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Director: Jim Abrahams    More Info
Starring: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Robert Stack, Barbara Billingsley, Kenneth Tobey, Ethel Merman, James Hong

 Leslie Nielsen found his niche as a character actor in this parody of the "Airport" disaster movies. When the passengers and its crew get sick from the food, the fate of the plane depends on a combat fatigued pilot (Robert Hays) and his long-lost love (Julie Hagerty) who also happens to be a stewardess on the flight. Great cliches, gags, and sly humor.

Director: Paul Schrader    More Info
Starring: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Nina Van Pallandt, K Callan, Macdonald Carey, Bill Duke, Brian Davies, Carole Cook, David Cryer

 Male hooker Julian Kay (Richard Gere) provides his services among the Beverly Hills matrons. When an ex-client is murdered, Julian is in big trouble. He is framed for the murder and becomes the prime suspect. The one person who can help is Michelle (Lauren Hutton) with whom he is enjoying an intense relationship, but she is married to Senator Charles Stratton (Brian Davies). Will Michelle's love for Julian be the answer to his problems?

Director: Louis Malle    More Info
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Michel Piccoli, Hollis McLaren, Robert Joy, Al Waxman, Robert Goulet, Wallace Shawn, Angus MacInnes

 Struggling, Atlantic City casino worker Sally (Susan Sarandon) becomes a partner with aging gangster Lou (Burt Lancaster) in a plot to make some easy money through the selling of drugs. Big problems arise when her estranged husband (Robert Joy) is killed, and the Mafia targets Sally. Lou steps in and saves Sally and, at the same time, proves to himself that he still has gangster skills. The film was nominated for several Oscars including Best Picture, Actor (Lancaster), Actress (Sarandon), and Director.

Director: Alan Parker    More Info
Starring: Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean, Antonia Franceschi, Boyd Gaines, Anne Meara, Barry Miller, Debbie Allen, Joanna Merlin, Eddie Barth

 This story focuses on students–Coco (Irene Cara), Doris (Maureen Teefy), Montgomery (Paul McCrane), Raul (Barry Miller), and Bruno (Lee Curreri)–at New York High School for the Performing Arts. From auditions through ensuing years at school, they cope with their teenage problems and keep up with academics in their own unique ways as they work through training that may lead to stardom. The film won Academy Awards for Best Musical Score and Song ("Fame").

Director: George Bowers    More Info
Starring: Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten, David Gautreaux, Donald Hotton, Med Flory, Donald Petrie, Perry Lang, Nicholas Shields, Christopher McDonald, Allison Balson

 Jane (Trish Van Devere) is a young teacher who inherits a mansion from her aunt. She moves in and doesn't understand why her neighbors do not like her until she learns that they believe her aunt was possessed by the devil, and she looks like her aunt. Jane is frightened–especially when she becomes the potential object of destruction by a hearse and its eerie driver that keep appearing at her door.

Director: James Ivory    More Info
Starring: Anne Baxter, Robert Powell, Michael Wager, Tim Choate, John Guerrasio, Katrina Hodiak, Kurt Johnson, Philip Lenkowsky, Charles McCaughan, Nancy New

 Rival directors Lilliana (Anne Baxter) and Pierre (Robert Powell), who differ in their plans for the mode of presentation, fight for the right to bring to the stage a long-lost play written by Jane Austen when she was a mere 12 years old. During their competition for the rights to present the play, they also vie for actress Ariadne (Sean Young) to perform in the play–and the intrigue continues.

Director: Francois Truffaut    More Info
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Heinz Bennent, Jean Poiret, Jean-Louis Richard, Sabine Haudepin, Andrea Ferreol, Marcel Berbert, Richard Bohringer, Paulette Dubost

 During the World War II Nazi occupation of Paris, Marion Steiner (Catherine Deneuve) strives to save both her Jewish husband Lucas (Heinz Bennent) and the Theatre Montmarte. The only hope of saving the Montmarte is a new play in which Marion stars, while director Lucas hides in the basement listening in on rehearsals. Meanwhile, there is a romantic attraction between Marion and the play's leading man Bernard Granger (Gerard Depardieu), but they manage to resist temptations as Marion chooses to remain loyal to her country and to her husband.

