Soul Man (
1986) | IMDb:
5.3
A white prospective grad student's affluent family won't pay his way through law school, so he takes tanning pills to darken his skin in order to qualify for an African-American scholarship at Harvard. He soon gets more than he bargained for, as he begins to learn what life is really like for blacks in America.
Starring:
C. Thomas Howell
,
Rae Dawn Chong
,
Arye Gross
,
James Earl Jones
,
Melora Hardin
,
Leslie Nielsen
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
The Philadelphia Experiment (
1984) | IMDb:
6.1
Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.
Starring:
Michael Paré
,
Nancy Allen
,
Eric Christmas
,
Bobby Di Cicco
,
Louise Latham
,
Kene Holliday