Best movies of 1980s

Private Benjamin(1980)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A sheltered young high society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.



Smokey and the Bandit II(1980)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 26

The Bandit goes on another cross-country run, transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas. And, once again, Sheriff Buford T. Justice is on his tail.



Roar(1981)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A family goes to Africa to meet their father who lives with wild lions.



Fitzcarraldo(1982)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.



The Hunger(1983)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A love triangle develops between a beautiful yet dangerous vampire, her cellist companion, and a gerontologist.



Stranger Than Paradise(1984)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A self-styled New York hipster is paid a surprise visit by his younger cousin from Budapest. From initial hostility and indifference a small degree of affection grows between the two. Along...



Enemy Mine(1985)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A soldier from Earth crash-lands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together ...



Tampopo(1985)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.



The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2(1986)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A radio host is victimized by the cannibal family as a former Texas Marshall hunts them.



The Great Mouse Detective(1986)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Basil, the rodent Sherlock Holmes, investigates the kidnapping of a toy-maker and uncovers its link to his arch-enemy, Professor Ratigan.



The Secret of My Succe$s(1987)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A talented young man can't get an executive position without rising through the ranks, so he comes up with a shortcut, which also benefits his love life.



Miami Connection(1987)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 41

A martial arts rock band goes up against a band of motorcycle ninjas who have tightened their grip on Florida's narcotics trade.



Radio Days(1987)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.



Epidemic(1987)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A film director and a script writer (performed by Lars von Trier and Niels Vørsel themselves) write a screenplay, in which an epidemic spreads about the whole world. Like the protagonist ...



The Unbearable Lightness of Being(1988)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 17

In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.



Earth Girls Are Easy(1988)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 21

A Southern California girl befriends three furry aliens after their spaceship lands in her swimming pool.



The Serpent and the Rainbow(1988)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 20

An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.



Santa sangre(1989)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult -, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".



King of New York(1990)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.



Friday the 13th(1980)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was the site of a child's drowning.




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