Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Genres: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Year: 1980
Director: Irvin Kershner
Starring: Mark Hamill / Harrison Ford / Carrie Fisher / Billy Dee Williams / Anthony Daniels / David Prowse / Peter Mayhew / Kenny Baker / Frank Oz / Alec Guinness / Jeremy Bulloch / John Hollis / Jack Purvis / Des Webb / Clive Revill

Fleeing the evil Galactic Empire, the Rebels abandon their new base on Hoth. Princess Leia, Han Solo and the droid C-3PO escape in the damaged Millennium Falcon, but are later captured by Darth Vader on Bespin. Meanwhile, Luke Skywalker and the droid R2-D2 follows Obi-Wan Kenobi's posthumous command and receives Jedi training by Yoda on Dagobah.
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Fleeing the evil Galactic Empire, the Rebels abandon their new base on Hoth. Princess Leia, Han Solo and the droid C-3PO escape in the damaged Millennium Falcon, but are later captured by Darth Vader on Bespin. Meanwhile, Luke Skywalker and the droid R2-D2 follows Obi-Wan Kenobi's posthumous command and receives Jedi training by Yoda on Dagobah. Will Skywalker manage to rescue his friends from the Dark Lord?

The Shining

Genres: Drama / Horror
Year: 1980
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Jack Nicholson / Shelley Duvall / Danny Lloyd / Scatman Crothers / Barry Nelson / Philip Stone / Joe Turkel / Anne Jackson / Tony Burton / Lia Beldam / Billie Gibson / Barry Dennen / David Baxt / Manning Redwood / Lisa Burns

A man, his son and wife become the winter caretakers of an isolated hotel where Danny, the son, sees disturbing visions of the hotel's past using a telepathic gift known as "The Shining". The father, Jack Torrance, is underway in a writing project when he slowly slips into insanity as a result of cabin fever and former guests of the hotel's ghosts.
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A man, his son and wife become the winter caretakers of an isolated hotel where Danny, the son, sees disturbing visions of the hotel's past using a telepathic gift known as "The Shining". The father, Jack Torrance, is underway in a writing project when he slowly slips into insanity as a result of cabin fever and former guests of the hotel's ghosts. After being convinced by a waiter's ghost to "correct" the family, Jack goes completely insane. The only thing that can save Danny and his mother is "The Shining".

Raging Bull

Genres: Sport / Drama / Biography
Year: 1980
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Rita Bennett / Bill Hanrahan / Don Dunphy / Charles Scorsese / Lori Anne Flax / Frank Topham / Joseph Bono / Frank Adonis / Mario Gallo / Theresa Saldana / Nicholas Colasanto / Frank Vincent / Joe Pesci / Cathy Moriarty / Robert De Niro

When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family's love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps it's his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy.
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When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family's love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps it's his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up in the ring alone.

The Elephant Man

Genres: Biography / Drama / History
Year: 1980
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Anthony Hopkins / John Hurt / Anne Bancroft / John Gielgud / Wendy Hiller / Freddie Jones / Michael Elphick / Hannah Gordon / Helen Ryan / John Standing / Dexter Fletcher / Lesley Dunlop / Phoebe Nicholls / Pat Gorman / Claire Davenport

Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a side-show freak.

Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a side-show freak.

Airplane!

Genres: Comedy / Romance
Year: 1980
Director: Jim Abrahams / David Zucker
Starring: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar / Lloyd Bridges / Peter Graves / Julie Hagerty / Robert Hays / Leslie Nielsen / Lorna Patterson / Robert Stack / Stephen Stucker / Otto / Jim Abrahams / Frank Ashmore / Jonathan Banks / Craig Berenson / Barbara Billingsley

Still craving for the love of his life, Ted Striker follows Elaine onto the flight that she is working on as a member of the cabin crew. Elaine doesn't want to be with Ted anymore, but when the crew and passengers fall ill from food poisoning, all eyes are on Ted.

Still craving for the love of his life, Ted Striker follows Elaine onto the flight that she is working on as a member of the cabin crew. Elaine doesn't want to be with Ted anymore, but when the crew and passengers fall ill from food poisoning, all eyes are on Ted.

