8.5

Aliens

1986, USA, UK

• Actors: Sigourney Weaver, William Hope, Paul Reiser, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, Michael Biehn, Jenette Goldstein, Carrie Henn, Al Matthews, Mark Rolston, Ricco Ross, Colette Hiller, Daniel Kash, Cynthia Dale Scott, Tip Tipping, Trevor Steedman, Paul Maxwell, Valerie Colgan, Alan Polonsky, Alibe Parsons, Blain Fairman, Barbara Coles, Carl Toop, John Lees, William Armstrong
• Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): James Cameron
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Fifty-odd years after Ellen Ripley survived her disastrous ordeal, her escape vessel is recovered after drifting across the galaxy as she slept in cryogenic stasis. Back on earth, nobody believed her story about the "Aliens" on the planet LV-426. After the "Company" orders the colony on LV-426 to investigate, however, all communication with the colony is lost. The Company enlists Ripley to aid a team of tough, rugged space marines on a rescue mission to the now partially terraformed planet to find out if there are aliens or survivors. As the mission unfolds, Ripley will be forced to come to grips with her worst nightmare, but even as she does, she finds that the worst is yet to come.

  8.4

Full Metal Jacket

1986, UK, USA

• Actors: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Kevyn Major Howard, Arliss Howard, Ed O'Ross, John Terry, Kieron Jecchinis, Kirk Taylor, Tim Colceri, Jon Stafford, Bruce Boa, Ian Tyler, Sal Lopez, Gary Landon Mills, Papillon Soo, Peter Edmund, Ngoc Le, Leanne Hong, Tan Hung Francione, Marcus D'Amico, Costas Dino Chimona, Gil Kopel, Keith Hodiak, Peter Merrill, Herbert Norville, Nguyen Hue Phong, Duc Hu Ta
• Genre: Action, Drama, War
• Director(s): Stanley Kubrick
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits in basic training under the command of the punishing Sgt. Hartman. The second half shows one of those recruits, Joker, covering the war as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive.

  8.1

The Princess Bride

1986, USA

• Actors: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, Fred Savage, Robin Wright, Peter Falk, Peter Cook, Mel Smith, Carol Kane, Billy Crystal, Anne Dyson, Margery Mason, Malcolm Storry, Willoughby Gray, Betsy Brantley, Paul Badger, Sallie McLaughlin, Derek Pykett
• Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
• Director(s): Rob Reiner
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A kindly grandfather sits down with his ill grandson and reads him a story. The story is one that has been passed down from father to son for generations. As the grandfather reads the story, the action comes alive. The story is a classic tale of love and adventure as the beautiful Buttercup, engaged to the odious Prince Humperdinck, is kidnapped and held against her will in order to start a war, It is up to Westley (her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts) to save her. On the way he meets a thief and his hired helpers, an accomplished swordsman and a huge, super strong giant, both of whom become Westley's companions in his quest.

  8.1

Stand by Me

1986, USA

• Actors: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland, Casey Siemaszko, Gary Riley, Bradley Gregg, Jason Oliver, Marshall Bell, Frances Lee McCain, Bruce Kirby, William Bronder, Scott Beach, Richard Dreyfuss, John Cusack, Madeleine Swift, Popeye, Geanette Bobst, Art Burke, Matt Williams, Andy Lindberg, Dick Durock, O.B. Babbs, Charlie Owens, Kenneth Hodges, John Hodges, Susan Thorpe, Korey Scott Pollard, Rick Elliott
• Genre: Adventure, Drama
• Director(s): Rob Reiner
• Available languages:
  • English English.

4 young friends set out on an adventure. Geordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern go looking for the missing body of a local teenager - found by a gang of older boys. A story of boys hangin' out and growin' up.

  7.9

Hannah and Her Sisters

1986, USA

• Actors: Barbara Hershey, Carrie Fisher, Michael Caine, Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan, Max von Sydow, Woody Allen, Lewis Black, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Christian Clemenson, Julie Kavner, J.T. Walsh, John Turturro, Rusty Magee, Allen DeCheser, Artie DeCheser, Ira Wheeler, Richard Jenkins, Tracy Kennedy, Fred Melamed, Benno Schmidt, Joanna Gleason, Maria Chiara, Daniel Stern, Stephen De Fluiter, The 39 Steps, Bobby Short, Rob Scott
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Woody Allen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

During a Thanksgiving Day party we make aquaintance with a numerous and problematic family. The leading characters are three sisters: Lee, the woman of Frederick, an old misanthrope painter; Holly, who dreams of becoming a writer, or an actress, or who knows who...; Hannah, famous actress, beautiful, intelligent, good mother, good wife, good sister, in short perfect, the pivot of the family. The balance begins to break up when Hannah's husband, Elliot, falls in love with Lee, who leaves Frederick. Holly goes through a deep crisis and meets Mickey, the former husband of Hannah, a hipocondriac TV producer. The affairs evolve and at the last Thanksgiving ...

