80's Movies

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1. Death Wish Club (1984)

R | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Glen falls head-over-heels for Gretta, a blue-movie actress who plays piano at a tawdry night club. She leads him into a nether-world of bizarre characters including a group of rich patrons whose desires are not only quirky but dangerous.

Director: John Carr | Stars: Merideth Haze, Rick Barnes, J. Martin Sellers, Toni Covington

Votes: 252

2. Night Train to Terror (1985)

R | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

"Night Train to Terror" is a 1985 horror anthology movie where God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals.

Directors: John Carr, Phillip Marshak, Tom McGowan, Jay Schlossberg-Cohen, Gregg G. Tallas | Stars: Barbara Wyler, Jamie Scoggin, Stacey Lyons, Linda Maderas

Votes: 2,827

3. Sweet Country (1987)

R | 150 min | Drama, History

A U.S. woman joins the underground in 1973 Chile against the horrors of its military regime.

Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Jane Alexander, John Cullum, Carole Laure, Franco Nero

Votes: 232

4. How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy

A cynical advertising exec has a block at work leading to a meltdown. He's hilariously out of control. Getting a big, talking boil on his shoulder doesn't help.

Director: Bruce Robinson | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson, Jacqueline Tong

Votes: 6,628 | Gross: $0.42M

5. BrainWaves (1982)

R | 77 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

After a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months. Her doctors want to try a new procedure on her: to regain her consciousness, they stimulate her brain with neural patterns of a woman ... See full summary »

Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Keir Dullea, Suzanna Love, Vera Miles, Ryan Seitz

Votes: 526

6. Club Life (1986)

R | 93 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A young man from a small town goes to Hollywood to make his fortune. He gets hired as a bouncer at a disco club, but soon finds himself caught up in drugs, gangsters and eventually has to ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Thaddeus Vane | Stars: Tom Parsekian, Michael Parks, Kristine DeBell, Jamie Barrett

Votes: 169

7. Enemy Mine (1985)

PG-13 | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

59 Metascore

During a long space war, the lives of two wounded enemies become dependent on their ability to forgive and to trust.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James, Richard Marcus

Votes: 51,430 | Gross: $4.27M

8. Thunder Alley (1985)

R | 111 min | Drama, Music

A group of friends start a rock band, but as they start their rise in the music world, they get mixed up with drugs.

Director: J.S. Cardone | Stars: Roger Wilson, Jill Schoelen, Scott McGinnis, Cindy Eilbacher

Votes: 473

9. Love Letters (II) (1983)

R | 88 min | Drama, Romance

A story of love and obsession. A young radio personality who, after her mother dies, discovers she had been having a love affair for 15 years. Now she finds herself recreating her mother's romance by getting involved with a married man.

Director: Amy Holden Jones | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Bonnie Bartlett, Matt Clark, James Keach

Votes: 943 | Gross: $5.27M

10. The Being (1981)

R | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A mutated creature is wreaking havoc in a small town in Idaho. A police chief and a government scientist team up to save their rural town from its menace.

Director: Jackie Kong | Stars: Martin Landau, Marianne Gordon, Bill Osco, José Ferrer

Votes: 1,953

11. Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988)

R | 80 min | Comedy, Horror

As part of a sorority ritual, pledges and their male companions steal a trophy from a bowling alley; unbeknownst to them, it contains a devilish imp who makes their lives a living Hell.

Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Andras Jones, Linnea Quigley, Robin Stille, Hal Havins

Votes: 4,891

12. Running Hot (1984)

R | 95 min | Crime, Drama

A teenager, wrongly convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of his father, escapes from jail. He hooks up with a prostitute and they take to the road to find the real killer of his father.

