Every movie from the 1980's (1980-1989)
by mattaaron | created - 03 Jun 2020 | updated - 07 Jun 2020 | Public9,428 movies came out between 1980-1989.
1,519 of those were released in the theater.
This list contains those 1,519 movies that were in theater.
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1. Fame (1980)
R | 134 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean
Votes: 24,680 | Gross: $0.12M
2. Cheap Shots (1988)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy
The owner of a sleazy hotel, along with his friend, decides to videotape a room that is rented by a sexually active couple. Inadvertently recording their murders, the men are soon faced ... See full summary »
Directors: Jerry Stoeffhaas, Jeff Ureles | Stars: Judson Camp, John Galateo, Clarke Gordon, David Patrick Kelly
Votes: 33 | Gross: $0.00M
3. Alien Predator (1986)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Three American friends travelling through Spain get stuck in a remote town where something very dangerous is changing the town's people.
Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Dennis Christopher, Martin Hewitt, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Luis Prendes
Votes: 1,363 | Gross: $0.00M
4. Mutant on the Bounty (1989)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
The crew of a space freighter picks up a mutated jazz musician who got lost in space. What they don't know is that two dangerous criminals are after him. They hijack the ship and take the crew hostage. The crew comes up with a plan.
Director: Robert Torrance | Stars: Kyle T. Heffner, John Roarke, Deborah Benson, John Furey
Votes: 127 | Gross: $0.00M
5. Crimewave (1985)
PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Louise Lasser, Brion James, Paul L. Smith, Sheree J. Wilson
Votes: 6,739 | Gross: $0.00M
6. Stacking (1987)
PG | 96 min | Drama
A Montana teenager struggles to keep her family's farm together.
Director: Martin Rosen | Stars: Christine Lahti, Frederic Forrest, Megan Follows, Ray Baker
Votes: 116 | Gross: $0.01M
7. My Brother's Wedding (1983)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
A man who has struggled personally has conflicts with his upwardly mobile lawyer brother and well to-do fiancee and is reluctantly to be the best man at their wedding.
Director: Charles Burnett | Stars: Everett Silas, Jessie Holmes, Gaye Shannon-Burnett, Ronnie Bell
Votes: 1,072 | Gross: $0.01M
8. Streetwise (1984)
91 min | Documentary, Drama
Gritty documentary that looks at the lives of teenagers living on the streets of Seattle.
Director: Martin Bell | Stars: Annie, Eddie, Antoine, Erica
Votes: 2,956 | Gross: $0.01M
9. Duet for One (1986)
R | 107 min | Drama, Music
Stephanie Anderson (Dame Julie Andrews), a famous violin player married to a composer becomes ill from Multiple Sclerosis. Her whole life goes to pieces. Her career ends abruptly, her ... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Julie Andrews, Alan Bates, Max von Sydow, Rupert Everett
Votes: 1,019 | Gross: $0.01M
10. Haunted Summer (1988)
R | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1816, authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs and sex.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Philip Anglim, Laura Dern, Alice Krige, Eric Stoltz
Votes: 586 | Gross: $0.01M
11. Red Surf (1989)
R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A surfer enjoys life with drug money together with his gang in 1980s California. His girlfriend is pregnant and will not be in a house with drugs and guns and is going to Portland OR. Can he quit the drugs, the gang and that last big deal?
Director: H. Gordon Boos | Stars: George Clooney, Doug Savant, Dedee Pfeiffer, Philip McKeon
Votes: 796 | Gross: $0.01M
12. Creepozoids (1987)
R | 72 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of survivors try to avoid the battles of World War III. When they try to escape to the quiet lands, they encounter something much more deadly.
Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Linnea Quigley, Ken Abraham, Michael Aranda, Richard L. Hawkins
Votes: 2,952 | Gross: $0.01M
13. The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay city supervisor.
Director: Rob Epstein | Stars: Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg, Tory Hartmann
Votes: 6,573 | Gross: $0.01M
14. Body Slam (1986)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Music, Sport
A down-on-his-luck music manager for the fictional rock band Kick finds his luck changing when he by mistake also starts managing a successful wrestling duo.
