Female Trouble
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Full metal jacket. I saw it mentioned in a couple other posts as well.

One flew over the cukoos nest

HOLY SHIT!!!

SUPER FUZZ!!!!

I have been trying to remember the name of a movie I saw when I was young and it has escaped me for years. As soon as I saw that title, I knew it was it. Google it, watched a clip and that's the one. Thank you!!!!

The Princess Bride

Meatballs

Here's one I don't think anyone has mentioned: Something Wicked This Way Comes from Disney. (1983)
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This was released on Blu-ray recently, but only to Disney Club (?) members…. You can snag one off eBay, tho.

Cool film

Highlander - “There can be only one.”

Really well done. I’d put many of these flics in my top 100, too.

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure

Go back just one more year to 1974 Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

No particular order culled from this list.

I have seen most of these more than once, some almost yearly.

Ones with the * are must see.

Close encounters of the 3rd kind
*Better off dead
*Alien and Aliens
*Ghostbusters
One Crazy Summer
The Shining
A Fish Called Wanda
Beverly Hills Cop
Innerspace
*The Thing
Stripes
*Blues Brothers
Coming to America
*Commando
*Escape from New York
*Road Warrior
Moscow on the Hudson
*Terminator 1 and 2
Silence of the Lambs
Animal House
Unforgiven
*Tombstone
*Cannonball Run
*Star Trek II
Rambo: First Blood
*Predator
Christine
*They Live
*Highlander
*Robocop

All the ones posted so far are great. This one is often forgotten, but one of the best ever. It’s worth it for the bar scene alone.

Another great one that was mentioned is Death Race 2000. This is 1970s cheese piled up to the highest. So absolutely dumb, absurd, and over the top that it transcends into entertainment.

It was fun seeing everyone’s lists, man there were a lot of good movies from that era.

That’s a great list (along with many others in this thread). And bonus, you included They Live! Man that movie is so good.

You could also make a marathon out of just Arnold movies. He made a ton of them and a lot of them are sort of forgotten. But most of them are pretty good if you like that style. Besides the obvious ones already mentioned such as Terminators and Conan:

Red Heat
Raw Deal
Commando
Predator
Running Man
Twins
Kindergarten Cop
Last Action Hero
Total Recall
Eraser

Guys, we have steered our boy wrong! How have we not directed him to sit under the learning tree and soak up the wisdom of Dalton? Throw Amadeus (great movie, BTW) right out the window and put this on RIGHT NOW! This will teach you everything you need to be a man's man that you missed by not being a kid in the 80's.

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There are so many entertaining movies that came out in this timeframe that it is hard to generate a definitive list (which will vary anyways depending on your individual tastes) and even then some will be missed.

Eraser was good and how did I miss the classic Demolition Man and Blade?

Just watch DM a few months ago, still holds up pretty well and some wicked satire.

The only movie I'd be hesitant to recommend is The Shining. I have watched it 2 or 3 times and not as good as I remember the first viewing. The first viewing however was superbly creepy, I think the "not knowing what is coming next" was a big factor.

Oh and one just past the cutoff date?

Grosse Pointe Blank 1997

The highwater point in Cusack's career as far as I'm concerned till he did The Numbers Station in 2013 which if you squint is the same character. The 2013 movie is a serious action drama though and very, very good.

Grosse Pointe Blank is some of the finest dark comedy and as a bonus Dan Aykroyd as a side character totally annihilates the scenery.

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Handful that I didn't see earlier:

Interview with a Vampire
From Dusk Till Dawn (96)
The Good the Bad and the Ugly (66)
For a Few Dollars More (65)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (74)
Omega Man (71)
Stargate
War Games
Red Dawn
Masters of the Universe
Transformers (1986)
The Princess Bride
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Under Siege
Timecop

I would put First Blood as a must see. Not so much the sequels.

Repo Man

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+1 for Repo Man. What a great soundtrack!

1985's Re-animator, preferably the un-rated theatrical release. They tamed it down to get an R rating for the home video market.

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Bad boys 1983 with Sean Penn
The world according to Garp 1982 with Robin Williams

Under Siege

Another must see.

I just rewatched Garp, did not hold up well at all.

The Warriors, Terminator 1-2, Alien and Aliens are all must watch but have already been mentioned. One that has not been mentioned and is a 10/10:

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My father almost kicked me out of the house when I brought “Bad Boys” home. Funny thing is, I didn’t even get a chance to watch it. Did see it a few years later and thought it was good.

