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Best Movies of the 1980s
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
PGAction, Adventure, Fantasy2h04After the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader and a bounty hunter named Boba Fett all over the galaxy.
Back to the Future (1985)
PGAdventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi1h56Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown.
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
PGDrama, Romance2h35A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Not RatedAnimation, Drama, War1h29A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
PGAction, Adventure1h55In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
RCrime, Drama3h49A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
The Shining (1980)
RDrama, Horror2h26A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Aliens (1986)
RAction, Adventure, Sci-Fi2h17Fifty-seven years after surviving an apocalyptic attack aboard her space vessel by merciless space creatures, Officer Ripley awakens from hyper-sleep and tries to warn anyone who will listen about the predators.
Amadeus (1984)
PGBiography, Drama, History2h40The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Das Boot (1981)
RAdventure, Drama, Thriller2h29The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth and sheer terror.
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
RDrama, War1h56A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Scarface (1983)
RCrime, Drama2h50In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
PGAction, Adventure, Fantasy2h11After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap.
Die Hard (1988)
RAction, Thriller2h12An NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
PG-13Action, Adventure2h07In 1938, after his father Professor Henry Jones, Sr. goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Professor Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. finds himself up against Adolf Hitler's Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
GAnimation, Family, Fantasy1h26When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.
Raging Bull (1980)
RBiography, Drama, Sport2h09The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Ran (1985)
RAction, Drama, War2h42In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
Blade Runner (1982)
RAction, Sci-Fi, Thriller1h57A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Dead Poets Society (1989)
PGComedy, Drama2h08Maverick teacher John Keating uses poetry to embolden his boarding school students to new heights of self-expression.
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
RDrama3h08Two young Swedish children experience the many comedies and tragedies of their family, the Ekdahls.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
PGAnimation, Adventure, Fantasy1h57Warrior and pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.
Paris, Texas (1984)
RDrama2h25Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.
Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
RDrama, Fantasy, Music1h35A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Platoon (1986)
RDrama, War2h00Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
Stand by Me (1986)
RAdventure, Drama1h29After the death of one of his friends, a writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.
The Elephant Man (1980)
PGBiography, Drama2h04A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.
The Thing (1982)
RHorror, Mystery, Sci-Fi1h49A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Akira (1988)
RAnimation, Action, Sci-Fi2h04A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by two teenagers and a group of psychics.
Castle in the Sky (1986)
PGAnimation, Adventure, Drama2h05A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
Do the Right Thing (1989)
RComedy, Drama2h00On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Gandhi (1982)
PGBiography, Drama, History3h11The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Rain Man (1988)
RDrama2h13Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
The Princess Bride (1987)
PGAdventure, Family, Fantasy1h38While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.
The Terminator (1984)
RAction, Sci-Fi1h47A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.
Wings of Desire (1987)
PG-13Drama, Fantasy, Romance2h08An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.
A Christmas Story (1983)
PGComedy, Family1h33In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie attempts to convince his parents, his teacher and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
Brazil (1985)
RDrama, Sci-Fi2h12A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
PG-13Comedy, Drama1h44An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
PG-13Comedy, Drama1h47Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.