Amazing Movie Posters

Based on the adventures of the hero Tex from the comic strip by Bonelli. An interesting spaghetti-western/fantasy movie that blends magic and mythology with six-guns and stagecoaches. Director: Duccio Tessari Writers: Giorgio Bonelli, Giovanni L. Bonelli (story) Stars: Giuliano Gemma, William Berger, Carlo Mucari

In order to save their home from foreclosure, a group of misfits set out to find a pirate's ancient treasure. Director: Richard Donner Writers: Steven Spielberg (story), Chris Columbus (screenplay) Stars: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam. Director: George P. Cosmatos Writers: David Morrell (characters), Kevin Jarre (story) Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier

Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape. Director: Lance Hool Writers: Steve Bing, Larry Levinson Stars: Chuck Norris, Soon-Tek Oh, Steven Williams

A Hong Kong man vacations to Nepal where a local tribe imbues him with magical powers which he must use to fight a growing evil. Director: Siu-Tung Ching Writers: Jin Ba (novel), Jing-kang Tsui Stars: Yun-Fat Chow, Emily Chu, Kit Ying Lam

A group of survivors (Lenore Zann, Maury Chaykin, Kate Lynch) of nuclear war must fight off a paramilitary faction in the near future. Initial release: March 15, 1985 Director: Paul Donovan Running time: 1h 28m MPAA rating: R Music composed by: Christopher Young

Determined to develop a gaseous drug that allows patients to tolerate the difficulties of surgery, Dr. Bolton (Boris Karloff) devises numerous opium-based remedies, which he tests on himself. His experiments fail miserably in trials performed for his colleagues -- who include his own son, Jonathan (Francis Matthews) -- and Bolton is dismissed from his position. Having developed an addiction to opium, Bolton finds work treating the poor but falls in with grave robbers in order to get drugs. Initial release: December 1958 Director: Robert Day Running time: 1h 27m Music composed by: Buxton Orr Cinematography: Geoffrey Faithfull

Two New York detectives (Jackie Chan, Danny Aiello), one a karate expert, go to Hong Kong on the trail of a cocaine lord (Roy Chiao). Initial release: June 15, 1985 Director: James Glickenhaus Running time: 1h 34m MPAA rating: R

When foreman Frank (James Karen) shows new employee Freddy (Thom Mathews) a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout Louisville, Ky., and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss (Clu Gulager) and a mysterious mortician (Don Calfa). Release date: August 16, 1985 (USA) Director: Dan O'Bannon Film series: Return of the Living Dead Featured songs: Partytime, Pazer Rollen in Afrika vor Story by: John A. Russo, Russell Streiner, Rudy Ricci

Teenage Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) is a horror-film junkie, so it's no surprise that, when a reclusive new neighbor named Jerry Dandridge (Chris Sarandon) moves next-door, Brewster becomes convinced he is a vampire. It's also no surprise when nobody believes him. However, after strange events begin to occur, Charlie has no choice but to turn to the only person who could possibly help: washed-up television vampire killer Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall). Release date: August 2, 1985 (USA) Director: Tom Holland Running time: 1h 48m Screenplay: Tom Holland Music composed by: Brad Fiedel

In this 1980s sci-fi classic, small-town California teen Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is thrown back into the '50s when an experiment by his eccentric scientist friend Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) goes awry. Traveling through time in a modified DeLorean car, Marty encounters young versions of his parents (Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson), and must make sure that they fall in love or he'll cease to exist. Even more dauntingly, Marty has to return to his own time and save the life of Doc Brown. Release date: July 3, 1985 (USA) Director: Robert Zemeckis Music composed by: Alan Silvestri Screenplay: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale