Movie Releases by Genre
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Seems Like Old Times
December 19, 1980
Wrongfully accused of a bank robbery, a writer seeks the help of his ex-wife, who is now married to the soon-to-be D.A. of California.
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9 to 5
December 19, 1980
In Nine to Five, three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.
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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.
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Stir Crazy
December 12, 1980
Skip and Harry are mistakenly convicted of bank robbery and end up in prison. They have difficulty adjusting to prison life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural talent for riding broncos as the inter-prison rodeo approaches.
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Popeye
December 12, 1980
The cartoon comes to the big screen as mysterious Popeye the Sailorman docks in Sweethaven where he falls for Olive Oyl, fights with Bluto and becomes a mama to "infankt" Sweetpea.
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Motel Hell
October 24, 1980
A seemingly friendly farmer and his sister kidnap unsuspecting travelers and bury them alive, using them to create the "special meat" they are famous for.
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Fade to Black
October 14, 1980
A shy, lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking his idol, a Marilyn Monroe lookalike.
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Private Benjamin
October 10, 1980
A sheltered young high society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
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Oh, God! Book II
October 3, 1980
God asks a young girl to help spread his word and influence with a slogan.
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My Bodyguard
September 26, 1980
When a boy comes to a new school and gets harassed by a bully, he acquires the services of the school's most feared kid as a bodyguard.
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Mother's Day
September 19, 1980
Two brothers kidnap and brutalize three women for the pleasure of their demented mother.
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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.
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The Hunter
August 1, 1980
The story of professional bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson (Steve McQueen).
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Caddyshack
July 25, 1980
What happens when the snobs at Bushwood Country Club, led by Ted Knight's Judge Smails are invaded by a brash businessman (Dangerfield), a gopher-hunting greens-keeper (Murray) and a horny caddy (O'Keefe)?
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Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
July 18, 1980
The two perpetually stoned musicians and their friends go through another series of misadventures.
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Oh Heavenly Dog
July 11, 1980
A murdered detective must avenge his murder after he is reincarnated as a dog.
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Used Cars
July 11, 1980
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman (Kurt Russel) to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival - and to fun his fledgling senate campaign.
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How to Beat the High Cost of Living
July 11, 1980
A caper comedy about three suburban housewives who, in order to beat inflation and subsidize their alimony checks, plot to steal $1 million from a large plastic ball which is displayed in a local shopping center.
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Airplane!
July 2, 1980
A straight-faced yet absurdist comedy about a burned out lovelorn ex-pilot is pressed into service when an airliner's crew succumbs to food poisoning.
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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.
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Herbie Goes Bananas
June 25, 1980
Our favorite little VW beetle helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.
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Rough Cut
June 20, 1980
Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels. Despite a continuous exchange of quips they eventually become romantically involved.
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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.
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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.
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Up the Academy
June 6, 1980
This puber-comedy is a kind of mixture between Animal House and Police Academy. Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to the Sheldon R. Wienberg Military Academy. The life of discipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how to make a party out of the hard times. Will they be "real men" after one year?
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Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)
May 30, 1980
Charlie Brown and his friends travel to Europe as exchange students.
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The Hollywood Knights
May 30, 1980
Led by their comedic leader, Turk, the Hollywood Knights car club raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965.
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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.
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Forbidden Zone
March 21, 1980
The bizarre and musical tale of a girl who travels to another dimension through the gateway found in her family's basement.
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Little Darlings
March 21, 1980
Two fifteen year-old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.
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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.
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The Ninth Configuration
February 29, 1980
A former marine arrives at a mental asylum housed in a remote castle to run it. There he attempts to rehabilitate the patients by letting them act out their craziest fantasies and desires.
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Wise Blood
February 17, 1980
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
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Midnight Madness
February 8, 1980
Leon planned "the great all-nighter" by picking college students to participate in an all-night long scavenger hunt. The 5 teams are given clues to solve, leading them to the next clue, hidden throughout the city. Making his film debut; Michael J. Fox, as Scott, the younger brother.
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Going in Style
December 25, 1979
Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they are caught, what could happen to three old men?
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The Electric Horseman
December 21, 1979
A rodeo star (Robert Redford) past his prime steals his company's horse and rides off into the desert, with an quirky female reporter (Jane Fonda) accompanying him.
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Roller Boogie
December 21, 1979
Skaters band together to keep their roller-disco open.
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Being There
December 19, 1979
A simple, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics.
