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The Top 100 Worst '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die' Movies of the 1980s
Global
Ranking |
Movie Title |
Release
Year |
Director |
MPAA
Rating |
Your
Ranking |
| 6290 |
The Dead |
1987 |
John Huston |
PG |
- |
| 41383 |
A Tale of the Wind |
1988 |
Joris Ivens |
NR |
- |
| 19380 |
Too Early, Too Late |
1982 |
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub |
NR |
- |
| 2392 |
Out of Africa |
1985 |
Sydney Pollack |
PG |
- |
| 2481 |
Fatal Attraction |
1987 |
Adrian Lyne |
R |
- |
| 14952 |
Yol |
1982 |
Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney |
PG |
- |
| 1423 |
The Color Purple |
1985 |
Steven Spielberg |
PG13 |
- |
| 11891 |
Loulou |
1980 |
Maurice Pialat |
NR |
- |
| 2192 |
Roger & Me |
1989 |
Michael Moore |
R |
- |
| 17746 |
Tongues Untied |
1989 |
Marlon Riggs |
NR |
- |
| 2022 |
Chariots of Fire |
1981 |
Hugh Hudson |
PG |
- |
| 1558 |
Dangerous Liaisons |
1988 |
Stephen Frears |
R |
- |
| 4196 |
She's Gotta Have It |
1986 |
Spike Lee |
R |
- |
| 1297 |
Tootsie |
1982 |
Sydney Pollack |
PG |
- |
| 1619 |
Moonstruck |
1987 |
Norman Jewison |
PG |
- |
| 1492 |
sex, lies, and videotape |
1989 |
Steven Soderbergh |
R |
- |
| 1258 |
Terms of Endearment |
1983 |
James L. Brooks |
PG |
- |
| 1328 |
Gandhi |
1982 |
Richard Attenborough |
PG |
- |
| 9880 |
Peking Opera Blues |
1986 |
Hark Tsui |
NR |
- |
| 968 |
The Killing Fields |
1984 |
Roland Joffé |
R |
- |
| 1337 |
Wall Street |
1987 |
Oliver Stone |
R |
- |
| 2708 |
Children of a Lesser God |
1986 |
Randa Haines |
R |
- |
| 1154 |
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
1988 |
David Zucker |
PG13 |
- |
| 1474 |
The Big Chill |
1983 |
Lawrence Kasdan |
R |
- |
| 757 |
Top Gun |
1986 |
Tony Scott |
PG |
- |
| 3376 |
Diva |
1981 |
Jean-Jacques Beineix |
R |
- |
| 1638 |
A Room With a View |
1985 |
James Ivory |
PG |
- |
| 1341 |
Good Morning, Vietnam |
1987 |
Barry Levinson |
R |
- |
| 2962 |
Kiss of the Spider Woman |
1985 |
Hector Babenco |
R |
- |
| 13356 |
Caravaggio |
1986 |
Derek Jarman |
NR |
- |
| 12054 |
A Time to Live, a Time to Die |
1985 |
Hsiao-hsien Hou |
NR |
- |
| 2993 |
A Passage to India |
1984 |
David Lean |
PG |
- |
| 16417 |
The Horse Thief |
1988 |
Zhuangzhuang Tian, Peicheng Pan |
NR |
- |
| 1000 |
Field of Dreams |
1989 |
Phil Alden Robinson |
PG |
- |
| 838 |
Ordinary People |
1980 |
Robert Redford |
R |
- |
| 913 |
A Nightmare on Elm Street |
1984 |
Wes Craven |
R |
- |
| 11822 |
Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie |
1988 |
Marcel Ophüls |
NR |
- |
| 1053 |
Body Heat |
1981 |
Lawrence Kasdan |
R |
- |
| 897 |
When Harry Met Sally... |
1989 |
Rob Reiner |
R |
- |
| 1220 |
Gallipoli |
1981 |
Peter Weir |
PG |
- |
| 749 |
The Elephant Man |
1980 |
David Lynch |
PG |
- |
| 7979 |
Brightness |
1987 |
Souleymane Cissé |
NR |
- |
| 2800 |
The Last Metro |
1980 |
François Truffaut |
PG |
- |
| 737 |
Das Boot |
1981 |
Wolfgang Petersen |
PG |
- |
| 925 |
Glory |
1989 |
Edward Zwick |
R |
- |
| 835 |
Manhunter |
1986 |
Michael Mann |
R |
- |
| 5232 |
The Official Story |
1985 |
Luis Puenzo |
R |
- |
| 1411 |
Reds |
1981 |
Warren Beatty |
PG |
- |
| 3809 |
The Draughtsman's Contract |
