The Dead Pool
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Buddy Van Horn
Starring: Clint Eastwood, David Hunt, Liam Neeson, Jim Carrey, Patricia Clarkson, Michael Currie, Michael Goodwin
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For Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan, fame and celebrity status is not his lifestyle, especially when it interferes with his job. But right after putting one of San Francisco's crime bosses in prison, Callahan ends in the status quo as well as being written in a list for a game called, 'The Dead Pool', where his life is now in the line along with other famous celebrities that are mysteriously dying. Callahan is up against the media attention, an enraged hit men, and a new killer, who's attempting to throw off the dead pool game anyway possible. Callahan has to find the connection between the killings and then perpetrator, before the game can ...
Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Alan Myerson
Starring: Michael Winslow, Archie Hahn, James Hampton, Bubba Smith, David Graf, Leslie Easterbrook, Marion Ramsey
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The Police Academy misfits travel to Miami, Florida for their academy's commanding officer, Lassard, to receive a prestigious lifetime award pending his retirement, which takes a turn involving a group of jewel thieves after their stolen loot that Lassard unknowingly has in his possession.
The Big Blue
Year: 1988
Country: USA, Italy, France
Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Griffin Dunne, Jean Reno, Paul Shenar, Rosanna Arquette, Geoffrey Carey, Sergio Castellitto, Jean-Marc Barr
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Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques' father, who was a diver too, died in the Mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and Jacques lost contact. After several years, Enzo and Jacques had grown up, Johanna, a young clerk in a security office, has to go to Peru. There she meets Jacques who works for a group of scientists. He dives for some minutes into ice-cold water and the scientists monitor his physical state t...
Phantasm II
Genres: Action, Thriller, Fantasy
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Don Coscarelli
Starring: James LeGros, Reggie Bannister, J. Patrick McNamara, Angus Scrimm, Stacey Travis, A. Michael Baldwin, Kenneth Tigar
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Mike is released from psychiatry, when he agrees with the doctors that the terrible happenings in his past were just in his imagination. But once he's free, he contacts Redge and they team up to hunt down and eliminate the "Tall Man", who plunders the graveyards and abducts the sleeping with help of his terrible gnomes. A beautiful strange girl starts to appear in Mike's dreams. He assumes she's in danger and needs their help - will they find her before the Tall Man can do her any harm?
Leviathan
Genres: Thriller, Adventure, Horror
Year: 1989
Country: USA, Italy
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Starring: Richard Crenna, Daniel Stern, Peter Weller, Amanda Pays, Ernie Hudson, Michael Carmine, Lisa Eilbacher
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Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. In a story owing a lot to _Alien_ and _The Thing_, the crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by one. Part of a wave of underwater movies including _The Abyss_ and _Deep Star Six_.
We're No Angels
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Bruno Kirby, John C. Reilly, James Russo, Frank C. Turner, Sean Penn, Robert De Niro, Hoyt Axton
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A couple of escaped convicts on the run find refuge with the Church when they are mistaken for two priests. The two are keen to flee but are unable to do so without the help of Molly.
Casualties of War
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: John Leguizamo, Dale Dye, John C. Reilly, Michael J. Fox, Dan Martin, Sean Penn, Vyto Ruginis
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During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.
Cyborg
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Albert Pyun
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ralf Moeller, Vincent Klyn, Alex Daniels, Blaise Loong, Jackson 'Rock' Pinckney, Robert Pentz
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Gibson Rickenbacker is a hired fighter living in a plague-ravaged apocalyptic America where a plague has infested most of the United States and the rest of the world. In New York City, Gibson encounters a woman named Pearl Prophet. Pearl reveals to Gibson that she is a cyborg who is carrying vital-information for a group of scientists in Atlanta who are working on a cure to the plague and Pearl hires Gibson to escort her back to Atlanta. But Pearl is kidnapped by "Pirates" a murderous gang led by Fender Tremolo, who wants the cure for themselves and they decide to take Pearl to Atlanta themselves. Gibson, joined by a young woman named Nady Si...
A Caribbean Mystery
Year: 1989
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Director: Christopher Petit
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Joan Hickson, Adrian Lukis, Sophie Ward, T.P. McKenna, Michael Feast, Sheila Ruskin
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Although Miss Marple wants only to bask quietly at a West Indian resort, she is badgered with boring reminiscences by an overly talkative ex-soldier and policeman, Major Palgrave. Although he claims to possess a picture of a murderer, Miss Marple is more interested in her omnipresent knitting than his long-winded stories. After the hard-drinking Major dies that night of an apparent heart attack, the maid tells her that the blood pressure medication found in his room belongs to another guest. When she later learns that the incriminating picture is missing and the maid is found stabbed to death, Miss Marple correctly predicts that more murders ...
