The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride (1987)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
An elderly man reads the book "The Princess Bride" to his sick and thus currently bedridden adolescent grandson, the reading of the book which has been passed down within the family for generations. The grandson is sure he won't like the story, with a romance at its core, he prefers something with... [show more]
Cary Elwes
Mandy Patinkin
Robin Wright
Rob Reiner
Castle in the Sky
Castle in the Sky (1986)
Animation, Adventure, Family
A young boy stumbles into a mysterious girl who floats down from the sky. The girl, Sheeta, was chased by pirates, army and government secret agents. In saving her life, they begin a high flying adventure that goes through all sorts of flying machines, eventually searching for Sheeta's identity in a... [show more]
Mayumi Tanaka
Keiko Yokozawa
Kotoe Hatsui
Hayao Miyazaki
Kiki's Delivery Service
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Animation, Family, Fantasy
This is the story of a young witch, named Kiki who is now 13 years old. But she is still a little green and plenty headstrong, but also resourceful, imaginative, and determined. With her trusty wisp of a talking cat named Jiji by her side she's ready to take on the world, or at least the quaintly... [show more]
Kirsten Dunst
Minami Takayama
Rei Sakuma
Hayao Miyazaki
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story (1983)
Comedy, Family
Christmas is approaching and 9 year-old Ralphie wants only one thing: a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun. When he mentions it at the dinner table, his mother's immediate reaction is that he'll shoot his eye out. He then decides on a perfect theme for his teacher but her reaction is like his. He... [show more]
Peter Billingsley
Melinda Dillon
Darren McGavin
Bob Clark
Stop Making Sense
Stop Making Sense (1984)
Documentary, Music
David Byrne walks onto the stage and does a solo "Psycho Killer." Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz join him for two more songs. The crew is busy, still setting up. Then, three more musicians and two back-up singers join the band. Everybody sings, plays, harmonizes, dances, and runs.... [show more]
David Byrne
Bernie Worrell
Alex Weir
Jonathan Demme
The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Animation, Adventure, Family
In Disney's beguiling animated romp, rebellious 16-year-old mermaid Ariel is fascinated with life on land. On one of her visits to the surface, which are forbidden by her controlling father, King Triton, she falls for a human prince. Determined to be with her new love, Ariel makes a dangerous deal... [show more]
Jodi Benson
Samuel E. Wright
Rene Auberjonois
Ron Clements
John Musker
Phar Lap
Phar Lap (1983)
Biography, Drama, Family
Phar Lap, the legendary Australian racing horse, is as well-known today for his mysterious death as for his fabulous accomplishments in life. Beginning at the end, the film flashes back to the day that Phar Lap, despite his lack of pedigree, is purchased on impulse by trainer Harry Telford. Phar Lap... [show more]
Tom Burlinson
Judy Morris
Martin Vaughan
Simon Wincer
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie, and the children... [show more]
Henry Thomas
Drew Barrymore
Peter Coyote
Steven Spielberg
Field of Dreams
Field of Dreams (1989)
Drama, Family, Fantasy
Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the... [show more]
Kevin Costner
James Earl Jones
Ray Liotta
Phil Alden Robinson
Savannah Smiles
Savannah Smiles (1982)
Comedy, Family
The young daughter of a politician runs away due to lack of attention. She hides in the car of two not-so-bright crooks who are slowly converted into parent figures to her. A surprising bond of love and redirection forms among the trio as the police close down on the supposed kidnappers.
Mark Miller
Donovan Scott
Bridgette Andersen
Pierre De Moro
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and Chewbacca face attack by the Imperial forces and its AT-AT walkers on the ice planet Hoth. While Han and Leia escape in the Millennium Falcon, Luke travels to Dagobah in search of Yoda. Only with the Jedi Master's help will Luke survive when the Dark Side... [show more]
Mark Hamill
Harrison Ford
Carrie Fisher
Irvin Kershner
The Goonies
The Goonies (1985)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
Mikey and his friends have always wanted to go on an adventure. One night they are all in Mikey's attic and Mikey stumbles across an old map. Mikey has always wanted to know if One-eyed Willy ever was a real person and now he might. They set off and later realize that they have to go through the... [show more]
Sean Astin
Josh Brolin
Jeff Cohen
Richard Donner
The Bear
The Bear (1988)
Adventure, Drama, Family
The director of La guerre du feu (1981) creates yet another film in nature with almost no human dialogue in this picturesque story of an orphaned bear cub who is adopted by an adult male bear and must avoid hunters. Bart the Bear stars in this anthropomorphic fantasy.
