1980s
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101.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Diego Rivera: Rivera In America
(1988)
TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History
Considered the greatest Mexican painter of the 20th century, Diego Rivera had a profound effect on the international art world. Rivera is credited with the reintroduction of fresco painting into modern art and architecture.
Director: Rick Tejada-Flores
Votes: 66
102. Zoot Suit (1981)
R | 103 min | Drama, Musical
When barrio leader Henry Reyna and his friends are unjustly convicted on circumstantial evidence, activist lawyers Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant racially motivated miscarriage of justice to win them their freedom.
Director: Luis Valdez | Stars: Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, Charles Aidman, Tyne Daly
Votes: 1,343 | Gross: $3.26M
103.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
A Duke Named Ellington
(1988)
TV-14 | 110 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Considered one of the greatest jazz composers of all time, Duke Ellington had an enormous impact on the popular music of the late 20th century. Today his recordings remain among the most popular jazz of the big-band era.
Director: Terry Carter
Votes: 92
104. City on Fire (1987)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An undercover cop infiltrates a gang of thieves who plan to rob a jewelry store.
Director: Ringo Lam | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Yueh Sun, Danny Lee, Carrie Ng
Votes: 7,263
105.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
(1988)
TV-14 | 55 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary about the life and films of actress Lillian Gish.
Director: Terry Sanders | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp, Dorothy Gish, Lillian Gish
Votes: 77
106. The Color Purple (1985)
PG-13 | 154 min | Drama
A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery
Votes: 97,318 | Gross: $98.47M
107. Starstruck (1982)
PG | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A teenage girl, with dreams of becoming a famous singer, tries to secure a spot on a local televised talent show.
Director: Gillian Armstrong | Stars: Joey Kennedy, Ross O'Donovan, Margo Lee, Max Cullen
Votes: 1,264
108. The Horse Thief (1986)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
A Tibetan man struggles to provide for his family.
Directors: Zhuangzhuang Tian, Peicheng Pan | Stars: Rigzin Tseshang, Jiji Dan, Daiba, Drashi
Votes: 1,551
109.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
(1989)
TV-14 | 87 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Profiles the life and work of author/civil rights activist, James Baldwin.
Director: Karen Thorsen | Stars: James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Frances Foster
Votes: 224
110.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Harold Clurman: A Life of Theatre
(1989)
TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History
Harold Clurman: A Life of Theatre profiles the career of celebrated director/producer Harold Clurman.
Directors: Alan Kaplan, Thomas Klein | Stars: Stella Adler, Harold Clurman, Julie Harris, Karl Malden
Votes: 15
111.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Stella Adler: Awake and Dream!
(1989)
Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This profile of acting coach Stella Adler includes interviews with Adler and with colleagues, students, and friends, along with clips from her own acting performances as well as from her classes.
Director: Merrill Brockway | Stars: Stella Adler, Warren Beatty, Candice Bergen, Marlon Brando
Votes: 89
112.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo
(1988)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A profile of historian Angie Debo and her exposure of the governmental conspiracy to steal mineral-rich lands from their tribal owners.
Director: Martha Sandlin | Stars: Nancy Allen, Rhonda Coullet, Angie Debo
Votes: 22
113.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Views of a Vanishing Frontier
(1988)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
An exploration of the Native Americans of 1830s western America, as seen through the eyes of European travelers Prince Maximilian of Bavaria and Swiss artist Karl Bodmer.
Director: Craig B. Fisher | Stars: George P. Horse Capture, Werner Klemperer, Sam Waterston
Votes: 11
114.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings
(1989)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
A profile on American writer Eudora Welty.
Director: Patchy Wheatley | Stars: Charles Kuralt, Eudora Welty
Votes: 10
115.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint
(1989)
TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History
In the late 1950's, Jasper Johns emerged as force in the American art scene. His richly worked paintings of maps, flags, and targets led the artistic community away from Abstract Expressionism toward a new emphasis on the concrete.
Director: Rick Tejada-Flores | Stars: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns
Votes: 83
116.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
(1989)
TV-14 | 59 min | Documentary, Biography, History
At age eleven, he had just begun to play the saxophone. At age twenty he was leading a revolution in modern jazz music. Today, Charlie "Yardbird" Parker is considered one of the great musical innovators of the 20th century.
Director: Gary Giddins | Stars: Rebecca Davis, Leonard Feather, Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Haynes
Votes: 122
117.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong
(1989)
TV-14 | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Home movies, film clips, and interviews provide insight into the remarkable life and career of jazz trumpeter and bandleader Louis Armstrong.
Directors: Gary Giddins, Kendrick Simmons | Stars: Louis Armstrong, Hattie Winston, Melvin Van Peebles, Wynton Marsalis
Votes: 150
118. Videodrome (1983)
R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky
Votes: 102,964 | Gross: $2.12M
119. The Thing (1982)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur
Votes: 466,542 | Gross: $13.78M
120. Die Hard (1988)
R | 132 min | Action, Thriller
A New York City police officer tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson
Votes: 945,479 | Gross: $83.01M
121. Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.
