Top Movies of 1980s


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91. Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Amy Heckerling
Actors: Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston, Brian Backer
Plot: A group of southern California teenagers experience life, love, sex and rock n roll.

92. The Last Emperor

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Historical/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Actors: Peter O'Toole, Joan Chen, Ruocheng Ying, Vivian Wu, Ryuichi Sakamoto, John Lone
Plot: The story of the last emperor of China as told through flash backs and flash forwards.

93. Tampopo

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Juzo Itami
Actors: Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kôji Yakusho, Rikiya Yasuoka, Kensô Katô
Plot: A young cook, with the assistance of a handsome stranger, set out to create the best noodle cafe in a small rural village.

94. The Snowman

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Dianne Jackson, Jimmy T. Murakami
Actors: Raymond Briggs, David Bowie
Plot: A young boy goes on an adventure with a snowman that has come to life.

95. Hannah and Her Sisters

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Barbara Hershey, Carrie Fisher, Michael Caine, Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Maureen O'Sullivan
Plot: A trio of sisters, Hannah, Lee and Holly find their relationships strained over a Thanksgiving holiday as old flames are rekindled and new love arises between husbands and exes.

96. Crimes and Misdemeanors

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Martin Landau, Anjelica Huston, Woody Allen, Alan Alda, Sam Waterston, Claire Bloom
Plot: An ophthalmologist is faced with a dilemma when his mistress of many years demands marriage or she will come clean with the affair. But will he choose murder over the destruction of his life? Meanwhile a documentary filmmaker wants to do a piece on a philosophy professor but instead is told to film a portrait of successful TV producer - his brother-in-law Lester, whom he despises.

97. The Killing Fields

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roland Joffé
Actors: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Craig T. Nelson, Spalding Gray
Plot: Based on the true story of a photographer in Cambodia during Pol Pot's atrocious killings.

98. Gremlins

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joe Dante
Actors: Zach Galligan, Hoyt Axton, Phoebe Cates, Frances Lee McCain, Corey Feldman, Dick Miller
Plot: A failed inventor brings how a new fuzzy pet for his son - but don't him wet, feed him after midnight and especially keep him away from bright light. When the rules are inevitably broken, something much more sinister is released.

99. Manon of the Spring ( Manon des sources )

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Claude Berri
Actors: Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Hippolyte Girardot, Margarita Lozano, Yvonne Gamy
Plot: Sequel to Jean de Florette - Manon, now a beautiful, grown woman seeks revenge against those responsible for the death of her father years before.

100. An American Werewolf in London

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Landis
Actors: David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, Jenny Agutter, John Woodvine, Lila Kaye, Frank Oz
Plot: Two students on a walking trip through England are attacked by a werewolf. One is killed, the other bitten. Villagers deny the existance of the beast, but the bitten student soon changes...

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