Movie Releases by Genre
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Cocoon: The Return
November 23, 1988
The senior retirees that left at the end of the first film come back to Earth to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to remain on Earth?
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They Live
November 4, 1988
They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. THEY LIVE. A rugged loner (Piper) stumbles upon a terrifying discovery: goulish creatures are masquerading as humans while they lull the public into submission through subliminal advertising messages. Only specially made sunglasses make the deadly truth visible. (TheOfficialJohnCarpenter.com)
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Alien Nation
October 7, 1988
In 1991, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilization. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after years of quarantine.
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Mac and Me
August 12, 1988
An alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy.
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Monkey Shines
July 29, 1988
A quadriplegic man has a trained monkey help him with his paralysis, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master.
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Phantasm II
July 8, 1988
Released after seven years in a mental hospital, Mike convinces his old pal Reggie to join forces with him to hunt down and destroy The Tall Man once and for all. Mike's visions lead the two to a quiet little town where a horde of flying killer balls aim to slice and dice their gruesome way through everyone.
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space
May 27, 1988
Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.
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Critters 2
April 29, 1988
Eggs of the small, furry alien carnivores are left behind on Earth and, after hatching, again set their appetites on the town of Grover's Bend.
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Cherry 2000
February 5, 1988
In 2017, a successful businessman travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. He hires a sexy renegade tracker to find an exact duplicate of his android wife.
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King Lear
January 22, 1988
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
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Return of the Living Dead II
January 15, 1988
Curious kids unearth the barrels that helped revive the dead of the first film, which proves the second time's an undead charm.
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*batteries not included
December 18, 1987
Apartment block tenants seek the aid of alien mechanical life-forms to save their building from demolition.
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The Running Man
November 13, 1987
A wrongly convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a game show.
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Steel Dawn
November 6, 1987
In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of settlers who are being menaced by a murderous gang that is after the water they control.
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The Hidden
October 30, 1987
A cop and an FBI agent race for answers after law abiding people suddenly become violent criminals.
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Real Men
September 25, 1987
A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.
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Amazon Women on the Moon
September 18, 1987
A spoof 1950s science fiction movie, interspersed with various comedy sketches concerning late night television.
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Masters of the Universe
August 7, 1987
The heroic warrior He-Man battles against lord Skeletor and his armies of darkness for control of Castle Grayskull.
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
July 24, 1987
The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.
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RoboCop
July 17, 1987
When Officer Alex J. Murphy (Weller) is murdered in a futuristic crime-ridden Detroit, scientists and doctors decide to turn him into a "Robocop". He seeks revenge when memories of his past life return.
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Innerspace
July 1, 1987
A hapless store clerk must foil criminals to save the life of the man who, miniaturized in a secret experiment, was accidentally injected into him.
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Spaceballs
June 24, 1987
When the evil Dark Helmet attempts to steal all the air from planet Druidia, a determined Druish Princess, a clueless rogue and a half-man/half-dog creature who's his own best friend set out to stop him! But with the forces of darkness closing in on them at ludicrous speed, they'll need the help of a wise imp named Yogurt and the mystical power of "The Schwartz" to bring peace - and merchandising rights - to the entire galaxy! (MGM)
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Predator
June 12, 1987
Schaefer (Schwarzenegger) and his elite military unit are recruited to rescue hostages held by guerrillas in the Latin American jungle. But once there, they encounter an enemy more deadly than any on earth! (20th Century Fox)
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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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Little Shop of Horrors
December 19, 1986
When geeky Seymour Krelborn discovers a very strange and unusual plant, business starts to turn around at the flower shop where he works and (sadly) lives. When the plant's health is threatened, Seymour desperately discovers the gory secret to keeping it alive. As Seymour grows more and more anemic and the number of bandages adorning his fingers mounts, the plant thrives, business booms and Seymour gets the girl. But as the plant grows bigger, so does its demand for the life-nourishing liquid is craves and Seymour must discover other, bigger sources for feeding it...like the sadistic dentist next door.
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
November 26, 1986
To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to 20th century Earth to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it, humpback whales.
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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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The Wraith
November 21, 1986
A mysterious figure suddenly appears to challenge a gang of motorhead thugs.
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From Beyond
October 24, 1986
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
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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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Night of the Creeps
August 22, 1986
Alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.
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The Fly
August 15, 1986
A scientist (Jeff Goldblum) slowly becomes a human sized fly after his teleport device malfunctions.
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The Transformers: The Movie
August 8, 1986
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.
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Flight of the Navigator
August 1, 1986
In 1978, a boy travels 8 years into the future and has an adventure with an intelligent, wisecracking alien ship.
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Howard the Duck
August 1, 1986
A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth where he must stop an alien invader.
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Maximum Overdrive
July 25, 1986
A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.
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Aliens
July 18, 1986
In this action-packed sequel to Alien, Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley, the only survivor from mankind's first encounter with the monstrous Alien. Her account of the Alien and the fate of her crew are received with skepticism - until the mysterious disappearance of colonists on LV-426 leads her to join a team of high-tech colonial marines sent in to investigate. [20th Century Fox]
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The Manhattan Project
June 13, 1986
A teen and his girlfriend make an atomic bomb with plutonium stolen from a scientist dating his mother.