The Blues Brothers

Genres: Action / Comedy / Music
Year: 1980
Director: John Landis
Starring: John Belushi / Dan Aykroyd / James Brown / Cab Calloway / Ray Charles / Aretha Franklin / Steve Cropper / Donald Dunn / Murphy Dunne / Willie Hall / Tom Malone / Lou Marini / Matt Murphy / Alan Rubin / Carrie Fisher

After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit "The Penguin", the last of the nuns who raised them in a boarding school. They learn the Archdiocese will stop supporting the school and will sell the place to the Education Authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days.
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After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit "The Penguin", the last of the nuns who raised them in a boarding school. They learn the Archdiocese will stop supporting the school and will sell the place to the Education Authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The Blues Brothers want to help, and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their "mission from God" they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?

Caddyshack

Genres: Comedy / Sport
Year: 1980
Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: Chevy Chase / Rodney Dangerfield / Ted Knight / Michael O'Keefe / Bill Murray / Sarah Holcomb / Scott Colomby / Cindy Morgan / Dan Resin / Henry Wilcoxon / Elaine Aiken / Albert Salmi / Ann Ryerson / Brian Doyle-Murray / Hamilton Mitchell

Comical goings on at an exclusive golf club. All the members are wealthy and eccentric, and all the staff are poor and slightly less eccentric. The main character is 'Danny'; he's a caddy who will do almost anything to raise money to go to college. There are many subplots, including the assistant green keeper's pursuit of a cute (obviously stuffed) gopher.

Comical goings on at an exclusive golf club. All the members are wealthy and eccentric, and all the staff are poor and slightly less eccentric. The main character is 'Danny'; he's a caddy who will do almost anything to raise money to go to college. There are many subplots, including the assistant green keeper's pursuit of a cute (obviously stuffed) gopher.

Friday the 13th

Genres: Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Year: 1980
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Starring: Betsy Palmer / Adrienne King / Jeannine Taylor / Robbi Morgan / Kevin Bacon / Harry Crosby / Laurie Bartram / Mark Nelson / Peter Brouwer / Rex Everhart / Ronn Carroll / Ron Millkie / Walt Gorney / Willie Adams / Debra S. Hayes

One summer at Camp Crystal Lake, a group of young counselors begin to get ready to lead campers. Unfortunately for the former, someone isn't happy about what's going on in the camp and enjoys playing Kill the Counselor. As bodies fall to the ground in the camp, no one is safe.

One summer at Camp Crystal Lake, a group of young counselors begin to get ready to lead campers. Unfortunately for the former, someone isn't happy about what's going on in the camp and enjoys playing Kill the Counselor. As bodies fall to the ground in the camp, no one is safe.

Superman II

Genres: Action / Sci-Fi
Year: 1980
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Gene Hackman / Christopher Reeve / Ned Beatty / Jackie Cooper / Sarah Douglas / Margot Kidder / Jack O'Halloran / Valerie Perrine / Susannah York / Clifton James / E.G. Marshall / Marc McClure / Terence Stamp / Leueen Willoughby / Robin Pappas

Picking up where "Superman: The Movie" left off, three criminals from the planet Krypton are released from the Phantom Zone by a nuclear explosion in space. They descend upon Earth where they could finally rule. Superman, meanwhile, is in love with Lois Lane, who finds out who he really is. Lex Luthor escapes from prison and is determined to destroy Superman by joining forces with the three criminals.

Picking up where "Superman: The Movie" left off, three criminals from the planet Krypton are released from the Phantom Zone by a nuclear explosion in space. They descend upon Earth where they could finally rule. Superman, meanwhile, is in love with Lois Lane, who finds out who he really is. Lex Luthor escapes from prison and is determined to destroy Superman by joining forces with the three criminals.

The Fog

Genres: Horror
Year: 1980
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Adrienne Barbeau / Jamie Lee Curtis / Janet Leigh / John Houseman / Tom Atkins / James Canning / Charles Cyphers / Nancy Kyes / Ty Mitchell / Hal Holbrook / John F. Goff / George 'Buck' Flower / Regina Waldon / Jim Haynie / Darrow Igus

The Centenary of the small sea town, Antonio Bay, is approaching. While the townsfolk prepare to celebrate, the victims of the crime that founded the town rise from the sea to claim retribution. Under cover of the fog, they carry out their vicious attacks, searching for what is rightly theirs.

