Films of the 1980s in 2020

July 6, 2020

Watching films made in the 1980s in 2020. Mostly ones never seen before, or at least not in many years.

 

1980

Seems Like Old Times
Private Benjamin
Nine to Five
Stir Crazy
Caddyshack

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Going Berserk
Big Chill
Strange Brew
High Road to China
War Games
Losin’ It

1981

Arthur
Race for the Yankee Zephyr
Continental Divide
Neighbors
Gregory’s Girl
The Devil and Max Devlin
So Fine
Modern Problems
Bustin’ Loose
Condorman

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1982

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
The Last American Virgin
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Author! Author
Partners
Night Shift
Lookin’ to Get Out
Diner
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
The Toy
An Officer and a Gentleman

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Going Berserk
Big Chill
Strange Brew
High Road to China
War Games
Losin’ It
The Outsiders
Quarterback Princess
Silkwood
Get Crazy

1983

Deal of the Century
Class
Blue Thunder
The Survivors
Trading Places
Doctor Detroit
My Tutor
Risky Business
D.C. Cab
Private School

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Going Berserk
Big Chill
Strange Brew
High Road to China
War Games
Losin’ It
The Outsiders
Quarterback Princess
Silkwood
Get Crazy
 

1984

Bachelor Party
Tank
Sixteen Candles
The Karate Kid
No Small Affair
Blame it on Rio
Give My Regards to Broad Street
Red Dawn
Romancing the Stone
Micki & Maude
Indiana Jones and the Temple
    of Doom
Footloose
Oxford Blues
Rhinestone

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The Razor’s Edge
Streets of Fire
Purple Rain
Top Secret!
Harry & Son
Police Academy
Lassiter
Against All Odds
All of Me
Tightrope
The Lonely Guy
Gremlins
The Woman in Red
Amadeus
The Flamingo Kid

1985

After Hours
The Holcroft Covenant
Invasion U.S.A.
Brewster’s Millions
Tuff Turf
Remo Williams: The
    Adventure Begins
The Goonies
Weird Science
Code Name: Emerald
Just One of the Guys
Runaway Train
Head Office
The Sure Thing
Gotcha!
Breaking All the Rules
Fletch
Volunteers
Secret Admirer
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Spies Like Us
Young Sherlock Holmes

1986

Explorers
Turk 182!
D.A.R.Y.L.
Real Genius
Desperately Seeking Susan
Perfect
Target
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
White Nights
Better Off Dead...
Letter to Brezhnev
The Journey of Natty Gann
Clue
Cocoon
St. Elmo’s Fire
Follow That Bird
National Lampoon’s
    European Vacation
The Legend of Billie Jean
Witness
The Breakfast Club
 

1986

Lucas
Echo Park
Big Trouble
Pretty in Pink
Top Gun
Iron Eagle
Big Trouble in Little China
The Flight of the Navigator
“Crocodile” Dundee
The Best of Times
Back to School
Legal Eagles
Sweet Liberty
The Color of Money
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Odd Jobs
8 Million Ways to Die
¡Three Amigos!
Modern Girls
My Chauffeur
Biggles
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

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52 Pick-Up
Off Beat
The Morning After
One Crazy Summer
Something Wild
Tough Guys
SpaceCamp
Last Resort
Howard the Duck
Little Shop of Horrors
Armed and Dangerous
Summer Rental
Beginners Luck
“About Last Night...”
Frog Dreaming
Short Circuit
The Golden Child
WillyMilly
Gung Ho
Ruthless People
Stand By Me
Nothing in Common

1987

Critical Condition
Can’t Buy Me Love
Dragnet
The Fourth Protocol
Ishtar
Hello Again
Amazon Women on the Moon
The Secret of My Success
Stakeout
Campus Man
Baby Boom
Hollywood Shuffle
Real Men
Three O’Clock High
My Best Friend is a Vampire
La Bamba
Maid to Order
Mannequin
Like Father Like Son
Valet Girls
Burglar

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*batteries not included
Teen Wolf Too
Roxanne
Summer School
Over the Top
Hiding Out
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Best Seller
Oklahoma Smugglers
3 Men and a Baby
Broadcast News
Overboard
Surrender
Project X
The Allnighter
Dirty Dancing
The Lost Boys
Who’s That Girl
Blind Date
Moonstruck
Less Than Zero
 

1988

Coming to America
Tapeheads
A Fish Called Wanda
The Dead Pool
Bright Lights, Big City
Vice Versa
Feds
Buster
18 Again!
Sticky Fingers
Satisfaction
Cocktail
Without a Clue
Casual Sex?
U2 Rattle and Hum
Midnight Run
Willow
Moving Target
License to Drive
Mr. North
Twins
Dead Ringers
The Night Before
Tequila Sunrise
Illegally Yours
Plain Clothes

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Moving
Stars and Bars
Bull Durham
Hawks
Beetlejuice
Married to the Mob
Working Girl
Johnny Be Good
A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon
Rain Man
Stealing Home
Rented Lips
Big Business
She’s Having a Baby
The Couch Trip
Some Girls
Stormy Monday
You Can't Hurry Love
Pass the Ammo
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Memories of Me
Things Change
PunchLine
Shakedown
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka

1989

The January Man
Depeche Mode 101
The Tall Guy
Harlem Nights
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Skin Deep
Gleaming the Cube
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Always
The Rachel Papers
Major League
Who’s Harry Crumb?
Second Sight
Tap
Teen Witch
The Package
Parenthood
She's out of Control
Road House
The War of the Roses
Turner & Hooch
K-9
Happy Together
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Born on the Fourth of July

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When Harry Met Sally...
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Dead Bang
Blaze
Loverboy
Say Anything...
Scandal
Cold Feet
Her Alibi
Breaking In
Weekend at Bernie's
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Dream a Little Dream
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Uncle Buck
Fat Man and Little Boy
Three Fugitives
Chances Are
Heathers
Worth Winning
Black Rain
Dead Poets Society
UHF
Troop Beverly Hills

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