Top Movies of 1980s


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101. Raising Arizona

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joel Coen
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Trey Wilson, William Forsythe, Sam McMurray
Plot: When an ex-con and an ex-cop marry, they discover they can neither bear nor adopt children. Reading about what a handful the Arizona quints are, they decide to liberate one for themselves and raise it as their own.

102. Sixteen Candles

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Hughes
Actors: Molly Ringwald, Justin Henry, Haviland Morris, Michael Schoeffling, Anthony Michael Hall, Blanche Baker
Plot: A sixteenth birthday party for a high school girl turns awry when everything goes wrong that can.

103. Say Anything...

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Cameron Crowe
Actors: John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney, Lili Taylor, Amy Brooks, Pamela Adlon
Plot: A high school guy falls in love with a girl who is out of his league.

104. A Fish Called Wanda

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Charles Crichton
Actors: Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese, Maria Aitken, Michael Palin, Tom Georgeson
Plot: A London barrister may hold the only key to the location of a fortune in diamonds after the thieves betray each other.

105. Field of Dreams

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sport/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Actors: Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, James Earl Jones, Burt Lancaster, Amy Madigan, Timothy Busfield
Plot: A man with a love for baseball, hears voices in his fields. When he is about to go bankrupt, his field turns into a baseball field and old players playing.

106. RoboCop

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Actors: Peter Weller, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Nancy Allen, Miguel Ferrer, Dan O'Herlihy
Plot: The future Detroit is plagued by crime and the police are threatening to strike. When an officer is brutally shot down, a corporation steps in to create the ultimate in law enforcement: part man, part machine: Robocop.

107. The Karate Kid

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John G. Avildsen
Actors: Ralph Macchio, Elisabeth Shue, Pat Morita, Martin Kove, Randee Heller, William Zabka
Plot: A boy who movies into a new neighborhood, meets his Japanese neighbor who choses to teach him Karate, but that there is more to it than just fighting.

108. Christiane F.

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Uli Edel
Actors: Natja Brunckhorst, Thomas Haustein, Jens Kuphal, Rainer Woelk, Jan Georg Effler, David Bowie
Plot: A teen living in 1970s Berlin finds herself drawn into the world of drugs and disco via a series of recorded tapes she made.

109. Short Film About Killing, A ( Krótki film o zabijaniu )

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Polish
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Actors: Krzysztof Globisz, Miroslaw Baka, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Jan Tesarz, Krystyna Janda
Plot: As simple as it is dark and uncompromising on its view of capitol punishment - a senseless, violent murder leads to a cold, calculating execution (both deaths shows in excruciating detail) while the idealistic, young defense lawyer deals with his part in this state-sponsored execution.

110. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown ( Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios )

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco, Rossy de Palma, Kiti Manver
Plot: When a woman's lover leaver her, she decides to track him down to find out why. His family has no idea and her girlfriend is too busy being worried about the police coming after her for her boyfriend's crimes. Seeking advice, they find a female lawyer - who just so happens to be the ex-lover's new flame - and then things get really complicated.

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