i
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.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: USA
- Genre: Action, Sci-Fi and Adventure
- Rating:
i
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.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: Afghanistan, USA and United Kingdom
- Genre: Thriller and Horror
- Rating:
i
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.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: Colombia, Venezuela and Italy
- Genre: Horror
- Rating:
i
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.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: Botswana and South Africa
- Genre: Action and Comedy
- Rating:
i
A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.
TV Series
- Year: 1980
- Country: USA
- Genre: Adventure, Drama, Crime, Action and Mystery
- Rating:
i
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.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Crime, Thriller and Drama
- Rating:
i
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.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: USA
- Genre: Horror and Sci-Fi
- Rating:
i
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.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: France and Italy
- Genre: Fantasy, Adventure and Comedy
- Rating:
i
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.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: Italy
- Genre: Horror
- Rating:
i
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.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: USA
- Genre: Comedy and Drama
- Rating:
i
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.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: Germany and Italy
- Genre: Sci-Fi and Horror
- Rating:
i
When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: United Kingdom and USA
- Genre: Horror
- Rating:
i
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.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: USA
- Genre: Western, Adventure and Drama
- Rating:
i
A trio of female reporters find themselves staying overnight in a house occupied by a hostile being lurking in the basement
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: USA
- Genre: Horror
- Rating:
i
In order to beat inflation and subsidize their alimony checks, three suburban housewives plot to steal $1 million from a large plastic ball which is displayed in a local shopping center.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: USA
- Genre: Comedy
- Rating:
i
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: USA
- Genre: Romance, Music and Drama
- Rating:
i
A young Texas good ol' boy has a knack with electronic equipment, and that talent gets him a job as a roadie with a raucous traveling rock-and-roll show.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: USA
- Genre: Comedy and Music
- Rating:
i
A meteor strikes a houseboat in the swamps near a southern town populated by Yankees with fake accents. The people on the houseboat become zombies who feed on the alligators in the swamp. Once they run out of alligators, they start going for the citizens. A local scientist tries to figure out what's happening to people once they start disappearing.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: USA
- Genre: Horror, Comedy and Sci-Fi
- Rating:
i
Mystery! is an episodic television series that debuted in 1980 in the USA. It airs on PBS and is produced by WGBH. The show has brought a large number of detective series and television movies—most of them British productions from the BBC or the ITV companies and usually adapted from mystery fiction literary sources—to air on American television. In 2002, they added an American-produced series based on the novels of Tony Hillerman to their roster.
TV Series
- Year: 1980
- Country: USA
- Genre: Drama, Crime and Mystery
- Rating:
i
A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative powers of the stinking rose features chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, and a flavorful musical soundtrack. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: USA
- Genre: Documentary
- Rating:
i
Theo is having some bad luck. His barely paid-for truck has been stolen, and credit collectors are after him. The chase leads him across Europe.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: XG and Germany
- Genre: Comedy
- Rating:
i
Chung Yao, a martial arts expert, has long been on the run from his stepbrother, who he caught trying to rape his wife on their wedding night. His brother has never given up the chase however, and Chung Yao live in constant fear that the vengeful stepbrother will murder him and his wife.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: Hong Kong
- Genre: Action, Drama and Comedy
- Rating:
i
An escaped convicted murderer invades the cottage of a man, his wife and the wife's sister, whereupon he proceeds to torment this already dysfunctional trio with rape and violence.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: Italy
- Genre: Thriller, Action and Crime
- Rating:
i
Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking screening of "Jules et Jim," Truffaut's classic film about a decades-long ménage à trois. Soon, the men meet Jeanette, a sexually liberated southern transplant who promptly falls for both of them. Frustrated passions curdle into jealousy as Jeanette entertains love affairs with each in the ensuing years.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: USA
- Genre: Comedy, Drama and Romance
- Rating:
i
It's summer. Lisa goes every day in a holiday hotel to give French lessons to Mario, the owner's son. the beauty and personality of Lisa quickly raise the attraction of tourists, but also jealousy of mothers who see their husbands and son prowling around the lovely young woman ...
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: Italy
- Genre: Comedy
- Rating:
i
This is the last of the infamous German "Schoolgirl Report" movies. The story involves a bunch of teenagers and their teacher rehearsing "Romeo and Juliet" and discussing tales of modern love.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: Germany
- Genre: Drama and Comedy
- Rating:
i
Sexy girl seduces all the members of her family. She indirectly causes the failure of his father's marriage, for her stepmother falls in love with her. Then, she has affairs with her father's stepson, and with the farm housekeeper. She and some friends are also raped by some bad guys. But they all celebrate the ruin of traditional family values.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: Brazil
- Genre: Romance, Drama and Thriller
- Rating:
i
A daily BBC Television current affairs programme which specialises in analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians.
TV Series
- Year: 1980
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: News
- Rating:
i
80's Italian sleaze with the luscious Claudia Rocchi, Italian porno regular Guia Lauri Filzi, and softcore actress Annj Goren. The film is about Lisa, a young pretty wife stuck with an older husband who cannot satisfy her sexually nor in other ways. She becomes bored with her everyday life and cheats on her husband sleeping with another older man. Still not satisfied she hooks up with a rich man (Enzo Fisichella) who introduces her to a young stud (Mario Cutini) and his two lesbian playmates (Guia Lauri Filzi and Annj Goren). At the party Lisa is taken by the young man while the others watch. This seems to do the trick for Lisa. Her curiosity for the young man deepens and she wants to see him again. However, it turns out that he is a very rude partner instead of the gentle lover that she wanted. Shot in Rome, Italy.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: Italy
- Genre: Drama
- Rating:
i
A high school girl has a very very bad day. She is disciplined for disrupting class and sent to clean lab equipment. Feeling horny she uses a phallic looking test tube to pleasure herself. Unfortunately a passing teacher spots her and proceeds to further discipline her with additional equipment. She suffers as a parade of teachers dish out a variety of humiliations one after another. Finally escaping to home she finds her trials are not over as her parents decide to give her a rather perverse sexual education.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Drama
- Rating:
i
A beautiful woman is going to the island of Lesbos to rest, there she will meet two other beautiful young women and it will be great having sex with everyone.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: Greece
- Genre: Romance
- Rating:
i
A murder forces Juan "El Coyote" and Trinidad "La Bronca" to escape from a life of easy money and prostitution and become a real couple.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: Mexico
- Genre: Mystery, Comedy, Crime and Drama
- Rating:
i
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.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: XC
- Genre: Sci-Fi and Drama
- Rating:
i
Gaby is happy. After eighteen years of work, he is a flourishing mechanist. But one day, the mechanic of his life is out of order. He discovers that his assistant is in love with his wife. This one runs away with her daughter in law. So, Gaby's friends imagine a gambit to find them, at the moment where father and son enjoy pleasures of single life.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: France
- Genre: Comedy
- Rating:
i
Narda receives superhuman powers and becomes Darna. Darna and her child brother Ding start by fighting the Hawk Woman; next they face-off with the Giant, and both foes are destroyed. They meet Dr. Vontesberg a good Samaritan woman doctor, who actually plans in secret to destroy an entire village to avenge her grandfather who had been mistakenly accused of being a devil worshiper. She too has powers to summon the dead and terrorize the townspeople. Narda is captured by the evil doctor, who shows Darna how she intends to achieve her plan. Just in time, Ding arrives to rescue his helpless sister and together they stop Vontesberg's plan. Darna and Ding flow their way to the city, but they are captured by a Sorceress, and they join a bunch of other prisoners. The sorceress Lei Ming and Darna measure their strength and powers. After losing her face, Lei Ming takes her own life.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: Philippines
- Genre: Action
- Rating:
i
Chronicle of frontier division Czech police (SNB) in the years 1946 - 1949.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: XC
- Genre: Drama
- Rating:
i
Sonia cares more about her job than her husband, so much that he leaves her. From this moment on she changes partner every day, without ever reaching sexual pleasure. With her friend she gets back with her ex, and starts spying on him while he has sex.
Movie
- Year: 1980
- Country: Italy
- Genre: Comedy
- Rating:
i
Each year since 1936, the National Football League (NFL) has hosted its annual player selection meeting aptly called The NFL Draft, during which teams select eligible amateur football players first televised in 1980 on ESPN.
TV Series
- Year: 1980
- Country: USA
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