Highest Rated IMDB Films of the 1980s

(1980) After the Rebels are overpowered by the Empire, Luke Skywalker begins his Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued across the galaxy by Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett. (8.7*)

(1985) A 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend and scientist. (8.5*)

(1981) An Archaeologist and adventurer is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its powers. (8.4*)

(1980) A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future. (8.4*)

(1984) The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salleri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him (8.4*)

(1981) A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II. (8.4*)

(1983) In Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed. (8.3*)

(1984) A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life. (8.3*)

(1987) A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. (8.3*)

(1983) After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side. (8.3*)

(1988) A New York City police officer tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. (8.2*)

(1980) A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication. (8.2*)

(1982) A man must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator. (8.1*)

(1986) After the death of his childhood best friend, a writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy. (8.1*)

(1984) A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation. (8.1*)