  7.9

Macskafogó

1986, Hungary, Canada, West Germany

• Actors: Miklós Benedek, Gyula Bodrogi, Ilona Béres, Péter Haumann, András Kern, Ferenc Kállai, János Körmendi, István Mikó, Károly Mécs, Vera Pap, Zsuzsa Pálos, László Sinkó, Gyula Szombathy, Maria Bircher, Dean Hagopian, A.J. Henderson, Pierre Lenoir, Carla Napier, Rob Roy, Michael Rudder, Vlasta Vrana, Zoltán Bezerédy, Gyula Buss, Szilvia Dallos, Antal Farkas, Margit Földessy, János Gálvölgyi, Zoltán Gera, János Horkay, Gyula Horváth
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
• Director(s): Béla Ternovszky
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In the year 80 AMM (After Mickey Mouse) on planet X the crime-syndicated Cats try to erase the Mouse-population once and for all. A scientist of the mice, prof. Fushimishi seems to have found the weapon against the threat - so Intermouse calls it's best, but now retired agent - Nick Grabowsky - to get the plans. As a distraction for the Cats, they also send a second agent - Seargent Lazy Dick - for the mission.

  7.8

Predator

1986, USA

• Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura, Sonny Landham, Richard Chaves, R.G. Armstrong, Shane Black, Kevin Peter Hall, Steve Boyum, William H. Burton, Henry Kingi, Sven-Ole Thorsen
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): John McTiernan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A team of special force ops, led by a tough but fair soldier, Major "Dutch" Schaefer, are ordered in to assist CIA man, George Dillon, on a rescue mission for potential survivors of a Helicopter downed over remote South American jungle. Not long after they land, Dutch and his team discover that they have been sent in under false pretenses. This deception turns out to be the least of their worries though, when they find themselves being methodically hunted by something not of this world.

  7.8

Blue Velvet

1986, USA

• Actors: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell, George Dickerson, Priscilla Pointer, Frances Bay, Jack Harvey, Ken Stovitz, Brad Dourif, Jack Nance, J. Michael Hunter, Dick Green, Fred Pickler, Philip Markert, Leonard Watkins, Moses Gibson, Selden Smith, Peter Carew, Jon Jon Snipes, Angelo Badalamenti, Jean Pierre Viale, Donald Moore, A. Michelle Depland, Michelle Sasser, Katie Reid, Sparky, Robert J. Maxwell
• Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): David Lynch
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A man returns to his home town after being away and discovers a severed human ear in a field. Not satisfied with the police's pace, he and the police detective's daughter carry out their own investigation. The object of his investigation turns out to be a beautiful and mysterious woman involved with a violent and perversely evil man.

  7.8

Evil Dead II

1986, USA

• Actors: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley DePaiva, Ted Raimi, Denise Bixler, Richard Domeier, John Peakes, Lou Hancock, Snowy Winters, Sid Abrams, Josh Becker, Scott Spiegel, Thomas Kidd, Mitch Cantor, Jenny Griffith, William Preston Robertson, Tony Elwood, Sam Raimi
• Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Sam Raimi
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A young man, named Ash, takes his girlfriend Linda to a secluded cabin in the woods where he plays back a professor's tape recorded recitation of passages from the Book of the Dead. The spell calls up an evil force from the woods which turns Linda into a monstrous Deadite, and threatens to do the same to Ash. When the professor's daughter and her entourage show up at the cabin, the night turns into a non-stop, grotesquely comic battle with chainsaw and shotgun on one side, demon horde and flying eyeball on the other.

  7.8

Der Name der Rose

1986, France, Italy, West Germany

• Actors: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin, Michael Lonsdale, Volker Prechtel, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., William Hickey, Michael Habeck, Urs Althaus, Valentina Vargas, Ron Perlman, Leopoldo Trieste, Franco Valobra, Vernon Dobtcheff, Donald O'Brien, Andrew Birkin, F. Murray Abraham, Lucien Bodard, Peter Berling, Pete Lancaster, Dwight Weist, Franco Adducci, Niko Brücher, Aristide Caporale, Fabio Carfora, Peter Clös, Mario Diano, Fabrizio Fontana, Rolando Fucili
• Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
• Director(s): Jean-Jacques Annaud
• Available languages:
  • English English.

1327: after a mysterious death in a Benedictine Abbey, the monks are convinced that the apocalypse is coming. With the Abbey to play host to a council on the Franciscan's Order's belief that the Church should rid itself of wealth, William of Baskerville, a respected Franciscan monk, is asked to assist in determining the cause of the untimely death. Alas, more deaths occur as the investigation draws closer to uncovering the secret the Abbey wants hidden, and there is finally no stopping the Holy Inquisition from taking an active hand in the process. William and his young novice must race against time to prove the innocence of the unjustly accused and avoid the wrath of Holy Inquisitor Bernardo Gui.

