Top Films of the 1980s (Calculated)

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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
director: Jim Sheridan actor: Daniel Day-Lewis / Brenda Fricker
other title: Il mio piede sinistro / O Meu Pé Esquerdo
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
風の谷のナウシカ
8.8 (16 ratings) director: Hayao Miyazaki actor: Sumi Shimamoto / Ichiro Nagai
other title: Nausicaä della Valle del vento / Nausicaä - fra vindenes dal
After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.
Threads (1984) [Movie] TMDB
Threads
director: Mick Jackson actor: Karen Meagher / Reece Dinsdale
other title: Ipotesi sopravvivenza
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Blow Out (1981) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban
Blow Out
director: 布莱恩·德·帕尔玛 actor: 约翰·特拉沃尔塔 / 南茜·艾伦
other title: 凶线 / 爆裂剪辑
While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.
Who Sings Over There (1980) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
Ko to tamo peva
director: 斯洛博丹·希扬 actor: 帕维尔·武吉西奇 / 德拉甘·尼柯立克
other title: 谁在那儿歌唱? / Ko to tamo peva
本片故事发生在1941年,德国军队横扫欧洲期间。由两个即将前往贝尔格莱德的贫穷少年的歌唱开始,又从他们搭乘的公共汽车展开故事。形形色色的人坐上这部汽车,退役老军人、两个富人、新婚夫妇、司机父子。各种各样的意外引出了各种各样的故事、叙述和活动:在一个路口被军人拦住;在另一条陆上又被收取买路钱的农夫扎破车胎;在湖边休息时,又碰上了行进中的一个本国小分队,汽车被征用,回来后司机的儿子已经被强迫参军;退役军人的钱包掉在路上,乘客们却怀疑两个清贫的少年并把他们拳打脚踢。最后在德军飞机的轰炸下,汽车焚烧、倾倒,但两位满面污秽的少年仍然从车窗爬出,继续歌唱……贝尔格莱德之旅由此艰难地结束。
El Keif (1985) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
الكيف
director: Ali Abdel-Khalek actor: Mahmoud Abdel Aziz / يحيى الفخراني
other title: الكيف
Gamal sings at local weddings. His brother Salah, a chemist, tries to convince him to quit drugs and gives him some weed that is made out of harmless substances. When a drug dealer grows impressed by Salah's formula, Salah succumbs to the temptation of money.
Love Streams (1984) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban
Love Streams
director: 约翰·卡萨维蒂 actor: 约翰·卡萨维蒂 / 吉娜·罗兰兹
other title: 爱的激流 / 迷雾狂情
Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.
Possession (1981) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb
Possession
8.0 (8 ratings) director: Andrzej Żuławski actor: Isabelle Adjani / Sam Neill
other title: Possessão / La posesión
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
The Road (1982) [Movie] TMDB
Yol
director: Şerif Gören actor: Tarık Akan / Şerif Sezer
other title: Yol - Der Weg / Yol, la permission
When five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from their families, the culture, and the government.
Rain Man (1988) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb
Rain Man
7.6 (14 ratings) director: Barry Levinson actor: Dustin Hoffman / Tom Cruise
other title: Rain Man - L'uomo della pioggia / Encontro de Irmãos
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
Chariots of Fire (1981) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb Douban
Chariots of Fire
director: Hugh Hudson actor: Ben Cross / Ian Charleson
other title: Momenti di gloria / Viljen til sejr
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
Summer (1986) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB
Le rayon vert
director: 埃里克·侯麦 actor: 玛丽·里维埃 / Amira Chemakhi
other title: 绿光 / Le rayon vert
A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
Death of Yazdgerd (1982) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
مرگ یزدگرد
director: Bahram Beizai actor: Karim Akbari Mobarakeh / Yasaman Arami
other title: Marg Yazdgerd / La muerte de Yazdgerd
Death of Yazdgerd, is a poetic and political work exploring the cruel and tragic dynamics of a class-based society. War is raging. King Yazdgerd's body is discovered in a run-down mill in the Iranian desert. Charged with murder, the miller, his wife and his sickly daughter must tell their story to the commanders to escape torture and death. Who killed the King? Was Yazdgerd indeed the revered God-King, or a puny, immoral man caught in the destructive whirlwind of his times?
Nayakan (1987) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Nayakan
director: 曼尼·拉特纳姆 actor: 卡马尔·哈山 / 萨拉妮亚·波恩瓦南
other title: 나야칸 / நாயகன்
Velu Naicker, who witnesses the brutal murder of his father, kills a corrupt policeman and escapes to Mumbai, only to become a gangster.
Return of the Jedi (1983) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
8.0 (6 ratings) director: Richard Marquand actor: Mark Hamill / Harrison Ford
other title: Il ritorno dello Jedi / Jedi-ridderen vender tilbage
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion once and for all with a second dreaded Death Star.
The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
童年往事
8.0 (5 ratings) director: Hou Hsiao-hsien actor: Yu An-Shun / Tien Feng
other title: A Time to Live, a Time to Die / Un temps pour vivre, un temps pour mourir
An autobiographical film based on Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's memories of his youth growing up in Taiwan after emigrating from mainland China.
Die Hard (1988) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban
Die Hard
8.6 (9 ratings) director: John McTiernan actor: Bruce Willis / Alan Rickman
other title: Trappola di cristallo / Assalto ao Arranha-Céus
NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.
Pelle the Conqueror (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB TMDB Douban
Pelle Erobreren
director: Bille August actor: Pelle Hvenegaard / Max von Sydow
other title: Pelle alla conquista del mondo / Pelle Erobreren
In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to travel to the United States of America.
Withnail & I (1987) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Withnail & I
director: Bruce Robinson actor: Richard E. Grant / Paul McGann
other title: Shakespeare a colazione / Withnail e Eu
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.
Created date: Nov. 10, 2025