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1980s Independent Movies (Indie)

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The Terminator(1984)

R
| 1h 48min | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
3.8/5 (with 6,004 votes)

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?

Directed by James Cameron - With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Earl Boen, Lance Henriksen, ...
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RoboCop(1987)

R
| 1h 42min | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 2,315 votes)

In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.

Directed by Paul Verhoeven - With Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer, ...
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The Evil Dead(1981)

NC-17
| 1h 25min | Horror
3.7/5 (with 1,692 votes)

In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.

Directed by Sam Raimi - With Bruce Campbell, Betsy Baker, Richard DeManincor, Theresa Tilly, Ellen Sandweiss, Sam Raimi, ...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street(1984)

R
| 1h 31min | Horror
3.7/5 (with 2,352 votes)

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

Directed by Wes Craven - With Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Johnny Depp, John Saxon, Charles Fleischer, Ronee Blakley, ...
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Platoon(1986)

R
| 2h | Drama, War, Action
3.9/5 (with 1,946 votes)

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Directed by Oliver Stone - With Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Keith David, ...
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First Blood(1982)

R
| 1h 33min | Action, Adventure, Thriller, War
3.7/5 (with 2,872 votes)

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

Directed by Ted Kotcheff - With Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Bill McKinney, David Caruso, Jack Starrett, ...
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Stand by Me(1986)

R
| 1h 29min | Crime, Drama
3.9/5 (with 2,471 votes)

Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern are four friends who decide to hike to find the corpse of Ray Brower, a local teenager, who was hit by a train while plucking blueberries in the wild.

Directed by Rob Reiner - With Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland, Richard Dreyfuss, ...
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Forbidden Zone(1980)

1h 14min | Music, Comedy, Fantasy
3.2/5 (with 38 votes)

A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When Frenchy slips through the door, King Fausto falls in love with her. The jealous Queen Doris takes Frenchy prisoner, and it is up to the Hercules family and friend Squeezit Henderson to rescue her.

Directed by Richard Elfman - With Hervé Villechaize, Danny Elfman, Joe Spinell, Susan Tyrrell, Matthew Bright, Phil Gordon, ...
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Child's Play(1988)

R
| 1h 27min | Horror
3.3/5 (with 1,351 votes)

A single mother gives her son a beloved doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.

Directed by Tom Holland - With Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Brad Dourif, Dinah Manoff, Alex Vincent, Alex Vincent, ...
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Teen Wolf(1985)

PG
| 1h 31min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 477 votes)

When a shy teenager's new-found powers help him score at basketball - and with the popular girls - he has some pretty hairy decisions to make.

Directed by Rod Daniel - With Michael J. Fox, Lorie Griffin, James Hampton, Susan Ursitti, Jerry Levine, Mark Arnold, ...
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Blue Velvet(1986)

R
| 2h | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 1,406 votes)

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.

Directed by David Lynch - With Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell, ...
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King Kong Lives(1986)

PG-13
| 1h 45min | Fantasy, Action, Adventure
2.6/5 (with 81 votes)

After falling from the Twin Towers, Kong lies in a coma for ten years. When his heart begins to fail, scientists engineer an artificial heart, and a giant female ape is captured to serve as a source for a blood transfusion. When Kong awakens following his heart transplant, he senses the nearby presence of the female ape and the two escape to wreak havoc together.

Directed by John Guillermin - With Linda Hamilton, Brian Kerwin, Peter Elliott, John Ashton, Peter Michael Goetz, Jeff Bridges, ...
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Friday the 13th(1980)

R
| 1h 35min | Horror
3.2/5 (with 1,224 votes)

Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

Directed by Sean S. Cunningham - With Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Kevin Bacon, Rex Everhart, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, ...
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Dirty Dancing(1987)

PG-13
| 1h 40min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 2,723 votes)

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.

Directed by Emile Ardolino - With Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes, Kelly Bishop, Jane Brucker, ...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge(1985)

R
| 1h 27min | Horror
2.9/5 (with 846 votes)

Jesse Walsh moves with his family into the home of the lone survivor from a series of attacks by dream-stalking monster Freddy Krueger. There, Jesse is bedeviled by nightmares and inexplicably violent impulses. It turns out Freddy needs a host body to carry out his gruesome vendetta against the youth of Springwood, Ohio. While Freddy gains influence, Jesse and his girlfriend, Lisa race against the clock trying to figure out what's going on.

Directed by Jack Sholder - With Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler, Clu Gulager, Hope Lange, Robert Englund, ...
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Mad Max 2(1981)

R
| 1h 36min | Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
3.7/5 (with 1,567 votes)

Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.