Director: Hal Needham | Stars: Dirk Benedict, Tanya Roberts, Roddy Piper, Lou Albano
Votes: 1,342 | Gross: $0.01M
15. Smooth Talk (1985)
PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A free-spirited 15-year-old girl flirts with a dangerous stranger in the Northern California suburbs and must prepare herself for the frightening and traumatic consequences.
Director: Joyce Chopra | Stars: Treat Williams, Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place, Margaret Welsh
Votes: 3,381 | Gross: $0.02M
16. Death of an Angel (1985)
PG | 91 min | Drama
Grace, a priest, tracks her missing daughter to a religious community where the strange father Angel is keeping a wooden Jesus figure that sheds actual blood. When the cross is stolen, Grace decides to help out to get her daughter back.
Director: Petru Popescu | Stars: Bonnie Bedelia, Nick Mancuso, Pamela Ludwig, Alex Colon
Votes: 72 | Gross: $0.02M
17. Saving Grace (1986)
PG | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
A young pope who feels he has lost touch with the people accidentally locks himself out of the Vatican and believes it is part of God's plan for him.
Director: Robert M. Young | Stars: Tom Conti, Fernando Rey, Erland Josephson, Giancarlo Giannini
Votes: 686 | Gross: $0.02M
18. Before Stonewall (1984)
Unrated | 87 min | Documentary, History
The history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement.
Directors: Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg | Stars: Rita Mae Brown, Bruce Nugent, Henry Otis, Donna Smith
Votes: 1,190 | Gross: $0.02M
19. Trouble in Mind (1985)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City.
Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Lori Singer, Geneviève Bujold
Votes: 2,426 | Gross: $0.02M
20. Damned River (1989)
R | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A group hires a guide to take them whitewater rafting down the Zambezi River in Africa, but what they don't know is that the guide is actually a ....
Director: Michael Schroeder | Stars: Stephen Shellen, Lisa Aliff, John Terlesky, Marc Poppel
Votes: 272 | Gross: $0.02M
21. Zombie High (1987)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror
A college freshman begins to notice that students at her new school are losing their individuality. She discovers that the faculty are operating on the students' brains to make them docile and productive, but she's having none of it.
Director: Ron Link | Stars: Virginia Madsen, Richard Cox, Kay E. Kuter, James Wilder
Votes: 1,447 | Gross: $0.02M
22. Lightning Over Braddock: A Rustbowl Fantasy (1988)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
Tony Buba, a film maker from Braddock, Pennsylvania, tells the story of his hometown's decline (along with the rest of the steel mill towns along the Monongahela River) while he dreams of ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Buba | Stars: Tony Buba, Sal Caru, Werner Herzog, Stephen Pellegrino
Votes: 74 | Gross: $0.02M
23. The Atomic Cafe (1982)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, History
Disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.
Directors: Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty | Stars: Paul Tibbets, Harry S. Truman, W.H.P. Blandy, Brien McMahon
Votes: 4,534 | Gross: $0.02M
24. The Imagemaker (1986)
R | 93 min | Drama, Thriller
Roger Blackwell has been a media advisor to countless politicians: probably one too many. He is set on using his experience to make a film about manipulation of the media by unscrupulous politicos.
Director: Hal Weiner | Stars: Michael Nouri, Anne Twomey, Jerry Orbach, Jessica Harper
Votes: 158 | Gross: $0.02M
25. You Talkin' to Me? (1987)
R | 97 min | Comedy
A young actor's fascination with Robert De Niro's "Taxi Driver" persona leads him into a morass of strange and obsessional behaviors.
Director: Charles Winkler | Stars: Jim Youngs, James Noble, Mykelti Williamson, Faith Ford
Votes: 1,085 | Gross: $0.03M
26. Teen Witch (1989)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
High school misfit Louise, at a loss for romance, discovers magical abilities, but the teenage witch finds that she cannot conjure herself true love, so what?
