Movie Releases by Genre
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Moon 44
February 1, 1990
An unconventional corporate agent is given the task of shaping a group of violent criminals and technical wizards into a helicopter defense force assigned to protect a mining station on a remote moon.
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Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
January 12, 1990
A California couple and a survivalist encounter Leatherface and his family.
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Internal Affairs
January 12, 1990
An Internal Affairs agent becomes obsessed with bringing down a cop who has managed to maintain a spotless reputation despite being involved in a web of corruption.
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
January 5, 1990
Henry (Michael Rooker) is a psychopathic drifter who has coldly murdered a number of people for no particular reason and without any remorse. Leaving scores of bodies in his wake, Henry makes his way to Chicago, where his murderous streak continues and he settles into the rundown apartment of his drug-dealing former prison friend Otis (Tom Towles). Also moving into the space is Otis’s younger sister Becky (Tracy Arnold), who is fleeing from her abusive husband. Henry soon reveals his troubled childhood background to Becky, which resulted in Henry’s murder of his mother, the crime that landed him in prison. Unbeknownst to Becky, Henry continues to commit a series of random killings along with Otis, who has quickly developed a taste for murder. [Dark Sky Films]
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Akira
December 25, 1989
Based on Katsuhiro Otomo's 2,000 page manga, Akira begins on July 16, 1988, when what was believed to be an atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo, completely destroying the city and marking the beginning of WWIII.
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Tango & Cash
December 22, 1989
Framed by their ruthless arch-nemesis, a mismatched LAPD crime-fighting duo has to put its differences aside to even the score with the evil kingpin who put them behind bars once and for all.
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The War of the Roses
December 1, 1989
This classic black comedy proves that divorce is war, and war is hell.
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Best of the Best
November 10, 1989
A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country--can they overcome their rivalry and work together to win?
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Kill Me Again
October 27, 1989
A young detective becomes involved with a beautiful woman on the run from the mob and her psychopath boyfriend.
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Shocker
October 27, 1989
After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.
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Next of Kin
October 20, 1989
Truman (Patrick Swayze), a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.
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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
October 13, 1989
Jamie (Danielle Harris) is in a children’s hospital after attacking her stepmother the previous year. She’s being treated by Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) with the aid of her stepsister and her stepsister’s friend. Jamie hasn’t said a word since the attack, but she disturbingly discovers that she has a telepathic link with her homicidal uncle, Michael. Meanwhile, Michael has spent the year in a coma, recovering from gunshot wounds inflicted by police officers. But when Michael awakens, he follows Jamie to the children’s hospital, intent on ending his family tree once and for all. Jamie knows that she must leave the hospital in order to survive. With the aid of Dr. Loomis, they set out to defeat Michael on his home turf — the house that he grew up in.
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An Innocent Man
October 6, 1989
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.
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Johnny Handsome
September 29, 1989
After being double crossed and thrown in jail, a deformed gangster gets a new face and rehabilitation, but his desire for revenge looms.
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Black Rain
September 22, 1989
Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.
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A Dry White Season
September 20, 1989
Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
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Sea of Love
September 15, 1989
A detective investigating a series of murders becomes involved with a woman who may be the culprit.
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Kickboxer
September 8, 1989
Kurt Sloane (Jean-Claude Van Damme) must learn the ancient kick boxing art of Muay Thai in order to avenge his brother.
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Millennium
August 25, 1989
An NTSB investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster meets a warrior woman from 1000 years in the future. She replaces the people from airplanes before they crash with corpses with the same features.
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The Package
August 25, 1989
Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher (Gene Hackman) is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette (Tommy Lee Jones), back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.
