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Displaying Search Results: 210 Best Movies from 1980 till 1989

Say Anything... ( 1989 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | Romance

Runtime:  100

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Cameron Crowe

Writer:   Cameron Crowe

Stars:   John Cusack | Ione Skye | John Mahoney | Lili Taylor

Plot:    A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.

Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama

Runtime:  99

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Hebrew

Director:  Bruce Beresford

Writer:   Alfred Uhry | Alfred Uhry

Stars:   Morgan Freeman | Jessica Tandy | Dan Aykroyd | Patti LuPone

Plot:    An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.

Metropolitan ( 1989 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | Romance

Runtime:  98

Country:  United States | Spain

Language:  English

Director:  Whit Stillman

Writer:   Whit Stillman

Stars:   Carolyn Farina | Edward Clements | Chris Eigeman | Taylor Nichols

Plot:    A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.

Big ( 1988 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance

Runtime:  104

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  Penny Marshall

Writer:   Gary Ross | Anne Spielberg

Stars:   Tom Hanks | Elizabeth Perkins | Robert Loggia | John Heard

Plot:    After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.

Wall Street ( 1987 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama

Runtime:  126

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Oliver Stone

Writer:   Stanley Weiser | Oliver Stone

Stars:   Charlie Sheen | Tamara Tunie | Franklin Cover | Chuck Pfeiffer

Plot:    An impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.

Raising Arizona ( 1987 )

Genre:   Comedy | Crime

Runtime:  94

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Joel Coen | Ethan Coen

Writer:   Ethan Coen | Joel Coen

Stars:   Nicolas Cage | Holly Hunter | Trey Wilson | John Goodman

Plot:    When a childless couple--an ex-con and an ex-cop--decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.

Good Morning, Vietnam ( 1987 )

Genre:   Biography | Comedy | Drama | War

Runtime:  121

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Barry Levinson

Writer:   Mitch Markowitz | Adrian Cronauer

Stars:   Robin Williams | Forest Whitaker | Tom T. Tran | Chintara Sukapatana

Plot:    In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam.

Hope and Glory ( 1987 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | Romance

Runtime:  113

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English

Director:  John Boorman

Writer:   John Boorman

Stars:   Sebastian Rice-Edwards | Geraldine Muir | Sarah Miles | David Hayman

Plot:    A young boy living on the outskirts of London comes of age during the uncertain days of World War II.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ( 1986 )

Genre:   Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi

Runtime:  119

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Finnish

Director:  Leonard Nimoy

Writer:   Gene Roddenberry | Leonard Nimoy | Harve Bennett | Steve Meerson | Peter Krikes | Harve Bennett | Nicholas Meyer

Stars:   William Shatner | Leonard Nimoy | DeForest Kelley | James Doohan

Plot:    To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.

Mona Lisa ( 1986 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller

Runtime:  104

Country:  United Kingdom

Language:  English

Director:  Neil Jordan

Writer:   Neil Jordan | David Leland

Stars:   Bob Hoskins | Cathy Tyson | Michael Caine | Robbie Coltrane

Plot:    A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.

Salvador ( 1986 )

Genre:   Drama | History | Thriller | War

Runtime:  122

Country:  United States | Mexico | United Kingdom

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  Oliver Stone

Writer:   Oliver Stone | Richard Boyle

Stars:   James Woods | Jim Belushi | Michael Murphy | John Savage

Plot:    A burnt-out photojournalist becomes involved in a Central American revolution.

Witness ( 1985 )

Genre:   Drama | Romance | Thriller

Runtime:  112

Country:  United States

Language:  English | German

Director:  Peter Weir

Writer:   William Kelley | Pamela Wallace | Earl W. Wallace | Earl W. Wallace | William Kelley

Stars:   Harrison Ford | Kelly McGillis | Josef Sommer | Lukas Haas

Plot:    While protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life is threatened.

To Live and Die in L.A. ( 1985 )

Genre:   Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  116

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Arabic | Spanish

Director:  William Friedkin

Writer:   Gerald Petievich | William Friedkin | Gerald Petievich

Stars:   William Petersen | Willem Dafoe | John Pankow | Debra Feuer

Plot:    A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.

Clue ( 1985 )

Genre:   Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller

Runtime:  94

Country:  United States

Language:  English | French

Director:  Jonathan Lynn

Writer:   John Landis | Jonathan Lynn | Jonathan Lynn | Anthony E. Pratt

Stars:   Eileen Brennan | Tim Curry | Madeline Kahn | Christopher Lloyd

Plot:    Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up.

The Return of the Living Dead ( 1985 )

Genre:   Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi

Runtime:  91

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Dan O'Bannon

Writer:   Rudy Ricci | John A. Russo | Russell Streiner | Dan O'Bannon

Stars:   Clu Gulager | James Karen | Don Calfa | Thom Mathews

Plot:    When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.

Kiss of the Spider Woman ( 1985 )

Genre:   Drama

Runtime:  120

Country:  Brazil | United States

Language:  English | French | Portuguese

Director:  Hector Babenco

Writer:   Manuel Puig | Leonard Schrader

Stars:   William Hurt | Raul Julia | Sonia Braga | José Lewgoy

Plot:    A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.

The Karate Kid ( 1984 )

Genre:   Action | Drama | Family | Sport

Runtime:  126

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Japanese

Director:  John G. Avildsen

Writer:   Robert Mark Kamen

Stars:   Ralph Macchio | Pat Morita | Elisabeth Shue | Martin Kove

Plot:    Recently relocated from NJ to LA, Daniel becomes the target of a gang of Cobra Kai dojo students. When Mr. Miyagi saves him with expert Karate skills, Daniel convinces him to teach him to defend himself, and put his bullies in their place.

The Neverending Story ( 1984 )

Genre:   Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy

Runtime:  102

Country:  West Germany | United States

Language:  English

Director:  Wolfgang Petersen

Writer:   Wolfgang Petersen | Herman Weigel | Michael Ende | Robert Easton

Stars:   Barret Oliver | Gerald McRaney | Chris Eastman | Darryl Cooksey

Plot:    A troubled boy dives into a wondrous fantasy world through the pages of a mysterious book.

Gremlins ( 1984 )

Genre:   Comedy | Fantasy | Horror

Runtime:  106

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  Joe Dante

Writer:   Chris Columbus

Stars:   Hoyt Axton | John Louie | Keye Luke | Don Steele

Plot:    After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.

A Passage to India ( 1984 )

Genre:   Adventure | Drama | History

Runtime:  164

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English | Hindi

Director:  David Lean

Writer:   E.M. Forster | E.M. Forster | Santha Rama Rau | David Lean

Stars:   Judy Davis | Victor Banerjee | Peggy Ashcroft | James Fox

Plot:    Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.

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