Spabbit’s 80’s Movies Lockdown Watchlist

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 🙂

7.7
The Goonies | June 7, 1985 (United States)
Director: Richard DonnerWriter: Chris Columbus, Steven SpielbergStars: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen
Summary: A group of young misfits called The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on an adventure to find a legendary pirate's long-lost treasure.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English, Spanish, Cantonese, Italian
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6.9
Real Genius | August 7, 1985 (United States)
Director: Martha CoolidgeWriter: Neal Israel, Pat Proft, PJ TorokveiStars: Val Kilmer, Stacy Peralta, Daniel Ades
Summary: An uptight teenage prodigy enters a top engineering college, but feels awkward among the freewheeling students. When a professor aims to turn their laser project into a military weapon, he a... Read all
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English
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6.6
Weird Science | August 2, 1985 (United States)
Director: John HughesWriter: John Hughes, Al Feldstein, William M. GainesStars: Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock
Summary: Two high-school nerds use a computer program to literally create the perfect woman, who promptly turns their lives upside-down.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English
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8.4
Aliens | July 18, 1986 (United States)
Director: James CameronWriter: James Cameron, David Giler, Walter HillStars: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn
Summary: Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
Countries: United Kingdom, United StatesLanguages: English, Spanish
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6.7
The Last Starfighter | July 13, 1984 (United States)
Director: Nick CastleWriter: Jonathan R. BetuelStars: Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Kay E. Kuter
Summary: High schooler Alex Rogan conquers the Starfighter video game, only to find out it was just a test, and is transported to another planet. He has been recruited to join a team of the best star... Read all
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English
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8.5
Back to the Future | July 3, 1985 (United States)
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 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English
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7.8
Back to the Future Part II | November 22, 1989 (United States)
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: United StatesLanguages: English
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7.2
Heathers | March 31, 1989 (United States)
Director: Michael LehmannWriter: Daniel WatersStars: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty
Summary: At Westerburg High where cliques rule, jocks dominate and all the popular girls are named Heather, it's going to take a Veronica and mysterious new kid to give teen angst a body count.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English
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6.5
Flash Gordon | December 5, 1980 (United States)
Director: Mike HodgesWriter: Lorenzo Semple Jr., Michael Allin, Alex RaymondStars: 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: United Kingdom, United States, NetherlandsLanguages: English
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8.2
Die Hard | July 20, 1988 (United States)
Director: John McTiernanWriter: Roderick Thorp, Jeb Stuart, Steven E. de SouzaStars: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia
Summary: A New York City police officer tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English, German, Italian, Japanese
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6.9
Top Gun | May 16, 1986 (United States)
Director: Tony ScottWriter: Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Ehud YonayStars: Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Kelly McGillis
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 taugh... Read all
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English
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6.6
Paperhouse | February 17, 1989 (United States)
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: United KingdomLanguages: English
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6.0
My Best Friend Is a Vampire | May 6, 1988 (United States)
Director: Jimmy HustonWriter: Tab MurphyStars: Robert Sean Leonard, Evan Mirand, LeeAnne Locken
Summary: After a sexual encounter with a beautiful client, a teenage delivery boy finds himself being turned into a vampire.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English
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7.1
Malcolm | November 5, 1986 (United States)
Director: Nadia TassWriter: David ParkerStars: Colin Friels, John Hargreaves, Lindy Davies
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. Malco... Read all
Countries: AustraliaLanguages: English
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5.7
The Man with One Red Shoe | July 19, 1985 (United States)
Director: Stan DragotiWriter: Francis Veber, Yves Robert, Robert KlaneStars: 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: United StatesLanguages: English
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7.8
The Breakfast Club | February 15, 1985 (United States)
Director: John HughesWriter: John HughesStars: Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald
Summary: Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a great deal more in common than they thought.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English
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7.5
The Abyss | August 9, 1989 (United States)
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 faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English
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6.8
Risky Business | August 5, 1983 (United States)
Director: Paul BrickmanWriter: Paul BrickmanStars: Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano
Summary: A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English, German
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7.8
Ghostbusters | June 8, 1984 (United States)
Director: Ivan ReitmanWriter: Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Rick MoranisStars: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver
Summary: Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English
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6.6
Ghostbusters II | June 16, 1989 (United States)
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: United StatesLanguages: English
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6.8
Stripes | June 26, 1981 (United States)
Director: Ivan ReitmanWriter: Len Blum, Daniel Goldberg, Harold RamisStars: Bill Murray, John Candy, Harold Ramis
Summary: Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English, Russian, Polish
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6.6
Crocodile Dundee | September 26, 1986 (United States)
Director: Peter FaimanWriter: Paul Hogan, 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
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7.6
Lethal Weapon | March 6, 1987 (United States)
Director: Richard DonnerWriter: Shane Black, Jeffrey BoamStars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey
Summary: Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English
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7.2
Lethal Weapon 2 | July 7, 1989 (United States)
Director: Richard DonnerWriter: Jeffrey Boam, Shane Black, Warren MurphyStars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci
Summary: Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English, Afrikaans
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6.7
Christine | December 9, 1983 (United States)
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: United StatesLanguages: English
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7.9
The Blues Brothers | June 20, 1980 (United States)
Director: John LandisWriter: Dan Aykroyd, John LandisStars: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway
Summary: Jake Blues rejoins with his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, out... Read all
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7.8
Ferris Bueller's Day Off | June 11, 1986 (United States)
Director: John HughesWriter: John HughesStars: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara
Summary: A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite what the Principal thinks of that.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English, German
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6.7
Police Academy | March 23, 1984 (United States)
Director: Hugh WilsonWriter: Neal Israel, Pat Proft, Hugh WilsonStars: 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: United StatesLanguages: English
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5.7
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment | March 29, 1985 (United States)
Director: Jerry Paris, James SignorelliWriter: Neal Israel, Pat Proft, Barry W. BlausteinStars: 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: United StatesLanguages: English
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5.3
Police Academy 3: Back in Training | March 21, 1986 (United States)
Director: Jerry ParisWriter: Neal Israel, Pat Proft, Gene QuintanoStars: Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, David Graf
Summary: The alumni of Commandant Lassard's Police Academy (1984) return to the school to train new recruits and prevent its closure.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English
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4.9
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol | April 3, 1987 (United States)
Director: Jim DrakeWriter: Neal Israel, Pat Proft, Gene QuintanoStars: 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: United StatesLanguages: English
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4.6
Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach | March 18, 1988 (United States)
Director: Alan MyersonWriter: Neal Israel, Pat Proft, Stephen CurwickStars: Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow
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: United StatesLanguages: English
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4.4
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege | March 10, 1989 (United States)
Director: Peter BonerzWriter: Neal Israel, Pat Proft, Stephen CurwickStars: Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow
Summary: Those bumbling cadets take to the streets when three inept goons successfully orchestrate a metropolitan crime wave.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English
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