What are your must see '80s movies?

[BananaOatmeal]

I've been craving '80s movies lately for some reason. I'd appreciate any recommendations.

TIA

Loads of mine have been said. I strongly second:

Jagged Edge
Witness
Ferris Bueller
Breakfast Club
Pretty in Pink
Adventures in Babysitting
The Princess Bride
Room with a View

If my bestie is on here these will be very outing, but here are some our absolute classics:

The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Slipper and the Rose
Flashdance
Ghostbusters
Splash

About last night
Pretty in pink
St. Elmo's fire
Cocktail
Risky business
Class
Oxford blues

Flatliners
Gremline
Back To The Future (all)
Mannequin
Class
Breakfast Club
Top Gun
Officer And A Gentleman
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Bird On A Wire
Mad Max
Private Benjamin

Just off the top of my head

Oh. And Nine To Five.

Oh loads of these already mentioned - I love Trading Places, Working Girl, Desperately Seeking Susan, Letter to Brezhnev... but my favourite is The Big Easy. Love that film!

How could I forget Steel Magnolias and Nine to Five!

Agree with the Karate Kid. So fantastically 80s from the fashion to the story.

Anything with either of the two Coreys in pretty much hits the 80s button for me. I do love The Lost Boys, but I have a little soft spot for Lucas too. The little Corey Haim in that movie reminds me of my little boy, sort of out of place sometimes.

Lots of the above, except Jaws was 1975

If we can throw in any John Carpenter, I'll be happy: The Thing, The Fog (1979+1980 I think).

Flight of the Navigator - for kids, lovely.

Any Arnold Schwarzenegger: The Running Man, Twins, Terminator, Total Recall.

Any and al John Hughs.
Any and all Bratpack (Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy)

Weekend at Bernie's is a must!

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (might just sneak into the 90s).

Thank you all so much for the suggestions. I'm looking forward to watching as many of these as I can.

Karate Kid is also so desperately 80s in that the storyline is absolutely nonsensical. Kid gets attacked by an evil karate gang (matching motorcycles and red outfits, natch) then coincidentally meets a janitor who happens to be a karate genius and can beat up 6 people all at once, who trains him in a 5 minute montage to beat a kid who has been doing karate competitions for about 10 years, with a kick that would only work if your opponent ran full tilt at you, and why would they given that it’s very clear what you’re about to do? It’s nuts but that’s why it’s fantastic.

Howard The Duck.

(I still think this is an under-rated classic.)

The Man with Two Brains
The Jerk (1979) but still.
Short Circuit
Little Shop of Horrors

Trading Places. Particularly because it has now been declared ‘problematic’ by the fatuous woke brigade. And there was me thinking the entire bloody point of the film was to lampoon racial stereotypes.....

Loved Trading Places.
"It. Was. Not. Me. It.was.the.Dukes"

American Werewolf In London
The Company Of Wolves (sensing a theme here)

Indiana Jones And...

Local Hero
The Killing Fields

Eating Gilbert Grape

*What's eating Gilbert Grape

A little bit off the beaten track - Quest For Fire

Local Hero
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Plus loads of others already mentioned, but those two are my favourites.

And another - Buster. Great soundtrack on that one.

Chariots of Fire
Dance with a Stranger
My Beautiful Launderette
Dangerous Liaisons
Maurice
The Long Good Friday
Mona Lisa
Scandal

Dance with a stranger is one of my all time favourite films. Miranda Richardson is so beautiful and her clothes are stunning.

Absolute Beginners - it was a massive flop but I think visually it's amazing. I could watch it all day.

Say Anything with John Cusack.

Clue
When Harry met Sally

Crocodile Dundee
Trading Places
Working Girl
9to5
Big Business
Romancing the Stone
Raiders of the Lost Ark & Temple of Doom (chilled monkey brains)
The Secret of My Success
ET
Terminator
Princess Bride
Labyrinth
Jumping Jack Flash
Three Men and a Baby
Ghostbusters
Highlander
Die Hard
Coming to America
No Way Out
Witness
Baby Boom