Movie Releases by Genre
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Irreconcilable Differences
September 28, 1984
Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.
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The Wild Life
September 28, 1984
Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his crazy self, and Anita with her older man David.
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Threads
September 23, 1984
Documentary-style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England, and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.
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The Evil That Men Do
September 21, 1984
A professional killer comes out of retirement to investigate and avenge the brutal murder of an old friend.
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Amadeus
September 12, 1984
Amadeus portrays the rivalry between the genius Mozart (Tom Hulce) and the jealous court composer (F.Murray Abraham) who may have ruined Mozart's career and shortened his life.
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Flashpoint
August 31, 1984
Two Texas border guards, a young hotshot and his older and more cynical partner, find a jeep buried for 20 years in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. They decide to keep the money, but quietly check up on the cryptic info they've found on the dead driver. Soon, the Feds are running all over the place, and it looks like the jeep may be linked to the JFK assassination. But the Feds are trying to cover it up, and eliminate anyone who knows about the jeep.
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Bolero
August 31, 1984
Set in the 1920s, a young woman sets out to lose her virginity. Her mission leads her to a Moroccan sheikh and a Spanish bullfighter.
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Choose Me
August 29, 1984
Love doctor radio host Nancy, bar owner Eve, Pearl, drifter Mickey et al meet in LA.
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Oxford Blues
August 24, 1984
A young American hustler pursues the girl of his dreams to Oxford, where he must enroll to obtain her.
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Last Hurrah for Chivalry
August 17, 1984
A son tries to avenge his father, and gets two sword fighters to help him.
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Red Dawn
August 10, 1984
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.
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Phar Lap
August 10, 1984
The life of the 1930s Australian champion race horse who dies mysteriously in California.
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The Philadelphia Experiment
August 3, 1984
A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy invisibility experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors forty years into the future.
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Grandview, U.S.A.
August 3, 1984
With only a week left before graduation, a young dreamer itches to renounce an uninspiring scholarship, stand up to his despotic father and pursue a career in oceanography. But, has anyone ever spread his wings away from Grandview, U.S.A.?
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The Bostonians
August 2, 1984
A love triangle between Boston suffragist Olive Chancellor (Redgrave), her protegée Verena Tarrant (Potter), and southern lawyer Basil Ransom (Reeve).
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Purple Rain
July 27, 1984
The Kid (Prince) meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn't all that he needs. A complicated tale of his repeating his father's self destructive behavior, losing Apollonia to another singer (Morris Day), and his coming to grips with his own connection to other people ensues. [Warner Bros.]
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Stranger Than Paradise
July 25, 1984
A self-styled New York hipster is paid a surprise visit by his younger cousin from Budapest. From initial hostility and indifference a small degree of affection grows between the two. Along with a friend, they eventually end up visiting their aunt in the wastelands of Cleveland and then proceed to Florida where they lose all their money gambling before unwittingly gaining a fortune.
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The NeverEnding Story
July 20, 1984
A dreamy young boy discovers an extraordinary storybook-and the fantastical world within its pages. (Warner Bros.)
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Electric Dreams
July 20, 1984
An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman.
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The Muppets Take Manhattan
July 13, 1984
Kermit and his friends go to New York to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated.
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The Karate Kid
June 22, 1984
A martial arts master agrees to teach karate to a bullied teenager.
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The Pope of Greenwich Village
June 22, 1984
Two cousins unknowingly rob the mob and face the dangerous consequences.
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Under the Volcano
June 13, 1984
The last 24 hours in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a lonely, depressed English consul who retreats to alcohol for solace.
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Beat Street
June 8, 1984
An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
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Streets of Fire
June 1, 1984
A mercenary is hired to rescue his ex-girlfriend, a singer who has been kidnapped by a motorcycle gang.
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Once Upon a Time in America
June 1, 1984
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
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The Element of Crime
May 14, 1984
A cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor.
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The Natural
May 11, 1984
An unknown comes out of seemingly nowhere to become a legendary player with almost divine talent.
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Breakin'
May 4, 1984
A struggling young jazz dancer meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds.
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The Bounty
May 4, 1984
Fed up with their captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship crew decides to take action.
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Swing Shift
April 13, 1984
A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.
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Iceman
April 13, 1984
A prehistoric Neanderthal man found frozen in ice is revived by an arctic exploration team, who then attempt to use him for their own scientific means.
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Suburbia
April 13, 1984
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society.
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Moscow on the Hudson
April 6, 1984
When a Russian musician defects in Bloomingdale's department store in New York City, he learns that adjusting to American life is more difficult than he expected.
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
March 30, 1984
A missing heir of respected Scottish family, raised in African jungles by animals, finally returns to his estate only to realize that difference between the two worlds is really significant.
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L'Argent
March 23, 1984
A forged 500-franc note is cynically passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is - which will have devastating consequences on his life, causing him to turn to crime and murder.
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Racing with the Moon
March 23, 1984
In 1942 California, two young men await induction into the U.S. Marines and say goodbye to their girlfriends.
