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267 Best Movies from 1980 till 19810
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.'
Dead Poets Society ( 1989 )
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Runtime: 128
Country: United States
Language: English | Latin | French
Director: Peter Weir
Writer: Tom Schulman
Stars: Robin Williams | Robert Sean Leonard | Ethan Hawke | Josh Charles
Plot: Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
Tonari no Totoro ( 1988 )
Genre: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Runtime: 86
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writer: Hayao Miyazaki | Hayao Miyazaki | Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Noriko Hidaka | Chika Sakamoto | Shigesato Itoi | Sumi Shimamoto
Plot: When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.
Dom za vesanje ( 1988 )
Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Fantasy
Runtime: 142
Country: Yugoslavia | Italy | United Kingdom
Language: Romany | Serbo-Croatian | Italian
Director: Emir Kusturica
Writer: Emir Kusturica | Gordan Mihic
Stars: Davor Dujmovic | Bora Todorovic | Ljubica Adzovic | Husnija Hasimovic
Plot: In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he loves.
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.
Eddie Murphy: Delirious ( 1983 )
Genre: Documentary | Comedy
Runtime: 69
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Bruce Gowers
Writer: Eddie Murphy | Eddie Murphy
Stars: Eddie Murphy | James Argiro | Gus Loundermon | Brian O'Neal
Plot: Eddie Murphy's raunchy, raucous stand-up comedy routine is captured for posterity on this tape.
Blade Runner ( 1982 )
Genre: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Runtime: 117
Country: United States | United Kingdom
Language: English | German | Cantonese
Director: Ridley Scott
Writer: Hampton Fancher | David Webb Peoples | Philip K. Dick
Stars: Harrison Ford | Sean Young | Rutger Hauer | Edward James Olmos
Plot: A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Fanny och Alexander ( 1982 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 188
Country: Sweden | France | West Germany
Language: Swedish | German | Yiddish
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Kristina Adolphson | Börje Ahlstedt | Pernilla Allwin | Kristian Almgren
Plot: Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.
Raging Bull ( 1980 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | Sport
Runtime: 129
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Jake LaMotta | Joseph Carter | Peter Savage | Paul Schrader | Mardik Martin
Stars: Robert De Niro | Cathy Moriarty | Joe Pesci | Frank Vincent
Plot: The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Do the Right Thing ( 1989 )
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Runtime: 120
Country: United States
Language: English | Italian | Spanish
Director: Spike Lee
Writer: Spike Lee
Stars: Danny Aiello | Ossie Davis | Ruby Dee | Richard Edson
Plot: On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.