Best Fantasy movies of 1980s

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth, Ellen Burstyn,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ...

Actors : Spencer Leigh, 'Spring' Mark Adley, Gerrard McArthur, Tilda Swinton,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.

Actors : Biao Yuen, Damian Lau, Adam Cheng, Brigitte Lin,
Directors : Hark Tsui,

Chinese soldiers in an ancient civil war get caught up in a fantastical quest to save the universe.

Actors : Margaret Anne MacLeod, Michael Gottli, Angela Heck, Kyle McCulloch,
Directors : Guy Maddin,

While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told a tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the Lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the ...

Actors : Brent Huff, Bernadette Lafont, Zabou Breitman, Tawny Kitaen,
Directors : Just Jaeckin,

Gwendoline arrives in China in a box, and is helped out of her immediate predicament by a female contact and a devil-may-care adventurer. She's on a mission to find her father, who was last...

Actors : Alain Artur, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Dossignan is a zealous rural priest. The dean Menou-Segrais tries to keep him reasonable. But Dossignan will be tempted by Satan, then will try to save the soul of Mouchette, a young girl who killed one of her lovers.

Actors : Isabelle Mejias, Patrick Dempsey, Al Waxman, Sally Kellerman,
Directors : George Mendeluk,

The ghost of a dead porn star comes to Earth to help a nerd with his sex life.

Actors : Don Murray, Anthony Quinn, Bo Derek, Julie Newmar,
Directors : John Derek,

Elderly Scott kills himself after a heart attack wrecks his body, but then comes back as a ghost and convinces his loving young hot wife Kate to pick and kill a young man in order for Scott to possess his body and be with her again.

Actors : Reb Brown, Carole André, Corinne Cléry, John Steiner,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

A warrior seeks his true origins in a seemingly prehistoric wasteland.

Actors : Danny DeVito, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Rhea Perlman,
Directors : Mike Joens,

Ponyland comes under attack from a talking blob of purple gunk.

Actors : William Hickey, Barnard Hughes, Karl Hayden, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Matt Clark,

A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, John Cassavetes, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek ...

Actors : Bogdan Diklic, Dragan Nikolic, Rade Markovic, Olivera Markovic,
Directors : Goran Markovic,

During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead.

Actors : Katarzyna Figura, Jerzy Stuhr, Grzegorz Herominski, Jacek Chmielnik,
Directors : Juliusz Machulski,

A comedy. The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. ...

Actors : Antonella Ponziani, Sergio Rubini, Maurizio Mein, Paola Liguori,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

Cinecitta, the huge movie studio outside Rome, is 50 years old and Fellini is interviewed by a Japanese TV crew about the films he has made there over the years as he begins production on ...

Actors : Iemasa Kayumi, Masane Tsukayama, Hideko Yoshida, Yû Mizushima,

A trilogy of separate stories. In "Labyrinth labyrinthos", a girl and her cat enter a strange world. In "Running Man", a racer takes on the ultimate opponent. In "Construction Cancellation Order", a man must shut down worker robots.

Actors : Gina Calabrese, Leslie Wing, Jeffrey Byron, Richard Moll,

A demonic wizard challenges a modern-day computer programmer to a battle of technology vs. sorcery, with the programmer's girlfriend as the prize.

Actors : Avery Schreiber, Ray Walston, Patty McCormack, Jason Presson,
Directors : Howard R. Cohen,

Eddie and his family have just inherited a spooky wreck of a house. What they do not know about the house is that it was built over an evil passage way, but they are soon to discover the ...

Actors : Paul L. Smith, Rebecca Ferratti, Urbano Barberini, Jack Palance,
Directors : Fritz Kiersch,

American professor Tarl Cabot is transported via a magical ring to planet Gor, where he must help an oppressed country overthrow its evil king and his barbarian henchmen.

Actors : Miles O'Keeffe, Sean Connery, Cyrielle Clair, Leigh Lawson,
Directors : Stephen Weeks,

Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. No knights stand to defend their king's honor. Except for the ...