RAD…My Science Project…Return of the Living Dead…Night of the Living Dead(1990).

Phantasom! So bad its good.

Remember filling Netflix queue with these best lists and waiting for the next dvd?

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The Movie that got Tim Burtons career going.

Many good recommendations so far, but didn't notice mention of Hellraiser (1987) and Hellraiser 2 (1988) if you like horror movies.

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I agree, the first time you see The Shining is the best. Same goes for The Sting, but for a different reason.

Glad you liked it!
Saileri is a lot, but Mozart isn’t a breeze either. Stanzi deserved better.

I like to imagine that Laurel the maid’s great-great-great-great granddaughter is Miranda on Sex and the City.

Deathrace 2000 is one of my all time favorites
Army of darkness another classic

Re-Animator was the worst movie I’ve ever seen.

David Lynch’s Dune
Blade Runner
Sling Blade
Exorcist
The Conversation
Chinatown (been mentioned many times for a reason)

Glengary Glen Ross
Swimming with Sharks
The Deer Hunter
Scarface

My favorite remains the good the bad and the ugly. I picked up a lot of spaghetti westerns in the dvd boom.

Oddball favorite from lucio fulci, Italian gore master. Four of the apocalypse.

1988 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989 - Major League
1989 - Weekend at Bernie's
1990 - Problem Child
1993 - Dazed and Confused
1993 - Falling Down
1993 - The Sandlot
1994 - The Mask
1995 - Canadian Bacon
1995 - Rumble in The Bronx
1995 - Se7en

I would like to second some of the ones on the lists above. There were some terrific movies back then which are overlooked because their special effects are dated or just because they are old.

Enter the Dragon (1973) - Bruce Lee in his absolute best movie. Infiltrating an island of saboteurs and murderers Bruce comes up against the man who killed his sister.

Westworld (1973) - the original with Yul Brenner is still incredible even now. back when the idea of a computer virus was far-out science fiction.

Commando (1985) - Arnold Schwarzenegger at his best. Exactly what you would expect, lots of fights, big muscles and one-liners.

Twins (1988) - Arnold and Danny Devito are twin brothers! a lot of heart in this comedy. Definitely worth watching

Vanishing Point (1971) - No plot, just one long car chase - grab a beer and have fun

Rollerball (1975) - a bit fragmented as a movie but the game itself is amazing and seems like a real possibility in todays world.

Flash Gordon (1980) - the absolute pinnacle of cheesy sci fi. Max Von Sydow steals the show as Emperor Ming.

Smokey and the Bandit (1977) - an absolute classic with lots of fun, car chases, bootlegging and a little romance.

Outland (1981) - I liked this one. Its a outer space version of High Noon with Sean Connery as the space policeman waiting for a hit squad to arrive and kill him.

Tron (1982) - the original is a amazing classic. The special effects are dated compared to the sequels but the creative ideas were incredible.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) - definitely a must-see if you want something goofy, fast-paced and fun. Buckaroo, in between rock and roll gigs and consulting with the president, drives into the 8th dimension and brings something back.

The Running Man (1987) - Another Arnold classic, sort of a squid-games type hunt the hunted reality tv show of the future.

Every Which Way But Loose (1978) - fun easygoing story of Clint Eastwood as a amateur fighter with his his pet orangutan, Clyde

The Thing (1982) - one of the most gruesome horror movies ever and still holds up today.

Also, don't forget about Jackie Chan - a Bruce Lee style star that specialized in comedy-action. His big breakout was the 1978 "Drunken Master" where he played a kung fu expert who could only fight when drunk! Other great ones are Project-A, Armor of God (where he plays a Indiana Jones type character) and Operation Condor where he is on the search for Nazi gold.

I’d watch seven again. It’s been mentioned quite a bit.

The Jackie Chan movies are great. And if you can find and watch the extras videos that go with them, they are just as entertaining, maybe even more so. Watch the movie, then watch the Making Of video. The stuff he did in those movies literally borders on the truly unbelievable and insane.

Taxi Driver

The Big Bus. Airplane-like humor, but still watchable.

Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
The Omen (the original one)
Carrie
Superman I and II

Also consider going older….just about anything with James Cagney (especially Yankee Doodle Dandy and White Heat), and Jimmy Stewart. You also can’t go wrong with Hitchcock…..Psycho, The Birds, Strangers on a Train.

There are a lot of good movies from the ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s.

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