Description: This playlist combined movies of the 1980s.
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Ghostbusters
( 1984 )
Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.
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Beverly Hills Cop
( 1984 )
A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.
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RoboCop
( 1987 )
In a violent future in Old Detroit, murdered police officer Alex Murphy is resurrected as RoboCop, a powerful cyborg law enforcer. As he fights crime, he begins to recover memories of his past and seeks revenge on the gang who killed him.
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Octopussy
( 1983 )
A fake Fabergé egg recovered from the body of a fellow agent leads James Bond to uncover a jewel smuggling operation led by the mysterious Octopussy, and a plot to blow up a NATO air base.
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2010: The Year We Make Contact
( 1984 )
A joint USA-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn exactly what happened to the "Discovery" and its H.A.L. 9000 computer.
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The Karate Kid
( 1984 )
Recently relocated from NJ to LA, Daniel becomes the target of a gang of Cobra Kai dojo students. When Mr. Miyagi saves him with expert Karate skills, Daniel convinces him to teach him to defend himself, and put his bullies in their place.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
( 1982 )
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.
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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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Raiders of the Lost Ark
( 1981 )
In 1936, archaeologist Indiana Jones is tasked by Army Intelligence to help locate a legendary ancient power, the Ark of Covenant, before the Nazis get it first.
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Scarface
( 1983 )
In the 1980s, a determined criminal-minded Cuban immigrant becomes the biggest drug smuggler in Miami, and is eventually undone by his own drug addiction.
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Wall Street
( 1987 )
An impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
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Sudden Impact
( 1983 )
When a woman exacts deadly revenge on the aggressors who raped her and her sister ten years earlier, Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to the case.
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Batman
( 1989 )
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.
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Footloose
( 1984 )
A big city teenager moves to a small town where Rock and Roll music and dancing have been banned by backward local parents and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.
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Aliens
( 1986 )
Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
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The Terminator
( 1984 )
A cyborg assassin from the future attempts to find and kill a young woman who is destined to give birth to a warrior that will lead a resistance to save humankind from extinction.
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Top Gun
( 1986 )
The Top Gun Naval Fighter Weapons School is where the best of the best train to refine their elite flying skills. When hotshot fighter pilot Maverick is sent to the school, his reckless attitude and cocky demeanor put him at odds with the other pilots, especially the cool and collected Iceman.
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Trading Places
( 1983 )
A snobbish Wall Street commodities broker and a wily street hustler find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaire brothers who run a brokerage house.
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About Last Night
( 1986 )
Chicago singles meet in a bar, live together and call it love. Based on David Mamet's play Sexual Perversity in Chicago.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
( 1989 )
In 1938, after his father goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones finds himself up against the Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
( 1980 )
After the Empire overpowers the Rebel Alliance, Luke Skywalker begins training with Jedi Master Yoda, while Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett pursue his friends across the galaxy.
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
( 1983 )
After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebel Alliance attempts to destroy the second Death Star while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.
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The Blues Brothers
( 1980 )
Jake Blues rejoins his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.
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Jaws 3-D
( 1983 )
A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.
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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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Witness
( 1985 )
While protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life is threatened.
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The Abyss
( 1989 )
A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
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The Fox and the Hound
( 1981 )
A fox named Tod and a hound named Copper vow to be best friends forever. But as Copper grows into a hunting dog, their unlikely friendship faces the ultimate test.
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The Shining
( 1980 )
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.
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The Accused
( 1988 )
After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.
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The Golden Child
( 1986 )
A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child whom dark forces want to eliminate.
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Grease 2
( 1982 )
A British student at a 1960s American high school must prove himself to the leader of a girls' gang whose members can only date greasers.
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Raging Bull
( 1980 )
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
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Rocky III
( 1982 )
Rocky faces the ultimate challenge from a powerful new contender, and must turn to a former rival to help regain his throne as the undisputed fighting champion.
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Rocky IV
( 1985 )
Rocky Balboa proudly holds the world heavyweight boxing championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago, a six-foot-six, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union.
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Fletch
( 1985 )
While working undercover wisecracking newspaper reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher is offered a large sum by a millionaire with a terminal disease to kill him. Intrigued, Fletch decides to unearth the full story behind the offer.
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Ordinary People
( 1980 )
The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father and the guilt-ridden younger son.
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Black Widow
( 1987 )
Federal investigator Alexandra Barnes tracks down gold-digging woman Catherine Peterson, who moves from husband to husband in order to kill them and collect the inheritance.
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Cocoon
( 1985 )
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.
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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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Airplane!
( 1980 )
After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.
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Airplane II: The Sequel
( 1982 )
A computer glitch causes a passenger space shuttle to the moon to head straight for the sun. Can Ted Striker save the day and get the aircraft back on track - again?
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Children of a Lesser God
( 1986 )
A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.
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Superman II
( 1981 )
Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.
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Superman III
( 1983 )
Entrepreneur Ross Webster teams up with a computer genius in order to realise his own evil intentions. When Superman obstructs his plans, he decides to destroy him.
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
( 1987 )
With the world on the brink of a nuclear war, Superman takes it upon himself to destroy all nuclear weapons. However, Lex Luthor creates Nuclear Man, a force strong enough to take down Superman.
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Supergirl
( 1984 )
After losing a powerful orb, Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.
