1941
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: John Candy, Ned Beatty, Treat Williams, Christopher Lee, Dan Aykroyd, Robert Stack, John Belushi
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl harbour as an assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion in this big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine crew scout out the madness.
The Wanderers
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Director: Philip Kaufman
Starring: Val Avery, Karen Allen, Erland van Lidth, Tony Ganios, Ken Wahl, John Friedrich, Alan Rosenberg
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Set against the urban jungle of 1963 New York's gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage movie is set around the Italian gang the Wanderers. Slight comedy, slight High School angst and every bit entertaining with its classic 1950's Rock n' Roll soundtrack such as "Walk Like a Man", "Big Girls Don't Cry" by The Four Seasons and "My Boyfriend's Back" by The Angels. Focusing around a football game where the different gangs play with and against each other, then at its grand finale, come together in a mass of union to defend their honour and their turf. Nostalgic stuff and above all a Rock n' Roll retrospective on a grand musical era. Time...
Murder by Decree
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Year: 1979
Country: UK, Canada
Director: Bob Clark
Starring: Anthony Quayle, Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Frank Finlay, John Gielgud, Donald Sutherland, David Hemmings
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Sherlock Holmes investigates London's most infamous case, Jack the Ripper. As he investigates, he finds that the Ripper has friends in high places.
Phantasm
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Director: Don Coscarelli
Starring: Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Kathy Lester, Terrie Kalbus, Kenneth V. Jones
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Mike, a young teenage boy who has just lost his parents, is afraid to lose his brother. This fear causes him to follow his brother to a funeral, where Mike witnesses the Tall Man lift a coffin on his own. Mike decides to investigate and discovers a horrible world where the Tall Man, along with his flying spheres, shrink the to half their normal size and reanimate them as slaves. It is then up to Mike, his brother, and Reggie the ice cream man to stop the Tall man.
Rocky II
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Joe Spinell, Tony Burton, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
In the aftermath of his celebrated match with World Heavyweight Champion Apollo Creed, Rocky Balboa enjoys his success, and the money he earned from the match (Which Apollo won by split decision and therefore retained the heavyweight championship.). He marries his fianc
Escape from Alcatraz
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1979
Country: USA
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Paul Benjamin, Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau, Roberts Blossom, Patrick McGoohan, Larry Hankin
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
A group of inmates attempt a daring escape from the notorious Alcatraz prison island, from which no-one had managed to escape before. Based on a true story.
Cruising
Genres: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Year: 1980
Country: USA, West Germany
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Gene Davis, Al Pacino, Karen Allen, Paul Sorvino, Richard Cox, Don Scardino, Joe Spinell
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S&M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated from his department, he has to learn and practice the complex rules and signals of this little society. While barely seeing his girlfriend Nancy anymore, the work starts changing him.
The Exterminator
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1980
Country: USA
Director: James Glickenhaus
Starring: George Cheung, Christopher George, Samantha Eggar, Robert Ginty, Steve James, Tony DiBenedetto, Dick Boccelli
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
When John Eastland's best friend, Michael Jefferson, is mugged and left permanently crippled, he decides to do something about it. Jefferson had saved Eastland's life in Vietnam and now it's time for Eastland to get revenge for his friend. Using his old Army gear he sets out on a crusade to clean up the streets of New York using the name "The Exterminator."
Don't Answer the Phone!
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Year: 1980
Country: USA
Director: Robert Hammer
Starring: Nicholas Worth, James Westmoreland, Ben Frank, Denise Galik, Stan Haze, Gary Allen, Michael D. Castle
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
A deeply disturbed photographer and Vietnam veteran, named Kirk Smith, terrorizes Los Angeles by going around strangling lingerie-clad young women in their homes while taunting Lindsay Gale, a young psychologist, by calling her on a radio call-in show to describe his sexual hang-ups and misogynistic ways, while a local police detective, Lt. McCable, is always two steps behind in trying to catch the psycho.
Alligator
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Year: 1980
Country: USA
Director: Lewis Teague
Starring: Robert Forster, Dean Jagger, Bart Braverman, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Sydney Lassick, Jack Carter
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Ramon the alligator is flushed down the toilet as a baby and grows into a gargantuan monster by eating the corpses of laboratory animals who have undergone dubious hormone experiments, thus providing all the ecological and social subtext that one could possibly wish for, even if one doesn't normally go for films about giant alligators eating people left, right, and center--which is the inevitable and tragic result of Ramon's decision that the outside world looks rather more interesting than the sewers....
