Splash
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
Year: 1984
Country: USA
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: John Candy, Daryl Hannah, Tom Hanks, Richard B. Shull, Royce D. Applegate, Eugene Levy, Tony DiBenedetto
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod
Allen Bauer is rescued from drowning as a young boy off Cape Cod by a young mermaid. Years later he returns to the same location, and once again manages to fall into the sea, and is rescued once more by the mermaid (Allen isn't sure what he's seen and what he's imagined). The mermaid decides to search for Allen in New York, sprouting legs when her tail dries. On finding Allen, they fall in love, but she has a secret, which will no longer be a secret if she gets her legs wet..
Ironweed
Genres: Drama
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Director: Hector Babenco
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Joe Grifasi, Nathan Lane, James Gammon, Tom Waits, Michael O'Keefe
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod
Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery and visits the grave of his infant son whom he dropped; visions of his past haunt him, including ghosts of two men he killed. That night, out drinking, Helen tries to sing at a bar. Next day, Fran visits his wife and children and meets a grandson. He could stay, but decides it's not for him. Helen gets their things out of storage and finds a hotel. Amidst their mistakes and dereliction, the film explore...
Didi auf vollen Touren
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1986
Country: West Germany
Director: Wigbert Wicker
Starring: Pierre Tornade, Dieter Hallervorden, Bernard Menez
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German vehicle fanatic Dieter 'Didi' accepts to drive a truckload of waste barrels to a French dump site. Didi ignores the plant needs to dump toxic waste after a major incident, which made the international news. But while the French site exploiter's agent Marcel believes it's Did's load, that's in fact a deliberately obvious diversion. Now everyone chases everyone else.
Under The Sun Of Satan
Genres: Drama
Year: 1987
Country: France
Director: Maurice Pialat
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Alain Artur, Yann Dedet, Brigitte Legendre
Available Quality: Hi Def
Dossignan is a very zealous rural priest. The dean Menou-Segrais tries to keep him reasonable. But Dossignan will be tempted by Satan, then will try to save the soul of Mouchette, a young girl who killed one of her lovers. A film about God's grace and mysticism.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Joanna Cassidy, Christopher Lloyd, Richard Ridings, Bob Hoskins, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, Alan Tilvern
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It is 1940's Los Angeles. In a world were Humans and Cartoons co-exist. A famous toon known as Roger Rabbit has life easy, until he discovers that his wife, Jessica Rabbit is having fun with the head of Maroon Cartoons, then things take a turn for the worse for Roger as he is know accused of murdering Mr. Maroon. Roger turns to a down and out detective named Eddie Valiant, who has a vendetta for toons. He helps Roger (against his own will), escape from an uncompromising Judge Doom, and even try to clear Roger's name, in order to do this, he must travel all over L.A. and even into Toontown.
Willow
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Rick Overton, Warwick Davis, Patricia Hayes, Val Kilmer, Kevin Pollak, Tony Cox, Billy Barty
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Willow, a small farmer/apprentice magician, meets Madmartigan, a great swordsman, and together they journey through a war-torn land of magic and monsters, to save a baby princess from death at the hands of an evil queen.
The Snowman
Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Year: 1982
Country: UK
Director: Dianne Jackson
Starring: David Bowie, Peter Auty, Raymond Briggs
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Wordless (save for the song "Walking in the Air") animated adventure about a young English boy who makes a snowman one Christmas Eve, only for it to come to life that night and take him on a magical adventure to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.
The Protector
Year: 1985
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Director: James Glickenhaus
Starring: Jackie Chan, Richard Clarke, Danny Aiello, Roy Chiao, Victor Arnold, Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus, Irene Britto
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities suspect that Laura's father is involved with Mr. Ko, a Hong Kong drug kingpin, so the NYC police commissioner sends the two cops to Hong Kong to investigate. Once in Hong Kong, the pair causes no end of trouble for both Mr. Ko and the local authorities.
The Man from Snowy River
Genres: Adventure, Family, Romance
Year: 1982
Country: Australia
Director: George Miller
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Chris Haywood, Jack Thompson, Tom Burlinson, June Jago, Sigrid Thornton, Gus Mercurio
Available Quality: Hi Def
Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the low lands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet. Kirk Douglas plays two roles as twin brothers who haven't spoken for years, one of whom was Jim's father's best friend and the other of whom is the father of the girl he wants to marry. A 20 year old feud re-erupts, catching Jim and Jessica in the middle of it as Jim is accused of letting a prize stallion loose.
The Blue Lagoon
Genres: Adventure, Romance, Drama
Year: 1980
Country: USA
Director: Randal Kleiser
Starring: Leo McKern, Brooke Shields, William Daniels, Christopher Atkins, Alan Hopgood, Gus Mercurio, Elva Josephson
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On a Journey to San Fransico Richard, his father and cousin Em find them selves on a ship about to explode. Rushed to a life boat with Paddy Button, the two children escape while their Father (and Uncle) are on another life boat. In the chaos following the life boats are separated. Paddy, Richard and Em find themselves with no food and no water stuck in the middle of no where. After some time the 3 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 Delta Force
Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1986
Country: USA, Israel
Director: Menahem Golan
Starring: Robert Vaughn, Robert Forster, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam, Steve James, Lainie Kazan, Bo Svenson
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod, Hi Def
A 707 aircraft jetliner on its way from Athens to Rome and then to New York City is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists. The terrorists demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandoes led by Major McCoy (Norris) and by Colonel Alexander (Marvin) as been called into service to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner and who's involved in the hijacking and try to retake the plane before the terrorists kill all the hostages.
