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1980's TV Movies

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  • Malibu (1983)

    1. Malibu

    19834hTV Movie
    5.9 (107)
    A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people living in the community.
    DirectorE.W. SwackhamerStarsWilliam AthertonJames CoburnSusan Dey
  • Priscilla Barnes, Dirk Benedict, and Shelley Smith in Scruples (1981)

    2. Scruples

    19811h 40mTV Movie
    7.2 (87)
    A woman inherits a millionaire business, but the problems she needs to solve are of the same proportions.
    DirectorRobert DayStarsSean AllanPriscilla BarnesDirk Benedict
  • Joan Collins, Priscilla Barnes, and Lee Horsley in The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch (1982)

    3. The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch

    19821h 40mTV Movie
    5.2 (139)
    It's quiet in Chastity Gulch, a small town in the Wild West. The men of the village are all in the Army and fight their battles far away. The women are getting very bored. At once, a bunch of robbers drops into the saloon. They love the beer, but are also looking for beautiful women. Will the town whores keep these delightful men for themselves or will the doctor's wife and the Mayor's wife also get a part of the fun?
    DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsPriscilla BarnesLee HorsleyHoward Duff
  • Lauren Hutton, Rob Estes, Priscilla Barnes, and Perry King in Perfect People (1988)

    4. Perfect People

    19881h 40mTV Movie
    5.6 (164)
    After many years of marriage Ken and Barbara decide to change their way of living radically. In order to become more attractive they submit themselves not only under modern diets and physical education but also try plastic surgery.
    DirectorBruce Seth GreenStarsLauren HuttonPerry KingPriscilla Barnes
  • Not Just Another Affair (1982)

    5. Not Just Another Affair

    19821h 35mTV Movie
    5.4 (172)
    A marine biologist who is celibate. A lawyer whom no woman can't seem to resist. What happens when the two of them meet?
    DirectorSteven Hilliard SternStarsGil GerardVictoria PrincipalRobert Webber
  • Rob Lowe in Thursday's Child (1983)

    6. Thursday's Child

    19831h 40mTV Movie
    6.3 (141)
    17-year-old Sam Alden is a high-school star baseball player who seems to have it all. When his family notices that he is often bothered with coughing fits, his worried parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked to find out that he has a life-threatening heart disease. Sam has trouble dealing with his illness, but he pretends to still be a joyful teenager to not worry his parents more than they are already. But his health is deteriorating, and it comes to him needing a heart transplant if he wants to survive. This is the beginning of a long journey, which is mentally and physically exhausting as Sam undergoes countless tests and operations, and the search for a donor seems endless. Even before the final operation, Sam is forced to deal with several setbacks in his life.
    DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsGena RowlandsDon MurrayJessica Walter
  • Rip Torn, Barbara Barrie, Loretta Swit, and Jessica Walter in The Execution (1985)

    7. The Execution

    19851h 30mNot RatedTV Movie
    5.7 (203)
    The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will "execute" him, drawing lots to determine which one will perform the act, without letting the others know who it is.
    DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLoretta SwitRip TornJessica Walter
  • Ann Jillian in Killer in the Mirror (1986)

    8. Killer in the Mirror

    19862hTV Movie
    6.5 (113)
    A woman's truly evil twin steals her sister's wealthy beloved and marries him. After his death, she fakes her own demise and returns from the "dead" to claim her sister's identity--and to frame her for the murder of her husband.
    DirectorFrank De FelittaStarsAnn JillianLen CariouMax Gail
  • Victoria Principal in Mistress (1987)

    9. Mistress

    19871h 40mTV Movie
    6.4 (135)
    A woman who's been having an affair with a married man who's been taking care of her. When he dies she finds herself with nothing. So she tries to rebuild her life but not without the stigma of being a kept woman following her.
    DirectorMichael TuchnerStarsVictoria PrincipalKerrie KeaneJoanna Kerns
  • Victoria Principal and James Farentino in Naked Lie (1989)

    10. Naked Lie

    19891h 30mTV-PGTV Movie
    5.5 (137)
    They are the perfect, and politically correct, couple. He is a judge, she is a high profile attorney. When she takes on a sensational murder case, the trail leads right to her own front door.
    DirectorRichard A. CollaStarsVictoria PrincipalJames FarentinoGlenn Withrow
  • Victoria Principal in Blind Witness (1989)

    11. Blind Witness

    19891h 35mPG-13TV Movie
    5.2 (240)
    A blind woman is trapped in her home with her husband's killers.
    DirectorRichard A. CollaStarsVictoria PrincipalPaul Le MatStephen Macht
  • Charlie Sheen, Mariette Hartley, and Howard Hesseman in Silence of the Heart (1984)

    12. Silence of the Heart

    19841h 40mNot RatedTV Movie
    6.4 (417)
    Skip Lewis is a 16 year old, who's been through some stuff. Like he has been having academic problems, and a girl whom he has been pursuing has told him that she has no interest in him. He tries to talk to his parents about this but can't, or thinks that they won't understand. So, he goes out and drives off a cliff. Now, his family's in denial saying that the whole thing was an accident. However, his best friend, Ken who was the last person he saw before, was told by Skip that he was considering killing himself and is feeling guilty that he didn't try to stop him.
    DirectorRichard MichaelsStarsMariette HartleyDana HillHoward Hesseman
  • North Beach and Rawhide (1985)

