1980's movies

[Tilpop]

Hi all

DH and I are watching movies from when we were kids (1980's). Things like Beverley Hills Cop / Coming to America / Ghostbusters / Die Hard etc. I'm running out of ideas, of what else to watch. Has anyone any idea please?

Thank You

[neverknewsomany]

Can't buy me love and fast times at ridgemont high.

[TheGirlFromStoryville]

I love all the Brat pack films.
Fave though is the Lost Boys. Great soundtrack too!

[tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz]

Aaahh love Lost Boys. Jason Patric was beautiful in it.
Top Gun
Goonies
Stand by me
Raging Bull

[Cheeseycheeseycheesecheese]

Can't beat the Brat Pack.

And

Flashdance, Footloose, Fame etc

[Carouselfish]

Young Guns!!! Tremors, The Goonies, The Breakfast Club, HAL, The Shining, Leaving Las Vegas, Wild at Heart, Splash, Big.

[Tilpop]

Yey!!!!
Great ideas thank you

[tempestterra]

Time bandits
Willow
Withnail & I
ET
Short circuit
Back to the future

[didldidi]

Trading places
Police Academy

[CadburySpira]

Labyrinth
Beetlejuice
The Money Pit

[BeMoreZenLike]

John Hughes films!!
Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Pretty in PinWeird Science
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Uncle Buck

The Never Ending Story
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Grease
Dirty Dancing
Stand by Me
Back to the Future
The Outsiders
The Princess Bride
Top Gun
Cocktail
Ghostbusters

[BeMoreZenLike]

Goodfellas
Rainman
Raising Arizona
When Harry Met Sally
Karate Kid
Dead Poets Soc
Star wars
The colour Purple
Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown

[waaahhh]

D.A.R.Y.L - brilliant film

[IHaveBrilloHair]

More 90's but Demolition Man.

[Taddda]

Big Trouble in little China
Weird Science
Aliens
Best of the Best
St Elmos Fire
Cocktail
Watership Down
Clue

Theres a cartoon called 'A flight of Dragons' that I loved when I was a kid, couldn't find it for years then a friend bought me the DVD from the states as an unexpected pressie...couldn't even remember mentioning it but was such a lovely surprise...it might look dated but it's still such a beautiful 80's animation!

Also an 80's series called 'Box of Delights'...there on YouTube- Hope someone remakes those one day....

[Buttybach]

St. Elmo's fire
Breakfast club
Say anything
Girls just wanna have fun
Gremlins
Pretty in pink
Fresh horses
Mannequin
Oxford blues
Stand by me
Legend
Cocktail

[lardass88]

Flight of the navigator. The secret of my success.

[elp30]

The Outsiders
-Most American kids have to read the book at school & watch the film and most will tear up when you say, "Stay Gold, Pony Boy"

Taps
-Gorgeous and young Tim Hutton, Sean Penn, Tom Cruise and the great George C Scott

Ordinary People
-Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland and Timothy Hutton in an Oscar winning performance at age 20. It's about the disintegration of a family after a death. It's heavy but wonderful.

Less Than Zero
-Drugs, rich kids and Robert Downey Jr--yum

Better Off Dead
-It is totally silly but a cult classic. "Where's my $2?"

Coal Miner's Daughter
-Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn. I was never a fan of country music or Loretta but this totally changed my mind. Interesting story.

Airplane!
-Silly and fun. "Don't call me Shirley"

American Werewolf in London
-Classic

Arthur
-Dudley Moore's infectious laugh is totally worth the time to watch it.

History of the World, Part 1
-Mel Brooks and total silliness

Falling in Love
-De Niro and Meryl Streep--sigh

Terms of Endearment
-Filmed in my current city and I still cry at the end

Scarface
-Hell yeah!

Silkwood
-Cher & Streep in a true life drama about a whistleblower in a nuclear factory

Red Dawn
-Wolverines!

Police Academy Films
-My husband made me add this

Cousins
-Isabella Rossellini is wonderful in this but I do have a slight crush on her

Poltergeist
-It still creeps me out

Working Girl
-Everyone has huge hair in this! I love the 80's

84 Charing Cross Road
-Endearing film with Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft that spans years and across the ocean.

Stand and Deliver
-Edward James Olmos earned an Oscar for his portrayal of Jamie Escalante, a math teacher who challenges his students in East L.A. to take the Advanced Placement Calculus test despite their deprived backgrounds and family problems. Wonderful film.

Jewel of the Nile & Romancing the Stone
-husband had me add these since he has a Kathleen Turner fixation. I'll allow it because she was indeed beautiful and the movies were great fun and Billy Ocean is a great singer

The 80's had great films.

[SkiingIsHeaven]

The Outsiders.

What a cast! Great film.

[Astella22]

Robocop
Predator

[MummyFriend]

Back to the future
The princess bride
Caddyshack
Risky business
Spaceballs
The last starfighter
Tron
Labyrinth
Dead poet's society
Wargames
Lethal weapon
The Blues brothers
Planes, Trains and automobiles
Uncle Buck
Predator
Airplane
The terminator

[MusicToMyEars800]

Just appreciating the thread OP, I love all things 80’s, especially Movies and music! All suggestions on here are great!!! Makes me want to have an 80’s binge.

[ClattyPat]

Anything with Kurt Russell would be a good choice.

[MarmiteyCrumpets]

Planes Trains and Automobiles and
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels for a good uncomplicated laugh

When Harry Met Sally for a classic 80s romcom

LA Story - okay this is 1991, but it's such a romantic film I think it deserves a mention

Hope And Glory - a look at the Blitz through the eyes of a young boy

[Chicchicchicchiclana]

Terms of Endearment - one of the best movies of all rime 😢💔.

Withnail and I - hard to believe it was made so long ago as it still feels so relevant.

All That Jazz (1979) and Postcards From The Edge (1991) deserve a viewing even though they don't quite qualify.

[Patsypie]

The Secret of my Success is brilliant!