Top Ten movies of the '80s

Blade Runner (1982, Scott)
Ran (1985, Kurosawa)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Spielberg)
Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
After Hours (Scorsese, 1985)
Back to the Future (Zemekis, 1985)
Raging Bull (1980, Scorsese)
The Terminator (Cameron, 1984)
Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick, 1987)
Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1985)
The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)

Still not in any order, except of course, Blade Runner, which is my favorite film, well, ever.

"To bad she won't live...then again, who does?"

Had to add Raging Bull now that I have seen it. Still can't go under 11 titles, either...

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In no particular order (and there will probably be more than 10!!)

Monty Python's Meaning of Life (1983)
The Naked Gun (1988)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Clue (1985)
Nightmare on Elm St. (1984)
Friday the 13th (1980)
The Shining (1980)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ferris Buellers Day Off (1986)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
The Fog (1980)
Highlander (1986)
Pet Semetary (1989)
Poltergeist (1982)
Spaceballs (1987)
Stand By Me (1986)

That'll do for now i think!

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1. THE DEAD
2. TONARI NO TOTORO
3. PARIS, TEXAS
4. ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
5. THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
6. PRETTY IN PINK
7. RAN
8. HANNAH AND HER SISTERS
9. RAISING ARIZONA
X. CUTTER'S WAY

Others:

BLUE VELVET
PIXOTE: A LEI DO MAIS FRACO
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA
THE STUNT MAN

1. Blade Runner (1982)
2. Jean de Florette (1986)
3. Raging Bull (1980)
4. Rain Man (1988)
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
6. Amadeus (1984)
7. Do the Right Thing (1989)
8. Ran (1985)
9. Manon of the Spring (1986)
10. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

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I don't 80's movies .. may be "die hard" was not so bad
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Out of curiosity, anybody here ever see Moving Violations??? IMO, it's hilarious!

Yep, I own that movie.
This 80's list is going to take me forever to create. I loooove movies from the 80's.
I'll be back!

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Yep, saw it at the local 99cent theatre. It was a guilty pleasure for a long time as was Porky's 3 Booogadaboogadaboogada.

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Wow! I can't believe you own it too! I think I've met 2 other people who have actually heard of this movie. I actually quote regularly from Moving Violations. Good times....

This post is driving me nuts. I have tried deleting, down to 10 movies per year, and I give. In no particular order, outside of the whole 80, 81, 82 thing . . .

1980:

The Fog
The Shining
Airplane!
Private Benjamin
Coal Miner's Daughter
Any Which Way You Can
Caddyshack
Oh Heavenly Dog
Seems Like Old Times
The Empire Strikes Back ..............


1981:

Halloween II
Escape from New York
Body Heat
Ragtime
The Postman Always Rings Twice
On Golden Pond
Absence of Malice
Modern Problems
Victory
Nighthawks
Road Games
Sharky's Machine
The Cannonball Run
Arthur
Raiders of the Lost Ark ...........


1982:

The Thing
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Poltergeist
First Blood
Rocky III
Night Shift
The Verdict
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Honkytonk Man
The World According to Garp
Missing
Tootsie
Sophie's Choice
Still of the Night
Creepshow .........................


1983:

A Christmas Story
Christine
The Dead Zone
The Outsiders
Class
WarGames
The Star Chamber
Silkwood
Terms of Endearment
The Man with Two Brains
Mr. Mom
National Lampoon's Vacation
Trading Places
The Big Chill
Eddie and the Cruisers ................


1984:

The Terminator
Tightrope
Gremlins
Ghostbusters
A Soldier's Story
Protocol
Johnny Dangerously
Bachelor Party
Splash
Places in the Heart
All of Me
Against All Odds
Romancing the Stone
Sixteen Candles
Teachers
The Karate Kid
Starman
Firestarter
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Beverly Hills Cop ...................


1985:

The Goonies
Fandango
Out of Africa
Fletch
Back to the Future
The Man with One Red Shoe
Agnes of God
Lost in America
Prizzi's Honor
Mask
Clue
Cocoon
Brewster's Million
American Flyer's
Jagged Edge
The Jewel of the Nile
The Breakfast Club
St. Elmo's Fire
Silver Bullet
Witness ......................


1986:

The Money Pit
Wildcats
The Best of Times
Platoon
¡Three Amigos!
Gung Ho
Nothing in Common
Little Shop of Horrors
Heartbreak Ridge
Crocodile Dundee
Heartburn
The Hitcher
Short Circuit
One Crazy Summer
Pretty in Pink
Big Trouble in Little China
Stand by Me
Maximum Overdrive
Hoosiers
Aliens ..........................


1987:

The Hidden
Three O'Clock High
Raising Arizona
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Roxanne
The Princess Bride
Innerspace
Harry and the Hendersons
Blind Date
Moonstruck
Stakeout
Summer School
Broadcast News
The Witches of Eastwick
Wall Street
Fatal Attraction
Creepshow 2
Predator
Full Metal Jacket
RoboCop ..................


1988:

Working Girl
Funny Farm
Scrooged
The Naked Gun
The Great Outdoors
Tequila Sunrise
Clean and Sober
Beetle Juice
They Live
Young Guns
The Accidental Tourist
Rain Man
Shoot to Kill
The Dead Pool
Big
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Die Hard
Midnight Run
A Fish Called Wanda
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? .................


1989:

The War of the Roses
Black Rain
Batman
Parenthood
Turner & Hooch
The 'Burbs
When Harry Met Sally
The Dream Team
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Major League
Tango & Cash
Cousins
Field of Dreams
Back to the Future Part II
Heathers
Always
sex,lies & videotape
Say Anything
The Abyss
The January Man
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Sea of Love
Lean on Me
Disorganized Crime
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ..........


A hint for the video clip game. I own everything I just listed, so hurry up and rent them all. Yes Holden, I own all of them, even the ones that you think suck. I feel sure I only paid .99 cents each for those, though.
I am curious as to how many of these, you all have seen. Anyone care to share!?!

I've seen them all, though some I've been trying to forget for the past twenty-some years.

What do I win?

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Not you! I didn't mean you! Of course you've seen them all.

I was pretty damn sure of what all you hated, while I put my list together.

Once again...no particular order

The Lost Boys
The Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
E.T.
Back to the Future
Ghostbusters
Scarface
Batman
The Empire Strikes Back
Goonnies

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Hey, Ðèstîñy. I enjoyed your list, lot of movies on there I saw as a kid and completely forgot existed. I'll strike-through the ones that I've seen:

1980:

The Fog
The Shining
Airplane!
Private Benjamin
Coal Miner's Daughter
Any Which Way You Can
Caddyshack
Oh Heavenly Dog
Seems Like Old Times
The Empire Strikes Back


1981:

Halloween II
Escape from New York
Body Heat
Ragtime
The Postman Always Rings Twice
On Golden Pond
Absence of Malice
Modern Problems
Victory
Nighthawks
Road Games
Sharky's Machine
The Cannonball Run
Arthur
Raiders of the Lost Ark


1982:

The Thing
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Poltergeist
First Blood
Rocky III
Night Shift
The Verdict
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Honkytonk Man
The World According to Garp
Missing
Tootsie
Sophie's Choice
Still of the Night
Creepshow


1983:

A Christmas Story
Christine
The Dead Zone
The Outsiders
Class
WarGames
The Star Chamber
Silkwood
Terms of Endearment
The Man with Two Brains
Mr. Mom
National Lampoon's Vacation
Trading Places
The Big Chill
Eddie and the Cruisers ................


1984:

The Terminator
Tightrope
Gremlins
Ghostbusters
A Soldier's Story
Protocol
Johnny Dangerously
Bachelor Party
Splash
Places in the Heart
All of Me
Against All Odds
Romancing the Stone
Sixteen Candles
Teachers
The Karate Kid
Starman
Firestarter
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Beverly Hills Cop


1985:

The Goonies
Fandango
Out of Africa
Fletch
Back to the Future
The Man with One Red Shoe
Agnes of God
Lost in America
Prizzi's Honor
Mask
Clue
Cocoon
Brewster's Million
American Flyer's
Jagged Edge
The Jewel of the Nile
The Breakfast Club
St. Elmo's Fire
Silver Bullet
Witness


1986:

The Money Pit
Wildcats
The Best of Times
Platoon
¡Three Amigos!
Gung Ho
Nothing in Common
Little Shop of Horrors
Heartbreak Ridge
Crocodile Dundee
Heartburn
The Hitcher
Short Circuit
One Crazy Summer
Pretty in Pink
Big Trouble in Little China
Stand by Me
Maximum Overdrive
Hoosiers
Aliens


1987:

The Hidden
Three O'Clock High
Raising Arizona
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Roxanne
The Princess Bride
Innerspace
Harry and the Hendersons
Blind Date
Moonstruck
Stakeout
Summer School
Broadcast News
The Witches of Eastwick
Wall Street
Fatal Attraction
Creepshow 2
Predator
Full Metal Jacket
RoboCop


1988:

Working Girl
Funny Farm
Scrooged
The Naked Gun
The Great Outdoors
Tequila Sunrise
Clean and Sober
Beetle Juice
They Live
Young Guns
The Accidental Tourist
Rain Man
Shoot to Kill
The Dead Pool
Big
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Die Hard
Midnight Run
A Fish Called Wanda
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?


1989:

The War of the Roses
Black Rain
Batman
Parenthood
Turner & Hooch
The 'Burbs
When Harry Met Sally
The Dream Team
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Major League
Tango & Cash
Cousins
Field of Dreams
Back to the Future Part II
Heathers
Always
sex,lies & videotape
Say Anything
The Abyss
The January Man
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Sea of Love
Lean on Me
Disorganized Crime
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Sorry, Ðèstîñy, but I somehow missed your post. Yes, I've seen all of them, and except for exactly 11 of 'em, I watched them all in the theatre.

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And here's my latest list of favorite 80s movies by year (ranked in order of favoritism). These things are mutable but always fun to do.

1989:
1. Black Rain (Shohei Imamura); 2. Do the Right Thing; 3. Rikyu; 4. Tetsuo: the Iron Man; 5. Pedicab Driver; 6. Casualties of War; 7. The Unbelievable Truth; 8. How to Get Ahead in Advertising; 9. The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover; 10. Sex, Lies, and Videotape; 11. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; 12. A Better Tomorrow III; 13. The War of the Roses; 14. When Harry Met Sally; 15. Story of Riki; 16. Kiki’s Delivery Service; 17. Violent Cop; 18. Summer Vacation 1999; 19. Mystery Train; 20. The Master; 21. Crimes and Misdemeanors; 22. Santa Sangre;

1988:
1. Dead Ringers; 2. Akira; 3. Time of the Gypsies; 4. Drowning by Numbers; 5. The Thin Blue Line; 6. Eight Men Out; 7. A Taxing Woman's Return; 8. My Neighbor Totoro; 9. Tapeheads; 10. A Fish Called Wanda; 11. Dragons Forever; 12. Grave of Fireflies; 13. Clean and Sober; 14. The Last Temptation of Christ; 15. Alice (Svankmajer's Alice in Wonderland); 16. Frantic; 17. I'm Gonna Git You Sucka; 18. As Tears Go By; 19. Male Games; 20. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; 21. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen; 22. Lair of the White Worm; 23. School Daze; 24. Scrooged;

1987:
1. The Untouchables; 2. Full Metal Jacket; 3. Final Victory; 4. Withnail & I; 5. High Tide; 6. Throw Momma From the Train; 7. A Taxing Woman; 8. Matewan; 9. Roxanne; 10. Evil Dead 2; 11. Bomber Bikers of Shonan; 12. The Princess Bride; 13. Project A: Part 2; 14. The Wings of Honneamise; 15. Neo-Tokyo; 16. The Belly of an Architect; 17. Robot Carnival; 18. Hellraiser; 19. Red Sorghum; 20. Raising Arizona; 21. City on Fire; 22. Cobra Verde; 23. Zegen; 24. Planes, Trains & Automobiles; 25. Robocop; 26. Twilight of the Cockroaches; 27. Magnificent Warriors;

1986:
1. The Singing Detective (mini-series); 2. The Fly; 3. Peking Opera Blues; 4. The Mosquito Coast; 5. Aliens; 6. The Color of Money; 7. Fist of the North Star; 8. Blue Velvet; 9. Laputa; 10. Little Shop of Horrors; 11. Millionaire's Express; 12. They Were 11; 13. A Better Tomorrow; 14. Street of Crocodiles; 15. Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer; 16. From Beyond; 17. Eastern Condors; 18. She's Gotta Have it; 19. Down by Law; 20. In the Line of Duty; 21. 1/2 Mensch;