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Tank
March 16, 1984
Sergeant Major Zack arrives at a new army base with his wife, son and Sherman tank. One night at a bar he "stops" a pimp/deputy from beating a girl. The corrupt sheriff uses Zack's son for revenge and Zack uses his tank.
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The Hotel New Hampshire
March 9, 1984
The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.
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Against All Odds
March 2, 1984
Terry Brogan (Bridges), a football player who is fired from the team, is recruited by an old friend (Woods) to track down a girlfriend in Mexico.
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Harry & Son
March 2, 1984
Harry Keach has been widowed for two years and works as a demolition crane operator on a demolition crew.
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Footloose
February 17, 1984
A teenager (Kevin Bacon) from the big city moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the town.
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Lassiter
February 17, 1984
A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.
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Reckless
February 3, 1984
A motorbike riding loner rebel on the high school football team wins a date with a cute, rich cheerleader. At the high school dance, her boyfriend's behavior leads to a breakup - opening doors.
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El Norte
January 27, 1984
Mayan Indian peasants escape oppression in Guatemala and flee to the United States.
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Nostalghia
January 8, 1984
Andrei Tarkovsky explained that in Russian the word "nostalghia" conveys "the love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being far away." This debilitating form of homesickness is embodied in the film by Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky), a Russian intellectual doing research in Italy. He becomes obsessed with the Botticelli-like beauty of his translator Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano), as well as with the apocalyptic ramblings of a self-destructive wanderer named Domenico (Erland Josephson). [Kino Lorber]
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Yentl
January 6, 1984
A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.
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BMX Bandits
December 29, 1983
Two BMX expert bikers and a friend of theirs (Nicole Kidman) become entangled with a group of bank robbers after discovering a carton of walkie-talkies.
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The Keep
December 16, 1983
Nazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.
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Gorky Park
December 16, 1983
A Moscow police officer investigates a vicious triple homicide and stumbles upon a high-level international political conspiracy.
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Uncommon Valor
December 16, 1983
With money from an oil tycoon (Stack), Col. Rhodes (Hackman) recruits marines to go back into the jungles to find his son, who he believes is being held as a POW in Laos.
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Silkwood
December 14, 1983
Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep), a nuclear plant worker, strives to expose the safety violations at her workplace.
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Scarface
December 9, 1983
Cuban immigrant Tony Montana (Pacino) builds a Miami drug empire in the 1980s.
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Terms of Endearment
November 23, 1983
Following the mother-daughter relationship of Aurora Greenway (MacLaine) who doesn't like it when her daughter Emma (Winger) marries Flap (Daniels).
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Star 80
November 10, 1983
Bob Fosse's view of morality in the 1980's. A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband, a small-time hustler and pimp, becomes dangerously jealous. Based on the true story of 1980 Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten.
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Born in Flames
November 9, 1983
The movie that rocked the foundations of the early Indie film world, this provocative, thrilling and still-relevant classic is a comic fantasy of female rebellion set in America ten years after the Second American Revolution. When Adelaide Norris, the black radical founder of the Woman’s Army, is mysteriously killed, a diverse coalition of women - across all lines of race, class, and sexual preference - emerges to blow the System apart. [First Run Features]
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Testament
November 4, 1983
The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.
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Possession
October 28, 1983
A woman (Isabelle Adjani) starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband (Sam Neill) for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.
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The Dead Zone
October 21, 1983
After a car accident puts him into a coma for 5 years, teacher Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) wakes up to discover he can see people's futures after touching them.
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All the Right Moves
October 21, 1983
A football star (Cruise) looking for a scholarship to escape his small Pennsylvania steel town butts heads with his coach (Nelson).
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The Right Stuff
October 21, 1983
The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.
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Under Fire
October 21, 1983
Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.
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Rumble Fish
October 8, 1983
Rusty James (Dillon) has been failing in his attempts to to live up to his older brother - The Motorcycle Boy's (Rourke) reputation. He returns from California to try to pass some his knowledge of life to his little brother.
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The Big Chill
September 28, 1983
Good friends reunite for the funeral of a college pal. During the weekend that follows, they compare their 60's ideas with the harsh reality of their lives in the 80's, and discover that in a cold world, you need your friends to keep you warm. [Sony Pictures]
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Eddie and the Cruisers
September 23, 1983
A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader - Eddie Wilson - may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band's never-released album. (Original music performed by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.)
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Educating Rita
September 21, 1983
Bored with her life as a hairdresser, and under pressure from her husband to start a family, Rita enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university determined to better herself. (Paramount Pictures)
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Revenge of the Ninja
September 16, 1983
After ninjas killed his family, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new life. He opens a doll shop but is unwittingly importing heroin in the dolls. When his friend betrays him, Cho must prepare for the ultimate battle.
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
September 2, 1983
During W.W. II, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British P.O.W. and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid blood-shed.
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Mr. Mom
August 19, 1983
After he's laid off, a husband (Michael Keaton) swaps roles with his wife (Teri Garr). She returns to the workforce and he becomes a stay-at-home dad - a job he has no worldly idea how to handle. Comedy ensues.
