Best movies of 1980s

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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



Valmont(1989)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 47

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...



The Blue Lagoon(1980)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 32

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.



Urban Cowboy(1980)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 45

Bud is a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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 ...



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.




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