Films
Back to the Future
A young man is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence.
Cocoon
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigour.
The Goonies
In order to save their home from foreclosure, a group of misfits sets out to find a pirate's ancient treasure.
Dune
A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis when they assassinate his father and free their desert world from the emperor's rule.
1984
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
The Gods Must Be Crazy
A comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.
The Brother from Another Planet
An escaped alien slave tries to adapt to life as poor, black man on the streets of Harlem while pursued by two white agents from his home world who are intent on returning him there.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension.
The Last Starfighter
A discouraged video gamer finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force.
The Karate Kid
A handyman/martial arts master agrees to teach a bullied boy karate, and shows him that there is more to the martial art than fighting.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Warrior and pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.
This is Spinal Tap
Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.
Never Cry Wolf
A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.
Christine
A 17-year-old nerd is consumed by passion for Christine: a red-and-white 1958 Plymouth Fury whose unique standard equipment includes a vengeful evil presence that will destroy anyone who tries to come between them.
Brainstorm
A neuroscientist creates a device that can record people's thoughts as visual images and soon finds himself in trouble with his superiors and a group of shadowy government figures.
Strange Brew
In their quest for free beer, bumbling Canadian brothers Bob and Doug McKenzie wind up working at the Elsinore Brewery. The hapless lads uncover a sinister mind-control plot spearheaded by Brewmeister Smith and must stop the scheme, while drinking plenty of their favorite sudsy beverage.
The Last Unicorn
The world's last unicorn braves sorcerers, harpies, and even the fetters of human love to save her kind from extinction.
Fitzcarraldo
Would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known in Peru as Fitzcarraldo, is determined to transport a steamship over land from one Amazonian river to another to further his obsession with bringing opera to the jungle.
The Thing
Scientists in Antarctica are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Blade Runner
A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
A young boy summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return home.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.
Swamp Thing
The enormous plant-creature of comic book fame fights a mad-scientist's henchmen to save the woman he loves.
Body Heat
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.