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  • Variety (1983)

    1. Variety

    19831h 40mNot Rated
    6.1 (1.5K)
    A woman becomes obsessed with pornography and the mysterious rich patron of the Times Square porn theater called Variety where she works selling tickets. This awakens her sexuality, which confuses her worried boyfriend.
    DirectorBette GordonStarsSandy McLeodWill PattonRichard M. Davidson
  • Bagdad Cafe (1987)

    2. Bagdad Cafe

    19871h 35mPG71Metascore
    7.4 (16K)
    A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.
    DirectorPercy AdlonStarsMarianne SägebrechtCCH PounderJack Palance
  • Made in Britain (1983)

    3. Made in Britain

    19831h 16mNot RatedTV Movie
    7.2 (8.1K)
    After being sent to an assessment center, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers, who want to conform him to the status quo.
    DirectorAlan ClarkeStarsTim RothTerry RichardsBill Stewart
  • Excalibur (1981)

    4. Excalibur

    19812h 20mPG56Metascore
    7.3 (71K)
    Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart.
    DirectorJohn BoormanStarsNigel TerryHelen MirrenNicholas Clay
  • You Are Not I (1981)

    5. You Are Not I

    198150m
    6.7 (420)
    A young woman escapes from a mental hospital during the chaos of a nearby multiple-car accident. She is mistaken for a shock victim and is driven to her sister's house by a rescue volunteer. Then the real story begins...
    DirectorSara DriverStarsSuzanne FletcherEvelyn SmithLucy Sante
  • White Dog (1982)

    6. White Dog

    19821h 30mPG
    7.0 (11K)
    A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to attack black people.
    DirectorSamuel FullerStarsKristy McNicholChrista LangVernon Weddle
  • Winona Ryder and Christian Slater in Heathers (1989)

    7. Heathers

    19891h 43mR72Metascore
    7.1 (123K)
    At Westerburg High where cliques rule, jocks dominate and all the popular girls are named Heather, it's going to take a Veronica and mysterious new kid to give teen angst a body count.
    DirectorMichael LehmannStarsWinona RyderChristian SlaterShannen Doherty
  • Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch in Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

    8. Drugstore Cowboy

    19891h 41mR82Metascore
    7.2 (43K)
    A pharmacy-robbing dope fiend and his crew pop pills and evade the law.
    DirectorGus Van SantStarsMatt DillonKelly LynchJames Le Gros
  • Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano in Baby It's You (1983)

    9. Baby It's You

    19831h 45mR
    6.4 (2.3K)
    In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.
    DirectorJohn SaylesStarsRosanna ArquetteVincent SpanoJoanna Merlin
  • William Hurt in Altered States (1980)

    10. Altered States

    19801h 42mR58Metascore
    6.9 (41K)
    A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
    DirectorKen RussellStarsWilliam HurtBlair BrownBob Balaban
  • Rebecca De Mornay, Eric Roberts, and Jon Voight in Runaway Train (1985)

    11. Runaway Train

    19851h 51mR67Metascore
    7.2 (35K)
    Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a speeding train with no brakes and nobody driving.
    DirectorAndrei KonchalovskyStarsJon VoightEric RobertsRebecca De Mornay
  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

    12. Tetsuo: The Iron Man

    19891h 7mNot Rated
    6.9 (28K)
    A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.
    DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsTomorô TaguchiKei FujiwaraNobu Kanaoka
  • Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy in WarGames (1983)

    13. WarGames

    19831h 54mPG77Metascore
    7.1 (118K)
    A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
    DirectorJohn BadhamStarsMatthew BroderickAlly SheedyJohn Wood
  • Matewan (1987)

    14. Matewan

    19872h 15mPG-1373Metascore
    7.9 (9.9K)
    A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community in 1920 West Virginia, brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.
    DirectorJohn SaylesStarsChris CooperJames Earl JonesMary McDonnell
  • Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes (1986)

    15. Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes

    19861h 24m
    7.0 (1K)
    In the 21st century, prisoners aboard penitentiary space ships explore unknown worlds.
    DirectorPiotr SzulkinStarsDaniel OlbrychskiJerzy StuhrKatarzyna Figura
  • Richard Farnsworth in The Grey Fox (1982)

    16. The Grey Fox

    19821h 32mPG
    7.3 (2.7K)
    When an aging, but gentlemanly stagecoach robber is released from prison, he decides to go to Canada to become a train robber.
    DirectorPhillip BorsosStarsRichard FarnsworthJackie BurroughsKen Pogue
  • The Funeral (1984)

    17. The Funeral

    19842h 4mNot Rated
    7.2 (2.2K)
    When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.
    DirectorJûzô ItamiStarsTsutomu YamazakiNobuko MiyamotoKin Sugai
  • Kaos (1984)

    18. Kaos

    19843h 7mR
    7.8 (3.3K)
    Five stories by Luigi Pirandello set in turn-of-the-century Italy.
    DirectorsPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsMargarita LozanoOrazio TorrisiCarlo Cartier
  • Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)

    19. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

    198743mNot RatedShort
    7.7 (3.5K)
    Karen Carpenter's battle with anorexia nervosa and the cultural influence of the Carpenters in the 1970s.
    DirectorTodd HaynesStarsMerrill GruverMichael EdwardsMelissa Brown
  • Class Relations (1984)

    20. Class Relations

    19842h 6m
    6.8 (818)
    After making the domestic servant pregnant, a woman who doubles his age, a young man of only seventeen years from the German bourgeoisie is sent by his family to the United States in order to avoid a huge scandal.
    DirectorsDanièle HuilletJean-Marie StraubStarsChristian HeinischNazzareno BianconiMario Adorf
  • William Petersen in Manhunter (1986)

    21. Manhunter

    19862hR75Metascore
    7.2 (88K)
    Former FBI profiler Will Graham returns to service to pursue a deranged serial killer dubbed "the Tooth Fairy" by the media.
    DirectorMichael MannStarsWilliam PetersenKim GreistJoan Allen
  • James Caan in Thief (1981)

    22. Thief

    19812h 3mR78Metascore
    7.4 (45K)
    After years in prison, ace safe-cracker Frank owns a car dealership and a cocktail lounge, which are fronts for high-stakes jewelry heists. He wants to complete one last big heist for the Mob before he goes straight.
    DirectorMichael MannStarsJames CaanTuesday WeldWillie Nelson
  • High Hopes (1988)

    23. High Hopes

    19881h 48mPG84Metascore
    7.4 (6.1K)
    The life of a working class couple living in London and their complicated relationships with other members of the family.
    DirectorMike LeighStarsPhil DavisRuth SheenEdna Doré
  • Mia Farrow in Radio Days (1987)

    24. Radio Days

    19871h 28mPG74Metascore
    7.4 (38K)
    A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.
    DirectorWoody AllenStarsMia FarrowDianne WiestMike Starr
  • Danyi Deats in River's Edge (1986)

    25. River's Edge

    19861h 39mR73Metascore
    6.9 (22K)
    A high school slacker commits a shocking act and proceeds to let his friends in on the secret. However, the friends' reaction is almost as ambiguous and perplexing as the crime itself.
    DirectorTim HunterStarsCrispin GloverKeanu ReevesIone Skye

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