The Centenary of the small sea town, Antonio Bay, is approaching. While the townsfolk prepare to celebrate, the victims of the crime that founded the town rise from the sea to claim retribution. Under cover of the fog, they carry out their vicious attacks, searching for what is rightly theirs.

The Blue Lagoon

Genres: Adventure / Drama / Romance
Year: 1980
Director: Randal Kleiser
Starring: Brooke Shields / Christopher Atkins / Leo McKern / William Daniels / Elva Josephson / Glenn Kohan / Alan Hopgood / Gus Mercurio / Jeffrey Kleiser / Bradley Pryce / Chad Timmerman / Gert Jacoby / Alex Hamilton / Richard Evanson

On a journey to San Francisco, Richard, his father and cousin Emmeline find themselves on a ship about to explode. Rushed to a lifeboat with Paddy Button, the two children escape while their father (and uncle) are on another lifeboat. In the chaos following, the lifeboats are separated. Paddy, Richard and Emmeline find themselves with no food and no water stuck in the middle of nowhere.
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On a journey to San Francisco, Richard, his father and cousin Emmeline find themselves on a ship about to explode. Rushed to a lifeboat with Paddy Button, the two children escape while their father (and uncle) are on another lifeboat. In the chaos following, the lifeboats are separated. Paddy, Richard and Emmeline find themselves with no food and no water stuck in the middle of nowhere. After some time, the three come across an uncharted paradise, where Paddy quickly teaches the children fishing, hunting and building. After maybe a month or two, Paddy gets very drunk off a barrel of rum found on the island when they first arrive, and drowns in the middle of the night. Emmeline and Richard, now alone and very scared, move location and rebuild their island home. Many years later, the two young teenagers have developed a very real home, but hormones and feelings between the two strain their friendship, until Richard, who is still very determined to reach San Francisco, is let down by Emmeline when a ship passes by the island and she does not light the signal fire. Throwing her out of the home they had built together, Emmeline attempts to survive on her own but is hurt. After Richard finds her dying, he realizes how he really feels for her and manages to save her. Nature runs its course and the friendship turns into love as the couple learn about the facts of life, when Emmeline has a baby and does not understand why.

Cannibal Holocaust

Genres: Adventure / Drama / Horror
Year: 1980
Director: Ruggero Deodato
Starring: Robert Kerman / Francesca Ciardi / Perry Pirkanen / Luca Barbareschi / Salvatore Basile / Ricardo Fuentes / Carl Gabriel Yorke / Paolo Paoloni / Lionello Pio Di Savoia / Luigina Rocchi

A New York anthropologist named Professor Harold Monroe travels to the wild, inhospitable jungles of South America to find out what happened to a documentary film crew that disappeared two months before while filming a documentary about primitive cannibal tribes deep in the rain forest. With the help of two local guides, Professor Monroe encounters two tribes, the Yacumo and the Yanomamo.
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A New York anthropologist named Professor Harold Monroe travels to the wild, inhospitable jungles of South America to find out what happened to a documentary film crew that disappeared two months before while filming a documentary about primitive cannibal tribes deep in the rain forest. With the help of two local guides, Professor Monroe encounters two tribes, the Yacumo and the Yanomamo. While under the hospitality of the latter tribe, he finds the remains of the crew and several reels of their undeveloped film. Upon returning to New York City, Professor Monroe views the film in detail, featuring the director Alan Yates, his girlfriend Faye Daniels, and cameramen Jack Anders and Mark Tomaso. After a few days of traveling, the film details how the crew staged all the footage for their documentary by terrorizing and torturing the natives. Despite Monroe's objections, the television studio Pan American still wishes to air the footage as a legitimate documentary. In order to change their minds, Monroe shows the station's executives the film's final reels, so they could see first hand how the crew's fate came to be.

