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Displaying Search Results: 184 Best Movies from 1980 till 1988

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.

Mississippi Burning ( 1988 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Runtime:  128

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Alan Parker

Writer:   Chris Gerolmo

Stars:   Gene Hackman | Willem Dafoe | Frances McDormand | Brad Dourif

Plot:    Two FBI agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights activists.

The Untouchables ( 1987 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  119

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Brian De Palma

Writer:   David Mamet | Oscar Fraley | Eliot Ness | Paul Robsky | Chip Miller

Stars:   Kevin Costner | Sean Connery | Charles Martin Smith | Andy Garcia

Plot:    During Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.

Predator ( 1987 )

Genre:   Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi

Runtime:  107

Country:  United States | Mexico

Language:  English | Spanish | Russian

Director:  John McTiernan

Writer:   Jim Thomas | John Thomas

Stars:   Arnold Schwarzenegger | Carl Weathers | Elpidia Carrillo | Bill Duke

Plot:    A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

Babettes gæstebud ( 1987 )

Genre:   Drama

Runtime:  103

Country:  Denmark

Language:  Danish | French | Swedish

Director:  Gabriel Axel

Writer:   Karen Blixen | Gabriel Axel

Stars:   Stéphane Audran | Bodil Kjer | Birgitte Federspiel | Jarl Kulle

Plot:    During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 )

Genre:   Comedy

Runtime:  103

Country:  United States

Language:  English | German

Director:  John Hughes

Writer:   John Hughes

Stars:   Matthew Broderick | Alan Ruck | Mia Sara | Jeffrey Jones

Plot:    A brash, cocky high school senior, tired of skipping school to spend a boring day at home, is determined to enjoy an epic day roaring around his favorite Chicago sites, enlisting his best friend and girlfriend to join him on the adventure.

Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama

Runtime:  107

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Woody Allen

Writer:   Woody Allen

Stars:   Barbara Hershey | Carrie Fisher | Michael Caine | Mia Farrow

Plot:    Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

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.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 )

Genre:   Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Family | Fantasy | Mystery

Runtime:  104

Country:  United States | United Kingdom

Language:  English

Director:  Robert Zemeckis

Writer:   Jeffrey Price | Peter S. Seaman | Gary K. Wolf | Ted Osborne | Al Taliaferro

Stars:   Bob Hoskins | Christopher Lloyd | Joanna Cassidy | Charles Fleischer

Plot:    When a cartoon rabbit is accused of murder, he enlists the help of a burnt out private investigator to prove his innocence.

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.

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