1982 |
Peter Greenaway |
R |
- |
| 763 |
RoboCop |
1987 |
Paul Verhoeven |
R |
- |
| 4511 |
El Norte |
1983 |
Gregory Nava |
R |
- |
| 13181 |
Man of Iron |
1981 |
Andrzej Wajda |
PG |
- |
| 779 |
Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
1982 |
Amy Heckerling |
R |
- |
| 766 |
Beverly Hills Cop |
1984 |
Martin Brest |
R |
- |
| 7411 |
The Night of the Shooting Stars |
1982 |
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani |
R |
- |
| 4703 |
Sherman's March |
1986 |
Ross McElwee |
NR |
- |
| 802 |
Koyaanisqatsi |
1982 |
Godfrey Reggio |
NR |
- |
| 1281 |
Drugstore Cowboy |
1989 |
Gus Van Sant |
R |
- |
| 848 |
Bull Durham |
1988 |
Ron Shelton |
R |
- |
| 982 |
Dead Ringers |
1988 |
David Cronenberg |
R |
- |
| 2540 |
Prizzi's Honor |
1985 |
John Huston |
R |
- |
| 1717 |
The Big Red One |
1980 |
Samuel Fuller |
PG |
- |
| 729 |
Poltergeist |
1982 |
Tobe Hooper |
PG |
- |
| 767 |
A Fish Called Wanda |
1988 |
Charles Crichton |
R |
- |
| 5327 |
Red Sorghum |
1987 |
Yimou Zhang |
NR |
- |
| 1870 |
Atlantic City |
1980 |
Louis Malle |
R |
- |
| 1216 |
Diner |
1982 |
Barry Levinson |
R |
- |
| 515 |
The Right Stuff |
1983 |
Philip Kaufman |
R |
- |
| 1048 |
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover |
1989 |
Peter Greenaway |
NC17 |
- |
| 5008 |
Jackie Chan's Project A2 |
1987 |
Jackie Chan |
PG13 |
- |
| 653 |
The Fly |
1986 |
David Cronenberg |
R |
- |
| 1225 |
My Left Foot |
1989 |
Jim Sheridan |
R |
- |
| 583 |
A Christmas Story |
1983 |
Bob Clark |
PG |
- |
| 3369 |
The Quiet Earth |
1985 |
Geoff Murphy |
R |
- |
| 1260 |
Local Hero |
1983 |
Bill Forsyth |
PG |
- |
| 2525 |
Alice |
1988 |
Jan Svankmajer |
NR |
- |
| 2698 |
L'Argent |
1983 |
Robert Bresson |
NR |
- |
| 3760 |
The 4th Man |
1983 |
Paul Verhoeven |
NR |
- |
| 732 |
The Natural |
1984 |
Barry Levinson |
PG |
- |
| 7052 |
Ariel |
1988 |
Aki Kaurismäki |
NR |
- |
| 536 |
Once Upon a Time in America |
1984 |
Sergio Leone |
R |
- |
| 1848 |
Salvador |
1986 |
Oliver Stone |
R |
- |
| 1561 |
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer |
1986 |
John McNaughton |
NC17 |
- |
| 696 |
Broadcast News |
1987 |
James L. Brooks |
R |
- |
| 6463 |
The Decline of the American Empire |
1986 |
Denys Arcand |
R |
- |
| 3510 |
A Chinese Ghost Story |
1987 |
Siu-Tung Ching |
NR |
- |
| 1524 |
Sans Soleil |
1983 |
Chris Marker |
NR |
- |
| 3350 |
Distant Voices, Still Lives |
1988 |
Terence Davies |
PG13 |
- |
| 840 |
Stranger Than Paradise |
1984 |
Jim Jarmusch |
NR |
- |
| 1230 |
Babette's Feast |
1987 |
Gabriel Axel |
G |
- |
| 8064 |
A City of Sadness |
1989 |
Hsiao-hsien Hou |
NR |
- |
| 3543 |
The Unbelievable Truth |
1989 |
Hal Hartley |
R |
- |
| 2178 |
Vagabond |
1985 |
Agnès Varda |
R |
- |
| 3228 |
Ballad of Narayama |
1983 |
Shôhei Imamura |
NR |
- |
| 1359 |
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown |
1988 |
Pedro Almodóvar |
R |
- |
| 679 |
Withnail & I |
1987 |
Bruce Robinson |
R |
- |
| 1036 |
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters |
1985 |
Paul Schrader |
R |
- |
| 735 |
The Vanishing |
1988 |
George Sluizer |
NR |
- |
| 882 |
Tampopo |
1985 |
Jûzô Itami |
NR |
- |
| 562 |
Au Revoir Les Enfants |
1987 |
Louis Malle |
NR |
- |