Director: Dorian Walker | Stars: Robyn Lively, Dan Gauthier, Joshua John Miller, Caren Kaye
Votes: 10,471 | Gross: $0.03M
27. O.C. and Stiggs (1985)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Romance
O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, they plot against them. They seek revenge against the middle-class Schwab family, who embody all they detest: the middle class.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Daniel Jenkins, Neill Barry, Jane Curtin, Paul Dooley
Votes: 1,464 | Gross: $0.03M
28. Seven Minutes in Heaven (1986)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When her father goes out of town, beautiful A-student Natalie lets best friends Jeff and Polly move in. Separately and together, the trio of young teens learn much about life, love, and growing up.
Director: Linda Feferman | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Byron Thames, Maddie Corman, Alan Boyce
Votes: 2,064 | Gross: $0.03M
29. One More Saturday Night (1986)
R | 95 min | Comedy
The problems faced by both teenagers and adults in a small Minnesota town who are trying to get dates for a Saturday night.
Director: Dennis Klein | Stars: Tom Davis, Al Franken, Moira Sinise, Frank Howard
Votes: 348 | Gross: $0.03M
30. Tales of the Brothers Quay
78 min | Documentary, Animation
Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Gross: $0.04M
31. Pulse (1988)
PG-13 | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A visiting son tries to warn his father and stepmother that they are being menaced by a living and intelligent pulse of electricity that moves from house to house and terrorizes the residents therein.
Director: Paul Golding | Stars: Cliff De Young, Roxanne Hart, Joey Lawrence, Matthew Lawrence
Votes: 2,866 | Gross: $0.04M
32. Cyclone (1987)
R | 89 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A young woman must deliver a top-secret motorcycle to the US military after the man assigned to deliver it, her lover, is murdered by enemy agents.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Heather Thomas, Jeffrey Combs, Ashley Ferrare, Dar Robinson
Votes: 1,147 | Gross: $0.04M
33. Animal Behavior (1989)
PG | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
A sign language scholar's romance is disrupted by a chimp.
Directors: Jenny Bowen, Kjehl Rasmussen | Stars: Karen Allen, Armand Assante, Josh Mostel, Holly Hunter
Votes: 255 | Gross: $0.04M
34. Hammett (1982)
PG | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Fictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress' mysterious disappearance in San Francisco.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear
Votes: 3,685 | Gross: $0.04M
35. Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Broadway was never brighter and never roared louder than New Year's Eve, 1928, when anything could happen-and did. A four part short story musical co-starring Madonna, Jennifer Grey, and Matt Dillon.
Director: Howard Brookner | Stars: Josef Sommer, Madonna, Tony Azito, Jennifer Grey
Votes: 1,440 | Gross: $0.04M
36. Wicked Stepmother (1989)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A mother-and-daughter pair of witches wreaks havoc on a suburban family.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Bette Davis, Barbara Carrera, Colleen Camp, Lionel Stander
Votes: 2,391 | Gross: $0.04M
37. Florida Straits (1986 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A man who spent 20 years in Cuban prison after the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion and a boat captain and his crew go covertly to Cuba to find a cache of gold buried during the invasion. But can they trust each other?
Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Raul Julia, Fred Ward, Daniel Jenkins, Jaime Sánchez
Votes: 275 | Gross: $0.04M
38. For Better or for Worse (1989 Video)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A honeymooning couple become entangled in a plot to recover plates for counterfeiting U.S. dollars. She thinks she's just retired from a government "dirty jobs" department, but her ... See full summary »
Director: Gene Quintano | Stars: Kim Cattrall, Robert Hays, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jonathan Banks
Votes: 418 | Gross: $0.05M
39. Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
Stagestruck adolescent learns about love the hard way while interning in Cleveland summer stock during the early '50's.
Director: Michael Pressman | Stars: Frank Langella, Glynnis O'Connor, Tom Hulce, Jerry Stiller
Votes: 329 | Gross: $0.06M
40. Low Blow (1986)
R | 90 min | Action
Leo Fong plays a private investigator who is in search of a young girl kidnapped by a religious cult. Destined to save her, he teams up with a Vietnam vet, a pro-boxing champ and a former cop to save her...
