What are your must see '80s movies?

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

TIA

'Some Kind Of Wonderful'. John Hughes' best by far.

The Man With Two Brains
Local Hero
Ghostbusters
An American Werewolf In London
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Evil Dead II
Aliens
Die Hard
Raiders Of The Lost Ark

And 'The Sure Thing'. Delightful and much better than 'Say Anything'.

Yes - Outsiders; Rumblefish; Heathers; Barfly

'House Of Games'. I'd only ever seen Lindsay Crouse in 'Buffy' so was surprised at how good she was in this. Think she was married to David Mamet at the time.

Indiana Jones films
Star wars IV to VI
Adventures in babysitting
Breakfast club
Some kind of wonderful
Heathers
Do the right thing

Definitely working girl, dirty dancing, pretty women and crocodile Dundee

Ju.ping jack flash! Forgot about that one! I loved that
Also planes trains and automobiles
Blues brothers? Or is that late 70s?

Oh and romancing the stone

Desperately Seeking Susan, The Outsiders

Withnail and I
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Monty Python's Meaning of Life

Oh, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Gregory's Girl
Local Hero

And finally - it's not a film, but I'm watching the 1981 TV version of Brideshead Revisited on Britbox. Cracking stuff.

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And finally - it's not a film, but I'm watching the 1981 TV version of Brideshead Revisited on Britbox. Cracking stuff.

I was thinking about that just the other day! Spotted the actress who played Cordelia in some TV programme.

9 1/2 weeks
When Harry Met Sally
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Loads of great ones here. Not sure if Running on Empty has been mentioned but it has River Phoenix in. swoon

My favourite 80s movies are Trading Places and Fatal Attraction!

Oh and of course Working Girl!!

Some Kind of Wonderful and of course it's sister Pretty in Pink.
Say Anything for the hottest love scene ever- John Cusack in a car-yes please!
Gremlins
ET obv.
The Breakfast Club
Labyrinth
The Dark Crystal
Little Shop of Horrors!
Ghostbusters Mr staypuft is still hysterical

Letter to Brezhnev - I'm so glad that's been mentioned already. It really is brilliant.

Roselyne et les Lions
The Thing
Educating Rita
Desperately Seeking Susan
Maurice
My Beautiful Launderette
Mona Lisa
An American Werewolf in London
The Company of Wolves
Monty Python's Meaning of Life

@TheYearOfSmallThings

And Mystic Pizza.

I love Mystic Pizza. I’m never quite sure why because in lots of ways it’s pretty ropy, but it feels very young and fresh, and all three leads just look like such children, and I love Lili Taylor. (And had a giant brush on William R Moses since his Falcon Crest days…)

Shirley Valentine

Sixteen Candles

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.