Top 1000+ Films 1980`s by Box Office
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1. Dead Heat (1988)
R | 84 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A cop is killed investigating a strange case of resurrected corpses. His partner and a pathologist resurrect him, but he only has a limited time before he starts to decompose, and he uses it to chase down the diabolical man who killed him.
Director: Mark Goldblatt | Stars: Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost, Darren McGavin
Votes: 9,239 | Gross: $3.59M
2. Tougher Than Leather (1988)
R | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Legendary hip-hop group Run-D.M.C. stars in this cross between a blaxploitation film and a spaghetti western. They must find and punish the evil drug lord-record company executive who ... See full summary »
Director: Rick Rubin | Stars: Darryl McDaniels, Daniel Simmons, Jam Master Jay, Joseph Simmons
Votes: 379 | Gross: $3.58M
3. Old Gringo (1989)
R | 119 min | Adventure, History, Romance
When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Puenzo | Stars: Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits, Patricio Contreras
Votes: 2,108 | Gross: $3.57M
4. The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)
G | 100 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
After her father's boat is swept away by a sudden storm, plucky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse and monkey in the old family home.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Tami Erin, David Seaman, Cory Crow, Eileen Brennan
Votes: 4,627 | Gross: $3.57M
5. Repo Man (1984)
R | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A young punk, recruited by a car repo agency, finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu with a huge, $20,000 bounty--and something otherworldly stashed in its trunk.
Director: Alex Cox | Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash
Votes: 41,146 | Gross: $3.57M
6. Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
PG-13 | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret WWII project, and the first atomic bombs designed, built, and tested in Los Alamos.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack
Votes: 9,131 | Gross: $3.56M
7. Physical Evidence (1989)
R | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
A police officer suspended and now accused of murder is forced to join forces with his court-appointed attorney to assemble the pieces of a deadly puzzle to find the missing link before time runs out.
Director: Michael Crichton | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Theresa Russell, Ned Beatty, Kay Lenz
Votes: 2,094 | Gross: $3.56M
8. The Challenge (1982)
R | 108 min | Action, Drama
A down-and-out American boxer becomes involved in a feud between two Japanese brothers.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Scott Glenn, Toshirô Mifune, Donna Kei Benz, Atsuo Nakamura
Votes: 2,672 | Gross: $3.53M
9. In Country (1989)
R | 120 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young girl whose father died in the Vietnam War becomes determined to find out more about him and his experiences.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Emily Lloyd, Bruce Willis, Joan Allen, Kevin Anderson
Votes: 3,132 | Gross: $3.53M
10. Things Change (1988)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Shoe-shiner Gino is hired to take the rap for a mafia murder. Two-bit gangster Jerry watches over Gino and gives him a weekend to remember.
Director: David Mamet | Stars: Don Ameche, Joe Mantegna, Robert Prosky, J.J. Johnston
Votes: 4,064 | Gross: $3.53M
11. The Wraith (1986)
PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Horror, Romance
In a small town in Arizona, a mysterious man/spirit descends from the sky and manifests in a sports car and targets a local violent road-racing gang of motor heads, headed by a ruthless bully who'll do anything to get what he wants.
Director: Mike Marvin | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn, Randy Quaid
Votes: 19,259 | Gross: $3.50M
12. Heaven's Gate (1980)
R | 219 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
During the Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, a sheriff born into wealth does his best to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.
Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston
Votes: 17,158 | Gross: $3.48M
13. The Lemon Sisters (1989)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980's Atlantic City performing the songs of the 60's girl groups in this self-indulgent comedy.
Director: Joyce Chopra | Stars: Diane Keaton, Carol Kane, Kathryn Grody, Elliott Gould
Votes: 1,167 | Gross: $3.47M
14. Talk Radio (1988)
R | 110 min | Drama, Thriller
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Eric Bogosian, Ellen Greene, Leslie Hope, John C. McGinley
Votes: 14,623 | Gross: $3.47M
15. Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A brutal Los Angeles police Lt. is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Charles Bronson, Juan Fernández, Perry Lopez, James Pax
Votes: 3,856 | Gross: $3.42M
16. Head Office (1985)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy
Lazy, womanizing Jack gets employed at the NYC HQ of the multinational conglomerate, INC. Crazy chaos, promotions, firings, suicides etc. seem to be the way of the day.
