The Top 25 Movies of the 1980s -- My List!
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Nice list! I'm a little sad that Ran didn't go in though haha. I would also recommend Pixote (1980). Pixote is a very raw movie that feels almost like a documentary. It's super popular in Brazil, but less so in the rest of the world. It's on the Criterion Channel too.
Plus one on Local Hero. It’s such a gently brilliant film. Love Amadeus as well.
Sometimes, with the state of the modern Star Wars franchise, people forget how incredible The Empire Strikes Back is. Very few movies have as much style and confidence as it does.
Solid list, Dr. Matthews. Glad to see Kagemusha, Prince of the City, Brazil, and Mishima get mentioned. I would have exchanged Wings of Desire and Crimes and Misdemeanors for Paris, Texas and The Purple Rose of Cairo (though they are my second favorite from those directors). I would add The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Road Warrior, Blade Runner, and Fitzcarraldo.
Wings of desire is one of my absolute favorites
Hi Josh- just wanted to say thank you for all the awesome videos, this one included. I always appreciate hearing your thoughts even (especially?) if I don’t agree with them. Great list.
My baker’s dozen plus one (in no order)- Love Streams, Melvin and Howard, To Live and Die in LA, Under the Volcano, The Elephant Man, Thief, That’s Life!, Star 80, Cutters Way, Insignificance, Rumble Fish, Breaker Morant, Lifeforce: plus The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, a TV movie directed by Robert Altman in 1988.
Some of my favorites of the 80s:
1. Mishima
2. Brazil
3. Ran
4. Come and See
5. Grave of the Fireflies
6. Kagemusha
7. My Dinner with Andre
8. Full Metal Jacket
9. The Sacrifice
10. The Empire Strikes Back
11. The Shining
12. Nostalgia
Great list. I would have included the Mission, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Empire of the Sun . Ran, Raging Bull, Wings of Desire, Full Metal Jacket
I'm going off my dome here so I'm about to miss a few, but here's my list:
Blade Runner
First Blood
On the Silver Globe
The Purple Rose of Cairo (not my favorite Woodie Allen, but you put it better than I could)
Paris, Texas
Scarface
Once Upon a Time in America
Do The Right Thing
The Shining & Full Metal Jacket
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The more I think about it, the more I realize how most of my all time favorites are from the 70s and the 90s.
Interesting list and well done for not having The Goonies on it :) Pleased to see Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources, I adore those films
Don't feel bad about how high you put Empire Strikes Back, I would put it up there with you as well. I did my own video on it a while ago, and while I also discussed some information I found in regards to Star Wars (1977), I had about 45 minutes of things to say about Empire. It is absolutely the best Star Wars film out there. Yes, in my video, I tied some things from the film to ET (it's hard not to, considering Yoda's "cameo", and John Williams' equally brilliant and emotional score, also quoting his Yoda's theme), but I still have a lot to say about Empire, and how it is such a genius work; probably the best sci-fi film of the decade (along with ET).
great, my pick among your list is Paris Texas
I absolutely love The Last Emperor because of its very David Lean-esq visual style. I would say the film was the last great epic film that was made, and I mean epic in the style of filmmaking that you would see in the late '50s and throughout the '60s, even early '70s.
Jarmusch in the 80s was pretty great imo:
Permanent Vacation
1984 Stranger Than Paradise
1986 Down by Law
1989 Mystery Train
Down by Law definitely has a place in my Top 10 of the 80s!
Dekalog is one of the greatest achievements in all of cinema in my opinion. Fantastic series. Also, I mirror your love for the Purple Rose of Cairo, it might be my favorite Woody Allen, the ending is just perfect.
For my quick list, in no particular order:
Landscape in the Mist
A City of Sadness
Dekalog
Fanny and Alexander
Ran
Mishima
Paris Texas
Come and See
Brazil
On the Silver Globe
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Jean de Florette and Manon
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Blue Velvet
The Thing
The Sacrifice
Blade Runner
Do The Right Thing
The Shining
Blow Out
Angel's Egg
Manhunter
Tampopo
Miss Lonely
The Empire Strikes Back
I would have added The Right Stuff, Ran, Vagabond, Hannah and Her Sisters, Wings of Desire, After Hours, and Back to the Future. But to be honest, My Dinner With Andre is my favorite film of the 1980s.