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Mirror (1975)
August 17, 1983
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
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Risky Business
August 5, 1983
A high school senior is tired of being Mr. All-American and facing such traumatic decisions as which Ivy League college to attend. His life gets turned around when he meets a sexy call girl who transforms his house into a brothel while his parents are away. [Warner Bros.]
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The Star Chamber
August 5, 1983
Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty.
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Class
July 22, 1983
A young man in an all-guys private high school (Andrew McCarthy), at the urging of his roommate (Rob Lowe) spends one crazy night out, but soon realizes the woman he hooked up with is not who he expected.
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Staying Alive
July 15, 1983
The sequel to "Saturday Night Fever," finds Tony Manero (Travolta) six years later working as a waiter and trying to land a gig on Broadway.
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Chained Heat
May 27, 1983
Young Carol Henderson ends up in prison where she must learn how to survive in an environment plagued by violence, murder, rape, racism, drugs and staff corruption and brutality.
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Breathless
May 13, 1983
When Jesse Lujack steals a car in Las Vegas and drives down to LA, his criminal ways only escalate- but when will it end?
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Blue Thunder
May 13, 1983
The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle.
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The Hunger
April 29, 1983
A love triangle develops between a beautiful yet dangerous vampire, her cellist companion, and a gerontologist.
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Flashdance
April 15, 1983
Flashdance is the story of Alex Owens, a fiercely determined and beautiful 18-year-old woman, who works as a welder by day and dancer at a local bar at night. The film sparkles with the music of the '80s including the No.1 hit song sung by Irene Cara ("Flashdance-What A Feeling") and "Maniac" sung by Michael Sembello. We follow Alex's struggle to gain independence, find love, and realize her dream-to dance at the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Dance. (Paramount Pictures)
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Lone Wolf McQuade
April 15, 1983
The classic renegade Texas Ranger goes to war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably culminates a martial arts showdown between the drug lord and the ranger, and involving the woman they each love.
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Heart Like a Wheel
April 1, 1983
Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family life, she perseveres in her dream.
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Bad Boys
March 25, 1983
Chicago crime kid Mick O'Brien is sent to reform school after accidentally killing a rival's kid brother.
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The Outsiders
March 25, 1983
The coming-of-age film based on S.E. Hinton's novel where two rival gangs fight over "turf" in 1960s Oklahoma.
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High Road to China
March 18, 1983
During WW1, an alcoholic American biplane pilot (Tom Selleck) is hired by the spoiled daughter of an industrialist (Bess Armstrong) to find her father who disappeared in Asia.
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Wild Style
March 18, 1983
South Bronx graffiti artist Zoro is commissioned to paint a backdrop for a hip-hop concert.
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10 to Midnight
March 11, 1983
A LAPD detective is on the trail of a very handsome young man who had been seducing and slashing many young women to death.
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Tender Mercies
March 4, 1983
A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.
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Gandhi
February 25, 1983
Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.
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The King of Comedy
February 18, 1983
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
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Local Hero
February 17, 1983
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
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Without a Trace
February 4, 1983
This film, centering on a child's abduction, casts Kate Nelligan as the distraught mother who lashes out at the police (in the person of a relentless detective played by Judd Hirsch), who treat her and her husband as suspects, even as she hounds them to find her child and drives away her husband (David Dukes) and friends (including Stockard Channing) with her intensity and single-mindedness.
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The Entity
February 4, 1983
Supposedly based partially on a true story, a woman is tormented and sexually molested by an invisible demon.
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The Year of Living Dangerously
January 21, 1983
Guy Hamilton (Gibson) a journalist on his first job in Indonesia during the last years of President Sukarno reign. He is helped by his photographer, a half-Chinese dwarf Billy Kwan (Hunt) and diplomat Jill Bryant (Weaver) who he is having an affair with.
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The Verdict
December 17, 1982
An attorney (Paul Newman) recognizes the opportunity to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.
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Best Friends
December 17, 1982
When a professional couple who have lived & worked together for many years finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpectedly funny and awkward difficulties. They soon find that being married is often quite different from being "best friends."
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Tootsie
December 17, 1982
Unable to get an acting job, Michael Dorsey (Hoffman) becomes Dorothy Michaels and gets a part in a New York soap opera.
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Frances
December 17, 1982
The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
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Honkytonk Man
December 15, 1982
As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus' brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a success. However, this is way back in Nashville, Red clearly drives terribly, and he's broke and sick with tuberculosis to boot. Whit, 14, seeing his own chance of a lifetime to avoid "growing up to be a cotton picker all my life," begs Ma to let him go with Uncle Red as driver and protege. Thus begins a picaresque journey both hilarious and poignant.
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48 Hrs.
December 8, 1982
Detective Jack Cates (Nolte) takes convict Reggie Hammond (Murphy) out of jail for forty-eight hours to solve a case.
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Sophie's Choice
December 8, 1982
Sophie (Streep) an Auschwitz survivor lives contently with Nathan (Kline). As Nathan becomes more unstable, she begins revealing her past to witer Stingo (MacNicol).
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