Director: Frank Harris | Stars: Leo Fong, Cameron Mitchell, Troy Donahue, Diane Stevenett
Votes: 662 | Gross: $0.06M
41. Brenda Starr (1989)
PG | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A comic book artist struggling with his "Brenda Starr" strip decides to draw himself into it when his comic book character is disappointed and leaves the strip.
Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Tony Peck, Diana Scarwid
Votes: 1,259 | Gross: $0.07M
42. Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Musical
Bert Rigby lives in the small English town of Langmore, where most people depend on work at the local mine, which is faring poorly. While his mates are on strike once again, he decides to ... See full summary »
Director: Carl Reiner | Stars: Robert Lindsay, Robbie Coltrane, Cathryn Bradshaw, Jackie Gayle
Votes: 334 | Gross: $0.08M
43. After Midnight (1989)
R | 93 min | Horror, Thriller
A college class, Psychology of Fear, has a new teacher who believes that you have to feel fear to understand it. A group of students convene at the teacher's house, where scary stories are told.
Directors: Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat | Stars: Jillian McWhirter, Pamela Adlon, Ramy Zada, Judie Aronson
Votes: 2,389 | Gross: $0.08M
44. Hardbodies 2 (1986)
R | 88 min | Comedy
A film crew is travelling from America to Greece to produce a movie. Before their work is done they will have to face many unusual situations, along with numerous opportunities for the actresses to take their clothes off.
Director: Mark Griffiths | Stars: James Karen, Louise Baker, Alexandros Mylonas, Robert Rhine
Votes: 1,373 | Gross: $0.08M
45. Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982)
G | 74 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Rival book salesmen Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are forced by Sultan Yosemite Sam to read fairy tales to his spoiled, selfish son, Prince Abba-Dabba.
Directors: Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, Maurice Noble, Hawley Pratt | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Shepard Menken, Lennie Weinrib
Votes: 2,211 | Gross: $0.08M
46. 16 Days of Glory (1985)
G | 284 min | Documentary, Sport
The definitive photographic record of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, told "from the inside" through the lives of the participants, the words of David Perry, and the singing voice of Placido... See full summary »
Director: Bud Greenspan | Stars: David Perry, Jose Abascal, Saïd Aouita, Evelyn Ashford
Votes: 302 | Gross: $0.08M
47. Blue Skies Again (1983)
PG | 96 min | Comedy, Sport
A hard-hitting, fast, sure-handed baseball player tries to break into the sport by applying for a spot on a major-league-league team. The only problem is that the player is female, which ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Michaels | Stars: Harry Hamlin, Mimi Rogers, Kenneth McMillan, Robyn Barto
Votes: 231 | Gross: $0.08M
48. Stripper (1985)
R | 90 min | Documentary
The background: A strippers' convention and a major contest. The movie focuses on a few strippers, each with her own strong motive to win.
Director: Jerome Gary | Stars: Janette Boyd, Sara Costa, Kimberly Holcomb, Loree Menton
Votes: 464 | Gross: $0.09M
49. Fandango (1985)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Director: Kevin Reynolds | Stars: Kevin Costner, Judd Nelson, Sam Robards, Chuck Bush
Votes: 8,730 | Gross: $0.09M
50. My Man Adam (1985)
R | 83 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A pizza delivery lad, who fantasises about his dream girl and what heroic deed he can perform to make her notice him, gets involved in a murder.
Director: Roger L. Simon | Stars: Raphael Sbarge, Page Hannah, Veronica Cartwright, Larry B. Scott
Votes: 179 | Gross: $0.09M
51. Almost You (1984)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
Alex and Erica Boyer's marriage is in a crisis: Alex is bored by his job and his wife. When Erica has an accident that lands her in a wheelchair for some time, Alex meets Erica's young ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Brooks | Stars: Brooke Adams, Griffin Dunne, Karen Young, Marty Watt
Votes: 261 | Gross: $0.10M
52. Signs of Life (1989)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama
A touching story of life in rural Maine, and the changes brought about by the closing of a town's small boat-building company -- on which many of the residents depended upon for a living.
