Best movies of 1980s

Out of Africa(1985)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 33

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



The Little Mermaid(1989)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 30

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



The Thing(1982)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A research facility in Antarctica comes across an alien force that can become anything it touches with 100% accuracy. The members must now find out who's human and who's not before it's too late.



All Dogs Go to Heaven(1989)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A dog returns from the dead looking for revenge on his killer using an orphan girl who can talk to animals.



Absence of Malice(1981)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 48

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.



Superman IV: The Quest for Peace(1987)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 36

The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.



Bloodsport(1988)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 32

Follows Frank Dux, an American martial artist serving in the military, who decides to leave the army to compete in a martial arts tournament in Hong Kong where fights to the death can occur.



Back to the Future Part II(1989)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 29

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



My Bodyguard(1980)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 52

When a boy comes to a new school and gets harassed by a bully, he acquires the services of the school's most feared kid as a bodyguard.



Top Secret!(1984)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 34

Parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany.



Cry Freedom(1987)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 46

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.



Stir Crazy(1980)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 39

Set up and wrongfully accused, two best friends will be sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit, however, no prison cell could keep them locked in.



The Mosquito Coast(1986)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 38

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 ...



A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy(1982)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 42

A wacky inventor and his wife invite two other couples for a weekend party at a romantic summer house in the 1900s countryside.



Nighthawks(1981)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Conservative street cop DaSilva reluctantly agrees to terminate an international terrorist who has demanded media attention. But DaSilva's "at-home" tactics are very much put to the challenge.



Mr. Mom(1983)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 40

After he's laid off, a husband switches roles with his wife. She returns to the workforce, and he becomes a stay-at-home dad, a job he has no clue how to do.



Back to the Future Part III(1990)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 28

Enjoying a peaceable existence in 1885, Doctor Emmet Brown is about to be killed by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. Marty McFly travels back in time to save his friend.



The Golden Child(1986)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 34

A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child who dark forces want to eliminate.



Moscow on the Hudson(1984)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 47

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



Ghostbusters II(1989)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 28

The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.




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