Best movies of 1980s

Actors : Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Isabelle Adjani, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : James Ivory,

Marya finds herself penniless after her art dealer husband, Stephan, is convicted of theft. Marya accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who lets her live in their house.

Actors : Barbara Babcock, Robert Prosky, David Keith, G.D. Spradlin,
Directors : Franc Roddam,

In 1960s America, a black cadet is allowed acceptance into a seemingly prestigious military academy, unleashing a barrage of corruption within the system that another cadet is willing to expose.

Actors : Bill McKinney, Meg Tilly, Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler,
Directors : Tim Hunter,

After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.

Actors : Trini Alvarado, Tim Curry, Robin Johnson, Peter Coffield,
Directors : Allan Moyle,

Two ill-matched teenage girls form a punk band and soon have New York City by its ears.

Actors : Deven Verma, Moushumi Chatterjee, Aruna Irani, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Gulzar,

Based on Shakespeare's 'A Comedy of Errors', this is a story of identical twins (2 pairs) and mistaken identities.

Actors : Antonella Antinori, Gianluigi Chirizzi, Karin Well, Simone Mattioli,
Directors : Andrea Bianchi,

A professor opens a crypt and reanimates rotten zombies. The zombies attack a jet-set-group which is celebrating a party in a villa nearby...

Actors : Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé, Siegfried Rauch,
Directors : Luigi Cozzi,

A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.

Actors : Sevket Altug, Mehmet Ali Erbil, Osman Cavci, Savas Dinçel,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

A literature teacher who was born in a village comes to Hababam Sinifi. However, the students in the class mock him because of his accent.

Actors : Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Christian Borromeo, David Hess, Annie Belle,
Directors : Ruggero Deodato,

Two low-life punks invite themselves to a party at a posh villa and after being taunted by their snobbish hosts, hold everyone hostage and subject them to various forms of torture and mayhem.

Actors : Dominique Besnehard, Christophe Odent, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Suzanne is sixteen and is having sex with many boys, just for fun, but did not manage to really love one of them. Her family does not understand her. The father does not like her behaviour....

Actors : Félix Rotaeta, Carmen Maura, Eva Siva, Alaska,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

Pepi is raped by the policeman who catches her growing marijuana in her apartment. She seeks revenge by getting his masochist wife to leave him.

Actors : Richard Widmark, Kathleen Quinlan, Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner,
Directors : Sidney Poitier,

Completely innocent man, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.

Actors : Margie Newton, Franco Garofalo, Selan Karay, José Gras,

A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the New Guinea jungle whom are fighting flesh-eating zombies.

Actors : Julian Glover, Christopher Cazenove, Greta Scacchi, Julie Christie,
Directors : James Ivory,

Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. The search leads back to the early 1920s, when Olivia, recently married to ...

Actors : Christine Paul-Podlasky, Stanislaw Tym, Krzysztof Kowalewski, Barbara Burska,
Directors : Stanislaw Bareja,

The main character is the manager of a sport club, nicknamed "Teddy Bear" by his friends and acquaintances. One day he is detained at the border just as his sport team is off to a ...

Actors : Kristine DeBell, José Ferrer, Mako, Jackie Chan,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.

Actors : Christopher George, Patch Mackenzie, E. Danny Murphy, E.J. Peaker,
Directors : Herb Freed,

A masked killer begins murdering students on the school track team after a track runner dies upon completion of a 30 second 200-meter race.

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Stéphane Audran, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his...

Actors : Nelly Borgeaud, Roger Pierre, Nicole Garcia, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.

Actors : Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Donald Pleasence, Walter George Alton, Sydne Rome,
Directors : Alberto De Martino,

Low-budget film about a young man given a mystical medallion by an Aztec shaman, in order to become a puma-empowered champion like his father before him. In trying to initially locate the ...