Best movies from 1981 to 1990
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1. A Room with a View (1985)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, Romance
Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands
Votes: 47,890 | Gross: $20.97M
2. A Passage to India (1984)
PG | 164 min | Adventure, Drama, History
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.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox
Votes: 20,888 | Gross: $27.19M
3. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, Rossy de Palma
Votes: 46,487 | Gross: $7.18M
4. The Elusive Summer of '68 (1984)
91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
Director: Goran Paskaljevic | Stars: Slavko Stimac, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Mira Banjac, Mija Aleksic
Votes: 6,071
5. When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
R | 136 min | Drama
A family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split.
Director: Emir Kusturica | Stars: Moreno De Bartoli, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Mirjana Karanovic, Mustafa Nadarevic
Votes: 10,106 | Gross: $0.02M
6. The Beauty of Vice (1986)
105 min | Drama
A conservative couple decides to leave their rural community and the wife reluctantly takes a job at a naturist resort. Soon their conservative lifestyle starts colliding with the unconventional one.
Director: Zivko Nikolic | Stars: Mira Furlan, Milutin 'Mima' Karadzic, Petar Bozovic, Mira Banjac
Votes: 2,389
7. In the Jaws of Life (1984)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
This movie, based in part on the popular novel, tells two tales about modern women. One is Stefica Cvek, average and lonely girl who is desperately trying to find the man of her dreams. The... See full summary »
Director: Rajko Grlic | Stars: Gorica Popovic, Vitomira Loncar, Bogdan Diklic, Miodrag Krivokapic
Votes: 843
8. In the Name of the People (1987)
92 min | Drama
In a industrial town, one business firm stands out with good management. Thanks to agile director Todor's successful policy of "world breakthrough," the whole town looks forward to progress... See full summary »
Director: Zivko Nikolic | Stars: Miodrag Krivokapic, Petar Bozovic, Savina Gersak, Vesna Pecanac
Votes: 392
9. Cutting it Short (1981)
93 min | Comedy
An evocation of the childhood memories of Bohumil Hrabal in his provincial town of Nymburk, dominated by the local brewery.
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Magda Vásáryová, Jirí Schmitzer, Jaromír Hanzlík, Rudolf Hrusínský
Votes: 2,717
10. The Last Emperor (1987)
PG-13 | 163 min | Biography, Drama, History
Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying
Votes: 111,550 | Gross: $43.98M
11. The Sheltering Sky (1990)
R | 138 min | Adventure, Drama
An American couple travel abroad to revitalize their relationship. But as the trip drags on, their attempt at recovering what they once had seems futile.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott, Jill Bennett
Votes: 13,737 | Gross: $2.08M
12. What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
The vicissitudes of Gloria, a neurotic housewife, and her family's peculiar characters.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Carmen Maura, Gonzalo Suárez, Luis Hostalot, Ryo Hiruma
Votes: 11,135
13. A Railway Station for Two (1983)
141 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A waitress from the provincial railway station falls in love with an accidental passenger. Before this passenger lies the menace of distant prison for the crime he didn't commit.
Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Basilashvili, Nikita Mikhalkov, Nonna Mordyukova
Votes: 3,666
14. Bez svideteley (1983)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Without Witness is an unflinchingly intimate and wickedly plotted two-actor tour de force pitting a divorced couple against each other and themselves.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Irina Kupchenko, Mikhail Ulyanov, Eduard Artemyev
Votes: 625
15. Stanica obicnih vozova (1990)
86 min | Drama
In the fifties, a young Belgrade teacher girl, after finishing her school, and by the Ministry of education order, arrives to a remote town to educate people. Unready and inexperienced, she... See full summary »
Director: Nenad Dizdarevic | Stars: Ljiljana Medjesi, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Enver Petrovci, Jordanco Cevrevski
Votes: 64
16. Balkan Spy (1984)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, a man falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and destructive chain of events.
Directors: Dusan Kovacevic, Bozidar 'Bota' Nikolic | Stars: Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Bora Todorovic, Mira Banjac, Sonja Savic
Votes: 12,430
17. Cudo nevidjeno (1984)
92 min | Comedy
A well-meaning man tries to convince the inhabitants of a small village who are busy gossiping about the new girl in the village to support his plan to build a tunnel that would connect their village to the sea. Things go horribly wrong.
Director: Zivko Nikolic | Stars: Savina Gersak, Dragan Nikolic, Boro Begovic, Petar Bozovic
Votes: 971
18. Maratonci trce pocasni krug (1982)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
The Topalovic family has been in the burial business for generations. When the old (150 yrs old) Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.