Director: Ken Finkleman | Stars: Judge Reinhold, Eddie Albert, Lori-Nan Engler, Merritt Butrick
Votes: 1,756 | Gross: $3.39M
17. Big Shots (1987)
PG-13 | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Ivan Reitman brings you Big Shots, a slam-bang comedy-adventure with a heart as big as Chicago.
Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: Ricky Busker, Darius McCrary, Robert Joy, Robert Prosky
Votes: 906 | Gross: $3.39M
18. Born American (1986)
R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A trio of vacationing American students cross the border from Finland to the USSR during the Cold War and are soon imprisoned after a skirmish with Soviet soldiers.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Mike Norris, Steve Durham, David Coburn, Thalmus Rasulala
Votes: 2,188 | Gross: $3.39M
19. Wrong Is Right (1982)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
A TV reporter finds himself in the middle of an Arab leader buying two portable nukes, terrorists, arms dealer, a reporter/CIA spy killed, a US president ordering a K-I-L-L etc.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross
Votes: 2,265 | Gross: $3.38M
20. Near Dark (1987)
R | 94 min | Horror
A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is bitten by a beautiful drifter.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton
Votes: 44,766 | Gross: $3.37M
21. Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985)
PG | 100 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Set on the subterranean Mine-World, a band of human worker are treated like slaves under the power of the evil overlord Zygon until one, Orin, unearths the hilt of a mythical sword that ... See full summary »
Director: Steven Hahn | Stars: Joe Colligan, Carmen Argenziano, Noelle North, Anthony De Longis
Votes: 2,522 | Gross: $3.36M
22. Fighting Back (I) (1982)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Philadelphia shop owner forms a civilian patrol to stop neighborhood crime. The patrol's actions are seen as racially discriminatory, leading to escalating conflict.
Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Patti LuPone, Michael Sarrazin, Yaphet Kotto
Votes: 771 | Gross: $3.34M
23. Fraternity Vacation (1985)
R | 94 min | Comedy
Two fraternity brothers take advantage of their nerdy pledge's generous parents to spend time with him in Palm Springs and encourage him to mingle with girls, but things don't go as planned when they run into rival fraternity members.
Director: James Frawley | Stars: Stephen Geoffreys, Sheree J. Wilson, Cameron Dye, Leigh McCloskey
Votes: 2,791 | Gross: $3.33M
24. Looker (1981)
PG | 93 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Three of four models, who had plastic surgery done by Larry after a computed list, are dead. Neither the cops nor Larry believe they're suicides. Larry investigates and stays with the fourth model. Who's behind the lists and murders?
Director: Michael Crichton | Stars: Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey, Leigh Taylor-Young
Votes: 6,191 | Gross: $3.28M
25. 'Round Midnight (1986)
R | 133 min | Drama, Music
A troubled, but talented musician flees the US to escape his problems, finding refuge and support in Paris.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker, Sandra Reaves-Phillips
Votes: 5,867 | Gross: $3.27M
26. Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (1987)
G | 87 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Pinocchio and his friends, a glow worm and a marionette, search for a magic music box. However, so is the evil Scalawag and the Emperor of the Night.
Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: Edward Asner, Tom Bosley, Lana Beeson, Linda Gary
Votes: 762 | Gross: $3.26M
27. Zoot Suit (1981)
R | 103 min | Drama, Musical
When barrio leader Henry Reyna and his friends are unjustly convicted on circumstantial evidence, activist lawyers Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant racially motivated miscarriage of justice to win them their freedom.
Director: Luis Valdez | Stars: Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, Charles Aidman, Tyne Daly
Votes: 1,343 | Gross: $3.26M
28. Barfly (1987)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Based on the life of successful poet Charles Bukowski and his exploits in Hollywood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige, Jack Nance
Votes: 21,986 | Gross: $3.22M
29. Penitentiary II (1982)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when one of his prison enemies escapes and kills his girlfriend.