The Dante Quartet
Genres: Short
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Director: Stan Brakhage
Starring: Stan Brakhage
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
A visual representation, in four parts, of one man's internalization of "The Divine Comedy." Hell is a series of multicolored brush strokes against a white background; the speed of the changing images varies. "Hell Spit Flexion," or springing out of Hell, is on smaller film stock, taking the center of the frame. Montages of color move rapidly with a star and the edge of a lighted moon briefly visible. Purgation is back to full frame; blurs of color occasionally slow down then freeze. From time to time, an image, such as a window or a face, is distinguishable for a moment. In "existence is song," colors swirl then flash in and out of view. Beh...
Southern Comfort
Genres: Thriller, Adventure, Drama
Year: 1981
Country: USA, UK, Switzerland
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Powers Boothe, Allan Graf, Keith Carradine, Fred Ward, Peter Coyote, Brion James, T.K. Carter
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
Risky Business
Year: 1983
Country: USA
Director: Paul Brickman
Starring: Joe Pantoliano, Tom Cruise, Richard Masur, Bruce A. Young, Curtis Armstrong, Raphael Sbarge, Rebecca De Mornay
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A suburban Chicago teenager's parents leave on vacation, and he cuts loose. An unauthorised trip in his father's Porsche means a sudden need for lots of money, which he raises in a creative way.
Repo Man
Genres: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Year: 1984
Country: USA
Director: Alex Cox
Starring: Miguel Sandoval, Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Eddie Velez, Tracey Walter, Del Zamora, Susan Barnes
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def
Frustrated punk rocker Otto quits his supermarket job after slugging a co-worker, and is later dumped by his girlfriend at a party. Wandering the streets in frustration, he is recruited in the repossession of a car by a repo agent. After discovering his parents have donated his college fund to a televangelist, he joins the repossession agency (Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation) as an apprentice "repo man". During his training, he is introduced into the mercenary and paranoid world of the drivers, befriended by a UFO conspiracy theorist, confronted by rival repo agents, discovers some of his one-time friends have turned to a life of crime, i...
One from the Heart
Year: 1982
Country: USA
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Lainie Kazan, Raul Julia, Rebecca De Mornay, Teri Garr, Edward Blackoff, Frederic Forrest
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def
Hank and Frannie don't seem to be able to live together anymore. After a five-year relationship, lustful and dreamy Fanny leaves down-to-earth Hank on the anniversary of their relationship. Each one of them meets their dream mate, but as bright as they may seem, they are but a stage of lights and colours. Will true love prevail over a seemingly glamorous passion? Welcome to Coppola's Broadway-like romantic musical.
Phenomena aka Creepers
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Year: 1985
Country: Italy
Director: Dario Argento
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jennifer Connelly, Patrick Bauchau, Daria Nicolodi, Fiore Argento, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Federica Mastroianni
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Someone is killing people in a Swiss village, and then a girl with insect empathy shows up and helps the local entomologist try to solve the mystery.
Murder Psalm
Genres: Short
Year: 1980
Country: USA
Director: Stan Brakhage
Starring: Stan Brakhage
Available Quality: DivX
Stan Brakhage, 1980-1990 Murder Psalm is mainly comprised of found footage, in particular an educational film about an epileptic. As Brakhage moves her through a variety of settings, violence and horror seem to erupt from all sides. The transformative power of light is here abandoned, exiled by the terrible illusions and half-truths of mass culture. Its opposite, City Streaming, transforms Toronto into a dwelling place of illumination itself. Brakhage sings the city as fields of brilliance whose only meaning is their own existence, and which could not exist anywhere else. Also in the program: Unconscious London Strata; The Loom. 16mm
Missing in Action
Year: 1984
Country: USA
Director: Joseph Zito
Starring: M. Emmet Walsh, James Hong, David Tress, Erich Anderson, Pierrino Mascarino, Chuck Norris, Joseph Carberry
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def
Colonel James Braddock is an American officer who spent seven years in a North Vietnamese POW camp, then escaped 10 years ago. After the bloodiest war, Braddock accompanies a government investigation team that goes to Ho Chi Minh City to check out reports of Americans still held prisoner. Braddock gets the evidence then travels to Thailand, where he meets Tuck, an old Army buddy turned black market kingpin. Together, they launch a mission deep into the jungle to free the American POWs from General Trau.
No Retreat, No Surrender
Year: 1986
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Director: Corey Yuen
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kurt McKinney, J.W. Fails, Kathie Sileno, Tai Chung Kim, Kent Lipham, Ron Pohnel
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Jason Stillwell, a Bruce Lee fan, is beaten numerous times and trains from the ghost of Lee. Jason then must use his newly acquired skills to save Seattle from a crime syndicate, whose top martial artist is the deadly Ivan.