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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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 -

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