80s and early 90s
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1. The Wraith (1986)
PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Horror, Romance
In a small town in Arizona, a mysterious man/spirit descends from the sky and manifests in a sports car and targets a local violent road-racing gang of motor heads, headed by a ruthless bully who'll do anything to get what he wants.
Director: Mike Marvin | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn, Randy Quaid
Votes: 19,230 | Gross: $3.50M
2. Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
PG-13 | 109 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins
Votes: 23,396 | Gross: $19.74M
3. Fade to Black (1980)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A shy, lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking his idol, a Marilyn Monroe lookalike.
Director: Vernon Zimmerman | Stars: Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Gwynne Gilford, Norman Burton
Votes: 4,993
4. Wisdom (1986)
R | 109 min | Crime, Drama
Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American farmers.
Director: Emilio Estevez | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 3,602 | Gross: $5.72M
5. Oxford Blues (1984)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
A young American hustler pursues the girl of his dreams to Oxford, where he must enroll to obtain her.
Director: Robert Boris | Stars: Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Amanda Pays, Julian Sands
Votes: 3,449 | Gross: $8.79M
6. Storyville (1992)
R | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets.
Director: Mark Frost | Stars: James Spader, Joanne Whalley, Jason Robards, Charlotte Lewis
Votes: 1,426 | Gross: $0.42M
7. The Dark Backward (1991)
R | 101 min | Comedy
Garbage man Marty tries his hand at standup comedy and fails miserably until he adds the third arm to his act that mysteriously grew out of his back.
Director: Adam Rifkin | Stars: Judd Nelson, Bill Paxton, Wayne Newton, Lara Flynn Boyle
Votes: 4,026
8. Making the Grade (1984)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
A spoiled rich young man hires a young hustler, who lives in a broken car and owes money to a dicey loan shark, to take his place in his elite prep school and graduate for him.
Director: Dorian Walker | Stars: Judd Nelson, Jonna Lee, Gordon Jump, Walter Olkewicz
Votes: 1,627 | Gross: $4.56M
9. Blue City (1986)
R | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A drifter returns to his Florida hometown only to discover that his father, the local mayor, was mysteriously murdered during his absence. Vowing to find the killer and avenge his father's death, he starts his own investigation.
Director: Michelle Manning | Stars: Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, David Caruso, Paul Winfield
Votes: 1,337 | Gross: $6.95M
10. Shattered If Your Kid's on Drugs (1986 Video)
59 min | Drama, Family
Propaganda Film to expose a series of drug relations within teenagers, and only two men who are aware of the situation can lay their insight on the epidemic that is growing.
Director: Nathaniel Burr Smidt | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Judd Nelson, Karen Carlson, Megan Follows
Votes: 66
11. Relentless (1989)
R | 92 min | Crime, Thriller
Two Los Angeles police detectives, cynical veteran Malloy and cocky rookie Dietz, hunt for a serial killer, an ex-cop named Taylor, who randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.
Director: William Lustig | Stars: Judd Nelson, Robert Loggia, Leo Rossi, Meg Foster
Votes: 1,853 | Gross: $6.99M
12. The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
R | 121 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two cousins unknowingly rob the mob and face the dangerous consequences.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page
Votes: 9,820 | Gross: $6.14M
13. Year of the Dragon (1985)
R | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders.
Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Ariane, Leonard Termo
Votes: 17,638 | Gross: $18.70M
14. Impulse (1984)
R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After a small earthquake in a tiny, quiet town, local citizens start to exhibit bizarre, violent and self-destructive behaviour.
Director: Graham Baker | Stars: Tim Matheson, Meg Tilly, Hume Cronyn, John Karlen
Votes: 1,706 | Gross: $2.50M
15. Near Dark (1987)
R | 94 min | Horror
A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is bitten by a beautiful drifter.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton
Votes: 44,711 | Gross: $3.37M
16. Pass the Ammo (1987)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
A heist of a corrupt preacher goes wrong.
Director: David Beaird | Stars: Bill Paxton, Linda Kozlowski, Tim Curry, Annie Potts
Votes: 652 | Gross: $0.17M
17. One False Move (1991)
R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A small town police chief awaits the arrival of a gang of killers.
Director: Carl Franklin | Stars: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Cynda Williams, Michael Beach
Votes: 13,960 | Gross: $1.54M
18. The Vagrant (1992)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A business man buys a house, but he has a hard time trying to get rid of its previous tenant, a dirty bum.
Director: Chris Walas | Stars: Bill Paxton, Michael Ironside, Marshall Bell, Mitzi Kapture
Votes: 2,034
19. Diner (1982)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of college-age buddies struggle with their imminent passage into adulthood in 1959 Baltimore.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Daniel Stern
Votes: 22,811 | Gross: $14.10M
20. Criminal Law (1988)
R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Boston defense attorney gets his wealthy client off for murder, then suspects him of killing again.
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Tess Harper, Karen Young
Votes: 4,618 | Gross: $9.97M
21. Pyrates (1991)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
Ari (Kevin Bacon) and Sam (Kyra Sedgwick), have incendiary sex a lot and burn down apartment blocks, wig-wams, etc...
Director: Noah Stern | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Bruce Payne, Kristin Dattilo
Votes: 733
22. White Sands (1992)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A small southwestern town Sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and five hundred thousand dollars. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an F.B.I. investigation.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson
Votes: 8,879 | Gross: $9.01M
23. Desperate Hours (1990)
R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.
Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Anthony Hopkins, Mimi Rogers, Lindsay Crouse
Votes: 8,418 | Gross: $2.74M
24. Angel Heart (1987)
X | 113 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling
Votes: 95,776 | Gross: $17.19M
25. Fall Time (1995)
R | 88 min | Crime, Drama
Three young men decide to plan a mock kidnapping, but everything goes wrong because a real bank robbery was already planned by two other guys.
Director: Paul Warner | Stars: Steve Alden, David Arquette, Stephen Baldwin, Jonah Blechman
Votes: 2,052
26. That Was Then... This Is Now (1985)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama
Two juvenile delinquents find themselves growing apart, for one is growing up, and the other is staying young and reckless.
Director: Christopher Cain | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Craig Sheffer, Larry B. Scott, Matthew Dudley
Votes: 2,679 | Gross: $8.63M
27. True Believer (1989)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder case.
Director: Joseph Ruben | Stars: James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin, Yuji Okumoto
Votes: 5,429 | Gross: $8.74M
28. The Pick-up Artist (1987)
PG-13 | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A womanizer meets his match when he falls for a woman in debt to the mafia.
Director: James Toback | Stars: Molly Ringwald, Robert Downey Jr., Dennis Hopper, Danny Aiello
Votes: 7,844 | Gross: $13.29M
29. The Hit (1984)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Freddie Stuart, Ralph Brown, A.J. Clarke, Terence Stamp
Votes: 9,535 | Gross: $0.88M
30. The Wild Life (1984)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
A high-school wrestler parties with his buddy at a swinging-singles apartment complex.
Director: Art Linson | Stars: Chris Penn, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Eric Stoltz, Jenny Wright
Votes: 3,149 | Gross: $11.02M
31. Terminal Velocity (1994)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Mystery, Romance
A maverick skydiver and a former KGB agent team up to stop the Russian mafia from stealing gold.
Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski, James Gandolfini, Christopher McDonald
Votes: 14,636 | Gross: $16.48M
32. The Arrival (1996)
PG-13 | 115 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Zane, an astronomer, discovers intelligent alien life. But the aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will do anything to stop Zane from learning it.
Director: David Twohy | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Schiff, Shane
Votes: 38,161 | Gross: $14.05M
33. At Close Range (1986)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama
Reunited with his career criminal father, tough teen Brad thinks he's found his ticket to an exciting life of crime, only to find out he's wrong.
Director: James Foley | Stars: Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Chris Penn
Votes: 17,729 | Gross: $2.35M
34. Black Rain (1989)
R | 125 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw
Votes: 59,676 | Gross: $46.21M
35. Judgment Night (1993)
R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Four young friends, while taking a shortcut en route to a local boxing match, witness a brutal murder which leaves them running for their lives.
Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denis Leary, Stephen Dorff
Votes: 18,791 | Gross: $12.14M
36. Beyond the Law (1993)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An undercover cop joins a murderous, arms-dealing biker gang to try to put them behind bars.
Director: Larry Ferguson | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Linda Fiorentino, Michael Madsen, Courtney B. Vance
Votes: 7,744
37. Night Shift (1982)
R | 106 min | Comedy
A mild-mannered morgue attendant is assigned to the night shift, and his new coworker, along with his prostitute neighbor, convince him of running a prostitution ring out of the morgue.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long, Gina Hecht
Votes: 17,938 | Gross: $23.60M
38. The Long Good Friday (1980)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.
Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Paul Freeman, Leo Dolan
Votes: 25,583
39. State of Grace (1990)
R | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A New York cop is recruited to return to his hometown and infiltrate the mob ran by his best friend's brother.
Director: Phil Joanou | Stars: Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright
Votes: 24,766 | Gross: $1.91M
40. Alien Nation (1988)
R | 91 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In 1988, Earth makes the first contact with an alien civilization. In 1991, these aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after three years of quarantine.
Director: Graham Baker | Stars: James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp, Kevyn Major Howard
Votes: 16,660 | Gross: $25.22M
41. Communion (1989)
R | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Horror
On December 26th Whitley Strieber has a strange nightmare. In the following days, plagued by painful headaches, his behavior becomes increasingly erratic. Later, under hypnosis, he realizes that his dream was not a dream at all.
Director: Philippe Mora | Stars: Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas
Votes: 7,549 | Gross: $1.92M
42. Monolith (1993)
R | 95 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Two cops investigating the murder of a young boy become invloved in a very secret project involving alien life. Needless to say, the authorities don't want them to stick their noses into this.
Director: John Eyres | Stars: Bill Paxton, Lindsay Frost, John Hurt, Louis Gossett Jr.
Votes: 984
43. Enigma (1982)
PG | 101 min | Drama, Thriller
A C.I.A. Agent tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence to stop a murderous diabolical plot.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Martin Sheen, Sam Neill, Brigitte Fossey, Derek Jacobi
Votes: 1,627
44. The Killing Time (1987)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A murderer who assumes the identity of a new deputy is unbeknownst to the sheriff planning to pin a separate murder on him.
Director: Rick King | Stars: Beau Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Wayne Rogers, Joe Don Baker
Votes: 1,272 | Gross: $0.50M
45. The Music of Chance (1993)
R | 98 min | Drama
A thrill seeker agrees to help a shady professional gambler win a high stakes poker game. However, they lose and become captives of two eccentric rich men who decide to forcibly keep them on their remote gated ranch as indentured servants.
Director: Philip Haas | Stars: James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, M. Emmet Walsh, Charles Durning
Votes: 2,540 | Gross: $0.31M
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