The Name of the Rose (1986)
A crime movie starring Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham and Christian Slater
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.
Manhunter (1986)
A thriller starring William Petersen, Tom Noonan and Joan Allen
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer.
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Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
An action movie starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall and Dennis Dun
Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.
The Toxic Avenger (1986)
A horror movie starring Mitch Cohen, Andree Maranda and Jennifer Prichard
A gang of thugs devise a cruel hoax that goes horribly wrong as Melvin, a nerdy emaciated janitor at the local health club, is cast through a third story window into a vat of hazardous toxic waste.
Out of Africa (1985)
A lovestory starring Robert Redford, Meryl Streep and Klaus Maria Brandauer
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.
Once Bitten (1985)
A comedy movie starring Jim Carrey, Lauren Hutton and Karen Kopins
Mark wants to lose his virginity, but his girlfriend wants to wait. Unfortunately for both of them, a 400-year-old vampire Countess needs to turn a virgin into a vampire before Halloween in order to preserve her own youthful appearance, and when she finds Mark, she turns his life upside-down.
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
A horror movie starring Clu Gulager, James Karen and Don Calfa
When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies ... (more)
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)