What are your top 10 films of the 1980's?

Question

1. The breakfast club
2. Some kind of wonderful
3. Back to the future
4. Better off dead
5. Pretty in pink
6. 16 candles
7. Goonies
8. Dirty Dancing
9. Princess Bride
10. Mannequin


Hard to say since many 80's movies are great!

lol... jmg8092... these are my fave, hence why i asked what are yours but yea that movie also rocks.

Who's giving thumbs down? any 80's movie deserves thumbs up. Good answers everyone, it is going to be hard to pick one, i might just leave it up to voting.....

Answer 1

#1 TOP GUN
#2 The Empire Strikes Back
#3 Raiders of the Lost Ark
#4 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
#5 The Breakfast Club
#6 Officer and a Gentleman
#7 Trading Places
#8 Chariots of Fire
#9 Dead Poets Society
#10 Ghostbusters

But there are so many other great movies:

Airplane!, Batman, The Princess Bride, BIG, The Natural, Stripes, Hollywood Shuffle, The Secret of My Success, Beverly Hills Cop, Better off Dead, Back to the Future, Predator, Terminator, Alien, Flashdance, Fame, Superman II, The Karate Kid, Raising Arizona, Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan, Back to the Future, Rocky II, Three Amigos, The Big Chill, Radio Days, Big Trouble in Little China, Purple Rain, John Carpenter's the Thing

Love those 80s movies!!

Answer 2

1. When Harry Met Sally
2. Top Gun
3. Lethal Weapon
4 Aliens
5. Pretty Woman
6 Steel Magnolias
7. Stand By me
8. Dirty dancing
9. Princess bride
10. The lost boys
Close favorites-
Overboard,Roxanne Good morning vietnam, Mannequin, Coming to America Cry Freedom, The outsiders,Ferris Buellers day off, BeetlejuiceThe empire strikes back, Everywhich way but loose

Answer 3

In no particular order:

1. Heathers
2. Staying Alive
3. Flashdance
4. Breakfast Club
5. Some Kind Of Wonderful
6. Beetlejuice
7. Footloose
8. Can't Buy Me Love
9. Purple Rain
10. Fatal Attraction

Answer 4

You seem to be a big fan of John Hughes films. Check out "Planes, Trains, & Automobiles" if you've never done so. It's my favorite film directed by Hughes.

My top 10 films of the 1980's are:

1. "Ran" (1985)
2. "The Elephant Man" (1980)
3. "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" (1981)
4. "Amadeus" (1984)
5. "Gandhi" (1982)
6. "This Is Spinal Tap" (1984)
7. "Die Hard" (1987)
8. "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980)
9. "Full Metal Jacket" (1987)
10. "Rain Man" (1988)

Honorable mentions:

"Airplane!" (1980)
"Platoon" (1986)
"Roger And Me" (1989)
"Aliens" (1986)
"Akira" (1988)
"E.T. the Extra Terrestrial" (1982)
"Back To The Future" (1985)
"Glory" (1989)
"Mississippi Burning" (1988)
"Raging Bull" (1980)

Answer 5

1. St. elmos fire
2. Taxi
3. Midnight express
4. Real Genius
5. Scarface
6. Trading places
7. Blues brothers
8. La bamba
9. Full metal jacket
10. Mommie dearest and Cannonball run

Answer 6

I Loved The Breakfast Club!
Also, the movie Weird Science.

Answer 7

ET :The Extra Terrestrial.
Out Of Africa.
Poltergeist
Dirty Dancing.
Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
Amadeus.
Terms of Endearment.
Chariots Of Fire.
Flash Dance.
Top Gun.

Answer 8

1)Wargames
2)Sneakers (that's '92 though)
so my real #2) Beverly Hills Cop
3)Star Wars - Return of the Jedi
4)Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark
5)Back to the Future
6)Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
7)Ferris Bueller's Day Off
8)The Karate Kid
9)Rocky
10)Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back

Answer 9

The Sure Thing
Top Gun
Full Metal Jacket
Bachelor Party
Real Genius
Porky's
Stripes
Ghostbusters
Lethal Weapon
Die Hard

Just to off set all the chick flicks you chose that sadly I watch religiously.

Answer 10

My favorite is definitely

The Quiet Earth

Awesome movie!

Cheers

Dennis