Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
The Naked Face |
Bryan Forbes |
Roger Moore, Rod Steiger, Elliott Gould, Anne Archer, David Hedison, Art Carney |
Mystery, Thriller |
Based on a novel by Sidney Sheldon
|
National Lampoon's Joy of Sex |
Martha Coolidge |
Cameron Dye, Colleen Camp, Ernie Hudson |
Sex Comedy |
Based on sex manual
|
The Natural |
Barry Levinson |
Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Richard Farnsworth, Robert Prosky, Barbara Hershey, Darren McGavin |
Sports, Drama |
Based on a novel by Bernard Malamud
|
The NeverEnding Story |
Wolfgang Petersen |
Barret Oliver, Noah Hathaway, Gerald McRaney |
Fantasy |
2 sequels
|
Night Patrol |
Jackie Kong |
Linda Blair, Murray Langston, Pat Paulsen |
Comedy |
|
Night of the Comet |
Thom Eberhardt |
Catherine Mary Stewart, Geoffrey Lewis |
Sci-Fi |
|
A Nightmare on Elm Street |
Wes Craven |
Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Johnny Depp |
Slasher |
first of series
|
Ninja III: The Domination |
Sam Firstenberg |
Sho Kosugi, Lucinda Dickey |
Martial Arts, Action, Horror |
|
No Small Affair |
Jerry Schatzberg |
Jon Cryer, Demi Moore, George Wendt |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
Not for Publication |
Paul Bartel |
Nancy Allen, David Naughton |
Comedy |
|
Nothing Lasts Forever |
Tom Schiller |
Zach Galligan, Lauren Tom, Bill Murray |
Comedy |
not released in theaters or on DVD
|
Oh, God! You Devil |
Paul Bogart |
George Burns |
Comedy |
Third and the final series
|
Old Enough |
Marisa Silver |
Sarah Boyd, Rainbow Harvest, Danny Aiello |
Teen |
|
Once Upon a Time in America |
Sergio Leone |
Robert De Niro, James Woods, Tuesday Weld, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Jennifer Connelly, Treat Williams, William Forsythe, Danny Aiello |
Drama |
winner of 2 BAFTA awards; Leone's last film
|
Over the Brooklyn Bridge |
Menahem Golan |
Elliott Gould, Shelley Winters, Margaux Hemingway, Burt Young, Carol Kane, Sid Caesar |
Comedy |
MGM/UA
|
Oxford Blues |
Robert Boris |
Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Amanda Pays, Julian Sands |
Comedy |
remake of A Yank at Oxford
|
Paris, Texas |
Wim Wenders |
Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell |
Drama |
won Palme d'Or at Cannes Festival
|
A Passage to India |
David Lean |
Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness |
Drama |
Based on a novel by E. M. Forster; Lean's last film; 2 Oscars
|
Perfect Strangers |
Larry Cohen |
Anne Carlisle, Ann Magnuson |
Erotic, Thriller |
New Line Cinema
|
The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak |
Just Jaeckin |
Tawny Kitaen, Brent Huff |
Action |
|
The Philadelphia Experiment |
Stewart Raffill |
Michael Paré, Nancy Allen |
Sci-Fi |
New World
|
Places in the Heart |
Robert Benton |
Sally Field, John Malkovich, Danny Glover, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan |
Drama |
Oscars for Field and screenplay
|
Police Academy |
Hugh Wilson |
Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith, Donovan Scott, Michael Winslow, Andrew Rubin, David Graf, Leslie Easterbrook, George Gaynes, Bruce Mahler, Marion Ramsey, G.W. Bailey |
Comedy |
first of series
|
The Pope of Greenwich Village |
Stuart Rosenberg |
Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Kenneth McMillan, Geraldine Page, M. Emmet Walsh, Burt Young |
Crime |
Based on a novel by Vincent Patrick
|
The Power |
Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow |
Warren Lincoln |
Supernatural Horror |
|
Protocol |
Herbert Ross |
Goldie Hawn, Andre Gregory, Chris Sarandon |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
Purple Hearts |
Sidney J. Furie |
Ken Wahl, Cheryl Ladd |
War, Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Purple Rain |
Albert Magnoli |
Prince, Morris Day, Apollonia Kotero |
Musical, Drama |
Academy Award for Musical Score
|
Racing with the Moon |
Richard Benjamin |
Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage, Elizabeth McGovern |
Drama |
Paramount
|
Raw Courage |
Robert L. Rosen |
Ronny Cox, Art Hindle, M. Emmet Walsh |
Thriller |
|
The Razor's Edge |
John Byrum |
Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, Brian Doyle-Murray, James Keach |
Drama |
Columbia; Based on a novel by Somerset Maugham; Remake of 1946 film
|
Reckless |
James Foley |
Aidan Quinn, Daryl Hannah, Cliff De Young |
Romance, Drama |
|
Red Dawn |
John Milius |
Patrick Swayze, Lea Thompson, Harry Dean Stanton, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Darren Dalton, William Smith, Frank McRae, Jennifer Grey, Ron O'Neal, Powers Boothe, Ben Johnson |
Action, Drama |
remade in 2012; Also, first film rated PG-13
|
Repo Man |
Alex Cox |
Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter |
Sci-Fi, Comedy |
Universal
|
Revenge of the Nerds |
Jeff Kanew |
Anthony Edwards, Robert Carradine, Timothy Busfield, Curtis Armstrong |
Comedy |
3 sequels
|
Rhinestone |
Bob Clark |
Sylvester Stallone, Dolly Parton, Ron Leibman, Tim Thomerson, Richard Farnsworth |
Musical, Comedy |
8 Razzie nominations
|
The River |
Mark Rydell |
Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek, Scott Glenn |
Drama |
4 Oscar nominations
|
Roadhouse 66 |
John Mark Robinson |
Willem Dafoe, Judge Reinhold |
Action |
|
Romancing the Stone |
Robert Zemeckis |
Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito |
Action, Adventure, Romance, Comedy |
followed by The Jewel of the Nile
|
The Rosebud Beach Hotel |
Harry Hurwitz |
Colleen Camp, Peter Scolari, Christopher Lee |
Comedy |
|
Runaway |
Michael Crichton |
Tom Selleck, Gene Simmons, Cynthia Rhodes, Kirstie Alley |
Sci-Fi, Action |
TriStar
|
Savage Streets |
Danny Steinmann |
Linda Blair, John Vernon |
Teen, Vigilante, Exploitation, Action |
|
Second Sight: A Love Story |
John Korty |
Elizabeth Montgomery, Barry Newman |
Romance, Drama |
Made-for-TV
|
Secret Honor |
Robert Altman |
Philip Baker Hall |
Drama |
1-character story (Richard Nixon)
|
Shadows Run Black |
Howard Heard |
Kevin Costner |
Crime, Thriller |
|
Sheena |
John Guillermin |
Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Donovan Scott |
Adventure |
Based on comic-book character
|
Silent Madness |
Simon Nuchtern |
Belinda Montgomery, Viveca Lindfors, Sydney Lassick |
Slasher |
|
Silent Night, Deadly Night |
Charles E. Sellier, Jr. |
Lilyan Chauvin, Robert Brian Wilson, Linnea Quigley |
Psychological, Slasher |
|
Sixteen Candles |
John Hughes |
Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Paul Dooley, Michael Schoeffling, Gedde Watanabe, Haviland Morris, Justin Henry, Blanche Baker |
Teen, Comedy |
Universal
|
Slapstick of Another Kind |
Steven Paul |
Jerry Lewis, Madeline Kahn |
Comedy |
Based on story by Kurt Vonnegut
|
A Soldier's Story |
Norman Jewison |
Howard Rollins, Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington |
Drama |
Based on a play by Charles Fuller
|
Songwriter |
Alan Rudolph |
Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Melinda Dillon |
Drama |
TriStar
|
Special Effects |
Larry Cohen |
Zoë Lund, Eric Bogosian |
Horror, Thriller |
New Line Cinema
|
Splash |
Ron Howard |
Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, Eugene Levy |
Comedy |
Touchstone
|
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock |
Leonard Nimoy |
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, George Takei |
Sci-Fi |
2nd sequel to Star Trek
|
Starman |
John Carpenter |
Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith |
Sci-Fi |
inspired TV series
|
The Stone Boy |
Christopher Cain |
Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Frederic Forrest |
Drama |
Based on the short story by Gina Berriault
|
Stop Making Sense |
Jonathan Demme |
Talking Heads |
Documentary |
|
Stranger Than Paradise |
Jim Jarmusch |
John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson |
Comedy |
|
Streets of Fire |
Walter Hill |
Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Willem Dafoe |
Action |
Universal
|
Suburbia |
Penelope Spheeris |
Chris Pedersen, Jennifer Clay, Flea, Christina Beck |
Drama, Thriller |
|
Supergirl |
Jeannot Szwarc |
Helen Slater, Peter O'Toole, Faye Dunaway |
Superhero |
Based on character from DC Comics
|
Surf II |
Randall M. Badat |
Eddie Deezen, Cleavon Little, Eric Stoltz |
Comedy |
|
Swing Shift |
Jonathan Demme |
Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Fred Ward, Ed Harris |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
Sword of the Valiant |
Stephen Weeks |
Miles O'Keeffe, Cyrielle Clair, Sean Connery, John Rhys-Davies, Trevor Howard, Peter Cushing |
Drama, Fantasy |
|
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