Around the World in 80s Movies
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Eddie Murphy’s superstar-making role has him playing crafty Detroit cop Axel Foley, who travels to Beverly Hills in order to try to uncover the reasons behind the professional hit placed on an old friend (James Russo). His investigative tactics immediately draw the attention of the local law enforcement there, who put a tail on Foley to make sure that his story of being on vacation there holds up.
By-the-book detectives Taggart (John Ashton) and Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) are the cops assigned to staking out Foley, and Axel ends up dragging them both into the investigation through his charm, which ends up getting them into more and more hot water with the boss, Lt. Bogomil (Ronny Cox). With the cops on his case, his boss back in Detroit threatening his livelihood, and armed henchmen at every turn, Foley has a hard time trying to maintain focus on his intended prey, the wealthy art dealer, Victor Maitland (Stephen Berkoff).
The Hidden (1987) | Jack Sholder
Night of the Creeps (1986) | Fred Dekker
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)
Revenge of the Nerds (1984) | Jeff Kanew
Real Genius (1985) | Martha Coolidge
Weird Science (1985) | John Hughes
Electric Dreams (1984) | Steve Barron
Demon Seed (1977) | Donald Cammell
Saturn 3 (1980) | Stanley Donen
Outland (1981) | Peter Hyams
Total Recall (1990) | Paul Verhoeven
They Live (1988) | John Carpenter
V: The Final Battle (1984) | Richard T. Heffron
V – The Original Miniseries (1983) | Kenneth Johnson
Alien Nation (1988) | Graham Baker
Stranded (1987) | Tex Fuller
The Brother from Another Planet (1984) | John Sayles
Starman (1984) | John Carpenter
E.T. the Extraterrestrial (1982) | Steven Spielberg
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | Steven Spielberg
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