Best Fantasy movies of 1980s

Resurrection(1980)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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 ...



Il mondo di Yor(1983)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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



Shu Shan - Xin Shu shan jian ke(1983)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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



Gwendoline(1984)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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...



My Little Pony: The Movie(1986)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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



Meatballs III: Summer Job(1986)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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



Sous le soleil de Satan(1987)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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.



The Last of England(1987)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 6

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.



Tales from the Gimli Hospital(1988)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 5

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 ...



Ghosts Can't Do It(1989)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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.



Harlequin(1980)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 4

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 ...



Tempest(1982)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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 ...



Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight(1984)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. No knights stand to defend their king's honor. Except for the ...



Meikyû monogatari(1987)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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.



Intervista(1987)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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 ...



Kingsajz(1988)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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. ...



Da(1988)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 8

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.



Sabirni centar(1989)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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



Gui da gui(1980)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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 ...



Kiss Me Goodbye(1982)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancé Rupert. But soon her worst expectations come true, ...




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