Tchéky Karyo
Bart the Bear
Youk the Bear
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Back to the Future
Back to the Future (1985)
Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean "time machine" invented by a slightly mad scientist. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and... [show more]
Michael J. Fox
Christopher Lloyd
Lea Thompson
Robert Zemeckis
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Action, Adventure
The year is 1936. An archeology professor named Indiana Jones is venturing in the jungles of South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap but miraculously escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The... [show more]
Harrison Ford
Karen Allen
Paul Freeman
Steven Spielberg
Amadeus
Amadeus (1984)
Biography, Drama, Music
Antonio Salieri believes that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music is divine and miraculous. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. He began his career as a devout man who believes his success and talent as a composer are God's rewards for... [show more]
F. Murray Abraham
Tom Hulce
Elizabeth Berridge
Milos Forman
My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Two young girls, 10-year-old Satsuki and her 4-year-old sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuki and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon... [show more]
Hitoshi Takagi
Noriko Hidaka
Chika Sakamoto
Hayao Miyazaki
Matewan
Matewan (1987)
Drama, History
Mingo County, West Virginia, 1920. Coal miners, struggling to form a union, are up against company operators and the gun thugs of the notorious Baldwin-Felts detective agency. Black and Italian miners, brought in by the company to break the strike, are caught between the two forces. UMWA organizer... [show more]
Chris Cooper
James Earl Jones
Mary McDonnell
John Sayles
Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire (1987)
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Visible only to those like them and to human children, Damiel and Cassiel are two angels, who have existed even before humankind. Along with several other angels, they currently wander around West Berlin, generally on their own, observing and preserving life, sometimes trying to provide comfort to... [show more]
Bruno Ganz
Solveig Dommartin
Otto Sander
Wim Wenders
Babette's Feast
Babette's Feast (1987)
Drama
In a remote 19th-century Danish village, two sisters lead a rigid life centered around their father, the local minister, and their church. Both had opportunities to leave the village: one could have married a young army officer and the other, a French opera singer. Their father objected in each... [show more]
Stéphane Audran
Bodil Kjer
Birgitte Federspiel
Gabriel Axel
The Karate Kid
The Karate Kid (1984)
Action, Drama, Family
Daniel and his mother move from New Jersey to California. She has a wonderful new job, but Daniel quickly discovers that a dark haired Italian boy with a Jersey accent doesn't fit into the blond surfer crowd. Daniel manages to talk his way out of some fights, but he is finally cornered by several... [show more]
Ralph Macchio
Pat Morita
Elisabeth Shue
John G. Avildsen
The NeverEnding Story
The NeverEnding Story (1984)
Adventure, Drama, Family
Bastian is a young boy who lives a dreary life being tormented by school bullies. On one such occasion he escapes into a book shop where the old proprieter reveals an ancient story-book to him, which he is warned can be dangerous. Shortly after, he "borrows" the book and begins to read it in the... [show more]
Noah Hathaway
Barret Oliver
Tami Stronach
Wolfgang Petersen
Labyrinth
Labyrinth (1986)
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Teenager Sarah is forced by her father and her stepmother to babysit her baby brother Toby while they are outside home. Toby does not stop crying and Sarah wishes that her stepbrother be taken by the Goblin King Jareth. Out of the blue, Toby stops crying and when Sarah looks for him in the cradle,... [show more]
David Bowie
Jennifer Connelly
Toby Froud
Jim Henson
The Journey of Natty Gann
The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
Adventure, Drama, Family
Natty Gann is a 12-year-old Depression-era girl whose single father leaves her behind in Chicago while he goes to Washington State to look for work in the timber industry. Natty runs away from the guardian she was left with to follow Dad. She befriends and is befriended by a wolf that has been... [show more]
Meredith Salenger
John Cusack
Jed
Jeremy Kagan
The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff (1983)
