Movie Releases by Genre
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Hiding Out
November 6, 1987
A stockbroker on the run from the mob decides to hide out from them by enrolling as a student in high school.
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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
November 6, 1987
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey takes on the members of a vicious Los Angeles drug cartel to stop the flow of drugs after his girlfriend's daughter dies from an overdose.
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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
October 30, 1987
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's father, Raffi, who is a former Indian government minister, comes to London for a visit. Sammy, Rosie, and Raffi try to find meaning through their lives and loves.
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Suspect
October 23, 1987
When a homeless man is accused of murdering a Justice Department file clerk, a public defender is tasked with mounting his legal defense.
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No Man's Land
October 23, 1987
A rookie police officer goes undercover and infiltrates a car stealing ring.
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Barfly
October 16, 1987
Based on the life of successful poet Charles Bukowski and his exploits in Hollywood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
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Someone to Watch Over Me
October 9, 1987
A married New York cop falls for the socialite murder witness he's been assigned to protect.
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Baby Boom
October 7, 1987
The life of super-yuppie J.C. Wiatt (Diane Keaton) is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
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Near Dark
October 3, 1987
A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is bitten by a beautiful drifter.
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The Belly of an Architect
October 1, 1987
An architect supervising an exhibition starts to have mysterious stomach pains while his life slowly falls apart.
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The Big Town
September 25, 1987
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife. Infuriated, Cole wagers everything on the craps table, including the Gem Club itself, and he and Cullen have it out.
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Maurice
September 18, 1987
Cambridge students Clive (Grant) and Maurice (Wilby) fall in love, but Clive soon decides he must take his place in society and marry. Maurice's life is changed when he meets Alec Scudder (Graves), the gamekeeper at Clive's estate.
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The Pick-up Artist
September 18, 1987
A womanizer (Robert Downey Jr.) meets his match when he falls for a woman in debt to the mafia (Molly Ringwald).
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The Principal
September 18, 1987
A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violent and crime-ridden high school.
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Fatal Attraction
September 18, 1987
Fatal Attraction is a story too terrifying to resist, a crackling, tension-packed thriller hinged on the triangle of a man, a wife and vengeful "other woman." This sexy, chic, scary box-office smash grabs hold early-then tops itself with an unforgettably nerve-jolting finale. [Paramount Pictures]
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Matewan
August 28, 1987
A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.
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Jean de Florette
August 28, 1987
A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.
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Hamburger Hill
August 28, 1987
A very realistic interpretation of one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
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Dirty Dancing
August 25, 1987
A young girl (Grey) vacationing with her parents in the conservative Catskills falls for the hotel's maverick dance instructor (Swayze).
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The Big Easy
August 21, 1987
Set in New Orleans. Remy McSwain, lieutenant in Homicide finds that he has two problems, the first of a series of gang killings and Ann Osborne, a beautiful attorney from the D.A.'s police corruption task force in his office. He begins a relationship with her as the killings continue only to have charges filed against him for accepting bribes as he stumbles on a police corruption Sting. While this is happening, the criminals insist that none of the crime gangs are behind the killings.
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No Way Out
August 14, 1987
A coverup and witchhunt ensue after a politician (Gene Hackman) accidentally puts his mistress (Sean Young) in jeopardy.
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North Shore
August 14, 1987
An Arizona surfer, laughed at by the veteran boarders in Hawaii, finds a mentor - and a girlfriend - and prepares to ride the giant waves of Oahu.
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Can't Buy Me Love
August 14, 1987
A nerdy outcast secretly pays the most popular girl in school one thousand dollars to be his girlfriend.
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La Bamba
July 24, 1987
Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of early rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper.
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RoboCop
July 17, 1987
When Officer Alex J. Murphy (Weller) is murdered in a futuristic crime-ridden Detroit, scientists and doctors decide to turn him into a "Robocop". He seeks revenge when memories of his past life return.
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Rita, Sue and Bob Too
July 17, 1987
Realistic story of working-class Yorkshire life, alternately serious and light-hearted, as two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man.
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Surf Nazis Must Die
July 3, 1987
When the son of a gun-wielding woman is murdered by neo-Nazi surf punks in the post-apocalyptic future, his Mama hunts them down for some bloodthirsty revenge.
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Full Metal Jacket
June 26, 1987
The story of an 18-year-old marine recruit named Private Joker - from his carnage-and-machismo boot camp to his climactic involvement in the heavy fighting in Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive. [Warner Bros.]
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Withnail and I
June 19, 1987
London 1969 - two unemployed and unemployable actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to leave their squalid Camden flat for an idyllic holiday in the countryside, courtesy of Withnail's uncle Monty's country cottage. But when they get there, it rains non-stop, there's no food, and their basic survival skills turn out to be somewhat limited. Matters are not helped by the arrival of Uncle Monty, who shows an uncomfortably keen interest in Marwood.
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The Believers
June 10, 1987
A New York psychiatrist finds that a brujerÃa-inspired cult, which believes in child sacrifice, has a keen interest in his own son.
