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Boyz N The Hood Boyz N The Hood (1991)
Distributor (USA) (all media) (laserdisc)
John Singleton's portrayal of social problems in inner-city Los Angeles takes the form of a tale of three friends growing up together 'in the 'hood.' Half-brothers Doughboy and Ricky Baker are foils for each other's personality, presenting very different approaches to the...

78%

The Silence Of The Lambs The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)
Distributor (1994) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
Distributor (1998) (USA) (DVD)
Distributor (2018) (USA) (Blu-ray)
Distributor (2018) (USA) (DVD)
FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship with Lecter soon leads to...

85%

Do The Right Thing Do The Right Thing (1989)
Distributor (1995) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
Distributor (2001) (USA) (DVD)
It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and tensions are growing there, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie, Sal's delivery boy, manages to always be at the center of the action.

80%

The Vanishing The Vanishing (1988)
Distributor (2004) (USA) (DVD)
Distributor (2014) (USA) (DVD)
Rex and Saskia are on holiday, a young couple in love. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia disappears. Rex dedicates the next three years trying to find her. Then he receives some postcards from her abductor, who promises to reveal what has happened to Saskia. The...

77%

The Last Emperor The Last Emperor (1987)
Distributor (2008) (United States) (Blu-ray)
Distributor (2008) (United States) (DVD)
This sweeping account of the life of Pu-Yi, the last emperor of China, follows the leader's tumultuous reign. After being captured by the Red Army as a war criminal in 1950, Pu-Yi recalls his childhood from prison. He remembers his lavish youth in the Forbidden City, where...

77%

The Princess Bride The Princess Bride (1987)
Distributor (1989) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
Distributor (2018) (USA) (Blu-ray)
Distributor (2018) (USA) (DVD)
While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.

77%

RoboCop RoboCop (1987)
Distributor (1995) (United States) (laserdisc) (video)
Distributor (1998) (United States) (DVD)
In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime...

78%

Blue Velvet Blue Velvet (1986)
Distributor (2019) (USA) (Blu-ray)
Distributor (2019) (USA) (DVD)
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

76%

The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club (1985)
Distributor (2018) (USA) (Blu-ray)
Distributor (2018) (USA) (DVD)
They were five students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their high school library. At 7 a.m., they had nothing to say, but by 4 p.m., they had bared their souls to each other and become good friends. To the outside world they were...

74%

The Times Of Harvey Milk The Times Of Harvey Milk (1984)
Distributor (2011) (USA) (DVD)
Distributor (2011) (USA) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
Monday morning, November 27th, 1978, approximately 8:45 AM to 9:15 AM, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Board of Supervisors Supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by Milk's former fellow Supervisor Dan White. Underlying the assassinations were White's social...

82%

Ghostbusters Ghostbusters (1984)
Distributor (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
Three odd-ball scientists get kicked out of their cushy positions at a university in New York City where they studied the occult. They decide to set up shop in an old firehouse and become Ghostbusters, trapping pesky ghosts, spirits, haunts, and poltergeists for money. They...

78%

Blood Simple Blood Simple (1984)
Distributor (2016) (USA) (DVD)
Abby is cheating on her bar owner husband, Marty and the latest object of her affections is Ray, one of Marty's bartenders. Marty hires Visser, a seedy detective, to follow his wife and ultimately to kill her and Ray but Visser has other plans of his own. So begins a round...

75%

This Is Spinal Tap This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Distributor (1994) (USA) (all media) (laserdisc)
Distributor (1998) (USA) (DVD)
In 1982, the legendary English heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary, interspersed with powerful performances of Tap's pivotal music and profound lyrics, candidly follows a rock...

72%

Repo Man Repo Man (1984)
Distributor (2013) (United States) (Blu-ray)
Distributor (2013) (United States) (DVD)
Otto is working at the grocery when he loses his temper and quits. Befriended by a Repo Man, Otto sees vehicle repossession as a kind of modern buccaneering. He is attracted by the adventure and the 'who gives a damn' attitude of the other Repo men. At the same time a...

69%

Videodrome Videodrome (1983)
Distributor (2004) (United States) (DVD)
Distributor (2010) (United States) (Blu-ray)
Distributor (2023) (United States) (Ultra HD Blu-ray)
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyper-violent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a...

76%

Scanners Scanners (1981)
Distributor (2014) (USA) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
In the film, "scanners" are people with unusual telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok, a renegade scanner, to wage a...

67%

Raging Bull Raging Bull (1980)
Distributor (1991) (United States) (laserdisc) (video)
The story of middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta, famously dubbed, "The Raging Bull" and "The Bronx Bull". Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull" chronicles two decades of his life, and how the violence inside the ring was only an extension of his violence and temper outside...

81%

Shogun Assassin Shogun Assassin (1980)
Distributor (2016) (USA) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
When the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he is ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire, embarking on a journey of blood and violent death.

73%

Dressed To Kill Dressed To Kill (1980)
Distributor (2015) (USA) (Blu-ray) (4k restoration)
Distributor (2015) (USA) (DVD)
A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.

71%

Monty Python's Life Of Brian Monty Python's Life Of Brian (1979)
Distributor (1999) (USA) (DVD)
The story of Brian of Nazareth, born on the same day as Jesus of Nazareth, who takes a different path in life that leads to the same conclusion. Brian joins a political resistance movement aiming to get the Romans out of Judea. Brian scores a victory of sorts when he manages...

80%

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