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 7.2
 52K
The Hitcher (1986)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he escaped.
Style: road movie, slasher, psychological, scary, neo noir ...
Audience: date night, teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psycho killer, hitchhiker, psychopath, desert, on the road, insanity, stalker, stalking, car chase, sociopath, road trip ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa
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An Innocent Man (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is ...
Style: tense, suspense, intense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, police corruption, gang, frame up, gunfight, mistaken identity, drug dealing, law enforcement, criminal heroes, tough law enforcer, prison life, prison escape ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
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Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, black comedy, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: truck, supernatural, crazy, gas station, carsploitation, monster, car, hostage, danger, animate object, heroic mission, disaster ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: north carolina, usa
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 7.9
 100K
Sing Street (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
Style: sweet, touching, realistic, teen, feel good ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, teen drama
Plot: youth, music band, musician's life, friendship, rock and roll, coming of age, bullying, dream girl, singing, adolescence, teenager, school ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, 2010s, future, 20th century ...
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, nebraska, london, england
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The Final Option (1982)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, military, undercover, hostage, state affairs, isolation, danger, politics, rivalry, working undercover, nuclear holocaust, anti war ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: england, london, europe, big ben london
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To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, revenge, investigation, murder, vengeance, police investigation, law enforcement, cop, male pubic hair, chase, hitman, organized crime ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 6.9
 17K
Lucas (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A socially inept fourteen year old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends -- Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love -- fall for each other.
Style: touching, feel good, entertaining, epic, colorful ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: american football, coming of age, high school, cheerleader, youth, love, friendship, cheerleading, adolescence, unrequited love, high school student, women ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago, illinois
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 6.4
 113K
Tango & Cash (1989)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder. Caught ...
Style: intense, action comedy, detective, realistic, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: buddies, police detective, reluctant partners, prison, prison escape, prisoner, buddy, buddy cop, police, law enforcement, organized crime, gunfight ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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 4.6
 925
Cold Steel (1987)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Detective Johnny Modine gets his Christmas celebration spoiled with news of his father's death, which seems the work of psychopathic junkies ...
Style: tense, realistic, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, psychopath, ex cop, investigation, rivalry, femme fatale, police detective, serial killer, xmas, revenge, police, police officer ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: usa, los angeles
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 5.9
 16K
The Funhouse (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rebellious teen Amy defies her parents by going to a trashy carnival that has pulled into town. In tow are her boyfriend, Buzz, and their friends Liz and Richie. Thinking it would be fun to spend the night in the campy "Funhouse" horror ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspense, grindhouse, bloody ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: carnival, murder, halloween, monster, brutality, clown, macabre, serial killer, runaway, violence, blood, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 5th century, year 1975, 15th century
Place: texas, usa
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Beyond Rangoon (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Patricia Arquette stars as American widow Laura Bowman, a young doctor who's unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while vacationing in Burma in the late 1980s, in this fictionalized drama based on actual events. Bowman initially left San ...
Style: suspense, emotional, touching, inspirational, intense ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: politics, doctor, adaptation, state affairs, haunted by the past, leadership, heroes, revolution, family drama, justice, lone hero, jungle ...
Time: 80s, year 1988
Place: burma, asia, thailand
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 7.3
 178K
Poltergeist (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Steve Freeling lives with his wife, Diane, and their three children, Dana, Robbie, and Carol Anne, in Southern California where he sells houses for the company that built the neighborhood. It starts with just a few odd occurrences, such as broken ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: poltergeist, haunted house, ghost, supernatural, psychic, haunted, suburban life, haunting, paranormal, nightmare, child in peril, children ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 20th century
Place: california
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Children of the Corn (1984)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
Style: suspense, slasher, demonic, suspenseful, creepy ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: killer child, folk horror, children, blood, religion, creepy child, supernatural, small town, violence, murder, isolation, child murders an adult ...
Time: 80s
Place: nebraska, usa, iowa
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 5.2
 2K
Crackers (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner is out of town. During the elaborate planning process, ...
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, political ...
Plot: unemployment, cons and scams, disorder, heist, gang, dishonesty, goofy hero, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, comedy of errors, love, theft ...
Time: 80s
Place: san francisco, california, usa
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The Last American Virgin (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.
Style: sexual, sexy, touching, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, teenager, friendship, sex, high school, prostitute, sex scene, looking for sex, contests and competitions, teenage love, adolescence, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
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 7.2
 80K
Manhunter (1986)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a new killer.
