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88 Best Movies from 1980 till 1984
This Is Spinal Tap ( 1984 )
Genre: Comedy | Music
Runtime: 82
Country: United States
Language: English | Japanese
Director: Rob Reiner
Writer: Christopher Guest | Michael McKean | Harry Shearer | Rob Reiner
Stars: Rob Reiner | Kimberly Stringer | Chazz Dominguez | Shari Hall
Plot: Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.
A Christmas Story ( 1983 )
Genre: Comedy | Family
Runtime: 93
Country: United States | Canada
Language: English
Director: Bob Clark
Writer: Jean Shepherd | Jean Shepherd | Leigh Brown | Bob Clark
Stars: Melinda Dillon | Darren McGavin | Scott Schwartz | Jean Shepherd
Plot: In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie Parker attempts to convince his parents, teacher, and Santa Claus that a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ( 1982 )
Genre: Adventure | Family | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 115
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Melissa Mathison
Stars: Dee Wallace | Henry Thomas | Peter Coyote | Robert MacNaughton
Plot: A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.
The Blues Brothers ( 1980 )
Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Music | Musical
Runtime: 133
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: John Landis
Writer: Dan Aykroyd | John Landis
Stars: Tom Erhart | Gerald Walling | John Belushi | Walter Levine
Plot: Jake Blues rejoins his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.
Ghostbusters ( 1984 )
Genre: Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 105
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Ivan Reitman
Writer: Dan Aykroyd | Harold Ramis
Stars: Bill Murray | Dan Aykroyd | Sigourney Weaver | Harold Ramis
Plot: Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.
The Killing Fields ( 1984 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | War
Runtime: 141
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English | French | Central Khmer
Director: Roland Joffé
Writer: Bruce Robinson
Stars: Sam Waterston | Haing S. Ngor | John Malkovich | Julian Sands
Plot: A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during Pol Pot's bloody Year Zero cleansing campaign.
The Right Stuff ( 1983 )
Genre: Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
Runtime: 193
Country: United States
Language: English | Russian | Spanish
Director: Philip Kaufman
Writer: Philip Kaufman | Tom Wolfe
Stars: Sam Shepard | Scott Glenn | Ed Harris | Dennis Quaid
Plot: The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.
The King of Comedy ( 1982 )
Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Runtime: 109
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Paul D. Zimmerman
Stars: Robert De Niro | Jerry Lewis | Diahnne Abbott | Sandra Bernhard
Plot: Rupert is an aspiring stand-up comedian, who is willing to go the extra mile in his attempt to appear in the late night show hosted by his idol.
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl ( 1982 )
Genre: Documentary | Comedy | Musical
Runtime: 81
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English
Director: Terry Hughes | Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Graham Chapman | John Cleese | Terry Gilliam | Eric Idle | Terry Jones | Michael Palin | Tim Brooke-Taylor | Marty Feldman | Angus James | David Lipscomb
Stars: Graham Chapman | John Cleese | Terry Gilliam | Eric Idle
Plot: The Monty Python troupe perform a combination of classic sketches and new material at the Hollywood Bowl.
'Breaker' Morant ( 1980 )
Genre: Drama | History | War
Runtime: 107
Country: Australia
Language: English | Afrikaans
Director: Bruce Beresford
Writer: Jonathan Hardy | David Stevens | Bruce Beresford | Harold Lander | Kenneth G. Ross | Kit Denton
Stars: Edward Woodward | Jack Thompson | John Waters | Bryan Brown
Plot: Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
First Blood ( 1982 )
Genre: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Runtime: 93
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Writer: David Morrell | Michael Kozoll | William Sackheim | Sylvester Stallone
Stars: Sylvester Stallone | Richard Crenna | Brian Dennehy | Bill McKinney
Plot: A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ( 1982 )
Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 113
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Writer: Gene Roddenberry | Jack B. Sowards | Harve Bennett | Jack B. Sowards | Nicholas Meyer | Samuel A. Peeples
Stars: William Shatner | Leonard Nimoy | DeForest Kelley | James Doohan
Plot: With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.
The Verdict ( 1982 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 129
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Sidney Lumet
Writer: Barry Reed | David Mamet | Jay Presson Allen
Stars: Paul Newman | Charlotte Rampling | Jack Warden | James Mason
Plot: An outcast, alcoholic Boston lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.
Missing ( 1982 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 122
Country: United States | Mexico
Language: English | Spanish | French
Director: Costa-Gavras
Writer: Costa-Gavras | Donald E. Stewart | Thomas Hauser | John Nichols
Stars: Jack Lemmon | Sissy Spacek | Melanie Mayron | John Shea
Plot: "When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him."
My Dinner with Andre ( 1981 )
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Runtime: 110
Country: United States
Language: English | French
Director: Louis Malle
Writer: Wallace Shawn | Andre Gregory
Stars: Andre Gregory | Wallace Shawn | Jean Lenauer | Roy Butler
Plot: Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.
Mephisto ( 1981 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 146
Country: Hungary | West Germany | Austria
Language: German | Hungarian | English
Director: István Szabó
Writer: Péter Dobai | István Szabó | Klaus Mann
Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer | Ildikó Bánsági | Krystyna Janda | Rolf Hoppe
Plot: In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?
Airplane! ( 1980 )
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 88
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Jim Abrahams | David Zucker | Jerry Zucker
Writer: Jim Abrahams | David Zucker | Jerry Zucker | Hall Bartlett | John C. Champion | Arthur Hailey | Arthur Hailey
Stars: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Lloyd Bridges | Peter Graves | Julie Hagerty
Plot: After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.
Ordinary People ( 1980 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 124
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Robert Redford
Writer: Judith Guest | Alvin Sargent | Nancy Dowd
Stars: Donald Sutherland | Mary Tyler Moore | Judd Hirsch | Timothy Hutton
Plot: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father and the guilt-ridden younger son.
Zelig ( 1983 )
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 79
Country: United States
Language: English | German
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Stars: Woody Allen | Mia Farrow | Patrick Horgan | John Buckwalter
Plot: "Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he\'s around, and meets various famous people.
Victor/Victoria ( 1982 )
Genre: Comedy | Music | Romance
Runtime: 134
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English | French
Director: Blake Edwards
Writer: Blake Edwards | Hans Hoemburg | Reinhold Schünzel
Stars: Julie Andrews | James Garner | Robert Preston | Lesley Ann Warren
Plot: A struggling female soprano in 1934 Paris finally finds work after posing as a female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life when a visiting Chicago gangster finds himself inexplicably attracted to the seemingly male performer.