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Displaying Search Results: 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.'

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