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The Idolmaker
1980 • Music • Drama • Romance
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Hellhole
1985 • Drama • Thriller • Horror
An unlucky woman’s mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia. She’s committed to a mental insti…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Wired
1989 • Drama • Comedy • Fantasy
The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
1989 • Comedy
A wealthy Beverly Hills resident who has just become a widow, Clare Lipkin temporarily takes on her friend Lisabeth as a house guest. As the two women deal with their upper-clas…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Some Kind of Hero
1982 • Drama • Comedy
A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Wise Guys
1986 • Crime • Comedy
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy fol…
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
Heart Beat
1980 • Drama
An exploration of the relationship between Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and Cassady's wife, Carolyn.
Why matched: genres Drama
Cop & ½
1993 • Comedy • Family • Action
When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is forced…
Why matched: genres Comedy, Family
Who'll Stop the Rain
1978 • Drama • Crime • Action
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything so…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
No Mercy
1986 • Thriller • Crime • Action
An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Zebrahead
1992 • Drama • Romance
A white, hip-hop loving teen falls in love with a black girl in Detroit.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Paradise Alley
1978 • Drama • Action
Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and anoth…
Why matched: genres Drama, Action
Dudes
1987 • Adventure • Comedy
Two punks from the big city, traveling across the country in a Volkswagen bug, embrace the western ethos when they must take revenge against a group of rednecks for killing thei…
Why matched: genres Adventure, Comedy
Murphy's Romance
1985 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
Emma, a divorced single mother seeking to start her life over, moves to a small town in Arizona. She befriends Murphy, the older local pharmacist, but things turn complicated wh…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
After Midnight
1989 • Thriller • Horror
A college professor teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear" brings his students (including a psychic) to his home, one dark and stormy night to tell scary stories. The…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Horror
Short Circuit
1986 • Science Fiction • Comedy • Family
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to ge…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Comedy
WarGames
1983 • Drama • Thriller • Science Fiction
High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Departm…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Blue Thunder
1983 • Drama • Thriller • Action
Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences during the Vietnam War, and Lym…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Grifters
1990 • Drama • Crime
A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Best Defense
1984 • Comedy • War
An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.
Why matched: genres Comedy, War