Paul Shenar | 80's Movie Guide

The Big Blue – Le Grand Bleu (1988)

March 1, 2017March 6, 2023

The Big Blue movie synopsis. Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques’ father, who was a diver too, died in the Mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and Jacques lost contact.

1987 Releases / TriStar Pictures

Man on Fire (1987)

February 13, 2017March 14, 2023

Man on Fire movie synopsis. The opening portrays a man being declared dead in an Italian hospital by a police chief. The man is an ex–CIA agent and mercenary, John Creasy.

1987 Releases / Orion Pictures

Best Seller (1987)

February 9, 2017March 17, 2023

Best Seller opens in 1972 as a group of gunmen wearing Richard Nixon Halloween masks steal evidence from a police evidence storage unit, killing several officers in the process. Officer Dennis Meechum (Brian Dennehy) is seriously wounded after stabbing one of the robbers.

1987 Releases / De Laurentiis Entertainment Group

The Bedroom Window (1987)

February 8, 2017March 17, 2023

The Bedroom Window movie storyline. Terry (Steve Guttenberg) is having an affair with his boss’s wife Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert). One night after an office party, they are together and Sylvia witnesses an attack on Denise (Elizabeth McGovern) from Terry’s bedroom window.

1986 Releases / Embassy Pictures

Raw Deal (1986)

February 5, 2017March 21, 2023

Raw Deal movie storyline. Mark Kaminski is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Luigi Patrovita, enlists Kaminski in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement into the FBI if Patrovita is taken down. To accomplish this, Kaminski must go undercover and join Patrovita’s gang.

1983 Releases / Universal Pictures

Scarface (1983)

January 16, 2017April 21, 2023

Scarface movie storyline. Tony Montana manages to leave Cuba during the Mariel exodus of 1980. He finds himself in a Florida refugee camp but his friend Manny has a way out for them: undertake a contract killing and arrangements will be made to get a green card.