Around the World in 80s Movies

Around the World in 80s Movies


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Real Genius (1985) | Martha Coolidge
November 27, 2020

Real Genius centers on several students at Pac Tech, an institution esteemed for its technological breakthroughs. They're currently working on a project to build a high-powered laser. The project is led by an egotistical professor and TV science show h...

Weird Science (1985) | John Hughes
November 20, 2020

Gary (Anthony Michael Hall) and Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) are a pair of best friend suburban Chicago high school geeks tired of being everyone else's doormat and wanting to have girlfriends of their own.  When the traditional methods prove to be of n...

Electric Dreams (1984) | Steve Barron
November 13, 2020

A San Francisco-based architect named Miles Harding buys a new computer to help him stay organized and on schedule, as well as to assist in the design of a brick that will hold a building together through an earthquake.

Demon Seed (1977) | Donald Cammell
November 06, 2020

Demon Seed's story is set 20 years in the future, Proteus IV is a new, highly advanced computer that scientists at the ICON Institute (International Control Corporation) spent eight years constructing as a massively powerful synthetic version of the or...

Saturn 3 (1980) | Stanley Donen
October 30, 2020

In the future, Earth is a polluted wasteland. People have resorted to drugs and promiscuity while relying on off-world food production systems for salvation. Research chemists Major Adam (Kirk Douglas), his young assistant/lover Alex (Farrah Fawcett),

Outland (1981) | Peter Hyams
October 22, 2020

Sometime in the future, humans establish a mining operation on Io, a volcanic moon orbiting Jupiter, a week's distance from the nearest space station. The mining base is currently shattering records for productivity.  Sean Connery is William T.

Total Recall (1990) | Paul Verhoeven
October 16, 2020

Set on Earth of the future, where we've already mastered the ability for space travel to through the solar system, and even set up colonies on Mars, Total Recall surrounds a lowly construction worker named Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger),

They Live (1988) | John Carpenter
October 09, 2020

This sci-fi actioner stars "Rowdy" Roddy Piper (yes, the ex-pro wrestler) as Nada, a drifter desperately in need of a decent job. He lands a temp job at a construction site, but strange doings in the church across the street cause him to investigate,

V: The Final Battle (1984) | Richard T. Heffron
October 02, 2020

In this three-part TV miniseries sequel, the Resistance is fending off the pressing Visitors, who continue to fool the people of Earth by controlling the media, while depleting the planet of precious water and rounding up humans for food.

V – The Original Miniseries (1983) | Kenneth Johnson
September 25, 2020

The people of Earth are visited and befriended by a human-like race from outer space inhabiting massive spacecraft, 50 of them measuring three miles in diameter, hovering over cities throughout the world. These newcomers speak Earth's languages fluentl...