Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (
1989) | IMDb:
6.9
Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus, a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus' time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.
Starring:
Keanu Reeves
,
Alex Winter
,
George Carlin
,
Robert V. Barron
,
Terry Camilleri
,
Clifford David
The Return of the Living Dead (
1985) | IMDb:
7.3
When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout the town, and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss and a mysterious mortician.
Starring:
Clu Gulager
,
James Karen
,
Don Calfa
,
Thom Mathews
,
Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
,
Beverly Randolph
The Terminator (
1984) | IMDb:
8.1
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
Starring:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
,
Michael Biehn
,
Linda Hamilton
,
Paul Winfield
,
Lance Henriksen
,
Rick Rossovich
Thief (
1981) | IMDb:
7.4
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score.
Motel Hell (
1980) | IMDb:
6
Farmer Vincent Smith and his sister Ida run a motel attached to a farm where they capture unsuspecting travelers, bury them alive, fatten them up and then harvest their bodies as ingredients for his famous brand of "smoked meats."
The China Syndrome (
1979) | IMDb:
7.4
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.