Director: John David Coles | Stars: Beau Bridges, Vincent D'Onofrio, Arthur Kennedy, Kevin J. O'Connor
Votes: 619 | Gross: $0.10M
53. The Telephone (1988)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
A crazy out of work actress, Vashti Blue, spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve all her problems with life.
Director: Rip Torn | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Severn Darden, Amy Wright, Elliott Gould
Votes: 1,146 | Gross: $0.10M
54. Race for Glory (1989)
R | 104 min | Action
A member of an up and coming motorcycle racing team abandons his teamates to join a rival team. He ends up playing second fiddle to the champion of the new team. Not satisfied, and against ... See full summary »
Director: Rocky Lang | Stars: Alex McArthur, Peter Berg, Pamela Ludwig, Ray Wise
Votes: 169 | Gross: $0.10M
55. Not of This Earth (1988)
R | 81 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien arrives on Earth looking to take human blood in an attempt to preserve his dying planet.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Traci Lords, Arthur Roberts, Lenny Juliano, Ace Mask
Votes: 2,731 | Gross: $0.11M
56. No Retreat, No Surrender 2 (1987)
R | 92 min | Adventure, Action
In this sequel, Scott Wylde, an American kickboxer, must go to Cambodia to rescue his Vietnamese girlfriend from Russian and Vietnamese troops.
Director: Corey Yuen | Stars: Loren Avedon, Max Thayer, Cynthia Rothrock, Patra Wanthivanond
Votes: 2,098 | Gross: $0.11M
57. Stars and Bars (1988)
R | 94 min | Comedy
A British art expert travels across America in order to purchase a rare Renoir painting in the South but comes across some crazy characters in the process.
Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Harry Dean Stanton, Kent Broadhurst, Maury Chaykin
Votes: 1,017 | Gross: $0.11M
58. Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive (1989)
Unrated | 83 min | Comedy, Crime
A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found.
Directors: Wayne Wang, Spencer Nakasako | Stars: Wan Kin Cheng, John Chan, Kwan-Min Cheng, Allen Fong
Votes: 271 | Gross: $0.11M
59. Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Daring British WWI fighter pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth and 1980s low-level business executive Jim Ferguson discover that they can time travel to each other's eras. They try to stop the Germans from changing the outcome of WWI.
Director: John Hough | Stars: Neil Dickson, Alex Hyde-White, Fiona Hutchison, Peter Cushing
Votes: 3,360 | Gross: $0.11M
60. Love Child (1982)
R | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The true story of Terry Jean Moore, a young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In prison she gets pregnant by a jailer and has to fight to keep her child.
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Amy Madigan, Beau Bridges, Mackenzie Phillips, Albert Salmi
Votes: 308 | Gross: $0.11M
61. Heart of Midnight (1988)
R | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Carol inherits a night club from her weird uncle. She moves into the place, only to find out just how weird her uncle really was. She begins to remember more about her very special ... See full summary »
Director: Matthew Chapman | Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brenda Vaccaro, Jack Hallett, Nicholas Love
Votes: 1,753 | Gross: $0.11M
62. The Big Picture (1989)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Film school grad Nick Chapman thought his career was made after his award winning short film, but discovered Hollywood wasn't as easy as it seems.
Director: Christopher Guest | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Emily Longstreth, J.T. Walsh
Votes: 6,184 | Gross: $0.12M
63. Eureka (1983)
R | 130 min | Drama, Thriller
In 1925, a lone and obsessed Arctic prospector Jack McCann finally strikes gold. Twenty years later, he begins spiraling out of control when his only daughter becomes engaged to a man he strongly dislikes.
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Jane Lapotaire
Votes: 3,754 | Gross: $0.12M
64. The in Crowd (1988)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In the mid-60s, a teenage 4.0 high-school student is drawn out of his element on a dare by his peers, to become a dancer on popular TV music show.
