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The Best Movies of 1987
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Movie: The Princess Bride ( 1987 )
A bedridden boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.
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Movie: Some Kind of Wonderful ( 1987 )
When Keith goes out with Amanda, the girl of his dreams, Amanda's ex-boyfriend plans to get back at Keith. Meanwhile, Keith's best friend, tomboy Watts, realizes she has feelings for Keith.
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Movie: Spaceballs ( 1987 )
A star-pilot for hire and his trusty sidekick must come to the rescue of a princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the evil Spaceballs.
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Movie: The Untouchables ( 1987 )
During the era of Prohibition in the United States, Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and because of rampant corruption, assembles a small, hand-picked team to help him.
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Movie: Full Metal Jacket ( 1987 )
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
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Movie: Predator ( 1987 )
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
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Movie: Dirty Dancing ( 1987 )
Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.
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Movie: Adventures in Babysitting ( 1987 )
Chris Parker agrees to babysit after her boyfriend, Mike Todwell, stands her up. Expecting a dull evening, she settles down with three kids for a night of TV...and boredom. But when her frantic friend, Brenda, calls and pleads to be rescued from the bus station in downtown Chicago, the evening soon explodes into an endless whirl of hair raising adventures. Chris and the kids leave their safe suburban surroundings and head for the heart of the big city, never imagining how terrifyingly funny their expedition will become.
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Movie: The Lost Boys ( 1987 )
After moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires.
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Movie: Lethal Weapon ( 1987 )
Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.
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Movie: Masters of the Universe ( 1987 )
The heroic warrior He-Man battles against the evil lord Skeletor and his armies of darkness for control of Castle Grayskull.
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Movie: RoboCop ( 1987 )
In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.
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Movie: Empire of the Sun ( 1987 )
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
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Movie: Summer School ( 1987 )
Freddy the gym teacher has to teach remedial English in summer (high) school, if he wants tenure. As he can only teach gym and his students want fun, emphasis is on "field trips" - until he's fired unless all his students pass the test.
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Movie: Overboard ( 1987 )
A cruel but beautiful heiress mocks and cheats a hired carpenter. When she gets amnesia after an accident, he decides to introduce her to regular life by convincing her that they're husband and wife.
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Movie: Fatal Attraction ( 1987 )
Happily married New York lawyer Dan Gallagher has an affair with his colleague Alex, and the two enjoy a love weekend while Dan's wife and kid are away. But Alex will not let go of him, and she will stop at nothing to have him for herself. Just how far will she go to get what she wants?
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Movie: The Running Man ( 1987 )
A wrongly convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a game show.
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Movie: Hellraiser ( 1987 )
A woman discovers the newly resurrected, partially formed, body of her brother-in-law. She starts killing for him to revitalize his body so he can escape the demonic beings that are pursuing him after he escaped their sadistic underworld.
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Movie: Raising Arizona ( 1987 )
Recidivist hold-up man H.I. McDonnough and police woman Edwina marry, only to discover they are unable to conceive a child. Desperate for a baby, the pair decide to kidnap one of the quintuplets of furniture tycoon Nathan Arizona. The McDonnoughs try to keep their crime secret, while friends, co-workers and a feral bounty hunter look to use Nathan Jr. for their own purposes.
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Movie: Can't Buy Me Love ( 1987 )
A nerdy outcast secretly pays the most popular girl in school one thousand dollars to be his girlfriend.
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Movie: Moonstruck ( 1988 )
Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.
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Movie: Jaws: The Revenge ( 1987 )
Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.
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Movie: Evil Dead II ( 1987 )
The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
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Movie: The Monster Squad ( 1987 )
A young group of monster fanatics attempt to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monsters.
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Movie: Planes, Trains & Automobiles ( 1987 )
A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.
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Movie: Angel Heart ( 1987 )
A private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.
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Movie: Good Morning, Vietnam ( 1988 )
A new Disc Jockey is shipped from Crete to Vietnam to bring humor to Armed Forces Radio. He turns the studio on its ear and becomes wildly popular with the troops but runs afoul of the middle management who think he isn't G.I. enough. While he is off the air, he tries to meet Vietnamese especially girls, and begins to have brushes with the real war that never appears on the radio.
