Best movies of 1980s that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Bebe Neuwirth, Gregg Edelman, Andie MacDowell, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Peter Weir,

A man wanting to stay in the US enters into a marriage of convenience, but it turns into more than that.

Actors : Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Steve Whitmire, Dave Goelz,
Directors : Frank Oz,

Kermit and his friends go to New York to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated.

Actors : Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Peter Weller,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.

Actors : Shafiq Syed, Raghuvir Yadav, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma,
Directors : Mira Nair,

The boy Krishna is abandoned by his mother at the Apollo Circus and she tells him that he can only return home when he can afford 500 rupees to pay for the bicycle of his brother that he ...

Actors : Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Aileen Quinn, Ann Reinking,
Directors : John Huston,

A young orphan girl's adventures in finding a family that will take her.

Actors : David Keith, Robert Loggia, Debra Winger, Richard Gere,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

A young man must complete his work at a Navy Flight school to become an aviator, with the help of a tough gunnery sergeant and his new girlfriend.

Actors : Daniel Stern, Roy Scheider, Candy Clark, Warren Oates,
Directors : John Badham,

The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle.

Actors : James Larkin, Simon Shepherd, Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branagh,
Directors : Kenneth Branagh,

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Actors : Erica Yohn, Christopher Plummer, Nehemiah Persoff, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Don Bluth,

While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.

Actors : Geena Davis, Amy Wright, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Lawrence Kasdan,

An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.

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 : 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 : Christopher Daniel Barnes, Jodi Benson, Rene Auberjonois, Pat Carroll,

A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain with an unscrupulous sea-witch in order to meet a human prince on land.

Actors : Michael J. Fox, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Christopher Lloyd,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.

Actors : Meg Tilly, Annette Bening, Colin Firth, Fairuza Balk,
Directors : Milos Forman,

Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an...

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 : Josette Simon, Denzel Washington, Wabei Siyolwe, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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.