241. Nine to Five
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Colin Higgins
Actors: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Elizabeth Wilson, Sterling Hayden
Plot: Three women work for a pig of a boss and decide to stage a coup. They trap the boss and run the department on their own, greatly improving things, but the charade becomes harder and harder to keep up as things progress.
242. Ladyhawke
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Richard Donner
Actors: Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Alfred Molina, Leo McKern, John Wood
Plot: Captain Navarre and Lady Isabeau have been on the run for more than two years. The evil Bishop of Aquila, consumed by jealousy and outraged by Lady Isabeau's refusal of his advances, orders the death of Navarre and curses the lovers. Navarre becomes a wolf by night, Lady Isabeau becomes a hawk by day. With the help of an unlikely ally, thief Philippe Gaston, they must confront the Bishop if there is any hope of breaking the curse. But will they reach the Bishop in time or will the curse become eternal?
243. Street of Crocodiles
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Actors: Feliks Stawinski
Plot: An array of disturbing dolls interacting, destroying, and creating serve as a metaphor for corruption and loss of inspiration in modern times
244. Danton
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Emmanuelle Debever, Patrice Chéreau, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche
245. Pit, The ( Teddy )
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lew Lehman
Actors: Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits, Laura Hollingsworth, John Auten, Laura Press
Plot: A sexually precocious 12 year old boy takes revenge on the people who make his life miserable by feeding them to his imaginary friends, meat eating creatures he calls "Tra-la-logs". Along the way he partakes in some extremely questionable behavior involving the ladies in his life. The blatant perversity makes this a particularly tasty and delicious gem of a movie.
246. Meaning, The ( Arth )
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mahesh Bhatt
Actors: Shabana Azmi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Smita Patil, Raj Kiran, Gulshan Grover, Dina Pathak
247. Damnation ( Kárhozat )
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Hungarian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Béla Tarr
Actors: György Cserhalmi, Gyula Pauer, Miklós Székely B., Vali Kerekes, János Újvári, Gáspár Ferdinándy
248. Manhunter
Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Mann
Actors: William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina, Stephen Lang
Plot: Using his uncanny ability to get inside psychopaths' minds, former FBI agent Will Graham returns to action to hunt down a serial killer. Graham retired after catching Hannibal Lecter and subsequently suffering a breakdown. Now, he engages in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer.
249. A Soldier's Story
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: Denzel Washington, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Robert Townsend, David Alan Grier, Patti LaBelle
Plot: When a black soldier is found murdered in the deep south, a no-nonsense army attorney, who is also black, is brought in to get to the bottom of the crime. Despite the tense racial situation, he learns the truth about the soldier, and closes in on his killer.
250. Fatal Attraction
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Adrian Lyne
Actors: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer, Ellen Hamilton Latzen, Stuart Pankin, Ellen Foley
Plot: Despite having a beautiful wife and child, Douglas, a New York city lawyer puts his perfect life in jeopardy by having a one-night stand with a woman (Close) he just met.
