Movie Releases by Genre
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Missing
March 12, 1982
When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
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Evil Under the Sun
March 5, 1982
Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.
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The Loveless
March 5, 1982
Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.
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Diner
March 5, 1982
A group of 20-somethings work on what they should do in the future while hanging out at a Baltimore diner in 1959.
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Shoot the Moon
February 19, 1982
A fifteen year marriage dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. He's preoccupied with a career and a mistress, she with a career and caring for four young children. While they attempt to go their separate ways, jealousy and bitterness reconnect them.
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Death Wish II
February 19, 1982
Architect Paul Kersey once again becomes a vigilante when he tries to find the five street punks who murdered his daughter and housekeeper, this time on the dark streets of Los Angeles.
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Quest for Fire
February 12, 1982
This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.
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The Border
February 12, 1982
A corrupt border Agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
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Cannery Row
February 12, 1982
Monterey, California in the 1940's. Cannery Row - the section of town where the now closed fish canneries are located - is inhabited primarily by the down and out, although many would not move away even if they could. Probably the most upstanding citizen in the area is Doc, a marine biologist who earns a living primarily by collecting and selling marine specimens for research. He is a lost soul who is looking for his place in life. He is running away from his past, one where he is trying to make amends for what he considers a past wrong. But his current life isn't totally satisfying either. He believes that his recent collection of eight baby octopi will help him define that future in conducting research on their behavior. However, he is finding that research is not as easy as he had hoped, and that he is still feeling restless. Into the area comes drifter Suzy DeSoto. She too is a lost soul. With few job skills, she gets a job as what she calls a floozy in the local whorehouse, despite her openly headstrong demeanor not making her well suited to the work. Doc and Suzy are immediately attracted to each other, but theirs is a clash of personalities, despite each truly liking the other. The other residents of Cannery Row do their part for a Doc/Suzy coupling, not always with successful results. Doc and Suzy will first have to find their own lot in life before they can commit to someone else, be it the other or anyone else.
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Das Boot
February 10, 1982
It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy English shipping. With better escorts of the Destroyer Class, however, German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. Das Boot is the story of one such U-Boat crew, with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers, attempted to accomplish impossible missions, while all the time attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served. (Sony Pictures)
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Personal Best
February 5, 1982
The intertwined lives and loves of three highly-ranked athletes striving for the national team; Chris bounces between the beds of male coach Terry and her female friend, competitor, and role model Tory.
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Pennies from Heaven
January 1, 1982
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.
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Taps
December 25, 1981
Military cadets take extreme measures to insure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local commercial development.
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Reds
December 25, 1981
A radical American journalist (Warren Beatty) becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
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Absence of Malice
December 18, 1981
When a prosecutor leaks a false story that a liquor warehouse owner is involved in the murder of an union head, the man's life begins to unravel.
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Sharky's Machine
December 18, 1981
Tom Sharky is demoted to vice after a bust goes terribly wrong. He and his team stumble across a mob murder tied to prostitution and government.
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Rollover
December 11, 1981
An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.
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On Golden Pond
December 4, 1981
Originally a successful Broadway play, Ernest Thompson's On Golden Pond, the film features Norman (Henry Fonda), a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea (Jane Fonda). At Golden Pond, he and his wife (Katharine Hepburn) nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend (Dabney Coleman), and a most unexpected relationship blooms.
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Ragtime
November 20, 1981
Set in the early 1900s, an upper middle class family takes in a young African-American woman and her infant son. When the father of the child returns, everything changes.
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Looker
October 30, 1981
Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.
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Quartet
October 25, 1981
Marya finds herself penniless after her art dealer husband, Stephan, is convicted of theft. Marya accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who lets her live in their house.
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
October 16, 1981
A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah, whose melancholy makes her leave him after a short, but passionate affair. Anna and Mike, who play the characters of Sarah and Charles, go, during the shooting of the film, through a relationship that runs parallel to that of their characters.
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My Dinner with Andre
October 11, 1981
Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.
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Rich and Famous
October 9, 1981
Liz (Jacqueline Bisset) and Merry Noel (Candice Bergen) become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected "serious" novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes, too: "trash" fiction which becomes enormously successful. Their story begins in college and jumps ahead some years at a time to show their relationship with each other and those in their orbits as they grow and mature.