Director: Mark Griffiths | Stars: Monica Carrico, Eric Stoltz, Stuart Margolin, Virgil Frye

Votes: 237

13. Cold Steel (1987)

R | 91 min | Action, Thriller

On Christmas Eve Johnny Modine's father is murdered by a psycho cut-throat. The cop swears bloody revenge, though he's taken off the case. He doesn't suspect yet that he's also target in a ... See full summary »

Director: Dorothy Ann Puzo | Stars: Brad Davis, Sharon Stone, Jonathan Banks, Jay Acovone

Votes: 939 | Gross: $0.29M

14. Nothing Personal (1980)

PG | 97 min | Comedy

Suzanne Somers, an environmentally concerned lawyer, was hired by Donald Sutherland to halt the construction on a breeding ground of endangered species of seals. In HD.

Director: George Bloomfield | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Suzanne Somers, Lawrence Dane, Roscoe Lee Browne

Votes: 377

15. Windy City (1984)

R | 103 min | Drama, Romance

The lives of a group of young Chicago men as seen through the eyes of one of them, a thirtysomething writer suffering from the early onset of midlife crisis brought on by nostalgia, his dying friend, and the wedding of his old flame.

Director: Armyan Bernstein | Stars: John Shea, Kate Capshaw, Josh Mostel, Jim Borrelli

Votes: 317 | Gross: $0.34M

16. I, the Jury (1982)

R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A PI investigates the murder of his one-armed friend, a PI working on a case. Clues lead to a sex clinic. Bodies pile up.

Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Armand Assante, Barbara Carrera, Laurene Landon, Alan King

Votes: 1,819 | Gross: $1.52M

17. C.O.D. (1981)

PG | 96 min | Comedy

Albert Zack is a struggling, bumbling, advertising salesman hired to save the Beaver Bra Company from impending doom. He is charged with signing five specific, world-famous, busty woman as ... See full summary »

Directors: Chuck Vincent, Sigi Krämer | Stars: Nicholas Saunders, Marilyn Joi, Carole Davis, Samantha Fox

Votes: 255

18. Preppies (1984)

R | 83 min | Comedy

Three sexy young women are hired to ensure that three college students don't pass their final exams, which would preclude one of them from inheriting a family fortune.

Director: Chuck Vincent | Stars: Dennis Drake, Steven Holt, Peter Brady Reardon, Nitchie Barrett

Votes: 319

19. Cold Heat (1989)

85 min | Action, Thriller, Drama

A Las Vegas billionaire hires a group of mobsters to kidnap his son, which results in his ex-wife hiring a mercenary to get him back.

Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: John Phillip Law, Britt Ekland, Robert Sacchi, Roy Summersett

Votes: 111

20. Beverly Hills Vamp (1989)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Horror

A trio of geeks go to Hollywood to make a movie and are bored one night so they get some hookers to have some sex. Unfortunately, the hookers like to drink blood.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Britt Ekland, Eddie Deezen, Tim Conway Jr., Tom Shell

Votes: 760

21. Fraternity Vacation (1985)

R | 94 min | Comedy

Two fraternity brothers take advantage of their nerdy pledge's generous parents to spend time with him in Palm Springs and encourage him to mingle with girls, but things don't go as planned when they run into rival fraternity members.

Director: James Frawley | Stars: Stephen Geoffreys, Sheree J. Wilson, Cameron Dye, Leigh McCloskey

Votes: 2,788 | Gross: $3.33M

22. The Vals (1983)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime

Sam, Trish, Beth, and Annie are four Valley Girls bored with shopping and frat parties. They come across kind Mr. Stanton, who is running a home for orphaned boys. Mr. Stanton and his ... See full summary »

Director: James Polakof | Stars: Jill Carroll, Elena Stratheros, Michele Laurita, Gina Calabrese

Votes: 184

23. Times Square (1980)

R | 111 min | Drama, Music

Two ill-matched teenage girls form a punk band and soon have New York City by its ears.

Director: Allan Moyle | Stars: Tim Curry, Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson, Peter Coffield

Votes: 1,985 | Gross: $1.40M

24. Mrs. Soffel (1984)

PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Romance

Diane Keaton stars as a prison warden's wife who falls in love with a death row convict (Mel Gibson.) Believing he's innocent, she helps him and his convicted brother escape.

