corrupt union.
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One Crazy Summer
August 8, 1986
An would-be teenage cartoonist (John Cusack) and his oddball friends come to the aid of a singer (Demi Moore) trying to save her family property from developers.
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She's Gotta Have It
August 8, 1986
The story of Nola Darling's simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three men wanted her to commit solely to them; Nola resists being "owned" by a single partner.
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A Fine Mess
August 8, 1986
An actor and a chef fathom a plot to fix a horse race and attempt at capitalizing it, while striving to tackle two of the hitmen responsible for the scheme.
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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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Nothing in Common
July 30, 1986
A successful ad man (Tom Hanks) must juggle his ever-demanding career while his parents' marriage breaks up.
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Haunted Honeymoon
July 25, 1986
Two radio voice actors are getting married. Larry has fits of fear. A shrink needs 36 hours to scare him to death and cure him - during a family reunion at a scary family castle.
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Heartburn
July 25, 1986
An autobiographical look at the breakup of Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.
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Maximum Overdrive
July 25, 1986
A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.
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Meantime
July 23, 1986
When one brother gets a job from their wealthy aunt, the other becomes increasingly jealous.
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Pirates
July 18, 1986
The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
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Club Paradise
July 11, 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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About Last Night...
July 2, 1986
Based on the David Mament play, "Sexual Perversity in Chicago." Rob Lowe and Demi Moore star in this adaptation of David Mamet's play, Sexual Perversity in Chicago. They meet, have a one night stand, fall in love, break up, and seek the counsel of their best friends played by Jim Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins.
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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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Under the Cherry Moon
July 2, 1986
Two con artist brothers attempt to swindle a soon-to-be wealthy heiress but things get complicated when one falls in love with her.
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Ruthless People
June 27, 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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Running Scared
June 27, 1986
Two street-smart 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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Legal Eagles
June 20, 1986
A New York district attorney works and flirts with his adversary and her kooky artist client, who is on trial for a murder she didn't commit.
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Back to School
June 13, 1986
Self-made millionaire Thorton Mellon (Rodney Dangerfield) decides to enroll in college to help his son adjust to life at school and on the diving team. Hilarity ensues.
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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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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
June 11, 1986
Ferris Bueller. Larger than life. Blessed with a magical sense of serendipity. He's a model for all those who take themselves too seriously. A guy who knows the value of a day off. Ferris Bueller's Day Off chronicles the events in the day of a rather magical young man, Ferris (Broderick). One spring day, toward the end of his senior year, Ferris gives into an overwhelming urge to cut school and head for downtown Chicago with his girl (Sara) and his best friend (Ruck), to see the sights, experience a day of freedom and show that with a little ingenuity, a bit of courage and a red Ferrari, life at 17 can be a joy! (Paramount)
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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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Big Trouble
May 30, 1986
Insurance agent plots with client to kill her nutty husband.
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Short Circuit
May 9, 1986
Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.
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No Retreat, No Surrender
May 2, 1986
Jason Stillwell, a Bruce Lee fan, is beaten numerous times and trains from the ghost of Lee. Jason then must use his newly acquired skills to save Seattle from a crime syndicate, whose top martial artist is the deadly Ivan.
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Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
May 2, 1986
After severely burning himself in a drug incident, a comedian has a near death experience in which he reviews his life.
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Crimewave
April 25, 1986
A pair of crazy exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a alarm security company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder.
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Three Men and a Cradle
April 25, 1986
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Wise Guys
April 18, 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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The Toxic Avenger
April 11, 1986
Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.
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Critters
April 11, 1986
A group of small, furry aliens makes lunch out of the locals in a farming town.
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My Beautiful Laundrette
April 4, 1986
An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.
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A Room with a View
April 1, 1986
Based on E.M. Forster's novel, Lucy, a young English woman (Bonham Carter), and her aunt (Smith) travel to Florence in the early 1900's. When Lucy encounters a British gentleman in Italy and finds herself falling in love, she must choose between him and her fiancé back in England.
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Last Resort
April 1, 1986
George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers everywhere, an unhelpful staff, inhospitable accomodation and undesirable holiday makers, but everyone except for George manages to have fun in the sun.
