POLL: Your favorite movies from the 80's

Almost all of them.
What a great time for popular culture.

 

Always held a special place in my heart for: An American Werewolf in London (1981). But honestly probably only seen it twice!

Never cared for the Star Wars movies!

 

Food-eater!

 

Bar Fly (1987)

 

From the list:

The Terminator
Breakfast Club
Ferris
Blade Runner

Others:

When Harry Met Sally
Raising Arizona
A Fish Called Wanda
Broadway Danny Rose
Radio Days
Zelig
Die Hard
Big Trouble in Little China
Mad Max 2/Road Warrior
Escape from New York
Bull Durham
Field of Dreams
Streets of Fire
Stripes
Repo Man
Trading Places

 

Good reminder to pull out my bluray of this.
Another vote here for 'Big'. Not always a Tom Hanks fan but this was almost a perfect movie for me.
Enjoyed the Michael J Fox of 'Bright Lights Big City' much more than the same in 'Back To The Future'

 

Of those not listed: "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior", "Gremlins", "First Blood", and "Stripes"

 

The Whales of August (1987)
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
The Woman Next Door (1981)
Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
Caravaggio (1986)
Gothic (1986)
Betty Blue (1986)
Kiss of a Spider Woman (1985)
Slaves of New York (1989)

 

Barfly
Raiders Of the Lost Ark
Hairspray
Raging Bull
Predator
The Howling
House Of Games
Altered States
Batman
The Verdict

 

Of the list:

The Thing
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
American Werewolf In London

 

Ferris Bueller

 

Most of my favourites weren't on the list, these include:

Blue Thunder
Blue Velvet
Die Hard
Gallipoli
Opera (Argento)
Crocodile Dundee
Stripes
Running Man
Mad Max II

And a couple of foreign language films from the 80's that I love include:

The Vanishing (Spoorloos) - One of the best film endings ever.
Red Sorghum - The first Zhang Yimou/Gong Li collaboration.
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down (Amore!)
Monsieur Hire
A Short Film About Love
A Short Film About Killing

 

You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.
You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die.

Khhhaaaannnn!!!!

 

"I hate to kill a seemingly decent fellow". Alice Cooper

 

No ones mentioned Amadeus yet? Man I love that one.

Otherwise my picks for the 80s seem to be all Harrison ford - empire, raiders, and blade runner.

 

Raging Bull
Distant Voices, Still Lives
L'argent (Robert Bresson)
Love Streams
Stranger Than Paradise
Shoah
The Horse Thief
Dekalog
Dead Ringers
A City of Sadness
Do the Right Thing
Blue Velvet
Fanny and Alexander

plus Blade Runner and Full Metal Jacket

 

My top ten:

1. Caddyshack
2. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
3. Where the Buffalo Roam
4. Airplane!
5. Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
6. Easy Money
7. The Blues Brothers
8. History of the World part 1
9. Night Shift
10. Midnight Run
11. This is Spinal Tap

 

I decided to add to my original post since I limited myself to just one movie, then noticed everybody else was posting multiple movies:

• Better Off Dead (1985)
• The Party Animal (1984)
• Project A-Ko (1986) - The movie that ignited my interest in anime!
• Die Hard (1988)
• TRON (1982)
• Mannequin (1987)
• Moontrap (1989)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
• UHF (1989)
• Xanadu (1980)
• Caveman (1981)
• The Chipmunk Adventure (1987)
• G. I. Joe - The Movie (1987)
• D. O. A. (1988)
• My Best Friend Is A Vampire (1988)
• Return Of The Killer Tomatoes (1988)
• Batman (1989)
• Heathers (1989)
• Gal Force - Eternal Story (1986)
• They Were 11 (1986)
• Robot Carnival (1987)

 

Fast Times At Ridgemont High

 

Where the Buffalo Roam and Easy Money. Two great flicks that have been kind of forgotten!

 

I prefer "Bright Lights..." too. But my favorite Michael J. Fox one is "Light Of Day" with Joan Jett too...

 

Barfly

 

I guess it's not the type of movie you watch but off the top of my head, my 80s favorites would be Gandhi and Rain Man.

Airplane, Spinal Tap and Raging Bull would be up there too (but not on your list).

 

I salute you for remembering - and mentioning - this film!

This Steve Martin/Carl Reiner production is outstanding, and actually works on multiple levels (as a salute to classic film noir, as a very funny detective comedy, and is creatively and technically brilliant in its construction!)

I actually wrote a paper on it for my college film class (at the time the film was only a few years old and already fairly obscure). I got a B+ on it, as I recall.

It definitely should have been on my list.

 

The Lost Boys
Shy People
Withnail & I
The 'Burbs
Running on Empty
The Mosquito Coast
D.A.R.Y.L.
Escape from New York
The Thing
The Fog
They Live
Christine
Starman
WarGames
The Goonies
Adventures in Babysitting
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Silkwood
Hope and Glory
Halloween 2/Halloween 4
Parenthood
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Cinema Paradiso
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Breakfast Club
Heathers
Cocoon
Big
Willow
Flight of the Navigator
Road Games
Time Bandits
A Christmas Story
Night of the Comet
The River Rat
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Manhattan Project
Short Circuit
Stand by Me
The NeverEnding Story
Blow Out
Roxanne
Monster Squad
Fright Night
Scrooged
An American Werewolf in London
The Hitcher
Explorers
Red Dawn

Pretty much every film made in the '80s, haha.