Director: Robert Altman    More Info
Starring: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul Dooley, Paul L. Smith, Wesley Ivan Hurt, Richard Libertini, Linda Hunt, Donald Moffat, MacIntyre Dixon

 This financially less-than-successful rendition of the cartoon character who is "strong to the finish because he eats his spinach" is still OK, but slow, fare as Robin Williams plays the "human" version of Popeye the sailorman, and Shelley Duvall plays the light of his life, Olive Oyl. Popeye and Olive Oyl get together, and Popeye adopts Swee'pea (Wesley Ivan Hurt), but problems lie ahead with Bluto (Paul L. Smith).

Director: Richard Lester    More Info
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Margot Kidder, Valerie Perrine, Sarah Douglas, Susannah York, Jack O'Halloran, Terence Stamp

 Superman (Christopher Reeve) is back, and he is still fighting for law and order. Terrorists are threatening to blow up the Eiffel Tower and destroy Paris with a nuclear warhead. When reporter Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) tries to interview the terrorists, she finds herself held hostage. Superman rescues Lois and tosses the bomb into space where its blast awakens Kryptonian villains–Zod (Terence Stamp), Non (Jack O'Halloran), and Ursa (Sarah Douglas) who had been exiled to outer space. Now, the Kryptonians arrive on Earth and attempt to take over the planet. Meanwhile, Lois has learned that Clark Kent and Superman are the same person, and Superman must decide whether to become a normal man and share his life with Lois or retain his super powers and save Earth from the villains.

Director: Robert Greenwald    More Info
Starring: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, James Sloyan, Dimitra Arliss, Katie Hanley, Sandahl Bergman, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Coral Browne, Fred McCarren

 Kira (Olivia Newton-John) is an angel who returns to Earth to inspire a young artist, Sonny Malone (Michael Beck). Years before, Kira had inspired wealthy, but older, Danny McGuire (Gene Kelly), and she conspires for Sonny and Danny to meet. They become friends and decide to turn an abandoned building into a nightclub featuring 1940s and 1980s music, neon lights, and roller skating–and Xanadu is created. Now it is time for Kira to move on, but she and Sonny have fallen in love. Will they be able to convince the gods to allow them to stay together?

Director: Martin Ritt    More Info
Starring: Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Keith, Miriam Colon, M. Emmet Walsh, Michael V. Gazzo, Dan Shor, Nell Carter, Barbara Babcock, Alex Colon

 Amy Post (Sally Field) is a prostitute who teams up with unemployed boxer Elmore Pratt (Tommy Lee Jones). The two become traveling companions and leave their dead-end lives in Alabama. They hitchhike to California where they hope to better their lives–and along the trek, they find themselves attracted to each other.

Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix    More Info
Starring: Frederic Andrei, Richard Bohringer, Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Jacques Fabbri, Dominique Pinon, Chantal Deruaz, Roland Bertin, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Thuy An Luu, Anny Romand

 This mystery thriller involves problems encountered by young Parisian courier Jules (Frederic Andrei) when he tapes an opera performance. His tape is confused with one that involves mob action, and his life is thus placed in jeopardy.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli    More Info
Starring: Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray, Tom Cruise, Robert Moore, Richard Kiley, Beatrice Straight, James Spader, Penelope Milford

 Seventeen-year-old David (Martin Hewitt) and 15-year-old Jade (Brooke Shields) fall in love, but Jade's father has had enough of David and bans him from their house. David's solution to his problem: burn down their house, rescue the family, and become a hero. David does carry out the arson but is caught and sent to a reformatory where he remains obsessed with reuniting with Jade. "Endless Love" marks the film debut of Tom Cruise, and the title song was nominated for an Oscar for Best song.

