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161 Best Movies from 1980 till 1987
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.
RoboCop ( 1987 )
Genre: Action | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Runtime: 102
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Writer: Edward Neumeier | Michael Miner
Stars: Peter Weller | Nancy Allen | Dan O'Herlihy | Ronny Cox
Plot: In a dystopian, crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan, young police officer Alex Murphy is brutally murdered by a ruthless gang, only to be resurrected by a powerful corporation as the cyborg RoboCop, who soon seeks revenge on his killers.
Lethal Weapon ( 1987 )
Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller
Runtime: 109
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Shane Black | Jeffrey Boam
Stars: Mel Gibson | Danny Glover | Gary Busey | Mitchell Ryan
Plot: Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.
Maurice ( 1987 )
Genre: Drama | Romance
Runtime: 140
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English
Director: James Ivory
Writer: E.M. Forster | Kit Hesketh-Harvey | James Ivory
Stars: James Wilby | Hugh Grant | Rupert Graves | Denholm Elliott
Plot: Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
Planes, Trains & Automobiles ( 1987 )
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Runtime: 93
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: John Hughes
Writer: John Hughes
Stars: Steve Martin | John Candy | Laila Robins | Michael McKean
Plot: A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.
The Fly ( 1986 )
Genre: Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 96
Country: United States | Canada
Language: English
Director: David Cronenberg
Writer: George Langelaan | Charles Edward Pogue | David Cronenberg
Stars: Jeff Goldblum | Geena Davis | John Getz | Joy Boushel
Plot: A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Down by Law ( 1986 )
Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Runtime: 107
Country: United States | West Germany
Language: English | Italian | French
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer: Jim Jarmusch
Stars: Tom Waits | John Lurie | Roberto Benigni | Nicoletta Braschi
Plot: Two men are framed and sent to jail, where they meet a murderer who helps them escape and leave the state.
The Purple Rose of Cairo ( 1985 )
Genre: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Runtime: 82
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Stars: Mia Farrow | Jeff Daniels | Danny Aiello | Irving Metzman
Plot: In 1935 New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.
After Hours ( 1985 )
Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Runtime: 97
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Joseph Minion
Stars: Griffin Dunne | Rosanna Arquette | Verna Bloom | Tommy Chong
Plot: Ordinary word processor Paul Hackett experiences the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit Marcy, a Soho resident that he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Sans toit ni loi ( 1985 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 105
Country: France | United Kingdom
Language: French | Arabic | English
Director: Agnès Varda
Writer: Agnès Varda
Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire | Setti Ramdane | Francis Balchère | Jean-Louis Perletti
Plot: A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.
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.
Mad Max 2 ( 1981 )
Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Runtime: 96
Country: Australia
Language: English
Director: George Miller
Writer: Terry Hayes | George Miller | Brian Hannant | George Miller | Byron Kennedy
Stars: Mel Gibson | Bruce Spence | Michael Preston | Max Phipps
Plot: In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community get rid of a horde of bandits.
On Golden Pond ( 1981 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 109
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Mark Rydell
Writer: Ernest Thompson | Ernest Thompson
Stars: Katharine Hepburn | Henry Fonda | Jane Fonda | Doug McKeon
Plot: Curmudgeon Norman is estranged from his daughter Chelsea. Nevertheless, at Golden Pond he and his wife agree to look after Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.
Withnail & I ( 1987 )
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Runtime: 107
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English | Latin
Director: Bruce Robinson
Writer: Bruce Robinson
Stars: Richard E. Grant | Paul McGann | Richard Griffiths | Ralph Brown
Plot: In 1969, two substance-abusing, unemployed actors retreat to the countryside for a holiday that proves disastrous.
Blood Simple ( 1984 )
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Runtime: 99
Country: United States
Language: English | Spanish
Director: Joel Coen | Ethan Coen
Writer: Joel Coen | Ethan Coen
Stars: John Getz | Frances McDormand | Dan Hedaya | M. Emmet Walsh
Plot: The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.