Director: Mark Rosenthal | Stars: Jennifer Runyon, Donovan Leitch Jr., Joe Pantoliano, Bruce Kirby
Votes: 989 | Gross: $0.12M
65. Tokyo Pop (1988)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Aspiring singer Wendy hops on a plane to Tokyo with dreams of making it big in the music business. She soon finds romance with Hiro, a rock 'n' roll musician who convinces her to become the lead singer in his band.
Director: Fran Rubel Kuzui | Stars: Carrie Hamilton, Diamond Yukai, Taiji Tonoyama, Tetsurô Tanba
Votes: 364 | Gross: $0.13M
66. Gaby: A True Story (1987)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.
Director: Luis Mandoki | Stars: Rachel Chagall, Liv Ullmann, Norma Aleandro, Robert Loggia
Votes: 799 | Gross: $0.13M
67. Crackers (1984)
PG | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Reduced to minding the counter at a crusty pawn shop, Weslake tumbles onto a scheme by some disgruntled misfit clients to rob the place. Rather than blow the whistle, however, he insinuates himself as the heist's mastermind.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden, Sean Penn, Wallace Shawn
Votes: 1,544 | Gross: $0.13M
68. Martians Go Home (1989)
PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Song writer Mark Devereaux accidentally calls millions of green Martians to invade Earth. No they aren't dangerous, just wise-cracking, intrusive, pain in neck, annoyances. No one can ... See full summary »
Director: David Odell | Stars: Randy Quaid, Margaret Colin, Anita Morris, John Philbin
Votes: 834 | Gross: $0.13M
69. Sidewalk Stories (1989)
R | 97 min | Comedy
Nearly silent comedy filmed in black and white follows a street artist (Charles Lane), who rescues a baby after her father was murdered. The artist then sets off to find the mother, but has... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lane | Stars: Charles Lane, Nicole Alysia, Tom Alpern, Edwin Anthony
Votes: 542 | Gross: $0.13M
70. Cameron's Closet (1988)
R | 88 min | Fantasy, Horror
A father (Tab Hunter) who experiments with his son's (Scott Curtis) psychokinetic powers is unaware that these experiments release a demon from hell, which lives in his son's closet, preparing to take over the young boy's soul.
Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Cotter Smith, Mel Harris, Scott Curtis, Chuck McCann
Votes: 1,136 | Gross: $0.14M
71. Hanna's War (1988)
PG-13 | 148 min | Biography, Drama, War
During WW2 Hanna Szenes, a Hungarian Jew living in British Palestine, volunteers to go behind enemy lines to rescue Jews from deportation to death camps.
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers, Anthony Andrews, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 482 | Gross: $0.14M
72. Let's Get Harry (1986)
R | 102 min | Action, Adventure
When Colombian revolutionaries kidnap an American engineer, his brother and friends, faced with official inaction, hire a mercenary and mount the rescue operation themselves.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Michael Schoeffling, Tom Wilson, Fidel Abrego, Jere Burns
Votes: 1,549 | Gross: $0.14M
73. Witness in the War Zone (1987)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
An American journalist is set up and fed false information after the Lebanon war.
Director: Nathaniel Gutman | Stars: Christopher Walken, Hywel Bennett, Marita Marschall, Arnon Zadok
Votes: 558 | Gross: $0.14M
74. Freeway (1988)
R | 91 min | Thriller
A deeply-disturbed priest goes on a murderous night-time rampage across America's highways.
Director: Francis Delia | Stars: Darlanne Fluegel, James Russo, Billy Drago, Richard Belzer
Votes: 554 | Gross: $0.14M
75. The Escape Artist (1982)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Teenager Danny Masters, the son of the late Harry Masters, considered the second best escape artist in history, wants to follow in his father's footsteps, he already a skilled but untested ... See full summary »
Director: Caleb Deschanel | Stars: Raul Julia, Griffin O'Neal, Desi Arnaz, Teri Garr
Votes: 890 | Gross: $0.14M
76. The Wizard of Loneliness (1988)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama
After his mother dies and father goes to fight in World War II, a young boy moves in with his aunt and uncle who live in the countryside. Lonely and unhappy, he starts believing he has super powers. Then a "dead" man shows up.