Directed by George Miller - With Mel Gibson, Michael Preston, Bruce Spence, Vernon Wells, Kjell Nilsson, Virginia Hey, ...
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Paris, Texas(1984)

R
| 2h 26min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 732 votes)

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

Directed by Wim Wenders - With Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, Bernhard Wicki, John Lurie, ...
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome(1985)

PG-13
| 1h 47min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 1,206 votes)

Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.

Directed by George Miller, George Ogilvie - With Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Angry Anderson, Bruce Spence, Angelo Rossitto, Helen Buday, ...
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Mannequin(1987)

PG
| 1h 29min | Fantasy, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 299 votes)

Jonathan Switcher, an unemployed artist, finds a job as an assistant window dresser for a department store. When Jonathan happens upon a beautiful mannequin he previously designed, she springs to life and introduces herself as Emmy, an Egyptian under an ancient spell. Despite interference from the store's devious manager, Jonathan and his mannequin fall in love while creating eye-catching window displays to keep the struggling store in business.

Directed by Michael Gottlieb - With Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Estelle Getty, James Spader, G. W. Bailey, Meshach Taylor, ...

The Breakfast Club(1985)

R
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Drama
3.9/5 (with 3,607 votes)

Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.

Directed by John Hughes - With Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Paul Gleason, ...
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Dressed to Kill(1980)

R
| 1h 45min | Mystery, Horror, Crime, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 368 votes)

After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.

Directed by Brian De Palma - With Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz, David Margulies, ...
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The Howling(1981)

R
| 1h 31min | Horror
3.3/5 (with 312 votes)

After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.

Directed by Joe Dante - With Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone, Belinda Balaski, Robert Picardo, ...
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Blow Out(1981)

R
| 1h 48min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 606 votes)

Jack Terry is a master sound recordist who works on grade-B horror movies. Late one evening, he is recording sounds for use in his movies when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him when the media become involved, and he begins to unravel the pieces of a nefarious conspiracy. As he struggles to survive against his shadowy enemies and expose the truth, he does not know whom he can trust.

Directed by Brian De Palma - With John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz, Bernie Rachelle, John McMartin, ...
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Hamburger Hill(1987)

R
| 1h 52min | War, Action, Drama
3.3/5 (with 183 votes)

The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.

Directed by John Irvin - With Dylan McDermott, Steven Weber, Courtney B. Vance, Don Cheadle, Michael Boatman, Anthony Barrile, ...
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Fright Night(1985)

R
| 1h 46min | Comedy, Horror
3.5/5 (with 566 votes)

Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; but no one seems willing to believe him.

Directed by Tom Holland - With Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse, Stephen Geoffreys, Roddy McDowall, Jonathan Stark, ...
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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers(1988)

R
| 1h 28min | Horror, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 824 votes)

The apparently comatose Michael Myers is being transferred from one hospital to another, but he wakes up when the ambulance crew talk about his surviving niece, Jamie. After slaughtering his attendants, Myers sets out to find his one living relative who is, fortunately, being cared for by a kind and resourceful foster sister named Rachel. Meanwhile, the ever-cautious Dr. Loomis remains on the killer's path.

Directed by Dwight H. Little - With Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, Michael Pataki, Sasha Jenson, Beau Starr, ...
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The Fog(1980)

R
| 1h 29min | Horror
3.4/5 (with 633 votes)

Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

Directed by John Carpenter - With Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Houseman, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook, Tom Atkins, ...
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Private Lessons(1981)

R
| 1h 27min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 42 votes)

Phillip Filmore is a naive, 15-year-old, preoccupied with sex, who develops a crush on Nicole Mallow, the new 30-something, French housekeeper and sitter to look after him when Phillip's father is out of town for the summer on a "business" trip. But Mr. Filmore's unscrupulous chauffeur, Lester Lewis, takes advantage of Phillip's crush on Nicole to hire her to seduce the youth, then draws her into a plot to fake her own death in a blackmail scheme aimed to drain Phillip's trust fund.

Directed by Alan Myerson - With Sylvia Kristel, Eric Brown, Ed Begley, Jr., Howard Hesseman, Pamela Bryant

The Return of the Living Dead(1985)

R
| 1h 31min | Horror, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 872 votes)

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.

Directed by Dan O'Bannon - With Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Linnea Quigley, Thom Mathews, Jewel Shepard, ...
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To Live and Die in L.A.(1985)

R
| 1h 56min | Crime, Thriller, Action
3.6/5 (with 251 votes)

A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.

Directed by William Friedkin - With William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Debra Feuer, Darlanne Fluegel, John Turturro, ...
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