1980 movies

Oh, God! Book II (1980)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
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Second ‘Oh God’ movie has God (again in the form of George Burns) appearing before 11-year-old Tracy Richards (Louanne) to ask for her help to spread his word and influence over the world which she suggests the slogan ‘Think God.’ Naturaly, Tracy’s divorced parents Paula (Suzanne Pleshette) and Don (David Birney) think Tracy’s just crazy and plot to halt her ‘heaven-sent’ mission to spread God’s word.

Stir Crazy (1980)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Wilder | Richard Pryor | Georg Stanford Brown | Miguel Ángel Suárez | Craig T. Nelson | Barry Corbin | Charles Weldon | Nicolas Coster | Joel Brooks | Jonathan Banks | Erland van Lidth | Lewis Van Bergen | Franklyn Ajaye | Peter Looney | Cedrick Hardman
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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.

Motel Hell (1980)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Rory Calhoun | Paul Linke | Wolfman Jack | E. Hampton Beagle | Everett Creach | Michael Melvin | John Ratzenberger | Marc Silver | Gwil Richards | Dick Curtis | Tony Agee | Rob Farrier
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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.

The Exterminator (1980)

Friday, March 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Christopher George | Samantha Eggar | Robert Ginty | Steve James | Tony DiBenedetto | Dick Boccelli | Patrick Farrelly | Michele Harrell | David Lipman | Cindy Wilks | Dennis Boutsikaris | Roger Grimsby | Judy Licht | Stan Getz | George Cheung
Directors: James Glickenhaus
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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.”

The Jazz Singer (1980)

Friday, March 28th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Neil Diamond | Laurence Olivier | Lucie Arnaz | Catlin Adams | Franklyn Ajaye | Paul Nicholas | Sully Boyar | Mike Kellin | James Booth | Luther Waters | Oren Waters | Rod Gist | Walter Janovitz | Janet Brandt | John Witherspoon
Directors: Richard Fleischer
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Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music. Against the wishes of his rigid father and his loving wife, Yussel travels to California to play his music. Swept up by the excitement, he meets a woman who shares his dream. He grows apart from his family, and becomes confused about what he should ultimately do with his life.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Hamill | Harrison Ford | Carrie Fisher | Billy Dee Williams | Anthony Daniels | David Prowse | Peter Mayhew | Kenny Baker | Frank Oz | Alec Guinness | Jeremy Bulloch | John Hollis | Jack Purvis | Des Webb | Clive Revill
Directors: Irvin Kershner
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The story of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and the others didn’t end with the destruction of the Death Star - it continues in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. Imperial forces have since driven the Rebels to hide on the ice world Hoth. But even on such an icy, backwater world, they cannot escape the wicked Darth Vader’s eye for long, and he devastates the Rebel base in an assault with the horrible AT-AT walkers. Luke flees to Dagobah to begin Jedi Knight training with Yoda, while Han Solo, Chewbacca, Princess Leia and C-3PO run the blockade of Imperial Star Destroyers in the Millenium Falcon. The Imperials pursue them across the galaxy and eventually catch up with them at Bespin. Now Darth Vader plans to use them as bait to lure Luke Skywalker to him, and turns Han Solo over to Boba Fett as a prize to be delivered to crime lord Jabba the Hutt. Luke learns a terrible family secret after losing a swordfight with Vader. Will he - and the others - escape the Empire’s clutches?

Rising Damp (1980)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Leonard Rossiter | Frances de la Tour | Denholm Elliott | Don Warrington | Christopher Strauli | Carrie Jones | Glynn Edwards | John Cater | Derek Griffiths | Ronnie Brody | Alan Clare | Jonathan Cecil | Bill Dean | Pat Roach
Directors: Joseph McGrath
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First broadcast in 1974, the ITV bedsitland sitcom Rising Damp was an instant and enduring success. It starred Leonard Rossiter as the miserly and lovelorn landlord Rigsby who is constantly needling young lodger Alan (Richard Beckinsale), a science student whose long hair and earrings are symptomatic to Rigsby of the parlous effeminacy of the modern age. He’s also in love with Frances De La Tour’s dowdy spinster Miss Jones, though his tentative advances are forever rebuffed. She in turn carries a torch for Philip (Don Warrington), the elegant son of an African chief who also resides at Rigsby Towers.

Some aspects of Rising Damp have not aged well, principally Rigsby’s stream of racist jibes at Philip. Although these were doubtless well-meant and supposed to illustrate Rigsby’s foolish bigotry, you suspect that that was a convenient cover for audiences in the 1970s to enjoy racist humour. However, Rossiter’s Rigsby—stuttering, stammering, bent perpetually over backwards—remains a great comic creation, embodying all the festering prejudices, small-mindedness and self-delusion of the lower middle class Little Englander.

The Octagon (1980)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Action
Countries: USA
Actors: Chuck Norris | Karen Carlson | Lee Van Cleef | Art Hindle | Carol Bagdasarian | Tadashi Yamashita | Kim Lankford | Larry D. Mann | Kurt Grayson | Richard Norton | Yuki Shimoda | Redmond Gleeson | Alan Chappuis | Brian Libby | Ken Gibbel
Directors: Eric Karson
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Scott’s life is plagued by two kinds of flashbacks. First are the childhood memories of the rigorous training he and a friend endured under a martial arts master. The second is of a mission Scott went on that ended with him watching his friend get murdered. Scott later becomes drawn closer to a vicious crime ring known as The Octagon. As he gets closer to the truth, Scott learns that these may be the men that murdered his friend so long ago.

Airplane! (1980)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Lloyd Bridges | Peter Graves | Julie Hagerty | Robert Hays | Leslie Nielsen | Lorna Patterson | Robert Stack | Stephen Stucker | Otto | Frank Ashmore | Jonathan Banks | Craig Berenson | Barbara Billingsley
Directors: Jim Abrahams
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Ted Striker just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess at Trans American Airlines. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard the plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to contact her again and again, but as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a bad fish meal, he has no chance to get to her. In fact, Ted Striker seems to be the only healthy person aboard that has piloting experience. Now, it is up to him to get the bird down in Chicago safely, before the poisoning starts causing casualties. But Ted Striker’s aversion really is a serious psychosis, which breaks open and needs to be cured - right now.