Best movies of 1980s

Summer School(1987)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A high-school gym teacher has big plans for the summer, but is forced to cancel them to teach a "bonehead" English class for misfit goof-off students. Fortunately, his unconventional brand ...



Teen Wolf Too(1987)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 20

Todd Howard is a struggling teenager. Nothing seems to be going very well for him, until he turns into a wolf.



Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise(1987)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 17

The rising college nerds set out to a convention in Florida, but are not welcomed by the Alpha Beta representatives.



Tonari no Totoro(1988)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.



Another Woman(1988)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Facing a mid-life crisis, a woman rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctor's help.



Lean on Me(1989)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 13

The dedicated but tyrannical Joe Clark is appointed the principal of a decaying inner-city school that he is determined to improve.



Wild Orchid(1989)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A female lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.



The Fly II(1989)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 12

The almost-human son of "Brundlefly" searches for a cure to his mutated genes while being monitored by a nefarious corporation that wishes to continue his father's experiments.



Shocker(1989)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 15

After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.



Quigley Down Under(1990)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 12

Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from Wyoming by an Australian rancher paying a very high price. But when Quigley arrives Down Under, all is not as it seems.



The Rookie(1990)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Clint Eastwood plays a veteran detective who gets stuck with a rookie cop (Charlie Sheen) to chase down a German crook (Raul Julia.)



Mo' Better Blues(1990)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 20

Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.



White Hunter Black Heart(1990)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa.



Where the Buffalo Roam(1980)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.



The French Lieutenant's Woman(1981)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah, whose melancholy makes her ...



The Great Muppet Caper(1981)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Kermit, Gonzo and Fozzie are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy.



The Meaning of Life(1983)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The comedy team takes a look at life in all its stages in their own uniquely silly way.



The Keep(1983)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Nazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.



Gorky Park(1983)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A Moscow police officer investigates a triple homicide and stumbles upon a high-level political conspiracy in the local government.



Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence(1983)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 14

During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.




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