![]() | Star Wars, Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back (Widescreen Edition)
Buy used from: $4.49 The legendary second chapter of 'The Classic' original Star Wars Trilogy where the world was first introduced to Jedi Master Yoda.
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![]() | Private Benjamin (Full Screen Edition)
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $2.82 The beautiful Goldie Hawn in the army! That's about all I remember.
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![]() | Raging Bull (Special Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $4.39 See the Oscar-winning De Niro getting his face pummeled to hamburger meat as real-life boxer Jake La Motta in this classic movie.
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![]() | Heaven's Gate
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $3.55 Okay, so this movie actually does NOT belong on this list since it's not really a good movie in any true sense of the word, but I just felt it deserved an honorable mention because this is THE movie that is widely considered to be the biggest box-office flop in movie history.
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![]() | Stir Crazy [VHS]
Buy used from: $1.17 Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in jail. Pretty funny stuff.
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![]() | Urban Cowboy [VHS]
Buy used from: $0.75 John Travolta in the titular role of this much beloved and endearing 80's film.
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![]() | Airplane! (Don't Call Me Shirley! Edition)
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $3.22 Director David Zucker's comedy masterpiece spoof of 70's-era disaster movies like 'Airport'. One of the most quotable comedies ever with some truly amazing and damn-funny one-liners.
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![]() | Blue Lagoon (1980) [VHS]
Buy used from: $1.69 Yeah, you know this movie! And you know you like it, too!
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![]() | The Blues Brothers (Widescreen 25th Anniversary Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.99 This is one you just gotta love! Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi play The Blues Brothers in this landmark musical/comedy/action smash-hit from director John Landis.
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![]() | Roadie
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.60 The meaty one himself, Meatloaf, stars as good ol' West Texas boy, Travis W. Redfish, the world's greatest roadie who can fix anything! Funny story with a great soundtrack!
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![]() | The Jazz Singer - 25th Anniversary Edition
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $5.98 A very emotional, touching and engrossing musical drama about a Jewish cantor (Neil Diamond) who pursues his dreams of being a music star.
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![]() | My Bodyguard (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $4.87 A very enjoyable ---- and even sometimes touching ---- coming of age film about making a stand against bullies in high school. Just about everyone should be able to relate to this one in one way or another and get something out of it.
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![]() | Any Which Way You Can
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $2.43 Right turn, Clyde! Clint Eastwood reprises his role of two-fisted, hard-hitting trucker Philo Beddoe in this smash-hit sequel to 'Every Which Way But Loose'. Be sure to watch for the scene with Clyde the orangutan dressed up in disguise as a little old grandmother. Funny and entertaining stuff!
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![]() | The Gods Must Be Crazy Series (The Gods Must Be Crazy / The Gods Must Be Crazy II)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $8.51 One of the most unique (and well-liked) comedies ever made. The peculiar chronicle of a Kalahari bushman and his quest to return a coke bottle (a gift from the gods, as his tribe beliefs) to the gods who sent it to him by throwing it off the edge of the world. Lots of humorous mishaps ensue along the way. With this version you also get the worthy sequel, 'The Gods Must Be Crazy II'(1988).
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![]() | Superman II - The Richard Donner Cut
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $3.54 The very awesome follow-up to 1978's original 'Superman'. This Richard Donner cut is truly the definitive version with extended scenes between Superman and his father, Jor-El, which greatly enhances the Kryptonian lore and the emotional impact of the story.
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![]() | The Shining (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $11.90 Get ready to get scared out of your wits by good ol' crazy-boy, himself, mad Jack Nicholson as writer and caretaker Jack Torrence going plum loco crazy in a truly creepy, deserted, snowbound Colorado resort hotel in this epic, nightmarish chiller from director Stanley Kubrick.
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![]() | The Fog (Special Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.16 Decent, moderately scary ghost-story set in a coastal, Northern Californian town by the bay. Great cast featuring Jamie Lee Curtis and her mom, Janet Leigh. Be sure to get the widescreen version of the film ; it enhances the impact of several certain scenes.
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![]() | Bronco Billy
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.38 Clint Eastwood is the title character of Bronco Billy, a huglely popular traveling carnival act performer who's a great sharp-shooter. Funny and enjoyable with pleasant and fun atomosphere to it. Sondra Locke co-stars.
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![]() | Altered States
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.76 Aggghhhhwwwww!!!! Watch out for me, I'm the Monkey-man! Decent and somewhat disturbing sci-fi/horror flick featuring William Hurt as a scientist experimenting with the phenomenom of sensory deprivation and its effects on the human brain and genome. Is it possible to revert to a different state of evolution?
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![]() | Flash Gordon [VHS]
Buy used from: $1.15 Earth's greatest quarterback adventuring hero, Flash Gordon versus Ming the Merciless! A true sci-fi classic that's still enjoyable to this day and you gotta love the awesome soundtrack by Queen!
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![]() | The Stunt Man (Limited Edition)
Buy used from: $25.22 A truly excellent, little-seen motion picture that became a cult classic! Fully engrossing and involving story of a mad-power hungry movie director and a replacement stuntman (Steve Railsback) who run afoul of a conspiracy while filming the latest big-budget war movie. Definitely still worth a look!
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![]() | Dressed to Kill
Buy used from: $9.99 Brian De Palma helmed thriller about Michael Caine as a pyschiatrist treating a patient who may or may not be a serial killer responsible for the murders of several women. Creepy, tense and riverting thriller that will keep you in suspense.
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![]() | Caddyshack
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $1.59 No list of the films of 1980 would be complete without this comedy masterpiece, so here it is. What can be said about this movie that hasn't already been said?! A perenial favorite that you just can't help but watch over and over again.
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![]() | Ordinary People
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.23 A very well-stated, marvelously acted drama dealing with an upper middle-class suburban family's unresolved issues and long-buried emotions that suddenly come to surface in the wake of a family tragedy. The big Oscar-winner of the year that took all of the 1980 awards including best picture. Screen-legend Robert Redford directs.
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![]() | Somewhere in Time (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.88 Christopher Reeve stars as a man who uses the power of hypnosis to put his consciousness into the past to be with the object of his love, a beautiful woman from an early 20th-century painting (Jane Seymour).
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![]() | Island, The (1980) [VHS]
Buy used from: $5.99 Decent story from the producers and author of Jaws featuring Michael Caine as an investigative journalist in the Caribbean who runs afoul of real, modern-day buccaneers responsible for the disappearances of many travelers in the area known as The Bermuda Triangle.
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![]() | Tanya's Island
Buy new: $13.49 Okay, I'll admit this wasn't that great but so what?! Who cares?!! You get to see pop-music icon Vanity FULLY NAKED!!! Need I say more?
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