’80s Movies
King Kong Lives (1986)
King Kong has a weak heart and for ten years has been kept alive by Dr. Amy Franklin. An enormous female gorilla is discovered in the jungle and is given to Amy, who now has the right blood to attempt the impossible: to give King Kong an artificial heart. Awaking from...
Hands of Steel (1986)
Sinister industrialist Francis Turner, played by John Saxon, creates a cyborg known as Paco Queruak (Daniel Greene) who has been programed to terminate the leader of an ecological faction that stands in the way of the dystopian country in which the story is set. After...
The Firing Line (1988)
An American military advisor becomes disillusioned by the brutality and corruption of the Central American government that hired him. When his shift in sympathies becomes known, he's arrested and tortured but soon escapes, along with a beautiful American woman, in...
Panic (1983)
A scientist's experiment with a deadly bacteria goes awry and leaves him horribly deformed. The monstrous man then runs amok in his town. Starring David Warbeck, Janet Agren, Roberto Ricci. Veteran Spaghetti horror actor Warbeck stars as Captain Kirk a detective on...
Oasis of the Zombies (1981)
An expedition searching for treasure supposedly buried by the German army in the African desert during WW II comes up against an army of Nazi zombies guarding the fortune. Starring Manuel Gélin, Eduardo Fajardo, and France Lomay. An early Nazi zombie movie made in the...
Morons From Outer Space (1985)
A trio of moronic aliens crash-land on Earth and become celebrities, while a fourth alien, who arrives separately, finds himself ignored. Staring Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, and Joanne Pearce. A British sci-fi comedy along the lines of Monte Python. “They came, they...
Buddy Goes West (1981)
Two outlaws: "The doctor" (Bud Spencer) and the Indian Girolamo are helping villagers to fight a gang and a corrupt sheriff who has discovered gold under the village. Starring Bud Spencer, Joe Bugner, and Piero Trombetta. One of the last spaghetti westerns to be made....
The Brother From Another Planet (1984)
The Brother is an alien who has crash-landed on Earth, in New York City. While mute, strongly empathic, and able to fix things, he resembles a Black man with strange feet. His attempt to make a place for himself in Harlem is an allegory for the immigrant experience in...
Death Warmed Up (1984)
Ten years before, Michael was hypnotized by a very unstable doctor into killing his own parents. Then he is locked up in the mental institution for it. In the present (or the present time of the movie) Michael, his girlfriend Sandy, and their friends Lucas and Jeannie...
Stryker (1983)
The world's water supply has dried up due to some sort of apocalypse. A beautiful woman holds the secret to where one of the last springs being guarded by a group of Amazons. A "Road Warrior" like crew captures her and tries to make her talk through brutal torture....
Shogun’s Ninja (1981)
Martial arts stars Sonny Chiba and Hiroyuki Sanada stand on opposite sides of a battle over hidden treasure. Shiranui (Chiba) is a ruthless Koga Ninja leader who wants the fortune in gold held by the Momochi Clan of the Iga Ninja. In order to find it, he needs two...
Warriors of the Wasteland (1983)
In the year 2019, two mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers after the nuclear holocaust. Starring Giancarlo Prete, Fred Williamson, and George Eastman. Yes, this is one of those Italian Mad Max-Road Warrior movies...
Warriors of the Apocalypse (1985)
After civilization is wiped out by nuclear war, an adventurer leads a group of wanderers on a search for the fabled Mountain of Life. Along the way they encounter pygmy tribes, bands of savage outlaws and a tribe of Amazon women. Starring Michael James, Deborah Moore,...
Alien Contamination (1981)
A ship pulls into New York Harbor with no one on board. The police find a cargo full of green pulsating eggs. Upon contact, the eggs explode spreading a green acid like substance that seeps into the skin and explodes. It is later discovered that the eggs are being...
LA Street Fighters (1985)
Tony is the new kid at school. He befriend gang leader Young, whose top rival is Chan. Tony is also dating Chan's sister, Lily. When Young and Tony are hired as personal security, they head to a private party run by a drug dealer. When Young steals the money from the...
Laser Mission (1989)
Mercenary Gold is sent from the CIA to seize the laser expert Braun in Cuba, before the KGB catches him. A recently stolen giant diamond could be used together with Braun's knowledge to construct a laser cannon which could bring power over the whole world. Who will...
The Master (1984)
John Peter Macallister was a Korean veteran who, after serving, decided to live in Japan, and, while there, he studied Ninjitsu and became a Ninja. Thirty years later, he learned that he has a daughter, so left to find her. Apparently, though, he can't leave the sect...
Twisters Revenge (1987)
Three bumbling criminals have been trying to get their hands on the computerized control system of Mr. Twister, a talking monster truck with a mind of its own. This is one of those made-in-Wisconsin movies about heavy machinery (maybe the only one). Yep, before heavy...
Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1984)
Through a series of coincidences, Carrie, Dan and Dr. Hartmann all fall through a teleporter device Hartmann has invented. Transported to a what appears to be a prehistoric world in a parallel universe and unable to find the Doctor, Dan and Carrie must figure out a...
Slipstream (1989)
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by natural disasters, and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself. These in turn try to hunt the two men down—in...