Category Archives: 1985

The Black Cauldron

IMDB Rating: 6.20
3753 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers. With the aid of a stubborn princess, an exaggerating bard, and a pestering creature called Gurgi, Taran will try to save the world of Prydain from the Horned King. As the new friends face witches, elves, magic swords, and the Cauldron itself, Taran starts to learn what being a hero really means and that some things are more important than glory.
Actors
TaranGrant Bardsley
EilonwySusan Sheridan
DallbenFreddie Jones
Also posted in Adventure, Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Teen Wolf

IMDB Rating: 5.30
8111 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
Teen discovers that puberty for him means he turns into a werewolf. One of the beneficial side effects is that it also turns him into a top-notch basketball player. But will his notoriety cost him his friends and can he find true love?
Actors
Scott HowardMichael J. Fox
Harold HowardJames Hampton
Lisa 'Boof' MarconiSusan Ursitti
Also posted in Comedy, Fantasy | Comments (0)

A Pocket Full of Rye

IMDB Rating: 6.90
168 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
Wealthy business man Rex Fortescue collapses when he reaches his office. It is determined that he was poisoned. No one seems too upset, as everyone agrees that Rex was a tyrant. Soon however Rex's young wife also turns up poisoned. The maid, Gladyes, whom Miss Marple trained, writes to Miss Marple asking for help. Miss Marple arrives too late, as Gladyses' body is found strangled and strung up on the clothes line. Now it's personal, and Miss Marple is determined to see the murderer punished.
Actors
Miss Jane MarpleJoan Hickson
Rex FortescueTimothy West
Miss HendersonFabia Drake
Also posted in Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (0)

A Murder Is Announced

IMDB Rating: 7.20
226 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
A murder is announced in the Chipping Cleghorne Gazette to take place on October 5th, 7 PM at Little Paddocks cottage. The people living there, retired secretary Miss Blacklock, her companion Miss Bunner, Miss Blacklock's two distant cousins, Patrick and Julia and Mrs.Haymes, a gardener, have no idea what the ad is about. Several villagers arrive at the house under the false pretenses of "just walking by" or "Was in the neighborhood". At exactly 7 PM, the lights go out, and a man enters the room, and shines a flashlight in everyone's face. Then shots are heard. As the lights come back on, they find the man who entered the room has been shot. Miss Marple must unmask the killer but soon more murders turn up.
Actors
Miss Jane MarpleJoan Hickson
Letitia BlacklockUrsula Howells
Dora BunnerRenée Asherson
Also posted in Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (0)

The Moving Finger

IMDB Rating: 7.20
170 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
Squadron Leader Gerry Burton is sent to a tranquil country village to recover from the effects of a plane crash and be nursed back to health by his beautiful sister Joanna. As they are new to the community, they are shocked to receive an anonymous, sexually explicit poison pen letter. They later find that other village gentry have been victimized by the same crank writer, and the vicar's wife sends for her friend Miss Marple in hopes of exposing the perpetrator. When a solicitor's wife apparently takes poison after receiving a particularly vicious message, Miss Marple suspects that the letters are a smokescreen for something more ominous. When a house maid is found bludgeoned to death, she knows she is right.
Actors
Miss Jane MarpleJoan Hickson
Edward SymmingtonMichael Culver
Angela SymmingtonElizabeth Counsell
Also posted in Crime, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (0)

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

IMDB Rating: 5.80
14495 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
Mad Max is a former cop who finds himself in a post-apocolyptic desert town called Bartertown. He is hired by the leader of the city to fight in a gladiator like arena called Thunderdome, so he can kill Auntie's rival master blaster. He is later banished and finds a group of children that survived a plane crash during the war. They believe he is their former pilot Captain Walker. Some of the children leave to find their fabled tomorrow morrow land. So Mad Max has to save them from the desert and from Auntie's Bartertown.
Actors
'Mad' Max RockatanskyMel Gibson
Aunty EntityTina Turner
Jedediah the PilotBruce Spence
Also posted in Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Rambo: First Blood Part II

IMDB Rating: 5.40
19158 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
John Rambo is removed from prison by his former superior, Colonel Samuel Troutman, for a top-secret operation to bring back POW's still held in Vietnam. Rambo's assignment is to only take pictures of where the POWs are being held, but Rambo wants to get the POWs out of Vietnam. Teamed up with female Vietnamese freedom fighter Co Bao, Rambo embarks on a mission to rescue the POWs, who are being held by sadistic Vietnamese Captain Vinh and his Russian comrade, Lieutenant Colonel Padovsky. Rambo falls in love with Co Bao, and when Co Bao is killed by Captain Vinh, Rambo wants revenge, so he starts killing every enemy in sight while still focusing on his intentions to rescue the POWs. There are also corrupt American officials involved in the mission, including Marshall Murdock, one of Rambo's superiors.
Actors
John J. RamboSylvester Stallone
Col. Samuel TrautmanRichard Crenna
Marshall MurdockCharles Napier
Also posted in Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

Pale Rider

IMDB Rating: 7.00
8742 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
Clint Eastwood is a mysterious preacher who comes to a gold mining camp near a small town in the mountains. The miners are in grave danger as a ruthless landowner decides to take their land, with the support of the sheriff. The only one who seems brave enough to save them is this preacher who came from nowhere and nobody knows his past or his real name. Why is the sheriff afraid of him? Why is he such a good shooter? Is he really a preacher?
Actors
PreacherClint Eastwood
Hull BarretMichael Moriarty
Sarah WheelerCarrie Snodgress
Also posted in Action, High IMDB rating, Western | Comments (0)

Return to Oz

IMDB Rating: 6.50
4436 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
It has been six months since Dorothy has returned to Kansas from Oz and she still can not sleep. She has been going on about imaginary places and people so much that Aunt Em takes her to see a doctor. Dorothy promptly escapes from the mental hospital and wakes up in Oz where her favorite chichen can now talk. There she meets a whole new bunch of friends and they set off to rescue the Scarecrow from an evil Nome King who has found her Ruby Slippers and has used them to lay waste to the Emerald city and take over Oz.
Actors
DorothyFairuza Balk
Dr. Worley & Nome KingNicol Williamson
Nurse Wilson & MombiJean Marsh
Also posted in Adventure, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (0)