Some Random Favourite 80s Films

Body horror, artsy films, dark comedies, anime, action movies, coming of age movies, etc. A very eclectic list. Pick your favourite one.

Love The Dark Crystal (they are coming up with a Netflix series called The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance).

Anyway, I wish this were a multiple choice poll as there is so much that I really like there (the vast majority). Several of these have been "all-time" favourites. I'd like to vote for almost all of them as this is so in-line with my tastes (despite being eclectic).

Okay, I'll give Paris, Texas a vote, but I could just as easily vote for many others.

Edited by Logan - September 27 2018 at 17:28

Blade Runner gets my vote out of these.

From this list the brilliant "Zelig". But where are movies like "The Fourth Man" by Paul Verhoeven (his best movie), "Blue Velvet" by David Lynch or "De Wisselwachter" (English title "The Pointsman") by Jos Stelling, which are most definitely among the best movies of the 80s?

oh easy vote for the amazing Once Upon A Time in America... in my personal top 10 alltime favorite movies

I'm more of a fan of the 1930s-70s, but I love "The Elephant Man" but if I had to pick one it would be "Paris, Texas"


Edited by MortSahlFan - October 13 2018 at 10:49

From the list, Big.  Not on the list, Labyrinth...

They Live, out of the list. Other ones -outside the list- that immediately have come to my mind are: The Lost Boys, Dirty Little Scoundrels, BTTF series, and The Last Starfighter.

BTW, Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life (1983) is hilarious, yet I stumbled upon "The Meaning of Life"first, with its PC game around the time it was out. It was hell of a unique experience. Too bad that I couldn't make it work with Windows 10 and 7.

Edited by Odvin Draoi - February 21 2019 at 13:51

Cool to see this poll bumped. There's only one that I haven't seen on the list, and that's Man Facing Southeast (Argentina). I don't know how I missed looking it up before, but the description looks right up my alley.

Not suggesting it for this poll, as I would hope would be obvious, as it's from the wrong decade, but a favourite fairly little-known Spanish-language sci-fi film of mine is "Los cronocrímenes" (2007) ("Timecrimes) and on the sci-fi side, Abre los ojos ("Open Your Eyes") (1997), which I think the OP has seen.

BaldFriede wrote: From this list the brilliant "Zelig". But where are movies like "The Fourth Man" by Paul Verhoeven (his best movie), "Blue Velvet" by David Lynch or "De Wisselwachter" (English title "The Pointsman") by Jos Stelling, which are most definitely among the best movies of the 80s?

Not everyone will have seen or like all of those films. Considering that there are only 25 options available, I think it's a fine list which should appeal to most every taste (it is very eclectic). I'm sure that everyone's list based on what they know, love, and remember would be different (not sure if this list is completely based on Morningside's favourites, or partially researched).   Morningside's list has more than enough movies that I love for me to be one happy camper (found it tough to choose and could have quite happily voted for about 17 of these options even though I went for Paris, Texas). He did say random, not best, though I think the quality indicates a level of non-randomness. ;)

Edited by Logan - February 21 2019 at 14:42