Best movies of 1980s

Actors : Michael Keaton, Maureen Stapleton, Marilu Henner, Joe Piscopo,
Directors : Amy Heckerling,

Set in the 1930's, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

Actors : Sam Berry, Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.

Actors : Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Sam Shepard, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.

Actors : Donna Dixon, Steve Forrest, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase,
Directors : John Landis,

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.

Actors : Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton,
Directors : John Hughes,

Two high school nerds attempt to create the perfect woman, but she turns out to be more than that.

Actors : Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Austin Pendleton, Fisher Stevens,
Directors : John Badham,

Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.

Actors : Chloe Webb, Gary Oldman, David Hayman, Debby Bishop,
Directors : Alex Cox,

The relationship between Sid Vicious, bassist for British punk group The Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen is portrayed.

Actors : Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, Olivia Newton-John, James Sloyan,
Directors : Robert Greenwald,

The story of a girl who makes dreams come true.

Actors : Adrian Zmed, George Grizzard, Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen,
Directors : Neal Israel,

A soon-to-be-married man's friends throw him the ultimate bachelor party.

Actors : John Cusack, Linda Warren, Demi Moore, Joel Murray,
Directors : Savage Steve Holland,

An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.

Actors : Julian Sands, John Goodman, Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak,
Directors : Frank Marshall,

A species of South American killer spider hitches a lift to the U.S. in a coffin and starts to breed and kill.

Actors : Raul Julia, Greta Scacchi, Brian Dennehy, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

As a lawyer investigates the murder of a colleague, he finds himself more connected to the crime than anyone else.

Actors : Hans Meyer, Michel Piccoli, Denis Lavant, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Leos Carax,

Marc (Michel Piccoli) recruits Alex (Denis Lavant), son of his former, now dead colleague. Alex is a card shark with a big dream to go out to the world and leave his own mark. His ...

Actors : Mike Genovese, Bert Remsen, Chuck Norris, Henry Silva,
Directors : Andrew Davis,

A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.

Actors : Billy Joel, Cheech Marin, Joey Lawrence, Richard Mulligan,
Directors : George Scribner,

A lost and alone kitten joins a gang of dogs engaged in petty larceny in New York City.

Actors : Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Jack Warden, Meg Ryan,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

A San Francisco civilian police detective is forced to work on a series of murders with his former enemy commanding officer while dating his daughter.

Actors : Marcia Cross, Lisa Zane, James Spader, Rob Lowe,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

Michael, a wimpy young executive, is about to get pulverized by a jealous boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in--and then disappears. Later that night, while ...

Actors : Demian Slade, John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby,
Directors : Savage Steve Holland,

A teenager has to deal with his girlfriend dumping him among family crises, homicidal paper boys, and a rival skier.

Actors : Don Calfa, Clu Gulager, James Karen, Thom Mathews,
Directors : Dan O'Bannon,

When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.

Actors : Sonny Landham, Sylvester Stallone, John Amos, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : John Flynn,

With only six months left of his sentence, inmate Frank Leone is transferred from a minimum security prison to a maximum security prison by a vindictive warden.