Your top films of the 80s?


In no particular order here's my top 50 films from the decade. What i think are the most outstanding, plus ones i love as probably more nostalgic entertainment:

1) E.T. The Extra-terrestrial

2) Say Anything

3) Pizzi's Honor

4) My Dinner With Andre

5) Monty Python's Life Of Brian

6) The Secret Of NIMH

7) Once Upon A Time In America

8) Back To The Future

9) Rain Man

10) Moonstruck

11) The Untouchables

12) Gallipoli

13) The Road Warrior

14) The Terminator

15) Ghostbusters

16) The Fly

17) RoboCop

18) Gremlins

19) Gandhi

20) The Shining

21) Blade Runner

22) Born On The Fourth Of July

23) Mississippi Burning

24) Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

25) Aliens

26) Ran

27) The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

28) BIG

29) Friday The 13th

30) Blow Out

31) Full Metal Jacket

32) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

33) Le Dernier Combat

34) The Color Of Money

35) My Left Foot

36) Brazil

37) Groundhog Day

38) House Of Games

39) Conan The Barbarian

40) The Neverending Story

41) Bull Durham

42) Withnail, and I

43) The Elephant Man

44) The Princess Bride

45) Goodfellas

46) Do The Right Thing

47) The Empire Strikes Back

48) The Right Stuff

49) Raging Bull

50) Raiders Of The Lost Ark






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E.T.
Blue Velvet
Full Metal Jacket
River's Edge
Breakfast Club
Nightmare on Elm Street
Goodbye Children (French)
Repo Man
Return of the Living Dead
Back to the Future
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Evil Dead
The Lost Boys



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Ahhhhhh Evil Dead, a great movie. But i preferred the 2nd one which i think i should of put on my list.

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No specific order.

Once Upon A Time in America (1984)
ET (1982)
Lucas (1986)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Ferris Bueller (1986)
Stand by Me (1986)
Prancer (1989)
Throw Momma From the Train (1987)
The Karate Kid (1984)
Pow Wow Highway (1989)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Colors (1988)
Glory (1989)
Coming to America (1988)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Poltergeist (1982)
Poltergeist II (1986)
Driving Ms. Daisy
Scarface (1983)
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Sleepaway Camp (1983)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Risky Business (1983)
St. Elmo's Fire

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1)Indiana Jones and the temple of Doon

2)Back to the future

3)Rambo:First blood part 2

4)Blade Runner

5)Aliens

6)Predator

7)Die Hard

8)Lethal Weapon 1+2

9)The Terminator

10)Big trouble in little china

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Just to let you know, Ground Hogs day was released in 1993 and Goodfellas was 1990. 80s is my favorite decade of movies

No order
E.T.
Aliens
Terminator
Code of silence
Goonies
Field of Dreams
Revenge Of The Nerds
Karate Kid 1 and 2
Porky's
Back To The Future
Footloose
Indy trilogy
Empire strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi
Commando
Predator
Rambo first blood
Cobra
Lethal weapon 1 and 2
Die Hard
Lost Boys
Stand By Me
Nightmare On Elm Street
Hellraiser
Fright Night
Princess Bride
Police Academy
Never ending story
Wall Street
Planes trains and automobiles
Uncle Buck
Ghostbusters
Willow
Top gun
Breakfast club
Delta Force
Blade Runner
Masters of the universe
Teen Wolf
The thing
escape from NY
Mississippi Burning
Scarface
Burton's Batman
Twins
Coming To America

