80's Classics, a list by adamosborne01

7.7

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77

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74

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3.8

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86

/50/

Audience

86

/139716/

61

/15/

3.0

age 16+

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

76

6.9

/41124/

70

/1131/

66

/552/

3.7

/57195/

98

/51/

Audience

78

/31901/

82

/21/

3.0

age 17+

A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.

48

5.6

/8143/

59

/263/

58

/190/

3.1

/11397/

44

/9/

Audience

37

/2130/

1.0

Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide what her feelings are for her two men. Sam is not the same as when he left, and he begins affecting Tony in frightening ways.

71

6.7

/129335/

72

/5607/

66

/2160/

3.2

/79815/

73

/71/

Audience

69

/72847/

58

/13/

4.0

age 10+

When brilliant video game maker Flynn hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world...and becomes part of the very game he is designing. In his mission through cyberspace, Flynn matches wits with a maniacal Master Control Program and teams up with Tron, a security measure created to bring balance to the digital environment.

63

6.1

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68

/258/

63

/92/

3.1

/2333/

50

/18/

Audience

45

/5201/

61

/11/

4.0

Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government secrecy and mutually assured destruction were key political and military issues.

85

7.8

/65363/

78

/1369/

74

/818/

4.0

/27352/

96

/53/

Audience

90

/23067/

91

/16/

4.0

age 12+

As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings forth momentous challenges.

74

7.8

/455034/

78

/13637/

75

/7674/

3.8

/315954/

80

/60/

Audience

87

/17050/

47

/17/

3.0

age 16+

A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

59

6.7

/26956/

70

/1163/

66

/551/

3.1

/6932/

52

/21/

Audience

60

/8380/

51

/9/

2.0

During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

69

7.2

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76

/5100/

72

/2813/

3.7

/144485/

74

/66/

Audience

82

/136813/

53

/15/

2.0

age 14+

Jack Burton, a tough-talking truck driver, goes into a supernatural tailspin when his best friend's fiancée is kidnapped.

64

63

6.0

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64

/345/

58

/175/

3.2

/7461/

88

/8/

Audience

53

/5032/

64

/6/

Angel City trooper Jack Deth is sent back in time from 2247 to 1985 L.A. to inhabit the body of his ancestor. Deth's assignment is to find his archenemy, Whistler, who turns people into zombies, before the fiend is able to kill all the ancestors of the future's governing council.

57

6.1

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66

/1604/

62

/1084/

2.9

/16555/

46

/26/

Audience

37

/53265/

53

/11/

3.0

age 13+

Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course, he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.

40

4.7

/50758/

58

/1782/

54

/955/

2.2

/35068/

13

/83/

Audience

38

/55746/

28

/21/

age 13+

A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet. But then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...

69

7.3

/149635/

76

/5168/

72

/2270/

3.7

/193872/

77

/52/

Audience

86

/373799/

50

/10/

2.0

age 8+

When teen Sarah is forced to babysit her half-brother Toby, she summons Jareth the Goblin King to take him away. When he is actually kidnapped, Sarah is given just thirteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue him.

54

6.7

/137469/

72

/5396/

66

/2530/

3.1

/54168/

28

/18/

Audience

42

/773/

41

/6/

age 17+

New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!

75

7.2

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74

/2277/

70

/1083/

3.7

/46948/

76

/51/

Audience

80

/41732/

68

/15/

3.5

age 12+

Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.

68

7.5

/220153/

79

/10082/

72

/2230/

3.5

/200751/

70

/54/

Audience

86

/223574/

49

/18/

2.0

age 13+

It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going, knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.

72

7.1

/78679/

71

/2160/

70

/1268/

3.6

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83

/63/

Audience

76

/49969/

62

/13/

3.0

Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; but no one seems willing to believe him.

84

8.0

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82

/11807/

76

/4361/

4.0

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96

/84/

Audience

94

/37222/

78

/20/

3.5

age 8+

In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.

64

6.3

/18163/

64

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61

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3.1

/8445/

79

/33/

Audience

46

/8576/

63

/10/

3.0

A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in their sleep from a heart attack, Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in the dreams somehow and that is causing them to die in real life. He must find a way to stop the abuse of the power to enter dreams.

57

5.9

/18504/

64

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59

/416/

3.1

/33015/

73

/15/

Audience

47

/7046/

1.5

Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!

82

8.1

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80

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79

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4.1

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89

/131/

Audience

91

/338977/

84

/15/

3.0

age 16+

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

81

7.8

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79

/19579/

74

/8372/

3.8

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95

/79/

Audience

88

/1041416/

71

/8/

3.5

age 11+

After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.

83

7.7

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77

/8540/

75

/5429/

3.9

/259101/

96

Audience

85

/443185/

83

/15/

4.0

age 12+

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.

51

6.4

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67

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63

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3.2

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33

/15/

Audience

57

/8562/

42

/9/

1.0

Mike, after his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with his old pal Reggie to hunt down the Tall Man, who is at it again. A mysterious, beautiful girl has also become part of Mike's dreams, and they must find her before the Tall Man does.

60

6.6

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74

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66

/1390/

3.2

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61

/38/

Audience

67

/169090/

50

/12/

1.5

age 10+

After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.

67

6.9

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71

/1119/

67

/534/

3.4

/35605/

56

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Audience

78

/35906/

61

/14/

age 14+

Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerful amulet that will grant them power to rule the world. Our heroes - the Monster Squad are the only ones daring to stand in their way.

