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| 1 | ![]() | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) | 3.9287 257 reviews | PG | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Family |
$12.87
| An extra terrestrial is accidentally left behind on Earth. He befriends a boy named Elliot and his ...more about E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial starring Henry Thomas and Dee Wallace-Stone |
| 2 | ![]() | Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) | 3.7670 116 reviews | PG | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi |
$8.26
| As Luke goes into seclusion, to master his Jedi skills, Hans and Leia have joined the Rebel Army to ...more about Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back starring Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford |
| 3 | ![]() | Aliens (1986) | 3.4949 153 reviews | R | Action, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$9.99
| Ripley is discovered, 57 years after the Nostromo mission, drifting through space. Back on Earth, ...more about Aliens starring Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn |
| 4 | ![]() | Return of the Living Dead, The (1985) | 3.2449 38 reviews | R | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy |
$5.25
| Two medical supply warehouse workers unknowingly release a secret chemical rumored to re-animate ...more about Return of the Living Dead starring Clu Gulager and James Karen |
| 5 | ![]() | Ghost Busters (1984) | 3.2317 58 reviews | PG | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Comedy |
$4.43
| Three paranormal investigators begin ghost hunting in NYC shortly after their university funding ...more about Ghost Busters starring Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd |
| 6 | ![]() | Fly, The (1986) | 3.2056 80 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$8.26
| Seth Brundle, a brilliant but eccentric scientist attempts to woo investigative journalist Veronica ...more about Fly starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis |
| 7 | ![]() | Repo Man (1984) | 3.1910 61 reviews | R | Action, Sci-Fi, Comedy |
$8.05
| In the wake of losing his job and girlfriend, punk rocker Otto teams up with a seasoned repo man. ...more about Repo Man starring Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez |
| 8 | ![]() | Terminator, The (1984) | 3.1805 127 reviews | R | Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi |
$4.12
| In the future war between humans and machines destroys civilization. A cyborg is sent into the past ...more about Terminator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Biehn |
| 9 | ![]() | Superman II (1980) | 3.1311 62 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi |
$5.99
| When Superman saves Paris by throwing a nuclear bomb into outer space, he awakens three exiled ...more about Superman II starring Gene Hackman and Christopher Reeve |
| 10 | ![]() | Star Wars Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) | 3.0983 107 reviews | PG | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi |
$8.26
| As the Empire builds a new Death Star, Luke must save his friends from Jabba the Hut, but when Luke ...more about Star Wars Episode VI - Return of the Jedi starring Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford |
| 11 | ![]() | Predator (1987) | 3.0850 114 reviews | R | Action, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$9.99
| A group of trained special forces commandos is commandeered by the CIA for a rescue mission. The ...more about Predator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers |
| 12 | ![]() | Bad Taste (1987) | 3.0818 84 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy |
$23.79
| Aliens from outer space come to earth hunting for human flesh to supply their growing fast food ...more about Bad Taste starring Peter Jackson and Pete O'Herne |
| 13 | ![]() | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) | 3.0720 51 reviews | NA | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Comedy |
$8.99
| To save the future the Enterprise and her crew must travel back to 1986 for two humpback whales and ...more about Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home starring William Shatner and James Doohan |
| 14 | ![]() | Brazil (1985) | 3.0674 100 reviews | Not Rated | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Cult |
$8.89
| Sam lives in a world of technology, where the government takes extreme anti-terrorism measures. ...more about Brazil starring Jonathan Pryce and Robert De Niro |
| 15 | ![]() | Abyss, The (1989) | 3.0643 97 reviews | PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi |
$7.49
| An American nuclear submarine is attacked (during the cold war) and crashes underwater. The navy ...more about Abyss starring Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio |
| 16 | ![]() | Escape from New York (1981) | 3.0614 105 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Thriller, Sci-Fi |
