Eagle Island
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Eagle Island
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Video Distributor : Esselte CIC
Year : 1987
Running time : 90 minutes
Actors : Tom O'Rourke, Summer Lee Thomas, Tim Earle, Lisa Robinson
Director : Mats Helge
Snake Eater's Revenge
Snake Eater's Revenge
Aka : Snake Eater II : The Drug Buster
Story : The SnakeEater is about to clean up the street. No matter how dirty he has to get.
Video Distributor : Warner Home Video
Year : 1990
Running time : 93 Minutes
Actors : Lorenzo Lamas, Michelle Scarabelli, Larry B. Scott
Director : George Erschbamer
Presumed Innocent
Presumed Innocent
Story : When the woman deputy prosecutor R.K. Sabich had an affair with is murdered the prosecutor asks him to lead the investigation. When Sabich digs too deeply he finds himself framed for the murder.
Video Distributor : Warner Home Video
Year : 1991
Running time : 122 minutes
Actors : Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raul Julia, Bonnie Bedelia
Director : Alan J. Pakula
The Big Chill
The Big Chill
Story : A group of friends who attended the University of Michigan together in the 1960's convene for the funeral of one from their group, Alex, who committed suicide. The group, each now in their thirties, have kept in touch over the years, but have drifted somewhat apart as their respective lives changed. Their individual ideals have also changed from their socially conscious and radical days in college, to where they mostly now live outwardly comfortable and financially lucrative lives. With Alex's young and socially naive girlfriend, Chloe, added to the mix, the friends spend the weekend together at married couple Harold and Sarah's house in South Carolina following the funeral. Especially in light of Alex's suicide, the friends discuss their lives and collective relationships with each other, then and now.
Video Distributor : RCA Columbia
Year : 1984
Running time : 101 minutes
Actors : Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, Kevin Kline, Tom Berenger, William Hurt
Director : Lawrence Kasdan
Miami Supercops
Miami Supercops
Story : In 1978, $20 million was stolen from a Detroit bank. One of the robbers was caught, one was found dead, and the third disappeared. The money was never found. Seven years later, the robber who was caught was released from jail. He immediately went to Miami, only to be found dead the next day. Now FBI agents Doug Bennet and Steve Forest have been called in to investigate the case while posing as Miami police officers. Somewhere in Miami the third robber is hiding with his $20 million, and he has a seven-year head start on the authorities.
Video Distributor : RCA Columbia
Year : 1986
Running time : 94 minutes
Actors : Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Jackie Castellano, C.V. Wood Jr
Director : Bruno Corbucci
The Mean Season
The Mean Season
Story : Malcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper. He's had enough of reporting the local murders and so promises his school teacher girlfriend (Christine), they'll move away soon. Before Malcolm can hand in his notice, the murderer from his latest article phones him. The murderer tells Malcolm that he's going to kill again. The phone calls and murders continue, soon Malcolm finds that he's not just reporting the story, he is the story.
Video Distributor : RCA Columbia
Year : 1986
Running time : 110 minutes
Actors : Kurt Russel, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur
Director : Philip Borsos
A Soldier's Story
A Soldier's Story
Story: In the towm of Tynen, Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. A military lawyer, also a black man, is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Captain Davenport must battle with deceipt and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill Sergeant Waters.
Video Distributor : RCA Columbia
Year : 1985
Running time : 96 minutes
Actors : Howard E. Rollins Jr, Adolph Caesar, Art Evans
Director : Norman Jewison
Fallen Angel
Fallen Angel
Story : Twelve year old Jennifer is unhappy with her widowed mom's relationship with a family friend. Feeling lonely, she readily accepts the friendship of an adult man named Howie and joins the softball team he coaches. Soon, Howie is convincing Jennifer to pose for photographs which become more and more revealing. Howie turns out to be a pedophile who works in child pornography and he plans to make Jennifer a "star". Will Jennifer's mother be able to help her daughter before it's too late?
