Best Movies of 1980s by Title
1062
147
1983
David Cronenberg
James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky
Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
Canada / USA
English
2632
453
1985
John Glen
Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones, Patrick Macnee
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2699
472
1987
Paul Cox
John Hurt, Marika Rivera, Gabriella Trsek
Animation / Biography / Drama / Documentary
Australia
English
2661
460
1989
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Maiko Kawakami, Makoto Ashikawa, Shirô Sano, Sei Hiraizumi
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster / Detective
Japan
Japanese
2720
480
1985
Harold Becker
Matthew Modine, Linda Fiorentino, Michael Schoeffling, Ronny Cox
Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
2593
445
1988
Nigel Noble
Leleti Khumalo, Baby Cele, Pat Mlaba, Miriam Makeba
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2544
431
1982
José Luis Garci
Antonio Ferrandis, Encarna Paso, José Bódalo
Drama / Romance
Spain
Spanish
2760
491
1981
Yaki Yosha
Shraga Harpaz, Shimon Finkel, Hanna Meron, Nitza Shaul
Drama
Israel
Hebrew
2764
493
1987
Jill Godmilow
Linda Bassett, Linda Hunt, Jacques Boudet, Pierre-Alain Chapuis
Drama / Biography
UK / France / USA / West Germany
English
2760
491
1987
Alex Cox
Ed Harris, Richard Masur, René Assa, Rene Auberjonois
Action / Adventure / War / Drama / Biography
USA / Mexico / Spain
English
1765
242
1987
Oliver Stone
Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Daryl Hannah, Martin Sheen
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2593
445
1984
Heinz Schirk
Robert Atzorn, Friedrich G. Beckhaus, Gerd Böckmann, Jochen Busse
Drama / War / History
Austria / West Germany
German
1901
274
1989
Danny DeVito
Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2639
455
1989
Derek Jarman
Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes
Drama / War
UK
English
2609
447
1983
Pyotr Todorovsky
Nikolai Burlyayev, Natalya Andrejchenko, Inna Churikova
Drama / Romance / War
Soviet Union
Russian
2118
320
1983
John Badham
Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama / War
USA
English
2559
435
1989
Pat O'Neill
Beth Block, George Lockwood, Joel Loriman
Documentary / Experimental
USA
English
2141
326
1982
Jim Brown
Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Arlo Guthrie, Mary Travers
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2635
454
1987
Michel Khleifi
Mohamad Ali El Akili, Bushra Karaman, Makram Khoury
Drama
Israel / France / Belgium
Arabic
2061
311
1985
David Hare
Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Stuart Wilson, Tim McInnerny
Drama / Mystery
UK
English
2124
322
1987
Lindsay Anderson
Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price, Ann Sothern
Drama
USA
English
2609
447
1989
Jacobo Morales
Tommy Muñiz, Gladys Rodríguez, Johanna Rosaly
Comedy / Romance
Puerto Rico
Spanish
1152
156
1985
Emir Kusturica
Emir Kusturica, Moreno D'E Bartolli
Drama / Comedy
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
430
45
1989
Rob Reiner
Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2639
455
1986
Jimmy T. Murakami
Peggy Ashcroft, John Mills, Robin Houston, James Russell, David Dundas
War / Animation / Drama
UK
English
2177
336
1987
Abbas Kiarostami
Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Kheda Barech Defai
Drama
Iran
Persian
2720
480
1986
Simon Langton
Michael Caine, James Fox, Nigel Havers, John Gielgud, Felicity Dean, Barry Foster
Thriller / Spy
UK
English
2446
405
1982
Samuel Fuller
Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Christa Lang, Vernon Weddle
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2727
483
1982
Jonathan Demme
Susan Sarandon, Christopher Walken, Robert Ridgely, Mike Bacarella, Aaron Freeman
Drama / Romance
USA
English
367
34
1988
Robert Zemeckis
Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer
Animation / Comedy / Fantasy / Family
USA
English
2665
461
1987
Christine Choy, Renee Tajima-Pena
Lily Chin, Ronald Ebens, Starlene
Crime / Documentary
USA
English
2707
477
1982
Chantal Akerman
Angelo Abazoglou, Frank Aendenboom, Natalia Akerman, Véronique Alain
Drama
Belgium / France / Netherlands / Canada
French
2785
505
1980
Slobodan Sijan
Pavle Vujisic, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic
Comedy / Drama / War
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
2264
358
1981
John Badham
Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti, Bob Balaban, Kenneth McMillan
Drama
USA
