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The Little Mermaid
1989 animated film directed by John Musker and Ron Clements
The Blues Brothers
1980 film directed by John Landis
The Princess Bride (film)
The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, André the Giant, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Peter Falk, Fred Savage, Billy Crystal and Carol Kane. Adapted by William Goldman from his novel of the same name, it tells the story of a swashbuckling farmhand named Westley, accompanied by companions befriended along the way, who must rescue his kidnapped true love Princess Buttercup from the evil Prince Humperdinck. The film preserves the novel's metafictional narrative style by presenting the story as a book being read by a grandfather to his sick grandson.
The Gods Must Be Crazy
1980 film directed by Jamie Uys
Crocodile Dundee
1986 film directed by Peter Faiman
Spaceballs
Spaceballs is a 1987 American space opera parody film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks. It primarily parodies the original Star Wars trilogy, but also other popular franchises such as Star Trek, Alien, The Wizard of Oz, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, and Transformers. The film stars Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis and Daphne Zuniga, with the supporting cast including Dick Van Patten, George Wyner, Lorene Yarnell, and the voice of Joan Rivers. In addition to Brooks playing a dual role, the film features Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise and Rudy De Luca in cameo appe
Romancing the Stone
1984 film by Robert Zemeckis
The Goonies
1985 film directed by Richard Donner
The Jewel of the Nile
1985 adventure comedy film by Lewis Teague
Armour of God
1986 film by Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang
National Lampoon's Vacation
1983 film directed by Harold Ramis
Short Circuit
1986 film directed by John Badham
Crocodile Dundee II
1988 film directed by John Cornell
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
1989 film directed by Stephen Herek
Stripes
1981 film by Ivan Reitman
Treasure Island
1989 USSR animated television film directed by Davyd Сherkaskyi, KyivNaukFilm
A Grand Day Out
1989 short film directed by Nick Park
National Lampoon's European Vacation
1985 US family comedy film directed by Amy Heckerling
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
1986 film by Gary Nelson
La Chèvre
1981 film by Francis Veber
The Golden Child
1986 film by Michael Ritchie
Shanghai Surprise
1986 film directed by Jim Goddard
Asterix Versus Caesar
1985 film
Firewalker
1986 film by J. Lee Thompson
BMX Bandits
1983 film by Brian Trenchard-Smith
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
1985 film directed by Tim Burton
Pirates
1986 film by Roman Polanski
A Friend Is a Treasure
1981 film directed by Sergio Corbucci
Banana Joe
1982 film by Steno
The Great Outdoors
1988 film directed by Howard Deutch
Ishtar
1987 film by Elaine May
Herbie Goes Bananas
1980 film directed by Vincent McEveety
Les Morfalous
1984 film by Henri Verneuil
The Chipmunk Adventure
1987 animated film directed by Janice Karman
My Science Project
1985 film by Jonathan R. Betuel
Borrowing Matchsticks
1980 film by Leonid Gaidai, Risto Orko
The Adventures of the Elektronic
1979 miniseries directed by Konstantin Bromberg
Sportloto-82
Sportloto-82 () is a 1982 Soviet action adventure comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai. The film stars Algis Arlauskas, Svetlana Amanova, Mikhail Pugovkin, Mikhail Kokshenov and Nina Grebeshkova. It was filmed in Soviet Union. It was also one of the all-time leaders at the Soviet box office with over 55,000,000 theatre admissions in the Soviet era.
Condorman
Condorman is a 1981 American superhero comedy film directed by Charles Jarrott, produced by Walt Disney Productions, and starring Michael Crawford, Barbara Carrera and Oliver Reed. The film follows comic book illustrator Woodrow Wilkins's attempts to assist in the defection of a female Soviet KGB agent.
Yellowbeard
Yellowbeard is a 1983 comedy film directed by Mel Damski and written by Graham Chapman, Peter Cook, Bernard McKenna, and David Sherlock, with an ensemble cast featuring Chapman, Cook, Peter Boyle, Cheech & Chong, Martin Hewitt, Michael Hordern, Eric Idle, Madeline Kahn, James Mason, John Cleese, and the final cinematic appearances of Marty Feldman, Spike Milligan, and Peter Bull.
Zorro, The Gay Blade
1981 feature film directed by Peter Medak
The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak
1984 film by Just Jaeckin
Summer Rental
1985 film by Carl Reiner
After the Rain, on Thursday
1986 film by Mikhail Yuzovsky
Water (1985 film)
1985 British film
Vibes
1988 film by Ken Kwapis
Troop Beverly Hills
1989 film by Jeff Kanew
Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island
1983 Looney Tunes traditionally animated compilation film
Felix the Cat: The Movie
1993 animated feature film directed by David Silverman
Big Top Pee-wee
1988 film by Randal Kleiser
Radioactive Dreams
1985 film by Albert Pyun
Hot Pursuit
1987 film by Steven Lisberger
The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound
1988 film
The Suicide Club, or the Adventures of a Titled Person
1981 miniseries by Evgeny Tatarsky
Troma's War
1988 film by Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz
Little Monsters
1989 film directed by Richard Alan Greenberg
Quarantine
1983 Soviet children's comedy film
Chance
1984 film
Egorka
Egorka () is a 1984 Soviet adventure film directed by Aleksandr Yanovsky.
Explosive Brigade Against the Ninjas
1986 film by Miguel Fernández Alonso