Movie Releases by Genre
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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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Twice in a Lifetime
November 8, 1985
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the very sexy barmaid and, to his surprise, he finds that she is also very attracted to him.
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To Live and Die in L.A.
November 1, 1985
A bold Secret Service (William Petersen) agent straddles the line to bring down the counterfeiter (Willem DaFoe) who killed his partner.
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Death Wish 3
November 1, 1985
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
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Krush Groove
October 25, 1985
In this movie based on the early days of Def Jam Recordings, up-and-coming manager Russell Walker manages all the hottest acts on the record label Krush Groove Records, which include Run-D.M.C., Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and Kurtis Blow, while Rick (Rubin) produces the label's records. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell doesn't have the money to press records, he borrows money from a street hustler. At the same time, Russell and and his brother Run both compete for the heart of R&B singer Sheila E.
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Sweet Dreams
October 11, 1985
The story of Patsy Cline (Jessica Lange), the velvet-voiced country music singer who died a tragic death at the height of her fame.
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Jagged Edge
October 4, 1985
A wealthy woman is murdered in her beach house. The husband is allegedly knocked out first. He inherits all her inherited wealth. He has a female corporate lawyer, criminal prosecutor 4 years ago, represent him in court. Guilty?
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The Boys Next Door
October 1, 1985
Roy and Bo leave their small town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to LA. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.
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Agnes of God
September 27, 1985
When a naive novice nun (Meg Tilly) is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist (Jane Fonda) investigates her case.
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Streetwalkin'
September 20, 1985
A young high school dropout working as a prostitute spends one fateful evening turning tricks and avoiding her lover, an emotionally unstable pimp now out for blood.
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
September 20, 1985
A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.
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Stand Alone
September 1, 1985
A World War II vet is pushed to the limit when gang members and drug dealers take over his neighborhood.
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Flesh+Blood
August 30, 1985
In medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors--commoners.
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Compromising Positions
August 30, 1985
An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who had been having affairs with several of her neighbors.
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Year of the Dragon
August 16, 1985
A police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders.
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American Flyers
August 16, 1985
Sports physician Marcus persuades his unstable brother David to come with him and train for a bicycle race across the Rocky Mountains. Marcus doesn't tell David that he has a brain aneurysm which could render him paralyzed or dead at any given moment. While David powerfully heads for the victory, Marcus has to realize that the contest is now beyond his capabilities. / Features great views of the Rockies and an insight in the tactics of bicycle races.
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
July 26, 1985
A re-release of the 1985 drama starring William Hurt and Raul Julia as a gay window trimmer and a political activist locked together in South American prison cell.
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The Legend of Billie Jean
July 19, 1985
A Texas teenager cuts her hair short and becomes an outlaw martyr with her brother and friends.
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The Coca-Cola Kid
July 14, 1985
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.
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St. Elmo's Fire
June 28, 1985
The film that defined the "Brat Pack". A group of recent Georgetown grads in the Washington DC area struggles to get on with their lives and with each other.
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Prizzi's Honor
June 14, 1985
A professional hitman and hitwoman fall in love.
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Perfect
June 7, 1985
A female aerobics instructor (Jamie Lee Curtis) meets a male reporter (John Travolta) doing a story for Rolling Stone Magazine on the body-building & health club industry in California, but it clearly isn't love at first sight.
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Code of Silence
May 3, 1985
A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
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The Purple Rose of Cairo
May 2, 1985
A Depression-era waitress spends every free moment she has at the cinema because the grand stories she finds there distract her from her pitiful life, but when a dashing character from one of the films becomes smitten with her and leaves his celluloid world, she finds herself in the middle of her own fantasy romance.
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Stick
April 26, 1985
Released from prison, Stick meets up with a friend and joins him on a job delivering a bag. His friend gets killed in the setup. Stick gets away and is ready to forget all and see his daughter, but they won't forget.
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The Company of Wolves
April 19, 1985
A teenage girl in a country manor falls asleep while reading a magazine, and has a disturbing dream involving wolves prowling the woods below her bedroom window.
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Desperately Seeking Susan
April 12, 1985
A bored suburban housewife, seeking escape from her life, suffers amnesia after an accident, wakes up, and is mistaken for a free-spirited New York City drifter named Susan.
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Ladyhawke
April 12, 1985
The thief Gaston escapes dungeon of medieval Aquila thru the latrine. Soldiers are about to kill him when Navarre saves him. Navarre, traveling with his spirited hawk, plans to kill the bishop of Aquila with help from Gaston.
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1984
March 22, 1985
In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
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The Last Dragon
March 22, 1985
In New York City, a young man searches for a Master to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the Glow.
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Mask
March 22, 1985
A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.