Director: Karel Reisz    More Info
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan, Charlotte Mitchell, Peter Vaughan, Liz Smith, Leo McKern, David Warner, Alun Armstrong

 This "story within a story" is centered on two actors, Anna and Mike (Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons), who have roles as Victorian lovers. While their fictional characters overcome adversities, the actors who play them lose in their own romantic relationship.

Director: Bob Rafelson    More Info
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos, Anjelica Huston, Michael Lerner, John P. Ryan, Christopher Lloyd, William Traylor, Thomas Hill, Albert Henderson

 In this remake of the 1946 film, Jack Nicholson stars as Frank Chambers, the drifter who takes a job at Nick Papadakis' (John Colicos) diner and is soon involved in an affair with Nick's wife Cora (Jessica Lange). Nick has no idea that the affair is going on as Frank and Cora plot to kill Frank and collect on his insurance. But fate steps in, and "living happily ever after" may not be as easy as Frank and Cora think.

Director: Warren Beatty    More Info
Starring: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Edward Herrmann, Maureen Stapleton, Jerzy Kosinski, Paul Sorvino, M. Emmet Walsh, Ian Wolfe

 This movie tells the story of the Russian Revolution and mixes in the love story of John and Louise (Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton) who are swept up in the momentum of change. Academy Awards were received by Warren Beatty for his directing and Maureen Stapleton for Best Supporting Actress. Nominations included Best Picture, Actor (Beatty), Actress (Keaton), and Supporting Actor (Jack Nicholson).

Director: Francois Truffaut    More Info
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin, Michele Baumgartner, Roger Van Hool, Veronique Silver, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Olivier Becquaert, Nicole Vaughier, Muriel Combe

 As a couple, Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) and Mathilde (Fanny Ardant) enjoyed a passionate affair years ago that ended unhappily. Years later, after Bernard had married Arlette (Michele Baumgartner) and Mathilde had married Philippe (Henri Garcin), the couples find themselves to be next-door neighbors. It doesn't take long for Bernard and Mathilde to rekindle their relationship, but their mutual obsession is doomed to failure.

Director: Ken Finkleman    More Info
Starring: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, William Shatner, Rip Torn, Chad Everett, Raymond Burr, Chuck Connors, John Dehner

 In this sequel (starring most of the original cast), the first passenger shuttle takes off for the moon, but there's a computer on board that kills the crew. Now, it is up to Ted Striker (Robert Hays) and stewardess Elaine Dickinson (Julie Hagerty) to turn off the computer and save the passengers. Not as hilarious as the first movie, but it does have some amusing gags. Cameo appearances by Raymond Burr, Chuck Connors, and Sonny Bono, among others.

Director: David S. Ward    More Info
Starring: Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Audra Lindley, Frank McRae, M. Emmet Walsh, Sunshine Parker, Santos Morales, John Huston, Tom Mahoney, Art LaFleur

 John Steinbeck's novel, set in Monterey, California, is brought to the screen with Nick Nolte as the marine biologist, Doc, who falls for local floozy Suzy (Debra Winger) after he meets her at the Bear Flag Restaurant. Romance blooms between the two but quickly turns sour. Meanwhile, Cannery Row inhabitants–including Mac (M. Emmet Walsh)–hope that Doc and Suzy will get back together because their love is the one thing in Doc and Suzy's lives that really counts.

Director: Paul Schrader    More Info
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, Annette O'Toole, John Heard, Ruby Dee, Ed Begley Jr., Scott Paulin, John Larroquette, Frankie Faison, Ray Wise

 Nastassja Kinski stars as beautiful dress designer Irena Gallier with a bizarre family trait: when she makes love, she turns into a savage black panther and ravages her mate. The only one she can safely make love to is her brother Paul (Malcolm McDowell)–another cat person. But she loves Oliver Yates (John Heard), the head of a zoo, whom she would kill if aroused. A good–and scary–film. Remake of the 1942 movie starring Simone Simon.