Fame
Year: 1980
Country: USA
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean, Antonia Franceschi, Boyd Gaines, Albert Hague
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. This movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation. They are the brazen Coco Hernandez, shy Doris Finsecker, sensitive gay Montgomery MacNeil, and brash, abrasive Raul Garcia.
The Long Good Friday
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1980
Country: UK
Director: John Mackenzie
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Kevin McNally, Helen Mirren, Daragh O'Malley, Bob Hoskins, Paul Freeman, Leo Dolan
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his action, and Harold wants to know who they are. He finds out soon enough, and bloody mayhem ensues.
Stir Crazy
Year: 1980
Country: USA
Director: Sidney Poitier
Starring: Karmin Murcelo, Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Richard Pryor, Barry Corbin, Jonathan Banks, Gene Wilder
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural tallent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up.
Flash Gordon
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Year: 1980
Country: USA, UK
Director: Mike Hodges
Starring: William Hootkins, Brian Blessed, Richard O'Brien, Timothy Dalton, Philip Stone, Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
In this update of the 1930's comic strip, Flash is a football hero who is skyjacked aboard Dr. Zarkov's rocketship along with beautiful Dale Arden. The threesome are drawn into the influence of the planet Mongo, controlled by Ming the Merciless. Ming has been testing the Earth with unnatural disasters, and deeming it a threat to his rule, he plans to destroy it. He also intends to take Dale as his concubine. Flash must avoid the amorous attentions of Ming's daughter and unite the warring kingdoms of Mongo to rescue Dale and save our world.
The Hearse
Genres: Thriller, Romance, Horror
Year: 1980
Country: USA
Director: George Bowers
Starring: Christopher McDonald, Trish Van Devere, Perry Lang, Dominic Barto, Joseph Cotten, David Gautreaux, Donald Hotton
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Jane Hardy decides to stay the summer in the house her aunt left her when she died, to try and recoup from a bad divorce. Little does she know, her aunt practiced witchcraft and is still thought of very badly by the town's citizens. As soon as she moves in, she is haunted by a old black hearse and it's creepy driver. Is she going insane or is she truly being menaced? She meets a friendly young man and becomes involved with him, but is he and the creepy driver one and the same?
Hawk the Slayer
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Year: 1980
Country: UK
Director: Terry Marcel
Starring: Patrick Magee, Bernard Bresslaw, Cheryl Campbell, Jack Palance, Harry Andrews, Peter O'Farrell, Annette Crosbie
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Hawk, having suffered the ignimony of watching both his father and fianc
Inferno
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Year: 1980
Country: Italy
Director: Dario Argento
Starring: Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Daria Nicolodi, Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi, Alida Valli, Veronica Lazar
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Three years after the incident of the dance academy in "Suspiria", a new group of people are being watched in a New York City apartment complex by a mysterious and evil force hell bent on revenge! When Rose Elliot finds out too much about the place (via the book, "The Three Mothers") she gets be-headed (YEE-OUCH!)! The only person to stop the killings and uncover the secrets is her brother Mark. As he solves the puzzle, the murders get intense, and the evil starts to reveal itself. Hope Mark Elliot gets out of that "Renter's Trap" alive....
Brubaker
Genres: Drama
Year: 1980
Country: USA
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Robert Redford, M. Emmet Walsh, Albert Salmi, Val Avery, Jane Alexander, David Keith
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
When the new Warden comes in disguised as an inmate, he sees first hand all the corruption and scams the guards and prison officials and running. When he reveals himself, and starts to implement reforms to stop the corruption, the local community business, who had been benefiting from the scams, fights back, and the corrupt southern prison system, starts making political trouble for the new warden.
Rising Damp
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1980
Country: UK
Director: Joseph McGrath
Starring: Denholm Elliott, Leonard Rossiter, Frances de la Tour, Don Warrington, Christopher Strauli, Carrie Jones, Glynn Edwards
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Stingy English landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers Cooper, an arts student, and Philip, an African jock, making both pay for a room they must share. However Rigsby's favorite lodger, miss Jones, now flirts with both boys rather then the old goat, despite his pitiful attempts to be generous. Crossed by her still overprotective dad, she actually prefers an affair with slick veteran Seymour, who is really only interested in her money.
Motel Hell
Year: 1980
Country: USA
Director: Kevin Connor
Starring: John Ratzenberger, Rory Calhoun, Nina Axelrod, Paul Linke, Wolfman Jack, E. Hampton Beagle, Everett Creach
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand. His motto is: It takes all kinds of critters...to make Farmer Vincents fritters. The movie is gory, but is also a parody of slasher movies like Last House on the Left.