$9.99
| In 1997 the island of Manhattan has been converted into a maximum security prison. When Air Force ...more about Escape from New York starring Kurt Russell and Lee Van Cleef |
| 17 | ![]() | Videodrome (1983) | 3.0537 94 reviews | R | Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery |
$6.99
| A sleazy television producer stumbles upon a program that broadcasts snuff films called, ...more about Videodrome starring James Woods and Sonja Smits |
| 18 | ![]() | Blade Runner (1982) | 3.0377 102 reviews | R | Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery |
$3.98
| In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human ...more about Blade Runner starring Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer |
| 19 | ![]() | Day of the Dead (1985) | 3.0363 124 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$9.99
| Zombies have taken over the country and the few humans alive are forced to hide in underground ...more about Day of the Dead starring Lori Cardille and Terry Alexander |
| 20 | ![]() | Spaceballs (1987) | 3.0260 76 reviews | NA | Sci-Fi, Comedy |
$5.99
| King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) to ...more about Spaceballs starring Michael Winslow and Mel Brooks |
| 21 | ![]() | Tron (1982) | 3.0211 104 reviews | PG | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi |
$12.34
| A video game programmer is literally transported into the hard drive of the system he is trying to ...more about Tron starring Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner |
| 22 | ![]() | Mad Max 2 (1981) | 3.0173 36 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi |
$4.99
| In "The Road Warrior" the sequel to "Mad Max," Max joins a struggling group tring to build a ...more about Mad Max 2 starring Mel Gibson and Bruce Spence |
| 23 | ![]() | Little Shop of Horrors (1986) | 3.0116 47 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi, Musical, Comedy |
$6.99
| Seymour, an introverted and underappreciated flower shop boy becomes a local sensation when his ...more about Little Shop of Horrors starring Ellen Greene and Vincent Gardenia |
| 24 | ![]() | WarGames (1983) | 3.0113 35 reviews | PG | Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery |
$5.69
| A young computer genius accidentally hacks into a Pentagon super computer designed to automat ...more about WarGames starring Matthew Broderick and Dabney Coleman |
| 25 | ![]() | Akira (1988) | 3.0098 76 reviews | R | Action, Adventure, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Animation, Foreign |
$14.99
| Tetsuo is taken prisoner by the government in a futuristic Tokyo where corruption, poverty and ...more about Akira starring Mitsuo Iwata and Nozomu Sasaki |
| 26 | ![]() | Creepshow (1982) | 3.0009 50 reviews | NA | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy |
$1.96
| Five tales of terror are presented in the gothic style of the old EC comics such as Tales From The ...more about Creepshow starring Hal Holbrook and Adrienne Barbeau |
| 27 | ![]() | Flash Gordon (1980) | 3.0000 19 reviews | NA | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Comedy | N/A | In this update of the 1930's comic strip, Flash is a football hero who is skyjacked aboard Dr. ...more about Flash Gordon starring Sam J. Jones and Melody Anderson |
| 28 | ![]() | They Live (1988) | 2.9904 91 reviews | R | Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi |
$8.89
| Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, ...more about They Live starring Roddy Piper and Keith David |
| 29 | ![]() | Dune (1984) | 2.9863 90 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi |
$9.58
| In the far future, a duke and his family are sent by the Emperor to a sand world from which comes a ...more about Dune starring Francesca Annis and Leonardo Cimino |
| 30 | ![]() | Dead & Buried (1981) | 2.9439 48 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi |
$8.62
| Potters Bluff, Rhode Island. may seem to be a sleepy little town. At least for the casual visitor ...more about Dead & Buried starring James Farentino and Melody Anderson |
| 31 | ![]() | Hidden, The (1987) | 2.9360 35 reviews | NA | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$4.29
| An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and ...more about Hidden starring Joey Aresco and Kyle MacLachlan |
| 32 | ![]() | 2010 (1984) | 2.9302 47 reviews | PG | Adventure, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery |
$5.99
| In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, a joint American- Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to ...more about 2010 starring Roy Scheider and John Lithgow |
| 33 | ![]() | Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) | 2.9132 41 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy |
$6.99
| When a small town is invaded by aliens from outer space who are capturing and killing the ...more about Killer Klowns from Outer Space starring Grant Cramer and Suzanne Snyder |
