Best movies of 1980s

The Dream Team(1989)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Four mental patients on a field trip in New York must save their caring chaperon, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.



Family Business(1989)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 12

Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a ...



Who's Harry Crumb?(1989)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.



Twister(1989)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 33

Delusional and spoiled Maureen and her eccentric brother Howdy decide to track down and meet their estranged mother, all while the drama of dysfunctional relationships, disastrous weather conditions and a dark family secret ensue.



Mr. Destiny(1990)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 12

Unhappy Larry Burrows sees what his life could've been like, had he made that winning home run as a teenager.



Hopscotch(1980)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.



Le pont du Nord(1981)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 37

A woman recently released from prison and a strange young female street urchin keep running into each other on the streets of Paris and finally become companions in a very strange and very ...



The Entity(1982)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Supposedly based partially on a true story, a woman is tormented and sexually molested by an invisible demon.



Frances(1982)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.



Stroker Ace(1983)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 26

The title character, a popular NASCAR driver, clashes with the fried-chicken mogul that sponsors his racing team.



A Soldier's Story(1984)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 15

An African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.



Falling in Love(1984)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 10

During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train ...



Brewster's Millions(1985)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A minor-league baseball player has to spend $30,000,000 in thirty days in order to inherit $300,000,000. However, he's not allowed to tell anyone about the deal.



Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins(1985)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 12

An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinarily unique assassin in service of the US president.



Crimewave(1985)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.



Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI(1986)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Tommy Jarvis goes to the graveyard to get rid of Jason Voorhees' body once and for all, but inadvertently brings him back to life instead. The newly revived killer once again seeks revenge, and Tommy may be the only one who can defeat him.



Soul Man(1986)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship.



Near Dark(1987)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is turned by a beautiful drifter.



Black Widow(1987)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A federal investigator tracks down a gold digging woman who moves from husband to husband, kills them and collects the inheritance.



Dragnet(1987)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The equally-straight-laced and "by the book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery.




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