Statistics for 1980s Movies by IMDb Description

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Year	Description	Movie	% Correct
1985	Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown.	Back to the Future	95%
1981	In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.	Raiders of the Lost Ark	91%
1982	A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	89%
1980	After the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader and a bounty hunter named Boba Fett all over the galaxy.	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back	89%
1989	Maverick teacher John Keating uses poetry to embolden his boarding school students to new heights of self-expression.	Dead Poets Society	84%
1989	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	84%
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.	The Shining	78%
1984	The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.	Amadeus	76%
1988	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	74%
1982	The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.	Gandhi	70%
1980	The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.	Raging Bull	70%
1986	A young soldier in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.	Platoon	67%
1985	A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.	The Color Purple	66%
1989	Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.	My Left Foot	64%
1981	Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.	Chariots of Fire	63%
1987	The story of the final Emperor of China.	The Last Emperor	59%
1985	In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.	Out of Africa	56%
1980	The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.	Ordinary People	32%
1984	A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.	Once Upon a Time in America	24%
1983	Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems.	Terms of Endearment	23%