Movie Releases by Genre
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Teen Wolf
August 23, 1985
A struggling high school student discovers that his family has an unusual secret when he finds himself turning into a werewolf.
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The Return of the Living Dead
August 16, 1985
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
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Volunteers
August 16, 1985
Lawrence is a rich kid with a bad accent and a large debt. After his father refuses to help him out, Lawrence escapes his angry debtors by jumping on a Peace Corp flight to Southeast Asia, where is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.
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Summer Rental
August 9, 1985
An overworked air-traffic controller takes his family on a beach vacation but is soon beset by series of mishaps.
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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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Real Genius
August 7, 1985
Lazlo Olliefeld in steam tunnels. No purchase necessary, enter as often as you want. Teen geniuses deal with their abilities while developing a high-powered laser for a university project. When their professor intends to make unsavory use of their creation, they get even more creative.
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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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Weird Science
August 2, 1985
Two high school geeks attempt to create the perfect woman, but she turns out to be more than that.
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The Heavenly Kid
July 26, 1985
A hip guardian angel named Bobby Fantana, who died in a car race in the 60s, reluctantly agrees to watch over lonely 80s high schooler Lenny Barnes who needs guidance on how to become cool.
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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 Man with One Red Shoe
July 19, 1985
Based on the French Comedy, "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe." A man picked randomly out of a crowd is made the target of CIA surveillance and pursuit.
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The Coca-Cola Kid
July 14, 1985
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.
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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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Prizzi's Honor
June 14, 1985
A professional hitman and hitwoman fall in love.
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Secret Admirer
June 14, 1985
An anonymous love letter left in Michael's (C. Thomas Howell) locker on the last day of school wreaks havoc on his life and the lives of everyone who come in contact with it.
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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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Fletch
May 31, 1985
Chevy Chase is at his best in this suspense-packed comedy thriller based on Gregory McDonald's best-seller. Irwin Fletch, a.k.a. Fletch (Chase), is an investigative reporter who's constantly changing his identity. While working on a drug expose, Fletch attracts the attention of a strange businessman (Tim Matheson) who wants to be killed so his wife will inherit more insurance. The wily Fletch senses a scam, and soon he's up to his byline in frame-ups, murder, police corruption and forbidden romance. It'll be the story of the year, if he can stay alive to meet his deadline. [Universal]
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Brewster's Millions
May 22, 1985
A minor league baseball player (Richard Pryor) has to spend thirty million dollars in thirty days, in order to inherit three hundred million dollars. However, he's not allowed to tell anyone about the deal.
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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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Private Resort
May 3, 1985
The story of two teenage boys who are guests at a Florida resort for the week-end. Their only interest is, of course, pursuing girls, but fate has much more in store for them.
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The Purple Rose of Cairo
May 2, 1985
A Depression-era waitress spends every free moment she has at the cinema because the grand stories she finds there distract her from her pitiful life, but when a dashing character from one of the films becomes smitten with her and leaves his celluloid world, she finds herself in the middle of her own fantasy romance.
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Just One of the Guys
April 26, 1985
Terry Griffith has it all -- looks, popularity, the perfect college boyfriend, and an article that's a shoo-in to win her a summer internship at the local newspaper... or so she thinks. When Terry's journalism teacher rejects her article up in favor of a couple of pieces written by boys, Terry is certain sexism is to blame. Determined to get the internship at any cost, Terry goes undercover at a rival high school to resubmit her article... as a boy. But Terry gets more than she bargained for when she finds herself fending off a bully and the advances of an oversexed female admirer, and falling for her new pal Rick.
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Moving Violations
April 19, 1985
The goofy students of a remedial drivers education class find themselves butting heads with their abusive police instructors.
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Girls Just Want to Have Fun
April 12, 1985
Janey (Sarah Jessica Parker) is new in town and soon meets Lynne (Helen Hunt), who shares her passion for dancing in general and "Dance TV" in particular. When a competition is announced to find a new Dance TV regular couple, Janey and Lynne are determined to audition. The only problem is that Janey's father doesn't approve of that kind of thing.
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Desperately Seeking Susan
April 12, 1985
A bored suburban housewife, seeking escape from her life, suffers amnesia after an accident, wakes up, and is mistaken for a free-spirited New York City drifter named Susan.
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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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Cat's Eye
April 12, 1985
A stray cat is the linking element of three tales of suspense and horror.
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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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Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
March 29, 1985
When a new gang moves into town it's up to the screwball police team to stop them.
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The Slugger's Wife
March 29, 1985
A major league star who is on the verge of breaking a record, meets a singer and they get married, but they have different goals, so they separate, jeopardizing his opportunity in sports and the possibility of making up with his wife.
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Porky's Revenge
March 22, 1985
As graduation nears for the class of 1955 at Angel Beach High, the gang once again faces off against their old enemy, Porky, who wants them to throw the school's championship basketball game because he's betting on the opposing team.