Style: neo noir, psychological thriller, suspenseful, detective, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, killer, psycho killer, murder mystery, profiler, obsession, brutality, fbi, mind game, violence ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1986
Place: florida, maryland, alabama, miami, baltimore ...
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Back to the Future (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his ...
Style: feel good, exciting, light, funny, cult classic ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, mad scientist, time loop, teenager, destiny, inventor, scientist, changing the past or future, time, fish out of water, high school ...
Time: future, 80s, 1950s, year 1985, year 1955 ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 5.8
 13K
Next of Kin (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Truman Gates, a Chicago cop, sets out to find his brother's killer. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.
Style: exciting, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vigilantism, police investigation, complex characters, murder, mafia, revenge, redneck, gangster, brother brother relationship, death of brother, death, violence ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: chicago, kentucky, usa, appalachia
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Treasure of the Amazon (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A ragtag group of adventurers, including a former Nazi, is led by a half-maddened grizzled treasure hunter who wants a second chance to find the mythical treasure of the Amazon, after his first mission went terrible wrong.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: treasure hunt, jungle, diamonds, topless woman, bounty hunter, gold, adventurer, ex nazi, amazon, dangerous animal, danger, cannibal ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: latin america
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Presumed Innocent (1990)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Life takes a nasty twist for D.A. Rusty Sabich when the woman he has been romantically involved with is murdered. He is assigned to investigate the case, but is soon charged with the murder.
Style: surprise ending, neo noir, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, lawyer, murder, adultery, mistress, infidelity, legal, investigation, court, twists and turns, obsession ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: michigan, detroit
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Enemy Territory (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An insurance salesman inadvertently gets trapped after dark in an apartment building that is terrorized by a street gang called "The Vampires."
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, gang, danger, society, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, ghetto, street gang, urban, murder, violence, racial injustice ...
Time: 80s
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 6.8
 43K
Dead Calm (1989)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident. While on the open sea, in dead calm, they come across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.
Style: suspenseful, psychological thriller, scary, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: psychopath, ship, ocean, serial killer, isolation, maniac, yacht, woman in danger, obsession, survival, forced sex, hostage ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, pacific ocean
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 7.5
 94K
Midnight Run (1988)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: An accountant embezzles $15 million of mob money, jumps bail and is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia.
Style: road movie, funny, talky, humorous, witty ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: road trip, on the road, buddy, organized crime, hitman, gangster, chase, bounty hunter, train, car chase, race against time, police surveillance ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: las vegas, usa, new york, arizona, manhattan new york city ...
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Man on Fire (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An ex-CIA agent is hired to protect the daughter of a rich American family.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, bodyguard, haunted by the past, daring rescue, rescue, vengeance, danger, confined, lone wolves, heroes, missing child, revenge ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, milan italy
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Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets shot and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe ...
Style: funny, humorous, black comedy, hilarious, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids
Plot: dark humor, beach, summer, murder, farce, insurance, comedy of errors, heat wave, organized crime, employer employee relationship, mob boss, nothing goes right ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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 7.5
 402K
Batman (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker, who has seized control of Gotham's underworld.
Style: atmospheric, bleak, visual, neo noir, saga ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night, date night
Plot: superhero, batman, vigilante, psychopath, good versus evil, double life, organized crime, corruption, secret identity, disfigurement, district attorney, crime fighter ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989, 1920s
Place: usa, north america
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10 to Midnight (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, slasher, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, male nudity, murder, serial killer, revenge, sex maniac, red light district, serial rape, criminal, vigilantism, psychopath, nudity ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: los angeles
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Secret Admirer (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When high-school heartthrob Michael receives an unsigned love letter, he assumes it's from knock-out prom queen Deborah Anne instead of pretty honor student Toni. And when Michael accidentally misplaces the letter, the juicy jottings soon make ...
Style: teen sex comedy, light, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick
Plot: teenager, high school, love and romance, love, school, secret admirer, summer vacation, summer, farce, fraternity, voyeur, relationships ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
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 6.9
 41K
Repo Man (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
Style: dark comedy, surreal, black comedy, independent film, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, alien, surrealism, car trunk, punk rocker, absurdism, mad scientist, car chase, conspiracy theory, punk rock, ufo, business ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984, future
Place: california, los angeles, arizona, usa
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 7.5
 191K
The Abyss (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, psychological, suspense, tense ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: ufo, ocean, underwater, first contact, submarine, sea, disaster, alien, space and aliens, survival, alien encounter, heroic mission ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989, future
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