Director: Gillian Armstrong | Stars: Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann

Votes: 3,561 | Gross: $4.39M

25. Satisfaction (1988)

PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

44 Metascore

Justine Bateman rocks out as the leader of an all-girl band that struggles with men and drugs during a summer resort gig.

Director: Joan Freeman | Stars: Justine Bateman, Liam Neeson, Trini Alvarado, Scott Coffey

Votes: 3,856 | Gross: $8.25M

26. Baby It's You (1983)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.

Director: John Sayles | Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin, Jack Davidson

Votes: 2,149 | Gross: $1.87M

27. Hard Choices (1984)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama

A teenaged boy goes for a ride with his brother and the brother's friends, who proceed to rob a store and murder the clerk. They are caught and, despite the young boy's protestations, he is... See full summary »

Director: Rick King | Stars: Margaret Klenck, Gary McCleery, John Seitz, John Sayles

Votes: 143

28. Matewan (1987)

PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, History

73 Metascore

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

Director: John Sayles | Stars: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham

Votes: 8,913 | Gross: $1.68M

29. Ballet (1989)

101 min | Fantasy, Romance, Thriller

Young American ballerina enrolls in a prestigious ballet school in Hungary. She suddenly becomes inexplicably obsessed with Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and her personality completely changes. A young man in love with her investigates.

Director: Peter Del Monte | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Gary McCleery, Laurent Terzieff, Olimpia Carlisi

Votes: 824

30. Hunk (1987)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Fantasy

A computer nerd makes a deal with the Devil and gets a new beefcake body.

Director: Lawrence Bassoff | Stars: John Allen Nelson, Steve Levitt, Deborah Shelton, Rebeccah Bush

Votes: 1,561 | Gross: $1.75M

31. Rockin' Road Trip (1986)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Music

Martin meets Samantha, the sister of Nicole who is the leader of a band called "Chery Suicide". While Martin and Samantha are beginning a relationship, Nicole is trying to get away from her... See full summary »

Director: William Olsen | Stars: Garth McLean, Margaret Currie, Katherine Harrison, Steve Boles

Votes: 70

32. Heartbreaker (1983)

R | 90 min | Romance, Drama

Beto the leader of the car club "the golden knights" falls in love with Kim, but Hector also have an interest in Kim.

Director: Frank Zuniga | Stars: Fernando Allende, Dawn Dunlap, Peter Gonzales Falcon, Miguel Ferrer

Votes: 124

33. Barbarian Queen (1985)

R | 74 min | Adventure, Fantasy

A sword-wielding warrior, Amethea, and a few companions embark on a life-or-death mission to liberate her people from the clutches of a brutal monarch who destroyed her village and enslaved her people.

Director: Héctor Olivera | Stars: Lana Clarkson, Katt Shea, Frank Zagarino, Dawn Dunlap

Votes: 3,122

34. The Moderns (1988)

R | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A struggling artist is hired to forge paintings, causing him to cross paths with his ex-wife and her powerful new husband.

Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, Wallace Shawn, Geneviève Bujold

Votes: 2,035 | Gross: $2.01M

35. Echoes of Paradise (1987)

R | 92 min | Drama, Romance

The love story between an Australian woman and a Balinese dancer.

Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Wendy Hughes, John Lone, Rod Mullinar, Peta Toppano

Votes: 124

36. Prince of the City (1981)

R | 167 min | Crime, Drama

81 Metascore

A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption, and soon realises he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett

Votes: 9,520 | Gross: $8.12M

37. Krull (1983)

PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

45 Metascore

A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet, Krull.

Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones, Francesca Annis

Votes: 36,252 | Gross: $16.52M

38. Daniel (1983)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Daniel Isaacson attempts to determine the true complicity of his parents Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed for espionage in the 1950s.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse, Edward Asner

Votes: 1,571 | Gross: $0.28M

39. Places in the Heart (1984)

PG | 111 min | Drama

70 Metascore

In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.

Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan

Votes: 13,562 | Gross: $34.90M

40. House of Games (1987)

R | 102 min | Crime, Thriller

78 Metascore

A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.

Director: David Mamet | Stars: Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Lilia Skala

Votes: 24,038 | Gross: $2.59M

41. Lemon Sky (1988)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama

An out of high school teen from the midwest moves to San Diego, California in the 1950s to live with his estranged father and new family. Escaping his past may not be as easy as he had hoped...or is it all a dream?

Director: Jan Egleson | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Tom Atkins, Lindsay Crouse, Kyra Sedgwick

Votes: 338

42. 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: 7,555 | Gross: $1.92M

43. The Ploughman's Lunch (1983)

R | 107 min | Drama

James Penfield (Jonathan Pryce) has made a career out of journalism. Now bankrupt, he finds himself with a group of other writers in the middle of the dispute-ridden British homeland at the time of the Falklands War.

Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Jonathan Pryce, William Maxwell, Paul Jesson, Andy Rashleigh

Votes: 496

44. Entre Nous (1983)

PG | 110 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him.

Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Bacri

Votes: 2,259

45. Phenomena (1985)

R | 116 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

57 Metascore

A young girl who has an amazing ability to communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.

Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro

Votes: 30,045

46. Arhangelos tou pathous (1987)

105 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

An unhinged Greek composer makes a promise to his dead girlfriend to kill himself on his birthday if he doesn't hear from her. Meanwhile, he also becomes obsessed with a married vamp French woman named Aphrodite.

Director: Nikos Vergitsis | Stars: Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Isabel Otero, Patrick Bauchau, Olia Lazaridou

Votes: 39

47. The Music Teacher (1988)

PG | 95 min | Drama, Music

Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers, Sophie and Jean. Although the rigorous training takes its toll on ... See full summary »

Director: Gérard Corbiau | Stars: José van Dam, Anne Roussel, Philippe Volter, Sylvie Fennec

Votes: 1,038 | Gross: $1.09M

48. Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Music, Sci-Fi

Dr Daniel Jekyll researching into drugs that would help mankind avoid surgery discovers a white powder that unleashes the animal in every man, and in his case turning him from a shy and ... See full summary »

Director: Jerry Belson | Stars: Mark Blankfield, Bess Armstrong, Krista Errickson, Tim Thomerson

Votes: 1,404 | Gross: $3.79M

49. Code of Silence (1985)

R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama

64 Metascore

A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take down an irresponsible cop.

Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Chuck Norris, Henry Silva, Bert Remsen, Mike Genovese

Votes: 9,389 | Gross: $20.35M

50. Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)

PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Romance

55 Metascore

When Keith goes out with Amanda, the girl of his dreams, Amanda's ex-boyfriend plans to get back at Keith. Meanwhile, Keith's best friend, tomboy Watts, realizes she has feelings for Keith.

Director: Howard Deutch | Stars: Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lea Thompson, Craig Sheffer

Votes: 34,649 | Gross: $18.55M

51. Fresh Horses (1988)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, Romance

A college student from Cincinnati breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after falling in love with a girl from Kentucky. She claims to be 20, but he learns she is actually only 16 and already married.

Director: David Anspaugh | Stars: Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Patti D'Arbanville, Ben Stiller

Votes: 2,118 | Gross: $6.64M

52. Three Fugitives (1989)

PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Comedy

40 Metascore

A reformed bank robber is taken hostage by a desperate man during a bank hold up, but is forced to go on the run with his captor when they're both mistakenly thought to be in cahoots.

Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Nick Nolte, Martin Short, Sarah Rowland Doroff, James Earl Jones

Votes: 12,746 | Gross: $40.59M

53. The Wild Life (1984)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama

32 Metascore

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: 3,152 | Gross: $11.02M

54. Whoops Apocalypse (1986)

R | 93 min | Comedy

A British satire on the beginning of WWIII.

