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  • Empire of the Sun (1987)

    1. Empire of the Sun

    19872h 33mPG62Metascore
    7.7 (139K)
    A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsChristian BaleJohn MalkovichMiranda Richardson
  • A Passage to India (1984)

    2. A Passage to India

    19842h 44mPG78Metascore
    7.3 (22K)
    Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
    DirectorDavid LeanStarsJudy DavisVictor BanerjeePeggy Ashcroft
  • Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in Out of Africa (1985)

    3. Out of Africa

    19852h 41mPG69Metascore
    7.1 (90K)
    In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
    DirectorSydney PollackStarsMeryl StreepRobert RedfordKlaus Maria Brandauer
  • Das Boot (1981)

    4. Das Boot

    19812h 29m85Metascore
    8.4 (280K)
    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.
    DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsJürgen ProchnowHerbert GrönemeyerKlaus Wennemann
  • Matthew Broderick, Anne Bancroft, Harvey Fierstein, and Brian Kerwin in Torch Song Trilogy (1988)

    5. Torch Song Trilogy

    19882hR
    7.8 (8.2K)
    Arnold is a gay man working as drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.
    DirectorPaul BogartStarsAnne BancroftMatthew BroderickHarvey Fierstein
  • Hugh Grant and James Wilby in Maurice (1987)

    6. Maurice

    19872h 20mR75Metascore
    7.6 (26K)
    Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
    DirectorJames IvoryStarsJames WilbyRupert GravesHugh Grant
  • Jennifer Connelly, Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Greenfield, and Sheila Kelley in Some Girls (1988)

    7. Some Girls

    19881h 34mR
    5.7 (4.1K)
    Michael flies up to French Canada to visit his girlfriend and her wacky family. She doesn't love him anymore, the grandma mistakes him for her late husband, the sister appears naked and makes advances, the dad likes to be naked as well.
    DirectorMichael HoffmanStarsPatrick DempseyJennifer ConnellySheila Kelley
  • Protocol (1984)

    8. Protocol

    19841h 36mPG55Metascore
    5.5 (5.5K)
    A woman (Goldie Hawn) saves life of Emir of Ohtar (Richard Romanus) in Washington.
    DirectorHerbert RossStarsGoldie HawnChris SarandonRichard Romanus
  • Possession (1981)

    9. Possession

    19812h 4mR75Metascore
    7.3 (51K)
    A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.
    DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsIsabelle AdjaniSam NeillMargit Carstensen
  • God's Country (1985)

    10. God's Country

    19851h 30mTV Movie
    7.5 (973)
    Original footage of the prosperous farming community of Glencoe Minnesota, 60 miles west of Minneapolis, was filmed in 1979 for a PBS documentary. But for the next six years Malle was too busy with other projects to finish this work. He returned in 1985 for a follow-up and found the community reacting to the mid-eighties crisis of overproduction in farm country. With weekly foreclosures on family farms and many families moving to the south, Malle documented a sense of frustration and apprehension from the same participants he had befriended in better times half a decade earlier.
    DirectorLouis MalleStarsLouis MalleLowell BarnumArnold Beneke
  • ...and the Pursuit of Happiness (1986)

    11. ...and the Pursuit of Happiness

    19861h 20mTV Movie
    7.2 (544)
    After acknowledging his own immigrant background, Malle, tries to present the range of immigrant experiences in the US during the 1980's. In an attempt to be comprehensive, the film includes interviews with migrant workers and illegal entrants along the Mexican border, conversations with an enterprising Indian motel owner, coverage of industrious African and Asian families in the cities, an extensive interview with the first Costa Rican astronaut, visits with Cuban exiles in Miami, several conversations with West Indian poet Derek Walcott, an extended portrait of the deposed Nicaraguan General Samoza (the surviving brother of Anastasio Somoza Debayle) and his extended family. The film finishes with a brief visit to the Russian Jewish community in Brooklyn, NY to tie in with the centenary of the Statue of Liberty.
    DirectorLouis MalleStarsFranklin Chang-DiazGuillermo Gómez-PeñaLenwood Johnson
  • Raphael Fejtö and Gaspard Manesse in Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)

