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1980s
RoboCop
Byte-Sized Overview Detroit police officer Alex Murphy is transferred to one of the city’s most dangerous precincts as the corporation controlling the…
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1980s
Aliens
Byte-Sized Overview Fifty-seven years after escaping the destruction of the Nostromo, Ellen Ripley is recovered from hypersleep and returned to a society…
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1980s
The Abyss
Byte-Sized Overview When the nuclear submarine USS Montana sinks after encountering an unidentified object deep in the Caribbean, the crew of an…
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1980s
Back to the Future
Byte-Sized Overview Marty McFly is a teenager with musical ambitions, an unreliable family and an eccentric scientist for a best friend. When…
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1980s
The Terminator
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A killer cyborg from the future is sent back to 1984 to assassinate a woman whose unborn child will…
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1980s
Scanners
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A telepathic drifter is recruited to fight a rogue scanner who can explode people’s heads with his mind. It’s…
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1980s
Blade Runner
Byte-Sized Overview Los Angeles, 2019. The city has become a rain-soaked industrial sprawl of overcrowded streets, corporate pyramids and illuminated advertisements. Artificial…
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