1985:
1. Tampopo; 2. A Zed & Two Noughts; 3. Mr. Vampire; 4. Mishima; 5. Re-Animator; 6. Ran; 7. Dagger of Kamui; 8. Alamo Bay; 9. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure; 10. The Return of the Living Dead; 11. The Falcon and the Snowman; 12. Himatsuri; 13. To Live and Die in L.A.; 14. Police Story; 15. After Hours; 16. Night on the Galactic Railroad; 17. Kiss of the Spider Woman; 18. Brazil;

1984:
1. Repo Man; 2. Stop Making Sense; 3. Stranger Than Paradise; 4. Paris, Texas; 5. Gremlins; 6. Terminator; 7. The Funeral; 8. A Nightmare on Elm Street; 9. Wheels on Meals; 10. Macross: Do You Remember Love; 11. All of Me; 12. The Brother From Another Planet; 13. Blood Simple; 14. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind; 15. Body Double; 16. Once Upon a Time in America; 17. Where the Green Ants Dream; 18. Antonio Gaudi; 19. Beautiful Dreamer; 20. The Killing Fields; 21. Dune;

1983:
1. Nostalghia; 2. Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain; 3. The Ballad of Narayama; 4. Videodrome; 5. The Man With Two Brains; 6. Scarface; 7. Project A; 8. Zelig; 9. A Christmas Story; 10. The Professional: Golgio 13; 11. Lianna; 12. Winners and Sinners; 13. The King of Comedy; 14. Baby It’s You; 15. Harmagedon;

1982:
1. Blade Runner; 2. The Draughtsman's Contract; 3. Cat People; 4. My Favorite Year; 5. Gundam 3; 6. White Dog; 7. Conan the Barbarian; 8. Arcadia of My Youth; 9. Fitzcarraldo; 10. The Prodigal Son; 11. The Snowman; 12. The Year of Living Dangerously; 13. The Marathon Family; 14. Dragon Lord; 15. Poltergeist; 16. Gorsch the Cellist; 17. Tenebre; 18. Atomic Cafe; 19. Burden of Dreams; 20. Diner;

1981:
1. My Dinner With Andre; 2. The Raiders of the Lost Ark; 3. An American Werewolf in London; 4. Blow Out; 5. Das Boot; 6. The French Lieutenant's Woman; 7. Gundam; 8. Gundam 2; 9. Time Bandits; 10. Pennies From Heaven; 11. Eijanaika; 12. Scanners;

1980:
1. Popeye; 2. The Empire Strikes Back; 3. The Long Good Friday; 4. Encounters of the Spooky Kind; 5. Don't Play With Fire; 6. Atlantic City; 7. The Falls; 8. Toward the Terra; 9. Return of the Secaucus 7; 10. The Young Master; 11. The Shining; 12. The Sword;

1. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)

2. Once Upon A Time In America (Leone, 1984)

3. Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)

4. Nouvo Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988)

5. Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)

6. Amadeus (Forman, 1984)

7. Back To The Future (Zemeckis, 1985)

8. Blade Runnder (Scott, 1982)

9. Do The Right Thing (Lee, 1989)

10. The King of Comedy (Scorsese, 1983)

I'll check the rest of your's, soon. It looks like I'll be altering my favorites a tad, once I do.

Well, I did my list as a "favorites" type list, and not a flat-out what we thought was "the best". Yeah, I'll be re-doing mine soon.

For now, I copy/pasted from mine, what you haven't seen, that I thought you may enjoy the most. This wasn't easy to narrow down, either.

Ragtime
Absence of Malic
Road Games
Arthur
The Verdict
The World According to Garp
Missing
Terms of Endearment
The Big Chill
Tightrope
A Soldier's Story
Romancing the Stone
Starman
Fletch
Mask
American Flyer's
The Money Pit
The Hitcher
Hoosiers
Broadcast News
Fatal Attraction
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
The Accidental Tourist
Midnight Run
The Dream Team . . .

I can't say "best", because there's probably a lot of good films from then that I haven't seen, and when I was a kid I fought films like Gandhi and Out of Africa, which I'd probably enjoy today. But my favorite 10 from the 80's, during the 80's, were:

The Empire Strikes Back
Predator
Return of the Jedi
Black Rain
Lethal Weapon
Aliens
Road House
The Terminator
Red Dawn
Die Hard

those were simpler times...

Still haven't seen Road House...I should probably get on that...