Video Distributor : RCA Columbia
Year : 1987
Running time : 92 minutes
Actors : Dana Hill, Melinda Dillon, Richard Masur, Ronny Cox
Director : Robert Lewis
Eddie And the Cruisers
Eddie And the Cruisers
Story : Maggie Foley (Ellen Barkin) is a reporter who's interviewing the surviving members of a band who's music is being revived. Memories of the band's leader Eddie Wilson (Michael Pare) are being relived as Frank Ridgeway (Tom Berenger) is reunited with the old members of the band. As the memories are relived on the screen, it becomes clear that someone is looking for the lost unpublished tapes of the band's final recording and that someone might be Eddie!
Video Distributor : RCA Columbia
Year : 1987
Running time : 95 minutes
Actors : Tom Berenger, Ellen Barkin, Michael Paré
Director : Martin Davidson
The Broken Badge
The broken Badge
Stoy : Chick Stacy is a tough cop, He's accused of the murder on the prostitute Lilly, and been locked up in the San Quentin prison. As soon his fellow prisoners finds out he's a cop, life becomes a living Hell in the prison....
Video Distributor : RCA Columbia
Year ; 1985
Running time : 97 minutes
Actors : Claude Akins, Dennis Dugan, Michael Bell, Warren Stevens, Barbara Luna
Director : Lee H. Katzin
The Dark Side
The Dark Side
Story : A cab driver gets mixed up with a fare he picks up who turns out to be a porno star, and she claims she has proof that the people she is working for are producing snuff films. Her claims seem to be validated when the cabbie notices suspicious looking people following them.
Video Distributor : RCA Columbia
Year : 1988
Running time : 95 minutes
Actors : Tony Galati, Cyndy Preston, Peter Read, David Hewlett
Director : Constantino Magnatta
Educating Rita
Educating Rita
Story : Bored with teaching undergraduates English literature, Frank Bryant morosely reflects through a whisky glass on his failed marriage and his attempt at becoming a poet. His world is turned upside down by the arrival of Rita, a hairdresser who has decided to find herself by taking an Open University course. Excited by her freewheeling and acute observations, and - let's be honest - by Rita herself, Frank also feels a deep sadness as he watches her warm impulsive reactions being replaced by the sort of cold analytical approach he so much loathes in other students and colleagues.
Video Distributor : RCA Columbia
Year ; 1985
Running time : 112 minutes
Actors : Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams
Director : Lewis Gilbert
The Hidden
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The Hidden
Story : The police are hunting a man, who has committed several crimes, mostly auto theft. They eventually captured but not after a long chase and only after he crashes his car and is burned. At the hospital, the man rises and then proceeds to the man in the room with him. He then proceeds to open the man's mouth and a creature comes out of his and enters the man. The man then stands up and walks out of the hospital. An FBI agent goes to the police and says he is looking for the man they just caught. When he goes to the hospital, he takes a photo of the man and gives it to the police and says that they have to find him. After a long chase, the detective, who is frustrated, arrests the FBI agent and demands to know what is going on. He says that he is an alien and that the people they have been pursuing have each been taken over by an alien that he is pursuing.
Video Distributor : CBS/Fox Video
Year : 1988
Actors : Kyle Maclachlan, Michael Nouri
Director : Jack Sholder
The Blue Iguana
The Blue Iguana
Story ; Two overzealous psychopathic US tax collectors blackmail bounty hunter Vince Holloway into stopping an illegal transfer of 20 Mio. dollars from a Mexican tax paradise into the USA. So he arrives in Diablo, where life isn't worth a penny. It seems impossible to raid the heavily guarded bank. He has to assure himself of help of the barwoman Dakota and a little boy.
Video Distributor : CBS/Fox Video
Year : 1989
Running time : 90 minutes
Actors : Dylan McDermott, Jessica harper, James Russo, Tovah Feldshuh, Dean Stockwell
Director : John Lafia
Docteur Jekyll et les femmes
Docteur Jekyll et les femmes
Aka : Dr Jekyll en Lady Osborne
- Dr. Jekyll and His Women -
Story : The film takes place before, during and immediately after the engagement party of Dr.Henry Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osborne, attended by numerous highly respectable guests (a general, a doctor, a priest, a lawyer), the last of which informs the company that a child has been murdered in the street outside. While the others watch a young dancer perform, Dr.Jekyll instructs the lawyer to alter his will, leaving everything to a certain Mr.Hyde. Shortly afterwards, the dancer is found murdered, and the guests realise that one of their number must be a maniac with a prodigious sexual appetite...
