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The Beastmaster (1982)
In the kingdom of Aruk, an evil high priest Maax is given a prophecy by his subservient witches that he will die at the hands of the unborn son of King Zed.
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When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
Columbia Pictures released When Harry Met Sally... on July 14, 1989. Rob Reiner directed the film starring Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, and Carrie Fisher.
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Private School (1983)
Private School begins one evening night at the Cherryvale Academy for Women in Southern California.
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
The film begins with Buckaroo Banzai and his mentor, Professor Hikita, perfecting an Oscillation Overthruster that allows objects to pass through solid matter.
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Cyborg (1989)
In the distant future, a plague has wiped out most human life on the planet.
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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Film and Plot Synopsis Small-time hood David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson and his lifelong partners in crime; Max, Cockeye and Patsy and their friends grow up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side. Once Upon a Time in America follows them from the 1920s to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding. ‘Once Upon a Time in America’ Movie Summary The summary below contains spoilers. We open the film with three thugs hunting 1932 New York’s Lower East Side Jewish sector for a marked man in a Chinese wayang theater. Before they could find him, the Chinese owners warn the opium-addicted man, a 30-something gangster named “Noodles”, and help him escape, but not before his girlfriend is gunned down and his friend, Fat Moe, is brutally tortured for Noodles’ whereabouts. Noodles sneaks in and saves Fat Moe by killing one of the gangsters. Shortly after, he finds out his three childhood friends, Patsy, Cockeye, and the char-broiled Max, were all killed in an ill-fated bank robbery. He goes to the local bus station before finding out he …
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Night Shift (1982)
What do you do in the 1980s when you’re bored? Well if you live in New York City, you head down to the local morgue to get laid.
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Tom Horn (1980)
Tom Horn is a legendary frontier scout who helped track and capture the infamous Geronimo.
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National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)
Clark Griswold is the ultimate family man who wants to give his family the ultimate vacation experience.
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TRON (1982)
Film and Plot Synopsis Kevin Flynn is a current arcade owner, but former employee of the software corporation ENCOM. Flynn is attempting to find evidence of the theft of his intellectual property by his former company. When he breaks into the ENCOM building with two other programmers, Flynn is suddenly whisked away into the computer world where he is forced to compete in lethal computer games. To escape the computer world and return to his reality, he will be forced to join rebel programs in an attempt to free the cyberspace of the Master Control Program, an evil oppressive computer program that seeks to control both worlds. ‘TRON’ Movie Summary The summary below contains spoilers. Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) is a former software engineer for the computer corporation ENCOM. Flynn was fired by the corporation, who subsequently stole all of Flynn’s programs and made a fortune in the video game industry. Flynn has been spending his time since trying to hack into ENCOM’s mainframe system to find proof of his copyright. Additionally, he runs a successful video arcade on the side. ENCOM’s mainframe system is controlled by the Master Control Program (MCP) (David Warner). The MCP has ambitions of taking …
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Splash (1984)
Film and Plot Synopsis A young eight-year-old Alan Bauer nearly drowns as a child until he is saved by a mysterious mermaid girl. Years later, as an adult, Allen believes his childhood incident was a hallucination, but the incident has affected all his romantic relationships since. When Allen has a second encounter with same mermaid, who eventually goes by the name of Madison, his life is turned upside down. Allen and Madison are soulmates who are meant for each other, but can their love survive Madison’s revelation of her mermaid heritage let alone the pursuit of the scientists who wish to capture and study Madison, even if it kills her? ‘Splash’ Movie Summary The summary below contains spoilers. In 1964, young Allen Bauer (David Kreps) is vacationing with his family near Cape Cod. The family takes a sight-seeing tour on a tourist boat, and while Allen’s parents are busy wrangling Allen’s brother Freddie, Allen jumps into the ocean after seeing something below the surface. Allen cannot swim, but a young mermaid girl (Shayla Mackarvich) saves him and assists him with breathing underwater. However, Allen is yanked back to the surface by people on the boat and reunited with his family. …
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial begins in a forested area on the outskirts of Suburbia, USA.
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