English
2593
445
1984
John Hanson
Lisa Eichhorn, Tom Bower, James Cada, Cinda Jackson, Dan Nemanick
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2632
453
1980
Paul Mazursky
Michael Ontkean, Margot Kidder, Ray Sharkey, Jan Miner, Tom Brennan
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
55
4
1987
Wim Wenders
Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk
Fantasy / Drama / Romance / Religion
West Germany / France
German
2720
480
1986
Brian De Palma
Danny DeVito, Joe Piscopo, Harvey Keitel, Ray Sharkey, Dan Hedaya, Lou Albano
Comedy / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2720
480
1987
David Leland
Emily Lloyd, Tom Bell, Jesse Birdsall, Clare Clifford, Barbara Durkin
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2720
480
1987
George Miller
Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Veronica Cartwright
Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
733
98
1987
Bruce Robinson
Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown, Michael Elphick
Comedy / Cult
UK
English
501
52
1985
Peter Weir
Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubes
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2447
406
1981
Michael Wadleigh
Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos, Gregory Hines, Tom Noonan
Horror / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2694
471
1985
Rainer Simon
Joachim Lätsch, Peter Zimmermann, Kathrin Waligura, Christine Schorn
Drama / History / War / Romance
East Germany
German
2632
453
1984
Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder, Kelly LeBrock, Charles Grodin, Joseph Bologna, Judith Ivey
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2709
478
1981
François Truffaut
Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin
Drama / Romance
France
French
209
15
1988
Pedro Almodóvar
Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco
Comedy / Drama
Spain
Spanish
2537
429
1984
Jim Brown
Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Hoyt Axton, Judy Collins
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
1333
181
1988
Mike Nichols
Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Melanie Griffith
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2191
340
1986
Lizzie Borden
Louise Smith, Deborah Banks, Liz Caldwell, Marusia Zach, Amanda Goodwin
Drama
USA
English
1908
276
1982
George Roy Hill
Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2145
327
1988
Chris Menges
Barbara Hershey, Jodhi May, Jeroen Krabbé, Nadine Chalmers
Drama
UK / Zimbabwe
English
1922
278
1989
Idrissa Ouedraogo
Fatimata Sanga, Noufou Ouédraogo, Roukietou Barry, Adama Ouédraogo
Family / Drama
Burkina Faso / Switzerland / France
Mòoré
2661
460
1987
John Duigan
Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn, Graeme Blundell, Lynette Curran
Drama / Romance
Australia
English
1011
141
1982
Peter Weir
Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Bembol Roco
Romance / Drama
Australia
English
2013
298
1984
Krzysztof Zanussi
Maja Komorowska, Scott Wilson, Hanna Skarzanka
Romance / Drama / War
Poland / West Germany / USA
Polish
571
67
1987
Souleymane Cissé
Issiaka Kane, Aoua Sangare, Niamanto Sanogo
Fantasy / Adventure / Drama
Mali / Burkina Faso / France / West Germany
French
1521
211
1983
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand, Amy Irving, Mandy Patinkin
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance
UK / USA / Czechoslovakia
English
938
123
1982
Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney
Tarik Akan, Serif Sezer, Halil Ergün
Drama
Turkey / Switzerland / France
Turkish
2760
491
1981
Sara Driver
Suzanne Fletcher, Evelyn Smith, Luc Sante
Horror / Drama
USA
English
2727
483
1988
Christopher Cain
Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen
Action / Drama / Western / Adventure / Crime
USA
English
2632
453
1985
Barry Levinson
Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Susan Fleetwood
Adventure / Fantasy / Mystery / Thriller / Action / Detective / Drama
USA
English
2727
483
1987
Bill Plympton
Maureen McElheron
Animation / Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
1762
241
1983
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Buckwalter, Patrick Horgan
Comedy / Fantasy
USA
English
2468
413
1981
Luis Valdez
Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, Charles Aidman, Tyne Daly
Drama / Musical / Period Film
USA
English
2524
426
1983
Hark Tsui
Biao Yuen, Hoi Mang, Adam Cheng, Moon Lee, Brigitte Lin, Damian Lau
Horror / Adventure / Action / Fantasy
Hong Kong
Cantonese