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The Untouchables
June 3, 1987
Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone with a small, hand-picked team.
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Gardens of Stone
May 8, 1987
A Sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Viet Nam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old Army buddy.
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River's Edge
May 8, 1987
A high school slacker commits a shocking act and proceeds to let his friends in on the secret. However, the friends' reaction is almost as ambiguous and perplexing as the crime itself.
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Prick Up Your Ears
May 8, 1987
This film is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton. In his teens, Orton is befriended by the older, more reserved Kenneth Halliwell, and while the two begin a relationship, it's fairly obvious that it's not all about sex. Orton loves the dangers of bath-houses and liaisons in public restrooms; Halliwell, not as charming or attractive as Orton, doesn't fare so well in those environs. While both long to become writers, it is Orton who achieves fame - his plays "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" and "Loot" become huge hits in London of the sixties, and he's even commissioned to write a screenplay for the Beatles. But Orton's success takes him farther from Halliwell, whose response ended both his life and the life of the up-and-coming playwright.
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American Ninja 2: The Confrontation
May 1, 1987
On a remote Caribbean island, Army Ranger Joe Armstrong investigates the disappearance of several marines, which leads him to The Lion, a super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.
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My Life as a Dog
May 1, 1987
A boy and his brother don't get along well. In order to let their ill mother rest, they're separated and sent each one with their relatives.
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Extreme Prejudice
April 24, 1987
A Texas Ranger (Nick Nolte) and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...
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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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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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The Hanoi Hilton
March 27, 1987
A drama focusing on the suffering, torture, and brutal treatment the American P.O.W.s had to deal with daily while in North Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison, the most infamous P.O.W. camp in Hanoi. The film focuses on the resistance the prisoners gave to their captors and the strong bonds formed by the Americans during their captivity.
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Street Smart
March 20, 1987
A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.
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Swimming to Cambodia
March 13, 1987
Spalding Gray's stage monologue about his experiences while making "The Killing Fields" and the history of Cambodia.
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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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Heat
March 13, 1987
Las Vegas is the backdrop for all the torrid action of heat, as Burt Reynolds plays the soft-hearted bodyguard who's out to protect his friends.
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Working Girls
February 27, 1987
Sex work is portrayed with radical nonjudgment in Lizzie Borden’s immersive, richly detailed look at the rhythms and rituals of society’s most stigmatized profession. Inspired by the experiences of the sex workers Borden met while making her underground feminist landmark Born in Flames, Working Girls reveals the textures of a day in the life of Molly (Louise Smith), a photographer working part-time in a Manhattan brothel, as she juggles a steady stream of clients, balances relationships with her coworkers with the demands of an ambitious madam, and above all fights to maintain her sense of self in a business in which the line between the personal and the professional is all too easily blurred. In viewing prostitution through the lens of labor, Borden boldly desensationalizes the subject, offering an empathetic, humanizing, often humorous depiction of women for whom this work is just another day at the office. [Janus Films]
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Some Kind of Wonderful
February 27, 1987
Think everyone over 17 has forgotten what it's like to be 16? John Hughes hasn't. Now Hughes delivers another funny, savvy, crowd-pleasing look at adolescence in this story about high school misfit Keith (Stoltz), who falls so head-over-heels for the senior class siren Amanda Jones (Thompson) that he's blind to the charms of his beautiful and devoted best pal Watts (Masterson). (Paramount)
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Over the Top
February 13, 1987
Tough trucker Lincoln Hawk is determined to win back his son and triumph at the world arm wrestling championships.
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Dead of Winter
February 6, 1987
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
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Black Widow
February 6, 1987
A federal investigator tracks down a gold-digging woman who moves from husband to husband to kill them and collect the inheritance.
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Light of Day
February 6, 1987
The siblings Patty and Joe Rasnick live in an industrial suburb in Cleveland, Ohio. While Patty is focused on their rock band, The Barbusters, Joe also cares for the family and the upbringing of Patty's young son, Benji. Their pious mother reproaches them for their way of life, especially when they quit their jobs and go on tour, taking Benji with them. However, when their mother is dying of terminal cancer, they return home and resolve their problems with her.
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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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Wisdom
January 2, 1987
Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American farmers.
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Dogs in Space
January 1, 1987
The film is set in a house occupied by a collection of social misfits. The main storyline is that of a strange musician's relationship with a girl, their drug use and his band. These events are surrounded by a chaotic myriad of sub-plots. A homicidal chainsaw maniac's lust for his machine and a T.V station's offer of money in return for a piece of the Skylab satellite that has fallen to earth are just two. The film is composed of small fragments in the lives of its inhabitants, each following onto the next, sometimes overlapping and ending in tragedy.
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No Mercy
December 19, 1986
A Chicago detective, seeking to avenge his partner's death, travels to New Orleans, where he unexpectedly becomes involved in a cat and mouse game of survival.
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Platoon
December 19, 1986
A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
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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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The Mosquito Coast
November 26, 1986
Allie Fox (Harrison Ford) moves his wife (Helen Mirren) and their four young children to Central America to form his own Utopia.
