The Best Movies of the 1980s

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The Best Movies of the 1980s
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
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2732 Footloose 1984 Herbert Ross PG -
2734 The Fox and the Hound 1981 Ted Berman, Richard Rich, Art Stevens G -
2747 White Dog 1982 Samuel Fuller PG -
2753 Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter 1984 Joseph Zito R -
2780 Something Wicked This Way Comes 1983 Jack Clayton PG -
2781 The Mosquito Coast 1986 Peter Weir PG -
2784 Explorers 1985 Joe Dante PG -
2786 Splash 1984 Ron Howard PG -
2800 The Last Metro 1980 François Truffaut PG -
2801 Prince of the City 1981 Sidney Lumet R -
2812 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 1986 Tobe Hooper R -
2825 Child's Play 1988 Tom Holland R -
2827 Police Academy 1984 Hugh Wilson R -
2830 Police Story 2 1988 Jackie Chan PG13 -
2837 Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI 1986 Tom McLoughlin R -
2842 Eddie Murphy: Delirious 1983 Bruce Gowers NR -
2847 Absence of Malice 1981 Sydney Pollack PG -
2851 Dragonslayer 1981 Matthew Robbins PG -
2854 Vampire Hunter D 1985 Toyoo Ashida NR -
2871 Talk Radio 1988 Oliver Stone R -
2878 Brewster's Millions 1985 Walter Hill PG -
2880 Back to School 1986 Alan Metter NR -
2919 Teen Wolf 1985 Rod Daniel PG -
2927 Short Circuit 1986 John Badham PG -
2940 Heavy Metal 1981 Gerald Potterton R -
2944 The Land Before Time 1988 Don Bluth G -
2951 Friday the 13th Part II 1981 Steve Miner R -
2962 Kiss of the Spider Woman 1985 Hector Babenco R -
2966 Killer Klowns from Outer Space 1988 Stephen Chiodo PG13 -
2971 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 1989 Joe Johnston PG -
2972 Society 1989 Brian Yuzna R -
2973 The House by the Cemetery 1981 Lucio Fulci NR -
2985 Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino R -
2986 Crocodile Dundee 1986 Peter Faiman PG13 -
2993 A Passage to India 1984 David Lean PG -
2996 All of Me 1984 Carl Reiner NR -
3012 Phantasm II 1988 Don Coscarelli R -
3020 Lucas 1986 David Seltzer PG13 -
3022 The Last Dragon 1985 Michael Schultz PG13 -
3023 Return to Oz 1985 Walter Murch PG -
3030 Mr. Mom 1983 Stan Dragoti PG -
3042 The War of the Roses 1989 Danny DeVito R -
3043 Wheels on Meals 1984 Sammo Hung NR -
3047 Maniac 1980 William Lustig R -
3048 Licence to Kill 1989 John Glen PG13 -
3060 The Cannonball Run 1981 Hal Needham PG -
3073 Cruising 1980 William Friedkin R -
3086 The Fabulous Baker Boys 1989 Steve Kloves R -
3091 Gregory's Girl 1981 Bill Forsyth PG -
3097 Stand and Deliver 1988 Ramón Menéndez PG -
3115 Basket Case 1982 Frank Henenlotter R -
3127 28 Up 1985 Michael Apted NR -
3130 Betty Blue 1986 Jean-Jacques Beineix NR -
3133 Places in the Heart 1984 Robert Benton PG -
3142 Johnny Dangerously 1984 Amy Heckerling PG13 -
3150 Cocoon 1985 Ron Howard PG13 -
3172 Roadgames 1981 Richard Franklin PG -
3173 Bachelor Party 1984 Neal Israel R -
3175 Never Cry Wolf 1983 Carroll Ballard PG -
3177 Seems Like Old Times 1980 Jay Sandrich PG -
3193 Veronika Voss 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder R -
3199 Tango & Cash 1989 Andrey Konchalovskiy R -
3204 At Close Range 1986 James Foley R -
3211 Love Streams 1984 John Cassavetes NR -
3222 Bad Taste 1987 Peter Jackson NR -
3228 Ballad of Narayama 1983 Shôhei Imamura NR -
3231 Melvin and Howard 1980 Jonathan Demme R -
3232 Threads 1984 Mick Jackson NR -
3241 Valley Girl 1983 Martha Coolidge R -
3242 Hopscotch 1980 Ronald Neame R -
3243 A Soldier's Story 1984 Norman Jewison PG -
3247 The Brother from Another Planet 1984 John Sayles R -
3249 Bad Boys 1983 Rick Rosenthal R -
3255 Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence 1983 Nagisa Ôshima NR -
3259 The Funhouse 1981 Tobe Hooper R -
3271 My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 Stephen Frears R -
3275 Colors 1988 Dennis Hopper R -
3277 Tucker: The Man and His Dream 1988 Francis Ford Coppola PG -
3282 The Falcon and the Snowman 1985 John Schlesinger R -
3292 Octopussy 1983 John Glen PG -
3296 The Jewel of the Nile 1985 Lewis Teague PG -
3301 The Dead Pool 1988 Buddy Van Horn R -
3307 Nighthawks 1981 Bruce Malmuth R -
3309 National Lampoon's European Vacation 1985 Amy Heckerling PG13 -
3315 Educating Rita 1983 Lewis Gilbert PG -
3324 Can't Buy Me Love 1987 Steve Rash PG13 -
3326 Creepshow 2 1987 Michael Gornick R -
3329 Brubaker 1980 Stuart Rosenberg R -
3332 Conan the Destroyer 1984 Richard Fleischer PG -
3334 The Big Easy 1986 Jim McBride R -
3345 April Fool's Day 1986 Fred Walton R -
3347 Hairspray 1988 John Waters PG -
3348 The Stepfather 1987 Joseph Ruben R -
3350 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies PG13 -
3357 St. Elmo's Fire 1985 Joel Schumacher R -
3369 The Quiet Earth 1985 Geoff Murphy R -
3371 Dragons Forever 1988 Sammo Hung, Corey Yuen NR -
3376 Diva 1981 Jean-Jacques Beineix R -
3378 Three O'Clock High 1987 Phil Joanou PG13 -
3383 Another Woman 1988 Woody Allen PG -

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