Best movies of 1980s on netflix

Back to the Future(1985)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.



Stand by Me(1986)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.



Trading Places(1983)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.



Top Gun(1986)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 56

As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.



The Running Man(1987)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 46

A wrongly convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a game show.



Back to School(1986)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 55

To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself.



River's Edge(1986)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A high school slacker commits a shocking act and proceeds to let his friends in on the secret. However, the friends' reaction is almost as ambiguous and perplexing as the crime itself.



She's Gotta Have It(1986)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Story of a woman and her three lovers.



Twins(1988)

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Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 27

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



Bad Influence(1990)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 45

Michael, a wimpy young executive, is about to get pulverized by a jealous boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in--and then disappears. Later that night, while ...



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.



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.



Lionheart(1990)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 12

An Ex-French Solider begins participating in underground street fights in order to make money for his brother's family.



Troll 2(1990)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A family vacationing in a small town discovers the entire town is inhabited by goblins in disguise as humans, who plan to eat them.



Agneepath(1990)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young boy's quest for revenge leads him to become a gangster as an adult, and with each day he becomes more and more like his enemies. Can he find vengeance and redemption?



Flashback(1990)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1989, clean-cut FBI man John Buckner is detailed to escort heavily-bearded Huey Walker back to jail for offenses dating back to his days as a celebrated hippie radical. After Walker ...



Silsila(1981)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Can an unconventional love that runs afoul of societal expectations survive?



Chandni(1989)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Fate leaves Chandni shattered as her love Rohit disappears from her life. She meets Lalit and they befriend each other until Rohit knocks on her door.



Faceless(1987)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When model Barbara Hallen disappears in France, her father's private detective traces her steps to a private plastic surgery clinic run by Dr.Flamand.



Mashaal(1984)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A chain of events changes Raja's life - from black marketer to journalist to an underworld Don and a Racketeer in order to combat Vardhan.




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