Off Beat

Off Beat

Story : Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks. And he dances.

Video Distributor : Cannon

Year : 1986

Running time : 88 minutes

Actors : Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Cleavant Derricks, Jacques D'amboise, Harvey Keitel

Director : Michael Dinner

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Honneponnetje

Honneponnetje

( Honeybun)

Story : Author: Coventry wrote on IMDB

Honneponnetje is a completely meaningless, but very entertaining 80's comedy from the Netherlands. It's a light-hearted waste of time, made with a lot of enthusiasm and goodwill from both cast and crew. The unusual title refers to the star girl's name in the film. She's a sixteen-year-old cutie, stuck behind the walls of a very strict and prudish Catholic boarding school. She manages to get her hands on some erotic literature and she quickly becomes curious and intrigued by the act of lovemaking. So, our little sweetheart independently decides to escape the boarding school and hikes to a nearby city to find out the meaning of `love'. The entire comical premise of the film handles about the girl's innocence and naïveté. She doesn't understand the sexist and anti-feminist remarks men make about her looks and she willingly follows anyone who tries to abuse her youthful beauty. She even ends up on the set of a pornographic movie without knowing what's going on! Meanwhile, mother Superior worries about her institute's good reputation and spreads the word that Honneponnetje has been kidnapped. Like usual in this type of films, there's a forced happy ending and a happy happy joy joy moral attached to it. But, dropping all skepticism, Honneponnetje is good fun and sexy entertainment. Nada Van Nie, whose tender appearance really helps this film's credibility, plays the girl. Other than this film, she only starred (by my knowledge) in `Intensive Care'. A film that might as well can be referred to as the worst Dutch film ever. The Belgian class actor Herbert Flack has a delightful role as the adult film producer called `Apollo'.
Funniest scene: The young beauty sees her own breasts for the first time and looks amazed. In the boarding school, she was only allowed to wash herself while wearing a long, white virgin robe.

Video Distributor : Cannon

Year : 1988

Running time : 93 minutes

Actors : Nada Van Nie, Herbert Flack, Marc Hazewinkel, Nora Kretz

Director: Ruud Van Hemert

trailer uploaded by myself ( original Dutch spoken with introduction from lead actress nada van Nie )

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Restless Natives

Restless Natives

Story : Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In the process they become folk heroes to the locals. Their adventures make for a whimsical and gentle comedy, in the Bill Forsyth vein.

Video Distributor : Cannon

Year : 1986

Running time : 85 minutes

Actors : Vincent Friell, Joe Mullaney, Teri Lally, Ned Beatty, Bernard Hill

Director : Michael Hoffman

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Fifty Fifty

Fifty Fifty

Story : Two bickering mercenaries are hired by the CIA to overthrow a South East Asian dictator.

Video Distributor : Cannon

Year : 1992

Running time : 97 minutes

Actors : Peter Weller, Robert Hays

Director : Charles Martin Smith

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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

Story : A Tokyo businessman (Hiroshi Hada), transferred to L.A, molests a teenage girl (Amy Hathaway) on a train. It turns out that the girl is the daughter of a vice cop (Charles Bronson). But in one of those plot twists that can only occur in the movies, the cop is assigned to find the businessman's own daughter who has been kidnapped and forced into a teen prostitution ring.

Video Distributor : Cannon

Year : 1989

Running time : 93 minutes

Actors : Charles Bronson, Perry Lopez, james Pax, Peggy Lipton

Director : J.Lee Thompson

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Wild Thing

Wild Thing

Story : A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of the area who are being terrorized by street gangs and drug dealers.

Video Distributor : Cannon

Year : 1988

Running time : 92 minutes

Actors : Rob Knepper, Kathleen Quinlan, Robert Davi, Betty Buckley

Director : Max Reid

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The Brain Machine

The Brain Machine

Story : Several people volunteer for a scientific experiment about mind-reading and memory, but the experiment goes horribly wrong.

Video Distributor : Esselte CIC for Cannon

Year : 1983

Running time : 95 minutes

Actors : James Best, Barbara Burgess, Gil Peterson

Director: Joy N. Houck Jr.

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9 deaths of the Ninja

9 Deaths of the Ninja

Story : A group of drug runners/freedom fighters has kidnapped a busload of tourists in the Philippines and is threatening to kill them all if one of their partners is not released from prison and the government doesn't halt its anti-drug policies. To stop the criminals, a trio of specialist soldiers are called in. Even with all their training, will they be able to stop the terrorists when they begin killing hostages and turning loose their squads of attack midgets?

