1980-1989 Movies To See
by bfomara | created - 05 Jan 2017 | updated - 09 Mar 2023 | Public- Genres
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1. Dead End (1985)
88 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
An unstable filmmaker risks his crew to shoot a documentary in a town overrun with flesh-eating zombies.
Director: Emerson Bixby | Stars: Emerson Bixby, Rachel McBride, Melinda Pierce, Albert Stetman
Votes: 166
2. Al bar dello sport (1983)
100 min | Comedy
Lino, a penniless Pugliese emigrant to Turin, is an unwelcome guest in his sister and brother-in-law's house. Engaged with Rossana, who leaves him for a friend. Lino makes 13 the pools but keeps it hidden from everyone.
Director: Francesco Massaro | Stars: Lino Banfi, Jerry Calà, Mara Venier, Annie Belle
Votes: 783
3. Si ringrazia la regione Puglia per averci fornito i milanesi (1982)
98 min | Comedy
Director: Mariano Laurenti | Stars: Mirella Banti, Massimo Boldi, Franco Caracciolo, Dino Cassio
Votes: 72
4. Prisoners (1983)
95 min | Drama
A man resettles his American family to New Zealand where he gets a new job at a prison in the city Wellington. His daughter has an affair with one of his prisoners he is to look out for.
Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Tatum O'Neal, Colin Friels, Shirley Knight, David Hemmings
Votes: 34
5. Buldoci a tresne (1981)
99 min | Comedy, Crime
Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried to fool the boss and earned a death sentence. The convict runs away from the killer.
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Marián Labuda, Jirí Kodet, Miroslav Streda, Jirí Hrzán
Votes: 102
6.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Making 'The Shining'
(1980)
35 min | Documentary
A look behind the scenes during the making of The Shining (1980).
Director: Vivian Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Vivian Kubrick, Terry Needham, Stanley Kubrick
Votes: 2,386
7. Krehké vztahy (1980)
83 min | Drama
A young square-built Tadeás Falk called Táda (Vladimír Kratina) distributes meat from a slaughterhouse to the Liberec-city environs and to mountain hotels. The divorced Bára Saklová (Zora ... See full summary »
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Vladimír Kratina, Radim Hlozek, Zora Kerova, Helena Zaludova
Votes: 37
8. Born Beautiful (1982 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
This is the story of Betsy a model who is nearly 30. Now in the world of modeling that is considered to be the age of retirement. She then sets out to see what else she can do and at the ... See full summary »
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Erin Gray, Lori Singer, Ed Marinaro, Polly Bergen
Votes: 86
9. Humanes Töten (1980)
90 min
The young butcher's assistant Mann gets lost in a gloomy, cold alienated world in this new wave avantgarde tale.
Directors: Muscha, Trini Trimpop | Stars: Felix Auer, Berthold Bell, Mike Jansen, Mathias Kabelitz
10. Il ras del quartiere (1983)
88 min | Comedy
In Milan, a father lost his daughter and hires Domingo, the neighborhood Ras, to find her.
Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Diego Abatantuono, Lino Troisi, Lara Lamberti, Daniel Stephen
Votes: 328
11. Venus Peter (1989)
PG-13 | 94 min | Drama
Peter, a young boy living in the fishing village of St Monans, Scotland during 1940s, learns about life and the beauty of imagination from his grandfather and female teacher in this touching semi-autobiographical story about childhood.
Director: Ian Sellar | Stars: Ray McAnally, David Hayman, Sinéad Cusack, Gordon R. Strachan
Votes: 122
12. Hard Choices (1984)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
A teenaged boy goes for a ride with his brother and the brother's friends, who proceed to rob a store and murder the clerk. They are caught and, despite the young boy's protestations, he is... See full summary »
Director: Rick King | Stars: Margaret Klenck, Gary McCleery, John Seitz, John Sayles
Votes: 143
13. Rock 'n' Roll Hotel (1983)
85 min | Musical
A young trio of musicians, called The Third Dimension, enter a battle of bands in an old hotel called the Rock N' Roll Hotel.
Directors: Richard Baskin, Paul Justman | Stars: Rachel Sweet, Susan Barnes, Diane Bellamy, John Durbin
Votes: 30
14. Miracle on Ice (1981 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama, Sport
The fact-based story of how the U. S. Olympic hockey team beat the Soviets at the 1980 Lake Placid, N. Y., winter Olympics, then went on to win the gold medal.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Karl Malden, Andrew Stevens, Steve Guttenberg, Jerry Houser
Votes: 670
15. Tian ci liang yuan (1987)
95 min | Comedy
Kit accidentally stumbles upon a house after his motorbike went out of control, and a girl helps him on his feet, then disappears.
Director: Guy Lai | Stars: Kar-Bik Chan, Pak-Cheung Chan, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng, Jacky Cheung
Votes: 51
16. Double Fattiness (1988)
96 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Siu-Fung (Lydia Sum), an owner of a pizzeria, unexpectedly succumbs to a heart attack. However, her spirit was unable to cross over to the other side, thus, she resurrects into the body of ... See full summary »
Director: David Chiang | Stars: Bill Tung, Lydia Shum, Eric Tsang, Maggie Cheung
Votes: 133
17. The Armchair Hacker (1985)
R | 114 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
A computer hacker uses his high-tech skills to get into personal computers, and from there into their homes. His sister is the only chance the world has of stopping him. Directed by Paul ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Morrissey | Stars: Gino Marrocco, Derek Nolan, Camilla Scott, Carmen Trevino
Votes: 23
18. El viaje a ninguna parte (1986)
134 min | Comedy, Drama
The movie tells the story of a family of comedians that work in the towns of Spain during the 40's and 50's. Life gets very tough for them since they cannot compete any longer with cinema. ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Fernán Gómez | Stars: José Sacristán, Laura del Sol, Juan Diego, María Luisa Ponte
Votes: 1,858
19. Madrid (1987)
108 min | Drama, Romance, War
A German documentary filmmaker travels to Madrid to do a TV program about the city and the Spanish civil war commemorating its 50th anniversary.
Director: Basilio Martín Patino | Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Verónica Forqué, María Luisa Ponte, Félix Dafauce
Votes: 90
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