100 Years of Movie Posters

Altered States (1980) Directed by Ken Russell. 102mins.

William Hurt - Eddie Jessup

Blair Brown    -     Emily Jessup
Bob Balaban    -     Arthur Rosenberg
Charles Haid    -     Mason Parrish
Miguel Godreau    -     Primal Man
Drew Barrymore    -     Margaret Jessup

IMDB rating 6.9

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami. 104mins.

Richard Thomas    -     Shad
Robert Vaughn    -     Gelt
John Saxon    -     Sador
George Peppard    -     Cowboy
Darlanne Fluegel    -     Nanelia
Sybil Danning    -     St. Exmin
Sam Jaffe    -     Dr. Hephaestus

IMDB rating 5.4

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Flash Gordon (1980) Directed by Mike Hodges. 111mins.

Sam Jones    -     Flash Gordon
Melody Anderson    -     Dale Arden
Max von Sydow    -     The Emperor Ming
Topol    -     Dr. Hans Zarkov
Ornella Muti    -     Princess Aura
Timothy Dalton    -     Prince Barin
Brian Blessed    -     Prince Vultan
Peter Wyngarde    -     Klytus

IMDB rating 6.3

Galaxina (1980) Directed by William Sachs. 95mins

Stephen Macht    -     Sgt. Thor
Avery Schreiber    -     Capt. Cornelius Butt
J.D. Hinton    -     Buzz
Dorothy Stratten    -     Galaxina

IMDB rating 3.2

Saturn 3 (1980) Directed by Stanley Donen. 88mins

Farrah Fawcett    -     Alex
Kirk Douglas    -     Adam
Harvey Keitel    -     Benson
Roy Dotrice    -     Benson (voice) (uncredited)

IMDB rating 4.8

Superman II (1980) Directed by Richard Lester. 127mins

Christopher Reeve    -     Clark Kent / Superman
Margot Kidder    -     Lois Lane
Gene Hackman    -     Lex Luthor
Ned Beatty    -     Otis
Valerie Perrine    -     Eve Teschmacher
Susannah York    -     Lara
Terence Stamp    -     General Zod
Sarah Douglas    -     Ursa
Jack O'Halloran    -     Non

IMDB rating 6.7

Star Wars V The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Directed by Irvin Kershner. 124mins (127mins)

Mark Hamill    -     Luke Skywalker
Harrison Ford    -     Han Solo
Carrie Fisher    -     Princess Leia
Billy Dee Williams    -     Lando Calrissian
Anthony Daniels    -     C-3PO
David Prowse    -     Darth Vader
Peter Mayhew    -     Chewbacca
Kenny Baker    -     R2-D2
Frank Oz    -     Yoda (voice)
Alec Guinness    -     Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi

IMDB rating 8.8

The Final Countdown (1980) Directed by Don Taylor. 103mins

Kirk Douglas    -     Capt. Matthew Yelland
Martin Sheen    -     Warren Lasky
Katharine Ross    -     Laurel Scott
James Farentino    -     Cdr. Richard Owens
Ron O'Neal    -     Cdr. Dan Thurman
Charles Durning    -     Senator Samuel Chapman

IMDB rating 6.6

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Escape from New York (1981) Directed by John Carpenter. 99mins.

Kurt Russell    -     Snake Plissken
Lee Van Cleef    -     Hauk
Ernest Borgnine    -     Cabbie
Donald Pleasence    -     The President
Isaac Hayes    -     The Duke
Harry Dean Stanton    -     Brain
Adrienne Barbeau    -     Maggie

IMDB rating 7.2

Galaxy of Terror (1981) Directed by Brian D. Clark. 81mins.

Edward Albert    -     Cabren
Erin Moran    -     Alluma
Ray Walston    -     Kore
Zalman King    -     Baelon
Robert Englund    -     Ranger
Sid Haig    -     Quuhod

IMDB rating 5.0

Looker (1981) Directed by Michael Crichton. 93mins.

Albert Finney    -     Dr. Larry Roberts
James Coburn    -     John Reston
Susan Dey    -     Cindy Fairmont
Leigh Taylor-Young    -     Jennifer Long

IMDB rating 6.0

Outland (1981) Directed by Peter Hyams. 112mins.

