Best movies of 1980s

Under Fire(1983)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.



White Dog(1982)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to attack black people.



Trail of the Pink Panther(1982)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Inspector Clouseau mysteriously disappears and a journalist attempts to uncover the mystery. New scenes are interspersed with old footage of Peter Sellers from the previous films.



No Retreat, No Surrender(1986)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 3

Jason Stillwell, a Bruce Lee fan, is beaten numerous times and trains from the ghost of Lee. Jason then must use his newly acquired skills to save Seattle from a crime syndicate, whose top ...



Iron Eagle(1986)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Heroic young pilot Doug Masters launches a rescue mission when his father, an Air Force veteran, is shot down over enemy territory and captured.



Murphy's Romance(1985)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Emma is a divorced woman with a teen-aged son who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the widowed town druggist who steers business her way. Things ...



Ying hung boon sik(1986)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.



The Ice Pirates(1984)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 9

In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father who disappeared when he found ...



Manon des sources(1986)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.



The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas(1982)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A town's sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a TV reporter targets it as the Devil's playhouse.



Eating Raoul(1982)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discovers a bizarre, if not murderous, way to get funding for opening a restaurant.



Teachers(1984)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A well meaning but burned-out high school teacher tries to maintain order against the backdrop of a pending lawsuit against his school district when it comes to light they gave a diploma to an illiterate student.



Psycho II(1983)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After twenty-two years of psychiatric care, Norman Bates attempts to return to a life of solitude, but the specters of his crimes - and his mother - continue to haunt him.



Never Cry Wolf(1983)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.



The Bedroom Window(1987)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Terry is having an affair with his boss' wife Sylvia. One night after an office party they are together and Sylvia witnesses an attack on Denise from Terry's bedroom window. She doesn't ...



High Spirits(1988)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.



Sacrifice(1986)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.



The Lonely Guy(1984)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.



Vision Quest(1985)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A high school wrestler in Spokane, Washington has trouble focusing on his training regimen when a beautiful young drifter takes up temporary residence at his home.



Funny Farm(1988)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A couple swap city life for the country, but their picturesque new hometown turns out to be overrun with a gauntlet of crazy inhabitants.




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