Best movies of 1980s

Kickboxer(1989)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Kurt Sloane must learn the ancient kick boxing art of Muay Thai in order to avenge his brother.



Night of the Living Dead(1990)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 19

The unburied dead return to life and seek human victims.



The Freshman(1990)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 25

A NYC film school student accepts a job with a local mobster who resembles a famous cinema godfather and who takes the young man under his wing, after demanding total loyalty.



Truly Madly Deeply(1990)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 36

A woman dealing with inconsolable grief over the death of her partner gets another chance when he returns to earth as a ghost.



Trust(1990)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 34

After being thrown away from home, Maria encounters a lady who complains of not having children. Almost getting raped, she ends up in an abandoned house, where she meets Matthew. When a baby is kidnapped Maria sets out to find the lady.



Mr. & Mrs. Bridge(1990)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 47

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.



Zelig(1983)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 17

"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.



Against All Odds(1984)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 31

A gangster hires an ex-football player to find his girlfriend. When he finds her, they fall in love, and the twists start to appear.



Ladyhawke(1985)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Philipe Gastone, a thief, escapes from the dungeon at Aquila, sparking a manhunt. He is nearly captured when Captain Navarre befriends him. Navarre has been hunted by the Bishop's men for ...



Real Genius(1985)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Teenage geniuses deal with their abilities while developing a high-powered laser for a university project. When their professor intends to turn their work into a military weapon, they decide to ruin his plans.



Return to Oz(1985)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.



Red Sonja(1985)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A vengeful woman sets out to retrieve a magic orb from an evil queen whom she vows vengeance upon after the evil queen slain her family and her loyal warriors raped her.



Runaway Train(1985)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 20

Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.



The Black Cauldron(1985)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A young boy and a bunch of misfit friends embark on a quest to find a dark magic item of ultimate power before a diabolical tyrant can.





Heartbreak Ridge(1986)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.



Masters of the Universe(1987)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 17

The heroic warrior He-Man battles against lord Skeletor and his armies of darkness for control of Castle Grayskull.



High Hopes(1988)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and ...



The Unbelievable Truth(1989)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 40

A man returns to his home town after serving a prison sentence for homicide, and finds that the details of the crime have been forgotten and replaced with local legends and rumors.



The Rescuers Down Under(1990)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 17

The R.A.S. agents, Miss Bianca and Bernard, race to Australia to save a boy and a rare golden eagle from a murderous poacher.




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