Erik the Viking
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
Year: 1989
Country: UK, Sweden
Director: Terry Jones
Starring: Samantha Bond, Richard Ridings, John Cleese, Tim Robbins, Charles McKeown, Mickey Rooney, Freddie Jones
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and allow his people to see sunlight again. A Pythonesque satire of Viking life.
Death Ship
Genres: Thriller, Adventure, Horror
Year: 1980
Country: UK, Canada
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Starring: Richard Crenna, Saul Rubinek, Sally Ann Howes, Kate Reid, George Kennedy, Nick Mancuso, Murray Cruchley
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is actually a Nazi torture ship which has sailed the seas for years, luring unsuspecting sailors aboard and killing them off one by one.
Death Watch
Year: 1980
Country: West Germany, France
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Harvey Keitel, Romy Schneider
Available Quality: Hi Def
Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will then be run on the popular TV series, "Death Watch"...
Death Valley
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Year: 1982
Country: USA
Director: Dick Richards
Starring: Stephen McHattie, Paul Le Mat, Catherine Hicks
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
A divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend set out on a road trip through Death Valley and run afoul of a local serial killer.
Dragon Lord
Year: 1982
Country: Hong Kong
Director: Jackie Chan
Starring: Benny Lai, Jackie Chan, Feng Tien, Corey Yuen, Chin Ku Ma, Kang-Yeh Cheng, Hoi Mang
Available Quality: Hi Def
Dragon Lord is a 1982 Hong Kong martial arts sports comedy film written, directed by and starring Jackie Chan as Dragon Ho. It was originally supposed to be a sequel to The Young Master and even had the name Young Master in Love until it was changed to Dragon Lord. The film experimented with various elaborate stunt action sequences in a period setting, serving as a transition between Chan's earlier comedy kung fu period films (such as Drunken Master and The Young Master) and his later stunt-oriented modern action films (such as Project A and Police Story). Dragon Lord also featured sports scenes incorporating martial arts stunts, later inspir...
Dick Tracy
Genres: Action, Thriller, Family
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: Warren Beatty
Starring: Seymour Cassel, Glenne Headly, William Forsythe, James Keane, Ed O'Ross, Charlie Korsmo, Michael Donovan O'Donnell
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod
Legendary police detective Dick Tracy is the only man tough enough to take on gangster boss Big Boy Caprice and his band of menacing mobsters. Dedicated to his work but at the same time devoted to his loyal girlfriend, Tess Trueheart, Tracy find himself torn between love and duty. His relentless crusade against crime becomes even more difficult when he gets saddled with an engaging orphan and meets seductive and sultry Breathless Mahoney, a torch singer determined to get the best of Tracy. A faceless character, known as the Blank, threatens both Tracy and Big Boy, and it takes all of Tracy's skills to save the city.
Christine
Genres: Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Year: 1983
Country: USA
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Kelly Preston, Harry Dean Stanton, Steven Tash, Roberts Blossom, Robert Prosky, Malcolm Danare, John Stockwell
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod
Arnie Cunningham is a typical high school nerd who is picked on, overruled by his parents, and has very few friends. Until he meets Christine, a run-down 1958 Plymouth Fury and buys her. Arnie learns that Christine has a thing for him and devotes his time to restoring her to mint condition. But overtime, Arnie begins to change and becomes disconnected with reality and his friends. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis find out that Christine's previous owner cared about nothing else when he bought her and find out that Arnie is becoming just like him. The only way they can bring Arnie back to reality is to destroy Christine, but Arn...
Code of Silence
Year: 1985
Country: USA
Director: Andrew Davis
Starring: Ron Dean, Dennis Farina, Henry Silva, Allen Hamilton, Molly Hagan, Joe Guzaldo, Chuck Norris
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def
Eddie Cusack is a Chicago police officer about to bust some members of the Comacho gang when the gang is shot up by a rival drug gang from the neighboring building, led by Tony Luna. Victor Comacho is the only survivor of the Comacho gang and his older brother, Luis, who is the leader of the gang, retaliates by killing Luna's family and kidnaps Luna's daughter, Diana. Cusack must face Tony Luna and Luis Comacho alone because nobody on the police force is willing to help him since he was the only cop who broke the code of silence by testifying against a fellow cop who killed an unarmed teenager, but Cusack is not really alone. A police robot c...
Breakin'
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Year: 1984
Country: USA
Director: Joel Silberg
Starring: Christopher McDonald, Peter Bromilow, Ice-T, Scott Cooper, Adolfo Quinones, Teresa Kelly, Lucinda Dickey
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
'Breakin': A struggling young jazz dancer (Lucinda Dickey) meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds. Features ICE-T in his film debut as a club MC.
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
Year: 1984
Country: USA
Director: Sam Firstenberg
Starring: Adolfo Quinones, Lucinda Dickey, Michael Chambers
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
A developer tries to bulldoze a community recreation center. The local breakdancers try to stop it.
Braddock: Missing in Action III
Genres: Action
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Aaron Norris
Starring: Keith David, Floyd Levine, Aki Aleong, Chuck Norris, Yehuda Efroni, Rick Prieto, Roland Harrah III
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def
When Colonel James Braddock is told that his Asian wife and 12-year-old son are still alive in Communist Vietnam, he mounts a one-man assault to free them. Armed with the latest high-tech firepower, Braddock fights his way into the heart of the country and ends up battling his way out with several dozen abused Amerasian children in tow! Struggling to keep them alive while outmaneuvering a sadistic Vietnamese officer, Braddock ignites the jungle in a blazing cross-country race for freedom.