Director: Jamaa Fanaka | Stars: Leon Isaac Kennedy, Glynn Turman, Ernie Hudson, Mr. T
Votes: 780 | Gross: $3.18M
30. Rude Awakening (1989)
R | 100 min | Comedy
In the 1960s, two hippies go off into the jungle to evade the FBI. When they come back to New York in the 1980s, their fellow hippie friends have become rich yuppies.
Directors: David Greenwalt, Aaron Russo | Stars: Cheech Marin, Eric Roberts, Julie Hagerty, Robert Carradine
Votes: 1,478 | Gross: $3.17M
31. The Naked Cage (1986)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young woman falsely convicted of a bank robbery is sent to a prison run by a corrupt warden. She struggles to survive the harsh prison life, where violent bullying, sexual assault and drug addiction run rampant.
Director: Paul Nicholas | Stars: Shari Shattuck, Angel Tompkins, Lucinda Crosby, Stacey Shaffer
Votes: 886 | Gross: $3.14M
32. Night of the Demons (1988)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Ten teenagers party at an abandoned funeral parlor on Halloween night. When an evil force awakens, demonic spirits keep them from leaving and turn their gathering into a living Hell.
Director: Kevin Tenney | Stars: Cathy Podewell, Alvin Alexis, Hal Havins, Allison Barron
Votes: 19,153 | Gross: $3.11M
33. White Mischief (1987)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1940s Kenya, a married couple join other affluent British expatriates in a lifestyle of recklessness and excess, but soon find themselves in a troubling situation.
Director: Michael Radford | Stars: Sarah Miles, Joss Ackland, John Hurt, Greta Scacchi
Votes: 3,217 | Gross: $3.11M
34. The Legend of Billie Jean (1985)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Drama
A Texas teenager cuts her hair short and becomes an outlaw martyr with her brother and friends.
Director: Matthew Robbins | Stars: Helen Slater, Christian Slater, Keith Gordon, Richard Bradford
Votes: 11,670 | Gross: $3.10M
35. Dominick and Eugene (1988)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama
Dominick and Eugene are twins, but Dominick is a little bit slow due to an accident in his youth. They live together, with Dominick working as garbage man to put Eugene through medical ... See full summary »
Director: Robert M. Young | Stars: Tom Hulce, Ray Liotta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Robert Levine
Votes: 3,282 | Gross: $3.08M
36. Messenger of Death (1988)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A Denver reporter investigates the mass murder of a family of Mormons in rural Colorado.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Charles Bronson, Trish Van Devere, Laurence Luckinbill, Daniel Benzali
Votes: 3,366 | Gross: $3.07M
37. Malone (1987)
R | 92 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
An ex-C.I.A. hit man running from his past finds just how difficult it is to retire when he runs across a small town controlled by mercenaries and a family that's resisting their control.
Director: Harley Cokeliss | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Cliff Robertson, Kenneth McMillan, Cynthia Gibb
Votes: 3,620 | Gross: $3.06M
38. Fright Night Part 2 (1988)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
"Fright Night Part 2" is a sequel to "link=tt0089175]". Charley Brewster and the horror host Peter Vincent must face more vampires, out for revenge.
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace | Stars: William Ragsdale, Roddy McDowall, Traci Lind, Julie Carmen
Votes: 14,243 | Gross: $2.98M
39. 976-EVIL (1988)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Horror
People who dial 976-EVIL receive supernatural powers and turn into satanic killers. When Spike dialed 976-EVIL, he knew it was an expensive toll call, but he didn't know that he'd have to pay for it with his soul.
Director: Robert Englund | Stars: Stephen Geoffreys, Patrick O'Bryan, Jim Metzler, María Rubell
Votes: 6,012 | Gross: $2.96M
40. Homework (1982)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Good-looking but virginal "rockstar" teen Tommy tries to score with some of the local high school girls. But a classmate's mom decides to make a man out of him.
Director: James Beshears | Stars: Joan Collins, Michael Morgan, Shell Kepler, Lanny Horn
Votes: 451 | Gross: $2.91M
41. Crimes of Passion (1984)
R | 107 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A mysterious woman, fashion designer by day and prostitute by night, is hounded by two men: a married father of two children and a sexually repressed preacher.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, Bruce Davison, Gordon Hunt
Votes: 8,539 | Gross: $2.91M
42. The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984)
R | 81 min | Adventure, Fantasy
A fearsome swordsman, Kain, crosses the barren wastelands and comes upon a town where two arch enemies fight incessantly for control of the town's only well.