Adding Babette’s feast to the list.
What’s your birthday , Man? I’ll see Jean de Florette and Manon then.
I keep hearing about my dinner with Andre and local hero.
Agree that purple rose of Cairo is Allen’s best and I don’t really care for him most of the time as is 😂
Huge fan of Mozart and anything depicting history or classical music so Amadeus is forever one of my top films of the eighties
French movie Le Bal is a sentimental favourite of mine. It is set in a Parisian dance hall, As the years pass, we see the dances change. Lovely quirky humour, and moments of poignancy.
My peculiar list of Top 25 Movies of the 1980s
Honorable mentions
Aliens *Josh* - Do The Right Thing *Josh* - Evil Dead 2 - The Sacrifice *Josh* - My Neighbor Totoro - After Hours -
A Cry in The Dark
need to rewatch but highly rate - Fanny and Alexander *Josh* - Come and See *Josh* - Where Is My Friend's House? *Josh*
25. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (1989, Rob Reiner)
24. A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING (1988, Krystof Kieslowski) *Josh*
23. DIVA (1981, Jean Jacques Beineix)
22. MY LIFE AS A DOG (1985, Lasse Hallsttrom)
21. GREGORY'S GIRL (1980, Bill Forsyth)
20. THE KING OF COMEDY (1983, Martin Scorsese)
19. TOOTSIE (1982, Sydney Pollack)
18. TIME OF THE GYPSIES (1988, Emir Kustirica)
17. PARIS TEXAS (1984, Wim Wenders) *Josh*
16. SANS SOLEIL (1983, Chris Marker)
15. HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1986, Woody Allen)
14. SOMETHING WILD (1986, Jonathan Demme)
13. FIELD OF DREAMS (1989, Phil Alden Robinson)
12. MANON DES SOURCES (1986, Claude Berri) *Josh*
11. RAGING BULL (1980, Martin Scorsese)
10. REPO MAN (1984, Alex Cox) *Josh*
9. THE RIGHT STUFF (1983, Phillip Kaufman)
8. RAN (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
7. DEAD RINGERS (1988, David Cronenberg)
6. ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (1984, Sergio Leone)
5. PLATOON (1986, Oliver Stone)
4. THE VANISHING (1988, George Sluizer)
3. E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (1982, Steven Spielberg)
2. SEX LIES AND VIDEOTAPE (1989, Steven Soderbergh)
NUMBER ONE: BLUE VELVET (1986, David Lynch)
My Top 25 of the 80s:
Do the Right Thing (Top 10 All Time for me)
Blow Out
Thief
The Thing
Movie Dementia
Blade Runner
Blue Velvet
The Shining
Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark
Paris Texas
Star Wars V
My Neighbour Totoro
Raging Bull
Dead Zone
My Dinner with Andre
Akira
Once Upon a Time in America
The Sacrifice
Mystery Train
Twenty Years Later
Ran
The Abyss
Back to the Future 1
Die Hard
Robocop
Radio Days
great list !
In no specific order: -Raiders of the Lost Ark - Empire Strikes Back - Karate Kid -Amadeus -Bad Timing -Dead Poets Society -Wall Street -Broadcast News -Brazil -Fabulous Baker Boys -Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
For me:
25- The changeling
24- Repo man
23- landscape in the mist
22- the cook, the thief, his wife and her lover
21- Brazil
20- The thing
19- do the right thing
18- Lion of the desert
17- Amadeus
16- Dekalog
15- Akira
14- Videodrome
13- possession
12- blue velvet
11- tampopo
10- au revoir les enfants
9- on the silver globe
8- Paris, Texas
7- the last temptation of christ
6- the ballad of narayama
5- blade runner
4- once upon a time in america
3- Fanny and alexander
2- cinema paradiso
1 Come and see
@tom_abbott Fantastic taste, I see some overlap with my list I just posted. After looking through the comment section to see what I missed, your list is definitely my favorite. Have you seen A City of Sadness?