Video Distributor : Video For Pleasure
Year ; 1985
Running time : 95 minutes
Actors : Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Gérard Zalcberg
Director : Walerian Borowczyk
Macabra
Macabra
Aka : Demonoid : Messenger of Death
Story : A British woman visits her husband at the Mexican mine he is attempting to reopen and discovers that the workers refuse to enter the mine fearing an ancient curse. The couple enter the mine to prove there is no danger and inadvertently release a demon which possess people's left hands and forces them to behave in a suitably diabolical manner. The only way for a possessed person to free themselves from this torment is to cut off their left hand after which it scurries away in search of its next victim
Video Distributor : Video For Pleasure
Year : 1984
Running time : 99 Minutes
Actors : Samantha Eggar, Roy Cameron Jenson
Director : Alfredo Zacharias
The Toolbox Murders
The Toolbox Murders
Story : A lunatic runs around an apartment complex, apparently home only to attractive flight attendants with a tendency towards exhibitionism. While there, the lunatic tries to kill all the tenants with the contents of a toolbox. Based (probably quite loosely) on a true story.
Video Distributor : Video Media
Year : 1984
Running time : 93 minutes
Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Pamelyn Ferdin, Wesley Eure, Nicholas Beauvy
Director : Dennis Donnelly
Exorcism
Exorcism
Aka : Exorcismo
Story : The story in this horror movie involves a young woman's unknowing participation in a satanic ceremony which causes her to be possessed by the spirit of her dead father. She promptly begins exhibiting the standard symptoms - curses, vomiting, and even twisting the heads of a few people 180 degrees. Naschy plays the village priest summoned to perform the rites of exorcism, and must fend off the possessed's lewd advances before casting the evil spirit out of her body.
Video Distributor : Sunrise Tapes
Year : 1983
Running time : 90 minutes
Actors : Paul Naschy, Maria Perschy, Maria Kosty, Grace Mills
Director : Juan Bosch
Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home
Story : An escaped mental patient steals a station wagon and makes his way to the Bradleys' Thanksgiving celebration, where he plans to make them a little less thankful...
Video Distributor : Media
Year : 1983
Running time : 90 minutes
Actors : Jake Steinfeld, Sallee Elysse, Peter de Paula, Collete Trugg
Director : Nettie Pena
Fade To Black
Fade To Black
Story : Eric Binford watches a lot of movies. He is the truest definition of a film geek. One day, his sanity takes a turn for the worse and he begins acting out his favorite scenes from the movies. In doing so, he manages to involve his enemies and the scenes usually result in death
Video Distributor : Media
Year : 1982
Running time : 100 minutes
Actors : Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Normann Burton
Director : Vernon Zimmerman
Blackout
Blackout
Aka : Stroomstoring
Story : A black comedy of violent criminals who terrorize apartment dwellers during New York's 1977 power blackout
Video Disributor : Video For Pleasure
Year : 1984
Running time : 104 minutes
Actors : Robert Carradine, Jim Mitchum, Belinda Montgomery, Ray Milland
Director : Eddy Matalon
The Day Time Ended
The Day Time Ended
Story : Aliens visit the solar-powered house of a middle-class family, and the house is suddenly sucked into a time warp that takes it back to prehistoric times.
Video Distributor : Sunrise Tapes
Year : 1984
Running time : 79 minutes
Actors : Jim Davis, Dorothy Malone, Chris Mitchum, Marcy Lafferty
Director : John Cardos
Black Shampoo
Black Shampoo
Story : John Daniels stars as Jonathan Knight, the owner of "Mr. Jonathans", the most successful hair salon for women on the Sunset Strip. Jonathan is tall, muscular, black and ballsy. His reputation as a lover has become so awesome that he is sought after almost as much in that capacity as in his expertise as a hair stylist. Everything is cool for Jonathan until he messes with the mob in an effort to protect his young, attractive receptionist from her former boss. Action explodes when the "lovin' machine" becomes the "killing machine". Jonathan, equipped with chain saw in hand, gets down on the vicious mob gang.