Adventure, Biography, Drama
Tom Wolfe's book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be... [show more]
Sam Shepard
Scott Glenn
Ed Harris
Philip Kaufman
Love Streams
Love Streams (1984)
Drama
The film describes a few days in the life of the writer Robert Harmon and his sister Sarah. The decadent life of Robert is made of alcohol, cigarettes, and short-time relationships with women; women he interviews for a book, he spends a weekend with at a casino or fall in love with for the fun of an... [show more]
Gena Rowlands
John Cassavetes
Diahnne Abbott
John Cassavetes
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Luke Skywalker battles Jabba the Hutt and Darth Vader to save his comrades in the Rebel Alliance and triumph over the Galactic Empire. Han Solo and Princess Leia reaffirm their love, and team with Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, the Ewoks, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 to aid in the disruption of the Dark... [show more]
Mark Hamill
Harrison Ford
Carrie Fisher
Richard Marquand
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Action, Adventure
An art collector appeals to Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. He learns that another archaeologist has disappeared while searching for the precious goblet, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones. The artifact is much harder to find than they expected, and its... [show more]
Harrison Ford
Sean Connery
Alison Doody
Steven Spielberg
Gandhi
Gandhi (1982)
Biography, Drama, History
In 1893, Mohandas K. Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian and traveling in a first class compartment. Gandhi realizes that the laws are biased against Indians and decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all Indians in South Africa. After numerous... [show more]
Ben Kingsley
John Gielgud
Rohini Hattangadi
Richard Attenborough
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters (1984)
Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz and Egon Spengler work at Columbia University. where they delve into the paranormal and fiddle with many unethical experiments on their students. As they are kicked out of the University, they really understand the paranormal and go into business for themselves. Under the... [show more]
Bill Murray
Dan Aykroyd
Sigourney Weaver
Ivan Reitman
Zelig
Zelig (1983)
Comedy
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
Woody Allen
Mia Farrow
Patrick Horgan
Woody Allen
Henry V
Henry V (1989)
Biography, Drama, History
King Henry V of England (Sir Kenneth Branagh) is insulted by King Charles VI of France (Paul Scofield). As a result, he leads his army into battle against France. Along the way, the young King must struggle with the sinking morale of his troops and his own inner doubts. The war culminates at the... [show more]
Kenneth Branagh
Derek Jacobi
Simon Shepherd
Kenneth Branagh
The Dresser
The Dresser (1983)
Drama
Personal assistant Norman struggles to get deteriorating veteran actor Sir through a difficult performance of King Lear.
PG
118 min
Albert Finney
Tom Courtenay
Edward Fox
Peter Yates
PG
118 min
Unknown
Local Hero
Local Hero (1983)
Comedy, Drama
Oil billionaire Happer sends Mac to a remote Scottish village to secure the property rights for an oil refinery they want to build. Mac teams up with Danny and starts the negotiations, the locals are keen to get their hands on the 'Silver Dollar' and can't believe their luck. However, a local hermit... [show more]
Burt Lancaster
Peter Riegert
Fulton Mackay
Bill Forsyth
The Brave Little Toaster
The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
Animation, Adventure, Family
A group of dated appliances embark on a journey to the city to find their master after being abandoned in a cabin in the woods.
Jon Lovitz
Timothy Stack
Timothy E. Day
Jerry Rees
The Dark Crystal
The Dark Crystal (1982)
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Another planet, another time. One thousand years ago, the mysterious Dark Crystal was damaged by one of the Urskeks and an age of chaos has began. The evil race of grotesque birdlike lizards, the Skeksis, gnomish dragons who rule their fantastic planet with an iron claw. Meanwhile, orphan Jen,... [show more]
Jim Henson
Kathryn Mullen
Frank Oz
Jim Henson
Frank Oz
Flight of the Navigator
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
A 12-year-old boy goes missing in 1978, only to reappear once more in 1986. In the eight years that have passed, he hasn't aged. It is no coincidence that at the time he "comes back", a flying saucer is found, entangled in power lines.
Joey Cramer
Paul Reubens
Cliff De Young
Randal Kleiser
Follow That Bird
Follow That Bird (1985)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
Eccentric and lovable Big Bird lives a very carefree life with his friends on Sesame Street. But his happiness is cut short when a strict social worker named Miss Finch sends him away to live with a wacky family of Dodos. After a long week and feeling homesick, he decides that he has had enough and... [show more]
Caroll Spinney
Jim Henson
Frank Oz
Ken Kwapis
The Sacrifice
The Sacrifice (1986)
Drama
Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to God, offering him everything to have... [show more]
Erland Josephson
Susan Fleetwood
Allan Edwall
Andrei Tarkovsky
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect. Groundbreaking interaction between the live and... [show more]
Bob Hoskins
Christopher Lloyd
Joanna Cassidy
Robert Zemeckis
The Purple Rose of Cairo
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey during the Depression and is searching for an escape from her dreary life. Tom Baxter is a dashing young archaeologist in the film "The Purple Rose of Cairo." After losing her job Cecilia goes to see the film in hopes of raising her spirits. Much to her surprise... [show more]
Mia Farrow
Jeff Daniels
Danny Aiello
Woody Allen
Broadway Danny Rose
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Comedy
Danny Rose is a manager of artists, and although he's not very successful, he nevertheless goes out of his way to help his acts. So when Lou Canova, a singer who has a chance of making a come-back, asks Danny to help him with a problem, Danny helps him. This problem is Lou's mistress Tina. Lou wants... [show more]
Woody Allen
Mia Farrow
Nick Apollo Forte
Woody Allen
The Trip to Bountiful
The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
Drama
Carrie Watts lives the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish is revisit, just once before she dies, Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home." The trouble... [show more]
Geraldine Page
John Heard
Carlin Glynn
Peter Masterson
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
The cartoonish and childish character Pee-wee Herman goes on a big adventure for the first time ever when his beloved shiny new bicycle is stolen by his nemesis Francis Buxton, a fellow man-child and neighborhood rich "kid." And he sets off on an obsessive cross-country journey, determined to... [show more]
Paul Reubens
Elizabeth Daily
Mark Holton
Tim Burton
The Great Mouse Detective
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Animation, Adventure, Family
In Victorian London, England, a little mouse girl's toymaker father is abducted by a peglegged bat. She enlists the aid of Basil of Baker Street, the rodent world's answer to Sherlock Holmes. The case expands as Basil uncovers the crime's link to a plot against the Crown itself.
Vincent Price
Barrie Ingham
Val Bettin
Ron Clements
Burny Mattinson
Dave Michener
Sign 'o' the Times
Sign 'o' the Times (1987)
Documentary, Music
Music legend Prince and his band perform 13 numbers, most of them from his double album, "Sign 'o' the Times." This is high-energy stuff: neon signs flash above the stage, suggesting the honky-tonk district of a big city, and between numbers there are vignettes of street life. Sheila E., Boni Boyer... [show more]
Prince
Sheila E.
Sheena Easton
Prince
David Hogan
Albert Magnoli
My Dinner with Andre
My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Comedy, Drama
Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant. Gregory, a theater director from New York, is the more talkative of the pair. He relates to Shawn his tales of dropping out, traveling around the world, and... [show more]
Andre Gregory
Wallace Shawn
Jean Lenauer
Louis Malle
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
It is the 23rd century. Admiral James T. Kirk is an instructor at Starfleet Academy and feeling old; the prospect of attending his ship, the USS Enterprise--now a training ship--on a two-week cadet cruise does not make him feel any younger. But the training cruise becomes a deadly serious mission... [show more]
William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
DeForest Kelley
Nicholas Meyer
On Golden Pond
On Golden Pond (1981)
Drama
The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage. This summer their daughter Chelsea -- whom they haven't seen for years -- feels she must be there for Norman's birthday. She and her... [show more]
Katharine Hepburn
Henry Fonda
Jane Fonda
Mark Rydell
The Secret of NIMH
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Animation, Adventure, Drama
To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she suspected.
Elizabeth Hartman
Derek Jacobi
Dom DeLuise
Don Bluth
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