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The Abyss
August 9, 1989
When a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks, one diver (Harris) soon finds himself on an odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it. (20th Century Fox)
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Lock Up
August 4, 1989
"This is hell and I'm going to give you a guided tour!" With these chilling words, the warden welcomes Frank Leone to Gateway Prison, a nightmare jail where every minute is hard time. The warden wants vengeance for the past; Leone wants only to survive the present. Their explosive battle of wills is the electrifying heart of one of LOCK UP. Stallone gives a monumental performance as Leone, a convict driven to break his own cherished code by a warden who will stop at nothing to get him. (Lionsgate Home Entertainment)
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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
July 28, 1989
A boatful of graduating high school students headed to Manhattan inadvertently bring Jason Voorhees along for the cruise.
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Turner & Hooch
July 28, 1989
A detective (Tom Hanks) must adopt a dog of a dead man to help him find the man's murderer.
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Licence to Kill
July 14, 1989
When his good friend Felix Leiter is beaten and left for dead, James Bond (Timothy Dalton) sets out on a mission, against his organization's wishes, to track down the drug lord Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) who tortured his friend. [MGM]
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Lethal Weapon 2
July 7, 1989
Riggs wows the pretties of a hotel spa before getting to Getz. Murtaugh receives bad bodywork news from an auto repairman after his beleaguered station wagon sees some Riggs-piloted street action. Plus, feisty Leo shares a newly included scene in which he recalls a suspect's address by complex spins of numbers that, well, no one can tell it like Leo. And no one would follow his lead but Riggs and Murtaugh. It's police procedure, Lethal style. (Warner Bros.)
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Cutting Class
July 1, 1989
A murderer is loose in a high school in this 'whodunit' movie.
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Batman
June 23, 1989
Tim Burton's 1989 Blockbuster introduces us to the origins of Gotham City's fearless crimestopper Batman (Keaton) and his arch-enemy The Joker (Nicholson).
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
June 9, 1989
Captain Kirk and his crew must deal with Spock's half brother who hijacks the Enterprise and takes it on an obsessive search for God.
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Renegades
June 2, 1989
An undercover cop forms an alliance with a Native American to help him hunt down the criminals who stole an ancient Lakota tribal lance.
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Road House
May 19, 1989
A veteran cooler (Patrick Swayze) is hired to bring a level of decorum to an up-and-coming bar that serves as the haunt for a county's corrupt element of bad guys.
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Miracle Mile
May 19, 1989
A young man hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit the city within 70 minutes.
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Pet Sematary
April 21, 1989
Behind a young family's home in Maine is a terrible secret that holds the power of life after death. When tragedy strikes, the threat of that power soon becomes undeniable.
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Dead Calm
April 7, 1989
After a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae spend some time isolated at sea when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship.
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Cyborg
April 7, 1989
A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.
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The Dream Team
April 7, 1989
Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperon, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.
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Leviathan
March 17, 1989
An American deep-sea mining colony stumbles upon a sunken Soviet vessel hiding a horrific secret.
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The 'Burbs
February 17, 1989
An overstressed suburbanite and his fellow neighbors are convinced that the new family on the block are part of a murderous Satanic cult.
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The Mighty Quinn
February 17, 1989
When police officer Xavier Quinn's childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him, which could be even trickier.
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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
February 3, 1989
A brutal Los Angeles police Lt. is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.
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Mississippi Burning
January 27, 1989
A fictionalized version of the murders of three civil rights activists on June 21, 1964 in Mississippi. The FBI comes in to solve the case and succeeds only after using unethical and illegal means. (MGM)
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DeepStar Six
January 13, 1989
At the bottom of the ocean, the DeepStar Six has just discovered a new and deadly alien menace.
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The January Man
January 13, 1989
Two years after being forced out of NYPD, quirky Nick is rehired by the mayor to catch a serial killer after the 11th murder of a woman.
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Hellbound: Hellraiser II
December 23, 1988
Kirsty is brought to an institution after the death of her family, where the occult-obsessive head resurrects Julia and unleashes the Cenobites once again.
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Tequila Sunrise
December 2, 1988
Two former high school friends -- one a fast-rising L.A.. cop and the other a drug dealer desperate to get out -- are both vying for the affection of a sleek restaurant owner. (Warner Bros.)
