The Best Movies of the 1980s

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The Best Movies of the 1980s
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Movie Title Release
Year
Director MPAA
Rating
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Ranking
1344 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 Barry Levinson R -
1351 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Pedro Almodóvar R -
1359 Pee-Wee's Big Adventure 1985 Tim Burton PG -
1361 The Monster Squad 1987 Fred Dekker PG13 -
1368 Scrooged 1988 Richard Donner PG13 -
1378 Breaker Morant 1980 Bruce Beresford PG -
1382 My Life as a Dog 1985 Lasse Hallström NR -
1391 From Beyond 1986 Stuart Gordon R -
1402 The Mission 1986 Roland Joffé PG -
1413 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty PG -
1421 The Color Purple 1985 Steven Spielberg PG13 -
1438 The Fog 1980 John Carpenter R -
1444 Pink Floyd The Wall 1982 Alan Parker R -
1459 Stardust Memories 1980 Woody Allen PG -
1465 The Running Man 1987 Paul Michael Glaser R -
1466 The Outsiders 1983 Francis Ford Coppola PG -
1470 The Big Chill 1983 Lawrence Kasdan R -
1473 Santa Sangre 1989 Alejandro Jodorowsky R -
1485 Angel Heart 1987 Alan Parker R -
1490 The Beyond 1981 Lucio Fulci NR -
1500 sex, lies, and videotape 1989 Steven Soderbergh R -
1501 Body Double 1984 Brian De Palma R -
1507 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 Frank Oz PG13 -
1508 Conan the Barbarian 1982 John Milius R -
1515 Sans Soleil 1983 Chris Marker NR -
1520 Something Wild 1986 Jonathan Demme R -
1535 Lethal Weapon 2 1989 Richard Donner R -
1541 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986 John McNaughton NC17 -
1542 Eight Men Out 1988 John Sayles PG -
1550 Willow 1988 Ron Howard PG -
1555 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Stephen Frears R -
1562 Southern Comfort 1981 Walter Hill R -
1565 Hellraiser 1987 Clive Barker R -
1576 ¡Three Amigos! 1986 John Landis PG -
1595 Lost in America 1985 Albert Brooks R -
1599 Romancing the Stone 1984 Robert Zemeckis PG -
1607 Burden of Dreams 1982 Les Blank NR -
1608 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1988 Terry Gilliam PG -
1625 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison PG -
1631 Starman 1984 John Carpenter PG -
1634 Star Trek III: The Search for Spock 1984 Leonard Nimoy PG -
1638 A Room With a View 1985 James Ivory PG -
1643 The Hitcher 1986 Robert Harmon R -
1644 The World According to Garp 1982 George Roy Hill R -
1650 The 'Burbs 1989 Joe Dante PG -
1653 The Hidden 1987 Jack Sholder R -
1655 A Better Tomorrow 1986 John Woo R -
1662 TRON 1982 Steven Lisberger PG -
1668 The Howling 1981 Joe Dante R -
1675 Manon of the Spring 1986 Claude Berri PG -
1690 The Last Starfighter 1984 Nick Castle PG -
1694 Risky Business 1983 Paul Brickman R -
1698 Rocky IV 1985 Sylvester Stallone PG -
1720 Opera 1987 Dario Argento NR -
1722 Silkwood 1983 Mike Nichols R -
1723 Altered States 1980 Ken Russell R -
1729 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller PG -
1742 Inferno 1980 Dario Argento NR -
1751 Pretty in Pink 1986 Howard Deutch PG13 -
1759 Weird Science 1985 John Hughes PG13 -
1763 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! 1984 W.D. Richter PG -
1770 UHF 1989 Jay Levey PG13 -
1771 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman R -
1772 Red Dawn 1984 John Milius PG13 -
1773 Matewan 1987 John Sayles PG13 -
1790 The Secret of NIMH 1982 Don Bluth G -
1791 Coal Miner's Daughter 1980 Michael Apted PG -
1814 Rocky III 1982 Sylvester Stallone PG -
1823 My Favorite Year 1982 Richard Benjamin PG -
1831 Nostalghia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky NR -
1836 River's Edge 1986 Tim Hunter R -
1851 Salvador 1986 Oliver Stone R -
1854 Runaway Train 1985 Andrey Konchalovskiy R -
1866 Phenomena 1985 Dario Argento R -
1874 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle R -
1879 Victor/Victoria 1982 Blake Edwards PG -
1884 Commando 1985 Mark L. Lester R -
1900 The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 Peter Weir PG -
1905 Young Guns 1988 Christopher Cain R -
1910 Uncle Buck 1989 John Hughes PG -
1914 Mona Lisa 1986 Neil Jordan R -
1922 The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew 1983 Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas PG -
1939 Missing 1982 Costa-Gavras PG -
1945 Sid and Nancy 1986 Alex Cox R -
1959 Friday the 13th 1980 Sean S. Cunningham R -
1966 Flash Gordon 1980 Mike Hodges PG -
1967 The Great Muppet Caper 1981 Jim Henson NR -
1973 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors 1987 Chuck Russell R -
1978 Modern Romance 1981 Albert Brooks R -
1986 The Stunt Man 1980 Richard Rush R -
1992 Twilight Zone: The Movie 1983 Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller, Steven Spielberg PG -
2000 Roxanne 1987 Fred Schepisi PG -
2004 No Way Out 1987 Roger Donaldson R -
2006 Christine 1983 John Carpenter R -
2022 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson PG -
2031 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Oliver Stone R -
2038 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985 George Miller, George Ogilvie PG13 -
2046 Clash of the Titans 1981 Desmond Davis PG -
2047 Tender Mercies 1983 Bruce Beresford PG -
2064 Ladyhawke 1985 Richard Donner PG13 -

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