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Purple People Eater (1988)
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(1990) (United States) (TV)
A kid plays the old novelty song "Purple People Eater" and the creature actually appears. The two then proceed to help an elderly couple who are being evicted by their greedy landlord.
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The Munsters Today: Season 1 (1988)
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(2017) (Germany) (TV)
America's First Family of Fright awaken after an accidental 22 year nap and must adjust to life in the 1980s.
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Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven Of Bliss (1988)
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(1988) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
During a hot summer in 1950s Indiana, 14-year-old Ralph and his best friends Flick and Schwartz decide to get their working papers, land their first job, and take the first step into adulthood. Although this means that Ralphie will probably miss the family's annual fishing...
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
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(1990) (USA) (TV) (as The Disney Channel)
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(2014) (Germany) (TV)
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect. Groundbreaking interaction...
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The Great Outdoors (1988)
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(1997) (USA) (TV) (pay television)
Nostalgic about the good old days in the honeymoon cabin, the patriarch Chet and the Ripley family set off to the idyllic woods of Wisconsin for the summer vacation. However, their plans for a peaceful family bonding in the heart of the untamed nature will be thwarted, when...
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Beetlejuice (1988)
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(1999) (USA) (TV)
Adam and Barbara are a normal couple...who happen to be dead. They have given their precious time to decorate their house and make it their own, but unfortunately a family is moving in, and not quietly. Adam and Barbara try to scare them out, but end up becoming the main...
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The Princess Bride (1987)
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(1989) (USA) (TV) (as The Disney Channel)
While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.
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Adventures In Babysitting (1987)
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(1997) (USA) (TV)
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(2016) (Germany) (TV)
Chris Parker agrees to babysit after her boyfriend, Mike Todwell, stands her up. Expecting a dull evening, she settles down with three kids for a night of TV...and boredom. But when her frantic friend, Brenda, calls and pleads to be rescued from the bus station in downtown...
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Harry And The Hendersons (1987)
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(1989) (United States) (The Disney Channel) (TV)
While returning from a hunting trip in the woods, George Henderson and his family run into something with their car that turns out to be a Sasquatch. Thinking he is dead, they take him home, but he soon awakens. Despite their initial fears, he is a kind and sensitive being,...
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¡Three Amigos! (1986)
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(1988) (USA) (TV) (as The Disney Channel)
Three out of work silent movie actors are accidentally drawn to a Mexican village that is being harassed by a gang of outlaws. The three, 'Ned', 'Lucky Day' and 'Dusty Bottoms' play 'Lone Ranger' types in their movies, but must play their parts for real now.
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Labyrinth (1986)
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(1998) (USA) (TV)
Living in an alluring dream-world of fantasy and enchantment, the plucky and petulant adolescent, Sarah, finds it hard to swallow that she is, once again, left to babysit for her baby stepbrother, Toby. So, in a fit of rage, Sarah wishes that goblins would take him far away....
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
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(1989) (United States) (The Disney Channel) (TV)
The love of Pee-wee Herman's life is his bicycle. When it is stolen, he is send on a wild cross country adventure after a fortune teller tells him his bicycle is in the basement of the Alamo. Along the way, Pee-wee encounters an escaped convict, a waitress with wanderlust...
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Return To Oz (1985)
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(1986) (USA) (TV) (as The Disney Channel)
Dorothy Gale has recently come home to Kansas from the Land of Oz and is now almost back to perfect health since the incident of the tornado, only she cannot get that wonderful place out of her head. She frequently talks about it and cannot get any sleep at night. Aunt Em...
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The Goonies (1985)
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(1992) (USA) (TV) (as The Disney Channel)
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(2003) (Spain) (TV)
The peaceful community of the coastal Goon Docks in Oregon faces imminent foreclosure to make way for a new golf course. However, when a band of local childhood friends who call themselves the "Goonies", find unexpectedly the notorious pirate "One-Eyed" Willy's old treasure...
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Dune (1984)
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(1996) (United States) (The Disney Channel) (TV)
In the far future, a duke and his family are sent by the Emperor to a sand world from which comes a spice that is essential for interstellar travel. The move is designed to destroy the duke and his family, but his son escapes and seeks revenge as he uses the world's ecology...
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Footloose (1984)
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(2017) (Germany) (TV)
Big-city teenager Ren relocates from Chicago to the small rural town of Bomont, where its inhabitants have imposed an unjust ban on Rock 'n' Roll and dancing. Feeling trapped and confused, Ren tries to fit in; however, he will soon find himself neck-deep in trouble when...
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Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)
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(1984) (USA) (TV) (as The Disney Channel)
Make the season merry as Mickey, Goofy, Donald and all their pals star in a heartwarming retelling of Dickens' unforgettable holiday tale. Ebenezer Scrooge (Scrooge McDuck) is far too greedy to understand that Christmas is a time for kindness and generosity. But with the...
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TRON (1982)
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(1983) (USA) (TV)
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(2015) (Germany) (TV)
Hacker/arcade owner Kevin Flynn is digitally broken down into a data stream by a villainous software pirate known as Master Control and reconstituted into the internal, 3-D graphical world of computers. It is there, in the ultimate blazingly colorful, geometrically intense...
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The Grinch Grinches The Cat In The Hat (1982)
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(1987) (USA) (TV) (as The Disney Channel)
The Cat in the Hat is all set for a lovely picnic, but the Grinch changes his plans by inventing a contraption that captures noise and makes it sound ferocious. The Cat has to stop the Grinch and the only way to do it is to reach the Grinch's soft spot.
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The Great American Fourth Of July And Other Disasters (1982)
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(1986) (USA) (TV) (as The Disney Channel)
Matt Dillon plays a young Jean Shepherd (author and narrator of A Christmas Story). Through Matt, Shep tells several humorous stories about his teen years in an Indiana steel town.
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