1980 movies

Animalympics (1980)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Genres: Animation | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Radner, Gilda | Crystal, Billy | Shearer, Harry | Fremer, Michael
Directors: Lisberger, Steven
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Animalympics is all about the Animal Olympics Contest where all the animals around the world gather to take part in everything from skiing in North America to the very long marathon race in humid conditions. With lively music provided by Graham Gouldman, the film is very different to other cartoons, being more of a drama-comedy than cartoon. With a turtle hosting the proceedings and a killer whale competing against a sting ray in the swimming competition.

The Return of the King (1980)

Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Bean, Orson | Bikel, Theodore | Conrad, William | Huston, John | McDowall, Roddy | Theodore, Brother | Frees, Paul | Messick, Don
Directors: Bass, Jules
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This film adapts the final book of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy where the Hobbits, Frodo and Samwise, struggle through the barren land of Mordor to destroy the Ruling Ring in Mount Doom. At the same time, Gandalf and the others wage a desperate battle against the forces of Sauron at Minas Tirith, but Sauron seems to have the upper hand while the source of his power, the Ring, slowly threatens to corrupt its bearers.

Oh Heavenly Dog (1980)

Monday, January 18th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Chase, Chevy | Benji | Seymour, Jane | Sharif, Omar | Morley, Robert | Germain, Stuart | Sues, Alan | Stride, John | Rhodes, Donnelly | Leigh-Hunt, Barbara | Courtenay, Margaret | Vernon, Richard | Williams, Frank | Pahernik, Albin
Directors: Camp, Joe
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Browning is a PI with a bad cold, who’s sent to investigate a case by a mysterious client.He stumbles across the body of a young woman and is stabbed to death, and when he wakes up in heaven, they tell him he’s “marginal material,” and they can only decide on his final destination through one last assignment: to go back and solve his own murder. As a dog. A cute fluffy little dog (Benji). Undaunted, Browning begins to investigate the case as best he can around his canine disabilities (dialing the phone presents a special challenge) to solve the murders, save the girl, and see justice done.

Shogun Assassin (1980)

Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Wakayama, Tomisaburo | Matsuo, Kayo | Ohki, Minoru | Kobayashi, Akiji | Kishida, Shin | Tomikawa, Akihiro | Johnson, Lamont | Efron, Marshall | Bernhard, Sandra | Davis, Vic | Weinrib, Lennie | Cooke, Lainie | Weisman, Sam | Lindsay, Mark
Directors: Houston, Robert
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Shogun decapitator, lone wolf, ronin. Travels with his son, Daigoro, in search of the Shogun that is paranoid of his skills. In the attempts to kill Lone Wolf, Shogun’s ninja kills his wife and leaves him to care for the boy. Lone Wolf swears that Shogun will pay for his deeds. Revenge and justice drive Lone Wolf through Japan’s forests and deserts in search of vengeance.

Ordinary People (1980)

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sutherland, Donald | Moore, Mary Tyler | Hirsch, Judd | Hutton, Timothy | Walsh, M. Emmet | McGovern, Elizabeth | Manoff, Dinah | Lehne, Fredric | Sikking, James | Hoffman, Basil | Doebler, Scott | Redeker, Quinn K. | Costello, Mariclare | Mundy, Meg | Hubbard, Elizabeth
Directors: Redford, Robert
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Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.

Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980)

Friday, November 6th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Spacek, Sissy | Jones, Tommy Lee | Helm, Levon | Boyens, Phyllis | Anderson Jr., Bill | Dickerson, Foister | McCown, Malla | McCown, Pamela | Salvilla, Kevin | Sanderson, William | Lucas, Sissy | Patterson, Pat | Warf, Brian | Watson, Elizabeth | D'Angelo, Beverly
Directors: Apted, Michael
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At only thirteen years of age, Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible for a sizeable family. Loretta appears destined to a life of homemaking, but Doolittle recognises his wife’s musical talent, and buys her a guitar as an anniversary present one year. This gift sets Loretta Lynn on the gruelling, tumultuous path to country music greatness.

Somewhere in Time (1980)

Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Reeve, Christopher | Seymour, Jane | Plummer, Christopher | Wright, Teresa | Erwin, Bill | Voskovec, George | French, Susan | Alvin, John | Gale, Eddra | Bennett, Audrey | Macy, William H. | Coven, Laurence | Bugg, Susan | Michaels, Christy | Matheson, Ali Marie
Directors: Szwarc, Jeannot
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The movie opens with college student Richard Collier gathering rave reviews for his new play. At the party, he comes face to face with an old woman who presses something in his hand and whispers, “Come back to me.” He opens his hand to find an old pocket watch. Cut to several years later. Playwright Collier is in the midst of a break-up and writers block. He leaves the city for awhile to think things out and finds himself near his alma mater at the Grand Hotel. While wandering around the hotel, he finds a photograph of a beautiful young woman. Richard is entranced, and tries to find out all he can about her. During the course of his research he learns she was Elise McKenna, an actress from the turn of the century. He also discovers that she was the mysterious old woman who gave him the watch. Finally determining that he must meet her somehow, he employees self-hypnosis and wills himself back to 1912. He meets Elise and they fall in love, which does not make her manager, William Fawcett Robinson, happy at all. Will their love survive Robinson’s disapproval? Will Richard be able to stay in 1912?

The Fog (1980)

Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Barbeau, Adrienne | Curtis, Jamie Lee | Leigh, Janet | Houseman, John | Atkins, Tom | Canning, James | Cyphers, Charles | Kyes, Nancy | Mitchell, Ty | Holbrook, Hal | Goff, John F. | Flower, George 'Buck' | Waldon, Regina | Haynie, Jim | Igus, Darrow
Directors: Carpenter, John
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The centennial of the small town of Antonio Bay, California has finally arrived. However, the events of 100 years ago are about to come back to haunt the town, because a conspiracy of the town’s founders resulted in the deaths of several lepers in a shipwreck. The conspirators had planned to lure the lepers’ ship towards the rocks so that it would sink, and they could recover the cargo of gold and use it to pay for building the town. The sinister plot succeeded when a fog rolled in, blinding the crew, and forcing them to follow the false fire on shore. Now the ghosts of the Elizabeth Dane’s crew are back – and so is the fog that led them to their doom. Only now, it conceals and protects the ghosts of the crew, as they seek their revenge on the residents of Antonio Bay…

Last Metro, The (1980)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France
Actors: Deneuve, Catherine | Depardieu, Gérard | Poiret, Jean | Ferréol, Andréa | Dubost, Paulette | Richard, Jean-Louis | Risch, Maurice | Haudepin, Sabine | Bennent, Heinz | Baltauss, Christian | Belot, Pierre | Dupré, René | Loring, Aude | Tasma, Alain | Thiéry, Rose
Directors: Truffaut, François
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Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew and was compelled to leave the country. His wife Marion, an actress, directs the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive with a new play, and hires Bernard Granger for the leading role. But Lucas is actually hiding in the basement… A film about art and life.

Blues Brothers, The (1980)

Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Music | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Belushi, John | Aykroyd, Dan | Brown, James | Calloway, Cab | Charles, Ray | Franklin, Aretha | Cropper, Steve | Dunn, Donald | Dunne, Murphy | Hall, Willie | Malone, Tom | Marini, Lou | Murphy, Matt | Rubin, Alan | Fisher, Carrie
Directors: Landis, John
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After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church stopped its support and will sell the place to the education authority, and the only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their “mission from god” they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?