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Movie: Wall Street ( 1987 )
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
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Movie: Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol ( 1987 )
The misfit Police Academy (1984) graduates now are assigned to train a group of civilian volunteers to fight crime once again plaguing the streets.
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Movie: La Bamba ( 1987 )
This is the true story of Ritchie Valens, a young rock and roll singer who tragically died in a plane crash at age 17. The film follows Ritchie from his days in Pacoima, California where he and his family make a meager living working on farms to his rise as a star. The film also focuses on Ritchie's friendship and rivalry with his older brother Bob Morales and his relationship with Donna Ludwig, his girlfriend.
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Movie: The Living Daylights ( 1987 )
James Bond 007's mission is to firstly, organise the defection of a top Soviet general. When the general is re-captured, Bond heads off to find why an ally of General Koskov was sent to murder him. Bond's mission continues to take him to Afghanistan, where he must confront an arms dealer known as Brad Whitaker. Everything eventually reveals its self to Bond.
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Movie: Mannequin ( 1987 )
A young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a job there and his creation comes to life.
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Movie: Beverly Hills Cop II ( 1987 )
Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogomil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it.
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Movie: The Gate ( 1987 )
Two young boys accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the two kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that literally begins to take over the Earth.
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Movie: Near Dark ( 1988 )
A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar.
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Movie: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors ( 1987 )
A psychiatrist familiar with knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
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Movie: Less Than Zero ( 1987 )
A college freshman returns to L.A. for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
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Movie: Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise ( 1987 )
The rising college nerds set out to a convention in Florida, but are not welcomed by the Alpha Beta representatives.
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Movie: The Witches of Eastwick ( 1987 )
Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted, at a cost, when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives.
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Movie: No Way Out ( 1987 )
A coverup and witchhunt occur after a politician accidentally kills his mistress.
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Movie: Wings of Desire ( 1987 )
An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.
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Movie: Over the Top ( 1987 )
Tough trucker Lincoln Hawk is determined to win back his son and triumph at the world arm wrestling championships.
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Movie: The Last Emperor ( 1987 )
The story of the final Emperor of China.
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Movie: Creepshow 2 ( 1987 )
"Creepshow 2" is divided into three stories, conducted by a leading segment where a boy that loves the horror comic book Creepshow buys seeds of carnivorous plant and is bullied by four teenagers. Meanwhile the Creep tells the tales of Creepshow: (1) "Old Chief Wood'nhead" - The elders Ray (George Kennedy) and Martha Spruce (Dorothy Lamour) have lived their whole life and raised their family with their small store in an Arizona town. Now the town is economically decadent and Ray gives credit to his customers; including the Indians of Ben Whitemoon's tribe. When Ray is repairing the wooden statue of an old chief in the front door, Ben (Frank Salsedo) arrives and asks him to keep the jewels of his tribe as a guarantee for their debts. However, Ben's nephew Sam (Holt McCallany) unexpectedly arrives with two other punks to steal Ray, and he kills the elders. They expect to travel to Hollywood, but the Old Chief Wood'nhead will not let them go. (2) "The Raft" - The teenagers Deke (Paul Satterfield) and Randy (Daniel Beer) travel with Laverne (Jeremy Green) and Rachel (Page Hannah) to a lake expecting to smoke weed, swim and get laid. They swim to a raft that is floating in the middle of the lake, but they discover a carnivorous blob in the lake that is hungry. (3) "The Hitchhiker" - In Maine, the unfaithful Annie Lansing (Lois Chiles) stays too long having sex with her escort and is late to meet her husband in the airport. She drives her Mercedes Benz in a hurry and loses control on the road. Annie runs over a hitchhiker, but she does not help the man and hit-and-run, questioning whether she can live with the situation. She discovers that the hitchhiker will not leave her.
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Movie: Harry and the Hendersons ( 1987 )
The Henderson family adopt a friendly Sasquatch but have a hard time trying to keep the legend of 'Bigfoot' a secret.
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Movie: Hamburger Hill ( 1987 )
A very realistic interpretation of one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
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Movie: Prince of Darkness ( 1987 )
A sinister secret has been kept in the basement of an abandoned Los Angeles church for many years. With the death of a priest belonging to a mysterious sect, another priest opens the door to the basement and discovers a vat containing a green liquid. The priest contacts a group of physics graduate students to investigate it. Unfortunately, they discover that the liquid contains the essence of Satan himself, and they also discover that he will release HIS father - an all-powerful Anti-God! The liquid later comes to life itself, turning some of the students into zombies as the Devil comes forward to release his father. Will these students be able to stop him?