Chances Are
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Emile Ardolino
Starring: Christopher McDonald, Josef Sommer, Joe Grifasi, Robert Downey Jr., Cybill Shepherd, Ryan O'Neal, Mary Stuart Masterson
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Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter.
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Stephen Herek
Starring: Terry Camilleri, Jane Wiedlin, Keanu Reeves, George Carlin, Clifford David, Alex Winter, Amy Stock-Poynton
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When best friends Bill S. Preston and Ted "Theodore" Logan are in danger of being seperated and having their band, Wyld Stalyns broken up because they're failing history, a time traveler from the future gives them a telephone booth so they can travel through time and ace their history report.
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Peter Bonerz
Starring: Michael Winslow, Bubba Smith, David Graf, Leslie Easterbrook, Marion Ramsey, Lance Kinsey, Matt McCoy
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A string of business robberies have taken place in the city's Wilson Heights neighborhood, all done by the same three crooks. Captain Thaddeus Harris is no longer in the same precinct with a certain group of cops that he doesn't like. That's why Harris is so happy to be in the Wilson Heights precinct. But then The Mayor tells Harris that business in the city is plummeting because of the robberies. Since there appears to be a leak in Harris's precinct, the Governor has sent in a team to stop the Wilson Heights gang. Much to Harris's dismay, the team is led by Commandant Eric Lassard, so Harris knows who the team members are -- exactly the cops...
The Little Mermaid
Genres: Family, Musical, Romance
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: John Musker, Ron Clements
Starring: Edie McClurg, Samuel E. Wright, Jodi Benson, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Kenneth Mars, Ben Wright, Rene Auberjonois
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
This is the story of a little mermaid named Ariel, who dreams of going on land. When her father, King Triton, Forbids her to go on land, Ariel visits Ursula who her father had banished. Eventhough she helps her get to land, what Ariel doesn't know is that Ursula has plans to destroy her to get revenge on her father.
The Abyss
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Michael Biehn, J.C. Quinn, Ed Harris, J. Kenneth Campbell, Kimberly Scott, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Leo Burmester
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During the height of the Cold War the USS Montana, a US nuclear ballistic submarine, sinks into an ocean abyss due to unknown circumstances. The US Navy scramble to the scene to rescue survivors and recover the nuclear missles on board before nearby Russian forces do. Their best hope are a team of divers attached to a submersible drilling platform not far from the crash site. During the operation freak weather conditions damage the platform and sever its communication with the surface. As World War III looms above and tensions rise between the divers and a deployed SEAL team the rescuers discover that there is something else besides the subma...
Christmas Vacation
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Starring: E.G. Marshall, William Hickey, John Randolph, Beverly D'Angelo, Sam McMurray, Doris Roberts, Juliette Lewis
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All Clark wanted to do is make Christmas nice with his family at their big home in Chicago. Instead of having an "Old Fashioned Family Christmas," Clark and the rest of the Griswold's got an evening of hell!
Driving Miss Daisy
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Patti LuPone, Dan Aykroyd, Jessica Tandy, Ray McKinnon, Esther Rolle, Joann Havrilla
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An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage play and does show it. It covers over twenty years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences.
Her Alibi
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Tom Selleck, Bill Smitrovich, Paulina Porizkova, Ronald Guttman, Tess Harper, Victor Argo, Patrick Wayne
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A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment. He is still falling for her, but more and more nervous as time passes, and there are more close calls with death on his part.
Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!
Year: 1989
Country: USA, Canada
Director: Jean-Claude Lord
Starring: Vlasta Vrana, Michael Rhoades, Marina Orsini, Bernie Coulson, Matthew Laurance, Anthony Sherwood, Mark Holmes
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In the sixties, Eddie and the cruisers was the hottest band around. But the tragic death of its lead singer broke the band up. Only Eddie is not dead. He works as a carpenter in Montreal. His love of music forces him to create a new band which will have to struggle with its anonymity.
Roger & Me
Genres: History, Documentary
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Michael Moore
Starring: Michael Moore
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A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.
The Fly II
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Chris Walas
Starring: Daphne Zuniga, Eric Stoltz, Frank C. Turner, Gary Chalk, John Getz, Lee Richardson, Ann Marie Lee
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Seth Brundle was a renowned scientist whose warped experiments with teleportation transformed him into a man/fly hybrid called BrundleFly. A few months after the BrundleFly insect met its demise by his lover's, Veronica, shotgun, she dies while giving birth to their son, Martin. Seth's corrupt employer, Bartok, adopts Martin, only so Martin can solve the new problems that the still-functioning TelePods present and to use him as a science project because of the dormant insect genes. Martin is now fully grown, even though he is five, and the fly genes begin to awaken and make him just like dear, dead dad. With the help of his girlfriend, Beth, ...