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1980s adventure drama films
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The list 1980s adventure drama films includes
The Blue Lagoon, The Bounty, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, The Wicked Lady and The Mosquito Coast.
The list consists of 46 members
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Love Strange Love
1982 film by Walter Hugo Khouri
Overview: Love Strange Love (Portuguese: Amor Estranho Amor) is a 1982 Brazilian erotic crime drama film written and directed by Walter Hugo Khouri. The film stars Vera Fischer, Tarcísio Meira, Xuxa Meneghel, and ...
Genre: DramaDirector: Walter Hugo KhouriProducer: Alexandre Adamin, Anibal Massaini NetoWriter: Walter Hugo KhouriIn 1937, in São Paulo, 12-year-old Hugo comes from Santa Catarina. His grandmother is returning him to his mother, Anna, who is now with Osmar, the most ...
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The Blue Lagoon
1980 film by Randal Kleiser
Overview: The Blue Lagoon is a 1980 American dramatic coming-of-age romantic survival film directed by Randal Kleiser from a screenplay written by Douglas Day Stewart based on the 1908 novel of the same name by ...
Release date: 20 June 1980Genre: Adventure, Drama, RomanceDirector: Randal KleiserProducer: Richard Franklin, Randal KleiserIn the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life ... 0
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The Mosquito Coast
1986 American drama film directed by Peter Weir
Overview: The Mosquito Coast is a 1986 American drama film directed by Peter Weir and starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Andre Gregory, and River Phoenix. It is based on the 1981 novel by Paul Theroux. The film ...
Release date: 26 November 1986Genre: Adventure, Drama, ThrillerDirector: Peter WeirProducer: Jerome Hellman, Neville C. ThompsonWriter: Paul Theroux, Paul SchraderAn inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia. 0
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The Man from Snowy River
1982 Australian Western and drama film
Overview: The Man from Snowy River is a 1982 Australian Western drama film based on the Banjo Paterson poem "The Man from Snowy River". The film stars Kirk Douglas in a dual role as the brothers Harrison (a character ...Release date: 25 March 1982Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, WesternDirector: George MillerProducer: Geoff Burrowes, Michael EdgleyWriter: A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson, Cul CullenJim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death... 0
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The Land Before Time
1988 animated adventure film directed by Don Bluth
Overview: The Land Before Time is a 1988 animated adventure film directed and co-produced by Don Bluth from a screenplay by Stu Krieger and a story by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss. It is executive produced by Steven ...
Release date: 18 November 1988Genre: Adventure, Family, Drama, Animation, FantasyDirector: Don BluthProducer: Don Bluth, Gary GoldmanWriter: Stu Krieger, Judy FreudbergAn orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in a valley. 0
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The Bounty
1984 film by Roger Donaldson
Overview: The Bounty is a 1984 British epic historical drama film directed by Roger Donaldson. It depicts the voyage and mutiny of HMS Bounty, with Robert Bolt's screenplay adapting the 1972 book Captain Bligh and ...
Release date: 4 May 1984Genre: Adventure, History, DramaDirector: Roger DonaldsonProducer: Dino De Laurentiis, Bernard WilliamsWriter: Robert Bolt, Richard HoughFed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action. 0
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Sahara
1983 British-American action, adventure drama film by Andrew McLaglen
Overview: Sahara is a 1983 British-American adventure drama film directed by Andrew McLaglen and starring Brooke Shields, Lambert Wilson, Horst Buchholz, John Rhys-Davies and John Mills. The original music score ...Release date: 8 December 1983Genre: Adventure, DramaDirector: Andrew V. McLaglenProducer: Menahem Golan, James R. SilkeAfter her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik. 0
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Paradise
1982 Canadian film
Overview: Paradise is a 1982 Canadian adventure-romance film written and directed by Stuart Gillard (in his directorial debut). It stars Phoebe Cates, Willie Aames, and Tuvia Tavi. The original music score was ...
Release date: 25 March 1982Genre: Adventure, Romance, DramaDirector: Stuart GillardProducer: Wendy Grean, Robert LantosWriter: Stuart GillardIn the Victorian period, two teenagers, David and Sarah, travel with a caravan from Baghdad to Damascus... 0
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984 film by Hugh Hudson
Overview: Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a 1984 adventure film directed by Hugh Hudson based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes (1912). Christopher Lambert stars as Tarzan (though ...
