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Jaws 2
Genres: Thriller, Horror
Starring: Barry Coe, Jeffrey Kramer, Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Mark Gruner
Directors: Jeannot Szwarc
Country: USA
Year: 1978
Four years after the events of the original "Jaws", the town of Amity suddenly experiences series of mysterious boating accidents and disappearances. Chief of Police, Martin Brody, fears that another shark is out there, but he is ignored by the townsfolk. Unfortunately, he's right. There is another Great White in the sea. And it wants revenge.
Nighthawks
Genres: Drama
Starring: Ken Robertson, Tony Westrope, Rachel Nicholas James, Maureen Dolan, Stuart Craig Turton, Clive Peters, Robert Merrick
Directors: Ron Peck
Country: UK
Year: 1978
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
A homosexual man is forced to hide his sexuality by day while living his secret life by night.
Go Tell the Spartans
Genres: Drama, War
Starring: James Hong, Burt Lancaster, David Clennon, Clyde Kusatsu, Joe Unger, Dolph Sweet, Marc Singer
Directors: Ted Post
Country: USA
Year: 1978
A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement find similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French unit at the same site a decade before in this bitter look at the beginnings of the Vietnam war.
The Thirty Nine Steps
Genres: Thriller
Starring: George Baker, Timothy West, Ronald Pickup, Robert Flemyng, William Squire, David Warner, John Mills
Directors: Don Sharp
Country: UK
Year: 1978
The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian 'sleeper' agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the 'sleepers'. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder's death but by the agents who is headed by Applet...
Heaven Can Wait
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
Starring: Vincent Gardenia, Dyan Cannon, Julie Christie, James Mason, Charles Grodin, Arthur Malet, Jack Warden
Directors: Warren Beatty, Buck Henry
Country: USA
Year: 1978
Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
Death on the Nile
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Starring: I.S. Johar, Jon Finch, Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Maggie Smith, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow
Directors: John Guillermin
Country: UK
Year: 1978
Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot has a set of murder suspects on a boat in the Nile after a rich heiress is killed. Can he find the culprit before they reach port ?
Bloodline
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Romance
Starring: Omar Sharif, Beatrice Straight, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Marcel Bozzuffi, Audrey Hepburn, Claudia Mori
Directors: Terence Young
Country: USA, West Germany
Year: 1979
Sam Roffe, president of a multi-national pharmaceutical corporation, is killed while mountain-climbing. It is first determined to be an accident, but Inspector Max Hormung later deduces that Roffe was murdered. Sam's daughter Elizabeth assumes control of the company, and while traveling through Europe she immediately becomes a target as well. Suspicion falls on the Roffe cousins, all of whom want to go public with the company and sell their stock at a huge profit. Since this would be against her father's wishes, Elizabeth rejects their advice and decides to keep the company within the family. As Inspector Hormung investigates the background o...
Caligula
Genres: Drama, History
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, John Gielgud, Teresa Ann Savoy, John Steiner, Guido Mannari
Directors: Tinto Brass, Bob Guccione
Country: USA, Italy
Year: 1979
The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more.
Dracula
Genres: Romance, Horror
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Frank Langella, Kate Nelligan, Laurence Olivier, Tony Haygarth, Janine Duvitski, Trevor Eve
Directors: John Badham
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1979
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
When a ship is wrecked off Whitby, the only survivor, Count Dracula, is discovered lying on the beach by the sickly young Mina, who is visiting her dear friend Lucy Seward. Lucy, her fianc
Kramer vs. Kramer
Genres: Drama
Starring: Meryl Streep, JoBeth Williams, Jane Alexander, Dustin Hoffman, Justin Henry, Howard Duff, George Coe
Directors: Robert Benton
Country: USA
Year: 1979
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. When he has learned to adjust his life to these new responsibilities, Joanna resurfaces and wants Billy back. Ted however refuses to give him up, so they go to court to fight for the custody of their son.
1941
Genres: Comedy, War
Starring: John Candy, Ned Beatty, Treat Williams, Christopher Lee, Dan Aykroyd, Robert Stack, John Belushi
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Country: USA
Year: 1979
Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl harbour as an assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion in this big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine crew scout out the madness.