Director: John Hughes | Stars: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean
Votes: 160,228 | Gross: $49.53M
122. Blue Velvet (1986)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern
Votes: 215,682 | Gross: $8.55M
123. Tongues Untied (1989)
Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary
A documentary about the experiences of black homosexual men living in the United States of America.
Director: Marlon Riggs | Stars: Marlon Riggs, Michael Bell, Kerrigan Black, Blackberri
Votes: 1,850
124.
American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode:
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
(1982)
PG | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The retelling of an incident in Gonzales, Texas in 1901 revolving around a stolen horse, mistaken identity and a killing. An unusual story of the all too usual exploitation of the powerless in Texas History.
Director: Robert M. Young | Stars: Edward James Olmos, James Gammon, Tom Bower, Bruce McGill
Votes: 1,033 | Gross: $0.80M
125. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
R | 121 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tom T. Tran, Chintara Sukapatana
Votes: 153,774 | Gross: $123.92M
126. Hairspray (1988)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
Director: John Waters | Stars: Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Divine, Debbie Harry
Votes: 23,441 | Gross: $6.67M
127. Itam Hakim, Hopiit (1984 Video)
58 min | Documentary, History
A documentary about the Hopi indigenous nation in the United States and their culture and history.
Director: Victor Masayesva Jr. | Star: Ross Macaya
Votes: 11
128. My Bloody Valentine (1981)
R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead.
Director: George Mihalka | Stars: Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck, Keith Knight
Votes: 25,099 | Gross: $5.67M
129. Scanners (1981)
R | 103 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning" to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane
Votes: 61,744 | Gross: $14.23M
130. The Little Mermaid (1989)
G | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain in an attempt to become human and win a prince's love.
Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker | Stars: Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Rene Auberjonois, Christopher Daniel Barnes
Votes: 290,940 | Gross: $111.54M
131. When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby
Votes: 242,677 | Gross: $92.82M
132.
American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode:
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf
(1982)
78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A unique award-winning tale of the African-American woman's journey in America.
Director: Oz Scott | Stars: Sarita Allen, Trazana Beverley, Laurie Carlos, Gregory T. Daniel
Votes: 85
133. Dead Poets Society (1989)
PG | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles
Votes: 545,868 | Gross: $95.86M
134. Eyes on the Prize (1987–1990)
TV-PG | 360 min | Documentary, History
A documentary about the American Civil Rights Movement from 1952 to 1965.
Stars: Julian Bond, Coretta Scott King, John Lewis, Andrew Young
Votes: 737
135. Local Hero (1983)
PG | 111 min | Comedy, Drama
An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected.
Director: Bill Forsyth | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson
Votes: 26,692 | Gross: $5.90M
136. Moonstruck (1987)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello
Votes: 68,455 | Gross: $80.64M
137. The Evil Dead (1981)
NC-17 | 85 min | Horror
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker
Votes: 232,378 | Gross: $2.40M
138. Evil Dead II (1987)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Horror
Ash Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley DePaiva
Votes: 181,903 | Gross: $5.92M
139.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Philip Johnson, Self Portrait
(1986)
TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, Biography, History
One of the major American architectural minds of the twentieth century, Philip Johnson has played an enormous role in both understanding and creating the urban skylines of the country.
Director: John Musilli | Stars: Rosamond Bernier, John Burgee, Philip Johnson
Votes: 12
140. Wings of Desire (1987)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois
Votes: 76,998 | Gross: $3.33M
141.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Unknown Chaplin, Episode 1
(1986)
TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History
Charlie Chaplin was one of the greatest and widely loved silent movie stars. From "Easy Street" (1917) to "Modern Times" (1936), he made many of the funniest and most popular films of his time.
142.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Unknown Chaplin, Episode 2
(1986)
TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History
143.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Unknown Chaplin, Episode 3
(1986)
TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History
144.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
The Firm
(1989)
TV-14 | 70 min | Drama
This is the story of rival "Firms" of football supporters, and how one man has a wish to team them up for the European Championships of 1988. However, when this is discussed, the opposing ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Gary Oldman, Lesley Manville, Phil Davis, Andrew Wilde
Votes: 3,608
145. Elephant (1989 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 39 min | Crime, Drama
A depiction of a series of violent killings in Northern Ireland with no clue as to exactly who is responsible.
Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Gary Walker, Bill Hamilton, Michael Foyle, Danny Small
Votes: 2,928
146. As Tears Go By (1988)
Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung, Alex Man
Votes: 12,492 | Gross: $0.01M
147. The King of Comedy (1982)
PG | 109 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A passionate yet unsuccessful comedian stalks and kidnaps his idol to take the spotlight for himself.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard
Votes: 119,139 | Gross: $2.50M
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