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Enter the Ninja
October 2, 1981
After just completing his training at a ninja school, an army vet travels to the Phillippines and finds himself battling a land grabber who wants his war-buddy's property. He must also fight his rival.
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Mommie Dearest
September 25, 1981
The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted.
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True Confessions
September 25, 1981
A worldly ambitious monsignor (Robert DeNiro) clashes with his older brother (Robert DuVall), a cynical Los Angeles homicide detective who is investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.
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Raggedy Man
September 18, 1981
It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcée Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to be at the switchboard day and night. She was originally told by her boss Mr. Rigby that this job would only be a stepping-stone to a more lucrative job with regular working hours, which Mr. Rigby seems to be reneging on since he has now told her that her position is frozen due to the war. As such, Nita feels trapped by this situation. Nita lives in the telephone switchboard office building with her two sons, adolescent Harry and infant Henry. Because of her marital status, many of the townsfolk, especially the men, view Nita either with contempt or as a loose woman. One evening, Teddy Roebuck, a sailor on a four day furlough who is hitchhiking back to his home in Ardmore, Oklahoma, stops by to make a telephone call. When he learns that the reason for his trip home no longer exists, Teddy decides to stay in Gregory instead. Teddy strikes up a friendship with Nita and her two boys, which blossoms into love. The appearance of this stranger does not sit well with locals Calvin and Arnold, who had plans of having their way with loose Nita, who earlier rebuked their advances. The town's unidentified disfigured man, who Nita fears, may ultimately provide her with the ability to move on with her life.
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The Haunting of Julia
September 11, 1981
After her daughter's death, wealthy American homemaker Julia Lofting moves to London to restart her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the ghosts of other children while mourning for her own.
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Gallipoli
August 28, 1981
Two Australian sprinters (Gibson & Lee) leave their dreams of competing to sign up for World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they fight in vain against the larger Turkish army.
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Body Heat
August 28, 1981
Body Heat, a sexy, haunting tale of desire and skullduggery that echoes 1940s film noirs but is charged with an energy and passion that could only flare in the '80s. Sit back and bask in this contemporary classic's wicked warmth. (Warner Bros.)
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Prince of the City
August 21, 1981
A New York City narcotics detective (Treat Williams) reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption. However, he soon discovers that he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.
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Condorman
August 7, 1981
Cartoonist Woody becomes the superhero he draws. Using his gadgets he helps a Soviet spy defect to the West.
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Victory
July 31, 1981
As allied POWs prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.
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Tarzan the Ape Man
July 24, 1981
“The Blue Lagoon” with elephants. - Roger Ebert. While on an African expedition with her father, Jane Parker (Bo Derek) meets Tarzan (Miles O'Keeffe), and the two become fascinated by each other.
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Endless Love
July 17, 1981
A high school student's (Martin Hewitt) love for a 15-year-old girl (Brooke Shields) is thwarted by parental disapproval, circumstance and accident.
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The Fox and the Hound
July 10, 1981
Two childhood friends find themselves forced to become enemies.
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S.O.B.
July 1, 1981
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
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The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
June 5, 1981
A small town stud (Dennis Quaid) wants to go to Nashville and be a big country star. His ambitious kid sister (Kristy McNichol) works as his manager. When they cross paths with a small town sheriff, their dream comes in jeopardy.
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Bustin' Loose
May 22, 1981
Joe Braxton is an ex-con who has been given a second chance to freedom after violating his probation. He has been hired by a school teacher named Vivian Perry to repair and drive an old school bus and drive a group of Special kids to Ms. Perry's Washington Farm from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to give them a new home after The Clarmont Center for Children is shut down by the city. The kids have severe mental problems and Joe is not looking forward to the trip at all, but Joe later bonds with Vivian and the children, offering his support and love and changes his outlook on life. But Donald, the social worker and Vivian's lover who gave Joe his break is hot on their tail and wants Joe back in prison. Joe and Vivian must now prevent Donald from sending the children back to Philidelphia where they'll have no future.
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The Four Seasons
May 22, 1981
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
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King of the Mountain
May 1, 1981
A group of friends race their high-powered cars up and down a dangerous and deadly mountain road known as Mulholland Drive to see who can claim the title of "King of the Hill."