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The Black Cauldron
( 1985 )
A young boy and a group of misfit friends embark on a quest to find a dark magic item of ultimate power before a diabolical tyrant can.
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All Dogs Go to Heaven
( 1989 )
A canine angel, Charlie, sneaks back to earth from heaven but ends up befriending an orphan girl who can speak to animals. In the process, Charlie learns that friendship is the most heavenly gift of all.
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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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The Last Emperor
( 1988 )
Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatization of China's eleventh and final monarch of the Qing dynasty: Emperor Puyi.
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Beetlejuice
( 1988 )
The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
( 1982 )
With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
( 1984 )
Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned U.S.S. Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis Planet to recover Spock's body.
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
( 1986 )
To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
( 1989 )
Captain Kirk and his crew must deal with Mr. Spock's long-lost half-brother who hijacks the Enterprise for an obsessive search for God at the center of the galaxy.
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The Dead Pool
( 1988 )
Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan must stop a sick secret contest to murder various San Francisco celebrities, with himself being one of the targets.
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Against All Odds
( 1984 )
A gangster hires an ex-football player to find his estranged girlfriend. When he finds her, they fall in love and things get complicated.
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Starman
( 1984 )
An alien takes the form of a young Wisconsin widow's husband and makes her drive him to his departure point in Arizona. Distrustful government agents, along with a more ambivalent scientist, give pursuit in hopes of intercepting them.
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Escape from New York
( 1981 )
In a dystopian 1997, a soldier-turned-bank robber is tasked with rescuing the U.S. President after he crashes into Manhattan, which has been turned into a giant maximum security prison.
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Big Trouble in Little China
( 1986 )
A rough-and-tumble trucker and his sidekick face off with an ancient sorcerer in a supernatural battle beneath Chinatown.
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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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Police Academy
( 1984 )
The mayor declares that anyone can enroll in the police academy irrespective of their physical condition or education level, and many misfits descend on the academy, including a young troublemaker who's forced to apply or go to jail.
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Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
( 1985 )
Six Police Academy graduates are assigned to the 16th precinct, and their Captain desperately wants them to clean up the crime ridden neighborhood, but his second in command schemes to become captain himself by sabotaging the rookies.
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Police Academy 3: Back in Training
( 1986 )
After it's announced that one of the two police academies in the state will be closed down, the alumni of Commandant Lassard's Police Academy (1984) return to the school to train new recruits and compete against the other academy.
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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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Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach
( 1988 )
The Police Academy's commandant will be honored at a police convention in Miami Beach. At the airport he picks a wrong bag with stolen diamonds. The "owners" want them back.
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Masquerade
( 1988 )
A recently orphaned heiress meets a young racing yacht captain in the Long Island Hamptons. He shows interest in her, but love may not be the reason.
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
( 1985 )
After being exiled from the most advanced town in post-apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.
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Conan the Destroyer
( 1984 )
Conan leads a ragtag group of adventurers on a quest for a princess.
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The Untouchables
( 1987 )
During Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.
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No Mercy
( 1986 )
A Chicago detective, seeking to avenge his partner's death, travels to New Orleans where he unexpectedly becomes involved in a cat and mouse game of survival.
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Terms of Endearment
( 1983 )
Widow Aurora Greenway juggles her own struggles with a new romantic interest while trying to sort out the emotional problems of her daughter who's married to a philandering husband.
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Amadeus
( 1984 )
The life and work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart seen through the eyes of his contemporary and rival, Antonio Salieri.
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The Color Purple
( 1986 )
A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.
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Out of Africa
( 1985 )
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
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Rain Man
( 1988 )
After a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.
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Born on the Fourth of July
( 1990 )
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.
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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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Trail of the Pink Panther
( 1982 )
Journalist Marie Jouvet attempts to uncover the mysterious disappearance of Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau.
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Curse of the Pink Panther
( 1983 )
Ensuing after the events of Clouseau's disappearance, his bosses at the Surete put a computer into service to elect a new shrewd detective, Sleigh, who turns up just as inept as Clouseau.
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Big
( 1988 )
After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.
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The Little Mermaid
( 1989 )
A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain in an attempt to become human and win a prince's love.
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Soul Man
( 1986 )
To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship.
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Dragnet
( 1987 )
The equally strait-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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Silverado
( 1985 )
A band of misfit friends come together to right the injustices which exist in a small town.
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American Flyers
( 1985 )
Marcus takes his kid brother, David, with him for a physical test and a brain scan, suspecting cerebral aneurysm like their dad died of. They head off on bikes for the big Rockies bike race with Marcus' Sarah driving the van.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
( 1984 )
Teenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real life.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
( 1985 )
A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
( 1987 )
A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
( 1988 )
Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may be able to defeat him for good.
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St. Elmo's Fire
( 1985 )
A group of friends, just out of college, struggle with adulthood.
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The Black Stallion Returns
( 1983 )
A teenager loses his horse in Morocco and gets him back after various daredevil adventures.
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Young Guns
( 1988 )
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
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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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Die Hard
( 1988 )
A New York City cop, John McClane, tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas Eve party at the Nakatomi Plaza Skyscraper in Los Angeles, California.
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Caddyshack
( 1980 )
An exclusive golf course has to deal with a flatulent new member and a destructive dancing gopher.
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