Great Movies - Part 23

1980s Movies

Melvin and Howard (1980)

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Melvin and Howard movie storyline. Melvin E. Dummar (Paul Le Mat) is a working class stiff who has been trying to find his professional place in life, he moving from job to job over his adult life as he hasn’t been able to find anything to which he can stick. This life does wreak havoc on his marriage to Lynda Dummar (Mary Steenburgen), the two who live in a trailer park in the Nevada desert with their daughter, Darcy (Elizabeth Cheshire).

1980s Movies / Jean-Luc Godard Movies

Every Man for Himself (1980)

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Every Man for Himself (Sauve Qui Peut (la Vie), a pessimistic but visually stunning film, marks Jean-Luc Godard’s return to cinema after having spent the 70s working in video.

1980s Movies

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back movie storyline. The story of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, and the others did not end with the destruction of the Death Star, it continues in this movie. Imperial forces have since driven the Rebels to hide on the ice world of Hoth.

1970s Movies

My Little Loves (1974)

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My Little Loves movie storyline. A study of minor events in the adolescence of a boy growing up in small towns. Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after one year of high school, has to go to live with his mother in the south of France. She is a seamstress living in a tiny apartment with her lover Jose, a Spanish farm worker.

1970s Movies

Mr. Majestyk (1974)

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Mr. Majestyk movie storyline. Vince Majestyk (Charles Bronson) is a farmer, an ex-con, a former U. S. Army Ranger instructor and Vietnam War veteran, who owns and operates a watermelon farm in rural Colorado. He needs to harvest his crop soon in order to keep the farm financially solvent.

1970s Movies

The Midnight Man (1974)

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The Midnight Man movie storyline. A former Chicago policeman, Jim Slade (Burt Lancaster), has just been released on parole from prison for shooting his wife’s lover in their bed. He goes to live with friends, Quartz (Cameron Mitchell) and wife Judy (Joan Lorring), in a small town where he has been offered a job (part of his parole agreement) as a night watchman at Jordon College.

1970s Movies

The Marseille Contract (1974)

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The Marseille Contract movie storyline. Steve Ventura, the French station head of Drugs Enforcement Administration, is unable to find a way to expose and arrest a drug baron named Jacques Brizzard, whose henchmen were responsible for killing one of Ventura’s undercover agents in Marseilles.

1970s Movies

Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)

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Gone in 60 Seconds movie storyline. Mandarian Pace is an insurance investigator in Los Angeles who moonlights as a professional car thief with his crew, Atlee Jackson, his brother Corlis, and Stanley Chase.

1970s Movies

Buster and Billie (1974)

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Buster and Billie movie storyline. In a small Georgia town in 1948, Buster Lane (Jan-Michael Vincent) is a handsome, popular high-school senior, who is engaged to be married to his pretty, popular high-school sweetheart Margie Hooks (Pamela Sue Martin). He is the ‘big man on campus’ and the leader of his group of friends.

1960s Movies / Andrei Tarkovsky Movies

My Name is Ivan (1962)

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My Name is Ivan movie storyline. It’s the middle of WWII in Russia. Orphaned pre-teen Ivan Bondarev does reconnaissance work for the military. He is able to get through small cracks where adults could not, both because of his small physical size and the fact that no one would suspect a boy of doing such work.