Best movies of 1980s

Victor Victoria(1982)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.



Gung Ho(1986)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 24

When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liaison must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor.



Prom Night(1980)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 23

At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years previously.



Stardust Memories(1980)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 18

While attending a retrospective of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.



Broadway Danny Rose(1984)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 17

In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.



Runaway(1984)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 25

In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.



Caravaggio(1986)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 35

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.



Breakin'(1984)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 34

A struggling young jazz dancer meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds.



Jaws 3-D(1983)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 14

The sons of police chief Brody must protect civilians at a SeaWorld theme park after a 35-foot shark becomes trapped in the park with them.



Cannibal Holocaust(1980)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 12

During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.



Birdy(1984)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 18

After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.



The Beastmaster(1982)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A sword-and-sorcery fantasy about a young man's search for revenge. Armed with supernatural powers, the handsome hero and his animal allies wage war against marauding forces.



Beat Street(1984)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 39

An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.



Krull(1983)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet.



Lifeforce(1985)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A race of space vampires arrive in London and infect the populace.



Heaven's Gate(1980)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A dramatization of the real-life Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, in which a Sheriff born into wealth, attempts to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.



Friday the 13th: A New Beginning(1985)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Still haunted by his past, Tommy Jarvis - who, as a child, killed Jason Voorhees - wonders if the serial killer is connected to a series of brutal murders occurring in and around the secluded halfway house where he now lives.



My Beautiful Laundrette(1985)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 22

An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.



The Changeling(1980)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A man staying at a secluded historical mansion finds himself being haunted by the presence of a spectre.



Class(1983)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 27

A young man in private school spends one crazy night out, but soon realizes the woman he hooked up with is not who he expected.




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