Movie Releases by Genre
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So Fine
September 25, 1981
While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man (Ryan O'Neil) comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success - the bottomless pants.
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Continental Divide
September 18, 1981
A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
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Private Lessons
August 28, 1981
A house maid seduces a 15-year-old boy and later fakes her own death as part of his chauffeur's blackmail plot. Troubles arise when the two start to fall for each other.
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They All Laughed
August 21, 1981
A mad cap private-eye caper about a team of detectives who are following, and are being followed by, a group of beautiful women.
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Condorman
August 7, 1981
Cartoonist Woody becomes the superhero he draws. Using his gadgets he helps a Soviet spy defect to the West.
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Student Bodies
August 7, 1981
A killer named the Breather terrorizes students at a high school. Whenever the killer finds students having sex, he kills them. Murder weapons? Eggplant, paper clips, and, of course, horse-head bookends. He likes to breathe heavily, and he likes to make prank calls while talking through a rubber chicken. He also hates sugarless gum. Who doesn't?
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Zorro: The Gay Blade
July 17, 1981
Mexico, 1840s. When the new Spanish Governor begins to grind the peasants under his heel, wealthy landowner Don Diego Vega follows in his late father's footsteps and becomes Zorro, the masked man in black with a sword who rights wrongs and becomes a folk hero to the people of Mexico. When Vega sprains his ankle and cannot figure out how to continue his campaign against the corrupt Captain Esteban, luck stays with Vega when his long-lost twin brother Ramon, who was sent off by their father to the British Royal Navy to make a "man" of him, whom is also flamboyantly gay, and now known as Lt. Bunny Wigglesworth, appears for a visit. 'Bunny' agrees to temporarily take his brother's place as Zorro, but wishes to make some changes. Bunny becomes 'the Gay Blade' in which his new suits are lemon, plum, and scarlet colored, and Bunny insists on using a whip. Bunny also becomes the liaison between Don Vega and the liberal American activist/feminist Charlotte a long-time critic of Captain Esteban's policies, and who has a crush on her masked hero.
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Arthur
July 17, 1981
Arthur is a happy drunk with no pretensions at any ambition. He is also the heir to a vast fortune which he is told will only be his if he marries Susan. He does not love Susan, but she will make something of him the family expects. Arthur proposes but then meets a girl with no money who he could easily fall in love with.
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S.O.B.
July 1, 1981
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
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The Great Muppet Caper
June 26, 1981
Kermit, Gonzo, and Fozzie are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy.
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Stripes
June 26, 1981
Two old friends who are dissatisfied with their lives decide to join the army to mix things up.
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The Cannonball Run
June 19, 1981
A motley crew of eccentric competitors participate in a frenetic and illegal cross-country road race. However, the entrants will do anything to win the road race, including low-down, dirty tricks.
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History of the World: Part I
June 12, 1981
Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.
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Nice Dreams
June 5, 1981
Disguised as ice cream vendors, Cheech and Chong make--and subsequently lose--millions of dollars selling a batch of marijuana with an unusual side effect.
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Polyester
May 29, 1981
A suburban housewife's world falls apart when she finds that her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter is pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet.
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The Monster Club
May 27, 1981
A writer of horror stories is invited to a "monster club" by a mysterious old gentleman. There, three gruesome stories are told to him; between each story some musicians play their songs.
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Bustin' Loose
May 22, 1981
Joe Braxton is an ex-con who has been given a second chance to freedom after violating his probation. He has been hired by a school teacher named Vivian Perry to repair and drive an old school bus and drive a group of Special kids to Ms. Perry's Washington Farm from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to give them a new home after The Clarmont Center for Children is shut down by the city. The kids have severe mental problems and Joe is not looking forward to the trip at all, but Joe later bonds with Vivian and the children, offering his support and love and changes his outlook on life. But Donald, the social worker and Vivian's lover who gave Joe his break is hot on their tail and wants Joe back in prison. Joe and Vivian must now prevent Donald from sending the children back to Philidelphia where they'll have no future.
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The Four Seasons
May 22, 1981
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
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Second-Hand Hearts
May 8, 1981
A high-spirited wife and her meekish husband hit the road to take back her kids from her previous marriage who live with her ex-inlaws.
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Caveman
April 17, 1981
A cave-man seeks revenge on a much larger competitor for the hand of a beautiful cave-woman.
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Back Roads
March 13, 1981
A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.
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Permanent Vacation
March 6, 1981
A young man wanders New York City searching for some meaning in life and encounters many idiosyncratic characters.
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Drunken Master
December 19, 1980
Wong Fei-Hung (Jackie Chan) is a mischievous, yet righteous young man, but after a series of incidents, his frustrated father has him disciplined by Beggar So (Siu-Tin Yuen), a Master of drunken martial arts.
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Inside Moves
December 19, 1980
After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Roary begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds himself playing basketball for the Golden State Warriors, Roary and the rest of the bar regulars hope his success will provide a lift to their sagging spirits. Will Jerry forget his friends? What about his junkie hooker girlfriend and her pimp?
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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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