Category Archives: High IMDB rating

Overboard

IMDB Rating: 6.10
6025 votes

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Joanna Stayton (Hawn) is a rich snotty millionairess and Dean Proffitt (Russell) is a struggling carpenter trying to get by with 4 obnoxious children. After doing a job which Joanna is dissatisfied with, she tosses Dean overboard and refuses to pay him, then Joanna gets amnesia and Dean decides to get back at her by claiming her as his "wife" and mother of his 4 brats.
Actors
Joanna Stayton/Annie ProffittGoldie Hawn
Dean ProffittKurt Russell
Grant Stayton IIIEdward Herrmann
Also posted in 1987, Comedy, Romance | Comments (0)

Spaceballs

IMDB Rating: 6.70
23300 votes

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King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) to Prince Valium, but Vespa is kidnapped by the evil race of the Spaceballs. The Spaceballs ask Roland a tremendous ransom: all the air of Druidia (you see, the air of Spaceball had serious pollution problems...). The King decides to offer a generous amount of money to a space rogue, Lone Star, to persuade him to save Vespa. What follows is the parody of a _LOT_ of famous SF movies.
Actors
President Skroob/YogurtMel Brooks
Dark HelmetRick Moranis
Lone StarrBill Pullman
Also posted in 1987, Comedy, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Innerspace

IMDB Rating: 6.40
10097 votes

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Cocky space ace Tuck Pendelton volunteers to be minaturized and injected into a lab rabbit. Some techno-terrorists foul up these plans and Tuck is mistakenly injected into hypochondriac Jack Putter instead. Now the terrorists are after Jack with all-American hero Tuck shrunk inside him. Their only hope is Tuck's journalist girl- friend Lydia, but Jack has developed a crush on her.
Actors
Lt. Tuck PendletonDennis Quaid
Jack PutterMartin Short
Lydia MaxwellMeg Ryan
Also posted in 1987, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

IMDB Rating: 7.40
17679 votes

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All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport. As well as bad luck, Neal is blessed with the presence of Del Griffith, Shower Curtain Ring Salesman and all-around blabbermouth, who is never short of advice, conversation, bad jokes, or company. And when he decides that he is going the same direction as Neal....
Actors
Neal PageSteve Martin
Del GriffithJohn Candy
Susan PageLaila Robins
Also posted in 1987, Adventure, Comedy, Drama | Comments (0)

Hellraiser

IMDB Rating: 6.70
8174 votes

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Clive Barker's feature directing debut graphically depicts the tale of a man and wife who move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, he is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this.
Actors
Larry CottonAndrew Robinson
Julia CottonClare Higgins
Kirsty CottonAshley Laurence
Also posted in 1987, Fantasy, Horror | Comments (0)

The Witches of Eastwick

IMDB Rating: 6.30
10007 votes

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Alex, Jane, and Suki are three bored New England woman left to live without their husbands. They innocently conjure up a mystery man, who could satisfy all their desires. A new man moves into town - and he fits the bill perfectly. Daryl Van Horne is filthy rich and wild eyed, and within days the three women have all discovered almighty power within themselves. Will good triumph over evil, or will Daryl continue to have his evil way with his witches ?
Actors
Daryl Van HorneJack Nicholson
Alexandra MedfordCher
Jane SpoffordSusan Sarandon
Also posted in 1987, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Angel Heart

IMDB Rating: 7.10
9798 votes

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Harry Angel is a private investigator. He is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer called Johnny Favorite. As he begins to investigate, all the people he contacts concerning Johnny are killed in mysterious ways. As he finds out more about himself and his client he discovers that he is fighting for his very existence and is forced to deal with the devil himself.
Actors
Harold R. 'Harry' AngelMickey Rourke
Louis CyphreRobert De Niro
Epiphany ProudfootLisa Bonet
Also posted in 1987, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Lethal Weapon

IMDB Rating: 7.50
22928 votes

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Los Angeles police sergeant Roger Murtaugh, who has just turned 50 years old, is assigned to investigate the death of Amanda Hunsaker, a prostitute who is one of the daughters of bank president Michael Hunsaker, a friend whom Roger has known since they were in the Vietnam War together, but Roger hasn't seen Michael in 12 years. Beginning with this investigation, Roger is assigned a new partner Sergeant Martin Riggs, who has been suicidal ever since his wife Victoria "Vicky" Lynn Riggs died in a car crash in 1984. Riggs and Murtaugh's investigation of Amanda's death reveals that she was murdered. Upon hearing of this, Michael tells Murtaugh that he would like for whoever is behind Amanda's murder to end up dead, like Amanda. Riggs and Murtaugh's investigation continues and it makes them the targets of Shadow Company, a group of former Vietnam War era mercenaries who now bring heroin into the Los Angeles County region. Shadow Company's leader, General Peter McAllister, and his right hand man, Mr. Joshua, want Riggs and Murtaugh dead, no matter what the cost.
Actors
Sergeant Martin RiggsMel Gibson
Sergeant Roger MurtaughDanny Glover
Mr. JoshuaGary Busey
Also posted in 1987, Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | Comments (0)

Evil Dead II

IMDB Rating: 7.70
18441 votes

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Ash - the sole survivor of the original 'Evil Dead' - returns with his girlfriend Linda to the remote cabin in the woods. He discovers a tape recorder that a professor had used to record incantations from the Necronomicon XMortis - the Book of the Dead. When he turns it on, the recording releases a dark, sinister force from the woods. It turns Linda into a zombie, her soul possessed by some hideous demon, and then tries to do the same to Ash. Other people come to help Ash, but one by one they are taken over by the Evil Dead force that also possesses Linda, the Professor, and the Professor's wife...and they try to make sure Ash is...Dead by Dawn!
Actors
Ashley 'Ash' J. WilliamsBruce Campbell
Annie KnowbySarah Berry
JakeDan Hicks
Also posted in 1987, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | Comments (0)

Predator

IMDB Rating: 7.40
30094 votes

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Dutch (Arnlod Schwarzenegger) and a team of commandos have been sent into a Central American jungle to track down some missing airmen that were kidnapped by terrorists. By the time they get to the camp, the airmen have been butchered in a very violent fashion and the commandos retaliate on the terrorists' camp. After that's over, they wait for a helicopter to pick them up, but something strange begins to happen in the woods. It isn't long before the commandos start getting killed off and Dutch and a girl from the camp, Anna (Elpidia Carrillo), are the only people left and fighting for their lives. But what they discover is too shocking for them to imagine. What's been killing them is the Predator, an alien that hunts rare species and make his trophies out of their skulls. And human beings are the new species he has discovered.
Actors
Major Alan 'Dutch' SchaefferArnold Schwarzenegger
Major George DillonCarl Weathers
AnnaElpidia Carrillo
Also posted in 1987, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)
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