Best movies of 1980s

Torch Song Trilogy(1988)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY. A very ...



Distant Voices, Still Lives(1988)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 22

The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on ...



The Punisher(1989)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When Frank Castle's family is murdered by criminals, he wages war on crime as a vigilante assassin known only as the Punisher.



Society(1989)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 9

An ordinary teenage boy discovers his family is part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.



Johnny Handsome(1989)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Johnny Handsome is a deformed gangster who plans a successful robbery with a friend of his, Mikey Chalmette, and another couple (Sunny Boid and Rafe Garrett). During the heist, Johnny and ...



No Holds Barred(1989)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Rip is the World Wrestling Federation champion who is faithful to his fans and the network he wrestles for. Brell, the new head of the World Television Network, wants Rip to wrestle for his...



The Package(1989)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.



The Krays(1990)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 12

This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.



Frankenhooker(1990)

Combined Rating:
24
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.



Fire Birds(1990)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Elite Apache helicopter pilots are tasked with destroying powerful armed drug cartels operating in South America.



Ju Dou(1990)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without ...



Saturn 3(1980)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent 8-ft robot. Remember, in space no one can hear you scream.



The Watcher in the Woods(1980)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

When a family moves to a country home, the young girls experience strange happenings that have a link to an occult event years past.



Shogun Assassin(1980)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 8

When the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he is ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire, embarking on a journey of blood and violent death.



The Mirror Crack'd(1980)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Miss Marple comes to solve the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.



Tarzan the Ape Man(1981)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 14

While on an African expedition with her father, Jane Parker meets Tarzan, and the two become fascinated by each other.



The Final Conflict(1981)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The now adult Antichrist plots to eliminate his future divine opponent while a cabal of monks plot to stop him.



True Confessions(1981)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A worldly ambitious monsignor clashes with his older brother, a cynical Los Angeles homicide detective who is investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.



Missing(1982)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.



Honkytonk Man(1982)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 10

As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the ...




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