131. Breaker Morant
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bruce Beresford
Actors: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Terence Donovan
Plot: Three Australian officers, though acting under orders, are tried for shooting prisoners during the Boer war, but they put up a stronger defense to being used as scapegoats than anticipated.
132. 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.
133. 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.
134. 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.
135. The NeverEnding Story
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: Barret Oliver, Nicholas Gilbert, Noah Hathaway, Tami Stronach, Sydney Bromley, Drum Garrett
Plot: A boy goes on a wild adventure in a strange new world full of magic. He holds the key to saving the world but must complete a quest for the princess first.
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. 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. . .
138. 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.
139. 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.
140. Decalogue, The ( Dekalog )
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Polish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Actors: Artur Barcis, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Olaf Lubaszenko, Piotr Machalica, Katarzyna Piwowarczyk, Henryk Baranowski
Plot: Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski made this 10-part series for Polish television, with each approximately 1-hour episode based on each one of the 10 Commandments. Each story takes place in the same Warsaw apartment and explores the complex relationship between instinct and morality and the emotional turmoil it can cause.
