241. The Transformers: The Movie
Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Nelson Shin
Actors: Peter Cullen, Orson Welles, Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Stack
Plot: The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who is after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership.
242. Near Dark
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Actors: Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, Tim Thomerson, Jenette Goldstein
Plot: A small group of vampires turn a new man into one of them. But before they accept him into the group he must make his first kill. Can he go through with it?
243. Danton
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Emmanuelle Debever, Patrice Chéreau, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche
244. Street of Crocodiles
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Actors: Feliks Stawinski
Plot: An array of disturbing dolls interacting, destroying, and creating serve as a metaphor for corruption and loss of inspiration in modern times
245. Manhunter
Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Mann
Actors: William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina, Stephen Lang
Plot: Using his uncanny ability to get inside psychopaths' minds, former FBI agent Will Graham returns to action to hunt down a serial killer. Graham retired after catching Hannibal Lecter and subsequently suffering a breakdown. Now, he engages in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer.
246. Fatal Attraction
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Adrian Lyne
Actors: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer, Ellen Hamilton Latzen, Stuart Pankin, Ellen Foley
Plot: Despite having a beautiful wife and child, Douglas, a New York city lawyer puts his perfect life in jeopardy by having a one-night stand with a woman (Close) he just met.
247. Somewhere in Time
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Actors: Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright, Bill Erwin, William H. Macy
Plot: Richard Collier is on a writers block so he goes on vacation. He sees a picture of the most beautiful woman and says he must meet her. So now he must find a way to travel back in time to be with her.
248. Out of Africa
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sydney Pollack
Actors: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Malick Bowens, Michael Kitchen, Michael Gough
Plot: A big game hunter lures a Danish Plantation Owner in Kenya into his passions for game and hunt while pulling her away from her husband.
249. A Soldier's Story
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: Denzel Washington, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Robert Townsend, David Alan Grier, Patti LaBelle
Plot: When a black soldier is found murdered in the deep south, a no-nonsense army attorney, who is also black, is brought in to get to the bottom of the crime. Despite the tense racial situation, he learns the truth about the soldier, and closes in on his killer.
250. Damnation ( Kárhozat )
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Hungarian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Béla Tarr
Actors: György Cserhalmi, Gyula Pauer, Miklós Székely B., Vali Kerekes, János Újvári, Gáspár Ferdinándy
