Movies

Over time, we have collected a number of titles on DVD, blu-ray, online services, other digital media (and a few odd titles on VHS).

This listing is for friends who may wish to drop in and watch a movie or would like to borrow a disc.

Titles with an asterisk (*) are DVDs that belong to Jason.

Click on any title's IMDB# to see a complete description and reviews, courtesy of the Internet Movie Database.

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Aliens (in Alien Anthology set)
1986 - R - Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi - 137 min - United Kingdom, United States - English, Spanish
Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.

Directed by: James Cameron
Written by: James Cameron, David Giler, Walter Hill
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn
Won 2 Oscars. 20 wins & 23 nominations total
IMDB # 90605
Back to the Future
1984 - PG - Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi - 116 min - United States - English
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.

Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Written by: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
Won 1 Oscar. 23 wins & 25 nominations total
IMDB # 88763
Back to the Future Part II
1989 - PG - Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi - 108 min - United States - English
After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.

Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Written by: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 9 wins & 9 nominations total
IMDB # 96874
Blues Brothers, The
1980 - 13+ - Action, Adventure, Comedy - 133 min - United States - English
Jake Blues rejoins with his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through ...

Directed by: John Landis
Written by: Dan Aykroyd, John Landis
Starring: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway
2 wins & 1 nomination
IMDB # 80455
Creator
1985 - R - Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi - 107 min - United States - English
An eccentric scientist teaches a student in his own manner while he looks for a way to clone his deceased wife.

Directed by: Ivan Passer
Written by: Jeremy Leven
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway, Vincent Spano
N/A
IMDB # 88960
Dirty Dancing
1987 - PG-13 - Drama, Music, Romance - 100 min - United States - English
Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.

Directed by: Emile Ardolino
Written by: Eleanor Bergstein
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach
Won 1 Oscar. 12 wins & 6 nominations total
IMDB # 92890
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982 - PG - Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi - 115 min - United States - English
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.

Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Written by: Melissa Mathison
Starring: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote
Won 4 Oscars. 52 wins & 36 nominations total
IMDB # 83866
Electric Dreams
1984 - PG - Comedy, Drama, Music - 95 min - United States, United Kingdom - English
An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman.

Directed by: Steve Barron
Written by: Rusty Lemorande
Starring: Lenny von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award2 wins & 2 nominations total
IMDB # 87197
Fat Man and Little Boy
1989 - PG-13 - Biography, Drama, History - 127 min - United States, Mexico - English
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.

Directed by: Roland Joffé
Written by: Bruce Robinson, Roland Joffé
Starring: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia
2 nominations
IMDB # 97336
Full Metal Jacket
1987 - R - Drama, War - 116 min - United Kingdom, United States - English, Vietnamese
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Written by: Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford
Starring: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 8 wins & 15 nominations total
IMDB # 93058
Ghostbusters
1984 - PG - Action, Comedy, Fantasy - 105 min - United States - English
Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.

Directed by: Ivan Reitman
Written by: Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis
Starring: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver
Nominated for 2 Oscars. 7 wins & 8 nominations total
IMDB # 87332
Ghostbusters II
1989 - PG - Action, Comedy, Fantasy - 108 min - United States - English
The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.

Directed by: Ivan Reitman
Written by: Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis
Starring: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver
2 wins & 1 nomination
IMDB # 97428
Greater Tuna (HBO Special)
1984 - N/A - Comedy - N/A - USA - English
N/A

Directed by: Tom Alderman, Bruce Gowers
Written by: Ed Howard, Joe Sears, Jaston Williams
Starring: Joe Sears, Jaston Williams
1 nomination.
IMDB # 1071219
Lost Boys, The
1987 - R - Comedy, Horror - 97 min - United States - English
After moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires.

Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Written by: Jan Fischer, James Jeremias, Jeffrey Boam
Starring: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest
3 wins & 5 nominations
IMDB # 93437
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
1983 - R - Comedy, Musical - 107 min - United Kingdom - English
The comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way.