Sean Connery    -     Marshall William T. O'Niel
Peter Boyle    -     Mark Sheppard
Frances Sternhagen    -     Dr. Lazarus
James B. Sikking    -     Sgt. Montone
Kika Markham    -     Carol O'Niel
Steven Berkoff    -     Sagan

IMDB rating 6.6

Mad Max 2 - The Road Warrior (1981) Directed by George Miller. 95mins.

Mel Gibson    -     Max Rockatansky
Bruce Spence    -     The Gyro Captain
Vernon Wells    -     Wez
Kjell Nilsson    -     The Humungus
Emil Minty    -     The Feral Kid
Virginia Hey    -     Warrior Woman

IMDB rating 7.6

Scanners (1981) Directed by David Cronenberg. 103mins.

Stephen Lack    -     Cameron Vale
Jennifer O'Neill    -     Kim Obrist
Patrick McGoohan    -     Dr. Paul Ruth
Lawrence Dane    -     Braedon Keller
Michael Ironside    -     Darryl Revok

IMDB rating 6.8

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Blade Runner (1982) Directed by Ridley Scott. 117mins.

Harrison Ford    -     Rick Deckard
Rutger Hauer    -     Roy Batty
Sean Young    -     Rachael
Edward James Olmos    -     Gaff
M. Emmet Walsh    -     Bryant
Daryl Hannah    -     Pris
William Sanderson    -     J.F. Sebastian
Brion James    -     Leon Kowalski
Joe Turkel    -     Dr. Eldon Tyrell
Joanna Cassidy    -     Zhora

IMDB rating 8.2

E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1982) Directed by Steven Spielberg. 115mins (120mins)

Dee Wallace    -     Mary
Henry Thomas    -     Elliott
Peter Coyote    -     Keys
Robert MacNaughton    -     Michael
Drew Barrymore    -     Gertie
C. Thomas Howell    -     Tyler

IMDB rating 7.8

Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan (1982) Directed by Nicholas Meyer. 113mins (116mins)

William Shatner    -     Admiral James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy    -     Captain Spock
DeForest Kelley    -     Leonard McCoy
James Doohan    -     Montgomery Scott
Walter Koenig    -     Pavel Chekov
George Takei    -     Hikaru Sulu
Nichelle Nichols    -     Nyota Uhura
Bibi Besch    -     Carol Marcus
Merritt Butrick    -     David Marcus
Paul Winfield    -     Captain Clark Terrell
Kirstie Alley    -     Lt. Saavik
Ricardo Montalban    -     Khan Noonien Singh

IMDB rating 7.7

The Thing (1982) Directed by John Carpenter. 109mins

Kurt Russell    -     R.J. MacReady
Wilford Brimley    -     Dr. Blair
T.K. Carter    -     Nauls
David Clennon    -     Palmer
Keith David    -     Childs
Richard Dysart    -     Dr. Copper
Charles Hallahan    -     Norris
Peter Maloney    -     Bennings
Richard Masur    -     Clark
Donald Moffat    -     Garry
Joel Polis    -     Fuchs
Thomas Waites    -     Windows

IMDB rating 8.2

Tron (1982) Directed by Steven Lisberger. 96mins.

Jeff Bridges    -     Kevin Flynn / Clu
Bruce Boxleitner    -     Alan Bradley / Tron
David Warner    -     Ed Dillinger / Sark
Cindy Morgan    -     Lora / Yori
Barnard Hughes    -     Dr. Walter Gibbs / Dumont
Dan Shor    -     Ram
Peter Jurasik    -     Crom

IMDB rating 6.8

Brainstorm (1983) Directed by Douglas Trumbull. 106mins.

Christopher Walken    -     Michael Brace
Natalie Wood    -     Karen Brace
Louise Fletcher    -     Lillian Reynolds
Cliff Robertson    -     Alex Terson
Joe Dorsey    -     Hal Abramson

IMDB rating 6.4

Krull (1983) Directed by Peter Yates. 121mins.

