131. Powaqqatsi
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Godfrey Reggio
Actors: Christie Brinkley, David Brinkley, Pope John Paul II, Dan Rather, Cheryl Tiegs
Plot: As countries adapt western influences, the effects it has on them is transformative and Godfrey Reggio brings us his vision of this modernization.
132. Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black, Sudie Bond, Kathy Bates, Marta Heflin
133. Tin Drum, The ( Blechtrommel, Die )
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Actors: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski, Tina Engel
Plot: Based on one of the most important fiction works of the 20th Century, the Tin Drum follows the fortunes of Oskar Matzerath a gifted introvert who on his 3rd birthday (after receiving a tin drum as a present) decides to stop growing and refuses to join the adult society that he holds in contempt.Matzerath lives through one of the most turbulent periods of European history as he sees the rise of the Nazi regime, the fall of Danzig to the German Army,the Second World War and the fall again of Danzig this time to the Russians.
Oskar falls in love and discovers the heartbreak of the sudden death of his mother, all the while he continues to play his Tin Drum.
134. The Secret of NIMH
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Don Bluth
Actors: Derek Jacobi, Elizabeth Hartman, Arthur Malet, Dom DeLuise, Wil Wheaton, Shannen Doherty
Plot: Mrs. Frisby is a widowed field mouse caring for her small children. Spring is coming and she must move her family out of the field before the plow comes. With one very ill child and the dangerous farm cat, she has more obstacles than she can handle on her own. With no other choice, she must ask for help from the rats -- but these are no ordinary rats. . .
135. National Lampoon's Vacation
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Harold Ramis
Actors: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Imogene Coca, Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, Randy Quaid
Plot: The all-American Griswold family prepares for their annual summer vacation, this time to Wally World.
136. Mad Max
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Miller
Actors: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, Roger Ward
Plot: Australia has become a nightmare in a future where biker gangs control the roads and society is all but lost. One cop takes the law into his own hands after a brutal gang murders his partner, wife and young son.
137. Stranger Than Paradise
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark, Danny Rosen
Plot: A New Yorker is dismayed when his 16-year-old Hungarian cousin shows up unexpectedly and invades his life. Although initially hostile, the two form a mutual affection and. out of complete boredom, visit their aunt in Cleveland. Onward to sunny Florida where they lose, and gain, a forture and a final twist has them ending up right where they started.
138. Silkwood
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Nichols
Actors: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Fred Ward, Diana Scarwid
Plot: Karen Silkwood worked at the Kerr-McGee nuclear power plant in Oklahoma and was about to go public with the dangerous practices there before dying under mysterious circumstances. This is her story.
139. Pale Rider
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Chris Penn, Carrie Snodgress, Richard Dysart, Sydney Penny
Plot: A greedy landowner has his sites set on a gold-mining town but a
mysterious preacher shows up to work on behalf of the besieged people and
stop the landowner from his plot.
140. Vanishing, The ( Spoorloos )
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Dutch
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Sluizer
Actors: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege, Gwen Eckhaus, Bernadette Le Saché, Tania Latarjet
Plot: After his girlfriend disappears from a road-side gas station, a man will stop at nothing to learn what became of her.