Release date: 30 March 1984Genre: Adventure, Drama, RomanceDirector: Hugh HudsonProducer: Stanley S. Canter, Hugh HudsonWriter: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert TowneA missing heir of respected Scottish family, raised in African jungles by animals, finally returns to his estate only to realize that difference between ... 0
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First Blood
1982 American action film directed by Ted Kotcheff
Overview: First Blood is a 1982 American action film directed by Ted Kotcheff and co-written by and starring Sylvester Stallone as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. It co-stars Richard Crenna as Rambo's mentor Sam ...Release date: 22 October 1982Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, ThrillerDirector: Ted KotcheffCast: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Bill McKinney, Jack Starrett, Michael TalbottProducer: Buzz Feitshans, Mario KassarWriter: David Morrell, Michael KozollA veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers ... 0
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The Wicked Lady
1983 film
Overview: The Wicked Lady is a 1983 British-American period drama directed by Michael Winner and starring Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Denholm Elliott, and Hugh Millais. It was screened out of competition ...Release date: 21 July 1983Genre: Drama, AdventureDirector: Michael WinnerProducer: Leslie Arliss, Gordon GlennonCaroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph... 0
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Tai-Pan
1986 film by Daryl Duke
Overview: Tai-Pan is a 1986 adventure drama film directed by Daryl Duke, loosely based on James Clavell's 1966 novel of the same name. While many of the same characters and plot twists are maintained, a few smaller ...Release date: 7 November 1986Genre: Adventure, DramaDirector: Daryl DukeProducer: Dino De Laurentiis, Raffaella De LaurentiisWriter: John Briley, James ClavellHistorical fiction set against the backdrop of Hong Kong in its early years of British rule. 0
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Revolution
1985 film
Overview: Revolution is a 1985 British historical drama film directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Robert Dillon, and starring Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, and Nastassja Kinski. The film stars Pacino as a frontiersman ...Release date: 25 December 1985Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, WarDirector: Hugh HudsonProducer: Robert Dillon, Chris BurtNew York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son... 0
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Never Cry Wolf
1983 film by Carroll Ballard
Overview: Never Cry Wolf is a 1983 American drama film directed by Carroll Ballard. The film is an adaptation of Farley Mowat's 1963 "subjective non-fiction" book. The film stars Charles Martin Smith as a government ...Release date: 6 October 1983Genre: Adventure, DramaDirector: Carroll BallardCast: Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah, Hugh Webster, Martha IttimangnaqProducer: Lewis M. Allen, Jack CoufferWriter: Farley Mowat, Curtis HansonA government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species ... 0
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Gorillas in the Mist
1988 film by Michael Apted
Overview: Gorillas in the Mist is a 1988 American biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Anna Hamilton Phelan and a story by Phelan and Tab Murphy. The film is based on a book of ...
Release date: 23 September 1988Genre: Biography, DramaDirector: Michael AptedCast: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, John Omirah Miluwi, Iain Cuthbertson, Constantin AlexandrovProducer: Rick Baker, Terence A. CleggWriter: Harold T.P. Hayes, Dian FosseyThe story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them. 0
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Fitzcarraldo
1982 film
Overview: Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 West German epic adventure-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog, and starring Klaus Kinski as would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman ...Release date: 4 March 1982Genre: Adventure, Drama, MusicDirector: Werner HerzogCast: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher, Huerequeque Enrique BohorquezProducer: Werner Herzog, Renzo RosselliniThe story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of the Peruvian jungle. 0
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Enemy Mine
1985 film by Wolfgang Petersen
Overview: Enemy Mine is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by Edward Khmara, based on Barry B. Longyear's novella of the same name. The film stars Dennis Quaid and Louis ...
Release date: 12 December 1985Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Action, AdventureDirector: Wolfgang PetersenCast: Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James, Richard Marcus, Carolyn McCormick, Bumper RobinsonProducer: Stephen J. Friedman, Stanley O'TooleWriter: Barry Longyear, Edward KhmaraDuring a long space war, the lives of two wounded enemies become dependent on their ability to forgive and to trust. 0
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Uznik zamka If
1988 film
Overview: The Prisoner of Château d'If or (Russian: Узник замка Иф, Uznik zamka If) is a 1988 Soviet drama film directed by Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich based on the novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas ...Genre: History, Drama, AdventureDirector: Georgi Yungvald-KhilkevichCast: Viktor Avilov, Yevgeni Dvorzhetsky, Aleksei Petrenko, Nadira Mirzayeva, Anna Samokhina, Mikhail BoyarskiyA Russian version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune... 0
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Pancho Barnes
American TV series or program
Overview: Pancho Barnes is a 1988 American made-for-television biographical film about the pioneering female aviator, starring Valerie Bertinelli, Ted Wass, James Stephens and Cynthia Harris. The film was directed ...Release date: 25 October 1988Genre: Drama, Adventure, ActionDirector: Richard T. HeffronProducer: Blue André, Alice PardoWriter: David Chisholm, John Michael Hayes 0
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Casino
American TV series or program
Overview: Casino is a 1980 American made-for-television adventure film directed by Don Chaffey and starring Mike Connors, Barry Van Dyke and Gene Evans. It originally premiered on ABC on August 1, 1980.Release date: 1 August 1980Genre: Drama, AdventureDirector: Don ChaffeyProducer: Richard Carr, Douglas S. CramerMike Connors is a suave gambler who owns a floating hotel/casino which takes a turn when the passengers are stalked by a saboteur during the casino sh ... 0
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