Assassination
Year: 1987
Country: France
Director: Peter R. Hunt
Starring: Charles Bronson, Stephen Elliott, Jill Ireland
Available Quality: Hi Def
Jay Killion (Charles Bronson) had been the presidential bodyguard, but for the inauguration of the recently elected president, he is assigned to the first lady, Lara Royce (Jill Ireland). Lara, a perpetually indignant, arrogantly feministic lady, initially hates the methodical and rules-following Killion, and so she does all she can to avoid him and disregard his safety procedures. The story complicates, however, when repeated attempts are made on Lara's life. Eventually, the shaken Lara decides to trust Killion's instincts and precautionary methods, and the pair embark on a difficult and often perilous cross-country journey, with the assassi...
Red Dawn
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Year: 1984
Country: USA
Director: John Milius
Starring: Lea Thompson, C. Thomas Howell, Harry Dean Stanton, Powers Boothe, Charlie Sheen, Patrick Swayze, Darren Dalton
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
It is the mid-1980s. From out of the sky, Soviet & Cuban troops begin landing on the football field of a Colorado high school. In seconds, the paratroops have attacked the school & sent a group of teenagers fleeing into the mountains. Armed only with hunting rifles, pistols & bows and arrows, the teens struggles to survive the bitter winter & Soviet KGB patrols hunting for them. Eventually trouble arises when they kill a group of Soviet soldiers on patrol in the highlands. Soon, they will wage their own guerrilla warfare against the invading Soviet troops....under the banner of 'Woverines'!
No Holds Barred
Genres: Action
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Starring: Bill Henderson, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Mark Pellegrino, Charles Levin, Kurt Fuller, Joan Severance, David Paymer
Available Quality: DivX
Rip is the World Wrestling Federation champion who is faithful to his fans and the network he wrestles for. Brell, the new head of the World Television Network, wants Rip to wrestle for his network. Rip refuses and goes back to his normal life. Still looking for a way to raise ratings, Brell initiates a show called "The Battle of the Tough Guys", a violent brawling competition. A mysterious man, Zeus, wins the competition. This gets Brell to use him as an angle to get at Rip.
Dangerous Liaisons
Year: 1988
Country: USA, UK
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Peter Capaldi, Glenn Close, Uma Thurman, Keanu Reeves, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mildred Natwick
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Set in France around 1760, the Marquise de Merteuil needs a favour from her ex-lover, Vicomte de Valmont. One of the Marquise de Merteuil's ex-lovers, Gercourt, is betrothed to a young, virtuous, woman called Cecile de Volanges. The Marquise would like Valmont to seduce Cecile before her wedding day, thus humiliating Gercourt. Meanwhile, Valmont has a conquest of his own in mind: Madame de Tourvel, a beautiful, married, and God fearing woman. The Marquise doesn't think that Valmont can seduce Mme de Tourvel. She tells him that if he can provide written proof of a sexual encounter with Mme de Tourvel, she will offer him a reward: one last nigh...
Treasure Island
Genres: Adventure
Year: 1990
Country: USA, UK
Director: Fraser Clarke Heston
Starring: Christian Bale, Charlton Heston, Pete Postlethwaite, Christopher Lee, James Cosmo, John Abbott, Julian Glover
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, Hi Def
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure map for which the buccaneers had come. Jim agrees to sail on the S.S. Espaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious isiand. Upon arriving at the island, ship's cook and scaliwag Long John Silver leads a mutiny of crew members who want the treasure for themselves. Jim helps the Squire and Espaniola officers to survive the mutiny and fight back against Silver's men, w...
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Year: 1985
Country: USA, Australia
Director: George Ogilvie, George Miller
Starring: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Tina Turner, Adam Cockburn, Frank Thring, Angelo Rossitto, Paul Larsson
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def
Mad Max is a former cop who finds himself in a post-apocolyptic desert town called Bartertown. He is hired by the leader of the city to fight in a gladiator like arena called Thunderdome, so he can kill Auntie's rival master blaster. He is later banished and finds a group of children that survived a plane crash during the war. They believe he is their former pilot Captain Walker. Some of the children leave to find their fabled tomorrow morrow land. So Mad Max has to save them from the desert and from Auntie's Bartertown.
Dune
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Year: 1984
Country: USA
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Francesca Annis, Virginia Madsen, Brad Dourif, Leonardo Cimino, Richard Jordan, Everett McGill, Silvana Mangano
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Set in a distant future where life in the universe and space travel is dependent upon a spice found only on the planet Dune, this film tracks the rise of young Paul Atreides, son of good Duke Lito, from the time of his father's betrayal and murder by a rival lord, Baron Harkonnen, to his discovery of the great secret behind the planet Dune and his own destiny, which is to free the planet and its denizens of the cruel rule of the Emperor.
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Year: 1981
Country: Australia
Director: George Miller
Starring: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, William Zappa, Vernon Wells, Arkie Whiteley, Virginia Hey, Max Phipps
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A former police officer is now a lone wanderer, travelling through a devasted Australia after a nuclear war looking for the now-priceless fuel of petrol. He lives to survive and is none too pleased when he finds himself the only hope of a small group of honest people running a remote oil refinery. He must protect them from the bike gang that is terrorising them whilst transporting their entire fuel supply to safety.
Edward Scissorhands
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dick Anthony Williams, Vincent Price, Alan Arkin, Caroline Aaron
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A kind inventor is almost finished piecing together his latest creation when fate prevents him from completing his most important project. Edward may seem dangerous, with scissors instead of hands, but when a compassionate Avon lady comes calling, it's clear that things are going to be changing for Edward who has been alone in the large empty mansion. What they both don't realize is that the most important change of all won't be found in Edward but in the residents of the sleep suburbs he will be calling home, and a young teenage girl who's eyes will be opened.