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Invaders from Mars
June 6, 1986
A boy tries to stop aliens who have taken over his town and are attempting to brainwash its inhabitants.
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SpaceCamp
June 6, 1986
The youthful attendees of a space camp find themselves in space for real when their shuttle is inadvertently launched into orbit.
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Short Circuit
May 9, 1986
Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.
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The Toxic Avenger
April 11, 1986
Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.
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Critters
April 11, 1986
A group of small, furry aliens makes lunch out of the locals in a farming town.
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Chopping Mall
March 21, 1986
Eight teenagers are trapped after hours in a high-tech shopping mall and pursued by three murderous security robots out of control.
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GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords
March 21, 1986
The Go-Bots fight to rescue the Rock People.
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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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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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Re-Animator
October 18, 1985
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
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Morons from Outer Space
September 20, 1985
A trio of moronic aliens crash-land on Earth and become celebrities, while a fourth alien, who arrives separately, finds himself ignored.
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Godzilla 1985
August 23, 1985
Thirty years after the original monster's rampage, a new Godzilla emerges and attacks Japan.
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The Bride
August 16, 1985
After years of research, the doctor (Sting) finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman (Jennifer Beals), who gets the name "Eva".
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The Return of the Living Dead
August 16, 1985
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
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My Science Project
August 9, 1985
A high school student and his friend find a strange, orb-like piece of equipment to use as a science project, but must stop it when it begins to threaten mankind.
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Real Genius
August 7, 1985
Lazlo Olliefeld in steam tunnels. No purchase necessary, enter as often as you want. Teen geniuses deal with their abilities while developing a high-powered laser for a university project. When their professor intends to make unsavory use of their creation, they get even more creative.
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Explorers
July 12, 1985
Ben Crandall, an alien-obsessed kid, dreams one night of a circuit board. Drawing out the circuit, he and his friends Wolfgang and Darren set it up, and discover they have been given the basis for a starship. Setting off in the ThunderRoad, as they name their ship, they find the aliens Ben hopes they would find... but are they what they seem?
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Back to the Future
July 3, 1985
Marty McFly goes back in time, in a DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents get together, so he doesn't cease to exist.
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Cocoon
June 21, 1985
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigour.
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Lifeforce
June 21, 1985
A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, beginning an apocalyptic descent into chaos.
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
June 13, 1985
Warrior/pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.
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Trancers
May 22, 1985
A gruff bounty hunter travels back in time to 1980s Los Angeles to stop a twisted criminal who can transform people into zombie-like creatures.
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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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He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword
March 22, 1985
Prince Adam is sent to the world of Etheria to find his long abducted sister, Adora, and awaken her to her own destiny.
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The Dungeonmaster
February 1, 1985
A demonic wizard challenges a modern-day computer programmer to a battle of technology vs. sorcery, with the programmer's girlfriend as the prize.
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Dune
December 14, 1984
Set in far away future the year 10191 where life in the universe and space travel is reliant upon a spice Melange found only on the desert planet Arrakis or Dune; where the natives of the planet eagerly anticipate the arrival of their Messiah who will lead them into a holy war against the evil Harkonnen empire.
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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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Runaway
December 14, 1984
In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.
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2010
December 7, 1984
A joint U.S.-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to glean what happened to the Discovery.
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Supergirl
November 21, 1984
After losing a powerful orb, Kara, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.
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Night of the Comet
November 16, 1984
A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls to fight the evil types who survive.
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The Terminator
October 26, 1984
A cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is sent from the 21st century to present-day Los Angeles to assassinate a seemingly innocent women whose child will play an important part in the world from which the killer came. [MGM]
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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 Brother from Another Planet
September 14, 1984
A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.
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C.H.U.D.
August 31, 1984
A bizarre series of sudden disappearances on the streets of New York City seems to point toward something unsavory living in the sewers.
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Dreamscape
August 17, 1984
A young psychic on the run from himself is recruited by a government agency experimenting with the use of the dream-sharing technology and is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of the U.S. president.
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Crimes of the Future
August 10, 1984
Crimes of the Future details the wanderings of Tripod (Ronald Mlodzik), sometime director of a dermatological clinic called the House of Skin, who is searching for his mentor, the mad dermatologist Antoine Rouge. Rouge has disappeared following a catastrophic plague resulting from cosmetic products, which has killed the entire population of sexually mature women. Tripod joins a succession of organisations including Metaphysical Import-Export and the Oceanic Podiatry Group, and meets various individuals and groups of men who are trying to adjust themselves to a defeminized world. One man parodies childbirth by continually growing new organs which are removed from his body. Eventually Tripod comes upon a group of paedophiles which is holding a 5 year-old girl, and they urge him to mate with her. He senses the presence of Antoine Rouge.
