Best movies of 1980s

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.



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.



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.



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 ...



Inferno(1980)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An American college student in Rome and his sister in New York investigate a series of killings in both locations where their resident addresses are the domain of two covens of witches.



Atlantic City, USA(1980)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs, and danger.



Paura nella città dei morti viventi(1980)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.



Southern Comfort(1981)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition ...



Happy Birthday to Me(1981)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 9

At the snobby Crawford Academy, Virginia's group of friends start to go missing years after horrible events that happened to her as a child around her birthday.



Cutter's Way(1981)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.



Zapped!(1982)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A high school science nerd gains telekinetic powers after a laboratory accident and uses them for revenge upon bullies.



The Man from Snowy River(1982)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 9

In 1880s Australia when young Jim Craig's father dies Jim takes a job at the Harrison cattle ranch and he is forced to become a man.



The Last American Virgin(1982)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 9

The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.



Lone Wolf McQuade(1983)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 5

The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably ...



Cannonball Run II(1984)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The original characters from the first Cannonball movie race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.



Flesh+Blood(1985)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction...



Porky's Revenge(1985)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 9

As graduation nears for the class of 1955 at Angel Beach High, the gang once again faces off against their old enemy, Porky, who wants them to throw the school's championship basketball game because he's betting on the opposing team.



Chopping Mall(1986)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Eight teenagers are trapped after hours in a high tech shopping mall and pursued by three murderous security robots out of control.



When the Wind Blows(1986)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war.




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