Best movies of 1980s

Possession(1981)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.



Endless Love(1981)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A high school student's love for a 15-year-old girl is thwarted by parental disapproval, circumstance and accident.



La guerre du feu(1981)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.



Terror Train(1980)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.



The Postman Always Rings Twice(1981)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.



Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo(1981)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-story...



S.O.B.(1981)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.



Lion of the Desert(1980)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 6

In the Fascist Italy Pre-World War II of Benito Mussolini, the cruel General Rodolfo Graziani is directly assigned by Il Duce to fight in the colonial war in Libya to vanquish the Arab ...



The Dogs of War(1980)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 12

Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.



...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà(1981)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.



DeepStar Six(1989)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 9

At the bottom of the ocean, the DeepStar Six has just discovered a new and deadly alien menace.



Ernest Goes to Jail(1990)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Bumbling Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, where a crooked lawyer notices a resemblance with crime boss Mr. Nash, and arranges a switch. Nash assumes Ernest's job as a bank ...



Stanley & Iris(1990)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A struggling widow falls in love with an illiterate short-order cook whom she teaches to read and write in her kitchen each night.



Skin Deep(1989)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A womanizing, drunken, allelic writer, whose life seems to be falling apart at the seams, repeatedly finds himself in trouble of one sort or another with the law, ex-girlfriends, and jealous boyfriends.



Q & A(1990)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him in this gritty ...



The Big Picture(1989)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Film school grad Nick Chapman thought his career was made after his award winning short film, but discovered Hollywood wasn't as easy as it seems.



Frankenhooker(1990)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A medical student sets out to recreate his decapitated fiancée by building her a new body made of Manhattan street prostitutes.



Next of Kin(1989)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Truman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.



Taking Care of Business(1990)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 10

An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.



Tetsuo(1989)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.




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