9 1/2 Weeks (1986)
An art gallery assistant (Basinger) meets a mysterious man (Rourke) whose smooth moves and sensual charms woo her into an affair of torrid proportions. Kinky, experimental sex is the main staple of their sexual diet, often...
Category: 1980s
Dream Lovers (1986)
In modern-day Hong Kong, a popular orchestra conductor (Chow Yun-Fat, A Better Tomorrow) has visions of a past life as a member of the Qin dynasty over 2000 years ago. Across town, an archaeologist’s daughter...
Body Double (1984)
The idea for Body Double came when Brian De Palma replaced Angie Dickinson with a body double for a shower scene in Dressed to Kill. He examined many models who’d appeared naked in Playboy, Penthouse,...
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Ferris Bueller (Broderick, WarGames) is a smart-ass know-it-all who decides to take the day off of school on a whim. He feigns illness, and also gets his girlfriend (Sara, Timecop) and best friend (Ruck, Speed) to play hooky with him....
Starman (1984)
In the late 1970s, Columbia Pictures had a multipicture development deal with actor/producer Michael Douglas. In 1980, Douglas bought the script to a sci-fo concept called Starman from Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon and...
48 Hrs. (1982)
In Walter Hill’s 48 Hrs., two escaped convicts end up killing a couple of officers, and fellow officer Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) must track them down. He enlists the help of another convict Reggie Hammond...
Gremlins (1984)
In Gremlins, an inventor (Axton, We’re No Angels) buys a strange but infinitely cute pet for his son (Galligan, Waxwork) while in a small curio shop in the Orient. This creature is called a “Mogwai” and caring for it...
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
The legendary Baron Munchausen (Neville, Little Women), fabled to tell wild and fanciful stories, in the late 18th Century finds himself at the end of his life, just as the Age of Reason begins. The...
Fletch (1985)
Fletch is based on a 1974 novel from Harvard-educated author Gregory McDonald, who had just left his job working as a journalist for”The Boston Globe” to write his book based somewhat on his and...
One Crazy Summer (1986)
Hoops McCann (Cusack, Stand by Me) – terrible name – and his best friend George (Murray, God Bless America) head out to Nantucket where Hoops searches for love. They rescue a girl named Cassandra (Moore, About Last Night…) from a...