Statistics for 100 Top 10 Movies of the 1980s

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Clue	Movie	% Correct
The rebels have been brutally overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base	The Empire Strikes Back	91%
A young man is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time traveling DeLorean	Back to the Future	90%
Elliot befriends an adorable alien that just wants to phone home	E.T.	89%
3 unemployed parapsychology professors set up shop as a ghost removal service	Ghostbusters	89%
Students at the Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class	Top Gun	87%
Mr Miyagi agrees to teach a bullied boy martial arts	The Karate Kid	86%
Ferris is determined to have a good time, school day or not. Leisure rules!	Ferris Bueller's Day Off	84%
Indy is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis	Raiders of the Lost Ark	84%
Balboa takes on Mr. T	Rocky 3	84%
A reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City	Crocodile Dundee	82%
Adorable creatures become malevolent destructors don't get 'em wet and never, EVER feed them after midnight!	Gremlins	82%
Luke finally becomes a full fledged Jedi, but the dark side is stronger than ever	Return of the Jedi	81%
Detroit cop chases a killer to the very different environment of California	Beverly Hills Cop	80%
A good girl falls for her bad boy dance instructor	Dirty Dancing	80%
Clark agrees to sacrifice his powers to marry Lois	Superman 2	80%
Marty has to return to 1955 to fix events - without running into himself!	Back to the Future Part II	79%
The Dark Knight begins his war on crime with his first major enemy, the Joker	Batman	79%
Balboa takes on the Russians	Rocky 4	79%
A toon hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder	Who Framed Roger Rabbit?	79%
A boy wishes to be an adult at a magic wish machine	Big	76%
John McClane, officer of the NYPD, tries to save wife Holly Gennaro and several others	Die Hard	76%
Ripley returns to face not just one Alien, but hordes of them	Aliens	75%
A teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned	Footloose	75%
An unorthodox and irreverent DJ begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the US Armed Services Radio station in Vietnam	Good Morning, Vietnam	75%
Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised.	The Blues Brothers	75%
Daniel accompanies Mr Miiyagi to Okinawa who is off to see his dying father and confront his old rival, while Daniel inadvertently makes an enemy of his own	The Karate Kid Part II	75%
An African prince goes to Queens, NY to find a wife whom he can respect for her intelligence	Coming to America	74%
The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects	Honey, I Shrunk The Kids	74%
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guys' girlfriends	Three men and a baby	74%
Detroit cop Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to solve another crime	Beverly Hills Cop II	73%
The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business	Ghostbusters 2	73%
Arriving in India, Indy is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	73%
A group of misfits go on a treasure hunt to save their homes	The Goonies	71%
A welder and exotic dancer, wants to become a ballet dancer	Flashdance	70%
An out of work actor dresses up as a woman to get a role on a soap and falls in love	Tootsie	70%
A veteran cop, Murtaugh, is partnered with a young suicidal cop, Riggs. Both having one thing in common; hating working in pairs. Now they must learn to work with one another to stop a gang of drug smugglers	Lethal Weapon	69%
A family is terrorized in their new home by unfriendly spirits	Poltergeist	69%
A crew taken ill. Surely the only person capable of landing is an ex pilot afraid to fly	Airplane	68%
A physically perfect but innocent man goes in search of his long-lost twin brother, who is a short small-time crook	Twins	68%
A group of misfits face off against police instructors	Police Academy	67%
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country	Rain Man	67%
A young orphan girl's adventures in finding a family that will take her	Annie	66%
Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under	Crocodile Dundee II	66%
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years	Driving Miss Daisy	66%
A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man	Platoon	66%
A man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy	Splash	66%
A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain with an unscrupulous sea-witch in order to meet a human prince on land	The Little Mermaid	66%
A talented New York bartender takes a job at a bar in Jamaica and falls in love	Cocktail	62%
Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn, old and in love	On Golden Pond	62%
An investor and a con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet	Trading Places	62%
When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana Jones must follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	61%