Ken Marshall    -     Colwyn
Lysette Anthony    -     Lyssa
Freddie Jones    -     Ynyr
Francesca Annis    -     Widow of the Web
Alun Armstrong    -     Torquil
David Battley    -     Ergo
Liam Neeson    -     Kegan
Bernard Bresslaw    -     Cyclops

IMDB rating 5.9

Star Wars VI Return of the Jedi (1983) Directed by Richard Marquand. 134mins (135mins)

Mark Hamill    -     Luke Skywalker
Harrison Ford    -     Han Solo
Carrie Fisher    -     Princess Leia
Billy Dee Williams    -     Lando Calrissian
Anthony Daniels    -     C-3PO
Peter Mayhew    -     Chewbacca
Sebastian Shaw    -     Anakin Skywalker
Ian McDiarmid    -     The Emperor
David Prowse    -     Darth Vader
Alec Guinness    -     Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
Kenny Baker    -     R2-D2
Frank Oz    -     Yoda (voice)
James Earl Jones    -     Darth Vader (voice)

IMDB rating 8.4

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) Directed by Lamont Johnson. 90mins.

Peter Strauss    -     Wolff
Molly Ringwald    -     Niki
Ernie Hudson    -     Washington
Andrea Marcovicci    -     Chalmers
Michael Ironside    -     Overdog

IMDB rating 5.1

Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983) Directed by Charles Band. 84mins.

Jeffrey Byron    -     Dogen
Michael Preston    -     Jared-Syn
Tim Thomerson    -     Rhodes
Kelly Preston    -     Dhyana
Richard Moll    -     Hurok

IMDB rating 3.4

Superman III (1983) Directed by Richard Lester. 125mins

Christopher Reeve    - Clark Kent / Superman
Richard Pryor    -     Gus Gorman
Annette O'Toole    -     Lana Lang
Robert Vaughn    -     Ross Webster
Annie Ross    -     Vera
Pamela Stephenson    -     Lorelei
Margot Kidder    -     Lois Lane

IMDB rating 4.9

Twilight Zone The Movie (1983) Directed by John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante & George Miller. 101mins.

Dan Aykroyd    -     Passenger
Albert Brooks    -     Car Driver
Vic Morrow    -     Bill Connor
Scatman Crothers    -     Mr. Bloom
Kathleen Quinlan    -     Helen Foley
Jeremy Licht    -     Anthony
Kevin McCarthy    -     Uncle Walt
Nancy Cartwright    -     Ethel
John Lithgow    -     John Valentine
Burgess Meredith    -     Narrator (voice)

IMDB rating 6.4

Wargames (1983) Directed by John Badham. 114mins.

Matthew Broderick    -     David Lightman
Dabney Coleman    -     John McKittrick
John Wood    -     Dr. Stephen Falken
Ally Sheedy    -     Jennifer Mack
Barry Corbin    -     General Jack Beringer

IMDB rating 7.0

2010 (1984) Directed by Peter Hyams. 116mins.

Roy Scheider    -     Dr. Heywood Floyd
John Lithgow    -     Dr. Walter Curnow
Helen Mirren    -     Tanya Kirbuk
Bob Balaban    -     Dr. Chandra
Keir Dullea    -     Dave Bowman
Madolyn Smith    -     Caroline Floyd
Elya Baskin    -     Maxim Brajlovsky
Douglas Rain    -     HAL 9000 (voice)

IMDB rating 6.7

Dreamscape (1984) Directed by Joseph Ruben. 99mins

Dennis Quaid    -     Alex Gardner
Max von Sydow    -     Doctor Paul Novotny
Christopher Plummer    -     Bob Blair
Eddie Albert    -     The President
Kate Capshaw    -     Jane DeVries
David Patrick Kelly    -     Tommy Ray Glatman
George Wendt    -     Charlie Prince

IMDB rating 6.3

Dune (1984) Directed by David Lynch. 137mins (177mins)

Francesca Annis    -     Lady Jessica
Brad Dourif    -     Piter De Vries
José Ferrer    -     Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV
Linda Hunt    -     Shadout Mapes
Freddie Jones    -     Thufir Hawat
Richard Jordan    -     Duncan Idaho
Kyle MacLachlan    -     Paul Atreides
Virginia Madsen    -     Princess Irulan
Everett McGill    -     Stilgar
Kenneth McMillan    -     Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
Sian Phillips    -     Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
Jürgen Prochnow    -     Duke Leto Atreides
Paul Smith    -     The Beast Rabban
Patrick Stewart    -     Gurney Halleck
Sting    -     Feyd Rautha
Dean Stockwell    -     Dr. Wellington Yueh
Max von Sydow    -     Dr. Kynes
Alicia Witt    -     Alia
Sean Young    -     Chani

IMDB rating 6.6

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Electric Dreams (1984) Directed by Steven Barron. 95mins

Lenny von Dohlen    -     Miles Harding
Virginia Madsen    -     Madeline Robistat
Maxwell Caulfield    -     Bill
Bud Cort    -     Edgar (voice)

IMDB rating 6.3

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (1984) Directed by W.D. Richter. 103mins.

