Best movies of 1980s

The Return of the Living Dead(1985)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 24

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.



Code of Silence(1985)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 45

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.



Mauvais sang(1986)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 46

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 ...



Oliver & Company(1988)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 25

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



The Presidio(1988)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 34

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.



Lock Up(1989)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 26

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.



Arachnophobia(1990)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 23

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



Presumed Innocent(1990)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 26

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



Bad Influence(1990)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 44

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 ...



Clash of the Titans(1981)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 25

Perseus must battle both Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda.



Ragtime(1981)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 41

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.



Educating Rita(1983)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 36

In London, the twenty-seven year-old hairdresser Rita decides to complete her basic education before having children as desired by her husband Denny. She joins the literature course in an ...



The Killing Fields(1984)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.



Heartburn(1986)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 39

An autobiographical look at the breakup of Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, Rachel is a food writer at...



Out of Rosenheim(1987)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 36

A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.



Casualties of War(1989)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 24

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.



Predator 2(1990)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Amidst a territorial gang war in 1997, a sophisticated alien hunter stalks the citizens of Los Angeles and the only man between him and his prey is veteran L.A.P.D. officer, Lieutenant Mike Harrigan.



RoboCop 2(1990)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Cyborg law enforcer RoboCop returns to protect the citizens of old Detroit but faces a deadly challenge when a rogue OCP member secretly creates a new, evil RoboCop 2.



Air America(1990)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 28

A young pilot finds himself recruited unwittingly into a covert and corrupt C.I.A. airlift organization operating in Vietnam War-era Laos.



Children of the Corn(1984)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believe everyone over the age of 18 must be killed.




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