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161 Best Movies from 1980 till 1987
The Breakfast Club ( 1985 )
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Runtime: 97
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: John Hughes
Writer: John Hughes
Stars: Emilio Estevez | Paul Gleason | Anthony Michael Hall | John Kapelos
Plot: Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a great deal more in common than they thought.
Brazil ( 1985 )
Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Runtime: 132
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English
Director: Terry Gilliam
Writer: Terry Gilliam | Tom Stoppard | Charles McKeown | Charles Alverson
Stars: Jonathan Pryce | Robert De Niro | Katherine Helmond | Ian Holm
Plot: A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.
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.
Empire of the Sun ( 1987 )
Genre: Drama | War
Runtime: 153
Country: United States
Language: English | Japanese | Mandarin
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Tom Stoppard | J.G. Ballard | Menno Meyjes
Stars: Christian Bale | John Malkovich | Miranda Richardson | Nigel Havers
Plot: A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
The Last Emperor ( 1987 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Runtime: 163
Country: China | Italy | United Kingdom
Language: English | Mandarin | Japanese
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Writer: Enzo Ungari | Mark Peploe | Bernardo Bertolucci | Puyi
Stars: John Lone | Joan Chen | Peter O'Toole | Ruocheng Ying
Plot: Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatization of China's eleventh and final monarch of the Qing dynasty: Emperor Puyi.
Evil Dead II ( 1987 )
Genre: Comedy | Horror
Runtime: 84
Country: United States
Language: English | Latin
Director: Sam Raimi
Writer: Sam Raimi | Scott Spiegel
Stars: Bruce Campbell | Sarah Berry | Dan Hicks | Kassie Wesley DePaiva
Plot: Ash Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
Blue Velvet ( 1986 )
Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 120
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: David Lynch
Writer: David Lynch
Stars: Isabella Rossellini | Kyle MacLachlan | Dennis Hopper | Laura Dern
Plot: The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
The Name of the Rose ( 1986 )
Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 130
Country: West Germany | Italy | France
Language: English | Latin
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Writer: Umberto Eco | Andrew Birkin | Gérard Brach | Howard Franklin | Alain Godard
Stars: Sean Connery | Christian Slater | Helmut Qualtinger | Elya Baskin
Plot: An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
When the Wind Blows ( 1986 )
Genre: Animation | Drama | War
Runtime: 84
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Director: Jimmy T. Murakami
Writer: Raymond Briggs | Raymond Briggs
Stars: Peggy Ashcroft | John Mills | Robin Houston | James Russell
Plot: A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war.
The Goonies ( 1985 )
Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Runtime: 114
Country: United States
Language: English | Spanish | Cantonese
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Chris Columbus | Steven Spielberg
Stars: Sean Astin | Josh Brolin | Jeff Cohen | Corey Feldman
Plot: A group of young misfits called The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on an adventure to find a legendary pirate's long-lost treasure.
The Color Purple ( 1985 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 154
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Menno Meyjes | Alice Walker
Stars: Danny Glover | Whoopi Goldberg | Margaret Avery | Oprah Winfrey
Plot: A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.
La historia oficial ( 1985 )
Genre: Drama | History
Runtime: 112
Country: Argentina
Language: Spanish | English
Director: Luis Puenzo
Writer: Aída Bortnik | Luis Puenzo
Stars: Héctor Alterio | Norma Aleandro | Chunchuna Villafañe | Hugo Arana
Plot: During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
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.