Best movies of 1980s

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.



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.



Longtime Companion(1989)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 13

The emergence and devastation of the AIDS epidemic is chronicled in the lives of several gay men living during the 1980s.



Revenge(1990)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Michael "Jay" Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years. He's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a ...



Moonwalker(1988)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Anthology movie by, and starring, Michael Jackson in his prime, combining a number of music videos from his bestselling "Bad" album with a fantasy tale of Michael's confrontation with a ruthless drug dealer known as Mr. Big (Joe Pesci).



Navy Seals(1990)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An elite Navy Seals unit set out to locate and destroy a stockpile of US-built Stinger missiles that have fallen into terrorist hands.



Krótki film o zabijaniu(1988)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The plot couldn't be simpler or its attack on capital punishment (and the act of killing in general) more direct - a senseless, violent, almost botched murder is followed by a cold, ...



The Reflecting Skin(1990)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 11

In the 1950's, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighboring widow is actually a vampire, responsible for a number of disappearances in the area.



Ging chaat goo si juk jaap(1988)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.



Everybody's All-American(1988)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A Louisiana football legend struggles to deal with life's complexities after his college career is over.



Clockwise(1986)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 3

An obsessively punctual comprehensive school headmaster sets out to give an important speech at the annual Headmasters' Conference.



She-Devil(1989)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.



The Principal(1987)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violent and crime-ridden high school.



The Gods Must Be Crazy II(1989)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Lena Farugia, N!xau, Eiros, Hans Strydom,
Jamie Uys,

Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a ...



Last Exit to Brooklyn(1989)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexual.



The Sicilian(1987)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.



Lady in White(1988)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 11

An author tells the story of how, as a young boy growing up in a small town during the 1960's, he was haunted after witnessing the murder of a little girl.



Death Warrant(1990)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In a violent and corrupt prison, decorated cop Louis Burke must infiltrate the jail to find answers to a number of inside murders. What he finds is a struggle of life and death tied in to his own past.




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