Saturday, May 14, 2011

Top 100 Movies of the Last 50 Years (1960-2010): 1980's Long List

Here is the Long List for the 1980's. As always, tell me if I've left something off.

Raging Bull
Ordinary People
The Elephant Man
The Great Santini
Tribute
The Stunt Man
Melvin and Howard
Private Benjamin
Resurrection
Gloria
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Inside Moves
The Empire Strikes Back
Tess
Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)
The Blue Lagoon
The Formula
My Brilliant Career
Somewhere in Time
When Time Ran Out
The Competition
Fame
Altered States
Nine to Five
Honeysuckle Rose
Breaker Morant
Brubaker
Mon Oncle D’Amerique
The Ninth Configuration
Touched By Love
The Idolmaker
Airplane!
Divine Madness
Hopscotch
Urban Cowboy
American Gigolo
Stir Crazy
Superman II
Any Which Way You Can
Heartland
The Fog
The Changeling
The Shining
Caddyshack
Reds
On Golden Pond
Atlantic City
Arthur
Absence of Malice
Ragtime
Only When I Laugh
Chariots of Fire
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Heaven’s Gate
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Excalibur
Pennies From Heaven
Heartbeeps
Dragonslayer
An American Werewolf in Paris
Endless Love
For Your Eyes Only
Outland
Prince of the City
Raggedy Man
Taps
Zoot Suit
S.O.B.
The Four Seasons
Continental Divide
First Monday in October
Butterfly
Stripes
Body Heat
Mommie Dearest
The Evil Dead
The Fox and the Hound
Gallipoli
History of the World, Part I
My Bloody Valentine
Friday the 13th
Missing
E.T: The Extra Terrestrial
Sophie’s Choice
An Office and a Gentleman
The Verdict
Gandhi
Tootsie
My Favorite Year
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
The World According to Garp
Victor/Victoria
Frances
Blade Runner
Annie
La Traviata
Das Boot
Tron
Quest for Fire
Poltergeist
One From the Heart
Yes, Giorgio
Best Friends
Diner
Shoot the Moon
Kiss Be Goodbye
Author! Author!
Night Shift
Tex
Six Weeks
Cat People
Porky’s
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn
48 Hrs.
First Blood
Terms of Endearment
Educating Rita
The Dresser
Tender Mercies
Reuben, Reuben
To Be or Not to Be
Cross Creek
The Right Stuff
Testament
Silkwood
The Big Chill
Yentl
The Year of Living Dangerously
Fanny and Alexander
Return of the Jedi
Zelig
WarGames
Flashdance
Heart Like a Wheel
The Return of Martin Guerre
Under Fire
Never Cry Wolf
Betrayal
The Grey Fox
Scarface
Star 80
The Pirates of Penzance
Trading Places
Gorky Park
Never Say Never Again
Octopussy
Sudden Impact
Mr. Mom
Risky Business
Staying Alive
A Christmas Story
The Dead Zone
The King of Comedy
National Lampoon’s Vacation
The Outsiders
Something Wicked Comes This Way
Amadeus
Starman
Under the Volcano
The Killing Fields
A Soldier’s Heart
Places in the Heart
The Karate Kid
A Passage to India
Country
The Bostonians
The River
The Natural
Swing Shift
The Pope of Greenwich Village
The Cotton Club
2010
Broadway Danny Rose
Romancing the Stone
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Songwriter
Purple Rain
Ghostbusters
Footloose
The Woman in Red
Against All Odds
Dune
Beverly Hills Cop
Splash
El Norte
Mrs. Soffel
Micki & Maude
Garbo Talks
Irreconcilable Differences
All of Me
Moscow on the Hudson
Body Double
The Flamingo Kid
Once Upon a Time In America
Police Academy
Paris, Texas
Red Dawn
Repo Man
Sixteen Candles
The Terminator
This is Spinal Tap
Witness
Murphy’s Romance
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Prizzi’s Honor
Out of Africa
Cocoon
Jagged Edge
Runaway Train
Agnes of God
Sweet Dreams
The Color Purple
Twice in a Lifetime
Brazil
Ran
The Journey of Natty Gann
A Chorus Line
Mask
Silverado
Back to the Future
Ladyhawke
Cocoon
Young Sherlock Holmes
The Trip to Bountiful
The Purple Rose of Cairo
The Official Story
Maxie
Desperately Seeking Susan
After Hours
Year of the Dragon
White Nights
The Four Seasons
The Jewel of the Nile
The Goonies
The Breakfast Club
Day of the Dead
‘Round Midnight
Mona Lisa
Children of a Lesser God
The Color of Money
Salvador
Platoon
Hannah and Her Sisters
Hoosiers
A Room with a View
Aliens
Peggy Sue Got Married
The Morning After
Crimes of the Heart
The Mission
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Pirates
Otello
Blue Velvet
Top Gun
An American Tail
Little Shop of Horrors
Heartbreak Ridge
Stand By Me
My Beautiful Laundrette
‘Crocodile’ Dundee
Duet for One
‘Night Mother
Extremities
The Mosquito Coast
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
That’s Life
Something Wild
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Ruthless People
The Golden Child
Big Trouble in Little China
The Fly
The Great Mouse Detective
The Money Pit
Pretty in Pink
Wall Street
Broadcast News
Dark Eyes
Ironweed
Good Morning, Vietnam
The Untouchables
Moonstruck
Gaby – A True Story
Throw Momma From the Train
The Whales of August
Fatal Attraction
Anna
Empire of the Sun
Hope and Glory
Radio Days
The Last Emperor
Matewan
The Dead
My Life as A Dog
Maurice
RoboCop
Harry and the Hendersons
Happy New Year
Cry Freedom
Beverly Hills Cop II
Mannequin
Dirty Dancing
The Princess Bride
Lethal Weapon
The Witches of Eastwick
Predator
Innerspace
Full Metal Jacket
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Three Men and a Baby
The Secret of My Success
Stakeout
La Bamba
Barfly
Nuts
Weeds
Baby Boom
Outrageous Fortune
Roxanne
Prick Up Your Ears
Street Smart
Square Dance
House of Games
The Glass Menagerie
Evil Dead II
Overboard
Raising Arizona
September
Mississippi Burning
Big
Rain Man
Stand and Deliver
A Fish Called Wanda
Little Dorrit
Pelle the Conqueror
Married to the Mob
Running on Empty
Tucker The Man and His Dream
Gorillas in the Mist
Working Girl
Dangerous Liasons
A Cry in the Dark
The Accused
The Accidental Tourist
Beaches
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Tequila Sunrise
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A Handful of Dust
Coming to America
Sunset
The Last Temptation of the Christ
Die Hard
Scrooged
Beetlejuice
The Milagro Beanfield War
Buster
Baghdad Café
Bird
Willow
Bull Durham
Running on Empty
Madame Sousatzka
Dominick & Eugene
Midnight Run
Crossing Delancey
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Clara’s Heart
Oliver & Company
Cinema Paradiso
Colors
Hairspray
The Land Before Time
Mystic Pizza
Henry V
Driving Miss Daisy
Born of the Fourth of July
My Left Foot
Dead Poets Society
Do the Right Thing
A Dry White Season
Music Box
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Shirley Valentine
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Camille Claudel
Parenthood
Steel Magnolias
The Abyss
Batman
Glory
Enemies, A Love Story
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Blaze
Harlem Nights
Valmont
The Bear
Dad
The Little Mermaid
Chances Are
Field of Dreams
Black Rain
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Back to the Future Part II
sex, lies, & videotape
When Harry Met Sally
Sea of Love
She-Devil
The War of the Roses
Scandal
Jacknife
Casualties of War
Look Who’s Talking
All Dogs Go to Heaven
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
License to Kill
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

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