We’re in lockdown. It sucks. No waffling: Here is my hand chosen list of 80’s movies to watch during the #lockdown! Love ’em, or Hate ’em, they’re the 80’s in a nutshell 🙂
The Goonies (1985)
114min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 29 November 1985 (UK)
Director: Richard DonnerWriter: Chris Columbus, Steven SpielbergStars: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen
Summary: A group of young misfits who call themselves The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on a quest to find a legendary pirate's long-lost treasure.
Countries: USALanguages: English, Spanish, Cantonese, Italian
Real Genius (1985)
108min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi | 7 August 1985 (USA)
Summary: Teenage geniuses deal with their abilities while developing a high-powered laser for a university project. When their professor intends to turn their work into a military weapon, they decide to ruin his plans.
Countries: USALanguages: English
Weird Science (1985)
94min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi | 1 November 1985 (UK)
Director: John HughesWriter: John HughesStars: Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock
Summary: Two high school nerds use a computer program to literally create the perfect woman, but she turns their lives upside down.
Countries: USALanguages: English
Aliens (1986)
137min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 29 August 1986 (UK)
Director: James CameronWriter: James Cameron, David GilerStars: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn
Summary: Ellen Ripley is rescued by a deep salvage team after being in hypersleep for 57 years. The moon that the Nostromo visited has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, colonial marines have impressive firepower, but will that be enough?
Countries: USA, UKLanguages: English
The Last Starfighter (1984)
101min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 13 July 1984 (USA)
Summary: Video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best starfighters to defend their world from the attack.
Countries: USALanguages: English
Back to the Future (1985)
116min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 4 December 1985 (UK)
Director: Robert ZemeckisWriter: Robert Zemeckis, Bob GaleStars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
Summary: Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown.
Countries: USALanguages: English
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
108min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 24 November 1989 (UK)
Director: Robert ZemeckisWriter: Robert Zemeckis, Bob GaleStars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
Summary: After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.
Countries: USALanguages: English
Heathers (1988)
103min | Comedy, Crime | 17 November 1989 (UK)
Director: Michael LehmannWriter: Daniel WatersStars: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty
Summary: In order to get out of the snobby clique that is destroying her good-girl reputation, an intelligent teen teams up with a dark sociopath in a plot to kill the cool kids.
Countries: USALanguages: English
Flash Gordon (1980)
111min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 11 December 1980 (UK)
Director: Mike HodgesWriter: Lorenzo Semple Jr., Michael AllinStars: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow
Summary: A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
Countries: UK, USALanguages: English
Die Hard (1988)
132min | Action, Thriller | 3 February 1989 (UK)
Director: John McTiernanWriter: Roderick Thorp, Jeb StuartStars: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia
Summary: An NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Countries: USALanguages: English, German, Italian, Japanese
Top Gun (1986)
110min | Action, Drama | 3 October 1986 (UK)
Summary: As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.
Countries: USALanguages: English
Paperhouse (1988)
92min | Drama, Fantasy | 2 June 1989 (UK)
Director: Bernard RoseWriter: Catherine Storr, Matthew JacobsStars: Charlotte Burke, Jane Bertish, Samantha Cahill
Summary: A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.
Countries: UKLanguages: English
My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987)
89min | Comedy, Horror, Romance | 6 May 1988 (USA)
Summary: After a sexual encounter with a beautiful client, a teenage delivery boy finds himself being turned into a vampire.
Countries: USALanguages: English
Malcolm (1986)
90min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi | 2 October 1986 (Australia)
Summary: Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. ...
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Countries: AustraliaLanguages: English
The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)
92min | Comedy, Thriller | 19 July 1985 (USA)
Director: Stan DragotiWriter: Francis Veber, Yves RobertStars: Tom Hanks, Lori Singer, Dabney Coleman
Summary: A man picked randomly out of a crowd is made the target of CIA survelliance and pursuit.
Countries: USALanguages: English
The Breakfast Club (1985)
97min | Comedy, Drama | 7 June 1985 (UK)
Summary: Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
Countries: USALanguages: English
The Abyss (1989)
171min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery | 13 October 1989 (UK)
Director: James CameronWriter: James CameronStars: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn
Summary: A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
Countries: USALanguages: English
Risky Business (1983)
99min | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 23 March 1984 (UK)
Summary: A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.
Countries: USALanguages: English, German
Ghostbusters (1984)
105min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy | 7 December 1984 (UK)
Director: Ivan ReitmanWriter: Dan Aykroyd, Harold RamisStars: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver
Summary: Three former parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.
Countries: USALanguages: English
Ghostbusters II (1989)
108min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy | 1 December 1989 (UK)
Director: Ivan ReitmanWriter: Dan Aykroyd, Harold RamisStars: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver
Summary: The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.
Countries: USALanguages: English
Stripes (1981)
106min | Comedy, War | 3 September 1981 (UK)
Summary: Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.
Countries: USALanguages: English, Russian, Polish
Crocodile Dundee (1986)
97min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | 12 December 1986 (UK)
Director: Peter FaimanWriter: Ken Shadie, John CornellStars: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon
Summary: An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City.
Countries: AustraliaLanguages: English
Lethal Weapon (1987)
109min | Action, Crime, Thriller | 1 September 1998 (UK)
Summary: Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.
Countries: USALanguages: English
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
114min | Action, Crime, Thriller | 15 September 1989 (UK)
Summary: Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.
Countries: USALanguages: English, Afrikaans
Christine (1983)
110min | Horror, Thriller | 2 March 1984 (UK)
Director: John CarpenterWriter: Stephen King, Bill PhillipsStars: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul
Summary: A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.
Countries: USALanguages: English
The Blues Brothers (1980)
133min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 23 October 1980 (UK)
Summary: Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
Countries: USALanguages: English
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
103min | Comedy | 13 February 1987 (UK)
Summary: A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite what the Principal thinks of that.
Countries: USALanguages: English, German
Police Academy (1984)
96min | Comedy | 11 May 1984 (UK)
Director: Hugh WilsonWriter: Neal Israel, Pat ProftStars: Steve Guttenberg, G.W. Bailey, Kim Cattrall
Summary: A group of good-hearted, but incompetent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors there are not going to put up with their pranks.
Countries: USALanguages: English
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)
87min | Comedy | 19 July 1985 (UK)
Director: Jerry Paris, James SignorelliWriter: Neal Israel, Pat ProftStars: Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, David Graf
Summary: When a new gang moves into town it's up to the screwball police team to stop them.
Countries: USALanguages: English
Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986)
83min | Comedy | 11 July 1986 (UK)
Summary: The alumni of Commandant Lassard's Police Academy (1984) return to the school to train new recruits and prevent its closure.
Countries: Canada, USALanguages: English
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)
88min | Comedy, Crime | 26 June 1987 (UK)
Director: Jim DrakeWriter: Neal Israel, Pat ProftStars: Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow
Summary: The misfit Police Academy (1984) graduates now are assigned to train a group of civilian volunteers to fight crime once again plaguing the streets.
Countries: USALanguages: English
Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach (1988)
90min | Comedy, Crime | 15 July 1988 (UK)
Summary: The Police Academy's commandant will be honored at a police convention in Miami Beach. At the airport he picks a wrong bag with stolen diamonds. The "owners" want them back.
Countries: USALanguages: English
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989)
84min | Comedy, Crime | 21 July 1989 (UK)
Summary: Those bumbling cadets take to the streets when three inept goons successfully orchestrate a metropolitan crime wave.
Countries: USALanguages: English