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 The Experts
1989
Paramount
Directed by Dave Thomas
Starring: John Travolta, Ayre Gross, Kelly Preston, and Deborah Foreman
Two New York hot-shots are kidnapped and drugged. Instead of waking up in the Midwest, they find that they are really in a remote area of the former Soviet Union. With quick-witted remarks and scams of their own, they have to best the KGB and defeat its plans.
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 Eyes of an Angel
1989
Live/Artisan
Directed by Robert Harmon
Starring: John Travolta, Tito Larriva, Jeffrey De Munn
Bobby Allen (Travolta) doesn't know what it would feel like to have a little good luck come his way. Forced to flee his mobster brother-in-law, Bobby and his 10-year-old daughter make their way to California. Pursued by mob enforcers, his daughter finds and cares for a hurt Doberman that was used in illegal dogfights. Even though they are forced to abandon the dog, it comes across country to find them.
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 Look Who's Talking
1989
Columbia Tristar
Directed by Amy Heckerling
Starring: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Bruce Willis
Molly, an accountant (Alley), becomes pregnant by her married boyfriend who then refuses to leave his wife and assume responsibility for the child. Resigned to being a single mom, the expectant mother meets the charming but sometimes bumbling James, a cab driver (Travolta), who races her to the hospital during labor. He quickly falls in love with both her and her new son who makes wry comments on the action (including his own birth) in the voice of Bruce Willis. Still not over her ex-boyfriend, the accountant at first refuses the attentions of James, until, gradually, she begins to see him as more than just a babysitter.
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 THE DUMB WAITER
1987
Prism Entertainment
Directed by Robert Altman
Starring: John Travolta and Tom Conti
Based on the play by Harold Pinter, THE DUMB WAITER is set in the basement kitchen of a deserted rooming house, where eccentric hit men Gus (Tom Conti) and Ben (John Travolta) wait impatiently for instructions on their next job. Unfortunately for them, their predicament takes a bizarre turn as unsettling messages are received from the presumably abandoned floors above. Made for television by Altman, the film is true to Pinter’s play and builds to an unpredictable conclusion.
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 PERFECT
1985
Sony Pictures
Directed by James Bridges
Starring: John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marilu Henner
Adam Lawrence (Travolta) is a Rolling Stone reporter who travels to Los Angeles to investigate a drug case, and decides to write an exposé of the health-club craze that shows how shallow it really is. He even has a title in mind: "Looking for Mr. Goodbody." Adam meets Jessie (Curtis), a sexy fitness instructor who has little use for writers. Adam charms the reluctant Jessie, and before long they are seeing each other. Now Adam wonders if he can honestly write the expose
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 Two of a Kind
1983
Fox
Directed by John Herzfeld
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Charles Durning, Beatrice Straight
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John are together again but this time as Earth's last hope to survive God's wrath. God has become so disgusted with the people of Earth that He wants to destroy the whole race. However, He allows three angels one last chance to save Earth; they have to locate two good souls. Unfortunately, the angels have selected two souls who have problems: a bank teller (Newton-John) who steals money and an inventor/con-artist(Travolta).
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 Staying Alive
1983
Paramount
Directed by Sylvester Stallone
Starring: John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Steve Inwood, Sylvester Stallone
Tony Manero (Travolta) from SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER is now a struggling dancer/instructor, diligently auditioning whenever he can to get his big break in a Broadway show. When he finally gets a part he almost loses it because of his attractions to Jackie, (Rhodes) his long time girlfriend and Laura, (Hughes) the star of the show.
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 BLOW OUT
1981
Filmways
Directed by Brian De Palma
Starring: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow and Dennis Franz
While outdoors recording sound effects for a movie, audio technician Jack Terri (Travolta) hears a tire blowout and a car crash. Before the car sinks into the river, he manages to save Sally, the female passenger (Nancy Allen), from drowning. When he discovers that the other passenger was a presidential candidate, Jack suspects that the "accident" was not an accident, but a political murder instead.
This thriller directed by Brian De Palma leads the viewer on a wild journey as Jack and Sally look for the assassin and the assassin looks for them.
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 Urban Cowboy
1980
Paramount
Directed by James Bridges
Starring: John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn
In this film that made country dancing popular among even city dwellers, the action takes place at Gilley's country-western bar, a rough-and-tumble honky-tonk near Houston, Texas. Bud (Travolta), has his uncle help him find work at an oil refinery. He goes to Gilley’s and meets and falls in love with Sissy (Winger). They marry, but find that their life is not as easy as they hoped. They go to Gilley’s to escape, and there are confronted by the man that operates the mechanical bull; an ex-convict who is looking to get with Sissy.
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