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Breaker Morant (1980) Bruce Beresford
Dressed to Kill (1980) Brian De Palma
The Elephant Man (1980) David Lynch
The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Irvin Kershner
Heaven's Gate (1980) Michael Cimino
Kagemusha (1980) Akira Kurosawa
Raging Bull (1980) Martin Scorsese
The Shining (1980) Stanley Kubrick
The Stunt Man (1980) Richard Rush
Zigeunerweisen (1980) Seijun Suzuki
An American Werewolf in London (1981) John Landis
Blow-Out (1981) Brian De Palma
Body Heat (1981) Lawrence Kasdan
Chariots of Fire (1981) Hugh Hudson
Das Boot (1981) Wolfgang Petersen
Excalibur (1981) John Boorman
Galipoli (1981) Peter Weir
Quest for Fire (1981) Jean-Jacques Annaud
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Steven Spielberg
Reds (1981) Warren Beatty
The Road Warrior (1981) George Miller
Time Bandits (1981) Terry Gilliam
48 Hours (1982) Walter Hill
Atlantic City (1982) Louis Malle
Bladerunner (1982) Ridley Scott
E.T. (1982) Steven Spielberg
Fanny and Alexander (1982) Ingmar Bergman
Fitzcarraldo (1982) Werner Herzog
Gandhi (1982) Richard Attenborough
The King of Comedy (1982) Martin Scorsese
Missing (1982) Costa-Gavras
Poltergeist (1982) Tobe Hooper
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Nicolas Meyer
The Thing (1982) John Carpenter
Tootsie (1982) Sydney Pollack
The Verdict (1982) Sidney Lumet
Victor/Victoria (1982) Blake Edwards
Danton (1983) Andrzej Wajda
The Family Game (1983) Yoshimitsu Morita
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) Nagisa Ôshima
The Outsiders (1983) Francis Ford Coppola
Return of the Jedi (1983) Richard Marquand
The Right Stuff (1983) Philip Kaufman
Rumble Fish (1983) Francis Ford Coppola
Scarface (1983) Brian De Palma
Trading Places (1983) John Landis
Zelig (1983) Woody Allen
Amadeus (1984) Milos Forman
Blood Simple (1984) Joel and Ethan Coen
The Funeral (1984) Jûzô Itami
Once Upon A Time in the America (1984) Sergio Leone
Brazil (1985) Terry Gilliam
Out of Africa (1985) Sydney Pollack
Ran (1985) Akira Kurosawa
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) William Friedkin
Witness (1985) Peter Weir
Aliens (1986) James Cameron
The Color Purple (1986) Steven Spielberg
Blue Velvet (1986) David Lynch
Ginger and Fred (1986) Federico Fellini
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Woody Allen
The Name of the Rose (1986) Jean-Jacques Annaud
Platoon (1986) Oliver Stone
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) Leonard Nimoy
Full Metal Jacket (1987) Stanley Kubrick
Hope and Glory (1987) John Boorman
The Last Emperor (1987) Bernardo Bertolucci
Radio Days (1987) Woody Allen
Raising Arizona (1987) Joel and Ethan Coen
Robocop (1987) Paul Verhoeven
A Taxing Woman (1987) Jûzô Itami
Wall Street (1987) Oliver Stone
Wings of Desire (1987) Wim Wenders
Coming to America (1988) John Landis
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) Martin Scorsese
Red Sorghum (1988) Zhang Yimou
Talk Radio (1988) Oliver Stone
Tampopo (1988) Juzo Itami
The Vanishing (1988) George Sluizer
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989) Terry Gilliam
Black Rain (1989) Shôhei Imamura
Born on the Fourth of July (1989) Oliver Stone
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Woody Allen
The Dekalog (1989) Krzysztof Kieslowski
Do the Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee

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I’ll go with my top 5 picks (more actually) of this decade’s each year...


1980 - Raging Bull, The Elephant Man, My Bodyguard, The Shining, Empire Strikes Back

1981 - The Road Warrior, Escape From New York, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Thief, Halloween II

1982 - Blade Runner, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, The King of Comedy, Tex, 48 Hrs., Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Thing (I like them all but only really love the first four —Blade Runner is wow. Not my favorite year)

1983 - Rumble Fish, Risky Business, Christine, The Outsiders, Scarface, WarGames

1984 - One upon a Time In America, Repo Man, The Terminator, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Gremlins, Ghostbusters, The Neverending Story, Beverly Hills Cop, Splash

1985 - Legend, Back to the Future, Police Story, Commando, The Breakfast Club, The Goonies, After Hours, Witness, Teen Wolf, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Real Genius

1986 - Stand By Me, City on Fire, Aliens, The Color of Money, Lucas, Big Trouble in Little China, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Mission, Blue Velvet

1987 - The Lost Boys, Predator, Angel Heart, RoboCop, The Monster Squad, The Big Town, Planes Trains and Automobiles, The Untouchables, La Bamba, Evil Dead II

1988 - Midnight Run, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Beetlejuice, Akira, Die Hard, Rain Man, License To Drive, Stand and Deliver, They Live, Child’s Play, Nightmare on Elm Street 4, Halloween 4

1989 - Batman, Back to the Future Part II, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Drugstore Cowboy, The ‘Burbs, Say Anything, The Last Crusade

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To everyone..
No "Airplane!" and "Naked Gun"?

Nit a fan of the decade but those two..
"Airplane"(1980) directed by The Zucker Brothers and Jim Abrahams (in short ZAZ), starring Robert Hayes and Julie Hagerty
"The Naked Gun" (1988) directed by Pat Proft,starring Leslie Neilsen (RIP)
are "not to be overlooked".:)

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There are plenty of them, I will just mention the movies what/which are the best of that decade (I will certainly forget several films):

In no particular order:

- The Indiana Jones movies.
- The Empire Strikes back & The Retourn of the Jedi.
- Tootsie.
- Witnees.
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
- Poltergeist 1.
- The Never Ending Story.
- The Back in the Future movies.
- ET.
- Alien 2.
- Frantic.
- Out of Africa.
- Stand by Me.
- Innerspace.

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These are ones I have seen need to watch many more films but with so much on TV its hard to find time to view films.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls006739422/

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