Director: Tom Bussmann | Stars: Stuart Saunders, Graeme Garden, Marc Smith, Loretta Swit

Votes: 1,019

55. Deadly Games (1989)

Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

On Christmas Eve, a resourceful young boy has to defend himself and his grandfather from a killer dressed as Santa Claus.

Director: René Manzor | Stars: Brigitte Fossey, Louis Ducreux, Patrick Floersheim, Alain Lalanne

Votes: 2,782

56. Deadly Daphne's Revenge (1987)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Thriller

A young hitchhiker is picked up by four drunken hunters, one of whom rapes her. A tough prosecutor has all four of the men indicted for the crime, which results in a suicide and a murder-for-hire plot.

Director: Richard Gardner | Stars: Anthony Holt, Richard Gardner, Laurie Tait Partridge, Candy Castillo

Votes: 279

57. Melvin and Howard (1980)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama

The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, Elizabeth Cheshire, Mary Steenburgen

Votes: 5,303 | Gross: $4.31M

58. Sitting Ducks (1980)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Crime

Two small-time thieves (Michael Emil and Zack Norman) come together as a bizarre comic duo in a quest to make their childhood dreams come true. In a limousine stuffed with cash stolen from ... See full summary »

Director: Henry Jaglom | Stars: Michael Emil, Zack Norman, Patrice Townsend, Irene Cagen

Votes: 237

59. Running Scared (1980)

PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

It's 1961. Two servicemen smuggle a box of military gear to USA. Leroy tries out a military camera and accidentally takes a picture of some military facilities. Army finds one of the pictures and thinks they're communist spies.

Director: Paul Glickler | Stars: Ken Wahl, Judge Reinhold, Annie McEnroe, Bradford Dillman

Votes: 451

60. 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

61. The Flight of the Eagle (1982)

140 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

In 1897 Swedish engineer S. A. Andrée with 2 colleagues prepares to fly over the North Pole in his balloon "Eagle".

Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Max von Sydow, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Göran Stangertz, Eva von Hanno

Votes: 1,220

62. Bullshot Crummond (1983)

PG | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The dashing Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond (Alan Shearman) - World War I ace fighter pilot, Olympic athlete, racing driver, part-time sleuth, and all round spiffing chap - must save the ... See full summary »

Director: Dick Clement | Stars: Alan Shearman, Diz White, Ronald E. House, Frances Tomelty

Votes: 721

63. The Return of the Musketeers (1989)

PG | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

In France in 1649, the services of the Four Musketeers are needed again, and they run into some old foes from twenty years before.

Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, C. Thomas Howell

Votes: 3,907

64. Heaven Help Us (1985)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

64 Metascore

A new transfer student to St. Basil's Boys' Prep School tries to fit in while romantically pursuing a troubled young girl.

Director: Michael Dinner | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Andrew McCarthy, John Heard, Mary Stuart Masterson

Votes: 4,982 | Gross: $6.07M

65. At Close Range (1986)

R | 111 min | Crime, Drama

67 Metascore

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: 17,740 | Gross: $2.35M

66. Crimewave (1985)

PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

34 Metascore

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: 6,740 | Gross: $0.00M

67. Hearts and Armour (1983)

R | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Bradamante, a woman wearing an invincible suit of armor, is travelling the countryside at the time of the Crusades. After ending up in the middle of a web of romantic and cultural tangles, ... See full summary »

Director: Giacomo Battiato | Stars: Zeudi Araya Cristaldi, Barbara De Rossi, Rick Edwards, Ronn Moss

Votes: 727

68. Just One of the Guys (1985)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Romance

57 Metascore

Terry feels discriminated against when the summer jobs at the Sun Tribune go to two guys. She decides to do something about it. She dresses like a guy and gets a haircut. Will students at the other high school notice? Girls notice "him".

Director: Lisa Gottlieb | Stars: Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner, Billy Jayne, Toni Hudson

Votes: 17,850 | Gross: $11.50M

69. Dirty Laundry (1987)

PG-13 | 79 min | Comedy, Thriller

A young man and his girlfriend unwittingly come into possession of a bag containing one million dollars belonging to a drug-smuggling ring. The mobsters try to catch the couple and retrieve their money.