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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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The Sure Thing
March 1, 1985
A college student (John Cusack) plans a cross-country trip to get laid, but ends up traveling with a young woman (Daphne Zuniga). They hate each other, so naturally...
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Into the Night
February 22, 1985
After discovering that his wife is cheating on him, an insomniac aerospace engineer accidentally meets, and tries to help a beautiful model on the run from some totally dangerous people.
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Lost in America
February 15, 1985
A husband and wife in their 30s decide to quit their jobs, live as free spirits and cruise America in a Winnebago.
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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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Heaven Help Us
February 8, 1985
A new transfer student to St. Basil's Boys' Prep School tries to fit in while romantically pursuing a troubled young girl.
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Mischief
February 8, 1985
1956. Obsessed with the hottest girl in class (Kelly Preston), a gawky high school student (Doug McKeon) takes a crash course in teenage coolness from his motorcycle rebel neighbour, under the watchful eye of the eternal symbol of teenage rebellion: James Dean.
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Fandango
January 25, 1985
Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
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Ghoulies
January 18, 1985
A young man and his girlfriend move into an old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a desire to control ancient demons.
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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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Micki + Maude
December 21, 1984
A bigamist must keep his wives from meeting each other, which becomes tricky when they're both pregnant.
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Protocol
December 21, 1984
The US needs to convince the visiting emir Khala'ad of Othar to allow an American military base in his strategic realm. Clueless nightclub waitress Sunny Ann Davis accidentally spots and stops a terrorist shooting at the president and his royal guest. Her naive comments charm the press, so the State Department recruits her for its Protocol. She falls in love with charming Middle East desk chief Michael Ransome, who resigns rather than help trick her into a 'contact mission' to Othar, where the emir's plan with her unexpectedly stirs a revolution.
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Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
December 21, 1984
A developer attempts to bulldoze a community recreation center. The local breakdancers aren't having it.
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The Flamingo Kid
December 21, 1984
A recent high school graduate (Matt Dillon) unsure of his future gets a summer job at the Flamingo beach club, and meets the charismatic Phil Brody (Richard Crenna).
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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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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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Night of the Comet
November 16, 1984
A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls to fight the evil types who survive.
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No Small Affair
November 9, 1984
16 y.o. Charles loves to photograph. A cute girl's photo ends up in his camera. He later sees the older Laura singing in a bar. He takes a lot more photos of her and ends seeing her again, wishing to help her career.
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Oh, God! You Devil
November 9, 1984
George Burns returns as God, and as Satan. They battle over the soul of a young rock star who is willing to sell his soul to the devil.
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The Gods Must Be Crazy
October 26, 1984
A comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.
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Teachers
October 5, 1984
A well meaning but burned-out high school teacher tries to maintain order against the backdrop of a pending lawsuit against his school district when it comes to light they gave a diploma to an illiterate student.
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Irreconcilable Differences
September 28, 1984
Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.
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The Wild Life
September 28, 1984
Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his crazy self, and Anita with her older man David.
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All of Me
September 21, 1984
A dying millionaire has her soul transferred into a younger, willing woman. However, something goes wrong, and she finds herself in her lawyer's body - together with the lawyer.
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The Brother from Another Planet
September 14, 1984
A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.
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Bolero
August 31, 1984
Set in the 1920s, a young woman sets out to lose her virginity. Her mission leads her to a Moroccan sheikh and a Spanish bullfighter.
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Choose Me
August 29, 1984
Love doctor radio host Nancy, bar owner Eve, Pearl, drifter Mickey et al meet in LA.
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Oxford Blues
August 24, 1984
A young American hustler pursues the girl of his dreams to Oxford, where he must enroll to obtain her.
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The Woman in Red
August 15, 1984
On his way to work, Teddy (Gene Wilder) spots Charlotte (Kelly LeBrock, a beautiful Woman in Red. He very much wants to meet her, but what would his wife say? A remake of the 1977 French comedy "Pardon Mon Affaire".
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Crimes of the Future
August 10, 1984
Crimes of the Future details the wanderings of Tripod (Ronald Mlodzik), sometime director of a dermatological clinic called the House of Skin, who is searching for his mentor, the mad dermatologist Antoine Rouge. Rouge has disappeared following a catastrophic plague resulting from cosmetic products, which has killed the entire population of sexually mature women. Tripod joins a succession of organisations including Metaphysical Import-Export and the Oceanic Podiatry Group, and meets various individuals and groups of men who are trying to adjust themselves to a defeminized world. One man parodies childbirth by continually growing new organs which are removed from his body. Eventually Tripod comes upon a group of paedophiles which is holding a 5 year-old girl, and they urge him to mate with her. He senses the presence of Antoine Rouge.
