The Living Daylights (1987)

The Living Daylights (1987)

[6] Timothy Dalton (The Lion in Winter) relieves Roger Moore in the perennial James Bond franchise. In the 15th film in the series, Agent 007 helps smuggle a defecting general (Jeroen Krabbe) out of Russia only to learn the man is…
Red Heat (1988)

Red Heat (1988)

[4] Co-writer/director Walter Hill returns to the same action/comedy formula that made his earlier film, 48 Hrs., such a big hit. This time the buddy cops are played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Belushi, but unfortunately, the magic just isn't…
Innerspace (1987)

Innerspace (1987)

[7] In this comedic sci-fi action/adventure from director Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling), Dennis Quaid plays a disgraced pilot who volunteers to get miniaturized and injected into the body of a rabbit to advance scientific research. But when bad guys…
Gorky Park (1983)

Gorky Park (1983)

[6] William Hurt (Body Heat, The Accidental Tourist) stars as a Russian police investigator who uncovers an international conspiracy while pursuing a grisly triple murder case. Brian Dennehy (First Blood) plays an American adversary-turned-ally, while Lee Marvin co-stars as the…
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)

[4] Treat Williams (Smooth Talk, Deep Rising) and Robert Duvall star in this fictionalized imagining of what happened to the infamous 'D.B. Cooper' after he parachuted from a Boeing 727 with $200,000 of the airline's money in 1971. The film…
Wall Street (1987)

Wall Street (1987)

[7] Charlie Sheen (Platoon, The Boys Next Door) stars as Bud Fox, a young Wall Street stockbroker who enters into a world of riches and corruption when he becomes the protégé of Gordon Gekko, an unscrupulous corporate raider played by…
Testament (1983)

Testament (1983)

[9] Director Lynne Littman delivers a devastating drama about a tight-knit California community suffering from fatal radiation poisoning after nuclear bombs are dropped on America's major cities. Based on a short story by Carol Amen, Testament examines the horrors of…
Weird Science (1985)

Weird Science (1985)

[8] Immediately following The Breakfast Club, writer/director John Hughes pulls a 180 with Weird Science, a cartoonish teenage fantasy about two nerdy high-schoolers named Gary and Wyatt (Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith) who use a computer to manifest the…
Next of Kin (1989)

Next of Kin (1989)

[4] Patrick Swayze (Dirty Dancing, Ghost) stars as a hillbilly-turned-Chicago cop who holds his Kentucky relatives at bay after the youngest sibling (Bill Paxton) is killed by a mobster (Adam Baldwin). When one of the brothers (Liam Neeson) sets out…
Under Fire (1983)

Under Fire (1983)

[6] Nick Nolte and Joanna Cassidy star as journalists in Nicaragua in the late 1970s when the Sandinista Liberation Front overthrew the brutal Somoza dictatorship. They cover both sides of the civil war, interviewing and photographing both the sitting president…