Favourite Films: 1980-1989 Edition

[gk_891]

What are your favourite films from the 1980s? Mine (in no particular order) are:

Pixote A Lei Do Mais Fraco
Ran
Pelle the Conqueror
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left For the East?
Horse Thief
The Official Story
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Blade Runner (although I hate the original theatrical cut)
Raging Bull
After Hours
Red Sorghum
Aliens
The Home and the World
Salaam Bombay!
Back the Future
Fitzcarraldo
Veronika Voss
The Vanishing
The Assault
Babette's Feast
Kagemusha
The Shining
The Killing Fields
Valmont
Amadeus
Brazil

 

[Cachoo]

Favorite Film of All Time: Local Hero followed by Woody Allen's Radio Days

A lot of the films I liked in the 80's were romantic--but not always rom-coms:
Reds
When Harry Met Sally
Moonstruck
Hannah and Her Sisters
Falling in Love
Roxanne
Out of Africa
A Room With A View
Bull Durham
About Last Night
Some Girls

There are so many others...this is a good topic to revisit very soon.

 

[meggonzo]

Back to the Future
Heathers
The Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
The Goonies

 

[quartz]

Willow
Mask
Time Bandits
Footloose
Breakfast Club
Goonies

Most favoritest.....On Golden Pond, and Amadeus, and The Gods Must Be Crazy

 

[cocotaffy]

ET
Indiana Jones and the last crusade
Star wars
Blade runner
Batman
Shining
Amadeus
Dirty dancing
Die hard
Dead poets society
The untouchables
My neighbor totoro
Willow
The elephant man
The blues brothers


And certainly others ...

 

[Cachoo]

I Loved Some Films that Flew Under the Radar

Real Genius
Heathers
An American Werewolf in London
Sid and Nancy
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Fabulous Stains
This is Spinal Tap
My Dinner With Andre
Do The Right Thing
Mystery Train
Brazil
Excalibur
After Midnight

 

[gk_891]

I'd forgotten about An American Werewolf in London. A great horror film.

 

[Artemis@BC]

In addition to a bunch already mentioned, I'd add:

Ordinary People
Running on Empty
The Milagro Beanfield War

 

[paskatefan]

Amadeus
Driving Miss Daisy
Back to the Future

 

[Finnice]

A room with a wiew is still one of my favourites

 

[flyingsit]

Broadcast News

 

[gk_891]

A room with a wiew is still one of my favourites

I'd forgotten about A Room With a View. I also liked it.

 

[Twizzler]

Say Anything (and anything else with John Cusack)

 

[Tinami Amori]

i LOVE!!! good movies.... and weird movies.....

There were quite few good indi movies in the 1980’s..

Erendira
Liquid Sky
Smithereens
Spetters
Little Vera
Brazil
Stranger than Paradise
Withnail and I
Mala Noche
Paris Texas
Enemies, a Love Story

And big screen ones too…

Berlin, Alexanderplatz
Veronica Voss
Lola
Mephisto
Wings of Desire
Blue Velvet
My Dinner with Andre
Oblomov
Moscow Dows not Believe in Tears
Come and See
Kin-Dza-Dza
Nostalgia
Voyage in Time
The Sacrifice
Farwell Moscow
Dark Eyes
Amadeus
My Life as a Dog
Paris by Night
Fitzcarraldo
Cinema Paradiso
City of Women
Chocolat
Babette’s Feast
Camille Claudel
The Professional
Last Metro
The Green Room
Hopping it’s a Girl
Educating Rita
Diva
A Room with a View
Lady Jane
Elephant Man
The Dresser
My Beautiful Laundrette
The Mask
French Lieutenant’s Woman
Fish Called Vanda
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Tampopo
Kagemusha
Station
Ran
Last Emperor
The Wall

 

[gk_891]

Ooh, Tampopo. I'd forgotten about that one. A fantastically original comedy.

 

[Artistic Skaters]

Favorites:

Missing
Mask
The Mission
Say Anything
Some Kind of Wonderful
Cannery Row
Romero

Others I really like:

Coal Miner's Daughter
Witness
Little Darlings
Silkwood
The Last Emperor
Urban Cowboy (great soundtrack!)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (great soundtrack!)
Parenthood
Desert Bloom
Carny
La Bamba
Silverado
Adventures in Babysitting
Salvador
Split Image
The Lost Boys
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Field of Dreams
Eddie and the Cruisers (great soundtrack!)
Dead Poets Society
The Princess Bride

 

[topaz]

The Last American Virgin
Valley Girl
Dirty Dancing
The Breakfast Club
The Karate Kid
Fuerris Bueller's Day Off
Zapped
St. Elmo's Fire
Risky Business
Lost Boys
An Officier and A Gentleman
Grease 2
Princess Bride

 

[gk_891]

Forgot to mention The Changeling. A fantastic horror film.

 

[gk_891]

I also liked Beetlejuice. I think it's from 88 or 89.