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Displaying Search Results: 210 Best Movies from 1980 till 1989

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 Little Mermaid ( 1989 )

Genre:   Animation | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance

Runtime:  83

Country:  United States

Language:  English | French

Director:  Ron Clements | John Musker

Writer:   John Musker | Ron Clements | Hans Christian Andersen | Howard Ashman | Gerrit Graham | Sam Graham | Chris Hubbell

Stars:   Rene Auberjonois | Christopher Daniel Barnes | Jodi Benson | Pat Carroll

Plot:    A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain in an attempt to become human and win a prince's love.

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.

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.

Batman ( 1989 )

Genre:   Action | Adventure

Runtime:  126

Country:  United States | United Kingdom

Language:  English | French | Spanish

Director:  Tim Burton

Writer:   Bob Kane | Sam Hamm | Sam Hamm | Warren Skaaren

Stars:   Michael Keaton | Jack Nicholson | Kim Basinger | Robert Wuhl

Plot:    The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.

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