The Right Stuff(1983)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 25

The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.



Nine to Five(1980)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.



Somewhere in Time(1980)

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Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.



Ragtime(1981)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 41

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.



Educating Rita(1983)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 36

In London, the twenty-seven year-old hairdresser Rita decides to complete her basic education before having children as desired by her husband Denny. She joins the literature course in an ...



The Killing Fields(1984)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.



Casualties of War(1989)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 24

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.



Poltergeist II: The Other Side(1986)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 26

The Freeling family have a new house, but their troubles with supernatural forces don't seem to be over.



Roxanne(1987)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 22

The large-nosed C.D. Bales is in love with the beautiful Roxanne; she falls for his personality but another man's looks.



Harlem Nights(1989)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 29

During the 1930s, a New York illegal gambling house owner and his associates must deal with strong competition, gangsters and corrupt cops in order to stay in business.



On Golden Pond(1981)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 23

Norman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.



Throw Momma from the Train(1987)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 21

A bitter ex-husband and a put-upon momma's boy both want their respective former spouse and mother dead. Who will pull it off?



Steel Magnolias(1989)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.



The Verdict(1982)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.



The Mission(1986)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 17

18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.



Beaches(1988)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.



Stand and Deliver(1988)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 28

The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus.



Mr. & Mrs. Bridge(1990)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 47

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.



Zelig(1983)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 17

"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.



Against All Odds(1984)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 31

A gangster hires an ex-football player to find his girlfriend. When he finds her, they fall in love, and the twists start to appear.




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