Video Distributor : Video Media
Year : 1983
Running time : 83 minutes
Actors : John Daniels, Tanya Boyd, Gary Allen, kelly Beau
Director : Greydon Clark
Bigfoot and the Hendersons
Bigfoot and the Hendersons
aka : Harry And the Hendersons
Story : Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they examine the "body" they find it's a "bigfoot". They think it's dead so they decide to take it home (there could be some money in this..). As you guessed, "it" isn't dead. Far from being the ferocious monster they fear "Harry" to be, he's a friendly giant. In their attempts to keep Harry a secret, the Henderson's have to hide him from the authorities and a man, who has made it his goal in life, to catch a "bigfoot".
Video Distributor : Esselte CIC
Year : 1988
Running time : 105 minutes
Actors : John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Don Ameche
Directed by : William Dear
Ai man niu huo bing gong fu liang
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Ai man niu huo bing gong fu liang
Aka : In the Claws of the C.I.A.
Story : Kung fu champ John is given the chance to train CIA agents in martial arts by using self-hypnosis. But when he discovers the reason he escapes and the CIA go after him. John must fight for his life all over Europe as he flees the CIA
Video Distributor : Empire
Year : 1983
Running time : 102 minutes
Actors : John Liu, José María Blanco, Casanova Wong, Christian Anders, Roger Paschy, paul Will
Director : ?
Dead Bang
Dead Bang
Story : A cop is gunned down on Xmas eve. Jerry Beck, the homicide cop given the job of hunting the killer, investigates some leads which bring him into contact with a group of white supremacy extremists. In addition to the racists, Beck also has to contend with an unhelpful FBI agent.
Video Distributor : CNR Video
Year : 1990
Running time : 105 Minutes
Actors : Don Johnson, Penelope Ann Miller, William Forsythe
Director : John frankenheimer
Neon City
Neon City
Story : In the year 2053, the earth has been devastated by a military experiment gone awry. The ozone layer is gone, radioactive clouds drift across the plains, and unpredictable, intense bursts of ultra-violet sunlight (called "brights") incinerate anyone caught outside. In these conditions, a group of travelers are trying to get from the frontier town of Jericho to the paradise safe haven of Neon City: A doctor named Tom (Nick Klar), an old man with a mysterious past (Arsenio 'Sonny' Trinidad), a prostitute (Valerie Wildman), a spoiled rich girl (Juliet Landau), an untalented comedian (Richard Sanders), and a bounty hunter named Stark (Michael Ironside) with his valuable prisoner Reno (Vanity). They board an armored truck converted into a passenger transport driven by an ex-convict named Bulk (Lyle Alzado). Along they way, the travelers deal with passing though radioactive Xander clouds, 150F degrees of "brights", unstable paved roads, and nomadic motorcycle riders whom kill anyone venturing though their territory. During the journey, few, if any, of the passengers turn out to be what they initially appear.
Video Distributor : CNR Video
Year : 1992
Running time : 100 minutes
Actors : Vanity, Michael Ironside, Lyle Alzado, Valerie Wildman
Director : Monte Markham
Me'Ahorei Hasoragim
Me'Ahorei Hasoragim
Aka : Beyond the Walls
Story : In Israel's Central Prison, the security officer is corrupt, supplying drugs and stirring the hatred between Jewish and Arab prisoners to his advantage. Uri, in for 12 years for armed robbery, and Issan, in for 50 years for PLO violence, command the respect of their cells. When the Arabs are framed for the murder of a Jewish prisoner and a young inmate commits suicide rather than lie about what happened, Uri and Issan form an unlikely partnership, leading the security block on a strike. Prison officials try to break it. In the background are Uri's daughter and Issan's wife, women of beauty and passion who embody the distance from inside a cell to the outside
Video Distributor : Warner Home Video
Year : 1985
Running time : 103 minutes
Actors : Arnon Zadok, Hitel Ne'eman, Rami Danon, Muhamad Bakri, Assi Dayan, Boaz Sharaabi
Director : Uri Barbash
The Howling
The Howling
Story : There is a serial killer on the loose, Karen White is the only reporter he communicates with. After a near fatal encounter with him at an adult video store, she is ordered to take a vacation. Eddie was killed by Police, but Karen doesn't want to let it go and discovers that he came from a tiny community in the woods and that's where she decides to vacation with husband Bill. Big mistake, because Eddie was an outcast of a pack of Werewolves who is trying to keep a low profile and doesn't want any interviews. Can Karen and Bill escape the village of the wolf?
