Sci-Fi / Action
1984
The Terminator
James Cameron’s low-budget sci-fi thriller arrived like a machine from the future — brutal, inventive and far more influential than its modest beginnings suggested.
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Action movies from the 80s
Rewatching the action movies that helped make the decade unforgettable.
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Sci-Fi / Action
1987
RoboCop
Part action movie, part corporate nightmare, RoboCop is still one of the smartest and most brutally entertaining films of the 1980s.
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Action
1988
Die Hard
Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman and one very bad Christmas Eve turned a Los Angeles skyscraper into the setting for one of the greatest action movies ever made.
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