Best movies of 1980s

Le retour de Martin Guerre(1982)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.



Eyewitness(1981)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Eccentric Vietnam War vet turned janitor claims to have witnessed a murder of a man tied to international political underground in order to get the attention of a TV reporter he has a huge crush on. The cops suspect his loser best friend.



Hawk the Slayer(1980)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 4

With the aid of his companions, a man seeks to defeat his evil brother who has taken a nun hostage.



You Better Watch Out(1980)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.



Shao Lin si(1982)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The Tang emperor is betrayed by one of his generals, who installs himself as emperor in the East Capital. The son of one of his slave workers escapes to the Shaolin Temple, learns kung fu, ...



Roadgames(1981)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer on a desolate Australian highway.



Final Exam(1981)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A psycho killer shows up on college campus to slash up pretty co-eds and dumb jocks.



The Competition(1980)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 7

The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will ...



The Monster Club(1981)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A writer of horror stories is invited to a "monster club" by a mysterious old gentleman. There, three gruesome stories are told to him; between each story some musicians play their songs.



Loulou(1980)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Maurice Pialat's portrait of contemporary France mocks prosperity as a substitute for social and sexual revolution. Nelly abandons her bourgeois friends and a steady relationship for the ...



L'été meurtrier(1983)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She ...



The Final Terror(1983)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A group of rangers go camping on unfamiliar forest grounds. All is well until the group members begin to start getting picked off by a cunning, tactical, malevolent, killer in the woods.



Garde à vue(1981)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A police inspector, suspecting an attorney of two child sex murders, has him held for a questioning session that goes on for hours.



Blood Beach(1980)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace. What is the creature ...



Forbidden World(1982)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 4

In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.



The Miser(1980)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Based on Molière's play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven't spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose ...



Wrong Is Right(1982)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A satire of American news reporting, Covert Agencies, and political system. The theft of two suitcase sized nuclear weapons, and their sale to a terrorist group, leads TV Newsman Patrick ...



They All Laughed(1981)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A mad cap private-eye caper about a team of detectives who are following, and are being followed by, a group of beautiful women.



The Sea Wolves(1980)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A true World War II story: the British must attack a German ship, but it's safe, in neutral Goa. So they send civilians, ex-soldiers about sixty-years-old.



La boum 2(1982)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Two years after the first "Boum", Vic - now 15 and a half years old - has a very calm love life, actually no boyfriend at all. Her parents are happily together again, Grandma Poupette ...




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