Best movies of 1980s

Actors : Al Pacino, Joan Plowright, Nastassja Kinski, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Hugh Hudson,

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find...

Actors : Margaret Welsh, Laura Dern, Treat Williams, Mary Kay Place,
Directors : Joyce Chopra,

A free-spirited 15-year-old girl flirts with a dangerous stranger in the Northern California suburbs and must prepare herself for the frightening and traumatic consequences.

Actors : Stéphane Freiss, Sandrine Bonnaire, Setti Ramdane, Macha Méril,
Directors : Agnès Varda,

A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.

Actors : Hugo Arana, Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chunchuna Villafañe,
Directors : Luis Puenzo,

After the end of the Dirty War, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.

Actors : Geraldine Page, Richard Bradford, John Heard, Carlin Glynn,
Directors : Peter Masterson,

In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.

Actors : Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Robin Williams, Holly Palance,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.

Actors : Cora Venus Lunny, Kelly Piper, David Dukes, Hugh O'Conor,
Directors : George Pavlou,

Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.

Actors : George Dzundza, Kim Basinger, Jeroen Krabbé, Richard Gere,
Directors : Richard Pearce,

A Chicago detective, seeking to avenge his partner's death, travels to New Orleans, where he unexpectedly becomes involved in a cat and mouse game of survival.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, Charles Durning,
Directors : Jeff Kanew,

Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone.

Actors : Alfre Woodard, James Russo, Diana Scarwid, Farrah Fawcett,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

A woman takes revenge on the man who invades her home and tries to rape her.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Robert F. Lyons, Carrie Snodgress, Kathleen Wilhoite,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

An action-packed thriller starring Charles Bronson as Jack Murphy, a cop who is running to stay alive long enough to even the score with his wife's killer.

Actors : René van 't Hof, Tatjana Simic, Nelly Frijda, Huub Stapel,
Directors : Dick Maas,

A rather a-social family, gets a chance to live in an upper-class neighborhood. As they are not accepted by the snobs living there, they get in all sorts of trouble.

Actors : John Hurt, Roy Hyatt, Stephanie Lane, Theresa Russell,

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (...

Actors : Molly Ringwald, Dennis Hopper, Robert Downey Jr., Danny Aiello,
Directors : James Toback,

A womanizer meets his match when he falls for a woman in debt to the mafia.

Actors : Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Lori Loughlin, Tommy Hinkley,
Directors : Lyndall Hobbs,

Frankie and Annette, having grown up and put aside their beach-partying lifestyle, visit their daughter in Southern California and discover there's still some wild times left in them.

Actors : Michael J. Fox, Gena Rowlands, Michael McKean, Joan Jett,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

The siblings Patty and Joe Rasnick live in an industrial suburb in Cleveland, Ohio. While Patty is focused on their rock band, The Barbusters, Joe also cares for the family and the ...

Actors : Mimi Rogers, Kathy Baker, Jay Patterson, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.

Actors : Boguslawa Pawelec, Boguslaw Linda, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki,
Directors : Krzysztof Kieslowski,

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

Actors : Ben Masters, John Malkovich, Glenne Headly, Ann Magnuson,
Directors : Susan Seidelman,

A reclusive scientist builds a robot that looks exactly like him to go on a long-term space mission. Since the scientist seems to lack all emotions, he is unable to program them into his ...

Actors : Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Tess Harper, Karen Young,
Directors : Martin Campbell,

Oldman plays a lawyer who defends a killer, but, soon after he wins he finds out that the killer is guilty.