Best movies of 1980s

Actors : Nick Nolte, Woody Allen, Rosanna Arquette, Marvin Chatinover,

A middle-aged artist obsessed with his pretty young assistant, a precocious 12 year old living in a hotel, and a neurotic lawyer with a possessive mother make up three Gotham tales.

Actors : Sophie Ward, Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.

Actors : Peter Coyote, Robert Loggia, Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Richard Marquand,

San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires ...

Actors : Ed Harris, Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Amy Madigan,
Directors : Robert Benton,

In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow, with two small children, tries to run her small 40-acre farm with the help of two disparate people.

Actors : River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Jonas Abry, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own.

Actors : Cathy Tyson, Robbie Coltrane, Bob Hoskins, Michael Caine,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.

Actors : Dyan Cannon, Jackie Mason, Robert Stack, Dina Merrill,
Directors : Allan Arkush,

When a crass new-money tycoon's membership application is turned down at a snooty country club, he retaliates by buying the club and turning it into a tacky amusement park.

Actors : Steven Seagal, Frederick Coffin, Kelly LeBrock, William Sadler,
Directors : Bruce Malmuth,

Left for dead with his wife killed in their house, L.A. Detective Mason Storm will have to make a quick recovery, expose those behind the murder and take revenge.

Actors : Alison Routledge, Bruno Lawrence, Anzac Wallace, Pete Smith,
Directors : Geoff Murphy,

A man named Zac Hobson awakens to find himself alone in the world. In a desperate attempt to search for others, he finds only two who have their own agenda.

Actors : Nancy Travis, Andy Garcia, Laurie Metcalf, Richard Gere,
Directors : Mike Figgis,

An Internal Affairs agent becomes obsessed with bringing down a cop who has managed to maintain a spotless reputation despite being involved in a web of corruption.

Actors : Matthew Broderick, Matt Mulhern, Corey Parker, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi, Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon.

Actors : Lorraine Gary, Mario Van Peebles, Lance Guest, Karen Young,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.

Actors : James Belushi, Elizabeth Perkins, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe,
Directors : Edward Zwick,

A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.

Actors : Steve Guttenberg, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Bubba Smith,
Directors : Jerry Paris,

The alumni of Commandant Lassard's Police Academy (1984) return to the school to train new recruits and prevent its closure.

Actors : Megan Follows, Corey Haim, Everett McGill, Gary Busey,
Directors : Daniel Attias,

A werewolf terrorizes a small city where lives the paralytic Marty Coslaw, his uncle, and his sister, the story's narrator.

Actors : Daniel Stern, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Peter Weller,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

An American deep-sea mining colony stumbles upon a sunken Soviet vessel hiding a horrific secret.

Actors : John Doe, Winona Ryder, Dennis Quaid, Stephen Tobolowsky,
Directors : Jim McBride,

The life and career of wildly controversial rock 'n' roll star Jerry Lee Lewis.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Jennifer Connelly, Daria Nicolodi, Fiore Argento,
Directors : Dario Argento,

A young girl, with 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.

Actors : Terry O'Quinn, Charles Lanyer, Jill Schoelen, Shelley Hack,
Directors : Joseph Ruben,

After murdering his entire family, a man remarries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again.

Actors : Lance Henriksen, John D'Aquino, Jeff East, Kimberly Ross,
Directors : Stan Winston,

After a tragic accident, a man conjures up a towering, vengeful demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy a group of unsuspecting teenagers.