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Movie: The Stepfather ( 1987 )
A family-values man named Jerry Blake (Terry O'Quinn) marries widows and divorcées with children in search of the perfect family. As soon as his new family members show signs of being human and not robots who will march unquestioningly to his tune, his dreams of domestic bliss begin to crumble, and he kills them. Then he alters his appearance, assumes a new identity, and skips to another town to begin the deadly ritual all over again. He marries Susan Maine (Shelley Hack), who sees him as the ideal surrogate father for her teenage daughter Stephanie (Jill Schoelen), and he is soon up to his old tricks when she proves to be too much of a troublesome teen to handle.
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Movie: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ( 1987 )
The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.
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Movie: Innerspace ( 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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Movie: 3 Men and a Baby ( 1987 )
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guys' girlfriends.
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Movie: Nekromantik ( 2014 )
A street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him.
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Movie: Baby Boom ( 1987 )
The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
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Movie: Stakeout ( 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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Movie: Bad Taste ( 1988 )
The population of a small town disappears and is replaced by aliens that chase human flesh for their intergalactic fast-food chain.
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Movie: Maurice ( 1987 )
After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.
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Movie: Roxanne ( 1987 )
The large-nosed C.D. Bales is in love with the beautiful Roxanne; she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
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Movie: Dragnet ( 1987 )
The equally-straight-laced and "by the book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery.
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Movie: The Hidden ( 1987 )
Law abiding people suddenly become violent criminals. A cop and an FBI agent race for answers in this sci-fi thriller.
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Movie: Black Widow ( 1987 )
A federal investigator tracks down a gold-digging woman who moves from husband to husband to kill them and collect the inheritance.
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Movie: The Brave Little Toaster ( 1987 )
A group of dated appliances that find themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to, á la "The Incredible Journey", seek their young 8 year old "master". Children's film which on the surface is a frivolous fantasy, but with a dark subtext of abandonment, obsolescence, and loneliness.
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Movie: Throw Momma from the Train ( 1987 )
A bitter ex-husband wants his former spouse dead. A put-upon momma's boy wants his mother dead. Who will pull it off?
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Movie: *batteries not included ( 1987 )
Apartment block tenants seek the aid of alien mechanical life-forms to save their building from demolition.
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Movie: Dolls ( 1987 )
Five adults and a child (two parties traveling separately) are stranded in a storm and spend the night in the mansion of an elderly couple who are dollmakers. However, the travelers' young daughter realizes the dolls the couple makes were once wicked humans whom the couple has miniaturized and turned into dolls.
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Movie: R.O.T.O.R. ( 1988 )
Robotic Officer Tactical Operation Research. A prototype robot intended for crime combat escapes from the development lab and goes on a killing rampage.
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Movie: Someone to Watch Over Me ( 1987 )
A married New York cop falls for the socialite murder witness he's been assigned to protect.
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Movie: Flowers in the Attic ( 1987 )
Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.
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Movie: Withnail & I ( 1987 )
London, 1969 - two 'resting' (unemployed and unemployable) actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to leave their squalid Camden flat for an idyllic holiday in the countryside, courtesy of Withnail's uncle Monty's country cottage. But when they get there, it rains non-stop, there's no food, and their basic survival skills turn out to be somewhat limited. Matters are not helped by the arrival of Uncle Monty, who shows an uncomfortably keen interest in Marwood...
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Movie: Prom Night II ( 1987 )
Thirty years after her accidental death at her 1957 senior prom, the tortured spirit of prom queen Mary Lou Maloney returns to seek revenge.
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Movie: Ernest Goes to Camp ( 1987 )
Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance councilor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents as well as stop a shady strip mining company from closing the camp.
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Movie: Broadcast News ( 1987 )
Take two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one Producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly.
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Movie: House II: The Second Story ( 1987 )
The new owner of a sinister house gets involved with reanimated corpses and demons searching for an ancient Aztec skull with magic powers.
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Movie: My Best Friend's Birthday ( 1987 )
It's Mickey's Birthday and his girlfriend just left him, so that's when his friend Clarence shows him a birthday he'll never forget.