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Solarbabies
November 26, 1986
In a post-apocalyptic future ruled by the military, a group of renegade teenage orphans find a legendary orb, Bohdai, that can supposedly bring the rain back to dried up Earth.
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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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Every Time We Say Goodbye
November 14, 1986
A Protestant World War II pilot and a Jewish girl fall in love in Jerusalem, even though their diverse backgrounds threaten to pull them apart.
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Hoosiers
November 14, 1986
A man (Hackman) gets a last-chance job coaching a small-town Indiana high-school basketball team and faces the dual challenge of bringing this underdog team to the 1951 state championship and redeeming himself from a mysterious past. (MGM)
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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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52 Pick-Up
November 7, 1986
A secret fling between a man and his mistress leads to blackmail and murder.
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Sid and Nancy
November 7, 1986
Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious, bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour, Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning, Nancy is found stabbed to death and Sid is arrested for her murder.
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Betty Blue
November 7, 1986
A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.
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The Sacrifice
November 5, 1986
As a wealthy Swedish family celebrates the birthday of their patriarch Alexander (Erland Josephson), news of the outbreak of World War III reaches their remote Baltic island — and the happy mood turns to horror. The family descends into a state of psychological devastation, brilliantly evoked by Tarkovsky's arresting palette of luminous greys washing over the bleak landscape around their home. For Alexander, a philosopher troubled about man's lack of spirituality, the prospect of certain extinction compels the ultimate sacrifice, and he enters into a Faustian bargain with God to save his loved ones from the fear which grips them.
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The Mission
October 31, 1986
Eighteenth century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
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The Color of Money
October 17, 1986
Fast Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé (Tom Cruise) the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.
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Deadly Friend
October 10, 1986
After his friend is killed by her abusive father, the new kid in town attempts to save her by implanting robotic microchips into her brain.
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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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Children of a Lesser God
October 3, 1986
A new speech teacher (William Hurt) at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman (Marlee Matlin) speechless by choice.
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'Round Midnight
October 3, 1986
A troubled, but talented musician flees the US to escape his problems, finding refuge and support in Paris.
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The Name of the Rose
September 24, 1986
An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
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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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Blue Velvet
September 19, 1986
Set in a small American town, Blue Velvet is a dark, sensuous mystery involving the intertwining lives of four very different individuals. The film's painful realism reminds us that we are not immune to the disturbing events which transpire in Blue Velvet's sleepy community. There is a darker side of life waiting for us all. (De Laurentiis Entertainment Group Inc.)
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The Men's Club
September 19, 1986
A group of men get together to form a "discussion group". They share their feelings about women, life, love, and work. The party gets rowdier and rowdier, and then the wife returns home. Thrown out, the men are not yet willing to call it a night.
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Born American
August 29, 1986
Three American students vacationing in Finland, cross the border into Russia for fun of it. When they are spotted by the Russian soldiers who are shooting to kill, it's not fun anymore. Captured and thrown in jail, they find it's not fun either. It's a nightmare.
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Thrashin'
August 29, 1986
Two skateboarding gangs battle each other for supremacy, and a member of one gang falls in love with the sister of his rival.
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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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Reform School Girls
August 22, 1986
Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.
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Extremities
August 22, 1986
A woman takes revenge on the man who invades her home and tries to rape her.
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Stand by Me
August 22, 1986
Stand by Me's screenplay by Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans is based on Stephen King's novella "The Body," a somewhat autobiographical account of an overnight hike by four Oregon youngsters to seek the body of a boy who had been struck by a train. [New York Times]
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The Boy Who Could Fly
August 15, 1986
An autistic boy who dreams of flying touches everyone he meets, including a new family who has moved in after their father dies.
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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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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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Out of Bounds
July 25, 1986
Daryl's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mix-up at the airport, Daryl finds himself in possession of a drug cache, which a drug dealer wants back.
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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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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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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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Mona Lisa
June 13, 1986
A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.
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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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Top Gun
May 16, 1986
As students at Top Gun, the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school, compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot Maverick (Tom Cruise) learns a few things from a civilian instructor (Kelly McGillis) that are not taught in the classroom.
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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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Blue City
May 2, 1986
A drifter returns to his Florida hometown only to discover that his father, the local mayor, was the victim of a mysterious murder during his absence. Vowing to find the killer and avenge his fathers death, he starts his own investigation.
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8 Million Ways to Die
April 25, 1986
Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage. During his recovery through Alcoholics Anonymous, he meets a mysterious stranger who draws him back into a world of vice. In trying to help this beautiful woman, he must enter a crime-world of prostitution and drugs to solve a murder, while resisting the temptation to return to his alcohol abuse.
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Salvador
April 23, 1986
An American photojournalist gets caught in a political struggle at El Salvador in 1980.
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At Close Range
April 18, 1986
In 1978 Pennsylvania, an absentee father is reacquainted with his estranged teenage sons who become intrigued with his romanticized life of crime.
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Absolute Beginners
April 18, 1986
In London in 1958, a young photographer seeks media stardom to keep the love of a beautiful, aspiring fashion designer.
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