To escape his captors an industrial spy hijacks a space shuttle only to find the controls malfunctioning. Catapulting through outerspace, he sights alien battleships approaching earth. Many years later when the arc of his flight path returns him to earth, he discovers the planet is completely under alien domination, totally devastated by thermo-nuclear battles. Desperate and alone, he searches for any human existence. Finding a group of survivors, together they fight the aliens to save mankind.

Ethnic Notions

1986

English

8.0

♡ 4

79%

Marlon Riggs Director

Leni Sloan as Cast: Choreographer

Larry C. Levine as Cast: UC Berkeley

Pat Turner as Cast UMass Boston

Esther Rolle as Narrator

This documentary traces the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice.

Deadly Friend

1986

English

5.6

♡ 18

20%

38%

Action

artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence (a.i.)

based on novel or book

Wes Craven Director

Charles Fleischer as BB

Anne Twomey as Jeannie

Kristy Swanson as Samantha

Michael Sharrett as Tom

When tragedy strikes his remarkable robot and the beautiful girl next door, lonely teenage genius Paul tries to save them by pushing technology beyond its known limits into a terrifying new realm.

Brighton Beach Memoirs

1986

English

6.8

♡ 2

71%

79%

Action

based on play or musical

breaking the fourth wall

brooklyn, new york city

Comedy

coming of age

great depression

semi autobiographical

Gene Saks Director

Judith Ivey as Blanche

Jonathan Silverman as Eugene Morris Jerome

Stacey Glick as Laurie

Lisa Waltz as Nora

Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.

Malcolm

1986

English

7.1

♡ 6

84%

Nadia Tass Director

Heather Mitchell as Barmaid

Colin Friels as Malcolm Hughes

Tony Mahood as Tram Conductor

Charles 'Bud' Tingwell as Tramways supervisor

Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. With Frank's help, Malcolm turns to a life of crime.

The Malibu Bikini Shop

1986

English

4.8

♡ 11

29%

David Wechter Director

Beverly Sanders as Berta Hilgard

Amanda Horan Kennedy as Ronnie

Bruce Greenwood as Todd

Gretchen Palmer as Woman

After inheriting a failing bikini shop, two recent grads decide to make a go of it. One, in the hopes of building it into a successful business, the other, in the hopes of getting to look at lots of women in (and out) of swimsuits. As they try more and more outrageous ways of drumming up business, their antics begin attracting some unwanted attention.

Nightmare Weekend

1986

English

3.6

♡ 5

20%

Henri Sala Director

Robert John Burke as Dave

Dale Midkiff as Ken

Andrea Thompson as Linda

Karen Mayo-Chandler as Sue

A female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling, murderous mutants.

Jimi Plays Monterey

1986

English

8.1

♡ 8

Action

concert film

Documentary

monterey pop festival

Music

woman director

Chris Hegedus Director

John Lennon as Self

George Harrison as Self

Paul McCartney as Self

Art Garfunkel as Self

Jimi Hendrix's debut American set at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival is generally considered one of the most radical and legendary live shows ever. Virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, even though he was already an established entity in the UK, Hendrix and his two-piece Experience explode on stage, ripping through blues classics "Rock Me Baby" and Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor," interpreting and electrifying Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," debuting songs from his yet-to-be-released first album and closing with the now historic sacrificing/burning of his guitar during an unhinged version of "Wild Thing" that even its writer Chip Taylor would never have imagined. Hendrix uses feedback and distortion to enhance the songs in whisper-to-scream intensity, blazing territory that had not been previously explored with as much soul-frazzled power.

Kamikaze

1986

French

5.9

♡ 5

Didier Grousset Director

Arielle Sémenoff as La présentatrice

Blanche Ravalec as La speakerine #3 en différé

Dominique Lavanant as Laure

Richard Bohringer as L'inspecteur Romain Pascot

A disgruntled scientist is fired from his job; slipping into madness, he invents a machine which harnesses the airwaves and can shoot people through the TV screen.

Man Facing Southeast

1986

Spanish

7.6

♡ 9

86%

psychological thriller

Sci-Fi

telekinesis

Eliseo Subiela Director

Horacio Marassi as

Tito Haas as Plainclothes Policeman

Aldo Barbero as (voice)

Noemí Frenkel as (voice)

A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himself unhappy, and affected by the patient's insight. But he is ordered to treat the patient according to institutional procedure.

