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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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Band of the Hand
April 11, 1986
Five juvenile lost causes are sent to the Everglades where a war veteran tries to reform them using survival tactics. Their new skills and resolve are tested when a Miami drug lord targets them for trying to clean up their neighborhood.
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My Beautiful Laundrette
April 4, 1986
An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.
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A Room with a View
April 1, 1986
Based on E.M. Forster's novel, Lucy, a young English woman (Bonham Carter), and her aunt (Smith) travel to Florence in the early 1900's. When Lucy encounters a British gentleman in Italy and finds herself falling in love, she must choose between him and her fiancé back in England.
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Lucas
March 28, 1986
A socially inept fourteen year old (Corey Haim) experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends -- Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love -- fall for each other.
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Rad
March 28, 1986
The story of one young man, Cru Jones, who has the intensity and desire to win a BMX race called Helltrack.
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Crossroads
March 14, 1986
Ralph Macchio is Lightning Boy. A kid who can make a slide guitar sing. Blind Dog is an old pro who knows it. Together, they're headed to a place where deals are made. And legends are born.
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Gung Ho
March 14, 1986
When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liaison must mediate the clash of cultures.
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Desert Hearts
March 7, 1986
It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She's unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Cay Rivers, an open and self-assured lesbian, and the ranchowner's daughter. The emotions released by their developing intimacy, and Vivian's insecurities about her feelings towards Cay, are played out against a backdrop of rocky landscapes and country and western songs.
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Trouble in Mind
March 1, 1986
The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City.
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Pretty in Pink
February 28, 1986
Andie (Molly Ringwald) is a high school girl from the wrong side of town. Blaine (Andrew McCarthy) is the wealthy heart-throb who asks her to the prom. But as fast as their romance builds, it's threatened by the painful reality of peer pressure. [Paramount]
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Nine 1/2 Weeks
February 21, 1986
A man. A woman. An attraction that became an obsession. Set against the high-tech backdrop of Manhattan, 9 1/2 Weeks is the length of the affair between Elizabeth, a beautiful art dealer, and John, the man who becomes her lover and changes irrevocably the course of her life. After a tantalizing initial encounter, John charts the course of their sensual journey together in a deadly serious game of sexual dominance, unlocking the door to hidden dreams, pain and ecstasy. 9 1/2 Weeks is a passionate and provocative look at love and obsession that is moving, thrilling and sometimes shocking. (Warner Bros.)
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The Delta Force
February 14, 1986
After a plane is hijacked by terrorists, The Delta Force is deployed to resolve the crisis.
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Quicksilver
February 14, 1986
Jack (Kevin Bacon) was doing great trading shares until he wasn't. He gets a job on a bike at Quicksilver speed delivery. There he befriends Hector and the cute Terri. Jack gets an enemy in the criminal Gypsy.
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Lady Jane
February 7, 1986
The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son King Edward VI is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister John Dudley marries off his son, Guilford, to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. At first hostile to each other, Guilford and Jane fall in love. But they cannot withstand the course of power which will lead to their ultimate downfall.
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Hannah and Her Sisters
February 1, 1986
A comic look at the relationships among three sisters and their various romantic interests.
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The Best of Times
January 31, 1986
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
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Youngblood
January 31, 1986
A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his stay in a Canadian minor hockey town. His on-ice activities are complicated by his relationship with the coach's daughter.
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Power
January 31, 1986
After a close friend drops out of politics, a political consultant helping to find a replacement finds a web of corruption and deceit as well.
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The Trip to Bountiful
January 24, 1986
In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
January 17, 1986
This film tells the story of one woman's struggle for acceptance amidst a barbaric clan. Daryl Hannah is Ayla in the film version of Jean M. Auel's best seller. No historian recorded their heartaches, triumphs or names. Yet Ayla and others like her left indelible imprints. They continued humankind's long march toward civilization.... and away from more primitive groups like The Clan of the Cave Bear. Separated from her Cro-Magnon people by a calamitous earthquake, Ayla lives with a less-developed, male-dominated Neanderthal clan. She's different in appearance, in resourcefulness, in her uncommon defiance of social taboos. And from those differences arise conflicts that underscore the Cro-Magnons' evolutionary ascendancy and the Neanderthals’ mysterious disappearance from our world. [Warner Bros.]
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The Boy in Blue
January 17, 1986
Based on the life of Ned Hanlan, the late-19th century Canadian sculler and world champion. Hanlan was one of the first scullers to successfully utilize the "sliding seat."
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Runaway Train
January 17, 1986
Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.
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Revolution
December 25, 1985
A trapper and his young son get pulled into the American revolution early as unwilling participants and remain involved through to the end.
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Enemy Mine
December 20, 1985
During a lengthy space war, the lives of two wounded enemies become dependent on their ability to forgive and to trust.
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Out of Africa
December 20, 1985
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
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Ran
December 20, 1985
An adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Ran considers the disastrous consequences of Lord Hidetora Ichimonji’s (Tatsuya Nakadai) decision to split his kingdom among his three sons.
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The Color Purple
December 18, 1985
In rural Georgia during the first half of the 20th century, Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) is married off to an abusive man (Danny Glover) after becoming pregnant by her own father. Based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
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Brazil
December 18, 1985
Brazil is a surrealistic nightmare vision of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme. Everyone is monitored by a secret government agency that forbids love to interfere with efficiency. When a daydreaming bureaucrat (Pryce) becomes unwittingly involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mystery woman, he becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions. [Universal Pictures]
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A Chorus Line
December 9, 1985
Based on the Tony Award winning play which also won the Pulitzer Prize. Auditionees for a Broadway chorus line reveal their innermost thoughts and emotions in song and dance before a hard-boiled director. (MGM)
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Fool for Love
December 6, 1985
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.
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Rocky IV
November 27, 1985
Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) proudly holds the world heavyweight boxing championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago (Dolph Lundgren), a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union. This time, Rocky's training regimen takes him to icy Siberia, where he prepares for a globally televised match in the heart of Moscow. But nothing can truly prepare him for what he's about to face - a powerfully charged fight to the finish, in which he must defend not only himself, but also the honor of his country! [MGM]
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White Nights
November 22, 1985
A Russian dancer (Baryshnikov) who defected finds himself back in Russia after a plane crash.
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Fever Pitch
November 22, 1985
An investigative journalist gets hooked on the subject of his inquiry - professional gambling.
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Smooth Talk
November 17, 1985
A free-spirited 15-year-old girl flirts with a dangerous stranger in the Northern California suburbs and must prepare herself for the frightening and traumatic consequences.
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That Was Then... This Is Now
November 8, 1985
Two juvenile delinquents find themselves growing apart, for one (Craig Sheffer) is growing up, and the other (Emilio Estevez) is staying young and reckless.
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Target
November 8, 1985
When American Donna Lloyd is kidnapped during a trip to Europe, her son Chris and her husband Walter start searching for her.
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