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The Jerk
December 14, 1979
Steve Martin, in his first starring motion picture, plays Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, whose out-there inventions lead him from rags to riches and beyond. Along the way, he falls for a lady motorcycle racer, survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer, and becomes a success by inventing the "Opti-grab". Does it last? All one needs is a paddle ball game and remote control, after all.
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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]
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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
November 6, 1979
The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.
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French Postcards
October 26, 1979
The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love.
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Starting Over
October 5, 1979
A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This affects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel.
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10
October 5, 1979
A Hollywood composer (Dudley Moore) goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy, newly married woman (Bo Derek).
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Rock 'n' Roll High School
August 24, 1979
A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
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Monty Python's Life of Brian
August 17, 1979
Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe them. At it's center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is caught up in the new religion and reluctantly mistake for the promised messiah, providing ample opportunity for the entire ensemble (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin) to shine in multiple roles as they question everyone and everything from ex-lepers, Pontius Pilate and haggling to revolutionaries, crazy prophets, religious fanaticism, Roman centurions and crucifixion, forever changing our biblical view. [Sony Pictures]
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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.
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More American Graffiti
August 3, 1979
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late 1960s.
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North Dallas Forty
August 3, 1979
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
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The Villain
July 27, 1979
Facing hanging, a bank robber makes a deal with the corrupt banker to avoid execution in exchange for a dirty assignment.
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Unidentified Flying Oddball
July 26, 1979
[Also known as "A Spaceman in King Arthur’s Court"] Astronaut Tom Trimble and his robot companion are unexpectedly hurled backward in time during a routine space flight and end up prisoners at the Court of King Arthur in sixth-century England. Adding to Tom's plight is his discovery of a sinister plot to overthrow the King, with the outcome resting on the flash-and-dazzle of the equipment at hand – from the 20th century. [Disney]
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Breaking Away
July 20, 1979
A small-town boy obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl.
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The Frisco Kid
July 13, 1979
A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco. On the way he is nearly burnt at the stake by Indians and almost killed by outlaws.
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Meatballs
June 29, 1979
We are the C.I.T.s so pity us. The kids are brats; the food is hideous. We're gonna smoke and drink and fool around. (We're nookie-bound!)
We are the North Star C.I.T.s!
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The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
June 27, 1979
The adventures of two idiotic outlaw wannabees, Amos and Theodore.
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The Muppet Movie
June 22, 1979
After a fateful meeting with a big-time talent agent, Kermit the Frog heads for Hollywood dreaming of show biz. Along the way, Fozzie Bear, the Great Gonzo and the dazzling Miss Piggy join him in hopes of becoming film stars too. But all bets are off when Kermit falls into the clutches of Doc Hopper (Charles Durning), a fast-food mogul seeking to promote his French-fried frog-leg franchise. (Walt Disney)
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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.
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La Cage aux Folles
May 13, 1979
The manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and his star attraction, are a gay couple. Madness ensues when his straight son brings home a fiancée and her ultra-conservative parents to meet them.
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Winter Kills
May 11, 1979
The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.
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Jubilee
May 9, 1979
Queen Elisabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.
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Love at First Bite
April 27, 1979
This vampire spoof has Count Dracula moving to New York to find his Bride, after being forced to move out of his Transylvanian castle. There with the aid of assistant Renfield, he stumbles through typical New York city life situations while pursuing Cindy Soundheim. But her boyfriend, Doctor Jeff Rosenberg, realizes she is under the influence of a vampire, and tries his bumbling best to convince police Lt Ferguson of what is going on, and to help him stop Dracula.
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A Little Romance
April 27, 1979
This 1979 romantic tale captures a young Diane Lane in her screen debut as an American teenager living in Paris, who meets and falls in love with a French teenager (Theolonious Bernard).
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Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
April 1, 1979
Believe it or not even in Smalltown USA there are still people who are unfulfilled and unrelieved in the midst of plenty. Levonna and Lamar could have the perfect relationship if it were not Lamar's obsession with rear entry.
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Hair
March 14, 1979
Claude (Savage), a midwestern boy who's been drafted for the Vietnam War, travels to New York City and meets a group of hippies.
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Manhattan
March 14, 1979
Manhattan is an extraordinary and funny film that explores the embattled life and loves of a successful New York comedy writer. [MGM]
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Real Life
March 2, 1979
A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family". However, instead of remaining unobtrusive and letting the family be themselves, he can't keep himself from trying to control every facet of their lives "for the good of the show".
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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.
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The Brink's Job
December 8, 1978
A fictional retelling of the infamous Boston Brink's Company robbery on January 17th, 1950, of $2.7M, and cost the American taxpayers $29M to apprehend the culprits with only $58,000 recovered.
