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1980

A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explosive “Krakatit” and soon confronts manipulative agents and imperialist conspiracies. Realizing his invention’s threat, he fights to prevent its misuse, risking everything to stop those who seek to exploit his epochal discovery.

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The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair.
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  • Year: 1980
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure and Action
  • Rating: 8.7
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Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
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  • Year: 1980
  • Country: USA, United Kingdom and Afghanistan
  • Genre: Horror and Thriller
  • Rating: 8.4
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A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
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  • Year: 1980
  • Country: Colombia, Italy and Venezuela
  • Genre: Horror
  • Rating: 5.7
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A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.
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  • Year: 1980
  • Country: South Africa and Botswana
  • Genre: Action and Comedy
  • Rating: 7.3
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In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
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  • Year: 1980
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Genre: Thriller, Crime and Drama
  • Rating: 7.5
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After a new cannery introduces scientifically augmented salmon to a seaside town in the Pacific Northwest, a species of mysterious, mutated sea creatures begin killing the men and raping the women.
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  • Year: 1980
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Sci-Fi and Horror
  • Rating: 5.7
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The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz soon discovers he’s entered a phantasmagoric world where women have taken power.
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  • Year: 1980
  • Country: France and Italy
  • Genre: Comedy, Fantasy and Adventure
  • Rating: 6.9
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Tourists take a boat to a remote island, where they find that most of the people have disappeared, and something is stalking them. They find a hidden room in the big mansion on a hill, and an ancient diary, which gives them clues to the source of the terror.
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  • Year: 1980
  • Country: Italy
  • Genre: Horror
  • Rating: 5.3
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Two 15-year-old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.
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  • Year: 1980
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Comedy and Drama
  • Rating: 6.5
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A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
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  • Year: 1980
  • Country: Germany and Italy
  • Genre: Horror and Sci-Fi
  • Rating: 5.1
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When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.
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  • Year: 1980
  • Country: United Kingdom and USA
  • Genre: Horror
  • Rating: 4.9
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The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Running Moon runs away from her abusive husband Heavy Eagle and comes across the two seedy fur trappers. The mountain men take her in, unaware that Heavy Eagle has dispatched an army of Indian braves to reclaim her.
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  • Year: 1980
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Western, Drama and Adventure
  • Rating: 6.3

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A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explosive “Krakatit” and soon confronts manipulative agents and imperialist conspiracies. Realizing his invention’s threat, he fights to prevent its misuse, risking everything to stop those who seek to exploit his epochal discovery.
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  • Year: 1980
  • Country: XC
  • Genre: Drama and Sci-Fi
  • Rating: 5.2