    12. Au Revoir les Enfants

    19871h 44mPG88Metascore
    8.0 (38K)
    A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.
    DirectorLouis MalleStarsGaspard ManesseRaphael FejtöFrancine Racette
  • Elliott Spiers in Paperhouse (1988)

    13. Paperhouse

    19881h 32mPG-13
    6.6 (6.6K)
    A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.
    DirectorBernard RoseStarsCharlotte BurkeJane BertishSamantha Cahill
  • The Abyss (1989)

    14. The Abyss

    19892h 20mPG-1362Metascore
    7.5 (203K)
    A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
    DirectorJames CameronStarsEd HarrisMary Elizabeth MastrantonioMichael Biehn
  • Wil Wheaton, John Carradine, Dom DeLuise, Derek Jacobi, Hermione Baddeley, Elizabeth Hartman, and Arthur Malet in The Secret of NIMH (1982)

    15. The Secret of NIMH

    19821h 22mG76Metascore
    7.5 (48K)
    To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she suspected.
    DirectorDon BluthStarsElizabeth HartmanDerek JacobiDom DeLuise
  • John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands in Love Streams (1984)

    16. Love Streams

    19842h 21mPG-13
    7.6 (7.1K)
    Two closely bound, emotionally wounded souls reunite after years apart.
    DirectorJohn CassavetesStarsGena RowlandsJohn CassavetesDiahnne Abbott
  • Tempest (1982)

    17. Tempest

    19822h 20mPG40Metascore
    6.4 (2.9K)
    Unhappy middle-aged architect Philip Dimitrius leaves his wife Antonia and career for a spiritual awakening on a Greek island with his new girlfriend Aretha and teenage daughter, leading to extraordinary results for everyone around him.
    DirectorPaul MazurskyStarsJohn CassavetesGena RowlandsSusan Sarandon
  • Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter in Raising Arizona (1987)

    18. Raising Arizona

    19871h 34mPG-1369Metascore
    7.3 (156K)
    When a childless couple--an ex-con and an ex-cop--decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.
    DirectorsJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsNicolas CageHolly HunterTrey Wilson
  • Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Fonda, and Doug McKeon in On Golden Pond (1981)

    19. On Golden Pond

    19811h 49mPG68Metascore
    7.6 (37K)
    Curmudgeon Norman is estranged from his daughter Chelsea. Nevertheless, at Golden Pond he and his wife agree to look after Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.
    DirectorMark RydellStarsKatharine HepburnHenry FondaJane Fonda
  • Kim Cattrall, Kurt Russell, and James Hong in Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

    20. Big Trouble in Little China

    19861h 39mPG-1353Metascore
    7.2 (162K)
    A rough-and-tumble trucker and his sidekick face off with an ancient sorcerer in a supernatural battle beneath Chinatown.
    DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsKurt RussellKim CattrallDennis Dun
  • Paul Newman in The Verdict (1982)

    21. The Verdict

    19822h 9mR77Metascore
    7.7 (49K)
    An outcast, alcoholic Boston lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.
    DirectorSidney LumetStarsPaul NewmanCharlotte RamplingJack Warden
  • Black Rain (1989)

    22. Black Rain

    19892h 3mNot Rated
    7.8 (4.2K)
    Though it has been five years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Yasuko, her uncle and aunt are forced to deal with the ordeals of the disaster, along with many others like them.
    DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsYoshiko TanakaKazuo KitamuraEtsuko Ichihara
  • Michael Rooker in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)

    23. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

    19861h 23mUnrated80Metascore
    7.0 (43K)
    Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.
    DirectorJohn McNaughtonStarsMichael RookerTracy ArnoldTom Towles
  • 84C MoPic (1989)

    24. 84C MoPic

    19891h 35mR
    6.8 (2.1K)
    The title refers to the U.S. Army's former "MOS" (job code) for a combat cameraman. The story follows a unit of American G.I.s in Vietnam, all with different backgrounds and motives for being there, through the lens of his camera.
    DirectorPatrick Sheane DuncanStarsJonathan EmersonNicholas CasconeJason Tomlins
  • Sweet Home (1989)

    25. Sweet Home

    19891h 40mNot Rated
    6.5 (1.3K)
    A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter's wife.
    DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsNobuko MiyamotoShingo YamashiroNokko

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