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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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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