Top Ten Movies of the 1980's

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1Raiders of the Lost Ark

Great movie, watching it right now as I write this. It is full of loads of adventure

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Way ahead of Airplane!. No duh.

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2E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

so original, emotional, and clever. spielberg's best 4 sure.

The Movie proved Spielberg's greatness after "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

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3Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

The Wars are continuing between the empire and the rebels

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4Airplane

Maybe the best comedy of the 1980's

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5Raging Bull

An raw masterpiece and one of the best films of the 1980s that features excellent acting by Robert De Niro (who won the well-deserved Best Actor Oscar), Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Frank Vincent, and the others, brilliant directing by Martin Scorsese, and, of course, Oscar-worthy editing by Thelma Schoonmaker.

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A movie with a big boxer who would been more greater if he would cared more about the people beside him

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6The Terminator

The movie that started the modern era of robot movies

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7Back to the Future

8The Breakfast Club

9Amadeus

The incredible story of on of the greatest musicians ever Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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10Star Wars Episode VI : The Return of the Jedi

The popular trilogy ends and the dark side is defeated

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11Aliens

An second Alien movie with the James Cameron brand

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12Platoon

It's a work of art stone best film to date hands down.

Tells you all about what happened in the vietnam war

This was better then rocky iv give me a break

13Top Gun

One of the most popular movies of the 1980's

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14The Thing

15Scarface

I'm shocked this film is not one, al pacino is apsolutely incredible in it, and the story is good the scenes are good the acting is iconic, why is this not number 1

16Rocky IV

17The Shining

18When Harry Met Sally

Can really exist friendship between a man and a woman?

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19Blade Runner

20The Abyss

In this great movie from James Cameron even aliens realize that human love can fix everything even the bad nature of mankind

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21Dirty Dancing

22Full Metal Jacket

23The Outsiders

24A Nightmare on Elm Street

25Predator

the first Predator movie with Scwarzenneger facing the hunting monster

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26Gandhi

The story of the man who fought out incredibly the independence of India

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27Paris, Texas

28Rain Man

29Ferris Bueller's Day Off

30Ghostbusters

31Batman

32Some Kind of Wonderful

33Driving Miss Daisy

34Blue Velvet

35First Blood

The story of John Rambo's war with a police chief of a small town is one of the most greatest movie of the 1980's

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36Friday the 13th

37Back to the Future Part II

38Tootsie

39Superman II

Christopher Reeve in maybe the most loved superhero movie

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40Lean On Me

41Grave of the Fireflies

42Beetlejuice

43Akira

44Out of Africa

45Once Upon a Time in America

46Breakin'

47The Elephant Man

A Story with a man with more heart than look

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48Child's Play

49The Karate Kid

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51Gorrilas In the Mist

52Romancing the Stone

53Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan

54Chariots of Fire

55Fanny and Alexander

56Raising Arizona

57Drowning by Numbers

58House of Games

59The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

60Dangerous Liaisons

61Die Hard

62The Muppets Take Manhattan

63Who Framed Roger Rabbit

64The NeverEnding Story

65Ran

66The 'Burbs

67Pretty in Pink

68Field of Dreams

69Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

70The King of Comedy

71Midnight Run

72Footloose

73Coming to America

74The Color Purple

75Sixteen Candles

76Lethal Weapon

77Jumpin' Jack Flash

78Return To Oz

79Beverly Hills Cop

80All Dogs Go to Heaven

81Stand By Me

82The Goonies

A group of kids embark on a wild adventure after finding a pirate treasure map.

83Weird Science

Two nerdish boys attempt to create the perfect woman, but she turns out to be more than that.

84Poltergeist

A family's home is haunted by a host of ghosts.

85Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees, and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.

86Labyrinth

15-year-old Sarah accidentally wishes her baby half-brother, Toby, away to the Goblin King Jareth who will keep Toby if Sarah does not complete his Labyrinth in 13 hours.

87Legend

A young man must stop the Lord of Darkness from both destroying daylight and marrying the woman he loves.

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