Highlander (1986)

Storyline :  In New York, the owner of a sophisticated antique shop Russell Edwin Nash is challenged to a sword fight in the parking lot of the Madison Square Garden by a man called Iman Fasil that is beheaded by Russell. He hides his sword and is arrested by the police while leaving the stadium. Russell recalls his life in the Sixteenth Century in Scotland, when he is Connor MacLeod and is fatally wounded in a battle against another Clan. However he surprisingly survives and his Clan believes he has a pact with the devil and expels him from their lands. Then he meets Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez who explains that he is immortal unless he is beheaded. Further, the immortals dispute a game killing each other and in the end only one survives receiving a prize with the power of the other immortals. Russell is released by the police, but the snoopy forensic agent Brenda J. Wyatt is attracted by the case since she found fragments of an ancient Katana and follows Russell. But the also immortal ...

Stars :  Christopher Lambert,  Sean Connery,  Roxanne Hart,  Beatie Edney,  Clancy Brown, Alan North,  Jon Polito,  Sheila Gish,  Hugh Quarshie,  Christopher Malcolm, James Cosmo,  Billy Hartman,  Celia Imrie,  Edward Wiley

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Dirty Dancing (1987)

Storyline :  In 1963, Frances "Baby" Houseman, a sweet daddy's girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her father. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny's dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny's dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the dance routine that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny's friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby gets her father, who saves the girl's life. He then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse, that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with "those people". In the first deliberately willful ...

Stars :  Jennifer Grey,  Patrick Swayze,  Jerry Orbach,  Cynthia Rhodes,  Jack Weston, Jane Brucker,  Kelly Bishop,  Lonny Price,  Max Cantor,  Charles 'Honi' Coles, Neal Jones

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Fake Out (1982)

Storyline :  Bobbie Warren is an up and coming Las Vegas nightclub singer with ties to the mob which land her in jail until she agrees to testify. After some harrowing experiences in the clink, she buys her way out by saying she'll squeal and is remanded into the custody of cops Clint Morgan and O.W. Thurston. They keep her in a casino hotel while she waits to see the D.A. Ostensibly a comedy/thriller, the plot mostly revolves around Bobbie falling in love with Clint while still holding out some hope of escaping the cops' clutches and returning to her boyfriends' arms. Too bad he's already plotting to have her rubbed out.

Stars :  Telly Savalas,  Pia Zadora,  Desi Arnaz Jr.,  Larry Storch,  G. Wesley Stevens, Suzanne Buhrer,  Betty Bunch,  George Savalas,  Buddy Lester,  Sammy Shore, George "Buck" Flower,  Tim Rossovich,  Matt Cimber

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Butterfly (1982)

Storyline :  In 1937 Nevada, Jess Tyler, a staunchly religious silver miner, has been left alone out in the desert to guard an all-but-depleted mine. His dreary life is livened up considerably by the arrival of his long-lost daughter, Kady. The less-than-innocent young woman has an ulterior motive in locating her father: she wants him to reopen the silver mine and help her exact revenge on the mine's owner, a spoiled rich kid who impregnated and abandoned her.

Stars :  Stacy Keach,  Pia Zadora,  Orson Welles,  Edward Albert,  James Franciscus, Stuart Whitman,  Lois Nettleton,  June Lockhart,  Ed McMahon,  Paul Hampton, George 'Buck' Flower,  Ann Dane,  Peter Jason,  Leigh Christian,  John F. Goff, Abraham Rudnick

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The First Time (1982)

Storyline :  An emotionally troubled teenage girl drops out of high school and travels with her boyfriend to San Diego, while the girl's mother enlists the help of an old U.S. Navy friend to help find her daughter.

Stars :  Noel Nosseck Jennifer Jason Leigh Peter Barton Susan Anspach Harriet Hilliard Harriet Nelson Edward Winter Alex Rocco John Anderson Krista Errickson Terry Alexander Ken Stovitz Ron Prince

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The Lost Empire (1984)

Storyline :  After officer Rob Wolfe is killed trying to stop a gang of ninjas from robbing a jewelery store, his sister, officer Angel Wolfe, vows to avenge his death. Her investigation leads her to the mysterious Dr. Sin Do, who is supposedly in league with an undead wizard named Lee Chuck. The doctor is holding a martial arts tournament on a secret island fortress, so Angel, after rounding up some of her martial-artist friends, enters the tournament in the hopes of finding Sin Do and Lee Chuck and bringing them to justice.

Stars :  Melanie Vincz,  Raven De La Croix,  Angela Aames,  Paul Coufos,  Robert Tessier, Angus Scrimm,  Blackie Dammett,  Linda Shayne,  Kenneth Tobey,  Tom Rettig, Angelique Pettyjohn,  Art Hern

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Grease 2 (1982)

Storyline :  It is 1961, two years after the events of the first film took place, and a new academic year is just beginning at Rydell High School. The Pink Ladies are now led by the beautiful Stephanie Zinone , who feels she has "outgrown" her relationship with the arrogant leader of the The T-Birds, Johnny Nogerelli  during summer break. A new arrival comes in the form of clean-cut English student Michael Carrington , the cousin of Sandy Olsson . Michael quickly becomes smitten with Stephanie, despite the gentle protestation of the sole remaining lead character from the first film, Frenchy , who observes that she will not date him since he is not a T-Bird.

Stars :  Michelle Pfeiffer,  Maxwell Caulfield,  Christopher McDonald,  Peter Frechette, Didi Conn,  Adrian Zmed,  Eve Arden,  Tab Hunter,  Sid Caesar,  Lorna Luft

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Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)

Storyline :  Three furry (and funny) aliens travel around the universe in a spaceship and receive a broadcast showing human females. They are fascinated by these shapely creatures and discover that the broadcast came from Southern California on Earth. Meanwhile, Valley girl Valerie Gail feels her cold fianc� Dr. Ted Gallagher is slipping away and decides to seduce him. Instead, she catches him cheating on her with a nurse, throws him out, smashes his things and refuses to see him again. The aliens' spaceship crash lands in Valerie's swimming pool - putting a decided damper on her future wedding plans in Las Vegas. She brings them into her home; and the aliens prove to be quick learners and absorb American popular culture and language through television.

Stars :  Geena Davis,  Jeff Goldblum,  Jim Carrey,  Julie Brown,  Damon Wayans, Michael McKean,  Charles Rocket,  Larry Linville,  Rick Overton,  Diane Stillwell

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