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An Eye For An Eye An Eye For An Eye (1981)
Distributor (1981) (United States) (theatrical)
Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.

55%

Dead & Buried Dead & Buried (1981)
Distributor (1981) (USA) (theatrical)
Sheriff Dan Gillis has a nice life with his wife, the teacher Janet Gillis, in the small coastal and friendly town of Potter's Bluff. When visitors are mysterious killed in the town, Sheriff Gillis investigates the cases carefully and finds that dead people are reanimating...

65%

Escape From New York Escape From New York (1981)
Production Company (present)
Distributor (1981) (USA) (theatrical)
In the future, crime is out of control and New York City's Manhattan is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed lone warrior new to prison life,...

72%

The Howling The Howling (1981)
Distributor (1981) (USA) (theatrical)
Serial killer Eddie Quist has been preying on the homeless, and Karen White is the only newswoman he communicates with. After a near fatal encounter with him at an adult video store, she is ordered by Dr. George Waggner to take a vacation. Eddie was killed by police...

66%

Scanners Scanners (1981)
Distributor (1981) (USA) (theatrical)
In the film, "scanners" are people with unusual telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok, a renegade scanner, to wage a...

67%

Prom Night Prom Night (1980)
Distributor (1980) (USA) (theatrical)
For six long years, Hamilton High School seniors Kelly Lynch, Jude Cunningham, Wendy Richards and Nick McBride have been hiding the truth of what happened to ten-year-old Robin Hammond the day her broken body was discovered near an abandoned convent. The foursome keep secret...

52%

Death Ship Death Ship (1980)
Distributor (1980) (USA) (theatrical)
Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realize that the ship is actually a Nazi torture ship which has sailed the seas for years, luring unsuspecting sailors aboard and killing them off one...

48%

The Fog The Fog (1980)
Production Company
Distributor (1980) (USA) (theatrical)
Distributor (1980) (Mexico) (theatrical)
As the centennial of the small town of Antonio Bay, California approaches, paranormal activity begins to occur at midnight. 100 years ago, the wealthy leper Blake bought the clipper ship Elizabeth Dane and sailed with his people to form a leper colony. However, while sailing...

69%

Rudolph And Frosty's Christmas In July Rudolph And Frosty's Christmas In July (1979)
Distributor (1979) (USA) (theatrical)
Long ago the Lady Borealis placed the evil Winterbolt under a magic spell, and put the last of her magic into the nose of a newborn reindeer: Rudolph. But now Winterbolt's awake. He gives Frosty's family magic amulets to keep them from melting until the Fourth of July so...

63%

Winter Kills Winter Kills (1979)
Distributor (1979) (United States) (theatrical)
Nineteen years after President Timothy Kegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman. While trying to avoid his wealthy and domineering father's attempts to control his actions, Nick follows the clues that have been handed to...

62%

Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park (1978)
Distributor (1979) (Non-US) (theatrical)
The tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner Devereaux. Devereaux has found a way to clone humans into robots in his laboratory at an amusement park. It just so happens that he plans to uses the KISS concert as a platform to...

45%

What The Peeper Saw What The Peeper Saw (1972)
Distributor (1973) (United States) (theatrical)
In this stylish and atmospheric psychological thriller reminiscent of Henry James's Turn of the Screw, a widowed English writer brings a young, glamorous new bride to his bleak, isolated home in rural Spain. She soon becomes obsessed with her 12-year old stepson, who she...

58%

C.C. & Company C.C. & Company (1970)
Production Company
Distributor (1970) (USA) (theatrical)
Motorcycle mechanic C.C. Ryder joins "The Heads," an outlaw biker gang. Fellow gang members menace fashion journalist Ann when her limo breaks down in the desert, but C.C. comes to her rescue. The bikers disrupt a motorcross event tied in with a fashion shoot, but C.C....

48%

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