Best movies of 1980s that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Meryl Streep, Michael Kitchen,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.

Actors : Sally Field, Paul Newman, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

When a prosecutor leaks a false story that a liquor warehouse owner is involved in the murder of a union head, the man's life begins to unravel.

Actors : Josette Simon, Wabei Siyolwe, Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country, after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the black activist Steve Biko.

Actors : William Daniels, Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.

Actors : River Phoenix, Jadrien Steele, Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Peter Weir,

An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build a utopia in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher and ...

Actors : Alejandro Rey, Robin Williams, Cleavant Derricks, Maria Conchita Alonso,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

When a Russian musician defects in Bloomingdale's department store in New York, he finds adjusting to American life more difficult than he imagined.

Actors : Scott Glenn, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Debra Winger, John Travolta,
Directors : James Bridges,

Bud is a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.

Actors : Joshua Rudoy, John Lithgow, Margaret Langrick, Melinda Dillon,
Directors : William Dear,

The Henderson family adopt a friendly Sasquatch but have a hard time trying to keep the legend of 'Bigfoot' a secret.

Actors : James Woods, Joe Pesci, Elizabeth McGovern, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Sergio Leone,

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

Actors : Tony Goldwyn, Whoopi Goldberg, Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : Jerry Zucker,

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.

Actors : John Gielgud, Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, Geraldine Fitzgerald,
Directors : Steve Gordon,

Arthur he does as he pleases. All of his life, his master's toys. Deep in his heart, he's just, he's just a boy.

Actors : Ronny Cox, Timothy Hutton, George C. Scott, Sean Penn,
Directors : Harold Becker,

Military cadets take extreme measures to insure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.

Actors : Chloe Webb, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Directors : Ivan Reitman,

A physically perfect but innocent man goes in search of his long-lost twin brother, who is short, a womanizer, and small-time crook.

Actors : Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae, Jürgen Prochnow, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Euzhan Palcy,

Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police ...

Actors : Terrence Mann, Michael Blevins, Yamil Borges, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.

Actors : Steven Berkoff, Richard Crenna, Sylvester Stallone, Charles Napier,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

Actors : Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Sylvester Stallone,
Directors : Sylvester Stallone,

After winning the ultimate title and being the world champion, Rocky falls into a hole and finds himself picked up by a former enemy.

Actors : Forest Whitaker, Robin Williams, Chintara Sukapatana, Tung Thanh Tran,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

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.

Actors : Ronny Cox, Judge Reinhold, Eddie Murphy, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Tony Scott,

Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogomil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it.