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Movie: Street Trash ( 1987 )
A liquor store owner sells alcoholic beverages to homeless people, unaware of what the bottles actually contain: toxic brew.
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Movie: Deathstalker II: Duel of the Titans ( 1987 )
In this parody of the sword and sorcery films, a princess is deposed by an evil sorcerer. She enlists the aid of Deathstalker to battle the forces of evil, including a clone of the princess, and win back her kingdom.
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Movie: Cherry 2000 ( 1987 )
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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Movie: Ironweed ( 1988 )
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
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Movie: Slumber Party Massacre II ( 1987 )
Courtney Bates, the younger sister of Valerie, and her friends go to their condo for a weekend getaway, but Courtney can't get rid of the haunting feeling that a supernatural rockabilly driller killer is coming to murder them all.
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Movie: Barfly ( 1987 )
Based on the life of successful poet Charles Bukowski and his exploits in Hollywood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
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Movie: Amazon Women on the Moon ( 1987 )
A spoof 1950s science fiction movie, interspersed with various comedy sketches concerning late night television.
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Movie: Teen Wolf Too ( 1987 )
Todd Howard is a struggling teenager. Nothing seems to be going very well for him, until he turns into a wolf.
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Movie: Blind Date ( 1987 )
A workaholic needs a date for a dinner with new important clientele, but who his brother sets him up with could lead to disaster.
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Movie: The Bedroom Window ( 1987 )
Terry is having an affair with his boss' wife Sylvia. One night after an office party they are together and Sylvia witnesses an attack on Denise from Terry's bedroom window. She doesn't want to expose their relationship and so is reluctant about talking to the police. Terry, wanting to help, gives the police the description of the attacker. He soon becomes the main suspect in the case. He then sets to find the real rapist/killer with some help from victim Denise.
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Movie: The Curse ( 1988 )
When a meteorite lands near his family farm during a storm in Tennessee, the son of a struggling farmer believes it's connected to strange plague-like events afflicting the crops, the farm animals and even the family themeselves.
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Movie: Ishtar ( 1987 )
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the C.I.A., the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
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Movie: Return to Horror High ( 1987 )
A few years ago, a mysterious serial-killer caused panic on Crippen High School. The killer was never caught. A movie company, Cosmic Pictures, has decided to make a feature movie about these events - on location, at the now abandoned school. Since members of cast and crew disappear without a trace, it seems as if history is repeating itself...
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Movie: Death Wish 4: The Crackdown ( 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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Movie: House of Games ( 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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Movie: Killer Workout ( 1987 )
Two years ago, a young woman named Valerie was burned after entering a tanning salon. Now, her twin sister, Rhonda, runs a local gym where, all of a sudden, people are being murdered.
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Movie: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie ( 1987 )
Dodger must confront the struggles of life as he is visited by the Garbage Pail Kids and intimidated by some older bullies.
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Movie: Hard Ticket to Hawaii ( 1987 )
In Molokai, two undercover drug enforcement agents are after a vicious drug kingpin, but on the way, they will also have to deal with a contaminated giant python.
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Movie: Radio Days ( 1987 )
A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.
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Movie: The Pick-up Artist ( 1987 )
A womanizer meets his match when he falls for a woman in debt to the mafia.
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Movie: Babette's Feast ( 1987 )
During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.
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Movie: Three O'Clock High ( 1987 )
A nerd gets himself in hot water with the new bully, a quiet bad boy who challenges him to fight on the grounds of their high school after the day's end.
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Movie: Who's That Girl ( 1987 )
The life of an uptight tax lawyer turns chaotic when he is asked to escort a young woman newly released from prison, who persuades him to help prove her innocence.
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Movie: Blood Rage ( 1987 )
A boy kills a man and accuses his twin brother of the murder, and the innocent brother ends up institutionalized, while his psychotic twin goes free. 10 years later, the innocent twin escapes, which triggers his brother into killing again.
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Movie: The Believers ( 1987 )
A New York psychiatrist finds that a brujería-inspired cult, which believes in child sacrifice, has a keen interest in his own son.
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Movie: A Return to Salem's Lot ( 1987 )
A man and his son vacation to the quiet vampire populated town of Salem's Lot.
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Movie: Cry Freedom ( 1987 )
South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country, after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the black activist Steve Biko.