Best Fantasy movies of 1980s

Actors : Reb Brown, Carole André, Corinne Cléry, John Steiner,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

A warrior seeks his true origins in a seemingly prehistoric wasteland.

Actors : Biao Yuen, Damian Lau, Adam Cheng, Brigitte Lin,
Directors : Hark Tsui,

Chinese soldiers in an ancient civil war get caught up in a fantastical quest to save the universe.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Roberts Blossom, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ...

Actors : Margaret Anne MacLeod, Michael Gottli, Angela Heck, Kyle McCulloch,
Directors : Guy Maddin,

While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told a tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the Lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the ...

Actors : Bernadette Lafont, Brent Huff, Zabou Breitman, Tawny Kitaen,
Directors : Just Jaeckin,

Gwendoline arrives in China in a box, and is helped out of her immediate predicament by a female contact and a devil-may-care adventurer. She's on a mission to find her father, who was last...

Actors : Isabelle Mejias, Patrick Dempsey, Al Waxman, Sally Kellerman,
Directors : George Mendeluk,

The ghost of a dead porn star comes to Earth to help a nerd with his sex life.

Actors : Alain Artur, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Dossignan is a zealous rural priest. The dean Menou-Segrais tries to keep him reasonable. But Dossignan will be tempted by Satan, then will try to save the soul of Mouchette, a young girl who killed one of her lovers.

Actors : Spencer Leigh, 'Spring' Mark Adley, Gerrard McArthur, Tilda Swinton,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.

Actors : Danny DeVito, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Rhea Perlman,
Directors : Mike Joens,

Ponyland comes under attack from a talking blob of purple gunk.

Actors : Don Murray, Anthony Quinn, Bo Derek, Julie Newmar,
Directors : John Derek,

Elderly Scott kills himself after a heart attack wrecks his body, but then comes back as a ghost and convinces his loving young hot wife Kate to pick and kill a young man in order for Scott to possess his body and be with her again.

Actors : Antonella Ponziani, Sergio Rubini, Maurizio Mein, Paola Liguori,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

Cinecitta, the huge movie studio outside Rome, is 50 years old and Fellini is interviewed by a Japanese TV crew about the films he has made there over the years as he begins production on ...

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, John Cassavetes, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek ...

Actors : Katarzyna Figura, Jerzy Stuhr, Grzegorz Herominski, Jacek Chmielnik,
Directors : Juliusz Machulski,

A comedy. The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. ...

Actors : William Hickey, Barnard Hughes, Karl Hayden, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Matt Clark,

A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.

Actors : Bogdan Diklic, Dragan Nikolic, Rade Markovic, Olivera Markovic,
Directors : Goran Markovic,

During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead.

Actors : Iemasa Kayumi, Masane Tsukayama, Hideko Yoshida, Yû Mizushima,

A trilogy of separate stories. In "Labyrinth labyrinthos", a girl and her cat enter a strange world. In "Running Man", a racer takes on the ultimate opponent. In "Construction Cancellation Order", a man must shut down worker robots.

Actors : Barbara Carrera, Lionel Stander, Colleen Camp, Bette Davis,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A mother/daughter pair of witches descend on a yuppie family's home and cause havoc, one at a time since they share one body & the other must live in a cat the rest of the time. Now it's up...

Actors : Emily Chu, Anita Mui, Alex Man, Leslie Cheung,
Directors : Stanley Kwan,

Fleur is the blue angel in one of Hong Kong's "flower houses" - bordellos and night clubs of the 1930's. A detached and beautiful performer, she falls in love with Twelfth Master Chan, heir...

Actors : Robert Powell, Broderick Crawford, David Hemmings, Carmen Duncan,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

A modern-day politician is faced with an incomprehensible in this mystical-fantasy. Senator Rast is a very powerful man. But his is nothing compared to the extraordinary power of the ...

Actors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Fat Chung, Ha Huang, Lung Chan,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Villager Bold Cheung (Sammo Hung Kam-Bo), known for his willingness to do anything courageous, bold or daring, becomes a target by the evil rich Master Tam (Huang Ha), who committed ...