Movies: 1980-1989

The girls of St. Trinian's decide they are being asked to do too much work so they go on strike.

A boy (Tim Warner), expelled from military school, returns home to his fathers disappiontment. He discovers that a motorcycle gang has been terrorizing his high school, and falls in love with the girlfriend (Angie Barnes) of the gang's leader (Bull). He battles the gang, and wins both the admiration of his father and the love of the girl.

War veterans visit a lakeside cabin for a week of shooting, drinking, etc. but find the cabin being looked after by a young caretaker named David. When David's status as a war deserter is revealed, all hell breaks loose.

Cletus is a compulsive liar, though he prefers the term 'fabrication' to 'lie.' When he becomes a social worker, he's assigned the case of a boy named Jeorge (with a 'J') who was taken from his mother. Cletus sets out to reunite Jorge with his mother, but to do this, he must fabricate many a story to keep Jeorge from being adopted. In search of the mother, Cletus meets and falls in love with a women's-advice counselor.

Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.

San Francisco cab driver Pinsky finds himself in possession of a monkey that is carrying a formula for turning atomic waste into a plutonium bomb. He is framed for a murder and chased all over town by people trying to get the formula.

Stagestruck adolescent learns about love the hard way while interning in Cleveland summer stock during the early '50's.

Harry, who married his boss Mr. Elliott's daughter Sarah, has had enough of being humiliated both at home and at work. He hires prostitute Corinne to help him get back at his boss, wife, and friends and gets richer in the process.

Beaty (Dame Helen Mirren) is a prostitute working out of a high-class London cabaret where Emory (John Shea) is a technician. They begin an affair encumbered by her job, his lack of money, and their pasts: She has an abusive former lover, the father of her ten-year-old son and possibly her pimp, Alex (Paul Angelis), a strong-arm gorilla type fresh out of prison also arrives, needing a place to stay. Alex is clearly a brutish psychopath who threatens Beaty and Emory's future. Emory's wife died in questionable circumstances and he has a shady friend, Max (Murray Salem), who shows up with a scheme for making lots of money. Beaty and Emory want to sort things out, but the odds are against them. Life is no cabaret.

Wife is cheating her husband and the husband is cheating her back with her lover's girlfriend. The two cheating couples decide to go to a resort but they unintentionally pick the same one. Hilarity ensues.

A married man is turning forty and that's when the midlife crisis hits him. He becomes obsessed with young women and fast cars.

It's 1961. Two servicemen smuggle a box of military gear to USA. Leroy tries out a military camera and accidentally takes a picture of some military facilities. Army finds one of the pictures and thinks they're communist spies.

While struggling with his midlife crisis, Harry receives an invitation for his high school's reunion back so he takes Sue and their teenage kids on a cross-country car trip back to the Big Apple.

A man is so obsessed with finding the person responsible for stealing his milk bottles that he ignores his beautiful young wife, who has other ideas on her mind.

A wealthy neurotic woman escapes from a New York mental asylum, and hitches a ride back to California with a moody down-on-his-luck cowboy trucker. They fall in love with each other while on the run from bounty hunters and a repo man.

A young nurse becomes determined to reach an unresponsive teenage cerebral palsy patient by encouraging her to write to her favorite rock singer, Elvis Presley.

While a small film crew are shooting a low budget horror movie in a house in the woods, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur, and the movie slowly starts to turn into a "snuff" film.

Based on a Charles Templeton novel, Secret Service chief Jerry O'Connor leads a game of cat and mouse when a gang of Latin-American terrorists kidnap the current U.S. President Adam Scott while he is on a state trip to Toronto, Canada.

Harvard in the 60's: a time of social upheaval and student unrest. Three students bond together, challenge the system, and begin to lose their ideals.

A working-class boy falls for a girl from a wealthy family, and must compete for her with a rich boy who also wants her.

A millionaire is suspected of buying an ad agency to use it as a way of brainwashing the public for his political ends.

A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.

After getting plastic surgery to resemble his hero Humphrey Bogart, a detective goes on the trail of a group of unscrupulous characters trying to steal a set of blue sapphires.

Nick Freeman is a talented motorcycle racer but lacks a decent bike. Then his brother dies and Nick is left the bike he spent the last three years developing. The bike is revolutionary and Nick sees a way to pursue his dream.

A show dog trainer in desperate need of money kidnaps a prized show dog and demands a ransom. The case falls into the hands of a melancholic detective and his new female partner, whose personal relationship develops throughout the case.