@that1guy375 I have. I tried watching it twice and it couldn't get through it, I felt too disengaged. I typically struggle with a lot of slow cinema
One odd movie that would definitely be on my list is The Pointsman. I'd like to know your brief thoughts if you've seen it.
Amadeus is one of maybe 4 movies about musicians i fully endorse. Do The Right Thing…I think its about the finest American film made outside of the the golden age of Hollywood
what other musician movies do you like?
@@LearningaboutMovies Byrd is great. Clint gets jazz and it never tries to explain Charlie Parker or his process. The Pianist, althought its primarily thought of as being about the holocaust, it is about a musician abd the lengths he went to to survive and play again both while in hiding and postwar. Round Midnight has to be in there. Dexter Gordon is the man. Aaaaaaand….this one polarizes people but Love and Mercy. Popular bands being portrayed rarely works because its just too self conscious. The actors in this actually talk like musicians. Their poolside conversations dont completely veer off into “We cant compete with Sgt Pepper!” and the creative and recording processes actually look and feel right. The 16mm footage was and incredible touch. I even love the Cusack stuff as Brian in the 80s. Once he gets going, I dont even think about the fact that its Cusack.
Empire Strikes Back is the best film in the entire Star Wars catalog and its not even close. Don't be embarrassed about that selection. Definitely a top 5 80s film.
Great list - no Kubrick, but also no Scorsese, so I can live with that as I'm a fan of the former but not the latter. Very great coverage/balance b/n U.S. and international. The top 3 are great choices; as I've mentioned, Sacrifice is a filming that is bewitching to me - keeps on calling me back for another look/experience. For my pop candy fave of the 80s - Back to the Future.
Scorsese went through a weird period this decade, some of which I really like. Obviously people put Raging Bull at or near the top, so that could go on. Kubrick only had two films this decade, so you've got to like them to put them on a list like this.
@@LearningaboutMovies I did not connect at all with Raging Bull and found it dull/monotonous. The Shining would be the one for me.
You gotta review Megalopolis
Das Boot and Blade Runner would make my top 25 for sure.
I haven't seen Dekalog, Do the right thing, and Mishima yet, but here is my 25-favourite list:
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
The Purple Rose of Cairo
The Ballad of Narayama
Elephant Man
Being There
After Hours
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
The Shining
Paris Texas
Wings of Desire
Once upon a time in America
Fanny and Alexander
Raging Bull
Nostalghia
The Sacrifice
Stalker
Kagemusha
Ran
Come and See
Amadeus
Landscape in the Mist
When Father was away on business
Time of the Gypsies
Cinema Paradiso
Withnail & I jumps out to me
Unpopular opinion: not a great decade for cinema. At least not for Hollywood.
I totally agree. Along with the 2010s, the worst decade in cinema history, at least in the sound era.
@@drdavid1963 4 years of the 2020s is already worse than the 2010s
@@Don-mp6pq Yes. Plenty of good movies but not many great ones. I have only seen 3 5* movies this decade so far. I only had 13 for the 2010s.
It's far worse compared to the 70s, which had both writers and directors invested in literary humanism and the studios being more open to creativity, and to the 90s, when a ton of capital went into post-Cold War moviemaking along with some of the artistic spirit of the 70s.
The top of the 80s to me is great, but you get down to movie #150 in the decade, however you would rank them, and it pails compared to either decade's depth.
A lot of artists dislike the 80s because of increasing studio dominance and corporatism there. I think the zeitgeist favored schmaltzy nostalgia and melodrama.
this decade has been crushed by COVID and then the industry strikes, plus the politicization of everything, plus the industry falling in love with IP and thinking that art is just a commodity.
great list but i didnt like dekalog and sacrifice is my list favorite from tarkofski
The absolute best movie of the 80s is back to the future
Easily one of the worst decades for hollywood, but an undeniably great decade for foreign cinema
Das Boot
Escape From New York
Mad Max 2
Big Trouble in Little China
Die Hard
Predator
Platoon
David Lynch movies make me nausea
Great list. One i think that is often written off as simply kids entertainment but I think is a little underrated from an artistic perspective is Back to the Future. I find it more fun than Empire Strikes Back and might have more depth artistically!
Do the right thing is horibel