Highest grossing movies of 1980s

Actors : John Heard, Robert Loggia, Elizabeth Perkins, Tom Hanks,
Directors : Penny Marshall,

After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.

Actors : Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Dan Aykroyd,
Directors : Ivan Reitman,

The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.

Actors : Chloe Webb, Danny DeVito, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kelly Preston,
Directors : Ivan Reitman,

A physically perfect but innocent man goes in search of his long-lost twin brother, who is short, a womanizer, and small-time crook.

Actors : Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan, William Shatner, DeForest Kelley,
Directors : Leonard Nimoy,

To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.

Actors : Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, Ernie Dingo,
Directors : John Cornell,

Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.

Actors : Christopher Daniel Barnes, Jodi Benson, Rene Auberjonois, Pat Carroll,

A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain with an unscrupulous sea-witch in order to meet a human prince on land.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Christopher Reeve,

Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : James L. Brooks,

Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Patti LuPone, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.

Actors : Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Roger Wilson,
Directors : Bob Clark,

In 1954, a group of Florida high schoolers seek out to help their buddy lose his virginity, which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them.

Actors : Dabney Coleman, Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin,
Directors : Colin Higgins,

Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.

Actors : Al Pacino, Warren Beatty, Charlie Korsmo, Madonna,
Directors : Warren Beatty,

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

Actors : JoBeth Williams, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown,
Directors : Sidney Poitier,

Set up and wrongfully accused, two best friends will be sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit, however, no prison cell could keep them locked in.

Actors : Jason Robards, Dianne Wiest, Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Ron Howard,

The Buckmans are a midwestern family all dealing with their lives: estranged relatives, raising children, pressures of the job, and learning to be a good parent and spouse.

Actors : John Gielgud, Dudley Moore, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Liza Minnelli,
Directors : Steve Gordon,

Arthur he does as he pleases. All of his life, his master's toys. Deep in his heart, he's just, he's just a boy.

Actors : Josh Charles, Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard,
Directors : Peter Weir,

English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings.

Actors : Jennifer Beals, Sunny Johnson, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala,
Directors : Adrian Lyne,

A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.

Actors : Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

Actors : Carrie Fisher, Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Bruno Kirby,
Directors : Rob Reiner,

Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.

Actors : Keith Gordon, Burt Young, Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman,
Directors : Alan Metter,

To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself.