Best movies of 1980s

A Passage to India(1984)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.



Night Shift(1982)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A morgue attendant is talked into running a brothel at his workplace after a deceased pimp is sent there. However, the pimp's killers don't look too kindly on this new 'business', nor does the morgue's owner.



Tenebre(1982)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 15

An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.



Firefox(1982)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A pilot is sent into the Soviet Union on a mission to steal a prototype jet fighter that can be partially controlled by a neuralink



The Final Countdown(1980)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.



The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew(1983)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Canada's most famous hosers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, get jobs at the Elsinore Brewery, only to learn that something is rotten with the state of it.



My Bloody Valentine(1981)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead.



Teen Wolf Too(1987)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 20

Todd Howard is a struggling teenager. Nothing seems to be going very well for him, until he turns into a wolf.



The Fly II(1989)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 12

The almost-human son of "Brundlefly" searches for a cure to his mutated genes while being monitored by a nefarious corporation that wishes to continue his father's experiments.



Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise(1987)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 17

The rising college nerds set out to a convention in Florida, but are not welcomed by the Alpha Beta representatives.



Quigley Down Under(1990)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 12

Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from Wyoming by an Australian rancher paying a very high price. But when Quigley arrives Down Under, all is not as it seems.



The Rookie(1990)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Clint Eastwood plays a veteran detective who gets stuck with a rookie cop (Charlie Sheen) to chase down a German crook (Raul Julia.)



Tonari no Totoro(1988)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.



Another Woman(1988)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Facing a mid-life crisis, a woman rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctor's help.



Night of the Creeps(1986)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.



Mo' Better Blues(1990)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 20

Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.



Lean on Me(1989)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 13

The dedicated but tyrannical Joe Clark is appointed the principal of a decaying inner-city school that he is determined to improve.



White Hunter Black Heart(1990)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa.



Wild Orchid(1989)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A female lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.



Summer School(1987)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A high-school gym teacher has big plans for the summer, but is forced to cancel them to teach a "bonehead" English class for misfit goof-off students. Fortunately, his unconventional brand ...




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