Best movies of 1980s

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

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

Actors : Börje Ahlstedt, Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Kristina Adolphson,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

Two young Swedish children experience the many comedies and tragedies of their family, the Ekdahls.

Actors : George 'Red' Schwartz, Leib Lensky, Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-convict husband shows up.

Actors : Maria Conchita Alonso, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown,
Directors : Paul Michael Glaser,

A wrongly convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a game show.

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

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

Actors : Keith Gordon, Burt Young, Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman,
Directors : Alan Metter,

To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself.

Actors : Noah Hathaway, Tami Stronach, Barret Oliver, Gerald McRaney,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

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

Actors : Gregg Henry, Deborah Shelton, Melanie Griffith, Craig Wasson,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A young actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences.

Actors : Billy Zane, Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Rod Mullinar,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

After a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae spend some time isolated at sea when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship.

Actors : Paul Reiser, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Sigourney Weaver,
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 : Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, William Hurt, Jeff Goldblum,
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 : Frederic Forrest, Martin Landau, Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.

Actors : Bob Balaban, William Hurt, Charles Haid, Blair Brown,
Directors : Ken Russell,

A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.

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.

Actors : John Cusack, Anthony Edwards, Daphne Zuniga, Boyd Gaines,
Directors : Rob Reiner,

A college student plans a cross-country trip to get laid, but ends up traveling with a young woman. They hate each other, so naturally...

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

After iron man Drago, a highly intimidating 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet athlete, kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition match, Rocky comes to the heart of Russia for 15 pile-driving boxing rounds of revenge.

Actors : Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan, Brenda Fricker, Daniel Day-Lewis,
Directors : Jim Sheridan,

Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.

Actors : Roger Moore, Grace Jones, Tanya Roberts, Christopher Walken,
Directors : John Glen,

An investigation of a horse-racing scam leads 007 to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley.

Actors : Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, Michael Rooker, John Goodman,
Directors : Harold Becker,

A detective investigating a series of murders becomes involved with a woman who may be the culprit.

Actors : Kirstie Alley, George Segal, Olympia Dukakis, John Travolta,
Directors : Amy Heckerling,

After a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver. Meanwhile, the point-of-view of the newborn boy is narrated through voice-over.