If you remember the eighties, then you certainly remember The Goonies. This movie was a classic. On the other hand, if you still haven’t seen it for some crazy reason… Think Pirates of the Caribbean meets Stand By Me meets Indiana Jones meets The Sopranos meets… Well, it’s a whole lot of different movies all wrapped into one, really. It’s primarily an adventure flick, but it makes a lot of stops along the way, and stands as one of the all time classic kids movie downloads.

The movie follows The Goonies, led by Mikey Walsh, son of a museum curator. This gang of misfits hails from the Boon Docks of Astoria, Oregon. The movie really kicks into the story when the rich folks in Astoria decide they’re going to buy the Goonies’ neighborhood, tear it down, and build a golf course in its place. Boooo! That’s what we in the industry call a real Jerk Move!

The Goonies take it upon themselves to save the Boon Docks. They start by getting into the attic, where Mike’s dad, a museum curator, has a bunch of old pirate stuff stashed. They find a treasure map leading them to an old restaurant on the coast. The restaurant is run by the Fratellis, a low rent crime family led by Ma Fratelli, a serious ball buster who takes a sort of Bates Motel approach to mothering her children, played by Robert Davi and Joe Pantoliano. They have to figure out how to get under the restaurant to get the treasure without alerting the Fratellis and…

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If you love action flicks, but you’re getting tired of all this whiz bang, shaky camera stuff where you can’t tell what the heck is going on, Exiled may be the antidote you’re looking for. This makes any worthwhile action movie downloads list because the action isn’t so darned all over the place. Everything is clear and coherent, you can tell what’s going on. You rarely see action this… Graceful.

We follow a gangster who betrayed his boss years ago, and his since gotten married and had a baby. The boss sends a couple of hitmen to take him out, while at the same time, two other former members of the gang show up to protect him. This is where the movie begins.

These characters are all friends since their youth, and there’s a sense of warmth and sentimentality as the five characters come to a compromise and decide to honor friendship before duty. They decide to pull off a big score to help support the hero’s wife and child before settling their differences. The result is something much more personal than the usual “It’s Just Business” approach to violence in gangster movies.

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When Stephen King wrote the novel, The Shining, he was likely not aware of what a true terror masterpiece it would be. This book had millions of people terrified to be alone in the dark. This terror became even more intense when the movie came out during the early eighties.

The film was released during the spring and terrified watchers during the entire summer. It was so successful that people were actually memorizing the lines and phrases. In the end the flick won many nominations and one award from the academy.

The movie was about character Jack Torrance, his wife, and young son. After a long battle with alcoholism he moves his family to a hotel in Colorado. There he acts as a caretaker during the off season when the building is empty. The unaware group soon goes through one of the most horrifying experiences of their lives.

Danny, the couple’s child, is already aware that something is not quite right. He had visions of tragedies that had taken place years earlier. His special gift had warned him about the evil that was waiting for his family. After the group moves in those prophecies begin coming true.

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Released in two thousand six, the departed is one of the conventional mafia police war movies, but this one has a twist. The story is based on the rivalry between the Irish American mafias and the police and this time there are actually two agents who are busy in double crossing their organizations. One does it for the bad guys and the other for the good ones.

The film plot is very strong and is circling around the concept of human betrayal, greed and intimacy feelings all conjugated under the fight of the law with lawlessness. Normally most of us witness brilliant police officers joining the crime ranks in order to spy on the lawless mongers but this time these mongers prepare a great defense in shape of their spy within the law agency troops.

Young Billy is a fresh Police graduate and his connection with the Irish underworld in the US makes him one of the best candidates to spy on the mafia. He quickly gains trust of the mafia heads and lands in the middle of all the criminal action planning and doings and hence proves to be a vital factor is sabotaging most of them.

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The Road Warrior, known as Mad Max 2 in Australia, is, simply put, one of the all time classics. It is, without a doubt, one of the greatest action stories ever put to film and, perhaps, one of the all time great films, period. It is sort of the action film answer to Citizen Kane or Casablanca. The movie is well crafted and the story well told. Even with the breakneck pace and chaos within the story, the movie remains clear and coherent the whole way through, and is one of the all time must download movies.

There aren’t a lot of movies that work so well on so many levels, much less action films, which are typically used just to turn over a quick and easy profit at the box office. The movie is just, very, very strong on all possible levels. It’s exciting, fun and has some moments of great humor, drama and humanity.

You probably know everything about the movie, but it’s worth a recap nevertheless: After World War III, food, water and gasoline have all become scarce. The outback of Australia has become a wasteland, overrun by ruthless gangs of warlords and thugs. Mad Max is a former cop now just trying to stay alive and find enough gas and water to get from one day to the next, to keep himself, his dog, and his car alive.

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James Cameron’s recent opus, Avatar, is considered to be the new revolution in film and cinematic technology. However, in the eyes of many fans, James Cameron may never top his action masterpiece Terminator 2. While he was placed on the map well before this with films like Aliens, it wasn’t until Terminator 2 that he was really given the freedom to create something that broke all barriers of what had come before him. It is, without a doubt, one of the all time must download movies.

T2 is remembered as a major stepping stone for the technology of special effects, alongside Jurassic Park, but people forget that the special effects were not the point of the film, that the effects were there to help the story, not the other way around. Cameron makes great steps in terms of special effects, but the effects are always, always there to serve the story, and not for their own sake.

If you haven’t seen it yet, then… You must have been frozen in ice in the year 1991. Hello! Welcome to the 21st Century! No flying cars yet, sorry, but at least you can download movies online, so you have no excuse not to catch up on the classics of the last twenty years. If you’re wondering what Terminator 2 is about, remember Terminator 1? Okay now imagine that the Terminator is back here to protect Sarah Connor’s son this time from a liquid metal Terminator who wants to kill him. There, now you’re caught up.

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Finding legal movie downloads can be a little difficult but in recent times, the industry has actually finally started to take off and there are many online shops in which you can buy and downloading movies online rather than having to wait for them to be delivered for you and having to pay an extra delivery charge.

Firstly, you might want to consider the advantages of being able to legally download movies of the Internet. The most obvious one is that you can download them quickly with most broadband connections and you don’t have to worry about going all the way to the store to try to find what you want.

You may also be concern that you won’t be on to play the movies on anything else other than your computer. While many of us play our movies on a computer, the majority of people still have a separate entertainment systems and the computer is not used for this for many of us.

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