1980s British films

The Shining

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 8.4

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prep...

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Full Metal Jacket

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 8.3

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

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The Elephant Man

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 8.2

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity...

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Fourteen Days in May

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 8.1

A camera crew follows Edward Earl Johnson, a man falsely convicted of rape and murder, during his last 14 days on death row. Everyone involved is interviewed, Johnson himself, his family, the warden,...

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Heart of the Angel

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 8

This film documents one day in the life of Angel station on the Northern Line of the London Underground in the days before its refurbishment. We see the ticket collectors, station manager and other st...

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Gandhi

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 8

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the...

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Creature Comforts

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 2003 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Stop-motion animated series with a cast of animals, sound-biting on a specific topic each episode, such as creatures' sporting adventures, Christmas, and visits to veterinarians. The show satirizes mo...

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Brazil

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wr...

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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 7.8

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs...

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