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132 Best Movies from 1980 till 1986
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back ( 1980 )
Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 124
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: Leigh Brackett | Lawrence Kasdan | George Lucas
Stars: Mark Hamill | Harrison Ford | Carrie Fisher | Billy Dee Williams
Plot: After the Empire overpowers the Rebel Alliance, Luke Skywalker begins training with Jedi Master Yoda, while Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett pursue his friends across the galaxy.
Back to the Future ( 1985 )
Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 116
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writer: Robert Zemeckis | Bob Gale
Stars: Michael J. Fox | Christopher Lloyd | Lea Thompson | Crispin Glover
Plot: Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
Aliens ( 1986 )
Genre: Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Runtime: 137
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English | Spanish
Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron | David Giler | Walter Hill | Dan O'Bannon | Ronald Shusett | James Cameron
Stars: Sigourney Weaver | Carrie Henn | Michael Biehn | Paul Reiser
Plot: Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
Amadeus ( 1984 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | Music
Runtime: 160
Country: United States | France
Language: English | Italian | Latin
Director: Milos Forman
Writer: Peter Shaffer | Peter Shaffer | Zdenek Mahler
Stars: F. Murray Abraham | Tom Hulce | Elizabeth Berridge | Roy Dotrice
Plot: The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Raiders of the Lost Ark ( 1981 )
Genre: Action | Adventure
Runtime: 115
Country: United States
Language: English | German | Spanish
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Lawrence Kasdan | George Lucas | Philip Kaufman
Stars: Harrison Ford | Karen Allen | Paul Freeman | Ronald Lacey
Plot: In 1936, archaeologist Indiana Jones is tasked by Army Intelligence to help locate a legendary ancient power, the Ark of Covenant, before the Nazis get it first.
Das Boot ( 1981 )
Genre: Drama | War
Runtime: 149
Country: West Germany
Language: German | English | French
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Writer: Wolfgang Petersen | Lothar G. Buchheim
Stars: Jürgen Prochnow | Herbert Grönemeyer | Klaus Wennemann | Hubertus Bengsch
Plot: A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
The Shining ( 1980 )
Genre: Drama | Horror
Runtime: 146
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stephen King | Stanley Kubrick | Diane Johnson
Stars: Jack Nicholson | Shelley Duvall | Danny Lloyd | Scatman Crothers
Plot: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.
Idi i smotri ( 1985 )
Genre: Drama | Thriller | War
Runtime: 142
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Belarusian | Russian | German
Director: Elem Klimov
Writer: Ales Adamovich | Elem Klimov
Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko | Olga Mironova | Liubomiras Laucevicius | Vladas Bagdonas
Plot: After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
Once Upon a Time in America ( 1984 )
Genre: Crime | Drama
Runtime: 229
Country: Italy | United States
Language: English | Italian | French
Director: Sergio Leone
Writer: Harry Grey | Leonardo Benvenuti | Piero De Bernardi | Enrico Medioli | Franco Arcalli | Franco Ferrini | Sergio Leone | Stuart Kaminsky | Ernesto Gastaldi
Stars: Robert De Niro | James Woods | Elizabeth McGovern | Treat Williams
Plot: A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Scarface ( 1983 )
Genre: Crime | Drama
Runtime: 170
Country: United States
Language: English | Spanish
Director: Brian De Palma
Writer: Oliver Stone | Howard Hawks | Ben Hecht | Armitage Trail
Stars: Al Pacino | Steven Bauer | Michelle Pfeiffer | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Plot: In the 1980s, a determined criminal-minded Cuban immigrant becomes the biggest drug smuggler in Miami, and is eventually undone by his own drug addiction.
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi ( 1983 )
Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 131
Country: United States
Language: English | Kikuyu | Tagalog
Director: Richard Marquand
Writer: Lawrence Kasdan | George Lucas | George Lucas
Stars: Mark Hamill | Harrison Ford | Carrie Fisher | Billy Dee Williams
Plot: After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebel Alliance attempts to destroy the second Death Star while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.
Ran ( 1985 )
Genre: Action | Drama | War
Runtime: 160
Country: Japan | France
Language: Japanese
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Akira Kurosawa | Hideo Oguni | Masato Ide | William Shakespeare
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai | Akira Terao | Jinpachi Nezu | Daisuke Ryû
Plot: In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
The Thing ( 1982 )
Genre: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 109
Country: United States | Canada
Language: English | Norwegian
Director: John Carpenter
Writer: Bill Lancaster | John W. Campbell Jr.
Stars: Kurt Russell | Wilford Brimley | T.K. Carter | David Clennon
Plot: A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Koyaanisqatsi ( 1982 )
Genre: Documentary | Music
Runtime: 86
Country: United States
Language: None | Hopi | English
Director: Godfrey Reggio
Writer: Godfrey Reggio | Ron Fricke | Godfrey Reggio | Michael Hoenig | Alton Walpole | Jacques Ellul | Ivan Illich | David Monongye | Guy Debord | Leopold Kohr
Stars: Edward Asner | Pat Benatar | Jerry Brown | Johnny Carson
Plot: A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.
The Elephant Man ( 1980 )
Genre: Biography | Drama
Runtime: 124
Country: United States | United Kingdom
Language: English | French
Director: David Lynch
Writer: Christopher De Vore | Eric Bergren | David Lynch | Frederick Treves | Ashley Montagu
Stars: Anthony Hopkins | John Hurt | Anne Bancroft | John Gielgud
Plot: 'A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.'
Stand by Me ( 1986 )
Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Runtime: 89
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Rob Reiner
Writer: Stephen King | Raynold Gideon | Bruce A. Evans
Stars: Wil Wheaton | River Phoenix | Corey Feldman | Jerry O'Connell
Plot: A writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.
Platoon ( 1986 )
Genre: Drama | War
Runtime: 120
Country: United States | United Kingdom
Language: English | Vietnamese
Director: Oliver Stone
Writer: Oliver Stone
Stars: Keith David | Forest Whitaker | Francesco Quinn | Kevin Dillon
Plot: Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
Jean de Florette ( 1986 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 120
Country: Switzerland | France | Italy
Language: French | English
Director: Claude Berri
Writer: Marcel Pagnol | Claude Berri | Gérard Brach
Stars: Yves Montand | Gérard Depardieu | Daniel Auteuil | Elisabeth Depardieu
Plot: A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.
The Terminator ( 1984 )
Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 107
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English | Spanish
Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron | Gale Anne Hurd | William Wisher
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Michael Biehn | Linda Hamilton | Paul Winfield
Plot: A cyborg assassin from the future attempts to find and kill a young woman who is destined to give birth to a warrior that will lead a resistance to save humankind from extinction.
Paris, Texas ( 1984 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 145
Country: West Germany | France | United Kingdom
Language: English | Spanish
Director: Wim Wenders
Writer: L.M. Kit Carson | Sam Shepard | Walter Donohue
Stars: Harry Dean Stanton | Sam Berry | Bernhard Wicki | Dean Stockwell
Plot: Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.