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184 Best Movies from 1980 till 1988
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.
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.
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! ( 1988 )
Genre: Comedy | Crime
Runtime: 85
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: David Zucker
Writer: Jerry Zucker | Jim Abrahams | David Zucker | Pat Proft | Jim Abrahams | David Zucker | Jerry Zucker
Stars: Leslie Nielsen | Priscilla Presley | Ricardo Montalban | George Kennedy
Plot: Incompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
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.