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Child's Play
November 9, 1988
A single mother gives her son a much sought-after doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.
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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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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
October 21, 1988
Ten years ago, he changed the face of Halloween. Tonight...he's back! Infamous killer Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield to find his long lost niece and fufill his destiny of murder and destruction! [Anchor Bay]
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Dead Ringers
September 23, 1988
The chilling story of identical twin gynecologists--suave Elliot and sensitive Beverly, bipolar sides of one personality--who share the same practice, the same apartment, the same women. When a new patient, glamorous actress Claire Niveau, challenges their eerie bond, they descend into a whirlpool of sexual confusion, drugs, and madness. Jeremy Irons' tour-de-force performance--as both twins?raises disturbing questions about the nature of personal identity. (Criterion Collection)
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Kansas
September 23, 1988
A young man returning home to attend a wedding hooks up with a drifter who turns out to be a violent bank robber. Before he knows it, the man finds himself involved in the robber's plans.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
August 19, 1988
The last girl from Elm Street is still bothered by dreams about Freddy; soon he returns and kills her, but before she died she wills her power to a new friend.
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Young Guns
August 12, 1988
When his mentor is gunned down in cold blood, William Bonney sees fit to avenge him. With his friends backing him up, William delivers his own personal brand of justice, acting as judge, jury and executioner all with one pull of the trigger. News of his notorious actions spreads wide and far and soon the name of "Billie the Kid" becomes legendary.
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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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Midnight Run
July 20, 1988
Bounty hunter Jack Walsh (De Niro) is offered $100,000 from a bail bondsman to capture fugitive accountant Jonathan "the Duke" Mardukas (Grodin) and bring him to Los Angeles in time for his trial date. Walsh must avoid a rival bounty hunter, the FBI, and the mob to earn his payday.
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Die Hard
July 15, 1988
When terrorists take over a Los Angeles skyscraper on Christmas Eve, visting New York cop John McClane (Willis) thwarts their plans.
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The Dead Pool
July 13, 1988
Dirty Harry Callahan investigates and strange game in which individuals bet on who will be the next celebrity to die. The game gets more serious for Dirty Harry when he becomes the next bet.
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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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Red Heat
June 17, 1988
Two cops, one from Russia, the other from Chicago, team up to capture a Russian drug dealer hiding out somewhere in America.
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Poltergeist III
June 10, 1988
Carol Anne is staying with her aunt in a high-rise building, where the supernatural forces haunting her make their return.
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The Presidio
June 10, 1988
A San Francisco civilian police detective (Mark Harmon) is forced to work on a series of murders with his former enemy commanding officer (Sean Connery) while dating his daughter.
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Rambo III
May 25, 1988
Just when John Rambo thinks he can finally rest, he finds himself on one last mission to Soviet occupied Afghanistan to save his friend Clononel Trautman.
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Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
May 13, 1988
Informally known as "Carrie vs. Jason". Years after Tommy Jarvis chained him underwater at Camp Crystal Lake, the dormant Jason Voorhees returns to the camp grounds when he is accidentally released from his prison by a telekinetic teenager.
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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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Above the Law
April 22, 1988
A former Special Operations Vietnam vet works as a Chicago cop, and uncovers C.I.A. wrongdoing.
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Lady in White
April 22, 1988
An author tells the story of how, as a young boy growing up in a 1960s small town, he was haunted after witnessing the murder of a little girl.
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Little Nikita
March 18, 1988
An F.B.I. Agent works to uncover an All-American family as Soviet sleeper Agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son.
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Prison
March 4, 1988
The spirit of a long-dead prisoner returns for revenge, haunting the prison's new governor.
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Frantic
February 26, 1988
In a hotel room in Paris, a doctor comes out of the shower and finds that his wife has disappeared. He soon finds himself caught up in a world of intrigue, espionage, gangsters, drugs and murder.
