101 is a live album and documentary by Depeche Mode released in 1989 chronicling the band's 1988 Music for the Masses U.S. tour and their final show at the Pasadena Rose Bowl. Group member Alan Wilder is credited with coming up with the name; the...

x 1969

Nov 18, 1988

1969 is a 1988 drama film starring Robert Downey Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, and Winona Ryder. It was written and directed by Ernest Thompson. The original music score is composed by Michael Small. In 1969, two best friends, Ralph Karr (Robert Downey Jr...

x 1984

Adaptation

Oct 10, 1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes 1984) is a British film based upon George Orwell's novel of the same name, following the life of Winston Smith in Oceania, a country run by a totalitarian government. The film was directed by Michael Radford and stars...

x ¡Three Amigos!

Movie

Dec 12, 1986

¡Three Amigos! is a 1986 comedy western film, produced by George Folsey, Jr., and Lorne Michaels. John Landis directed for HBO Films. Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short star. The movie was written by Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels, and Randy...

x What Have I Done To Deserve This?

Oct 25, 1984

What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Spanish: ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?) is a 1984 film by Pedro Almodóvar. The title is sometimes given with an exclamation mark at the end rather than a question mark. Almodóvar has described his fourth film...

x *batteries not included

Dec 18, 1987

*batteries not included is a 1987 family film directed by Matthew Robbins about an apartment block under threat from property development which is saved by cute extraterrestrial living machines dubbed "fix-its". The story was originally intended to...

x 37°2 le matin

Nov 7, 1986

Betty Blue is a 1986 French film. Its original French title is 37°2 le matin, which means "37°C [99°F], 2 in the Morning" . The film was directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix and stars Béatrice Dalle as Betty. It is based on the 1985 novel of the same...

x 2010: The Year We Make Contact

Work of Fiction

Dec 7, 1984

2010 is a science fiction film released in 1984 directed by Peter Hyams. Its full title is given on posters and DVD releases as 2010: The Year We Make Contact, although the subtitle does not appear in the film itself. It is based on the novel 2010:...

We are not alone.

Award-Winning Work

Adaptation

x 681 AD: The Glory of Khan

1981

681 AD: The Glory of Khan (Bulgarian: 681 Величието на хана) is an 1981 three-part Bulgarian historical action and drama film telling the story of khan Asparuh and the events around the founding of the medieval Bulgarian state in 681 AD. It was shot...

x 8 Million Ways to Die

Apr 25, 1986

8 Million Ways to Die is a 1986 American crime film, the last to be directed by Hal Ashby. The film was the first attempt to adapt the popular Matthew Scudder detective stories of Lawrence Block for the screen. The screenplay was written by Block...

x 48 Hrs.

Movie

Dec 8, 1982

48 Hrs. is a 1982 action comedy film directed by Walter Hill, starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy as a cop and convict, respectively, who team up to catch a cop-killer. The title refers to the amount of time they have to solve the crime. This was...

The boys are back in town. Nick Nolte is a cop. Eddie Murphy is a convict. They couldn't have liked each other less... They couldn't have needed each other more. And the last place they ever expected to be is on the same side. Even for... 48 HRS.

x 2019, After the Fall of New York

1983

2019, After the Fall of New York (Italian: 2019 - Dopo la caduta di New York), is a B-movie released in 1983 for both English and Italian. It is of the post-apocalyptic Italian genre like the movies 1990 The Bronx Warriors , Blastfighter or Endgame....

x 36 Chowringee Lane

1981

36 Chowringee Lane (1981) is a film written and directed by Aparna Sen and produced by Shashi Kapoor. The film was very well received upon release. It stars Jennifer Kendal in a critically acclaimed role and Debashree Roy. In post-independent India...

x A Better Tomorrow

1986

A Better Tomorrow (Chinese: 英雄本色; Pinyin: Yīngxióng běnsè; Jyutping: Jing1 hung4 bun2 sik1; literally True Colors of a Hero) is a 1986 Hong Kong action film which had a profound influence on the Hong Kong movie-making industry, and later on an...

x A Better Tomorrow 2

1987

A Better Tomorrow 2 (traditional Chinese: 英雄本色 2; pinyin: Yīngxióng běnsè èr; Jyutping: Jing1hung4 bun2sik1 ji6) is a 1987 Hong Kong action film, which is a follow-up to its popular predecessor, A Better Tomorrow. A Better Tomorrow 2 is notoriously...

x A Chinese Ghost Story

Mar 23, 1987

A Chinese Ghost Story (Chinese: 倩女幽魂; pinyin: Qiànnǚ Yōuhún; Wade-Giles: Ch'ien-nü Yu-hun; Jyutping: Sin6neoi5 Jau1wan4; literal meaning: "The Ethereal Spirit of a Beauty") is a 1987 Hong Kong romantic comedy-horror film starring Leslie Cheung, Joey...

x A Chorus Line

Dec 10, 1985

A Chorus Line is a 1985 American musical film directed by Richard Attenborough. The screenplay by Arnold Schulman is based on the Tony Award-winning book of the 1975 stage production of the same name by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante. The songs...

x A Christmas Story

Movie

Nov 18, 1983

A Christmas Story is a 1983 film based on the short stories and semi-fictional anecdotes of author and raconteur Jean Shepherd, including material from his books In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories. It...

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x A Few Good Men

1983

A Few Good Men, is a 1983 gay pornographic film directed by Steve Scott and produced by Al Parker, starring Lee Ryder. It was released direct to video by Bijou Video. This film features the repressed sexuality of an all-male, all-straight military...

x A Fine Mess

Aug 8, 1986

A Fine Mess is a 1986 film by Blake Edwards. The film was intended as a remake of Laurel & Hardy's classic short "The Music Box" and was to be semi-improvised in the same style as the director's earlier comedy, The Party, but studio interference,...

x A Fish Called Wanda

Award-Nominated Work

Jul 15, 1988

A Fish Called Wanda is a 1988 comedy film released by MGM. It was written by John Cleese and Charles Crichton and directed by Charles Crichton, and stars Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin. The film is a comedy about a jewel...

A tale of murder, lust, greed, revenge, and seafood.

Movie

Award-Winning Work

x A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

Sep 1982

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy is a 1982 film written and directed by Woody Allen. The plot revolves around a weekend party bringing together six people, loosely based on Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night. This movie is notable for being the...

Six characters in search of love

x A Night in Heaven

Dec 22, 1983

A Night in Heaven is a 1983 romance film directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Christopher Atkins as a college student and Lesley Ann Warren as his professor. The screenplay is written by Joan Tewkesbury; film critics widely panned the movie. The...

x A Nightmare on Elm Street

Work of Fiction

Nov 9, 1984

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American horror film directed and written by Wes Craven, and the first film in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. The film features John Saxon, Heather Langenkamp, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia,...

If Nancy Doesn't Wake Up Screaming, She Won't Wake Up At All...

She is the only one who cant stop it... if she fails, no one survives.

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