    13. North Beach and Rawhide

    19852hTV Movie
    7.0 (61)
    "Boys Town" drama about a man named Rawhide MacGregor, a one-time ex-convict who runs a cattle ranch as a correctional facility for urban juvenile delinquents where he tries through a variety of means and choirs to redeem them from their trouble-making ways.
    DirectorHarry FalkStarsWilliam ShatnerTate DonovanJames Olson
  • The Babysitter (1980)

    14. The Babysitter

    19801h 36mUnratedTV Movie
    5.5 (783)
    Spoiled 12-year-old Tara's new best friend from next door gets hired as a live-in babysitter, but things soon go horribly wrong when Tara's mom starts hitting the bottle and fighting with her dad.
    DirectorPeter MedakStarsPatty DukeWilliam ShatnerQuinn Cummings
  • Secrets of a Married Man (1984)

    15. Secrets of a Married Man

    19841h 40mNot RatedTV Movie
    5.4 (185)
    A man (Shatner) going through a mid-life crisis, starts patronizing prostitutes. Eventually, he meets a very expensive one (Shepherd) and he thinks he has it all. That is until her pimp starts hounding him.
    DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsWilliam ShatnerMichelle PhillipsGlynn Turman
  • Broken Angel (1988)

    16. Broken Angel

    19881h 40mTV-PGTV Movie
    5.1 (207)
    A man (William Shatner) combs Los Angeles for his missing daughter, and discovers she belongs to a gang dealing in crack.
    DirectorRichard T. HeffronStarsWilliam ShatnerSusan BlakelyRoxann Dawson
  • The Violation of Sarah McDavid (1981)

    17. The Violation of Sarah McDavid

    19811h 40mTV Movie
    5.8 (157)
    Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after school hours and decides to buck the school system in an attempt to make schools safer for students and teachers alike, against the advice of the school's principal, Dr. Keys, who tries to gloss over the hazardous conditions and the incident itself to avoid bad publicity and decreased enrollment.
    DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsPatty DukeNed BeattyJames Sloyan
  • Paper Dolls (1982)

    18. Paper Dolls

    19821h 40mTV Movie
    6.5 (274)
    Pilot for the television series introduces the mothers of teenage fashion models who market their daughters for a powerful agent.
    DirectorEdward ZwickStarsJoan HackettJennifer WarrenJoan Collins
  • A Killer in the Family (1983)

    19. A Killer in the Family

    19831h 30mTV Movie
    6.7 (730)
    A father serving time for murder convinces his three teenage sons that his life is being threatened by fellow inmates and that they should break him out of jail. However, when his sons succeed in the jailbreak attempt, the father brings along his cell-mate, a former two time killer, and soon the sons find themselves involved in the pair's murderous crime spree.
    DirectorRichard T. HeffronStarsRobert MitchumJames SpaderLance Kerwin
  • Police Story: Monster Manor (1988)

    20. Police Story: Monster Manor

    19881h 35mPGTV Movie
    6.0 (84)
    Misfit policemen turn an old mansion into a party house and wind up part of a sting operation.
    DirectorAaron LipstadtStarsBrian McNamaraClayton RohnerScott Burkholder
  • Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer (1989)

    21. Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer

    19891h 32mNot RatedTV Movie
    4.9 (199)
    The 1970s Palm Beach, Fla., marriage of Roxanne and Herbert Pulitzer ends in a scandalous 1980s divorce.
    DirectorRichard A. CollaStarsPerry KingCourteney CoxBetsy Russell
  • Out of the Darkness (1985)

    22. Out of the Darkness

    19851h 34mRTV Movie
    6.1 (529)
    "Out of the Darkness" is a gripping thriller telling the true story of the hunt and capture of David Berkowitz, a.k.a. "Son of Sam" - the infamous serial killer who stalked New York City in the 1970s.
    DirectorJud TaylorStarsMartin SheenHector ElizondoMatt Clark
  • Hard Knox (1984)

    23. Hard Knox

    19841h 36mTV Movie
    5.1 (221)
    A retired fighter pilot becomes the head of his alma matter military high school for two weeks with hilarious consequences. He shapes up the school and raises morale so that they are able to win the "brass-axe" competition versus another local military academy.
    DirectorPeter WernerStarsRobert ConradRed WestJoan Sweeny
  • Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story (1986)

    24. Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story

    19861h 35mNot RatedTV Movie
    6.7 (71)
    A fictionalized tale of a young man who ends up in Boys Town outside Omaha, Nebraska. A kind priest helps the troubled boy find his way out of a life of trouble.
    DirectorGeorg Stanford BrownStarsArt CarneyJack BannonAnne Pitoniak
  • Sally Struthers in A Gun in the House (1981)

    25. A Gun in the House

    19811h 40mTV Movie
    5.5 (148)
    Emily Cates is left at home alone when a stranger breaks in and holds her hostage.
    DirectorIvan NagyStarsSally StruthersDavid AckroydDick Anthony Williams

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