Best movies of 1980s on amazon prime

The Final Countdown(1980)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.



Internal Affairs(1990)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 16

An Internal Affairs agent becomes obsessed with bringing down a cop who has managed to maintain a spotless reputation despite being involved in a web of corruption.



Staying Alive(1983)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 12

It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenge yet - succeeding as a dancer on the Broadway stage.



Elvira: Mistress of the Dark(1988)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Upon arriving in a small town where she has inherited a rundown mansion, a famous horror hostess battles an evil uncle who wants her burned at the stake.



Big Top Pee-wee(1988)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Pee-wee Herman is now a small-town farmer with a fiancée, but when a traveling circus comes to town, he finds himself falling for the trapeze artist.



Troll 2(1990)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A family vacationing in a small town discovers the entire town is inhabited by goblins in disguise as humans, who plan to eat them.



Dead & Buried(1981)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A suspense horror film set in a small coastal town where, after a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses begin to come back to life.



Once Bitten(1985)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A vampire Countess needs to drink the blood of a virgin in order to keep her eternal beauty. It seems that all is hopeless, until she bumps into Mark Kendall.



Girls Just Want to Have Fun(1985)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Janey is new in town, and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general, and "Dance TV" in particular. When a competition is announced to find a new Dance TV regular ...



Young Guns II(1990)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1881, cattle baron John Chisum pays a bounty to Patrick Floyd Garrett to kill outlaw Billy the Kid.



Trail of the Pink Panther(1982)

Combined Rating:
25
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.



The Bounty(1984)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.



C.H.U.D.(1984)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A bizarre series of sudden disappearances on the streets of New York City seems to point toward something unsavory living in the sewers.



We're No Angels(1989)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.



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.



Troll(1986)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A wicked troll king in search of a mystical ring that will return him to his human form invades a San Francisco apartment complex where a powerful witch lives.



Flowers in the Attic(1987)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.



Skin Deep(1989)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A womanizing, drunken, allelic writer, whose life seems to be falling apart at the seams, repeatedly finds himself in trouble of one sort or another with the law, ex-girlfriends, and jealous boyfriends.



The Principal(1987)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violent and crime-ridden high school.



She-Devil(1989)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.




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