Director: Amy Heckerling    More Info
Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus, Brian Backer, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston, Eric Stoltz, Vincent Schiavelli, Amanda Wyss

 Lifestyles of teenagers–including jobs, sex, and drugs–are wryly depicted in this film. The story is based on Cameron Crowe's book relating his experiences when he returned to high school and pretended to be a student. While stoned student Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn) spends much of his time arguing with his history teacher Mr. Hand (Ray Walston), other students–including Stacy (Jennifer Jason Leigh), Linda (Phoebe Cates), Mark (Brian Backer), and Mike (Robert Romanus)–visit the shopping mall, surf, eat fast-food, and experiment with sex. When they do attend class, wild havoc is often the order of the day.

Director: Patricia Birch    More Info
Starring: Maxwell Caulfield, Michelle Pfeiffer, Lorna Luft, Adrian Zmed, Eve Arden, Sid Caesar, Dody Goodman, Tab Hunter, Connie Stevens, Maureen Teefy

 In the 1960s, exchange student Michael Carrington (Maxwell Caulfield) arrives at Rydell High School and is attracted to Stephanie Zinone (Michelle Pfeiffer). But, Stephanie is a leader of the Pink Ladies who are hippies and whose bylaws state that they may only go out with the T-Birds bikers. To what extremes will Michael go to get a date with Stephanie?

Director: Michael Tuchner    More Info
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, Lesley-Anne Down, Robert Powell, John Gielgud, David Suchet, Gerry Sundquist, Tim Pigott-Smith, Alan Webb, Roland Culver

 This made-for-TV miniseries stars Anthony Hopkins as the hunchback Quasimodo who is the bell ringer at Notre Dame Cathedral. Quasimodo leaves the bell tower and attends a festival during which, through a series of unfortunate events, he ends up the victim of a flogging. The sensuous gypsy Esmeralda (Lesley-Anne Down) consoles him by bringing him water, and Quasimodo falls in love with her. Later, after she is falsely accused of murder, Quasimodo rescues Esmeralda and brings her to the safety of the cathedral. But, his love for Esmeralda is doomed because she is in love with handsome soldier Phoebus (Robert Powell). This film features an outstanding supporting cast to provide an enthralling version of Victor Hugo's novel.

Director: Douglas Camfield    More Info
Starring: James Mason, Anthony Andrews, Sam Neill, Michael Hordern, Olivia Hussey, Lysette Anthony, Julian Glover, John Rhys-Davies, Ronald Pickup, George Innes

 This TV version of the Sir Walter Scott classic is well done; the photography is excellent, with good performances all around. Wilfred of Ivanhoe (Anthony Andrews) returns to England after the Crusades only to immediately get involved in a struggle against the tyranny of Prince John (Ronald Pickup). King Richard (Julian Glover) has been kidnapped, and Prince John refuses to pay the ransom. With help from Rebecca (Olivia Hussey)–whose Jewish father, Isaac of York (James Mason), was held by the anti-Semites and Ivanhoe rescued–Ivanhoe finds hope in rescuing the throne of England. Then, Ivanhoe's partnership with Robin Hood (David Robb) will right many of the wrongs in England.

Director: David Fisher    More Info
Starring: Matt Dillon, Cindy Fisher, Hoyt Axton, Margaret Blye, Broderick Crawford, Christopher Connelly, Molly McCarthy, Tiffany Stettner, Yvonne De Carlo, Susan Tyrrell

 As a member of the working class, Jack Duncan (Matt Dillon) falls in love with Ginny Peterson (Cindy Fisher) whose father, Alex (Christopher Connelly), is a banker and wants no part of Jack's lower-class status. Despite family objections, Jack and Ginny fall in love and elope. But many problems lie ahead for the unsuspecting couple.