Short Circuit (
1986) | IMDb:
6.6
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.
Starring:
Ally Sheedy
,
Steve Guttenberg
,
Fisher Stevens
,
Austin Pendleton
,
G.W. Bailey
,
Brian McNamara
Endangered Species (
1982) | IMDb:
5.8
A retired New York cop on vacation in America's West is drawn into a sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.
Directed by:
Alan Rudolph
White Dog (
1982) | IMDb:
7
A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.
Starring:
Kristy McNichol
,
Paul Winfield
,
Burl Ives
,
Jameson Parker
,
Christa Lang
,
Vernon Weddle
Directed by:
Samuel Fuller
Carbon Copy (
1981) | IMDb:
5.6
A middle-aged married wealthy white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a working-class black teen-age son who wants to be adopted into the almost-exclusively-white upper-middle-class community of San Marino, California.
Starring:
Denzel Washington
,
George Segal
,
Susan Saint James
,
Jack Warden
,
Paul Winfield
,
Macon McCalman
Directed by:
Michael Schultz
Norma Rae (
1979) | IMDb:
7.3
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
Family Plot (
1976) | IMDb:
6.8
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.