| 34 | ![]() | Outland (1981) | 2.9065 28 reviews | NA | Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Crime | N/A | Marshal W.T. O'Niel is assigned to a mining colony on Io, one of Jupiter's moons. During his tenure ...more about Outland starring Sean Connery and Peter Boyle |
| 35 | ![]() | Ghostbusters II (1989) | 2.9063 53 reviews | PG | Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy |
$3.95
| Five years after the events of the first film, the Ghostbusters have been plagued by lawsuits and ...more about Ghostbusters II starring Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd |
| 36 | ![]() | Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) | 2.8995 35 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Romance |
$59.99
| After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is the capital of Oceania, ...more about Nineteen Eighty-Four starring John Hurt and Richard Burton |
| 37 | ![]() | Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) | 2.8972 19 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi |
$5.50
| Bartertown is a city on the edge of a desert that has managed to retain some technology if no ...more about Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome starring Mel Gibson and Tina Turner |
| 38 | ![]() | Blob, The (1988) | 2.8834 66 reviews | NA | Action, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$7.10
| Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob from another planet which consumes everyone in ...more about Blob starring Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith |
| 39 | ![]() | Forbidden Zone (1980) | 2.8743 29 reviews | NA | Sci-Fi, Musical |
$15.85
| A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a ...more about Forbidden Zone starring Hervé Villechaize and Susan Tyrrell |
| 40 | ![]() | Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The (1984) | 2.8712 59 reviews | NA | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Romance, Comedy |
$7.49
| Buckaroo Banzai is a rock-star/brain-surgeon / comic-book-hero/samurai/ etc who along with his ...more about Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension starring John Lithgow and Ellen Barkin |
| 41 | ![]() | Altered States (1980) | 2.8685 39 reviews | NA | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$3.99
| An American researching different states of consciousness with the aid of mind altering drugs and ...more about Altered States starring William Hurt and Blair Brown |
| 42 | ![]() | Starman (1984) | 2.8629 29 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Romance |
$3.41
| Jenny Hayden never did get over the death of her husband. So when an alien life form decides to ...more about Starman starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen |
| 43 | ![]() | Critters (1986) | 2.8620 40 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy |
$8.35
| A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town ...more about Critters starring Dee Wallace-Stone and M. Emmet Walsh |
| 44 | ![]() | Humanoids from the Deep (1980) | 2.8471 39 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi | N/A | Scientific experiments backfire and produce horrific mutations: halfman, halffish which terrorize a ...more about Humanoids from the Deep starring Ann Turkel and Cindy Weintraub |
| 45 | ![]() | Scanners (1981) | 2.8357 50 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$5.10
| Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner ...more about Scanners starring Jennifer O'Neill and Stephen Lack |
| 46 | ![]() | Return of the Aliens: The Deadly Spawn (1983) | 2.8294 18 reviews | NA | Horror, Sci-Fi |
$12.99
| Two campers in the New Jersey woods have their outdoor fun interrupted by the arrival of a ...more about Return of the Aliens: The Deadly Spawn starring Charles George Hildebrandt and Tom DeFranco |
| 47 | ![]() | Dreamscape (1984) | 2.8166 27 reviews | NA | Adventure, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$5.85
| A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some ...more about Dreamscape starring Dennis Quaid and Max von Sydow |
| 48 | ![]() | Man with Two Brains, The (1983) | 2.8153 26 reviews | NA | Sci-Fi, Comedy |
$5.99
| Recently widowed Doctor Michael Hfuhruhurr, the world's greatest neurosurgeon, injures Dolores ...more about Man with Two Brains starring Kathleen Turner and David Warner |
| 49 | ![]() | Cocoon (1985) | 2.8066 30 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Comedy |
$2.87
| A group of aliens return to earth to take back some cocoons of their people they left behind from ...more about Cocoon starring Don Ameche and Wilford Brimley |
| 50 | ![]() | Innerspace (1987) | 2.8062 36 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Comedy |
$5.49
| Tuck Pendleton is a cocky pilot, who is taking part in a miniaturization experiment. When some bad ...more about Innerspace starring Dennis Quaid and Martin Short |