Best movies of 1980s

Awakenings(1990)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 37

The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.



House Party(1990)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Young Kid has been invited to a party at his friend Play's house. But after a fight at school, Kid's father grounds him. None the less, Kid sneaks out when his father falls asleep. But Kid ...



Hamlet(1990)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 47

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.



Quick Change(1990)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Three thieves successfully rob a New York City bank, but making the escape from the city proves to be almost impossible.



Green Card(1990)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 47

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



Porky's(1981)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 42

In 1954, a group of Florida high schoolers seek out to help their buddy lose his virginity, which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them.



Mommie Dearest(1981)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 51

The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted.



Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan(1982)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 36

With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.



The Man with Two Brains(1983)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.



Firestarter(1984)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telekinetic ability and then have a child who is pyrokinetic.



The Muppets Take Manhattan(1984)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 48

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.



Legend(1985)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A young man must stop the Lord of Darkness from both destroying daylight and marrying the woman he loves.



Clue(1985)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Six guests are invited to a strange house and must cooperate with the staff to solve a murder mystery.



Lost in America(1985)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A husband and wife in their 30s decide to quit their jobs, live as free spirits and cruise America in a Winnebago.



The Money Pit(1986)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 39

A young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house.



RoboCop(1987)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 34

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



Evil Dead II(1987)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 35

The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.



Monkey Shines(1988)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A quadriplegic man has a trained monkey help him with his paralysis, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master.



Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios(1988)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Pepas's lover, Iván, leaves her and she tries to contact him to find out why he's left. In her search for Iván, she confronts his wife and son, who are as clueless as she is. Meanwhile; ...



Salaam Bombay!(1988)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 57

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 ...




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