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161 Best Movies from 1980 till 1987
Trading Places ( 1983 )
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 116
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: John Landis
Writer: Timothy Harris | Herschel Weingrod
Stars: Denholm Elliott | Dan Aykroyd | Maurice Woods | Richard D. Fisher Jr.
Plot: A snobbish Wall Street commodities broker and a wily street hustler find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaire brothers who run a brokerage house.
The Meaning of Life ( 1983 )
Genre: Comedy | Musical
Runtime: 107
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English
Director: Terry Jones
Writer: Graham Chapman | John Cleese | Terry Gilliam | Eric Idle | Terry Jones | Michael Palin
Stars: Graham Chapman | John Cleese | Terry Gilliam | Eric Idle
Plot: The comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way.
Sophie's Choice ( 1982 )
Genre: Drama | Romance
Runtime: 150
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English | Polish | German
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Writer: William Styron | Alan J. Pakula
Stars: Meryl Streep | Kevin Kline | Peter MacNicol | Rita Karin
Plot: Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.
The Secret of NIMH ( 1982 )
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 82
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Don Bluth
Writer: Robert C. O'Brien | Don Bluth | John Pomeroy | Gary Goldman | Will Finn | Ken Anderson
Stars: Derek Jacobi | Elizabeth Hartman | Arthur Malet | Dom DeLuise
Plot: To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she suspected.
An American Werewolf in London ( 1981 )
Genre: Comedy | Horror
Runtime: 97
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English
Director: John Landis
Writer: John Landis
Stars: Joe Belcher | David Naughton | Griffin Dunne | David Schofield
Plot: American college students David Kessler and Jack Goodman on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. Jack dies. David recovers in a hospital, where he has nightmares.
The Long Good Friday ( 1980 )
Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 114
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English | French
Director: John Mackenzie
Writer: Barrie Keeffe
Stars: Paul Freeman | Leo Dolan | Kevin McNally | Patti Love
Plot: An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.
Coal Miner's Daughter ( 1980 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | Music
Runtime: 124
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Michael Apted
Writer: Loretta Lynn | George Vecsey | Thomas Rickman
Stars: Sissy Spacek | Tommy Lee Jones | Levon Helm | Phyllis Boyens
Plot: The fictionalized life of singer Loretta Lynn, a girl who rose from humble beginnings to become a country music star in the 1960s/70s.
Escape from Sobibor ( 1987 )
Genre: Drama | History | War
Runtime: 143
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Director: Jack Gold
Writer: Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt | Richard Rashke | Reginald Rose | Stanislaw 'Shlomo' Szmajzner
Stars: Alan Arkin | Joanna Pacula | Rutger Hauer | Hartmut Becker
Plot: German death camp in Sobibor, Poland, killed two hundred fifty thousand Jews. It had the most successful prisoner escape in World War II on October 14, 1943.
Radio Days ( 1987 )
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 88
Country: United States
Language: English | Spanish | Italian
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Stars: Mike Starr | Paul Herman | Don Pardo | Martin Rosenblatt
Plot: A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.
84 Charing Cross Road ( 1987 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | Romance
Runtime: 100
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English
Director: David Hugh Jones
Writer: Helene Hanff | James Roose-Evans | Hugh Whitemore
Stars: Anne Bancroft | Anthony Hopkins | Judi Dench | Jean De Baer
Plot: Based on the true story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books, which later developed into a close, long-distance friendship that evolved over the course of two decades.
Hoosiers ( 1986 )
Genre: Drama | Sport
Runtime: 114
Country: United States | United Kingdom
Language: English
Director: David Anspaugh
Writer: Angelo Pizzo
Stars: Gene Hackman | Barbara Hershey | Dennis Hopper | Sheb Wooley
Plot: A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small-town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the state championship in 1950s Indiana.
The Mission ( 1986 )
Genre: Adventure | Drama | History
Runtime: 125
Country: United Kingdom | France | United States
Language: English | Guarani | Spanish
Director: Roland Joffé
Writer: Robert Bolt
Stars: Robert De Niro | Jeremy Irons | Ray McAnally | Aidan Quinn
Plot: Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
Ying hung boon sik ( 1986 )
Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Runtime: 95
Country: Hong Kong SAR China
Language: Cantonese | Mandarin | English
Director: John Woo
Writer: Hing-Ka Chan | Suk-Wah Leung | John Woo
Stars: Lung Ti | Chow Yun-Fat | Leslie Cheung | Emily Chu
Plot: A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
Beverly Hills Cop ( 1984 )
Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Runtime: 105
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Martin Brest
Writer: Daniel Petrie Jr. | Danilo Bach | Daniel Petrie Jr.
Stars: Eddie Murphy | Judge Reinhold | John Ashton | Lisa Eilbacher
Plot: A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.
A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 1984 )
Genre: Horror
Runtime: 91
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Wes Craven
Stars: John Saxon | Ronee Blakley | Heather Langenkamp | Amanda Wyss
Plot: Teenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real life.
Stranger Than Paradise ( 1984 )
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Runtime: 89
Country: United States | West Germany
Language: English | Hungarian | Italian
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer: Jim Jarmusch | John Lurie
Stars: John Lurie | Eszter Balint | Richard Edson | Cecillia Stark
Plot: A New Yorker's life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting a strange, unpredictable adventure.
Broadway Danny Rose ( 1984 )
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 84
Country: United States
Language: English | Italian | Yiddish
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Stars: Woody Allen | Mia Farrow | Nick Apollo Forte | Sandy Baron
Plot: A hapless talent agent attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress.
Terms of Endearment ( 1983 )
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Runtime: 132
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: James L. Brooks
Writer: Larry McMurtry | James L. Brooks
Stars: Shirley MacLaine | Debra Winger | Jack Nicholson | Danny DeVito
Plot: Widow Aurora Greenway juggles her own struggles with a new romantic interest while trying to sort out the emotional problems of her daughter who's married to a philandering husband.
Tootsie ( 1982 )
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Runtime: 116
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Sydney Pollack
Writer: Don McGuire | Larry Gelbart | Larry Gelbart | Murray Schisgal | Barry Levinson | Robert Garland | Robert Kaufman | Elaine May
Stars: Dustin Hoffman | Jessica Lange | Teri Garr | Dabney Coleman
Plot: Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.
Thief ( 1981 )
Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Runtime: 123
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Michael Mann
Writer: Michael Mann | Michael Mann | Frank Hohimer
Stars: James Caan | Tuesday Weld | Willie Nelson | Jim Belushi
Plot: After years in prison, ace safe-cracker Frank owns a car dealership and a cocktail lounge, which are fronts for high-stakes jewelry heists. He wants to complete one last big heist for the Mob before he goes straight.