Directed by: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam
Written by: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam
Starring: John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award1 win & 2 nominations total
IMDB # 85959
Outsiders, The (Complete Novel cut and Theatrical cut)
1983 - PG - Crime, Drama - 91 min - United States, France - English
The rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, only heats up when one gang member kills a member of the other.

Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Written by: Kathleen Rowell, S.E. Hinton
Starring: C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio
1 win & 4 nominations
IMDB # 86066
Real Genius
1985 - PG - Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi - 108 min - United States - English
An uptight teenage prodigy enters a top engineering college, but feels awkward among the freewheeling students. When a professor aims to turn their laser project into a military weapon, he and his offbeat roommate plot to ruin the...

Directed by: Martha Coolidge
Written by: Neal Israel, Pat Proft, PJ Torokvei
Starring: Val Kilmer, Stacy Peralta, Daniel Ades
2 wins & 2 nominations
IMDB # 89886
Scarface
1983 - R - Crime, Drama - 170 min - United States - English, Spanish
In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.

Directed by: Brian De Palma
Written by: Oliver Stone, Howard Hawks, Ben Hecht
Starring: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer
8 nominations
IMDB # 86250
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Theatrical and Director's Cut versions)
1982 - PG - Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi - 113 min - United States - English
With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.

Directed by: Nicholas Meyer
Written by: Gene Roddenberry, Jack B. Sowards, Harve Bennett
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
3 wins & 9 nominations
IMDB # 84726
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (in Star Trek 10-Movie Collection)
1984 - PG - Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi - 105 min - United States - English, Klingon, Russian, French
Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned U.S.S. Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis Planet to recover Spock's body.

Directed by: Leonard Nimoy
Written by: Gene Roddenberry, Harve Bennett
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
1 win & 7 nominations
IMDB # 88170
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (in Star Trek 10-Movie Collection)
1986 - PG - Action, Adventure, Comedy - 119 min - United States - English, Finnish
To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.

Directed by: Leonard Nimoy
Written by: Gene Roddenberry, Leonard Nimoy, Harve Bennett
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
Nominated for 4 Oscars. 4 wins & 19 nominations total
IMDB # 92007
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (in Star Trek 10-Movie Collection)
1989 - PG - Action, Adventure, Fantasy - 107 min - United States - English, Klingon
Captain Kirk and his crew must deal with Mr. Spock's long-lost half-brother who hijacks the Enterprise for an obsessive search for God at the center of the galaxy.

Directed by: William Shatner
Written by: Gene Roddenberry, William Shatner, Harve Bennett
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
5 wins & 4 nominations
IMDB # 98382
Tapeheads
1988 - R - Comedy, Music - 93 min - United States - English, Spanish, French
A couple of creative losers accidently become big shots in the video music industry.

Directed by: Bill Fishman
Written by: Bill Fishman, Peter McCarthy, Jim Herzfeld
Starring: John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Mary Crosby
N/A
IMDB # 96223
They Live
1988 - R - Action, Horror, Sci-Fi - 94 min - United States - English
They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.

Directed by: John Carpenter
Written by: Ray Nelson, John Carpenter
Starring: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster
4 nominations
IMDB # 96256
Top Gun
1986 - PG - Action, Drama - 109 min - United States - English
As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.

Directed by: Tony Scott
Written by: Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Ehud Yonay
Starring: Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Kelly McGillis
Won 1 Oscar. 11 wins & 6 nominations total
IMDB # 92099
Trading Places
1983 - R - Comedy - 116 min - United States - English
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

Directed by: John Landis
Written by: Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 5 nominations total
IMDB # 86465
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988 - PG - Biography, Comedy, Drama - 110 min - United States - English
The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.

Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Written by: Arnold Schulman, David Seidler
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau
Nominated for 3 Oscars. 8 wins & 9 nominations total
IMDB # 96316
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