Director: Jenny Bowen | Stars: Lukas Haas, Lea Thompson, Alan Wright, Steve Hendrickson
Votes: 287 | Gross: $0.14M
77. Thunder Run (1985)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Charlie, a Korean War veteran, is driving a truck which is transporting plutonium from Nevada to Arizona. But there are a bunch of terrorists who want to steal the stuff...
Director: Gary Hudson | Stars: Forrest Tucker, John Ireland, John Shepherd, Jill Whitlow
Votes: 396 | Gross: $0.15M
78. Far North (1988)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama
After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope with their original issues.
Director: Sam Shepard | Stars: Jessica Lange, Charles Durning, Tess Harper, Donald Moffat
Votes: 758 | Gross: $0.15M
79. Under the Boardwalk (1988)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Romance
Nick Rainwood and Allie Yorpin are a modern day Romeo and Juliet living in southern California, separated by the unbridgeable gulf of their backgrounds and torn between loyalty to their "gangs" and their real desires.
Director: Fritz Kiersch | Stars: Richard Joseph Paul, Danielle von Zerneck, Keith Coogan, Steve Monarque
Votes: 428 | Gross: $0.15M
80. Big Time (1988)
PG | 87 min | Documentary, Music
Bringing his unique sense of humor to this bizarre and original piece of moviemaking, Tom Waits takes the audience through a musical journey with his jazzy, quirky, bluesy tunes presented as you would never, ever, ever expect.
Director: Chris Blum | Stars: Tom Waits, Michael L. Blair, Ralph Carney, Greg Cohen
Votes: 902 | Gross: $0.15M
81. Heartbreakers (1984)
R | 98 min | Drama
Blue, a struggling painter, and Eli, the son of a businessman, are childhood friends who have complicated romantic relationships, which slowly expose the state of their own friendship.
Director: Bobby Roth | Stars: Peter Coyote, Nick Mancuso, Carole Laure, Max Gail
Votes: 640 | Gross: $0.15M
82. I, Madman (1989)
R | 89 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A bookshop clerk and wannabe actress starts seeing the disfigured killer from her 1950s pulp novels come to life and start killing people around her. She tries to convince her cop boyfriend, but to no avail.
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Jenny Wright, Clayton Rohner, Randall William Cook, Stephanie Hodge
Votes: 3,730 | Gross: $0.15M
83. Independence Day (1983)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
Mary Ann Taylor of Mercury, Texas loves the comforts of her hometown, but feels unfulfilled by a life of pouring coffee and grilling hamburgers in her father's diner. Her real passion is ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: Kathleen Quinlan, David Keith, Frances Sternhagen, Cliff De Young
Votes: 574 | Gross: $0.15M
84. 84C MoPic (1989)
R | 95 min | Drama, War
The title refers to the U.S. Army's former "MOS" (job code) for a combat cameraman. The story follows a unit of American G.I.s in Vietnam, all with different backgrounds and motives for being there, through the lens of his camera.
Director: Patrick Sheane Duncan | Stars: Jonathan Emerson, Nicholas Cascone, Jason Tomlins, Christopher Burgard
Votes: 1,938 | Gross: $0.15M
85. Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (1987)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
The now-adult Ricky talks to a psychiatrist about how he became a murderer after his brother, Billy, died, which leads back to Mother Superior.
Director: Lee Harry | Stars: Eric Freeman, James Newman, Elizabeth Kaitan, Jean Miller
Votes: 9,056 | Gross: $0.15M
86. Party Line (1988)
R | 91 min | Thriller
A rich brother and sister are crazed killers. She lures men into her bed, and he attacks them and murders them. A detective is assigned to find the killers and bring them in.