Director: John C. Broderick | Stars: David Carradine, Luke Askew, María Socas, Anthony De Longis
Votes: 2,530 | Gross: $2.89M
43. No Man's Land (1987)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A rookie cop goes undercover and infiltrates a car thief ring.
Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Charlie Sheen, D.B. Sweeney, Lara Harris, Randy Quaid
Votes: 5,437 | Gross: $2.88M
44. Jinxed! (1982)
R | 103 min | Comedy
Bette Midler is on a roll through Reno, Vegas, and Tahoe with Rip Torn as her semi-professional gambler husband, and Ken Wahl as a seductive blackjack dealer. In HD.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Bette Midler, Ken Wahl, Rip Torn, Val Avery
Votes: 1,257 | Gross: $2.87M
45. Rappin' (1985)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Music, Musical
An ex-con and break-dancer helps save a neighborhood from a greedy developer while trying to win a rap contest.
Director: Joel Silberg | Stars: Mario Van Peebles, Eriq La Salle, Melvin Plowden, Richie Abanes
Votes: 606 | Gross: $2.86M
46. Modern Romance (1981)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
Albert Brooks directs himself as a successful film editor with far too many issues that affects the relationship between him and his remarkably patient girlfriend.
Director: Albert Brooks | Stars: Albert Brooks, Kathryn Harrold, Tyann Means, Bruno Kirby
Votes: 4,715 | Gross: $2.86M
47. Running on Empty (1988)
PG-13 | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Music
The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live his own life.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: River Phoenix, Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, Jonas Abry
Votes: 17,915 | Gross: $2.84M
48. Loving Couples (1980)
PG | 97 min | Comedy
Wife is cheating her husband and the husband is cheating her back with her lover's girlfriend. The two cheating couples decide to go to a resort but they unintentionally pick the same one. Hilarity ensues.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn, Susan Sarandon, Stephen Collins
Votes: 541 | Gross: $2.81M
49. Heat (1986)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Las Vegas is the backdrop for all the torrid action of heat, as Burt Reynolds plays the soft-hearted bodyguard who's out to protect his friends.
Directors: Dick Richards, Jerry Jameson | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Karen Young, Peter MacNicol, Howard Hesseman
Votes: 2,544 | Gross: $2.79M
50. Gleaming the Cube (1989)
PG-13 | 105 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A young avid skateboarder uncovers a government conspiracy while investigating his adoptive brother's mysterious death.
Director: Graeme Clifford | Stars: Christian Slater, Steven Bauer, Richard Herd, Le Tuan
Votes: 9,034 | Gross: $2.78M
51. Deadtime Stories (1986)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
"Deadtime Stories" is a 1986 horror anthology, where a babysitting uncle tells his nephew three horror stories about killer witches, Little Red Riding Hood and a werewolf, and "Goldi Lox" and the three bears.
Director: Jeffrey Delman | Stars: Scott Valentine, Nicole Picard, Matt Mitler, Cathryn de Prume
Votes: 2,573 | Gross: $2.75M
52. Hot Moves (1984)
R | 85 min | Comedy
Four Venice Beach boys make a pact to lose their virginity before beginning their senior year of high school.
Director: Jim Sotos | Stars: Michael Zorek, Adam Silbar, Jeff Fishman, Johnny Timko
Votes: 830 | Gross: $2.73M
53. The Allnighter (1987)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Romance
A Southern California coed parties with her roommates and flirts with a surfer next door.
Director: Tamar Simon Hoffs | Stars: Susanna Hoffs, Dedee Pfeiffer, Joan Cusack, John Terlesky
Votes: 1,485 | Gross: $2.70M
54. Blind Fury (1989)
R | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Terry O'Quinn, Brandon Call, Noble Willingham
Votes: 18,746 | Gross: $2.69M
55. The Bear (1984)
PG | 110 min | Biography, Drama, Family
Biopic about the great college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant of the University of Alabama.
Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Gary Busey, Cynthia Leake, Carmen Thomas, Cary Guffey
Votes: 312 | Gross: $2.69M
56. Bad Medicine (1985)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy
Unable to gain acceptance into an American medical school, aspiring physician Jeff Marx studies abroad in a small Latin American medical program run by the country's dictator.
Director: Harvey Miller | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Alan Arkin, Julie Hagerty, Bill Macy
Votes: 1,463 | Gross: $2.69M
57. Playing for Keeps (1986)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy
Danny, Spikes and Silk have just recently graduated from high school in New York. Danny finds a title deed for a huge house in a small town. He has a dream to turn it into a Rock n' Roll ... See full summary »
Directors: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein | Stars: Daniel Jordano, Matthew Penn, Leon W. Grant, Mary B. Ward
Votes: 751 | Gross: $2.67M
58. House of Games (1987)
R | 102 min | Crime, Thriller
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
Director: David Mamet | Stars: Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Lilia Skala
Votes: 24,040 | Gross: $2.59M
59. 18 Again! (1988)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
An aging ruthless businessman swaps bodies with his grandson in the wake of getting into a car accident.
Director: Paul Flaherty | Stars: Charlie Schlatter, George Burns, Tony Roberts, Anita Morris
Votes: 5,033 | Gross: $2.57M
60. Maxie (1985)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A 1920s flapper who haunts her old house possesses a reserved housewife who just moved in. However, she cannot leave before she receives her massive audition for a Hollywood studio.
Director: Paul Aaron | Stars: Glenn Close, Mandy Patinkin, Ruth Gordon, Barnard Hughes
Votes: 1,178 | Gross: $2.56M
61. Under the Volcano (1984)
R | 112 min | Drama
A day in the life of a self-destructive British consul in Mexico on the eve of World War II.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Ignacio López Tarso
Votes: 6,246 | Gross: $2.56M
62. True Stories (1986)
PG | 89 min | Comedy, Musical
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
Director: David Byrne | Stars: David Byrne, John Goodman, Annie McEnroe, Jo Harvey Allen
Votes: 7,498 | Gross: $2.55M
63. Streets of Gold (1986)
R | 95 min | Drama, Sport
Alek is an immigrant who has just moved to the U. S. He was banned from competing for the USSR Olympic boxing team because of his religion. Depressed and alcoholic, he finds happiness and redemption when he trains two fighters.
Director: Joe Roth | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Adrian Pasdar, Wesley Snipes, Ángela Molina
Votes: 712 | Gross: $2.52M
64. Reform School Girls (1986)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A new group of girls arrives at Pridemore Juvenile Facility, where the brutal warden plays favoritism with a few, and treats the rest like animals. But one girl is not taking this horrible treatment lying down.
Director: Tom DeSimone | Stars: Linda Carol, Wendy O. Williams, Pat Ast, Sybil Danning
Votes: 2,989 | Gross: $2.51M
65. Marie (1985)
PG-13 | 112 min | Biography, Drama
A political appointee risks her job and her life to expose corruption.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Jeff Daniels, Keith Szarabajka, Morgan Freeman
Votes: 1,026 | Gross: $2.51M
66. Impulse (1984)
R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After a small earthquake in a tiny, quiet town, local citizens start to exhibit bizarre, violent and self-destructive behaviour.
Director: Graham Baker | Stars: Tim Matheson, Meg Tilly, Hume Cronyn, John Karlen
Votes: 1,706 | Gross: $2.50M
67. The King of Comedy (1982)
PG | 109 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A passionate yet unsuccessful comedian stalks and kidnaps his idol to take the spotlight for himself.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard
Votes: 119,248 | Gross: $2.50M
68. P.O.W. the Escape (1986)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Col. Cooper leads a group of American P.O.W.s, battling their way to freedom as Saigon falls to the Viet Cong.
Director: Gideon Amir | Stars: David Carradine, Charles Grant, Mako, Steve James
Votes: 763 | Gross: $2.50M
69. Rumble Fish (1983)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper
Votes: 37,704 | Gross: $2.49M
70. Desert Hearts (1985)
R | 91 min | Drama, Romance
While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed professor of literature is unexpectedly seduced by a carefree, spirited young lesbian.