Director: Slobodan Sijan | Stars: Bogdan Diklic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Pavle Vuisic, Mija Aleksic
Votes: 16,997
19. Mystery Train (1989)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Yûki Kudô, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Cinqué Lee
Votes: 30,840 | Gross: $0.37M
20. Blind Chance (1987)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Romance
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Boguslaw Linda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Boguslawa Pawelec
Votes: 11,208
21. The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
R | 124 min | Drama, Romance
Anna and Mike portray two characters in a film set in 19th century England who fall in love despite the fact that Mike's character is engaged.
Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan
Votes: 15,097 | Gross: $22.60M
22. Annie (1982)
PG | 127 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A spunky young orphan is taken in by a rich eccentric, much to the chagrin of the cantankerous woman who runs the orphanage.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking
Votes: 49,539 | Gross: $57.06M
23. Dark Mirror (1984 TV Movie)
Unrated | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
After attorney Frank Girard is murdered, Detective Al Church (Vincent Gardenia) suspects that Ms. Leigh Cullen (Jane Seymour) is the perpetrator, as she was supposedly last seen with the ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Lang | Stars: Vincent Gardenia, Jane Seymour, Stephen Collins, Hank Brandt
Votes: 164
24. Sins of the Past (1984 TV Movie)
104 min | Drama
A ring of call girls leaves the "business" when one of them is murdered. The survivors change their names and leave town. However, they are reunited 15 years later when another one of them ... See full summary »
Director: Peter H. Hunt | Stars: Barbara Carrera, Kim Cattrall, Debby Boone, Tracy Reed
Votes: 124
25. A Letter to Three Wives (1985 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Three women are going on a trip that leaves incommunicado with the rest of the world and before they leave; a woman who either has a history or relationship with each of their husbands ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Elikann | Stars: Loni Anderson, Stephanie Zimbalist, Michele Lee, Charles Frank
Votes: 167
26. Yol (1982)
PG | 107 min | Drama
When five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week's home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from their families, the culture, and the government.
Directors: Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney | Stars: Tarik Akan, Serif Sezer, Halil Ergün, Meral Orhonsay
Votes: 14,512
27. Lady Jane (1986)
PG-13 | 136 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Lady Jane Grey, who was Queen of England for only nine days.
Director: Trevor Nunn | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes, John Wood, Michael Hordern
Votes: 7,087 | Gross: $0.28M
28. The Glembays (1988)
120 min | Drama, Thriller
Glembays of Zagreb are the rich family cursed with tragedies and haunted by sinister past. Leone Glembay, rebellious son of family patriarch, is disgusted with hypocrisy, perversion and crime that runs in the family.
Director: Antun Vrdoljak | Stars: Mustafa Nadarevic, Ena Begovic, Tonko Lonza, Bernarda Oman
Votes: 880
29. Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.
Director: Eldar Shengelaia | Stars: Ramaz Giorgobiani, Vasil Kakhniashvili, Teimuraz Chirgadze, Ivane Sakvarelidze
Votes: 2,244
30. After Hours (I) (1985)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong
Votes: 81,474 | Gross: $10.60M
31. Teddy Bear (1981)
111 min | Comedy
The main character is the manager of a sport club, nicknamed "Teddy Bear" by his friends and acquaintances. One day he is detained at the border just as his sport team is off to a ... See full summary »
Director: Stanislaw Bareja | Stars: Stanislaw Tym, Barbara Burska, Christine Paul, Krzysztof Kowalewski
Votes: 6,627
32. The Name of the Rose (1986)
R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin
Votes: 117,315 | Gross: $7.15M
33. Zivot sa stricem (1988)
116 min | Drama
It's the end of the 1980s, and Martin is being asked from his dying uncle Stipan to bury him with the presence of priest. Martin remembers the way they lost the contact in 1951 - Stipan ... See full summary »
Director: Krsto Papic | Stars: Davor Janjic, Alma Prica, Miodrag Krivokapic, Branislav Lecic
Votes: 344
34. Home Alone (1990)
PG | 103 min | Comedy, Family
An eight-year-old troublemaker, mistakenly left home alone, must defend his home against a pair of burglars on Christmas Eve.
Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard
Votes: 653,057 | Gross: $285.76M
35. My Dad, the Socialist Kulak (1987)
100 min | Comedy
Year 1945. The second World War is over and the soldiers from the sisbanded army are returning home. Yet there is still no sign of Joze Malek. His wife Mimika and their children Tincek and ... See full summary »
Director: Matjaz Klopcic | Stars: Polde Bibic, Milena Zupancic, Ivo Ban, Urska Hlebec
Votes: 775
36. Ishchite zhenshchinu (1983 TV Movie)
152 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
An incredibly talkative telephonist, deeply adoring detective films, becomes an accidental witness to murder of her boss right into the office. Alongside the police investigation, she starts her own amateur one.