Ordinary People

Genres: Drama
Year: 1980
Director: Robert Redford
Starring: Donald Sutherland / Mary Tyler Moore / Judd Hirsch / Timothy Hutton / M. Emmet Walsh / Elizabeth McGovern / Dinah Manoff / Fredric Lehne / James Sikking / Basil Hoffman / Quinn K. Redeker / Mariclare Costello / Meg Mundy / Elizabeth Hubbard / Adam Baldwin

Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.

Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.

Flash Gordon

Genres: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Year: 1980
Director: Mike Hodges
Starring: Sam J. Jones / Melody Anderson / Max von Sydow / Topol / Ornella Muti / Timothy Dalton / Brian Blessed / Peter Wyngarde / Mariangela Melato / John Osborne / Richard O'Brien / John Hallam / Philip Stone / Suzanne Danielle / William Hootkins

In this update of the 1930's comic strip, Flash is a football hero who is skyjacked aboard Dr. Zarkov's rocketship along with beautiful Dale Arden. The threesome are drawn into the influence of the planet Mongo, controlled by Ming the Merciless. Ming has been testing the Earth with unnatural disasters, and deeming it a threat to his rule, he plans to destroy it.
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In this update of the 1930's comic strip, Flash is a football hero who is skyjacked aboard Dr. Zarkov's rocketship along with beautiful Dale Arden. The threesome are drawn into the influence of the planet Mongo, controlled by Ming the Merciless. Ming has been testing the Earth with unnatural disasters, and deeming it a threat to his rule, he plans to destroy it. He also intends to take Dale as his concubine. Flash must avoid the amorous attentions of Ming's daughter and unite the warring kingdoms of Mongo to rescue Dale and save our world.

Popeye

Genres: Adventure / Comedy / Family
Year: 1980
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Robin Williams / Shelley Duvall / Ray Walston / Paul Dooley / Paul L. Smith / Richard Libertini / Donald Moffat / MacIntyre Dixon / Roberta Maxwell / Donovan Scott / Allan F. Nicholls / Wesley Ivan Hurt / Bill Irwin / Robert Fortier / David McCharen

Buff sailor-man Popeye arrives in an awkward seaside town called Sweet Haven. There he meets Wimpy, a hamburger-loving man; Olive Oyl, the soon-to-be love of his life; and Bluto, a huge, mean pirate who's out to make Sweet Haven pay for no good reason. Popeye also discovers his long-lost Pappy in the middle of it all, so with a band of his new friends, Popeye heads off to stop Bluto, and he's got the power of spinach, which Popeye detests, to butt Bluto right in the mush.
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Buff sailor-man Popeye arrives in an awkward seaside town called Sweet Haven. There he meets Wimpy, a hamburger-loving man; Olive Oyl, the soon-to-be love of his life; and Bluto, a huge, mean pirate who's out to make Sweet Haven pay for no good reason. Popeye also discovers his long-lost Pappy in the middle of it all, so with a band of his new friends, Popeye heads off to stop Bluto, and he's got the power of spinach, which Popeye detests, to butt Bluto right in the mush. Watch as Popeye mops the floor with punks in a burger joint, stops a greedy tax man, takes down a champion boxer, and even finds abandoned baby Swee' Pea. He's strong to the finish 'cause he eats his spinach!

Altered States

Genres: Drama / Fantasy / Horror
Year: 1980
Director: Ken Russell
Starring: William Hurt / Blair Brown / Bob Balaban / Charles Haid / Thaao Penghlis / Miguel Godreau / Dori Brenner / Peter Brandon / Charles White-Eagle / Drew Barrymore / Megan Jeffers / Jack Murdock / Francis X. McCarthy / Deborah Baltzell / Evan Richards

An American researching different states of consciousness with the aid of mind altering drugs and an isolation chamber begins to experience disturbing physical changes in his body that point toward an evolutionary regression.

An American researching different states of consciousness with the aid of mind altering drugs and an isolation chamber begins to experience disturbing physical changes in his body that point toward an evolutionary regression.

