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210 Best Movies from 1980 till 1989
The Abyss ( 1989 )
Genre: Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Runtime: 140
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron
Stars: Ed Harris | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | Michael Biehn | Leo Burmester
Plot: A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation ( 1989 )
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 97
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Writer: John Hughes
Stars: Chevy Chase | Beverly D'Angelo | Juliette Lewis | Johnny Galecki
Plot: The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.
Field of Dreams ( 1989 )
Genre: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sport
Runtime: 107
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Writer: W.P. Kinsella | Phil Alden Robinson
Stars: Kevin Costner | Amy Madigan | Gaby Hoffmann | Ray Liotta
Plot: Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife, Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover ( 1989 )
Genre: Crime | Drama
Runtime: 124
Country: Netherlands | United Kingdom | France
Language: English | French | Dutch
Director: Peter Greenaway
Writer: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Richard Bohringer | Michael Gambon | Helen Mirren | Alan Howard
Plot: At an opulent gourmet restaurant, a woman carries on an affair with deadly consequences.
Henry V ( 1989 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | War
Runtime: 137
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English | French | Latin
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Writer: William Shakespeare | Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Derek Jacobi | Kenneth Branagh | Simon Shepherd | James Larkin
Plot: In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Santa Sangre ( 1989 )
Genre: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Runtime: 123
Country: Mexico | Italy
Language: English
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Writer: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Roberto Leoni | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Roberto Leoni | Claudio Argento
Stars: Axel Jodorowsky | Blanca Guerra | Guy Stockwell | Thelma Tixou
Plot: A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".
Mystery Train ( 1989 )
Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Runtime: 110
Country: Japan | United States
Language: English | Japanese | Italian
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer: Jim Jarmusch
Stars: Masatoshi Nagase | Yûki Kudô | Screamin' Jay Hawkins | Cinqué Lee
Plot: Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.
Beetlejuice ( 1988 )
Genre: Comedy | Fantasy
Runtime: 92
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Tim Burton
Writer: Michael McDowell | Larry Wilson | Michael McDowell | Warren Skaaren
Stars: Alec Baldwin | Geena Davis | Annie McEnroe | Maurice Page
Plot: The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.
A Fish Called Wanda ( 1988 )
Genre: Comedy | Crime
Runtime: 108
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English | Italian | Russian
Director: Charles Crichton | John Cleese
Writer: John Cleese | Charles Crichton | John Cleese
Stars: John Cleese | Jamie Lee Curtis | Kevin Kline | Michael Palin
Plot: In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool the very proper barrister Archibald Leach.
The Last Temptation of Christ ( 1988 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 164
Country: Canada | United States
Language: English
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Nikos Kazantzakis | Paul Schrader
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Harvey Keitel | Paul Greco | Steve Shill
Plot: The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.
Midnight Run ( 1988 )
Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Runtime: 126
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Martin Brest
Writer: George Gallo
Stars: Robert De Niro | Charles Grodin | Yaphet Kotto | John Ashton
Plot: A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.
Dangerous Liaisons ( 1988 )
Genre: Drama | Romance
Runtime: 119
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English
Director: Stephen Frears
Writer: Christopher Hampton | Choderlos de Laclos | Christopher Hampton
Stars: Glenn Close | John Malkovich | Michelle Pfeiffer | Swoosie Kurtz
Plot: A scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.
Le grand bleu ( 1988 )
Genre: Adventure | Drama | Sport
Runtime: 168
Country: France | Italy | United States
Language: French | English | Italian
Director: Luc Besson
Writer: Luc Besson | Luc Besson | Robert Garland | Marilyn Goldin | Jacques Mayol | Marc Perrier
Stars: Rosanna Arquette | Jean-Marc Barr | Jean Reno | Paul Shenar
Plot: The rivalry between Enzo and Jacques, two childhood friends and now world-renowned free divers, becomes a beautiful and perilous journey into oneself and the unknown.
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.
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.