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The Hit
March 8, 1985
Ten years later, after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
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The Sure Thing
March 1, 1985
A college student (John Cusack) plans a cross-country trip to get laid, but ends up traveling with a young woman (Daphne Zuniga). They hate each other, so naturally...
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Certain Fury
March 1, 1985
During a shooting in court young prostitute Scarlet manages to flee. In a state of confusion, the black Tracy, who was arrested for a minor delict, follows her. When she decides to leave Scarlett, an accident makes it impossible. So they're bound together on a flight from the police and some of the meanest criminals of New York.
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Into the Night
February 22, 1985
After discovering that his wife is cheating on him, an insomniac aerospace engineer accidentally meets, and tries to help a beautiful model on the run from some totally dangerous people.
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Turk 182
February 15, 1985
Jimmy Lynch (Timothy Hutton) is angry because his older brother, who was injured as a result of an off duty fire rescue, is denied benefits by the city.
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Vision Quest
February 15, 1985
A high school wrestler in Spokane, Washington (Matthew Modine) has trouble focusing on his training regimen when a beautiful young drifter (Linda Fiorentino) takes up temporary residence at his home.
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The Breakfast Club
February 15, 1985
We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was that we did wrong. What we did WAS wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write this essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us...in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at seven o'clock this morning... - The Breakfast Club
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Heaven Help Us
February 8, 1985
A new transfer student to St. Basil's Boys' Prep School tries to fit in while romantically pursuing a troubled young girl.
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The Falcon and the Snowman
February 8, 1985
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
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Witness
February 8, 1985
Samuel Lap (Haas) a young Amish boy witnesses a murder while visiting Philadelphia with his mother Rachel (McGillis). Detective John Book (Ford) goes undercover in Amish country when he realizes the killer is a corrupt cop out to kill the only witness.
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The Killing Fields
February 1, 1985
A photographer is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody "Year Zero" cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million "undesirable" civilians.
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A Passage to India
February 1, 1985
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
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Fandango
January 25, 1985
Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
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Blood Simple
January 18, 1985
Deep in the heart of Texas, a sleazy bar owner suspects his wife of having an affair and hires a private detective to confirm his suspicions—only to have the crosshairs turned back on himself. [Janus Films]
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Tuff Turf
January 11, 1985
The new kid in school must battle a gang of street toughs after stealing the gang leader's girl.
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The River
January 11, 1985
A farming family battles severe storms, a bank is threatening to repossess their farm, and there are other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm.
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Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
December 21, 1984
A developer attempts to bulldoze a community recreation center. The local breakdancers aren't having it.
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The Flamingo Kid
December 21, 1984
A recent high school graduate (Matt Dillon) unsure of his future gets a summer job at the Flamingo beach club, and meets the charismatic Phil Brody (Richard Crenna).
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Birdy
December 21, 1984
After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.
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Starman
December 14, 1984
An alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona.
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The Cotton Club
December 14, 1984
The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous.
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Beverly Hills Cop
December 5, 1984
Axel Foley, a freewheeling Detroit cop investigating the murder of his friend, finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.
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Falling in Love
November 21, 1984
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married and Frank has two little kids, they meet more and more often, their friendship becoming the most precious thing in their lives.
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Missing in Action
November 16, 1984
Colonel Braddock launches a mission deep into the jungles of Vietnam to find the POW camp that he escaped from and free the Americans still held captive there.
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No Small Affair
November 9, 1984
16 y.o. Charles loves to photograph. A cute girl's photo ends up in his camera. He later sees the older Laura singing in a bar. He takes a lot more photos of her and ends seeing her again, wishing to help her career.
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A Soldier's Story
November 2, 1984
An African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.
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Paris, Texas
November 2, 1984
Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.
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Firstborn
October 26, 1984
A teen must protect his family when his mother's sinister new boyfriend begins exerting his authority in their home.
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Crimes of Passion
October 19, 1984
A mysterious woman, fashion designer by day and prostitute by night, is hounded by two men: a married father of two children and a sexually repressed preacher.
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The Razor's Edge
October 19, 1984
He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.
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Songwriter
October 14, 1984
Doc Jenkins (Willie Nelson) is a country music star who has become fed up with the industry. With some help from an old friend (Kris Kristofferson) he attempts to right some wrongs and get back at the ruthless promoter who swindled him.
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Eureka
October 5, 1984
In 1925, Arctic prospector Jack McCann (Gene Hackman) becomes a rich man when he strikes gold, but twenty years later, he faces major personal and family problems.
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Places in the Heart
October 5, 1984
In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow, with two small children, tries to run her small 40-acre farm with the help of two disparate people.
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Teachers
October 5, 1984
A well meaning but burned-out high school teacher tries to maintain order against the backdrop of a pending lawsuit against his school district when it comes to light they gave a diploma to an illiterate student.
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