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IMDB - Top 50 - 1980s Movies

The Top 50 1980s Movies as voted by the users of the Internet Movie Database.

Updated: November 3, 2009

(found at: http://www.imdb.com/chart/1980s)
1. Star Wars, Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back (Widescreen Edition)
by Irvin Kershner
  
2. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark  
3. The Shining
by Stanley Kubrick
  
4. Das Boot - The Director's Cut
by Wolfgang Petersen
  
5. Aliens (Special Edition)
by James Cameron
  
6. Raging Bull (Special Edition)  
7. Cinema Paradiso (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition)
by Giuseppe Tornatore
  
8. The Elephant Man  
9. Once Upon a Time in America (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Sergio Leone
  
10. Amadeus
by Milos Forman
  
11. Full Metal Jacket  
12.
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 Back to the Future  
13. Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade - Widescreen Edition
by Steven Spielberg
  
14. Star Wars, Episode VI- Return of the Jedi (Widescreen Edition)  
15. Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
by Ridley Scott
  
16. Die Hard (Widescreen Edition)
by John McTiernan
  
17. Ran - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa
  
18. Platoon (Special Edition)  
19. Gandhi (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Richard Attenborough
  
20. Stand By Me (Special Edition)  
21. The Thing (Collector's Edition)  
22. Grave of the Fireflies
by Isao Takahata
  
23. Scarface (Platinum Edition)
by Brian De Palma
  
24. The Terminator
by James Cameron
  
25.
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 Au revoir les enfants - criterion collection
by Louis Malle
  
26. The Princess Bride (Special Edition)
by Rob Reiner
  
27. Breaker Morant  
28. Fanny and Alexander (Special Edition Five-Disc Set) - Criterion Collection  
29. Come and See
by Elem Klimov
  
30. My Neighbor Totoro
by Hayao Miyazaki
  
31.
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 Time of the Gypsies
by Emir Kusturica
  
32. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
by Hayao Miyazaki
  
33. Glory
by Edward Zwick
  
34. Manon of the Spring
by Claude Berri
  
35. Crimes and Misdemeanors  
36. Castle in the Sky
by Hayao Miyazaki
  
37. Wings of Desire  
38. Brazil - The Criterion Collection - (Single Disc Editon)  
39. A Christmas Story (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
40. Fitzcarraldo
by Werner Herzog
  
41. The Killing Fields
by Roland Joffé
  
42. The Untouchables
by Brian De Palma
  
43. The Vanishing - Criterion Collection
by George Sluizer
  
44. Rain Man (Special Edition)
by Barry Levinson
  
45. Hannah and Her Sisters  
46. The Killer - Criterion Collection
by John Woo
  
47. Jean De Florette
by Claude Berri
  
48. This Is Spinal Tap - Criterion Collection  
49. Paris, Texas
by Wim Wenders
  
50. Kagemusha - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa
  
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Created by Melissa B. on Aug 24, 2007.