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Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 7

The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen. Armed with information from a fortune-teller and a relentless obsession with his prized possess...

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Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island

Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1983 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales find a treasure map that leads them to a wishing well, which for a penny will grant any wish (through old cartoon footage). Daffy sets up a resort around the well and va...

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Time Bandits

Time Bandits

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1981 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabri...

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Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parce...

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Stripes

Stripes

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1981 IMDB Rating: 6.8

John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the U.S. Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.

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Restless Natives

Restless Natives

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In the process they becom...

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Crocodile Dundee

Crocodile Dundee

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 6.6

When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Mick Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultures and a recipe for good-natured comedy as naïve Dundee neg...

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The Great Outdoors

The Great Outdoors

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Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 6.6

It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by C...

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Summer Rental

Summer Rental

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud wit...

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National Lampoon's European Vacation

National Lampoon's European Vacation

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 6.2

The Griswalds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and so pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but they just don't know how to be be good tourists....

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