This decade saw Hollywood focus on sci-fi, action, comedy and franchises. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today, in this installment of our series on the greatest movies of all time, we’re counting down our picks for the top 10 movies of the 1980s.
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What about the Rocky franchise?
EDWARD SCEISORS HAND
My list is totally different except Blade Runner:
1 Blue Velvet
2 Once Upon a Time in America
3 Nostalgia
4 Kagemusha
5 Brazil
6 Blade Runner
7 Full Metal Jacket
8 Birdy
9 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
10 Fanny and Alexander
11 Angel Heart
12 Star Wars V & VI both are equally good
It's tough to say what should be on the top 10. So many classic movies and great songs too.
No rocky iv no like
Scarface number 1 no doubt
Robocop?
Platoon was horrible lol So Hollywood dramatic. That ridiculous scene where Elias is being shot, I laugh my ass off it's so stupid. And then Barnes eyes glow red like the devil. It's this sci-fi?
More importantly, where is Rambo?
et great movie
Where's scarface and batman full metal jacket and top gun and terminator and predator rambo nightmares on elm Street friday the 13th ,poltergeist ,cobra ,born on the fourth of July, commando, robocop,killer clowns from outher of space,the thing.🤔🤔🤔🤔 It's making me 😡
The 80's had the best movies Here Is A List Of Them. To Be Honest The First Two Are My Favorite Movie Of All Time
1 The Karate Kid
2 The Karate Kid Part II
3 Back To The Future
4 Back To The Future Part II
5 The Breakfast Club
6 Top Gun
7 Star Wars Episode VII (Return Of The Jedi)
8 Star Wars Episode V (The Empire Strikes Back)
9 The Little Mermaid
10 Ghostbusters
11 Caddyshack
12 Bloodsport
13 Kickboxer
14 E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
15 The Princess Bride
16 Willow
17 Top Gun
18 Dead Poets Society
19 Field Of Dreams
20 Major League
21 Rocky III
22 Rocky IV
23 The Little Mermaid
24 The Goonies
25 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
26 The Great Mouse Detective
27 Oliver And Company
28 The Black Cauldron
29 The Fox And The Hound
30 The Land Before Time
31 Superman II
32 Beverly Hills Cop
33 Beverly Hills Cop II
34 Police Academy
35 Good Morning, Vietnam
36 Crocodile Dundee II
37 First Blood
38 Rambo First Blood Part II
39 Kickboxer
That is a long list of classics
I like 16 movies of the 80's that I have seen so far not in order the first two are. To be honest The 1984 Karate Kid and The Karate Kid Part 2 are my favorite movies of all time. I also like Jean Claude Van Damme.
1 The Karate Kid
2 The Karate Kid Part 2
3 Back To The Future Part II
4 Back To The Future
5 The Ghostbusters
6 The Breakfast Club
7 Roadhouse
8 Top Gun
9 First Blood
10 Rambo First Blood Part 2
11 Bloodsport
12 Kickboxer
13 E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
14 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
15 Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi
16 Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
To be honest The Karate Kid should be on the list its amazing Bloodsport and Kickboxer should be on it also Van Damme is a great actor. The Karate Kid also got 2 sequels and now its own TV show Cobra Kai may be super intense and dark (In my opinion but its so awesome and amazing)
10. The Princess Bride
9. Amadeus
8. The Shining
7. Raging Bull
6. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
5. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Do The Right Thing
3. E.T. The Extraterrestrial
2. The Right Stuff
1. Fanny & Alexander
Movies like the Last Emperor don't even got an honourable mention!
No goonies?
Scarface should’ve been 1. That movie is for the culture
Revenge of the Nerds was the top comedy of the 80s & deserves an honorable mention!!!
Back to the Future & Empire Strikes Back are my 2 favorite movies so Y'ALL NAILED THIS LIST!!! 👍👍
Top 10 80s movies that start with the letter B:
Back to School
Back to the Future
Batman
Beverly Hills Cop
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Blues Brothers
Born on the Fourth of July
Breakfast Club
Broadcast News
Bull Durham
Here’s My List:
1. Platoon
2. Rain Man
3. Die Hard
4. Ghostbusters
5. The Karate Kid
6. Lethal Weapon
7. Raging Bull
8. First Blood
9. Conan the Barbarian
10. Beverly Hills Cop
Good list
When does Watchmojo make the top 20 films of the 1980s?