Director: William Webb | Stars: Richard Hatch, Shawn Weatherly, Leif Garrett, Greta Blackburn
Votes: 672 | Gross: $0.15M
87. Distant Thunder (1988)
R | 114 min | Drama
John Lithgow stars and Ralph Macchio co-stars as his son. Their uneasy reunion accidentally sparks war-haunted violence, and they share a harrowing fight for survival that will either destroy them or unify them forever.
Director: Rick Rosenthal | Stars: John Lithgow, Ralph Macchio, Kerrie Keane, Reb Brown
Votes: 832 | Gross: $0.16M
88. Taffin (1988)
R | 96 min | Action, Thriller
An Irish tough-guy debt collector is asked by his local community to help rid the town of developers bent on building a chemical plant on the outskirts of town. The developers are ruthless ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Megahy | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Ray McAnally, Alison Doody, Jeremy Child
Votes: 2,115 | Gross: $0.16M
89. The Beast of War (1988)
R | 111 min | Adventure, Drama, War
A Soviet tank and its warring crew become separated from their patrol and lost in an Afghan valley with a group of vengeance-seeking rebels on their tracks.
Director: Kevin Reynolds | Stars: George Dzundza, Jason Patric, Steven Bauer, Stephen Baldwin
Votes: 10,679 | Gross: $0.16M
90. The Blue Iguana (1988)
R | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery
Two overzealous psychopathic US tax collectors blackmail bounty hunter Vince Holloway into stopping an illegal transfer of 20 Mio. dollars from a Mexican tax paradise into the USA. So he ... See full summary »
Director: John Lafia | Stars: Dylan McDermott, Jessica Harper, James Russo, Pamela Gidley
Votes: 600 | Gross: $0.16M
91. Last Plane Out (1983)
PG | 92 min | Action, Thriller, War
An American journalist covering the civil war in Nicaragua falls in love with a beautiful Sandinista rebel.
Director: David Nelson | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Julie Carmen, Mary Crosby, David Huffman
Votes: 190 | Gross: $0.16M
92. The Experts (1989)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy
Two NYC guys get jobs starting a nightclub in Smalltown, USA. They don't know it's a spy training model town in USSR .
Director: Dave Thomas | Stars: John Travolta, Arye Gross, Kelly Preston, Deborah Foreman
Votes: 2,725 | Gross: $0.17M
93. 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
94. My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987)
PG | 89 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
After a sexual encounter with a beautiful client, a teenage delivery boy finds himself being turned into a vampire.
Director: Jimmy Huston | Stars: Robert Sean Leonard, Evan Mirand, LeeAnne Locken, Cheryl Pollak
Votes: 4,235 | Gross: $0.17M
95. Seven Hours to Judgment (1988)
R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A distraught husband kidnaps the judge who freed his wife's killers on insufficient evidence. He gives him seven hours to find evidence that will put them away, or he'll kill his wife.
Director: Beau Bridges | Stars: Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Julianne Phillips, Tiny Ron
Votes: 321 | Gross: $0.18M
96. Good Morning Babylon (1987)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Romance, War
After the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventures and near-disasters, they end up in Hollywood... See full summary »
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Greta Scacchi, Désirée Nosbusch
Votes: 1,768 | Gross: $0.18M
97. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
R | 82 min | Comedy, Music
Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Kimberly Stringer
Votes: 147,323 | Gross: $4.74M
98. Hell High (1987)
R | 84 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A teacher still haunted by the death of two teens that she accidentally caused as a young girl goes beserk when four teens start harassing her and then attack her in her home.
Director: Douglas Grossman | Stars: Maureen Mooney, Christopher Stryker, Christopher Cousins, Millie Prezioso
Votes: 1,389 | Gross: $0.19M
99. Rocket Gibraltar (1988)
PG | 99 min | Drama
An old patriarch unites all members of his family for his birthday, but the group of people are full of personal and social problems.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Suzy Amis, Patricia Clarkson, Frances Conroy
Votes: 2,181 | Gross: $0.19M
100. Miles from Home (1988)
R | 108 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.
Director: Gary Sinise | Stars: Richard Gere, Penelope Ann Miller, Brian Dennehy, Jason Campbell
Votes: 1,585 | Gross: $0.19M
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