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 🙂

The Goonies | June 7, 1985 (United States) 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


Real Genius | August 7, 1985 (United States) 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

Weird Science | August 2, 1985 (United States) 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

Aliens | July 18, 1986 (United States) 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

The Last Starfighter | July 13, 1984 (United States) 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

Back to the Future | July 3, 1985 (United States) 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

Back to the Future Part II | November 22, 1989 (United States) 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

Heathers | March 31, 1989 (United States) 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

Flash Gordon | December 5, 1980 (United States) 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

Die Hard | July 20, 1988 (United States) 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

Top Gun | May 16, 1986 (United States) 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

Paperhouse | February 17, 1989 (United States) 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

My Best Friend Is a Vampire | May 6, 1988 (United States) Summary: After a sexual encounter with a beautiful client, a teenage delivery boy finds himself being turned into a vampire.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English

Malcolm | November 5, 1986 (United States) 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

The Man with One Red Shoe | July 19, 1985 (United States) Summary: A man picked randomly out of a crowd is made the target of CIA survelliance and pursuit.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English

The Breakfast Club | February 15, 1985 (United States) 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

The Abyss | August 9, 1989 (United States) 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

Risky Business | August 5, 1983 (United States) 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

Ghostbusters | June 8, 1984 (United States) 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

Ghostbusters II | June 16, 1989 (United States) 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

Stripes | June 26, 1981 (United States) 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

Crocodile Dundee | September 26, 1986 (United States) 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 | March 6, 1987 (United States) 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

Lethal Weapon 2 | July 7, 1989 (United States) 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

Christine | December 9, 1983 (United States) 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

The Blues Brothers | June 20, 1980 (United States) 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
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English

Ferris Bueller's Day Off | June 11, 1986 (United States) 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

Police Academy | March 23, 1984 (United States) 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

Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment | March 29, 1985 (United States) Summary: When a new gang moves into town it's up to the screwball police team to stop them.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English

Police Academy 3: Back in Training | March 21, 1986 (United States) 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

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol | April 3, 1987 (United States) 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

Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach | March 18, 1988 (United States) 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

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege | March 10, 1989 (United States) Summary: Those bumbling cadets take to the streets when three inept goons successfully orchestrate a metropolitan crime wave.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English