80’s and 90’s film recommendations

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I turned 50 a month ago and have decided to relive my youth by watching all the old films that I once loved (and those I haven’t yet seen).
I am thinking easy watching/cheesy/fun and uplifting films like Ferris Bueller’s day off, Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, Pretty Woman etc.
If you have any recommendations of films you loved back then and probably ones that I have long forgotten, I will happily track down and watch over the next year.

Spies Like Us
Working Girl
Heathers
Beetlejuice
Trains Planes and automobiles
Uncle Buck
Honey I shrunk the kids
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Full Monty
Romy and Michelle's high school reunion
Steel Magnolias
Nine to Five
Big Business
Father of the Bride
Baby Boom
Parenthood
St Elmo's Fire
Short Circuit
Cocoon
Driving Miss Daisy
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Driving in cars with boys
A fish called Wanda

Heathers
Some Kind of Wonderful
Say Anything
Joe Versus the Volcano

Brassed Off 😭

Parenthood
Heathers
Pump up the volume

Heathers
Money Can’t Buy Me Love

@SillyYak Good shout with Pump Up The Volume!

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Flatliners
Gremlins
Drop dead fred
Officer and a gentleman
Nightmare on Elm street
Mannequin

Reality Bites

One of favourite 90s films is the under- appreciated Martha Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence. It's a Film4 film and it's a nice little British romcom which is sweet without being too saccharine.

Joseph Fiennes stars as Londoner Laurence (and is at his cute 90's best here- those eyes!) who's a complicated guy looking for love. Opposite him is Monica Potter as quirky but sad Martha, an American who's come to London to find adventure. Rufus Sewell and Tom Hollander give excellent performances as Laurence's feckless friends and Ray Winstone has a very funny little role.

Another film in the same vein is . Ben Chaplin falls for a vet with a radio show about animals who he thinks is Uma Thurman, but is actually Janeane Garofallo. This mix up causes much hilarity and some heartbreak. It was my first introduction to the concept of phone sex as a young teen- my mind was blown! 😂

Withnail and I

All of the above. Lost Boys? Pretty Woman?

Empire Records! Watched it again today and had forgotten how weird and wonderful it is.

Gremlins
Flatliners
Back To The Future
Indiana Jones
Ghost
Die Hard
Silence Of The Lambs
Cape Fear
Sleeping With The Enemy
Labyrinth
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
Free Willy
Jurassic Park
How To Make An American Quilt

Just too many!

Pump up the volume is an excellent shout.
The Commitments
Newsies
Ferngully the last rainforest
Young Guns and Young Guns 2
Dead Poets Society

Reality Bites

Girls just wanna have fun

Single White Female

Fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe
princess bride
priscilla, queen of the desert
driving miss daisy
shawshank redemption
witness
little shop of horrors
Fargo
philadelphia
The birdcage
the full Monty
The Truman show
sleepy hollow

Dances with Wolves.
Apollo 13.
ET
tootsie

Fame
Footloose

Terms of Endearment
About Last Night
St Elmos Fire
The Breakfast Club
Rain Man
Sleeping with the Enemy
Pretty Woman
Silence of the Lambs
The Full Monty
Sliding Doors

Party Party

One of my favourite films from that era and a film that nobody can ever remember seeing in my circle of friends. Some brilliant stars in it.

Forrest Gump

The Lost Boys!