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Ms. 45
April 24, 1981
A shy, mute seamstress (Zoë Lund) falls victim to multiple unspeakable assaults, igniting her one-woman homicidal rampage against New York City’s entire male population.
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The Hand
April 24, 1981
A comic book artist loses his hand, which in turn takes on a murderous life of its own.
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Excalibur
April 10, 1981
The legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table receives its most impressive screen treatment in Excalibur. All the elements of Sir Thomas Malory's classic Le Morte Darthur are here: Arthur (Nigel Terry) removing the sword Excalibur from the stone; the Round Table's noble birth and tragic decline; the heroic attempts to recover the Holy Grail; and the shifting balance of power between wily wizard Merlin (Nicol Williamson) and evil sorceress Morgana (Helen Mirren). [Warner Bros.]
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Knightriders
April 10, 1981
The members of a traveling Renaissance Faire, who saddle up on motorcycles instead of horses, ride from town to town to stage medieval jousting tournaments with combatants in suits of armor and wielding lances, battle-axes, maces and broadswords. The spectacle of this violent pageant soon garners national attention, much to the dismay of the current king of this Camelot. A challenger to his throne arises as they try to maintain their fairytale existence in a world wrought with corruption.
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Atlantic City
April 3, 1981
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
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Thief
March 27, 1981
Becoming closer to his dream of leading a normal life, a professional safecracker agrees to do a job for the mafia, who have other plans for him.
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Cutter's Way
March 20, 1981
[Originally known as "Cutter and Bone," from a 1977 novel by Newton Thornburg] Richard (Jeff Bridges) spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter (John Heard).
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
March 20, 1981
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
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Maniac
March 6, 1981
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in New York City, kills young women and takes their scalps as his trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in a photographer, and end his killing spree?
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Permanent Vacation
March 6, 1981
A young man wanders New York City searching for some meaning in life and encounters many idiosyncratic characters.
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American Pop
February 13, 1981
The story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music in the 20th century.
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Eyewitness
February 13, 1981
Eccentric Vietnam War vet turned janitor claims to have witnessed a murder of a man tied to international political underground in order to get the attention of a TV reporter he has a huge crush on. The cops suspect his loser best friend.
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The Dogs of War
February 13, 1981
Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.
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Fort Apache the Bronx
February 6, 1981
In New York, South Bronx's main police precinct is nicknamed Fort Apache by its employees who feel like troopers surrounded by hostiles in a wild west isolated outpost.
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Inside Moves
December 19, 1980
After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Roary begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds himself playing basketball for the Golden State Warriors, Roary and the rest of the bar regulars hope his success will provide a lift to their sagging spirits. Will Jerry forget his friends? What about his junkie hooker girlfriend and her pimp?
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The Jazz Singer
December 19, 1980
The son of a Jewish Cantor (Neil Diamond) must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of being a popular singer.
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Tess
December 12, 1980
A young strong-willed peasant girl, becomes the affection of two men, in the end tragically falling into the arms of one.
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Heaven's Gate
November 19, 1980
A dramatization of the real-life Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, in which a Sheriff born into wealth, attempts to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.
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Raging Bull
November 14, 1980
Scorcese recounts the gritty life self-destructive boxer Jake LaMotta (De Niro) who never backs down from a fight on his way to a middleweight title shot.
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The Idolmaker
November 14, 1980
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marcucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
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Breaker Morant
October 15, 1980
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
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The Elephant Man
October 10, 1980
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.
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Kagemusha
October 10, 1980
A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.
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Somewhere in Time
October 3, 1980
Somewhere in Time is the story of a young writer who sacrifices his life in the present to find happiness in the past, where true love awaits him. Young Richard Collier is approached by an elderly woman who gives him an antique gold watch and who pleads with him to return in time with her. Years later, Richard Collier is overwhelmed by a photograph of a beautiful young woman. Another picture of this woman in her later years reveals to him that she is the same woman who had given him the gold watch. Collier then becomes obsessed with returning to 1912 and the beautiful young woman who awaits him there. (Universal Studio)
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Gloria
October 1, 1980
When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
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My Bodyguard
September 26, 1980
When a boy comes to a new school and gets harassed by a bully, he acquires the services of the school's most feared kid as a bodyguard.
