Best movies of 1980s

Matewan(1987)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.



Year of the Dragon(1985)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders.



Dick Tracy(1990)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.



Pink Cadillac(1989)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Skip tracer Tommy Nowak is tracking Lou Ann McGuinn for a bail bondsman in California. Lou Ann is also being chased by her husband Roy McGuinn and his birth right/neo-nazi friends for ...



Into the Night(1985)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Ed Okin's life is somewhat out of control. He can't sleep, his wife betrays him, and his job is dull. One night, he starts to drive through Los Angeles, and he finally ends in the parking ...



Bride of Re-Animator(1989)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain discover the secret to creating human life and proceed to create a perfect woman from dead tissue.



The Man with One Red Shoe(1985)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A man picked randomly out of a crowd is made the target of CIA survelliance and pursuit.



The Lair of the White Worm(1988)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Scottish archaeologist Angus Flint discovers an odd skull amid the ruins of a convent that he is excavating. Shortly thereafter, Lady Sylvia Marsh returns to Temple House, a nearby mansion,...



'Crocodile' Dundee II(1988)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.



Elvira: Mistress of the Dark(1988)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Upon arriving in a small town where she has inherited a rundown mansion, a famous horror hostess battles an evil uncle who wants her burned at the stake.



Death Wish 3(1985)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.



The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter(1990)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A young boy with a distant father enters a world of make-believe and magic through a portal within an antique book.



Miracle Mile(1988)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A young man hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit his city in 70 minutes.



The Delta Force(1986)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 9

After a plane is hijacked by terrorists, The Delta Force are sent in to resolve the crisis.



Wildcats(1986)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A rookie high school football coach has a harder time than she expected trying to whip her tough inner city team into shape.



3 Men and a Baby(1987)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guys' girlfriends.



Marked for Death(1990)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A retired DEA agent is out to hunt down and take out a Jamaican drug posse that has targeted he and his family for murder.



Warlock(1989)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A warlock flees from the 17th to the 20th century, with a witch-hunter in hot pursuit.



Dip huet seung hung(1989)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Sally Yeh, Kong Chu, Danny Lee, Yun-Fat Chow,
John Woo,

A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded, only to be double-crossed by his boss.



Re-Animator(1985)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.




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