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
October 8, 1978
A group of scientists band together to save the world from mutated killer tomatoes.
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Goin' South
October 6, 1978
Due to the lack of men after the Civil War, a small western town allows a bachelorette with ulterior motives to save a horse-thief from the gallows by marrying him. They must deal with his old gang, the sheriff, the bank - and each other.
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Up in Smoke
September 15, 1978
Cheech & Chong unknowingly smuggle a van - made entirely of marijuana - from Mexico to L.A., with incompetent Sgt. Stedenko on their trail.
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Piranha
August 3, 1978
When flesh-eating piranhas are inadvertently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
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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.
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Animal House
July 28, 1978
In 1962, the dean of Faber College plans to rid his campus of the delinquent Delta House fraternity.
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
July 24, 1978
Small town band hits it big, but they must battle a nefarious plot in the music industry.
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Revenge of the Pink Panther
July 19, 1978
To prove that he still is strong and powerful, Philippe Douvier decides to kill Clouseau. Once news of his "death" has been announced, Clouseau tries to take advantage of it and goes undercover with Cato to find out who tried to kill him.
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Foul Play
July 14, 1978
A shy San Francisco librarian (Goldie Hawn) and a bumbling cop (Chevy Chase) fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
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The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
June 30, 1978
In this third film of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promoter/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into.
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Heaven Can Wait
June 28, 1978
A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.
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The Cat from Outer Space
June 9, 1978
Three scientists help an Alien feline, stranded on Earth, to repair its damaged spacecraft in order to return home but their efforts are hampered by inept army officials and foreign spies.
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Corvette Summer
June 2, 1978
A high school grad and a hooker-in-training try to track down his stolen Corvette.
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The End
May 10, 1978
Slapstick black comedy about a man (Reynolds) who finds that he hasn't much longer to live and has bungled his attempts at suicide.
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand
April 21, 1978
In 1964, six teenagers from New Jersey run off to see The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) in the hope of meeting their idols. However, they don't have tickets. Along the way, they learn new things about friendship and growing up.
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Rabbit Test
April 9, 1978
Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!
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House Calls
March 15, 1978
Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife. He embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age, who immediately and unexpectedly captures his heart.
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An Unmarried Woman
March 5, 1978
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of sixteen years leaves her for a younger woman.
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High Anxiety
December 25, 1977
Mel Brooks' spoof of the most famous Hitchcockian classics-"Vertigo," "The Birds," "Psycho" and "Spellbound." After a Harvard psychiatrist (Brooks) takes over the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, he realizes his predecessor died under suspicious circumstances. When events take a murderous turn, he is accused of the crime and left with a full blown case of High Anxiety.
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The Choirboys
December 23, 1977
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after hours debauchery.
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Candleshoe
December 16, 1977
Small-time crook Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor house where Lady St. Edmund resides, with three orphans and her butler Priory is the resting place for a hoard of treasure. Unfortunately, he doesn't know where it is. Bundage recruits urchin Casey Brown to dupe Lady St. Edmund into thinking that she is her long-lost granddaughter, so she can search for clues to the location of the treasure. Unbeknownst to Bundage AND her ladyship, Lady St. Edmund is flat broke, and Priory and the children help her ladyship try to keep her home and pride. Joined by Casey, they do all the chores and Priory acts as the butler, gardener, chauffeur and an old major all at the same time!
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The Goodbye Girl
November 30, 1977
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.
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Semi-Tough
November 18, 1977
A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.
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Heroes
November 17, 1977
A Vietnam veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder breaks out of a VA hospital and goes on a road trip with a sympathetic traveler to find out what became of the other men in his unit.
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Oh, God!
October 7, 1977
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
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House
September 1, 1977
A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
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The Kentucky Fried Movie
August 10, 1977
A series of short, highly irreverent, and often tasteless skits.
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The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
July 8, 1977
A troubled, rebellious teen drives his rambunctious baseball team out to Houston where they play an exhibition game and the boy meets his estranged father, and hires him as the teams coach.
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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.
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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.
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The Rescuers
June 22, 1977
After receiving a panicked plea for help from an orphan named Penny, the Rescue Aid Society springs into action. They might be petite, but Bianca and her shy assistant Bernard, have what it takes to solve this case. So they set out on an adventure to free the kidnapped girl from the clutches of the evil Madame Medusa and her brutish alligator henchmen. Together, they will need their wits to get help from the local swamp folk in order to save Penny and keep Madame Medusa from retrieving the diamond in Devil's Eye.
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Tentacles
June 15, 1977
A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community.
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