The Top 100 '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die' Movies of the 1980s

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The Top 100 '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die' Movies of the 1980s
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
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2 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner PG -
4 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg PG -
7 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand PG -
8 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis PG -
20 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick R -
32 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan R -
38 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman PG -
43 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner PG -
45 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott R -
50 Aliens 1986 James Cameron R -
70 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes PG13 -
75 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick R -
79 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron R -
85 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov NR -
110 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese R -
129 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner R -
130 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter R -
143 The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes R -
149 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman R -
170 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa R -
181 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders R -
187 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg PG -
195 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese PG -
199 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma R -
221 Airplane! 1980 Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker PG -
223 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Isao Takahata NR -
242 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma R -
244 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson R -
266 Batman 1989 Tim Burton PG13 -
277 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders PG13 -
285 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam R -
289 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner R -
293 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone R -
294 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee R -
297 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog PG -
306 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman PG -
309 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen PG13 -
339 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen PG13 -
357 An American Werewolf in London 1981 John Landis R -
375 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis PG -
395 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch R -
414 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo R -
424 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel & Ethan Coen PG13 -
433 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore PG -
436 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg R -
453 Big 1988 Penny Marshall PG -
455 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen PG -
469 The Evil Dead 1981 Sam Raimi NR -
519 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman R -
528 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone R -
555 The Killer 1989 John Woo R -
563 Au Revoir Les Enfants 1987 Louis Malle NR -
567 A Christmas Story 1983 Bob Clark PG -
590 The Decalogue 1989 Krzysztof Kieslowski NR -
651 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg R -
652 Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch R -
665 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson R -
671 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris NR -
702 The Natural 1984 Barry Levinson PG -
704 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks R -
720 Poltergeist 1982 Tobe Hooper PG -
724 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen PG -
741 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch PG -
750 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 Martin Brest R -
757 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton R -
761 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 Amy Heckerling R -
766 Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott PG -
767 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven R -
770 The Vanishing 1988 George Sluizer NR -
791 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 Godfrey Reggio NR -
827 Manhunter 1986 Michael Mann R -
833 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford R -
835 Stranger Than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch NR -
839 Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton R -
882 Tampopo 1985 Jûzô Itami NR -
884 When Harry Met Sally... 1989 Rob Reiner R -
895 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven R -
905 Glory 1989 Edward Zwick R -
945 The Killing Fields 1984 Roland Joffé R -
970 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson PG -
978 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg R -
1010 Body Heat 1981 Lawrence Kasdan R -
1036 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway NC17 -
1096 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Paul Schrader R -
1134 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 1988 David Zucker PG13 -
1189 My Left Foot 1989 Jim Sheridan R -
1199 Gallipoli 1981 Peter Weir PG -
1203 Diner 1982 Barry Levinson R -
1229 Babette's Feast 1987 Gabriel Axel G -
1235 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks PG -
1247 Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth PG -
1258 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann NR -
1271 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 Gus Van Sant R -
1284 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack PG -
1307 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough PG -
1311 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone R -
1324 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 Barry Levinson R -
1337 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Pedro Almodóvar R -
1407 The Color Purple 1985 Steven Spielberg PG13 -
1416 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty PG -

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