Best movies of 1980s

The Philadelphia Experiment(1984)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy "invisibility" experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors forty years into the future.



Prince of the City(1981)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption. However, he soon discovers that he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.



Eye of the Needle(1981)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.



Dead & Buried(1981)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A suspense horror film set in a small coastal town where, after a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses begin to come back to life.



Blame It on Rio(1984)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Best friends and their daughters holiday in Rio only for one to fall for the other's daughter.



City Heat(1984)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A slick private eye and tough police lieutenant--once partners, now bitter enemies--reluctantly team up to investigate a murder.



Polyester(1981)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A suburban housewife's world falls apart when her pornographer husband admits he's serially unfaithful to her, her daughter gets pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet.



Class of 1984(1982)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with the delinquent leader of a punk posse that runs the school.



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.



Cyrano de Bergerac(1990)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.



Mystery Train(1989)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.



Miami Blues(1990)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 14

When Fred Frenger gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, Florida, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college student/prostitute ...



Scandal(1989)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Based on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government.



3 Men and a Little Lady(1990)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary with her, the three men are heartbroken ...



Ernest Saves Christmas(1988)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Ernest helps Santa Claus as he searches for his successor.



The Handmaid's Tale(1990)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.



The Exorcist III(1990)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A police lieutenant uncovers more than he bargained for as his investigation of a series of murders, which have all the hallmarks of the deceased 'Gemini' serial killer, lead him to question the patients of a psychiatric ward.



Arthur 2: On the Rocks(1988)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Arthur loses all his money, and his wife wants a baby.



Fat Man and Little Boy(1989)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 14

This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.



Yume(1990)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A collection of tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.




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