Director: William Webb | Stars: Leigh McCloskey, Jeanne O'Brien, Robbie Rist, Frankie Valli

Votes: 170

70. Double Revenge (1988)

R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

An innocent bystander goes on a vendetta against a bank robber.

Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Vinny Argiro, Julie Ariola, Willi Baronet

Votes: 128

71. Lucky Stiff (1988)

PG | 82 min | Comedy, Horror

A plump loser, after being left at the alter by his fiancee, is invited to Christmas dinner by a beautiful woman, but her family are cannibals who intend to have *him* as the main course.

Director: Anthony Perkins | Stars: Donna Dixon, Joe Alaskey, Jeff Kober, Fran Ryan

Votes: 474

72. Protocol (1984)

PG | 96 min | Comedy

55 Metascore

A woman (Goldie Hawn) saves life of Emir of Ohtar (Richard Romanus) in Washington.

Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus, Andre Gregory

Votes: 5,266 | Gross: $26.30M

73. Seems Like Old Times (1980)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Romance

58 Metascore

Wrongfully accused of a bank robbery, a writer seeks the help of his ex-wife, who is now married to the soon-to-be Attorney General of California.

Director: Jay Sandrich | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Charles Grodin, Robert Guillaume

Votes: 10,796 | Gross: $44.00M

74. Overboard (1987)

PG | 112 min | Comedy, Romance

53 Metascore

A cruel but beautiful heiress mocks and cheats a hired carpenter. When she gets amnesia after an accident, he decides to introduce her to regular life by convincing her that they're husband and wife.

Director: Garry Marshall | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond

Votes: 67,860 | Gross: $26.71M

75. Toy Soldiers (1984)

R | 85 min | Action, Drama

While on a vacation in Central America, some American teenagers are kidnapped by terrorists. A rescue mission is sent after them, but they manage to escape and join up with a mercenary fighting the terrorists.

Director: David Fisher | Stars: Jason Miller, Cleavon Little, Rodolfo de Anda, Terri Garber

Votes: 676

76. Travelling North (1987)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Drama

After their late-life marriage, a middle-aged Australian couple move to the countryside. Their life and tempestuous marriage is detailed.

Director: Carl Schultz | Stars: Leo McKern, Julia Blake, Henri Szeps, Michele Fawdon

Votes: 371 | Gross: $0.21M

77. The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)

PG | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The sole surviving Texas Ranger (Klinton Spilsbury) of an ambush arranged by outlaw leader Major Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish (Christopher Lloyd) returns to fight back as a great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger.

Director: William A. Fraker | Stars: Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse, Christopher Lloyd, Matt Clark

Votes: 2,516 | Gross: $12.62M

78. The Island (1980)

R | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A journalist takes his son with him to investigate pirate activity off the coast of Florida. But he gets stranded on a mysterious island--where he might not be alone.

Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Michael Caine, David Warner, Angela Punch McGregor, Frank Middlemass

Votes: 4,725 | Gross: $15.72M

79. Project X (1987)

PG | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

61 Metascore

An Air Force pilot joins a top secret military experiment involving chimps, but begins to suspect there might be something more to the mysterious "Project X".

Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt, Willie, Okko

Votes: 12,843 | Gross: $18.53M

80. Twins (1988)

PG | 107 min | Comedy, Crime

50 Metascore

A physically perfect but innocent man goes in search of his long-lost twin brother, who is short, a womanizer, and small-time crook.

Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston, Chloe Webb

Votes: 137,207 | Gross: $111.94M

81. Silverado (1985)

PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Crime, Drama

64 Metascore

A misfit bunch of friends comes together to right the injustices which exist in a small town.

Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Rosanna Arquette

Votes: 49,430 | Gross: $33.20M

82. Pale Rider (1985)

R | 115 min | Drama, Western

61 Metascore

A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Sydney Penny

Votes: 64,687 | Gross: $41.41M

83. The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)

R | 131 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

68 Metascore

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle, Joyce Van Patten

Votes: 12,681 | Gross: $17.10M

84. Short Circuit (1986)

PG | 98 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

50 Metascore

Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.