Two British runners take a physical and spiritual journey on the path to the 1924 Olympics	Chariots of Fire	59%
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities	Lethal Weapon 2	59%
3 employees of a sexist bigot find a way to turn the tables on him	9 to 5	58%
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game playing	WarGames	58%
Genetically engineered series villain Khan returns to antagonize the crew of the Enterprise	Star Trek 2	57%
After a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver. Meanwhile the point-of-view of the newborn boy is narrated through voice over	Look Who's Talking	56%
A sheltered young high society woman joins the US army on a whim	Private Benjamin	56%
Capt Kirk steals the Enterprise to return to the Genesis planet	Star Trek 3	55%
A romance writer teams with a low life adventurer to rescue her kidnapped sister	Romancing the Stone	54%
Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team	The Untouchables	54%
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him	Fatal Attraction	53%
Kirk and Spock time travel to Earth circa 1986	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	53%
Old folks discover the fountain of youth in a swimming pool filled with alien pods	Cocoon	51%
A cop must adjust to Amish life to protect a boy who was the sole witness to a murder	Witness	50%
Incompetent cop Frank Drebin has to foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II	The Naked Gun	49%
The Bandit goes on another cross country run, transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas	Smokey and the Bandit 2	48%
After he's laid off, a husband switches roles with his wife	Mr Mom	46%
Stressed about college and trashing his father's Porsche, Joel does the logical thing... turns his house into a brothel!	Risky Business	46%
2 friends dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun	Stripes	46%
Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives	The Witches of Eastwick	43%
A plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free spirited big game hunter	Out of Africa	41%
Town Sheriff fights to keep a historical whorehouse open when a TV preacher targets it	The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas	41%
A cop reluctantly teams up with a criminal paroled to him, in order to track down a killer	48 Hours	39%
A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death leads 007 to uncover an international jewel smuggling operation	Octopussy	39%
The life and trials of a young African American woman	The Color Purple	39%
John is released from prison by the government for a top secret covert mission	First Blood	38%
Saturday Night Fever's Tony returns in this sequel directed by Sylvester Stallone	Staying Alive	38%
A happy drunk with no ambition. He is also the heir to a vast fortune which will only be his if he marries Susan	Arthur	37%
Millionaire Rodney Dangerfield returns to college to help his son get through	Back to School	36%
A wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross country car race	The Cannonball Run	35%
A group of Florida high schoolers seek out to help a buddy lose his virginity	Porky's	34%
2 government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War	Spies like Us	34%
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers	Terms of Endearment	30%
Loretta Castorini, a book keeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she agreed to marry	Moonstruck	28%
A young boy joins a group of time travelling, treasure hunting dwarves	Time Bandits	27%
A talented young man can't get an executive position without rising through the ranks, so he comes up with a shortcut, which also benefits his love life	The Secret of My Success	26%
007 is assigned to hunt for a lost encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands	For Your Eyes Only	25%
Death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the mother, father and the younger son	Ordinary People	25%
Jack and Joan tire of their easy life in this sequel to Romancing the Stone	The Jewel of the Nile	25%
The Buckman family is a midwestern family all dealing with their lives: estranged relatives, raising children, pressures of the job, and learning to be a good parent and spouse	Parenthood	24%
A cop has to watch his partner fall for the woman they've been assigned to watch	Stakeout	22%
A young man must complete his work at a Navy Flight school to become an aviator	An Officer and a Gentleman	20%
A detective specializing in missing children tracks down a very special boy	The Golden Child	18%
Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a western prison	Stir Crazy	17%
A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did	Ruthless People	13%
A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling	The Verdict	12%
A rape victim is exacting revenge in a small town outside San Francisco	Sudden Impact	11%
A lost and alone kitten joins a gang of dogs engaged in petty larceny in New York	Oliver & Company	9%
Hoping to break a case a reporter prints a story about an innocent man, who vows to get even	Absence of Malice	5%