Best movies of 1980s that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Carole Bouquet, Roger Moore, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Topol,
Directors : John Glen,

Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands.

Actors : Kevin McCarthy, Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Martin Short,
Directors : Joe Dante,

A hapless store clerk must foil criminals to save the life of the man who, miniaturized in a secret experiment, was accidentally injected into him.

Actors : Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Diane Keaton, Warren Beatty,
Directors : Warren Beatty,

A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.

Actors : Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Meryl Streep,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

After spending time with his new neighbors, an aspiring writer realizes they are harboring deep secrets that will forever change him.

Actors : Karen Allen, Richard Jaeckel, Charles Martin Smith, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : John Carpenter,

An alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona. The government tries to stop them.

Actors : Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis, Jean Marsh, Val Kilmer,
Directors : Ron Howard,

A reluctant dwarf must play a critical role in protecting a special baby from an evil queen.

Actors : Eddie Murphy, James Earl Jones, Arsenio Hall, John Amos,
Directors : John Landis,

An extremely pampered African Prince travels to Queens, New York, and goes undercover to find a wife whom he can respect for her intelligence and will.

Actors : J.E. Freeman, Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Laura Dern,
Directors : David Lynch,

Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

Actors : Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Robert Redford,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

An unknown comes out of seemingly nowhere to become a legendary player with almost divine talent.

Actors : Hume Cronyn, Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Brian Dennehy,
Directors : Ron Howard,

When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigour.

Actors : John Meillon, Paul Hogan, David Gulpilil, Linda Kozlowski,
Directors : Peter Faiman,

An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin,
Directors : Joel Schumacher,

Five medical students experiment on "near death" experiences that involve past tragedies until the dark consequences begin to jeopardize their lives.

Actors : Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.

Actors : Catherine Hicks, Barry Miller, Nicolas Cage, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.

Actors : Carl Weathers, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin Peter Hall, Elpidia Carrillo,
Directors : John McTiernan,

A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, Willem Dafoe,
Directors : Alan Parker,

Two F.B.I. Agents, with wildly different styles, arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.

Actors : Jeff Goldblum, Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, William Hurt,
Directors : Lawrence Kasdan,

A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina winter house after the funeral of one of their friends.

Actors : Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Lawrence Kasdan,

A misfit bunch of friends come together to right the injustices which exist in a small town.

Actors : Carrie Henn, Sigourney Weaver, Paul Reiser, Michael Biehn,
Directors : James Cameron,

The moon from Alien (1979) has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough?

Actors : Captain Haggerty, Alec Baldwin, Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Lazar,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

An undercover FBI agent falls in love with a recently widowed mafia wife, who is trying to restart her life following her husband's murder while being pursued by a libidinous mafia kingpin seeking to claim her for himself.