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
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725 The Return of the Living Dead 1985 Dan O'Bannon R -
729 Poltergeist 1982 Tobe Hooper PG -
732 The Natural 1984 Barry Levinson PG -
735 The Vanishing 1988 George Sluizer NR -
737 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen PG -
749 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch PG -
757 Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott PG -
763 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven R -
766 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 Martin Brest R -
767 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton R -
768 Better Off Dead 1985 Savage Steve Holland NR -
775 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1983 Terry Jones R -
778 Stripes 1981 Ivan Reitman R -
779 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 Amy Heckerling R -
784 National Lampoon's Vacation 1983 Harold Ramis R -
799 The Abyss 1989 James Cameron PG13 -
802 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 Godfrey Reggio NR -
818 The Lost Boys 1987 Joel Schumacher R -
819 Hoosiers 1986 David Anspaugh PG -
835 Manhunter 1986 Michael Mann R -
838 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford R -
840 Stranger Than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch NR -
848 Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton R -
857 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Martin Scorsese R -
859 Empire of the Sun 1987 Steven Spielberg PG -
865 Tenebre 1982 Dario Argento R -
879 Zelig 1983 Woody Allen PG -
882 Tampopo 1985 Jûzô Itami NR -
889 My Dinner with Andre 1981 Louis Malle NR -
891 Pale Rider 1985 Clint Eastwood R -
894 House of Games 1987 David Mamet R -
897 When Harry Met Sally... 1989 Rob Reiner R -
913 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven R -
925 Glory 1989 Edward Zwick R -
930 The Little Mermaid 1989 Ron Clements, John Musker G -
932 Time Bandits 1981 Terry Gilliam PG -
949 The Sacrifice 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky PG -
968 The Killing Fields 1984 Roland Joffé R -
971 National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 1989 Jeremiah S. Chechik PG13 -
982 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg R -
983 Witness 1985 Peter Weir R -
995 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 1989 Stephen Herek PG -
1000 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson PG -
1001 Labyrinth 1986 Jim Henson PG -
1002 Day of the Dead 1985 George A. Romero NR -
1003 Fright Night 1985 Tom Holland R -
1010 Henry V 1989 Kenneth Branagh PG13 -
1015 To Live and Die in L.A. 1985 William Friedkin R -
1036 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Paul Schrader R -
1038 The Color of Money 1986 Martin Scorsese R -
1040 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986 Leonard Nimoy PG -
1048 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway NC17 -
1053 Body Heat 1981 Lawrence Kasdan R -
1058 Dressed to Kill 1980 Brian De Palma R -
1082 The Dead Zone 1983 David Cronenberg R -
1092 Broadway Danny Rose 1984 Woody Allen PG -
1099 Mississippi Burning 1988 Alan Parker R -
1103 Silverado 1985 Lawrence Kasdan PG13 -
1105 Sixteen Candles 1984 John Hughes PG -
1120 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988 Frank Oz PG -
1128 Mystery Train 1989 Jim Jarmusch R -
1134 Police Story 1985 Jackie Chan PG13 -
1140 Major League 1989 David S. Ward R -
1144 Prince of Darkness 1987 John Carpenter R -
1152 Real Genius 1985 Martha Coolidge PG -
1154 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 1988 David Zucker PG13 -
1162 WarGames 1983 John Badham PG -
1166 History of the World -- Part I 1981 Mel Brooks R -
1174 Night of the Creeps 1986 Fred Dekker R -
1182 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann NR -
1192 Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri PG -
1198 The Changeling 1980 Peter Medak R -
1212 Creepshow 1982 George A. Romero R -
1216 Diner 1982 Barry Levinson R -
1220 Gallipoli 1981 Peter Weir PG -
1224 Superman II 1980 Richard Lester PG -
1225 My Left Foot 1989 Jim Sheridan R -
1230 Babette's Feast 1987 Gabriel Axel G -
1244 Fletch 1985 Michael Ritchie PG -
1246 Highlander 1986 Russell Mulcahy R -
1250 48 Hrs. 1982 Walter Hill R -
1258 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks PG -
1259 Coming to America 1988 John Landis R -
1260 Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth PG -
1266 Repo Man 1984 Alex Cox R -
1270 Excalibur 1981 John Boorman R -
1273 The NeverEnding Story 1984 Wolfgang Petersen PG -
1281 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 Gus Van Sant R -
1286 The Name of the Rose 1986 Jean-Jacques Annaud R -
1287 Scanners 1981 David Cronenberg R -
1297 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack PG -
1298 The Dark Crystal 1982 Jim Henson PG -
1309 Radio Days 1987 Woody Allen PG -
1311 Sophie's Choice 1982 Alan J. Pakula R -
1312 Lonesome Dove 1989 Simon Wincer NR -
1326 Ghostbusters II 1989 Ivan Reitman NR -
1328 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough PG -
1331 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci PG13 -
1337 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone R -
1340 Top Secret! 1984 Jim Abrahams PG -

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