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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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Meatballs Part II
July 27, 1984
Second in the series of Meatball movies. A group of kids attempt to save a summer camp that's a financial failure.
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Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
July 27, 1984
Two brothers who can feel each others' pain and pleasure screw with the French revolution.
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Stranger Than Paradise
July 25, 1984
A self-styled New York hipster is paid a surprise visit by his younger cousin from Budapest. From initial hostility and indifference a small degree of affection grows between the two. Along with a friend, they eventually end up visiting their aunt in the wastelands of Cleveland and then proceed to Florida where they lose all their money gambling before unwittingly gaining a fortune.
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Revenge of the Nerds
July 20, 1984
At Adams College, a group of bullied outcasts and misfits resolve to form their own fraternity and fight back against the Alpha Betas.
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Best Defense
July 20, 1984
A military weapons engineer struggles to do his job responsibly, while a hapless tank commander has to live with the consequences in combat years later.
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Electric Dreams
July 20, 1984
An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman.
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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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Bachelor Party
June 29, 1984
Long-time bachelor and "traditional guy" (Tom Hanks) is thrown a bachelor party by his old friends, and his fiancee's (Tawny Kitaen) curiosity gets the best of her.
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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 Pope of Greenwich Village
June 22, 1984
Two cousins unknowingly rob the mob and face the dangerous consequences.
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Rhinestone
June 22, 1984
A country music star must turn an obnoxious New York cabbie into a singer in order to win a bet.
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Ghostbusters
June 8, 1984
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson lead the cast as the “Ghostbusters,” spirit-exterminators who fearlessly take on the other-worldly evil infiltrating Manhattan, whether it manifests itself as wicked green slime or an ancient tyrant back from the dead to take over the world. The spooktacularly successful franchise captured the imagination of audiences around the world and redefined the action-comedy genre in the process. [Columbia Pictures]
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Gremlins
June 8, 1984
A cute little "mogwai" spawns demented demons when his young owner disregards the advice given by its previous owner.
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Top Secret!
June 8, 1984
A parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany.
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Breakin'
May 4, 1984
A struggling young jazz dancer meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds.
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Sixteen Candles
May 4, 1984
Nothing seems to be going right for Samantha (Ringwald) on her sixteenth birthday. Her family forgets her birthday, she's in love with the school jock who doesn't seem to know she exists and the school nerd won't leave her alone.
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Hardbodies
May 4, 1984
Three middle-aged daddies visit California to have a marvelous time at the beach. When they learn that a nice apartment and an expensive cabriolet isn't enough for them to score with the chicks, they employ a student to help them. At first he's as disgusted of them and his job as his girlfriend, but soon they find out how to use the situation to everyone's benefit.
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Where the Boys Are
April 6, 1984
Four college coeds, virginal Jennie, outgoing Carole, wealthy and spoiled Southern belle Sandra and horny Laurie, travel to Fort Lauderdale for their Easter week of Spring Break, and become involved in a series of adventures and misadventures, which include the naive Jennie being pursued by musician drifter Scott and Sandra's snobbish musician cousin Camden. Meanwhile, Carole is seeking a break in her relationship with the jealous Chip who follows her down to Florida. Sandra pursues a romance with local policeman Ernie who arrests her on the first night for being drunk and disorderly, while Laurie just seeks any man she can get her hands on.
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Moscow on the Hudson
April 6, 1984
When a Russian musician defects in Bloomingdale's department store in New York City, he learns that adjusting to American life is more difficult than he expected.
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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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Racing with the Moon
March 23, 1984
In 1942 California, two young men await induction into the U.S. Marines and say goodbye to their girlfriends.
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Police Academy
March 23, 1984
A group of good-hearted but incompetent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors are not going to put up with their pranks.
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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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Splash
March 9, 1984
A young man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is.
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The Hotel New Hampshire
March 9, 1984
The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.
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This Is Spinal Tap
March 2, 1984
Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.
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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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Blame It on Rio
February 17, 1984
Best friends and their daughters holiday in Rio only for one to fall for the other's daughter.
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Unfaithfully Yours
February 10, 1984
A composer suspects his wife of cheating. He plots to kill her and frame it on her lover.
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Reckless
February 3, 1984
A motorbike riding loner rebel on the high school football team wins a date with a cute, rich cheerleader. At the high school dance, her boyfriend's behavior leads to a breakup - opening doors.
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Broadway Danny Rose
January 27, 1984
In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.
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The Lonely Guy
January 27, 1984
A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
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Hot Dog... The Movie
January 13, 1984
Harkin Banks heads to skiing championships in California. A teen runaway tags along as he parties and competes with friends and foes.
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To Be or Not to Be
December 16, 1983
A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when what should intrude but World War II in the form of an invasion. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while he's on stage which is also a source of depression to him. When one of her officers comes back on a Secret Mission, the actor takes charge and comes up with a plan for them to escape.
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