Director: Donna Deitch | Stars: Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers
Votes: 7,297 | Gross: $2.49M
71. Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
R | 79 min | Horror, Thriller
Little Billy witnesses his parents getting killed by Santa after being warned by his senile grandpa that Santa punishes those who are naughty. Now Billy is 18 and out of the orphanage, and he has just become Santa himself.
Director: Charles E. Sellier Jr. | Stars: Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero, Robert Brian Wilson
Votes: 18,816 | Gross: $2.49M
72. Choose Me (1984)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Love doctor radio host Nancy, bar owner Eve, Pearl, drifter Mickey et al meet in LA.
Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Geneviève Bujold, Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren, Patrick Bauchau
Votes: 3,089 | Gross: $2.49M
73. The Stepfather (1987)
R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
After murdering his entire family, a man marries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again.
Director: Joseph Ruben | Stars: Terry O'Quinn, Jill Schoelen, Shelley Hack, Charles Lanyer
Votes: 18,202 | Gross: $2.49M
74. The Hand (1981)
R | 104 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A comic book artist loses his hand, which in turn takes on a murderous life of its own.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Annie McEnroe, Bruce McGill
Votes: 6,709 | Gross: $2.45M
75. The Men's Club (1986)
R | 101 min | Drama
A group of men get together to form a "discussion group". They share their feelings about women, life, love, and work. The party gets rowdier and rowdier, and then the wife returns home. ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: David Dukes, Richard Jordan, Harvey Keitel, Frank Langella
Votes: 1,052 | Gross: $2.44M
76. The Man Who Wasn't There (1983)
R | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
On his wedding day, a State Department employee is given an egg-shaped device by a dying man with blue vials inside, which can turn people invisible. He finds himself being chased by various parties who want the substance.
Director: Bruce Malmuth | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Art Hindle, Morgan Most
Votes: 673 | Gross: $2.44M
77. Table for Five (1983)
PG | 122 min | Drama, Romance
J.P. Tannen takes his three children for a vacation cruise. They usually live with their mother and stepfather, but now J.P. feels capable of taking them. Emotional tragedy strikes, causing... See full summary »
Director: Robert Lieberman | Stars: Jon Voight, Richard Crenna, Marie-Christine Barrault, Millie Perkins
Votes: 849 | Gross: $2.44M
78. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
A New Yorker's life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting a strange, unpredictable adventure.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark
Votes: 40,676 | Gross: $2.44M
79. Kansas (1988)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A young man returning home to attend a wedding hooks up with a drifter who turns out to be a violent bank robber. Before he knows it, the man finds himself involved in the robber's plans.
Director: David Stevens | Stars: Matt Dillon, Andrew McCarthy, Leslie Hope, Alan Toy
Votes: 1,305 | Gross: $2.43M
80. Farewell to the King (1989)
PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Borneo, 1942: An American soldier escapes WWII and becomes the king of the headhunters in the jungle. Two British soldiers are parachuted into the area to find local support for the battle against the Japanese.
Director: John Milius | Stars: Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers, Frank McRae, Gerry Lopez
Votes: 3,133 | Gross: $2.42M
81. Dead of Winter (1987)
R | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall, Jan Rubes, William Russ
Votes: 4,676 | Gross: $2.41M
82. The Kindred (1987)
R | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A geneticist takes his assistants to his old family home to locate the deadly product of his late mother's revolutionary research into rapid human evolution--his monstrous, tentacled baby brother--before a mad scientist gets to him first.
Directors: Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow | Stars: Rod Steiger, Kim Hunter, David Allen Brooks, Amanda Pays
Votes: 2,506 | Gross: $2.41M
83. The Evil Dead (1981)
NC-17 | 85 min | Horror
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker
Votes: 232,487 | Gross: $2.40M
84. Dangerously Close (1986)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A rebel without a cause at an elite uptight High School discovers some of his classmates have formed an even more elite clique hell-bent on ridding the school of what they deem to be its undesirables because of ethnicity, politics, etc.
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: John Stockwell, J. Eddie Peck, Carey Lowell, Bradford Bancroft
Votes: 1,555 | Gross: $2.39M
85. A Little Sex (1982)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
The story of one man's hilarious - and doomed - attempts to wield life's ultimate double-edged sword: infidelity.