1 E T
2 Raiders Of The Lost Ark
3 Back To The Future
4 Ghostbusters
5 Beetlejuice
6 Innerspace
7 Top Gun
8 Aliens
9 Predator
10 The Terminator
11 Rambo First Blood Part II
12 Field Of Dreams
13 Witches Of Eastwick
14 Willow
15 Coming To America
16 The Fly
17 Abyss
18 Blade Runner
19 Gremlins
20 Out Of Africa
My list
1. Aliens
2. Die Hard
3. Coming To America
4. Ferris Bueler's Day Off
5. The Little Mermaid
6. Platoon
7. Scarface
8. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
9. Batman
10. Full Metal jacket
Other greats left out…..
Beverly Hills Cop
Hunt for Red October
The Natural
Cocoon
Escape from New York
Star Trek 2: Wrath of Kahn
2010
Dune
Flash Gordon
Christmas Vacation
House
Weekend at Bernies
Red Dawn
Beetlejuice
Alien Nation
Looker
Money Pit
Wargames
Spies Like Us
It's a CRIME to not have terminator on a list of the best 80s movie!!!!!!
Scarface
Commando
Rambo
Rocky 3
Monstersquad
Goonies
Predator
Lethal weapon
Childs play
John carpenter's the thing
Best of the 1980s, my list, in no particular order:
1.) Baby, It's You
2.) Drugstore Cowboy
3.) Melvin and Howard
4.) Atlantic City
5.) Raging Bull
6.) Reds
7.) Roger & Me
8.) Blade Runner
9.) Full Metal Jacket
10.) Last Exit to Brooklyn
11.) Repo Man
12.) Raiders of the Lost Ark
13.) Empire Strikes Back
14.) River's Edge
15.) Risky Business
Once upon a time in america is one of the best movies I ever watched and it's not even on this list
Aliens ❤❤❤
Burton's BATMAN 1989???
No gremlins or poltergeist people ?
Where is blade runner
The '80s was a great decade for movies for kids. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Goonies, Stand By Me. They don't make quality movies for kids anymore. So many iconic movies from the '80s.
1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Terminator
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. Die Hard
5. Back to the Future
6. Return of the Jedi
7. Stand By Me
8. The Untouchables
9. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
10. Chariots of Fire
The '80s also had two of the most popular Christmas movies with A Christmas Story and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
Where’s Do the Right Thing!
My personal list is
1 The Terminator 1984
2 Comando 1985
3.Twins 1988
4 Cobra 1986
5. Road House.
I love Arnold Schwarzenegger movies so thats most of my top 5s
Where's overboard and princess bride and maybe goonies
Most of these movies are in 1984
Back to the future number 1 and the best
Where's child's play?
You can't tell me after so many years of people rewatching Chucky, and how many sequels he's had that he doesn't belong anywhere on this list. Get real 🤣😒
10 movies per decade? There only 10 movies here
My List
1. Star Wars Episode 5: the Empire Strikes Back
2. Back to the Future
3. Die Hard
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Raging Bull
6. the Shinning
7. E.T. the Extra Terrestrial
8. Aliens
9. the Breakfast Club
10. Platoon
WTF was Rambo!
The Fact That The Terminator and Predator is Not On This List is a Literal Crime Against Me
Batman
The Shining
Blade Runner
E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial
Beetlejuice
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Temple of Doom
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Terminator
Raging Bull
Superman II
Midnight Run
The Abyss
Die Hard
The Thing
My Left Foot
The Living Daylights
Licence to Kill
Dead Poet's Society
Witness
Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee II
The Goonies
Sophie's Choice
Aliens
Predator
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2
The Goonies
Lifeforce
Out of Africa
Starman
An Officer and a Gentlemen deserved a mention.
The 1980s was an amazing decade for film lovers
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