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Lucas
March 28, 1986
A socially inept fourteen year old (Corey Haim) 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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The Money Pit
March 26, 1986
A young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house.
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Hamburger: The Motion Picture
March 22, 1986
Russell has been expelled from several schools for lewd, crude and nude conduct. Busterburger University is his last chance at education and satisfying his disappointed parents.
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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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Chopping Mall
March 21, 1986
Eight teenagers are trapped after hours in a high-tech shopping mall and pursued by three murderous security robots out of control.
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Police Academy 3: Back in Training
March 21, 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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Gung Ho
March 14, 1986
When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liaison must mediate the clash of cultures.
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Trouble in Mind
March 1, 1986
The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City.
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Pretty in Pink
February 28, 1986
Andie (Molly Ringwald) is a high school girl from the wrong side of town. Blaine (Andrew McCarthy) is the wealthy heart-throb who asks her to the prom. But as fast as their romance builds, it's threatened by the painful reality of peer pressure. [Paramount]
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House
February 28, 1986
A troubled writer moves into a haunted house after inheriting it from his aunt.
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Wildcats
February 14, 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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Hannah and Her Sisters
February 1, 1986
A comic look at the relationships among three sisters and their various romantic interests.
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The Best of Times
January 31, 1986
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
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Down and Out in Beverly Hills
January 31, 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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My Chauffeur
January 24, 1986
A free-spirited young woman (Deborah Foreman) upsets the status quo at a stuffy Brentwood limousine service.
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Troll
January 17, 1986
A wicked troll king in search of a mystical ring that will transform him to human form invades a San Francisco apartment complex where a powerful witch lives.
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Head Office
January 3, 1986
Upon graduation from college with a business degree, John Issel (Judge Reinhold) is promptly hired by Helmes's company I.N.C. At INC, the one who gets ahead, does it by kissing ass, or over someone else's dead body. John keeps getting promotions, but cant figure out why. Actually management doesn't care about him, they hope that having hired him, his father, Senator Issel, will vote the way they like.
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Clue
December 13, 1985
Here is the murderously funny movie based on the world-famous Clue board game. And now, with this special videocassette version, you can see all three surprise endings! Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with a gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler? Meet all the notorious suspects and discover all their foul play things. You'll love their dastardly doings as the bodies and the laughs pile up before your eyes. [Paramount Pictures]
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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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A Chorus Line
December 9, 1985
Based on the Tony Award winning play which also won the Pulitzer Prize. Auditionees for a Broadway chorus line reveal their innermost thoughts and emotions in song and dance before a hard-boiled director. (MGM)
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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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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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Once Bitten
November 15, 1985
A vampire Countess (Lauren Hutton) needs to drink the blood of a virgin in order to keep her eternal beauty. It seems that all is hopeless, until she bumps into Mark Kendall (Jim Carrey).
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Transylvania 6-5000
November 8, 1985
Two skeptical reporters are sent to Transylvania to find the Frankenstein monster - or get fired. They are laughed at there but something suspicious is going on - maybe there are monsters, vampires, mummies and werewolves.
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Krush Groove
October 25, 1985
In this movie based on the early days of Def Jam Recordings, up-and-coming manager Russell Walker manages all the hottest acts on the record label Krush Groove Records, which include Run-D.M.C., Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and Kurtis Blow, while Rick (Rubin) produces the label's records. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell doesn't have the money to press records, he borrows money from a street hustler. At the same time, Russell and and his brother Run both compete for the heart of R&B singer Sheila E.
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Re-Animator
October 18, 1985
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
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Better Off Dead...
October 11, 1985
High schooler Lane Meyer (John Cusack) loses his girlfriend Beth (Amanda Wyss) to the captain of the ski team, Roy Stalin (Aaron Dozier). His pal Charles (Curtis Armstrong), though, has a plan for Lane to win her back: he must ski the K12, the highest peak in the local mountain range.
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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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Morons from Outer Space
September 20, 1985
A trio of moronic aliens crash-land on Earth and become celebrities, while a fourth alien, who arrives separately, finds himself ignored.
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After Hours
September 13, 1985
A Manhattan Yuppie's night out becomes a comic nightmare. (Warner Bros.)
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Compromising Positions
August 30, 1985
An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who had been having affairs with several of her neighbors.
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