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
August 10, 1984
Neurosurgeon. Physicist. Rock Star. Hero. Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller) is a true 80s renaissance man. With the help of his uniquely qualified team, The Hong Kong Cavaliers, Buckaroo is ready to save the world on a moment's notice. But after his successful test of the Oscillation Overthruster – a device that allows him to travel through solid matter – he unleashes the threat of "evil, pure and simple from the 8th Dimension"… the alien Red Lectroids.
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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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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 Last Starfighter
July 13, 1984
Video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best starfighters to defend their world from the attack.
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Ghostbusters
June 8, 1984
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson lead the cast as the “Ghostbusters,” spirit-exterminators who fearlessly take on the other-worldly evil infiltrating Manhattan, whether it manifests itself as wicked green slime or an ancient tyrant back from the dead to take over the world. The spooktacularly successful franchise captured the imagination of audiences around the world and redefined the action-comedy genre in the process. [Columbia Pictures]
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
June 1, 1984
Admiral Kirk and his crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis planet to recover Spock's body.
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Firestarter
May 11, 1984
A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telekinetic ability and then have a child (Drew Barrymore) who is pyrokinetic.
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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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The Ice Pirates
March 16, 1984
In a distant future scarce of water, space pirates get caught after stealing ice from a spaceship. They are sold to a princess looking for her dad. He might have found a planet abundant with water.
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Repo Man
March 2, 1984
Otto (Estevez) loses his job as a stock boy in a supermarket in Los Angeles and spends his evenings in the punk underground before encountering Bud (Stanton) who brings him into the life of professional car repossessing. Meanwhile, a nuclear physicist (Harris) has stolen something dangerous and glowing which he stashes into the trunk of his 1964 Chevy Malibu. A mid-eighties cult classic.
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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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Brainstorm
September 30, 1983
Brilliant researchers Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace have developed a system of recording and playing back actual experiences of people. Once the capability of tapping into "higher brain functions" is added in, and you can literally jump into someone else's head and play back recordings of what he or she was thinking, feeling, seeing, etc., at the time of the recording, the applications for the project quickly spiral out of control. While Michael Brace uses the system to become close again to Karen Brace, his estranged wife who also works on the project, others start abusing it for intense sexual experiences and other logical but morally questionable purposes. The government tries to kick Michael and Lillian off the project once the vast military potential of the technology is discovered. It soon becomes obvious that the government is interested in more than just missile guidance systems. The lab starts producing mind torture recordings and other psychosis inducing material. When one of the researchers dies and tapes the experience of death, Michael is convinced that he must playback this tape to honor the memory of the researcher and to become enlightened. When another researcher dies during playback the tape is locked away and Michael has to fight against his former colleagues and the government lackeys that now run his lab in order to play back and confront the "scariest thing any of us will ever face" - death itself.
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Nightmares
September 9, 1983
Anthology of four horror tales with a supernatural twist based on urban legends.
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Strange Brew
August 26, 1983
Canada's most famous hosers, eh, Bob and Doug McKenzie, get jobs at the Elsinore Brewery, only to learn that something is rotten with the state of it.
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
June 24, 1983
Four big name directors re-imagine classic stories from the Twilight Zone.
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Superman III
June 17, 1983
Synthetic kryptonite laced with tobacco tar splits Superman in two: good Clark Kent and evil Man of Steel.
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The Man with Two Brains
June 3, 1983
Widowed, world-famous neurosurgeon Michael Hfuhruhurr (Steve Martin) is trapped in a loveless marriage with Dolores Benedict (Kathleen Turner), who is interested only in Hfuhruhurr's money. On a trip to Vienna to attend a medical conference, Hfuhruhurr falls in love with a bottled brain (voiced by Sissy Spacek), and finds himself in the middle of murders committed by the elevator killer. (Warner Bros.)
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WarGames
June 3, 1983
At the height of the Cold War, an American teenager (Matthew Broderick) finds a back door into a military central computer (WOPR) in which reality is confused with game-playing, threatening to start World War III.
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
May 25, 1983
The Millennnium Falcon flashes through hyperspace and creatures from all over the galaxy defy the Galactic Empire. After rescuing Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Leia (Carrie Fisher) from certain doom at the hands of crime lord Jabba the Hutt, Luke (Mark Hamill) rejoins Yoda. Only by completing his Jedi training can he become a true Jedi Knight and defeat Darth Vader and the dark side of the Force.
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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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Liquid Sky
April 15, 1983
A small, heroin seeking UFO lands on a Manhattan roof, observes a bizarre, drug addicted fashion model and sucks endorphin from her sexual encounters' brains.
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Videodrome
February 4, 1983
Sci-fi horror filmmaker David Cronenberg's diabolical invader is a television show that seduces and controls its viewers. Featuring rock star Deborah Harry (in her first major film) as a kinky hostess, James Woods as a cable programmer looking for the ultimate in viewing thrills, and special make-up effects by Oscar-winner Rick Baker, Videodrome is a pulsating science fiction nightmare about a world where video can control and alter human life. (Universal)
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Airplane II: The Sequel
December 10, 1982
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the Sun. Can Ted Striker save the day and get the shuttle back on track - again?
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Piranha Part Two: The Spawning
November 5, 1982
A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
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