60

6.9

/116446/

73

/3980/

68

/1438/

3.3

/87707/

71

/52/

Audience

71

/77813/

38

/14/

1.0

age 12+

Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.

39

5.1

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60

/335/

52

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2.6

/4801/

33

/15/

Audience

30

/2757/

9

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1.0

In the future, Earth is overcrowded and the population relies on distant bases to be fed. In the Saturn 3 station, Major Adam and the scientist Alex, who is also his lover and has never been on Earth, have been researching hydroponics for three years in the base alone with their dog Sally. Captain Benson arrives Saturn 3 with Hector, incapable to controlling his emotions he transfers his homicidal tendency and insanity to Hector. Now Major Adam and Alex are trapped in the station with a dangerous psychopath robot.

84

8.1

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80

/22306/

77

/12391/

3.9

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100

/68/

Audience

89

/778168/

84

/21/

age 15+

In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?

81

8.3

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82

/14964/

81

/9945/

4.2

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90

/86/

Audience

94

/325376/

78

/20/

2.5

age 17+

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

74

6.9

/31107/

71

/695/

65

/392/

3.4

/13792/

86

/36/

Audience

77

/33618/

69

/12/

3.5

age 13+

Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.

57

6.4

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66

/4786/

64

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3.0

/282530/

66

/59/

Audience

60

/229775/

22

/11/

age 18+

Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

66

6.9

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74

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70

/8114/

3.4

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57

/77/

Audience

83

/727123/

50

/15/

2.5

age 13+

For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.

75

7.4

/203373/

76

/7420/

72

/3761/

3.6

/117832/

83

/52/

Audience

82

/378025/

66

/11/

age 16+

Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered, he heads to sunny Beverly Hills to work the case like only he can.

64

6.4

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68

/871/

62

/430/

3.2

/13426/

72

/29/

Audience

66

/14515/

58

/14/

age 7+

Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things fantastical yields a real result – when he has a vivid dream about technology, his prodigy best friend Wolfgang manages to create a working spacecraft. Joined by their buddy Darren, the boys take off into outer space and encounter some very odd extraterrestrial life.

45

6.1

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64

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61

/1559/

3.0

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32

/47/

Audience

48

/2224/

26

/8/

0.5

age 18+

Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, new counselors roam the area, not sensing the ominous lurking presence that proves that the grisly legend is real.

84

8.4

/1107114/

81

/23201/

82

/16724/

4.2

/1556802/

83

/106/

Audience

93

/483832/

68

/26/

4.0

age 16+

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

47

34

5.3

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57

/109/

50

/70/

2.8

/847/

40

/5/

Audience

29

/1341/

During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizona. However the White House denies its existence because of the near presidential elections. The UFO is brought to the secret Hangar 18 and the accident is blamed on the incompetence of the astronauts Bancroff and Price. But the two fight against this and try to hunt down the UFO.

47

6.1

/16557/

69

/671/

60

/294/

2.9

/11770/

27

/22/

Audience

59

/20510/

23

/9/

1.0

age 10+

A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, to compete in the ultimate video-game championship.

71

7.5

/404366/

74

/11933/

72

/7446/

3.6

/365185/

76

/139/

Audience

84

/912846/

69

/21/

2.0

age 12+

Batman must face his most ruthless nemesis when a deformed madman calling himself "The Joker" seizes control of Gotham's criminal underworld.

68

7.2

/109351/

75

/3874/

72

/1611/

3.9

/238348/

71

/38/

Audience

86

/94757/

41

/17/

2.0

age 12+

Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.

55

6.8

/42018/

72

/1014/

70

/629/

3.2

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50

/24/

Audience

74

/48327/

36

/11/

0.5

age 14+

Nerdy high schooler Ronald Miller rescues cheerleader Cindy Mancini from parental punishment after she accidentally destroys her mother's designer clothes. Ronald agrees to pay for the $1,000 outfit on one condition: that she will act as though they're a couple for an entire month. As the days pass, however, Cindy grows fond of Ronald, making him popular. But when Ronald's former best friend gets left behind, he realizes that social success isn't everything.

45

5.0

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57

/2596/

55

/1590/

2.3

/36582/

29

/59/

Audience

23

/167362/

44

/15/

2.5

age 8+

Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects in the third installment of the 1980s Superman franchise. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.

59

33

5.9

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58

/48/

60

/36/

3.0

/955/

Natalie allows her classmate Jeff, who ran away from home after a fight with his stepfather, to stay at her place while her father is away on a business trip. Natalie soon starts dating Jeff's friend James Casey, who isn't as faithful as she thinks, while her best friend Polly falls in love with baseball player Zoo Knudsen.

83

8.1

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81

/8284/

79

/5532/

4.1

/471939/

92

/63/

Audience

94

/270919/

75

/20/

age 14+

After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon boys decide to go see the body. On the way, Gordie, Vern, Chris and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, as they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.

74

7.0

/12363/

69

/408/

69

/225/

3.8

/20188/

91

/32/

Audience

73

/3782/

3.0

After 30 years of searching, Harry has finally met the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, before they even have a chance to go on their first date, Harry intercepts some chilling news: WWIII has begun and nuclear missiles will destroy Los Angeles in less than an hour!

53

5.6

/10591/

61

/400/

60

/220/

3.0

/5528/

38

/21/

Audience

41

/7492/