Director: John Badham | Stars: Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton

Votes: 66,321 | Gross: $40.70M

85. C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud (1989)

R | 84 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors go awry, and legions of murderous zombies are unleased upon a surburan neighborhood.

Director: David Irving | Stars: Brian Robbins, Bill Calvert, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Gerrit Graham

Votes: 4,034

86. The Presidio (1988)

R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

31 Metascore

A San Francisco civilian police detective is forced to work on a series of murders with his former enemy commanding officer while dating his daughter.

Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan, Jack Warden

Votes: 19,991 | Gross: $20.04M

87. Out Cold (1989)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Sunny is married to Ernie and their marriage is on the rocks. One evening drunken Ernie and Dave have a fight which results in Ernie getting knocked out in the fridge where he dies during the night.

Director: Malcolm Mowbray | Stars: John Lithgow, Teri Garr, Laura Alcalde, Madison Arnold

Votes: 948 | Gross: $0.29M

88. Return to Horror High (1987)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Horror

In the early 1980s, a series of gruesome murders occurred at Crippen High School. A few years later, a film crew uses the now-abandoned Crippen High as the set for a film. But an uninvited guest makes an appearance on the set.

Director: Bill Froehlich | Stars: Lori Lethin, Brendan Hughes, Alex Rocco, Scott Jacoby

Votes: 3,808 | Gross: $1.19M

89. Bloody Moon (1981)

Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Girls are killed at a language-school in Spain.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Olivia Pascal, Christoph Moosbrugger, Nadja Gerganoff, Jasmin Losensky

Votes: 2,785

90. 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: 10,683 | Gross: $0.16M

91. Super Fuzz (1980)

PG | 97 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Red powder from a nuclear explosion gives a police officer super powers as long as he doesn't see anything red. He is eventually framed for murder and is unsuccessfully executed by many different methods.

Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Terence Hill, Ernest Borgnine, Joanne Dru, Marc Lawrence

Votes: 8,185

92. Inside Moves (1980)

PG | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

63 Metascore

Handicapped after an unsuccessful suicide attempt, a man finds common ground in the troubled souls at a local dive bar.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: John Savage, David Morse, Diana Scarwid, Amy Wright

Votes: 2,282

93. Broadway Danny Rose (1984)

PG | 84 min | Comedy

82 Metascore

In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte, Sandy Baron

Votes: 26,941 | Gross: $10.60M

94. The Big Picture (1989)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

64 Metascore

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: 6,188 | Gross: $0.12M

95. P.I. Private Investigations (1987)

R | 91 min | Crime, Thriller

A young architect finds himself being stalked by a gang of criminals who believe he knows something that could expose their activities.

Director: Nigel Dick | Stars: Clayton Rohner, Ray Sharkey, Paul Le Mat, Talia Balsam

Votes: 186

96. Heart Beat (1980)

R | 110 min | Drama

The life and friendship among the icons of the Beat Generation: Neal Cassady, Carolyn Cassady, and Jack Kerouac.

Director: John Byrum | Stars: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, John Heard, Ray Sharkey

Votes: 741

97. Hawks (1988)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama

Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time.

Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Timothy Dalton, Anthony Edwards, Janet McTeer, Camille Coduri

Votes: 1,217

98. 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

99. Come and See (1985)

Not Rated | 142 min | Drama, Thriller, War

After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas

Votes: 97,204

100. Rising Damp (1980)

98 min | Comedy, Romance

Based on the British situation comedy Rising Damp, which aired on ITV from 1974 to 1978. Stingy landlord Rigsby (Leonard Rossiter) manages to scam his lodgers, arts student John Cooper(... See full summary »

Director: Joseph McGrath | Stars: Leonard Rossiter, Frances de la Tour, Don Warrington, Christopher Strauli

Votes: 1,168



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