The Adventures of Milo and Otis

1986

Japanese

6.9

♡ 6

80%

Masanori Hata Director

Dudley Moore as Narrator

Kyôko Koizumi as Poetry Recitation Chatran

Chatran as Self

Pû as Self

When Milo the cat and Otis the dog are separated, they each set off on an adventurous and often perilous quest across mountains, plains, and snow-covered lands to reunite with one another.

Witchboard

1986

English

5.7

♡ 16

53%

Kevin Tenney Director

Todd Allen as Jim Morar

Tawny Kitaen as Linda Brewster

Rose Marie as Mrs. Moses

Kathleen Wilhoite as Zarabeth

Playing around with a Ouija board, a trio of friends succeeds in contacting the spirit of a young boy. Trouble begins when the evil spirit, Malfeitor, takes over one of their bodies.

Silk

1986

English

3.9

♡ 8

27%

Cirio H. Santiago Director

Eric Hahn as Cop

Ramon D'Salva as Governor

Joseph Zucchero as Travis

Joe Mari Avellana as Yashi

Silk, the toughest cop in Honolulu, busts small time smugglers only to reveal a larger syndicate smuggling Asian mobsters into the States by buying the identities of Hawaiian citizens.

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies

1986

Japanese

7.0

♡ 1

Action

Comedy

Drama

Yôji Yamada Director

Takashi Sasano as

Kaori Momoi as Empress Akiko

Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo

Keiko Matsuzaka as Sumie Kawashima

Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. After the studio's top leading lady is embroiled in a scandal, Koharu is suddenly thrust into the limelight when she replaces her in a film and gains instant fame and fortune. But the going is not always easy, and she soon seeks help from unexpected quarters.

Where's Officer Tuba?

1986

Cn

5.9

♡ 3

Action

Comedy

Fantasy

Philip Chan Director

Jacky Cheung as Cheung

Bolo Yeung as Henchman

David Wu as Molester

Sammo Kam-Bo Hung as Tuba

Tuba is a fainthearted cop who prefers to play in the brass section of the police band to pounding the streets. One day, he finds himself caught up in an extortion case with trigger-happy detective Rambo Chow. When Rambo gets fatally wounded, he makes a half-hearted vow to avenge his death. Tuba is more than a little surprised when Rambo's spirit returns to make sure the timid cop makes good on his promise. Backed up by his hotshot partner Cheung, Tuba eventually summons the gumption to track down the baddies.

Righting Wrongs

1986

Cn

7.1

♡ 10

84%

Corey Yuen Director

Corey Yuen as Bad Egg / Joe Do

Cynthia Rothrock as Cindy Si / Sandy Jones

Biao Yuen as Hsia Ling-Cheng / Jason Chan

Fruit Chan as Man

Jason Chan, a Hong Kong lawyer, is angry at the way the law protects criminals and decides to take the law into his own hands, dishing out vigilante justice when a key witness and his entire family are murdered. But hotshot cop Cindy Si is soon on Chan's case, and the situation unravels into a fight that only a few will survive.

The Venetian Woman

1986

Italian

4.9

♡ 14

Mauro Bolognini Director

Laura Antonelli as Angela

Claudio Amendola as Bernardo

Jason Connery as Jules

Annie Belle as Spettatrice

Venice, sixteenth century. Giulio, a foreign gentleman spends a memorable night in the city where he meets and beds two beautiful women. They are Angela, a widowed lady, and Valeria, whose husband has left for Florence.

Rosa Luxemburg

1986

German

6.9

♡ 12

80%

Margarethe von Trotta Director

Felix Moeller as

Daniel Olbrychski as Leo Jogiches

Barbara Sukowa as Rosa Luxemburg

Barbara Lass as Rosas Mutter

Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 20th century Poland and Germany. While Luxemburg campaigns for her beliefs, she is repeatedly imprisoned as she forms the Spartacist League offering a new vision for Germany.

Power

1986

English

5.7

♡ 5

50%

Sidney Lumet Director

Denzel Washington as Arnold Billings

Robert Fieldsteel as Assistant Director

Janet Sarno as Moderator

Richard Gere as Pete St. John

Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade...

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Kamikaze

Man Facing Southeast

The Adventures of Milo and Otis

Witchboard

Silk

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies

Where's Officer Tuba?

Righting Wrongs

The Venetian Woman

Rosa Luxemburg

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