Favorite Film From Each Year Of The 80s?

1980: The Shining
1981: For Your Eyes Only
1982: ET
1983: Return Of The Jedi
1984: The Terminator
1985: Back To The Future
1986: The Karate Kid Part II
1987: The Living Daylights
1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989: Batman

1980: The Empire Strikes Back
1981: The Howling
1982: First Blood
1983: National Lampoon's Vacation
1984: The Karate Kid
1985: Back to the Future
1986: Cobra
1987: RoboCop
1988: Die Hard
1989: Back to the Future Part II

80: Airplane
81: For Your Eyes Only
82: Poltergeist
83: Halloween 3
84: The Terminator (so difficultthis year!)
85: Better off Dead
86: Link
87: Lethal Weapon
88: The Naked Gun
89: Back to the Future 2

1980: Airplane!
1981: Escape From New York
1982: The Thing
1983: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
1984: 1984
1985: The Breakfast Club/Back to The Future
1986: Aliens
1987: Withnail and I
1988: Die Hard
1989: The Little Mermaid

SomeCallMeEnglishGiraffe wrote:1987: Withnail and I

Now that is an imminently brilliant and quotable cult classic, and an absolute all time-favourite of mine. I received a copy of the screenplay for Christmas, and need to re-watch it soon.

I’ll compile my own list on this thread in due course.

80. Somewhere in Time
81. Ms. 45
82. The Thing
83. Return of the Jedi
84. The Terminator/Once Upon a Time in America
85. To Live And Die in L.A.
86. Star Trek IV- The Voyage Home
87. The Living Daylights
88. The Naked Gun
89. Back to the Future Part II

1980: The Empire Strikes Back
1981: Possession
1982: The Thing
1983: Scarface
1984: Stop Making Sense (unless a concert film doesn't count, in which case: Amadeus)
1985: Brazil
1986: Blue Velvet
1987: Evil Dead II
1988: Akira
1989: UHF

1980 - The Empire Strikes Back
1981 - Esacpe from New York
1982 - Conan the Barbarian
1983 - Krull
1984 - Dune
1985 - Back to the Future I
1986 - Howard the Duck
1987 - Gor
1988 - They Live
1989 - Back to the Future II

There were so many good movies in the 80s, it was hard to choose...