Best movies of 1980s

The Dark Crystal(1982)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 24

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal, and so restore order to his world.



Deathtrap(1982)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 39

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.



Somewhere in Time(1980)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.



One from the Heart(1981)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 49

Hank and Frannie don't seem to be able to live together anymore. After a five-year relationship, lustful and dreamy Fanny leaves down-to-earth Hank on the anniversary of their relationship....



Nine to Five(1980)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.



Airplane II: The Sequel(1982)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the Sun. Can Ted Striker save the day and get the shuttle back on track - again?



Any Which Way You Can(1980)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 33

A trucker turned prize fighter, his brother and their pet orangutan have a series of misadventures involving the mob, corrupt cops, motorcycle gangs and pretty dames.



Seems Like Old Times(1980)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Wrongfully accused of a bank robbery, a writer seeks the help of his ex-wife, who is now married to the soon-to-be D.A. of California.



Friday the 13th Part 2(1981)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 24

Mrs. Voorhees is dead, and Camp Crystal Lake is shut down, but a camp next to the infamous place is stalked by an unknown assailant.



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.



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.



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 ...



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.



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.



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.



Vincent & Theo(1990)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 49

The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of the locations which Vincent painted.




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