  7.8

The Last Emperor

1986, China, Italy, UK, France

• Actors: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryûichi Sakamoto, Maggie Han, Ric Young, Vivian Wu, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Jade Go, Fumihiko Ikeda, Richard Vuu, Tsou Tijger, Tao Wu, Guang Fan, Henry Kyi, Alvin Riley III, Lisa Lu, Hideo Takamatsu, Hajime Tachibana, Basil Pao, Henry O, Kaige Chen, Liangbin Zhang, Wenjie Huang, Dong Liang, Zhendong Dong, Jiechen Dong
• Genre: Biography, Drama, History
• Director(s): Bernardo Bertolucci
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

  7.8

Down by Law

1986, USA, West Germany

• Actors: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Ellen Barkin, Billie Neal, Rockets Redglare, Vernel Bagneris, Timothea, L.C. Drane, Joy N. Houck Jr., Carrie Lindsoe, Ralph Joseph, Richard Boes, Dave Petitjean, Adam Cohen, Alan Kleinberg, Archie Sampier, David Dahlgren, Alex Miller, Eliott Keener, Jay Hilliard, Pruitt Taylor Vince
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Jim Jarmusch
• Available languages:
  • English English.

DJ Zack and pimp Jack end up in prison for being too laid-back to avoid being framed for crimes they didn't commit. They end up sharing a cell with eccentric Italian optimist Roberto, whose limited command of the English language is both entertaining and infuriating -but rather more useful to them is the fact that Roberto knows an escape route

  7.6

Lethal Weapon

1986, USA

• Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitch Ryan, Tom Atkins, Darlene Love, Traci Wolfe, Jackie Swanson, Damon Hines, Ebonie Smith, Bill Kalmenson, Lycia Naff, Patrick Cameron, Don Gordon, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Jason Ronard, Blackie Dammett, Gail Bowman, Robert Fol, Selma Archerd, Richard B. Whitaker, Mary Ellen Trainor, Steve Kahan, Jack Thibeau, Grand L. Bush, Ed O'Ross, Gustav Vintas, Paul Tuerpe, Chad Hayes, Chris D. Jardins
• Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): Richard Donner
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Martin Riggs is an L.A. cop with suicidal tendencies and Roger Murtaugh is the unlucky police officer with whom Riggs is assigned. Together they uncover a huge drug-smuggling operation, and as their success rate grows so does their friendship.

  7.5

RoboCop

1986, USA

• Actors: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer, Robert DoQui, Ray Wise, Felton Perry, Paul McCrane, Jesse D. Goins, Del Zamora, Calvin Jung, Rick Lieberman, Lee de Broux, Mark Carlton, Edward Edwards, Michael Gregory, Freddie Hice, Neil Summers, Gene Wolande, Gregory Poudevigne, Charles Carroll, Kevin Page, Yolonda Williams, Tyrees Allen, John S. Davies, Laird Stuart, Stephen Berrier, Sage Parker
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Paul Verhoeven
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Detroit - in the future - is crime ridden, and run by a massive company. The company have developed a huge crime fighting robot, which unfortunately develops a rather dangerous glitch. The company sees a way to get back in favour with the public when a cop called Alex Murphy is killed by a street gang. Murphys body is reconstructed within a steel shell and named Robocop. The Robocop is very successful against criminals, and becomes a target of supervillian Boddicker.

  7.5

Raising Arizona

1986, USA

• Actors: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson, John Goodman, William Forsythe, Sam McMurray, Frances McDormand, Randall 'Tex' Cobb, T.J. Kuhn, Lynne Kitei, Peter Benedek, Charles 'Lew' Smith, Warren Keith, Henry Kendrick, Sidney Dawson, Richard Blake, Troy Nabors, Mary Seibel, John O'Donnal, Keith Jandacek, Warren Forsythe, Ruben Young, Dennis Sullivan, Richard Alexander, Rusty Lee, James Yeater, Bill Andres, Carver Barns, Margaret H. McCormack, Bill Rocz
• Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
• Director(s): Joel Coen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Recidivist hold-up man H.I. McDonnough and police woman Edwina marry, only to discover they are unable to conceive a child. Desperate for a baby, the pair decide to kidnap one of the quintuplets of furniture tycoon Nathan Arizona. The McDonnoughs try to keep their crime secret, while friends, co-workers and a feral bounty hunter look to use Nathan Jr. for their own purposes.

