1980 movies

Shining, The (1980)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Duvall, Shelley | Lloyd, Danny | Crothers, Scatman | Nelson, Barry | Stone, Philip | Turkel, Joe | Jackson, Anne | Burton, Tony | Beldam, Lia | Gibson, Billie | Dennen, Barry | Baxt, David | Redwood, Manning | Burns, Lisa
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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A novelist - Jack Torrance take a job interview as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge and beautiful Overlook Hotel. In the interview, Jack is told by the manager himself, that the previous caretaker - Grady, chopped his family and later killed himself with a shotgun. Ignoring the story, Jack brings his wife - Wendy and his son Danny. It happens that Danny, has a mysterious power known as “The Shining” that shows him things from the past and future. Some of the visions come from Tony - “the little boy who lives in Danny’s mouth”. Danny meets Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day arriving at the Overlook, who also has this “Shining” and he warns him about the hotel and the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny has visions of previous guests and employees who died at the hotel years before, meanwhile Jack starts driving into insanity, turning more and more aggressive, at the point that Danny and Wendy gets convinced that Jack might try to do the same thing, Grady did.

Inferno (1980)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Horror | Music | Mystery
Countries: Italy
Actors: Van Damme, Jean-Claude | Morita, Pat | Trejo, Danny | Fitzpatrick, Gabrielle | Drake, Larry | Schiavelli, Vincent | Fralick, David 'Shark' | Mitchell, Silas Weir | Avildsen, Jonathan | Pressly, Jaime | Erwin, Bill | Rainey, Ford | West, Kevin | Pointer, Priscilla | Symonds, Robert
Directors: Avildsen, John G.
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Young poetess Rose Elliot buys a book from a local antique dealer, a diary in Latin of an architect, E. Varelli. She learns of the Three Mothers, and believes her apartment building is one of their houses. She pleads her brother Mark, who is studying musicology in Rome, to come, because she is afraid. Mark’s friend Sara reads her letter, which he left behind in class, and discovers the school is run by the Mater Lacrimarum, and is killed for this knowledge. The house of Mater Suspiriorum has already been destroyed, and by the time Mark arrives in New York City, he is investigating his sister’s murder.

Elephant Man, The (1980)

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Hurt, John | Bancroft, Anne | Gielgud, John | Hiller, Wendy | Jones, Freddie | Elphick, Michael | Gordon, Hannah | Ryan, Helen | Standing, John | Fletcher, Dexter | Dunlop, Lesley | Nicholls, Phoebe | Gorman, Pat | Davenport, Claire
Directors: Lynch, David
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Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a side-show freak.

House on the Edge of the Park, The (1980)

Monday, April 13th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Italy
Actors: Hess, David | Belle, Annie | Borromeo, Christian | Lombardo Radice, Giovanni | Joseph, Marie Claude | Di Giulio, Gabriele | Petronio, Brigitte | Mardeck, Karoline | De Selle, Lorraine | Spafford, Susan | Starke, Pat
Directors: Deodato, Ruggero
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Alex, a psychopathic mechanic, rapes a woman in the park. Later, a decadent couple pull into his shop needing car repair. They invite Alex and his mentally challenged buddy to join them at a decadent suburban party. Once there, Alex amuses himself by tormenting and raping the guests, not realizing the guests have an agenda of their own.

Cruising (1980)

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA | West Germany
Actors: Pacino, Al | Sorvino, Paul | Allen, Karen | Cox, Richard | Scardino, Don | Spinell, Joe | Acovone, Jay | Jurgensen, Randy | Heyman, Barton | Davis, Gene | Santana, Arnaldo | Atlas, Larry | Miller, Allan | Grosso, Sonny | O'Neill, Ed
Directors: Friedkin, William
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Cruising is the fictional account of a series of gruesome killings in modern day New York City. Steve Burns, a “beat” officer still wet behind the ears, is recruited by Captain Edelson of the NYPD Homicide Unit to go undercover in search of the perpetrator. The victims in these killings are all homosexual men known to frequent “Leather,” S&M (Sadism and Masochism), and B&D (Bondage and Dominance) clubs so Burns, in “deep cover,” must mascarade as gay in order to attract the killer. He fits the victims’ profiles: dark hair, dark complexion, dark eyes. Cruising tells the story of his adventures and misadventures in this small subculture of gay society as he searches for the killer.

Popeye (1980)

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Williams, Robin | Duvall, Shelley | Walston, Ray | Dooley, Paul | Smith, Paul L. | Libertini, Richard | Moffat, Donald | Dixon, MacIntyre | Maxwell, Roberta | Scott, Donovan | Nicholls, Allan F. | Hurt, Wesley Ivan | Irwin, Bill | Fortier, Robert | McCharen, David
Directors: Altman, Robert
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The comic strip and animated sailor hero comes to life in this meticulous live action production that looks at the origins of Popeye and his battle against arch-rival Bluto. Nearly all the characters from the strip are reproduced here.

Don’t Answer the Phone! (1980)

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Westmoreland, James | Frank, Ben | Gerrish, Flo | Worth, Nicholas | Galik, Denise | Haze, Stan | Allen, Gary | Castle, Michael D. | Bryant, Pamela Jean | Chapman, Ted | Wallace, Chris | Kalberg, Dale | Land, Deborah Leah | Lasswell, Tom | Levine, Mike
Directors: Hammer, Robert
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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.

Watcher in the Woods, The (1980)

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Genres: Family | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Davis, Bette | Johnson, Lynn-Holly | Richards, Kyle | Baker, Carroll | McCallum, David | Taylor, Benedict | Cuka, Frances | Pasco, Richard | Bannen, Ian | Levy, Katharine | Summerfield, Eleanor | Hale, Georgina | Guard, Dominic
Directors: Hough, John
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When a normal American family moves into a beautiful old English house in a wooded area, strange, paranormal appearances befall them in this interesting twist to the well-known haunted-house tale. Their daughter Jan sees, and daughter Ellie hears, the voice of a young teenage girl who mysteriously disappeared during a total solar eclipse decades before…

Flash Gordon (1980)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jones, Sam J. | Anderson, Melody | von Sydow, Max | Topol | Muti, Ornella | Dalton, Timothy | Blessed, Brian | Wyngarde, Peter | Melato, Mariangela | Osborne, John | O'Brien, Richard | Hallam, John | Stone, Philip | Danielle, Suzanne
Directors: Hodges, Mike
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Flash Gordon is an American football player who along with Dale Arden are returning to New York City after a long vacation, until the plane they are passengers on crashes into the laboratory of Russian scientist Dr. Hans Zarkov. Both Flash and Dale become unwilling passengers on-board Zarkov’s rocket-ship as Zarkov sets a course for the planet Mongo. Arriving on Mongo, Flash and his companions find the planet is under the ruler-ship of the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless and Ming is attacking Earth with natural disasters as he bids to destroy Earth. Realising that Earth and the human race is in mortal danger, Flash decides to unite the kingdoms of Mongo and combine the forces of rivals Prince Baron and Prince Vultan to rescue Dale, who is to become Ming’s wife and defeat Ming and save Earth from annihilation.

Long Good Friday, The (1980)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Freeman, Paul | Dolan, Leo | McNally, Kevin | Love, Patti | Moriarty, P.H. | Thompson, Derek | Marshall, Bryan | Hoskins, Bob | Mirren, Helen | Head, Ruby | Cork, Charles | Pierre, Olivier | Brosnan, Pierce | O'Malley, Daragh | King, Dave
Directors: Mackenzie, John
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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.