Peter Weller    -     Buckaroo Banzai
John Lithgow    -     Dr. Emilio Lizardo / Lord John Whorfin
Ellen Barkin    -     Penny Priddy
Jeff Goldblum    -     New Jersey
Christopher Lloyd    -     John Bigboote
Clancy Brown    -     Rawhide
Ronald Lacey    -     President Widmark

IMDB rating 6.3

The Ice Pirates (1984) Directed by Stewart Raffill. 91mins.

Robert Urich   -    Jason
Mary Crosby   -    Princess Karina
Michael D. Roberts   -    Roscoe
Anjelica Huston   -    Maida
John Matuszak   -    Killjoy
Ron Perlman   -    Zeno
John Carradine   -    Supreme Commander

IMDB rating 5.5

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The Last Starfighter (1984) Directed by Nick Castle. 101mins.

Lance Guest - Alex Rogan
Robert Preston - Centauri
Dan O'Herlihy - Grig
Catherine Mary Stewart - Maggie Gordon
Norman Snow - Xur
Barbara Bosson - Jane Rogan
Chris Hebert - Louis Rogan

IMDB rating 6.6

The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) Directed by Stewart Raffill. 102mins.

Michael Pare   -    David Herdeg
Nancy Allen   -    Allison Hayes
Eric Christmas    -    Dr. James Longstreet
Bobby Di Cicco   -    Jim Parker

IMDB rating 6.1

Runaway (1984) Directed by Michael Crichton. 99mins.

Tom Selleck    -     Jack Ramsay
Cynthia Rhodes    -     Karen Thompson
Gene Simmons    -     Dr. Charles Luther
Kirstie Alley    -     Jackie Rogers
Stan Shaw    -     Marvin James
G.W. Bailey    -     Chief of Police
Joey Cramer    -     Bobby Ramsay

IMDB rating 5.8

Starman (1984) Directed by John Carpenter.115mins

Jeff Bridges    -     Starman
Karen Allen    -     Jenny Hayden
Charles Martin Smith    -     Mark Shermin
Richard Jaeckel    -     George Fox

IMDB rating 6.9

Star Trek III The Search for Spock (1984) Directed by Leonard Nimoy. 105mins.

William Shatner    -     Admiral James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy    -     Captain Spock
DeForest Kelley    -     Leonard McCoy
James Doohan    -     Montgomery Scott
Walter Koenig    -     Pavel Chekov
George Takei    -     Hikaru Sulu
Nichelle Nichols    -     Nyota Uhura
Merritt Butrick    -     David Marcus
Robin Curtis   -    Saavik
Christopher Lloyd   -    Kruge
John Larroquette   -    Maltz
Mark Lenard   -    Sarek
Judith Anderson   -    Vulcan High Priestess

IMDB rating 6.6

The Terminator (1984) Directed by James Cameron. 107mins.

Arnold Schwarzenegger    -     Terminator
Michael Biehn    -     Kyle Reese
Linda Hamilton    -     Sarah Connor
Paul Winfield    -     Lieutenant Ed Traxler
Lance Henriksen    -     Detective Hal Vukovich
Rick Rossovich    -     Matt Buchanan
Bess Motta    -     Ginger Ventura
Earl Boen    -     Dr. Peter Silberman

IMDB rating 8.1

John Woo (b. October 1946) is a Hong Kong film director, writer, and producer. He is considered a major influence on the action genre, known for his highly chaotic action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and frequent use of slow-motion.

Woo has directed several notable Hong Kong action films, among them, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard Boiled and Red Cliff. His Hollywood films include Hard Target, Broken Arrow, Face/Off and Mission: Impossible II. He also created the comic series Seven Brothers, published by Virgin Comics. Woo was described by Dave Kehr in The Observer in 2002 as "arguably the most influential director making movies today".

Woo cites his three favorite films as David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï. (Wikipedia)