Best Romance movies of 1980s

Actors : David Warner, Steve Martin, Paul Benedict, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Carl Reiner,

A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.

Actors : Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan,
Directors : John Patrick Shanley,

When a hypochondriac learns that he is dying, he accepts an offer to throw himself in a volcano at a tropical island, and along the way there, learns to truly live.

Actors : David Keith, Debra Winger, Robert Loggia, Richard Gere,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

A young man must complete his work at a Navy Flight school to become an aviator, with the help of a tough gunnery sergeant and his new girlfriend.

Actors : Harold Ramis, Sam Shepard, Diane Keaton, Kristina Kennedy,
Directors : Charles Shyer,

The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.

Actors : Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Leslie Cheung,
Directors : Kar-Wai Wong,

Set in 1960, the film centres on the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy, who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother. Hoping to hold onto him, she ...

Actors : David Margulies, Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Margaret Whitton,
Directors : Adrian Lyne,

A woman gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.

Actors : Geena Davis, Amy Wright, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Lawrence Kasdan,

An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.

Actors : Tommy Redmond Hicks, Spike Lee, Tracy Camilla Johns, John Canada Terrell,
Directors : Spike Lee,

Story of a woman and her three lovers.

Actors : Lea Thompson, Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Charles Cioffi,
Directors : Michael Chapman,

A high school football player desperate for a scholarship and his headstrong coach clash in a dying Pennsylvania steel town.

Actors : Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Richard Dreyfuss, Brad Johnson,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind.

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Robert Redford, 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 : Meg Tilly, Annette Bening, Colin Firth, Fairuza Balk,
Directors : Milos Forman,

Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an...

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 : 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 : 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 : John Wood, Carol Kane, Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins,
Directors : Penny Marshall,

Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day she gets a coded message from an unknown source. After decoding the message, Terry becomes...

Actors : Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Lisa Banes, Elisabeth Shue,
Directors : Roger Donaldson,

A talented New York City bartender takes a job at a bar in Jamaica and falls in love.

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 : Courtney Gains, Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson, Tina Caspary,
Directors : Steve Rash,

A nerdy outcast secretly pays the most popular girl in school one thousand dollars to be his girlfriend.