  7.5

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

1986, USA

• Actors: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean, Kevin Bacon, Dylan Baker, Carol Bruce, Olivia Burnette, Diana Douglas, Martin Ferrero, Larry Hankin, Richard Herd, Susan Kellermann, Matthew Lawrence, Edie McClurg, George Petrie, Gary Riley, Charles Tyner, Susan Isaacs, Lulie Newcomb, John Randolph Jones, Nicholas Wyman, Gaetano Lisi, Diana Castle, Julie H. Morgan, Bill Erwin, Ruth de Sosa, Ben Stein, Kim Genelle, Grant Forsberg
• Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): John Hughes
• Available languages:
  • English English.

All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport. As well as bad luck, Neal is blessed with the presence of Del Griffith, Shower Curtain Ring Salesman and all-around blabbermouth, who is never short of advice, conversation, bad jokes, or company. And when he decides that he is going the same direction as Neal....

  7.5

Ying hung boon sik

1986, Hong Kong

• Actors: Lung Ti, Leslie Cheung, Yun-Fat Chow, Emily Chu, Waise Lee, Fui-On Shing, Kenneth Tsang, Hark Tsui, John Woo, Chi Fai Chan, Kwok Leung Cheung, San Nam Hung, Hing Ying Kam, Shung Fung Lau, Ming Leung, Patrick Leung, Yangzi Shi, Feng Tien, Wei Ho Tu, Hsieh Wang, Sai Gwan Yeung, Stephen Chow, Gregory Snegoff
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): John Woo
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This story is the tale of two brothers: one a successful counterfeiter and the younger a fledgling graduate of the HK police academy. The plot revolves around the split when the younger brother learns the other is a criminal and the efforts of the criminal brother to reform. Along the way are plenty of heists, double-crosses, and shoot outs.

  7.4

House of Games

1986, USA

• Actors: Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Lilia Skala, J.T. Walsh, Willo Hausman, Karen Kohlhaas, Steven Goldstein, Jack Wallace, Ricky Jay, G. Roy Levin, Bob Lumbra, Andy Potok, Allen Soule, Ben Blakeman, Scott Zigler, William H. Macy, John Pritchett, Meshach Taylor, Johnny 'Sugarbear' Willis, Josh Conescu, Julie Mendenhall, Rachel Cline, Patricia Wolff, Paul Walsh, Roberta Maguire, Jacqueline de La Chaume, John Nelson
• Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): David Mamet
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A famous psychologist, Margaret Ford, decides to try to help one of her patients get out of a gambling debt. She visits the bar where Mike, to whom the debt is owed, runs poker games. He convinces her to help him in a game: her assignment is to look for "tells", or give-away body language. What seems easy to her becomes much more complex.

  7.3

Wall Street

1986, USA

• Actors: Charlie Sheen, Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover, Chuck Pfeiffer, John C. McGinley, Hal Holbrook, James Karen, Leslie Lyles, Michael Douglas, Faith Geer, Frank Adonis, John Capodice, Martin Sheen, Suzen Murakoshi, Dani Klein, François Giroday, Josh Mostel, Ann Talman, Lisa Zebro, Rocco Anacarola, Martin Sherman, Monique van Vooren, Derek Keir, Andrea Thompson, Lauren Tom, George Blumenthal, Terence Stamp, George Vlachos, Liliane Montevecchi, Ronald von Klaussen
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Oliver Stone
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Bud Fox is a Wall Street stockbroker in early 1980's New York with a strong desire to get to the top. Working for his firm during the day, he spends his spare time working an on angle with the high-powered, extremely successful (but ruthless and greedy) broker Gordon Gekko. Fox finally meets with Gekko, who takes the youth under his wing and explains his philosophy that "Greed is Good". Taking the advice and working closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept into a world of "yuppies", shady business deals, the "good life", fast money, and fast women; something which is at odds with his family including his estranged father and the blue-collared way Fox was brought up.

  7.3

Mona Lisa

1986, UK

• Actors: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane, Clarke Peters, Kate Hardie, Zoë Nathenson, Sammi Davis, Rod Bedall, Joe Brown, Pauline Melville, Hossein Karimbeik, John Darling, Bryan Coleman, Robert Dorning, Raad Rawi, David Halliwell, Stephen Persaud, Maggie O'Neill, Gary Cady, Donna Cannon, Perry Fenwick, Dawn Archibald, Richard Strange, Alan Talbot, Geoffrey Larder, Helen Martin, Kenny Baker, Jack Purvis, Bill Moore
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Neil Jordan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

George, after getting out of prison, begins looking for a job, but his time in prison has reduced his stature in the criminal underworld. The only job he can find is to be a driver for Simone, a beautiful high-priced call girl, with whom he forms an at first grudging, and then real affection. Only Simone's playing a dangerous game, and when George agrees to help her, they both end up in a huge amount of trouble with Mortwell, the local kingpin.