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Ordinary People
September 18, 1980
In Robert Redford's directorial debut, the accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the austere mother (Mary Tyler Moore), the compassionate, well-meaning father (Donald Sutherland), and the guilt-ridden younger son (Timothy Hutton).
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Scum
August 20, 1980
An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the 70's.
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The Octagon
August 15, 1980
A martial artist must defeat a plan by ninjas to create a worldwide training camp for terrorists.
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The Hunter
August 1, 1980
The story of professional bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson (Steve McQueen).
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The Big Red One
July 18, 1980
World War I veteran Sergeant Possum (Lee Marvin) wants to get the job done and to get himself and his squad of green recruits out alive. It's just a job: Kill the enemy before they kill you. And through the seemingly endless bloodshed from North Africa, to Sicily, the Normandy Invasion and the push into Germany, his now-veteran squad—Gruff (Mark Hamill), Zab (Robert Carradine), Vinci (Bobby CiCicco) and Johnson (Kelly Ward)—learns both the brutal horror of war and to never become emotionally close with a new recruit.
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The Blue Lagoon
July 2, 1980
In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.
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The Stunt Man
June 27, 1980
A fugitive stumbles on a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady.
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Brubaker
June 20, 1980
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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Bronco Billy
June 11, 1980
The Wild West has been tamed, leaving no place for a group of romantic roustabouts except their small traveling show. Meanwhile a desperate heiress (Sondra Locke), who has been left stranded by her con-artist husband, will do anything for a ride to the next town—even if that means allowing a blindfolded Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood) to throw knives at her for a scant audience. So begins a tumultuous relationship and roller coaster adventure.
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Urban Cowboy
June 6, 1980
Bud is a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.
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The Outsider
June 2, 1980
A young American man joins the IRA in Ireland but soon finds out that he is being used for political purposes and propaganda.
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The Mountain Men
June 1, 1980
A pair of grizzled frontiersmen fight Indians, guzzle liquor and steal squaws in their search for a legendary valley 'so full of beaver that they jump right into your traps' in this fanciful adventure.
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Carny
May 23, 1980
Tired of her dull job as a waitress, Donna decides to join two carnival hustlers and see what life in their field is like.
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Fame
May 16, 1980
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
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The Tin Drum
April 11, 1980
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
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When Time Ran Out...
March 28, 1980
An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.
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Little Darlings
March 21, 1980
Two fifteen year-old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.
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Coal Miner's Daughter
March 7, 1980
The biography of Loretta Lynn, a legendary country singer who came from poverty to achieve worldwide fame. She rose from humble beginnings in Kentucky to superstardom and changed the sound and style of country music forever.
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Foxes
February 29, 1980
A group of four teenage girls come of age in the asphalt desert of Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley arranged with a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.
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The Ninth Configuration
February 29, 1980
A former marine arrives at a mental asylum housed in a remote castle to run it. There he attempts to rehabilitate the patients by letting them act out their craziest fantasies and desires.
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Wise Blood
February 17, 1980
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
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Cruising
February 15, 1980
A police detective (Al Pacino) goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men.
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American Gigolo
February 1, 1980
A Los Angeles male escort (Richard Gere), who mostly caters to an older female clientèle, is accused of a murder he didn't commit.
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Going in Style
December 25, 1979
Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they are caught, what could happen to three old men?
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The Electric Horseman
December 21, 1979
A rodeo star (Robert Redford) past his prime steals his company's horse and rides off into the desert, with an quirky female reporter (Jane Fonda) accompanying him.
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Roller Boogie
December 21, 1979
Skaters band together to keep their roller-disco open.
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All That Jazz
December 20, 1979
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), a womanizing, drug-using dancer.
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Kramer vs. Kramer
December 19, 1979
Ted Kramer (Hoffman) must raise his son Billy (Henry) on his own after his wife (Streep) leaves him. After a time has passed she returns, wanting custody of the boy.
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Being There
December 19, 1979
A simple, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics.
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The Human Factor
December 18, 1979
When a leak of information in the African Section of British Intelligence is discovered, security man Daintry is brought in to investigate.
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The Rose
November 7, 1979
The tragic life of a self-destructive female rock star (Bette Midler) who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.
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When a Stranger Calls
October 26, 1979
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
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