Director: Alla Surikova | Stars: Sofiko Chiaureli, Leonid Kuravlyov, Sergey Yurskiy, Elena Solovey
Votes: 838
37. The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (1982)
102 min | Comedy, Crime
Cruchot and his gendarmes from Saint-Tropez receive a highly responsible government mission - to ensure the safety of four young beautiful female gendarmes officers. In a few days they begin to be abducted by mysterious villains.
Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch, Jacques François
Votes: 8,370
38. Inat (1988 TV Movie)
62 min | Drama, War
Based on Zija Dizdarevic's short story. Jozo and Mujo are mobilized in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Reluctantly drawn into the war they make a bond of unbreakable friendship. To realize the ... See full summary »
Director: Faruk Sokolovic | Stars: Miodrag Krivokapic, Zijah Sokolovic, Dragan Jovicic, Miodrag Radovanovic
Votes: 19
39. Interrogation (1989)
TV-MA | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of.
Director: Ryszard Bugajski | Stars: Krystyna Janda, Adam Ferency, Janusz Gajos, Agnieszka Holland
Votes: 3,684
40. The Breakfast Club (1985)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a great deal more in common than they thought.
Director: John Hughes | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy
Votes: 436,765 | Gross: $45.88M
41. Mala pljacka vlaka (1984)
103 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
Lika, Austro-Hungarian Empire, the year is 1918, the last year of WWI. In a wasteland rocky area, among ravines there is a small gendarmery police station with several gendarmes headed by ... See full summary »
Director: Dejan Sorak | Stars: Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Miodrag Krivokapic, Mustafa Nadarevic, Krunoslav Saric
Votes: 289
42. Osudjeni (1987)
88 min | Action
Upon his release from prison, a convict kidnaps the judge, the public prosecutor and three more people with the help of his inmate on conditional release, and takes them to his uncle's farm... See full summary »
Director: Zoran Tadic | Stars: Rade Serbedzija, Ivo Gregurevic, Mira Furlan, Sonja Savic
Votes: 90
43. Pocetni udarac (1990)
110 min | Drama
A group of students with varying family backgrounds begin to question their lives and the hypocritical values of their corrupt socialist society. Their decision to follow their own ideals ... See full summary »
Director: Darko Bajic | Stars: Nikola Kojo, Anita Mancic, Danilo Lazovic, Gorica Popovic
Votes: 146
44. Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite (1989)
85 min | Crime, Drama
Baris, a 5 year-old little boy, has to stay in a prison with her mother during her detention period. Baris develops a special relationship with Inci, a young woman who also stays in prison. She promises him that the kite will fly someday.
Director: Tunç Basaran | Stars: Ozan Bilen, Nur Sürer, Füsun Demirel, Güzin Özipek
Votes: 7,171
45. Sile u vazduhu (1990 TV Movie)
85 min | Drama
Mile is a cab driver who lives a life for which he himself sometimes does not know where he is headed. On one hand, he has a ten year old relationship with a woman he fools into marrying ... See full summary »
Director: Slavenko Saletovic | Stars: Petar Bozovic, Ruzica Sokic, Danica Maksimovic, Olivera Markovic
Votes: 44
46. Erogena zona (1981)
91 min | Comedy, Romance
Momcilo 'Moca' Stojisavljevic have just finished his military term, now faced with problems like finding a job and a place to live. His old girlfriend is now pregnant and comes to live with... See full summary »
Director: Dejan Karaklajic | Stars: Milan 'Lane' Gutovic, Marina Urbanc, Sonja Divac, Dusica Zegarac
Votes: 189
47. Hildegard (1983 TV Movie)
74 min | Drama
Director: Branko Schmidt | Stars: Katja Zupcic, Fabijan Sovagovic, Zvonka Skreblin, Gita Serman-Kopljar
Votes: 28
48. U zatvoru (1985)
106 min | Drama, Romance
Young Woman After graduating, getting his first job in the women's prison in the province. The story tells of her struggle to survive in her small town with a small child, addiction to ... See full summary »
Director: Gordana Boskov | Stars: Dara Dzokic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra, Zlata Numanagic
Votes: 81
49. Sta radis veceras (1988)
96 min | Drama
Urban omnibus of three stories about problems of youth. Story I - Three young men from New Belgrade block spend their time together. After finishing their secondary school, they wait for a ... See full summary »
Directors: Janko Baljak, Ivan Markov, Predrag Velinovic | Stars: Nikola Kojo, Nenad Nenadovic, Vladan Dujovic, Ruzica Sokic
Votes: 160
50. Camp de Thiaroye (1988)
157 min | Drama, War
In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.
Directors: Ousmane Sembene, Thierno Faty Sow | Stars: Sidiki Bakaba, Hamed Camara, Ismaila Cissé, Ababacar Sy Cissé
Votes: 644
51. Another Woman (1988)
PG | 81 min | Drama
Facing a mid-life crisis, a woman rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctor's help.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm, Blythe Danner
Votes: 15,050 | Gross: $1.56M
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