1980 movies

Animalympics (1980)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Genres: Animation | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Gilda Radner | Billy Crystal | Harry Shearer | Michael Fremer
Directors: Steven Lisberger
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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: Orson Bean | Theodore Bikel | William Conrad | John Huston | Roddy McDowall | Brother Theodore | Paul Frees | Don Messick
Directors: Jules Bass
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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: Chevy Chase | Benji | Jane Seymour | Omar Sharif | Robert Morley | Stuart Germain | Alan Sues | John Stride | Donnelly Rhodes | Barbara Leigh-Hunt | Margaret Courtenay | Richard Vernon | Frank Williams | Albin Pahernik
Directors: Joe Camp
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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: Tomisaburo Wakayama | Kayo Matsuo | Minoru Ohki | Akiji Kobayashi | Shin Kishida | Akihiro Tomikawa | Lamont Johnson | Marshall Efron | Sandra Bernhard | Vic Davis | Lennie Weinrib | Lainie Cooke | Sam Weisman | Mark Lindsay
Directors: Robert Houston
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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: Donald Sutherland | Mary Tyler Moore | Judd Hirsch | Timothy Hutton | M. Emmet Walsh | Elizabeth McGovern | Dinah Manoff | Fredric Lehne | James Sikking | Basil Hoffman | Scott Doebler | Quinn K. Redeker | Mariclare Costello | Meg Mundy | Elizabeth Hubbard
Directors: Robert Redford
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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: Sissy Spacek | Tommy Lee Jones | Levon Helm | Phyllis Boyens | Bill Anderson Jr. | Foister Dickerson | Malla McCown | Pamela McCown | Kevin Salvilla | William Sanderson | Sissy Lucas | Pat Patterson | Brian Warf | Elizabeth Watson | Beverly D'Angelo
Directors: Michael Apted
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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: Christopher Reeve | Jane Seymour | Christopher Plummer | Teresa Wright | Bill Erwin | George Voskovec | Susan French | John Alvin | Eddra Gale | Audrey Bennett | William H. Macy | Laurence Coven | Susan Bugg | Christy Michaels | Ali Marie Matheson
Directors: Jeannot Szwarc
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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: Adrienne Barbeau | Jamie Lee Curtis | Janet Leigh | John Houseman | Tom Atkins | James Canning | Charles Cyphers | Nancy Kyes | Ty Mitchell | Hal Holbrook | John F. Goff | George 'Buck' Flower | Regina Waldon | Jim Haynie | Darrow Igus
Directors: John Carpenter
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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…

The Changeling (1980)

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: George C. Scott | Trish Van Devere | Melvyn Douglas | Jean Marsh | John Colicos | Barry Morse | Madeleine Sherwood | Helen Burns | Frances Hyland | Ruth Springford | Eric Christmas | Roberta Maxwell | Bernard Behrens | James B. Douglas | J. Kenneth Campbell
Directors: Peter Medak
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John Russell, a composer and music professor, loses his wife and daughter in a tragic accident. Seeking solace, he moves into an old mansion unoccupied for twelve years. But a child-like presence seems to be sharing the house, and trying to share its secrets, with him. Through research into the house’s past and a seance held within, Russell discovers the horrific secret of the house’s past, a secret that the presence will no longer allow to be kept.

The Unseen (1980)

Friday, July 10th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stephen Furst | Barbara Bach | Sydney Lassick | Lelia Goldoni | Karen Lamm | Douglas Barr | Lois Young | Maida Severn
Directors: Danny Steinmann
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Two sisters; Karen and Jennifer, Tony Ross; Jen’s disgruntled beau and female reporter Vicki Thompson stumble across siblings Virginia & Ernest Keller allowing with their brother/offspring Junior dwelling beneath the bowels of an ancient former hotel.