The Wanderers
Genres: Action, Drama
Starring: Val Avery, Karen Allen, Erland van Lidth, Tony Ganios, Ken Wahl, John Friedrich, Alan Rosenberg
Directors: Philip Kaufman
Country: USA
Year: 1979
Set against the urban jungle of 1963 New York's gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage movie is set around the Italian gang the Wanderers. Slight comedy, slight High School angst and every bit entertaining with its classic 1950's Rock n' Roll soundtrack such as "Walk Like a Man", "Big Girls Don't Cry" by The Four Seasons and "My Boyfriend's Back" by The Angels. Focusing around a football game where the different gangs play with and against each other, then at its grand finale, come together in a mass of union to defend their honour and their turf. Nostalgic stuff and above all a Rock n' Roll retrospective on a grand musical era. Time...
Murder by Decree
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Starring: Anthony Quayle, Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Frank Finlay, John Gielgud, Donald Sutherland, David Hemmings
Directors: Bob Clark
Country: UK, Canada
Year: 1979
Sherlock Holmes investigates London's most infamous case, Jack the Ripper. As he investigates, he finds that the Ripper has friends in high places.
Phantasm
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Starring: Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Kathy Lester, Terrie Kalbus, Kenneth V. Jones
Directors: Don Coscarelli
Country: USA
Year: 1979
Mike, a young teenage boy who has just lost his parents, is afraid to lose his brother. This fear causes him to follow his brother to a funeral, where Mike witnesses the Tall Man lift a coffin on his own. Mike decides to investigate and discovers a horrible world where the Tall Man, along with his flying spheres, shrink the to half their normal size and reanimate them as slaves. It is then up to Mike, his brother, and Reggie the ice cream man to stop the Tall man.
Rocky II
Genres: Drama, Sport
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Joe Spinell, Tony Burton, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers
Directors: Sylvester Stallone
Country: USA
Year: 1979
In the aftermath of his celebrated match with World Heavyweight Champion Apollo Creed, Rocky Balboa enjoys his success, and the money he earned from the match (Which Apollo won by split decision and therefore retained the heavyweight championship.). He marries his fianc
Cruising
Genres: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Starring: Gene Davis, Al Pacino, Karen Allen, Paul Sorvino, Richard Cox, Don Scardino, Joe Spinell
Directors: William Friedkin
Country: USA, West Germany
Year: 1980
A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S&M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated from his department, he has to learn and practice the complex rules and signals of this little society. While barely seeing his girlfriend Nancy anymore, the work starts changing him.
The Exterminator
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Starring: George Cheung, Christopher George, Samantha Eggar, Robert Ginty, Steve James, Tony DiBenedetto, Dick Boccelli
Directors: James Glickenhaus
Country: USA
Year: 1980
When John Eastland's best friend, Michael Jefferson, is mugged and left permanently crippled, he decides to do something about it. Jefferson had saved Eastland's life in Vietnam and now it's time for Eastland to get revenge for his friend. Using his old Army gear he sets out on a crusade to clean up the streets of New York using the name "The Exterminator."
Don't Answer the Phone!
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Starring: Nicholas Worth, James Westmoreland, Ben Frank, Denise Galik, Stan Haze, Gary Allen, Michael D. Castle
Directors: Robert Hammer
Country: USA
Year: 1980
A deeply disturbed photographer and Vietnam veteran, named Kirk Smith, terrorizes Los Angeles by going around strangling lingerie-clad young women in their homes while taunting Lindsay Gale, a young psychologist, by calling her on a radio call-in show to describe his sexual hang-ups and misogynistic ways, while a local police detective, Lt. McCable, is always two steps behind in trying to catch the psycho.
Alligator
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Starring: Robert Forster, Dean Jagger, Bart Braverman, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Sydney Lassick, Jack Carter
Directors: Lewis Teague
Country: USA
Year: 1980
Ramon the alligator is flushed down the toilet as a baby and grows into a gargantuan monster by eating the corpses of laboratory animals who have undergone dubious hormone experiments, thus providing all the ecological and social subtext that one could possibly wish for, even if one doesn't normally go for films about giant alligators eating people left, right, and center--which is the inevitable and tragic result of Ramon's decision that the outside world looks rather more interesting than the sewers....
Fame
Genres: Drama, Music
Starring: Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean, Antonia Franceschi, Boyd Gaines, Albert Hague
Directors: Alan Parker
Country: USA
Year: 1980
At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. This movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation. They are the brazen Coco Hernandez, shy Doris Finsecker, sensitive gay Montgomery MacNeil, and brash, abrasive Raul Garcia.