Poltergeist (released in theaters on June 4, 1982) centers on the Freelings, an average, upper-middle-class family living in the idyllic, newly developed California master-planned...
The Manhattan Project (released in theaters on June 13, 1986) follows Paul Stephens (Christopher Collet), a brilliant but rebellious high school science prodigy living...
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (released in theaters on June 11, 1982) begins in a shadowed California forest, where a group of alien botanists is forced...
The Untouchables (released in theaters on June 3, 1987) opens in 1930s Prohibition-era Chicago, a city under the absolute, bloody chokehold of the ruthless...
Gremlins (released in theaters on June 8, 1984) begins in a smoky, subterranean antique shop in Chinatown, where eccentric inventor Randall Peltzer (Hoyt Axton)...
Risky Business, released in theaters on August 5, 1983, is a landmark teen comedy that defined a generation and catapulted Tom Cruise into superstardom....
Sam Firstenberg’s 1986 classic Avenging Force is prototypical Cannon Films on full display featuring muscular heroes, explosive set pieces and straightforward plots. Reuniting the...
American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt shifts the spotlight from Michael Dudikoff’s Joe Armstrong to a new hero—Sean Davidson, played by David Bradley, making his...
American Ninja 2: The Confrontation brings back the dynamic duo of Michael Dudikoff and Steve James for another round of high-kicking, action-packed martial arts...
Ron Howard‘s comedy-drama Parenthood, released in theaters on August 2, 1989, is a sprawling, deeply human, and often hilarious look at the joys and...
American Ninja is a quintessential 80s action movie, a low-budget, high-concept spectacle that, while lacking in cinematic sophistication, delivers on its promise of fast-paced...
Joel Schumacher‘s horror-comedy The Lost Boys, released in theaters on July 31, 1987, is a seminal film that perfectly captures the gothic glamour and...
Garry Marshall‘s comedy-drama Nothing in Common, released in theaters on July 30, 1986, is a poignant and often hilarious exploration of a fractured father-son...
The Last American Virgin, released in theaters on July 30, 1982, stands out from its 80s contemporaries by offering a surprisingly honest and melancholic...