The Terminator (1984)
An action movie starring Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn and Arnold Schwarzenegger
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
Yentl (1984)
A drama starring Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving
In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
WarGames (1983)
A science fiction movie starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman and John Wood
High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions ... (more)
Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
An action movie starring Chuck Norris, David Carradine and Barbara Carrera
The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably culminates in a martial arts showdown between the drug lord and the ranger, and involving the woman they both love.
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
A lovestory starring Woody Allen, Mia Farrow and José Ferrer
A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
An animation movie starring Elizabeth Hartman, Derek Jacobi and Arthur Malet
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
A lovestory starring Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons and Hilton McRae
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well ... (more)
Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
A horror movie starring Doug McClure, Ann Turkel and Vic Morrow
After a new cannery introduces scientifically augmented salmon to a seaside town in the Pacific Northwest, a species of mysterious, mutated sea creatures begin killing the men and raping the women.
The Amityville Horror (1979)
A horror movie starring James Brolin, Margot Kidder and Rod Steiger
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.
Manhattan (1979)
A drama starring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton and Michael Murphy
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.