Fave 80's movies??

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I just watched Can't Buy Me Love for the first time and i really liked it! What are your fave 80s movies (in case there are others I've missed out on!)

[dorothyinAus]

I'm an 80's movie tragic.
Say Anything and The Princess Bride go without saying.

I watch these every time I see they're on:
Coming to America
Ferris Bueler's Day Off
Airplane
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
The Breakfast Club
The Blues Brothers
Beverly Hills Cop
Mystic Pizza
Flight of the Navigator
Steel Magnolias
Clue
Major League
Uncle Buck
A Fish Called Wanda
Better Off Dead
Dead Poet's Society
Summer School
Weekend at Bernie's
Chariots of Fire
Peggy Sue Got Married
Dragnet
The Secret of NIMH
Spies Like Us
Teen Witch
and the list goes on...

[dulcemariamar]

I was just going to say that when I saw the title to your post.

I also love Say Anything

[elenetxu]

Airplane!!!

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Some Kind of Wonderful
Plain Clothes
Big Trouble in Little China (terrible and racist but Kurt Russell is gold in it)

dorothyinAus has the rest!

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Jan 22, 2014 9:46:08 GMT -5 neeps said:

Adding to dorothyinAus list

Sixteen Candles
Overboard
Pretty in Pink
Goonies
Weird Science
Footloose
Dirty Dancing

Yes!!! Nice list.

[Brit]

It is pretty bad that I have seen almost none of the movies that you all mentioned.

[Wanderista]

Yeah, I agree with all of the John Hughes movies being on there. I'm fond of a number of films that are already on the list. I'll see if I can remember any others.

Desperately Seeking Susan - Material Girl era Madonna
Around the World in 80 Days - 1989 version - this was apparently a mini-series with Pierce Brosnan, I watched it with my Grandma
The Living Daylights & License To Kill - these were the cheesy '80s Timothy Dalton James Bond films
Queenie - with Mia Sara from Ferris Bueller - all these 80s tv movies used to run on tv back in the day, this one wasn't bad
Valmont - this had Colin Firth and Annette Bening, it was like an '80s Dangerous Liaisons/Cruel Intentions
Monte Carlo - tv movie with Joan Collins as a spy
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 
Basically anything with James Spader in the 80s in it
Endless Love - this was kind of over the top in that 80s way
The Blue Lagoon
The Scarlet Pimpernel TV movie
Oxford Blues - very cheesy but funny Rob Lowe comedy - actually most Rob Lowe comedies from this era are fun

Basically the 80s was great for tv movies, cheesy-but-in-an-endearing-way comedies and dramas, and certain celebrities some of whom are still around.

Oh yeah, from the Oscars list:

Amadeus
Out of Africa
Chariots of Fire (I actually need to watch this one)
Moonstruck
Sophie's Choice (very, very sad)
Broadcast News
A Room With A View
There are a lot of other good ones from among the list of Oscar nominees, including some that I should probably watch sometime.

Nearly forgot When Harry Met Sally, classic great film. Also Splash was fun. So yeah, Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, and Tom Hanks are others who made some classic 80s good movies. It's from 1991 but I also liked City Slickers.

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I've watched them much later than the 80s but here it goes nonentheless:
Back to the Future!!!
Tootsie
Top Gun
Young Sherlock Holmes
Flashdance
Big
The Little Mermaid (the only one I watched when it came out in '89)
Labyrinth

[glitterfart]

Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club
Dirty Dancing
Pretty Woman
Mystic Pizza

[Waffles]

OMG yes, all of the above! I had to refrain from saying it out loud!

But seriously:
Dead Poet Society
Breakfast Club
Dirty Dancing
Pretty Woman
Mystic Pizza
Big
Back to the Future
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
The Blue Lagoon
Tootsie
The Breakfast Club
The Blues Brothers
Beverly Hills Cop
Flight of the Navigator
Rocky
Cocoon
Indiana Jones series

I'll admit to owning half of these on dvd.

Anything with Louis de Funès, especially the "gendarmes" series.

Ok, OMG, you just sent me to google and I keep gasping at my desk!!!
Le Grand Bleu
ET
Trois homes et un couffin (the original French version of 3 men and a baby)
La cage aux folles (ditto above)
Manon des Sources & Jean de Florette!!!
When Harry met Sally!!!
La Boum!!!

I'm hyperventilating with excitement at this list I found. I'm absolutely buying the ones I don't already own.

[anna7602]

Did someone already say St. Elmo's Fire and Heathers? Love those two.oh, and Beetlejuice! (Or is that a 90s movie?)

I agree with so many of the above. and Waffles, I bought La Boum when we were living in France because I remember loving it so much.

[Deleted]

Great lists!! I definitely have not seen all of these movies!

[americaninoz]

#1 sixteen candles for sure - LOVE that movie

I also love all the other brat pack movies and 'she's having a baby' love love

[mrsukyankee]

Small fact...Jake from 16 Candles lives in my hometown area. He has been a furniture maker.

[allibally]

Sixteen Candles and Say Anything. I also like Ferris Bueller

[oneslybookworm]

Oh man, I love 80s movies!!

#1 - Labyrinth. David Bowie is a sex god. YWIA