Sci-Fi Films of the '80s
Feature films and made-for-TV movies that can be categorized within the sci-fi genre.
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- DirectorCiro IppolitoBiagio ProiettiStarsBelinda MayneMark BodinRoberto BarreseAstronauts become monstrous host-inhabiting creatures after space mission. Cave explorers encounter these beings underground. Survivors try escaping and fighting the threat.
- DirectorFred Olen RayStarsBuster CrabbeRay RobertsLinda LewisA meteor hits a houseboat, turning its occupants into zombies feeding on alligators. As reptiles dwindle, they target townspeople. A scientist investigates disappearances caused by the undead houseboat dwellers.
- DirectorHarvey HartStarsTom MasonEric BraedenMelinda O. FeeAn alien mother ship hovering in Earth's atmosphere is the base for an attempted alien invasion of Earth.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsWilliam HurtBlair BrownBob BalabanA psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
- DirectorJimmy T. MurakamiRoger CormanStarsGeorge PeppardRobert VaughnRichard ThomasA farm boy recruits a band of outlaws to save the planet Akir from forces that threaten to wipe them out from the face of the universe. A battle stretching beyond the stars begins here.
- DirectorRobert EmeneggerStarsDavid LaddJacqueline RayChristopher CaryA 21st-century scientist tries to save Earth after two atomic wars.
- DirectorJames L. ConwayStarsRebecca BaldingFred McCarrenAnne-Marie MartinOtherworldly creatures are released from the bootleg tunnels underneath a small-town mining community, and begin chomping on the locals.
- DirectorBurt BrinckerhoffStarsJulie CobbBud CortKeir DulleaA man who grew up in a primitive society educating himself by reading Shakespeare is allowed to join the futuristic society where his parents are from. However, he cannot adapt to their repressive ways.
- DirectorRobert EmeneggerAllan SandlerStarsCameron MitchellDavid LaddLori SaundersTwo survivors of an alien spaceship crash-land on earth and hold two people hostage.
- DirectorIan BarryStarsSteve BisleyArna-Maria WinchesterRoss ThompsonA holidaying couple is pursued by the thugs of a nearby nuclear storage facility's boss, who is intent on covering up an accidental leak.
- DirectorMax KalmanowiczStarsMartin ShakarGil RogersGale GarnettA nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.
- DirectorRobert Michael LewisStarsJoe CorteseTom ClancySusan GeorgeThe year is 1996 and Michael Stringer is the only private eye left on Earth. One day, he is hired by a woman to investigate Eden Isle, a complex for people who want a perfect life started by her industrialist father named Korter. Interestingly, Korter was found on a beach and is 20 years younger than he was before. When Stringer gets into the complex, he is caught in a web of mystery that he might not get out of.
- DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsMasao KusakariTsunehiko WataseIsao NatsuyagiAfter a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.
- DirectorBertrand TavernierStarsRomy SchneiderHarvey KeitelHarry Dean StantonIn a future where dying of illness is very rare, terminally ill Katherine Mortenhoe becomes a celebrity and Roddy, a man with camera implants in his brain, secretly records her for a morbid TV show called Death Watch.
- DirectorJames L. ConwayStarsBurl IvesChristopher ConnellyMeredith MacRaeA family of space aliens crash lands on Earth when their spaceship conks out.
- DirectorRobert EmeneggerAllan SandlerStarsJackson BostwickCameron Mitchell Jr.David ChandlerFramed for a serious crime, a man attempts to escape from a maximum security satellite prison...
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsKurt RussellLee Van CleefErnest BorgnineIn 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.
- DirectorMichele LupoStarsBud SpencerCary GuffeyFerruccio AmendolaBud Spencer is, as always, getting into fights - especially after getting a job as sheriff. He's looking after a small boy who's actually an extraterrestrial with special abilities thus the military wants him. Bud's got his hands full.
- DirectorDon TaylorStarsKirk DouglasMartin SheenKatharine RossA modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
- DirectorDavid M. RobertsonStarsDarren McGavinDoug McClureGeorge TouliatosIn one of many unpopular and unsupported policy decisions, the US government of the near future outlaws vehicle petrol in an effort to curb the overuse of limited natural resources - except, of course, for official purposes. There are many renegades who oppose the authorities, and will stop at nothing to allow themselves the freedom of burning around the countryside.
- DirectorMike HodgesStarsSam J. JonesMelody AndersonMax von SydowA football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
- DirectorWilliam SachsStarsStephen MachtAvery SchreiberJ.D. HintonIn the 31st century, sexy blonde android Galaxina helms the crew of a space cruiser on a mission to find the Blue Star, a mystical gem that holds unlimited power.
- DirectorBruce D. ClarkStarsEdward AlbertErin MoranRay WalstonA ragtag spaceship crew sent on a rescue mission encounter a formidable enemy, their worst fears projected by their own imaginations.
- DirectorJames L. ConwayStarsDarren McGavinRobert VaughnGary CollinsAfter a UFO crashes in Arizona, due to a space collision with a NASA satellite launch, the U.S. government tries to cover-up the incident for political reasons.
- DirectorAllan ArkushStarsAndy KaufmanBernadette PetersRandy QuaidTwo household robots run away and try to start a family.