Video Distributor : Cannon video

Year : 1986

Running time : 94 minutes

Actors : Shô Kosugi, Brent Huff, Emilia Lesniak, Regina Richardson

Director : Emmet Alston

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Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa

Story : George, after getting out of prison, begins looking for a job, but his time in prison has reduced his stature in the criminal underworld. The only job he can find is to be a driver for Simone, a beautiful high-priced call girl, with whom he forms an at first grudging, and then real affection. Only Simone's playing a dangerous game, and when George agrees to help her, they both end up in a huge amount of trouble with Mortwell, the local kingpin.

Video Distributor : Cannon video

Year : 1987

Running time : 99 minutes

Actors : Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Caine

Director : Neil Jordan

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Wisdom

Wisdom .

Story : John Wisdom, a recent college graduate, is looking for a job, but is turned down, due to a past felony conviction of grand theft auto. After several tries, he decides to become a modern Robin Hood, in which he goes into local banks and destroy property record transactions. His girlfriend later kills a police officer, when he recognizes her picture, and the chase winds up to an end in a Minneapolis area high school

Video Distributor : Cannon

Year : 1988

Running time : 105 minutes

Actors : Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, William Allen Young

Director : Emilio Estevez

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Masters of the Universe

Masters of the Universe

Story : On the planet Eternia, the evil Skeletor and his army of darkness have taken over Castle Greyskull, the mysterious castle, and imprisoned The Sorceress of Greyskull, and Skeletor has begun draining The Sorceress of Greyskull's powers as he bids to claim the powers of Greyskull and become master of the universe. Mighty warrior He-Man, the most powerful man in the universe and his companions loyal soldier Man-at-Arms, his daughter Teela and a dwarf inventor named Gwildor accidentally finds themselves on Earth, by Gwildor's creation, The Cosmic Key, a device that can open portals that lead to any part of the galaxy, which Skeletor requires in his goal for universal conquest. But when the Comsic Key is taken in possession by Julie Winston and her boyfriend Kevin, both unaware Earth is about to become a battleground, as Skeletor and his mercenaries arrives on Earth, as they go in pursuit of He-Man and his companions who are searching for The Cosmic Key so they can return to Eternia and defeat Skeletor.

Video Distributor : Cannon

Year : 1988

Running time : 110 minutes

Actors : Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Courtney Cox, James Tolkan

Director : Gary Goddard

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Highlander

Highlander

Story : Connor Macleod was born in 1518 in the Highlands of Scotland. In 1536, after facing a mysterious, evil opponent, he survives a fatal stab wound and is banished from his village, for they believe his survival is the work of the Devil. Five years later, Macleod is met by Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez, a swordsman who teaches Macleod the awful truth; he is immortal, one of a race of many who can only die when the head is cut from the body. When one immortal takes the head of another, the loser's power is absorbed into the winner. Ramirez teaches Macleod the ways of the sword, until Ramirez is tragically killed by Connor's ultimate opponent, the evil Kurgan, a murderous immortal brute who lusts for the ultimate power of the immortals, "The Prize"; enough power to rule the earth forever. Connor fights his way through the centuries, until the time of the Gathering, when the few immortals who have survived the endless battles come together to fight until only one remains, and that winner will receive The Prize. The time: 1985. The place: New York City. The final fight is about to begin, and in the end, there can be only one.

Video Distributor : Cannon

Year : 1986

Running time : 111 minutes

Actors : Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown

Director : Russel Mulcahy

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Cat's Eye

Cat's Eye

Story : Three horror-thriller tales based on three Stephen King short stories all revolving around a mysterious stray cat which is attempting to find a little girl in trouble after having a vision. In "Quitters, Inc." the cat is picked up by a certain Dr. Donatti (Alan King) a shady New York "doctor" who uses experimental techniques to get people to quit smoking and his latest client is Morrison (James Woods) who learns some drastic consequences if he tries to cheat his step-by-step quit smoking policy. In "The Ledge" the cat is picked up by Cressner (Kienneth McMillan) a shady Atlantic City millionaire who forces tennis pro Norris (Robert Hays) his wife's adulterous lover, to walk a narrow ledge around his high-rise penthouse apartment. In final segment "The General", the cat arrives in Wilmington, North Carolina where it is found by the young girl Amanda (Drew Barrymore) it has been sent to protect... from a tiny, evil, troll who lives behind the skirting board in Amanda's bedroom.

Video Distributor : Cannon

Year : 1986

Running time : 90 minutes

Actors : Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Alan King, Candy Clark

Director : Lewis Teague

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