Dressed to Kill

Genres: Thriller / Mystery
Year: 1980
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Bill Randolph / Robbie L. McDermott / Norman Evans / Anneka Di Lorenzo / Mary Davenport / Amalie Collier / Brandon Maggart / Susanna Clemm / Ken Baker / David Margulies / Dennis Franz / Keith Gordon / Nancy Allen / Angie Dickinson / Michael Caine

While taking a shower, Kate Miller, a middle-aged, sexually frustrated New York housewife, has a rape fantasy while her husband stands at the sink shaving. Later that day, after complaining to her psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott about her husband's pathetic performance in bed, she meets a strange man at a museum and returns to his apartment where they continue an adulterous encounter that began in the taxicab.
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While taking a shower, Kate Miller, a middle-aged, sexually frustrated New York housewife, has a rape fantasy while her husband stands at the sink shaving. Later that day, after complaining to her psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott about her husband's pathetic performance in bed, she meets a strange man at a museum and returns to his apartment where they continue an adulterous encounter that began in the taxicab. Before she leaves his apartment, she finds papers which certify that the man has a venereal disease. Panicked, Kate rushes into the elevator, but has to return to his apartment when she realizes she's forgotten her wedding ring. When the elevator doors open, she's brutally slashed to death by a tall blonde woman wearing dark glasses. Liz Blake, a high-priced call girl, is the only witness to the murder and she becomes the prime suspect and the murderess's next target. Liz is rescued from being killed by Kate's son Peter, who enlists the help of Liz to catch his mother's killer as Detective Marino who's in charge of the case is uncooperative in the investigation.

The Changeling

Genres: Horror / Mystery
Year: 1980
Director: Peter Medak
Starring: George C. Scott / Trish Van Devere / Melvyn Douglas / Jean Marsh / John Colicos / Barry Morse / Madeleine Sherwood / Helen Burns / Frances Hyland / Ruth Springford / Eric Christmas / Roberta Maxwell / Bernard Behrens / James B. Douglas / J. Kenneth Campbell

It was the perfect family vacation for composer John Russell and his family when a freak automobile accident claims the lives of his wife and daughter. Consumed by grief, John, at the request of friends, rents an old turn of the century house. Mammoth in size, the house seems all the room that John needs to write music and reflect.
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It was the perfect family vacation for composer John Russell and his family when a freak automobile accident claims the lives of his wife and daughter. Consumed by grief, John, at the request of friends, rents an old turn of the century house. Mammoth in size, the house seems all the room that John needs to write music and reflect. He does not realize that he is not alone in the house. He shares it with the spirit of a murdered child who has homed in on John's despair and uses him to uncover decades of silence and deceit. With the help of Claire Norman, the one who aided John in procuring the house, they race to find the answers and soon learn that a devious and very powerful man guards them.

Nine to Five

Genres: Comedy
Year: 1980
Director: Colin Higgins
Starring: Ray Vitte / Richard Stahl / Peggy Pope / Roxanna Bonilla-Giannini / Norma Donaldson / Renn Woods / Marian Mercer / Lawrence Pressman / Henry Jones / Elizabeth Wilson / Sterling Hayden / Dabney Coleman / Dolly Parton / Lily Tomlin / Jane Fonda

Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage in the grossest manner of the women who work with him. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house they assume control of his department and productivity leaps, but just how long can they keep Hart tied up?

Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage in the grossest manner of the women who work with him. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house they assume control of his department and productivity leaps, but just how long can they keep Hart tied up?

Somewhere in Time

Genres: Drama / Romance / Fantasy
Year: 1980
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Starring: Christopher Reeve / Jane Seymour / Christopher Plummer / Teresa Wright / Bill Erwin / George Voskovec / Susan French / John Alvin / Eddra Gale / Audrey Bennett / William H. Macy / Laurence Coven / Susan Bugg / Christy Michaels / Ali Marie Matheson

Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s, Elise McKenna. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, he manages, by self hypnosis, to travel back in time where he meets her.
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Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s, Elise McKenna. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, he manages, by self hypnosis, to travel back in time where he meets her. They fall in love, a matching that is not appreciated by her manager. Can their love outlast the immense problems caused by their "time" difference? And can Richard remain in a time that is not his?