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100 Best Films of the 80s. Based partly on IMDB ratings and partly on amounts of awards especially Academy Awards and Golden Globes. Ranked from Top to Bottom.
1. Weird Science. 1985 1h 34m PG-13. 6.6 (99K) Rate. 46 Metascore. Two high-school nerds use a computer program to literally create the perfect woman, who promptly turns their lives upside-down. Director John Hughes Stars Anthony Michael Hall Ilan Mitchell-Smith Kelly LeBrock. 2. Fame. 1980 2h 14m R. 6.6 (25K) Rate. 58 Metascore.
100 Greatest Movies of the 1980s. by DavidFeld • Created 12 years ago • Modified 12 years ago. List activity. 508K views. 1.8K this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 100 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Raging Bull. 1980 2h 9m R. 8.1 (382K) Rate. 90 Metascore.
- The Princess Bride
- When Harry Met Sally…
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
- Moonstruck
- Raiders of The Lost Ark
- The Shining
- Do The Right Thing
- The Breakfast Club
- Blade Runner
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The funniest fantasy-adventure film ever made, The Princess Bride is magic in every sense: it’s enjoyable for all ages, endlessly rewatchable, as romantic as a fairytale and as quotable as Casablanca. Every person in the cast seems like they were born to play their role and every jokelands. It’s that rare, inconceivable thing: a perfect movie. Rela...
The question “can men and women ever really be friends?” seems a little ridiculous in the 2020s, but the story of Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan)’s relationship, which wavers for years on the line between love and friendship, is a tender, timeless and uproariously funny romance.
Star Wars: A New Hope rewrote the rules of Hollywood blockbusters, and The Empire Strikes Back did the same for movie sequels. Rather than trying to recreate what worked in the first film, George Lucas and his collaborators pushed forward with their epic story, presenting huge character twists (“I am your father”) and a plot that arced toward an en...
We tend to think of romantic comedies as a simplified version of love, but nothing is simple about the relationships in Moonstruck. Resigned widow Loretta Castorini (Cher, in her best performance) is engaged to a man (Danny Aiello) she doesn’t exactly love, and when she tries to mend family ties before the wedding, she becomes obsessed with his vol...
Harrison Ford emerged as a leading man for the ages when he became Indiana Jones, the dry-witted archaeologist-adventurer at the center of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’s globe-hopping saga. From its booby-trapped opening sequence to the Nazi-melting climax, every action-packed moment of Raiders is pure Hollywood perfection—and Karen Allenas Ma...
Has there ever been a scarier movie than Stanley Kubrick’s (loose) adaptation of Steven King’s haunted-hotel novel? The famous climax—involving crazy-eyed Jack Nicholson and an axe, is actually less terrifying than the slow build that leads up to it, as we watch a seemingly normal family lose their minds to cabin fever and horrific visions.
Set over the course of one day on a single block, Spike Lee’s masterpiece about racial tensions in Brooklyn during a heatwave is at first hilarious, then devastating—and tragically, its themes of police brutality and rampant discrimination resonate even more today.
The quintessential Hughes film captures the heightened emotions, pressures and joys of being a teenager, in a story about five high school students who believe they have nothing in common (Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy) until they are forced to spend a Saturday in detention together.
Stylish and enigmatic, Ridley Scott’s dark sci-fi drama—a neo-noir about a hardboiled detective (Harrison Ford, again!) trying to identify artificially created humans in a dystopian Los Angeles—is still generating fan theories and inspiring pop culture (everything from runway looksto video games).
A love letter to classic animation and a ridiculously entertaining comedy, this unique and daring mystery film takes place in an alternate-universe Hollywood where cartoon characters live alongside flesh-and-blood people—and not always harmoniously. The cutting-edge techniques used to combine hand-drawn animation and live-action are still an incred...
Mar 2, 2022 · Rolling Stone's The 100 Greatest Movies of the 1980s — from 'Raging Bull' to 'The Road Warrior,' 'Do the Right Thing' to 'The Terminator.'
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Jun 11, 2024 · We round up 60 of the best 1980s movies streaming on Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Max and more, from classic comedies to Oscar-winners.
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