Best Fantasy movies of 1980s

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.



Chances Are(1989)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A reincarnated man unknowingly falls in love with his own daughter from his previous life. Once he realizes this, he tries to end their relationship before angels erase his memory.



Something Wicked This Way Comes(1983)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 19

In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.



Mac and Me(1988)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 18

An alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy.



The Seventh Sign(1988)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 14

In Haiti, the sea and the life-form die; in the Middle East, a town is frozen. These are signs of the Apocalypse and the Vatican is investigating, but Father Lucci advises that these omens ...



Na srebrnym globie(1988)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 36

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to find freedom and start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own ...



Warlock(1989)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A warlock flees from the 17th to the 20th century, with a witch-hunter in hot pursuit.



Erik the Viking(1989)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Erik the Viking and his men travel across the sea to find Valhalla to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnarok.



Ghost Dad(1990)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 20

Elliot Hopper is a widower with three children, he is currently working on a deal. It seems like his wife illness was very costly and this deal could put them out of the red. However he ...



The Company of Wolves(1984)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A teenage girl in a country manor falls asleep while reading a magazine and she has a disturbing dream involving wolves which appears to take place in the woods visible from her bedroom window.



Santa Claus: The Movie(1985)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A peasant woodcutter becomes Santa Claus and later foils an evil toy manufacturer's scheme to take over Christmas.



A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child(1989)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world.



Mr. Destiny(1990)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 12

Unhappy Larry Burrows sees what his life could've been like, had he made that winning home run as a teenager.



Le pont du Nord(1981)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 37

A woman recently released from prison and a strange young female street urchin keep running into each other on the streets of Paris and finally become companions in a very strange and very ...



The Milagro Beanfield War(1988)

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Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 19

In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom ...



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.



Heavy Metal(1981)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A glowing green orb - which embodies ultimate evil - terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.



The Boy Who Could Fly(1986)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 19

An autistic boy who dreams of flying touches everyone he meets, including a new family who has moved in after their father dies.



Mannequin(1987)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a job there and his creation comes to life.



The Gate(1987)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Kids, left home alone, accidentally unleashes a horde of malevolent, pint-sized demons from a mysterious hole in their suburban backyard.




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