Around the World in 80s Movies

Around the World in 80s Movies


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Rocky III (1982) | Sylvester Stallone
December 20, 2024

WithRocky III, director-screenwriter-star Stallone takes the film series into a new direction, although the underdog formula still stays intact. Stallone realizes that it's hard to be the underdog w

Rocky II (1979) | Sylvester Stallone
July 13, 2024

After a replay of the climax ofRocky,Rocky IIpicks up exactly where the first film leaves off, with Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone)and Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers)taken to a nearby hospital aft

Rocky (1976) | John Avildsen
May 27, 2024

The film tells the tale of Rocky Balboa (Sylverster Stallone), a washed-up Philadelphia boxer who just barely scrapes by, fighting in small clubs for meager pay, while supplementing his income as a th

Tango & Cash (1989) | Andrei Konchalovsky
January 05, 2024

Sylvester Stallone plays Ray Tango, a flashy narco cop in the LAPD who is all business and efficient. Kurt Russell plays Gabriel Cash, more of a devil-may-care type who just so happens to get the big

The Running Man (1987)
December 12, 2023

Set in the post-world financial demise of the year 2019,The Running Man stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as law enforcement officer and helicopter pilot Ben Richards, who ends up getting framed for instig

Action Jackson (1988) | Craig R. Baxley
October 20, 2023

Carl Weathers stars as Detroit cop Jericho "Action" Jackson, who earned his nickname due to putting his body on the line time and again in the line of duty in roughhousing and apprehending perps. Unf

Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) | Tony Scott
September 29, 2023

This follow-up to the mega-smashBeverly Hills Cop sees the Beverly Hills police department stymied by the so-called Alphabet Robberies, whereby stores with monographed goods are hit by a gang of high

Beverly Hills Cop (1984) | Martin Brest
September 04, 2023

Eddie Murphy's superstar-making role has him playing crafty Detroit cop Axel Foley, who travels to Beverly Hills in order to try to uncover the reasons behind the professional hit placed on an old fri

Die Hard (1988) | John McTiernan
July 18, 2023

New York cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) flies to Los Angeles to attend the swanky party of his separated wife Holly's (Bonnie Bedelia)company on an upper floor of their high-rise corporate building.

Frantic (1988) | Roman Polanski
April 02, 2023

Dr. Richard Walker (Harrison Ford) and his loving wife (Betty Buckley)travel to Paris where he is to speak at a medical convention. In their hotel room, they discover that his wife has picked up the