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210 Best Movies from 1980 till 1989
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.
Hotaru no haka ( 1988 )
Genre: Animation | Drama | War
Runtime: 88
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Director: Isao Takahata
Writer: Akiyuki Nosaka | Isao Takahata
Stars: Tsutomu Tatsumi | Ayano Shiraishi | Yoshiko Shinohara | Akemi Yamaguchi
Plot: A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso ( 1988 )
Genre: Drama | Romance
Runtime: 174
Country: Italy | France
Language: Italian
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Writer: Giuseppe Tornatore | Giuseppe Tornatore | Vanna Paoli
Stars: Antonella Attili | Enzo Cannavale | Isa Danieli | Leo Gullotta
Plot: Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.
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.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ( 1989 )
Genre: Action | Adventure
Runtime: 127
Country: United States
Language: English | German | Greek
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Jeffrey Boam | George Lucas | Menno Meyjes | George Lucas | Philip Kaufman
Stars: Harrison Ford | Sean Connery | Denholm Elliott | Alison Doody
Plot: In 1938, after his father goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones finds himself up against the Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.
Die Hard ( 1988 )
Genre: Action | Thriller
Runtime: 132
Country: United States
Language: English | German | Italian
Director: John McTiernan
Writer: Roderick Thorp | Jeb Stuart | Steven E. de Souza
Stars: Bruce Willis | Bonnie Bedelia | Reginald VelJohnson | Paul Gleason
Plot: A New York City police officer tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Full Metal Jacket ( 1987 )
Genre: Drama | War
Runtime: 116
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English | Vietnamese
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick | Michael Herr | Gustav Hasford | Gustav Hasford
Stars: Matthew Modine | Adam Baldwin | Vincent D'Onofrio | R. Lee Ermey
Plot: A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
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.'