Video Distributor : Embassy home Entertainment
Year : 1983
Running time : 90 minutes
Actors : Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone
Director : Joe Dante
Clownhouse
Clownhouse
Story : Just before Halloween, three young brothers alone in a big house are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some traveling circus clowns and taken their identities
Video Distributor : Euro Screen
Year : 1990
Running time : 81 minutes
Actors : Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh, Sam Rockwell, Tree
Director : Victor Salva
Swamp Thing
Swamp Thing
Story : Dr. Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species - a combination of animal and plant capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions. Unfortunately he becomes subject of his own creation and is transformed . . . Arcane, desperate for the formula attempts to capture the Swamp Thing. An explosive chase ensues that ultimately ends with a confrontation between Holland and a changed Arcane . . .
Video Distributor : Warner Home Video
Year : 1987
Running time : 90 minutes
Actors : louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise, David Hess
Director : Wes Craven
Lady In White
Lady In White
Story : The year is 1962. The place is Willowpoint Falls. Nobody talks about what happened in the school cloakroom 10 years ago. Now, in the dead of night, Frankie Scarlatti is going to find out why.
Video Distributor : CNR Video
Year : 1989
Running time : 110 minutes
Actors : Lukas Haas, Katherine Helmond, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco
Director : Frank Laloggia
Red Heat
Red Heat
Story : Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Russian policeman sent after a Russian drug dealer who has escaped to the United States and is awaiting extradition in Chicago. Jim Belushi plays his temporary partner on the Chicago police. When the drug dealer escapes, the two police must overcome their differences in order to recapture him
Video Distributor : RCA Columbia
Year : 1989
Running time : 101 minutes
Actors : Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed O'Ross,Gina Gershon
Director : Walter Hill
At Close Range
At Close Range
Story : A boy and his friends seek to join a mid-atlantic gang led by the boy's estranged father, unaware that his father's ruthlessness takes no account of family ties.
Video Distributor : RCA Columbia
Year : 1987
Running time : 109 minutes
Actors : Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson
Director : James Foley
Cocoon
Cocoon
Story : A group of aliens return to earth to take back some cocoons of their people they left behind from an earlier trip. The cocoons are resting at the bottom of the ocean. They kept the recovered cocoons in the swimming pool of a house they rented in a small Florida town. Their mission is hampered by a number of old people from an elderly home nearby, who have been secretly using the pool and discovering the unusual power of these cocoons
Video Distributor : CBS/Fox Video
Year : 1986
Runing time :110 minutes
Actors : Don Ameche, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jesica Tandy
Director : Ron Howard
Suspect
Suspect
Story : A judge commits suicide, and his secretary is found murdered. A homeless deaf-mute man, Carl Anderson is arrested for her murder. Public defender Kathleen is assigned by the court as his lawyer. She sets to find the real killer, and gets help from the congressional advisor, Eddie Sanger who is called to be on the jury panel. Together they discover a dangerous circle of corruption in high places.
Video Distributor : RCA Columbia
Year : 1988
Running time : 117 minutes
Actors : Cher, Liam Neeson, Dennis Quaid, Joe Mantegna
Director : Peter Yates
Cross Country
Cross Country
Aka : Vuil Spel
Story : After a woman is found butchered in her New York apartment, suspicion falls on her estranged husband, an ad executive who has suddenly left town on a cross-country road trip. He takes along a beautiful girl he met in a bar and a drifter he picked up along the way. A cop sets out after the husband, but he's more interested in shaking him down than bringing him back
Video Distributor : CNR Video
Year : 1986
Running time : 100 minutes
Actors : Nina Axelrod, Richard Beymer, Michael Ironside, Brent Carver
Director : Paul Lynch
Kill Slade
Kill Slade
Story : He's Wanted by the bad guys and the good guys. In fact everyone wants to Kill Slade
Video Distributor : RCA Columbia
Year : 1990
Running time : 85 minutes
Actors : Patrick Dollaghan, Lisa Brady, Danny Keogh
Director : Bruce McFarlane
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