Director: Bruce Paltrow | Stars: Tim Matheson, Kate Capshaw, Edward Herrmann, John Glover
Votes: 607 | Gross: $2.37M
86. At Close Range (1986)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama
Reunited with his career criminal father, tough teen Brad thinks he's found his ticket to an exciting life of crime, only to find out he's wrong.
Director: James Foley | Stars: Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Chris Penn
Votes: 17,759 | Gross: $2.35M
87. Weeds (1987)
R | 115 min | Drama
A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.
Director: John D. Hancock | Stars: Nick Nolte, Rita Taggart, Ernie Hudson, Mark Rolston
Votes: 921 | Gross: $2.33M
88. Man, Woman and Child (1983)
PG | 99 min | Drama
A man with a wife and two daughters learns that he has a son. It seems that a few years ago while visiting France, he had an accident and he had an affair with the doctor who treated him. ... See full summary »
Director: Dick Richards | Stars: Martin Sheen, Blythe Danner, Craig T. Nelson, David Hemmings
Votes: 462 | Gross: $2.31M
89. Yes, Giorgio (1982)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Famous opera singer Giorgio Fini loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to female throat specialist Pamela Taylor and falls in love with her.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Luciano Pavarotti, Kathryn Harrold, Eddie Albert, Paola Borboni
Votes: 808 | Gross: $2.28M
90. Nomads (1986)
R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A French anthropologist specializing in nomadic groups moves to Los Angeles with his wife, and starts following a group of sinister street punks who seem to live and move around in a black van. But they aren't what they seem.
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Lesley-Anne Down, Pierce Brosnan, Anna Maria Monticelli, Adam Ant
Votes: 5,339 | Gross: $2.28M
91. Sing (1989)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, Musical
A teen film about an Italian punk forced to work with an innocent Jewish girl.
Director: Richard Baskin | Stars: Lorraine Bracco, Peter Dobson, Jessica Steen, Louise Lasser
Votes: 953 | Gross: $2.26M
92. The Squeeze (1987)
PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A mysterious black box spells danger to a con man and female detective.
Director: Roger Young | Stars: Michael Keaton, Rae Dawn Chong, Ric Abernathy, Danny Aiello III
Votes: 1,458 | Gross: $2.23M
93. Heathcliff: The Movie (1986)
G | 73 min | Family, Animation, Comedy
On a rainy day as Uncle Heathcliff is forced to babysit his nephews, and spends the time recounting his adventures, he meets a cat who looks just like him, one where he winds up working for... See full summary »
Director: Bruno Bianchi | Stars: Mel Blanc, Donna Christie, Peter Cullen, Jeannie Elias
Votes: 299 | Gross: $2.19M
94. Electric Dreams (1984)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman.
Director: Steve Barron | Stars: Lenny von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield, Bud Cort
Votes: 10,026 | Gross: $2.19M
95. Russkies (1987)
PG | 99 min | Drama
A group of American boys and a shipwrecked Russian sailor become friends during the Cold War.
Director: Rick Rosenthal | Stars: Whip Hubley, Joaquin Phoenix, Peter Billingsley, Stefan DeSalle
Votes: 1,628 | Gross: $2.19M
96. Paris, Texas (1984)
R | 145 min | Drama
Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Sam Berry
Votes: 119,103 | Gross: $2.18M
97. Bird (1988)
R | 161 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The troubled life and career of jazz musician Charlie "Bird" Parker.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Samuel E. Wright
Votes: 13,494 | Gross: $2.18M
98. Turtle Diary (1985)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they ... See full summary »
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Glenda Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Richard Johnson, Michael Gambon
Votes: 829 | Gross: $2.16M
99. Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)
R | 103 min | Comedy
The widow's houseboy and the divorcee's chauffeur bet on which will bed the other's employer first.
Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Ray Sharkey, Mary Woronov, Robert Beltran
Votes: 1,438 | Gross: $2.16M
100. Heartbeeps (1981)
PG | 78 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Two household robots run away and try to start a family.
Director: Allan Arkush | Stars: Andy Kaufman, Bernadette Peters, Randy Quaid, Kenneth McMillan
Votes: 1,675 | Gross: $2.15M
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