'80s Movies You Should Watch 📺 📽 👀 💿 🎥 🎞
The 80s really was an amazing time with regards to fashion, movies, tv shows and music. It was a fresh, groovy, vibrantly colourful era. The iconic things that belong to the 80s are hair crimping, Koosh Balls, Jelly shoes, Parachute pants, Slap Bracelets, Leg warmers, mullets, yo yos, walkman, Rubiks cube and ghetto blasters. The downsides being aids taking over the world and a lot of cocaine. But this era really stands out.
Here are a few movies you can get nostalgic over the 80s or watch them if you've missed them out. This list consists of movies have romance, drama, action & humour all released in the iconic 80s.
1. A Room with a View (1985)
This Romance movie was based of from the book with the same name by E.M. Forster and it is one of the best books I've read.
Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman, is touring Italy with her older cousin. At a hotel in Florence, Lucy meets the charming and free-spirited George Emerson. Although intrigued by George, once she's back in England Lucy ponders settling down with the wealthy, staid Cecil Vyse. When George reappears in her life, Lucy must decide between him and Cecil. ---But there is so much more to this story.
Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman, is touring Italy with her older cousin. At a hotel in Florence, Lucy meets the charming and free-spirited George Emerson. Although intrigued by George, once she's back in England Lucy ponders settling down with the wealthy, staid Cecil Vyse. When George reappears in her life, Lucy must decide between him and Cecil. ---But there is so much more to this story.
Why watch it?
Talented cast- Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judy Dench, Maggie Smith, Rupert Graves and Simon Callow
If you love Florence, Italy- Travelling
Want to watch a movie with a similar vibe like Call Me By Your Name
FUN FACT: James Ivory, who won an Oscar for the Cinematography for CMBYN. He worked on this movie with Ismail Merchant. Maurice (1987) is another movie they worked on. These guys really fucking know how to make a movie. Also, you should read about them. They're love story is everything❤️🥺
2. Sixteen Candles (1984)
Why watch it?
Its hilarious, iconic, dad goals + boyfriend goals.
Bonus: Amazing Music
BONUS: Here's an 80's Playlist to jam
3. The Princess Bride (1987)
Based on a book of the same name a classic tale of love and adventure as the beautiful Buttercup, engaged to the odious Prince Humperdinck, is kidnapped and held against her will in order to start a war, It is up to Westley to save her. They meet a lot of interesting characters on this journey.
Why watch it?
Something different, Interesting characters, romance and is funny
4. The Gods Must be Crazy 1 & 2 (1980 & 1989)
Movie starts with the tribal people in a remote African desert live a happy life, but it is all torn to pieces when a Coca-Cola bottle falls from a plane. With the villagers fighting over the strange foreign object, tribal leader Xi (N!xau) decides to take the bottle back to the gods to restore peace. His journey to the "end of the world" eventually has him crossing paths with a bumbling scientist (Marius Weyers) and a band of guerrillas who take a schoolteacher (Sandra Prinsloo) and her class hostage.
Why watch it?
Underrated, a classic comedy, hidden gem, the movie plays with perspectives
5. Footloose (1984)
Movie begins with newcomer Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon) moving in from Chicago, is in shock when he discovers the small Midwestern town he now calls home has made dancing and rock music illegal. As he struggles to fit in, Ren faces an uphill battle to change things. With the help of his new friend, Willard Hewitt (Christopher Penn), and defiant teen Ariel Moore (Lori Singer), he might loosen up this conservative town. But Ariel's influential father, Reverend Shaw Moore (John Lithgow), stands in the way.
Why watch this movie?
Love dancing (especially 80s groovy tunes), amazing music, young Kevin Bacon, Criminally underrated
6. The Breakfast Club (1985)
This movie is about 5 high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal (Paul Gleason). The disparate group includes rebel John (Judd Nelson), princess Claire (Molly Ringwald), outcast Allison (Ally Sheedy), brainy Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) and Andrew (Emilio Estevez), the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.
Why watch this movie?
Interesting characters, good take back value, school = best time ever
7. Dirty Dancing (1987)
The movie is about Baby (Jennifer Grey) is one listless summer away from the Peace Corps. Hoping to enjoy her youth while it lasts, she's disappointed when her summer plans deposit her at a sleepy resort in the Catskills with her parents. Her luck turns around, however, when the resort's dance instructor, Johnny (Patrick Swayze), enlists Baby as his new partner, and the two fall in love. Baby's father forbids her from seeing Johnny, but she's determined to help him perform the last big dance of the summer.
Why watch this movie?
The dance scenes, music, chemistry, directed by a women
8. E.T. (1982)
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott (Henry Thomas). Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie (Drew Barrymore), and the children decide to keep its existence a secret. Soon, however, E.T. falls ill, resulting in government intervention and a dire situation for both Elliott and the alien.
Why watch this movie?
Steven Spielberg, aliens XD
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