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Shoot to Kill
February 12, 1988
An F.B.I. Agent teams up with a tracker to pursue a murderer after he vanishes into the mountains and infiltrates a hiking group.
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Action Jackson
February 12, 1988
Vengence drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.
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Tales from the Gimli Hospital
January 1, 1988
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told a tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the Lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofridur in a Gimli of old.
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Throw Momma from the Train
December 11, 1987
A bitter ex-husband and a put-upon momma's boy both want their respective former spouse and mother dead. Who will pull it off?
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Flowers in the Attic
November 20, 1987
Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.
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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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Hiding Out
November 6, 1987
A stockbroker on the run from the mob decides to hide out from them by enrolling as a student in high school.
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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
November 6, 1987
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey takes on the members of a vicious Los Angeles drug cartel to stop the flow of drugs after his girlfriend's daughter dies from an overdose.
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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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Suspect
October 23, 1987
When a homeless man is accused of murdering a Justice Department file clerk, a public defender is tasked with mounting his legal defense.
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No Man's Land
October 23, 1987
A rookie police officer goes undercover and infiltrates a car stealing ring.
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Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
October 16, 1987
30 years after her accidental death at her 1957 senior prom, the tortured spirit of prom queen Mary Lou Maloney is back to get her revenge.
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House of Games
October 14, 1987
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
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Someone to Watch Over Me
October 9, 1987
A married New York cop falls for the socialite murder witness he's been assigned to protect.
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Near Dark
October 3, 1987
A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is bitten by a beautiful drifter.
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Slam Dance
October 2, 1987
An artist, framed for the murder of a woman, is drawn into a web of corruption, blackmail and deceit.
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The Big Town
September 25, 1987
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife. Infuriated, Cole wagers everything on the craps table, including the Gem Club itself, and he and Cullen have it out.
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Hellraiser
September 18, 1987
An unfaithful wife encounters the zombie of her dead lover; the demonic cenobites are pursuing him after he escaped their sadomasochistic underworld.
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The Principal
September 18, 1987
A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violent and crime-ridden high school.
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Fatal Attraction
September 18, 1987
Fatal Attraction is a story too terrifying to resist, a crackling, tension-packed thriller hinged on the triangle of a man, a wife and vengeful "other woman." This sexy, chic, scary box-office smash grabs hold early-then tops itself with an unforgettably nerve-jolting finale. [Paramount Pictures]
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Hamburger Hill
August 28, 1987
A very realistic interpretation of one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
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The Fourth Protocol
August 28, 1987
John Preston (Michael Caine) is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countries.
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The Big Easy
August 21, 1987
Set in New Orleans. Remy McSwain, lieutenant in Homicide finds that he has two problems, the first of a series of gang killings and Ann Osborne, a beautiful attorney from the D.A.'s police corruption task force in his office. He begins a relationship with her as the killings continue only to have charges filed against him for accepting bribes as he stumbles on a police corruption Sting. While this is happening, the criminals insist that none of the crime gangs are behind the killings.
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No Way Out
August 14, 1987
A coverup and witchhunt ensue after a politician (Gene Hackman) accidentally puts his mistress (Sean Young) in jeopardy.
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Lady Beware
August 14, 1987
Young and good looking Katya (Diane Lane), a window dresser for a big department store in Pittsburgh, begins a love story with a journalist, Mac Odell. She is however stalked by Jack, a married man who has a fixation with her. Jack makes Katya's life hellish and when the girl tells his wife about him he becomes wild with fury having been exposed and goes to the store to kill her...
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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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Stakeout
August 5, 1987
Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.
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The Living Daylights
July 31, 1987
James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov.
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The Lost Boys
July 31, 1987
Strange events threaten an entire family when two brothers move with their divorced mother to a California town where the local teenage gang turns out to be a pack of vampires. (Warner Bros.)
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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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Jaws: The Revenge
July 17, 1987
Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.
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Adventures in Babysitting
July 3, 1987
A babysitter must battle her way through the big city after being stranded there with the kids she's looking after.
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