Best movies of 1980s that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Meryl Streep, Michael Kitchen,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.

Actors : Sally Field, Paul Newman, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

When a prosecutor leaks a false story that a liquor warehouse owner is involved in the murder of a union head, the man's life begins to unravel.

Actors : River Phoenix, Jadrien Steele, Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Peter Weir,

An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build a utopia in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher and ...

Actors : Josette Simon, Wabei Siyolwe, Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country, after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the black activist Steve Biko.

Actors : Scott Glenn, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Debra Winger, John Travolta,
Directors : James Bridges,

Bud is a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.

Actors : William Daniels, Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.

Actors : Alejandro Rey, Robin Williams, Cleavant Derricks, Maria Conchita Alonso,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

When a Russian musician defects in Bloomingdale's department store in New York, he finds adjusting to American life more difficult than he imagined.

Actors : James Woods, Joe Pesci, Elizabeth McGovern, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Sergio Leone,

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Actors : Joshua Rudoy, John Lithgow, Margaret Langrick, Melinda Dillon,
Directors : William Dear,

The Henderson family adopt a friendly Sasquatch but have a hard time trying to keep the legend of 'Bigfoot' a secret.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

Actors : Tony Goldwyn, Whoopi Goldberg, Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : Jerry Zucker,

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.

Actors : John Gielgud, Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, Geraldine Fitzgerald,
Directors : Steve Gordon,

Arthur he does as he pleases. All of his life, his master's toys. Deep in his heart, he's just, he's just a boy.

Actors : Chloe Webb, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Directors : Ivan Reitman,

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

Actors : Ronny Cox, Timothy Hutton, George C. Scott, Sean Penn,
Directors : Harold Becker,

Military cadets take extreme measures to insure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.

Actors : Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae, Jürgen Prochnow, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Euzhan Palcy,

Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police ...

Actors : Terrence Mann, Michael Blevins, Michael Douglas, Yamil Borges,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.

Actors : Steven Berkoff, Richard Crenna, Sylvester Stallone, Charles Napier,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

Actors : Ronny Cox, Judge Reinhold, Eddie Murphy, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Tony Scott,

Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogomil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it.

Actors : Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Sylvester Stallone,
Directors : Sylvester Stallone,

After winning the ultimate title and being the world champion, Rocky falls into a hole and finds himself picked up by a former enemy.

Actors : Forest Whitaker, Robin Williams, Chintara Sukapatana, Tung Thanh Tran,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

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.