This week, I asked for your recommendations for the best 80s movies, and boy, did you guys deliver! The 80s were an absolute golden era for movies—whether it was action-packed blockbusters, heartfelt coming-of-age stories, or the kind of ridiculous comedies that somehow still hold up today.
So, after sorting through all your suggestions, here’s a list of the top 80s movie recommendations you need to revisit (in order of most suggested):
- Sixteen Candles
- The Breakfast Club
- Pretty in Pink
- Can’t Buy Me Love
- Some Kind of Wonderful
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- Better Off Dead
- Dirty Dancing
- Back to the Future
- Girls Just Want to Have Fun
- Footloose
- Top Gun
- Adventures in Babysitting
- Labyrinth
- Baby Boom
- The Princess Bride
- Big
- Xanadu
- When Harry Met Sally
- Flight of the Navigator
- Short Circuit
- Troop Beverly Hills
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Pretty Woman
- The ‘Burbs
- Overboard
- Star Wars
- Splash
- The Lost Boys
- Gremlins
- Steel Magnolias
- Never Ending Story
- Teen Wolf
- Weird Science
- Mystic Pizza
- Mannequin
- License to Drive
- Mr. Mom
- Say Anything
- Three Men and a Baby
- Willow
- The Man From Snowy River
- St. Elmo’s Fire
- Big Business
- Flashdance
- Clue
- Indiana Jones
- Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
- Working Girl
- Uncle Buck
- Ghostbusters
- Cocktail
- Red Dawn
- Grease 2
- The Outsiders
- Stand by Me
- Savannah Smiles
- Beetlejuice
- Batteries Not Included
- The Land Before Time
- The Karate Kid Part
- Legend
- One Crazy Summer
- Caddyshack
- Major League
- The Great Outdoors
- Six Pack
- Rad
- Once Bitten
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Roxanne
- Dream a Little Dream
- Real Genius
- Parenthood
- Tango and Cash
- Over the Top
- Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
- Young Guns
- The Incredible Shrinking Woman
- Night Shift
- The Secret of My Success
- Stealing Home
- Weekend at Bernie’s
- Harry and the Hendersons
- Mac and Me
- An American Tail
- The Blues Brothers
- Tim Burton’s Batman
- Spaceballs
- Turner & Hooch
- Cry-Baby
- The Terminator
- Purple Rain
- Moonstruck
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
- About Last Night
- Valley Girl
- Blade Runner
- Ladyhawke
- White Nights
- Die Hard
- Fast Time at Ridgemont High
- The Color Purple
- Heathers
- Lean on Me
- Driving Miss Daisy
- Risky Business
- 9 to 5
- Rain Man
- Coming to America
- WarGames
- Desperately Seeking Susan
- The Money Pit
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- Three Amigos
- Tron
- Maid to Order
- Terms of Endearment
- Tootsie
- Poltergeist
- A Christmas Story
- Revenge of the Nerds
- The Secret of My Success
- Wall Street
- The Wizard
- Karate Kid 2
- Midnight Madness
- Risky Business
- She’s Having a Baby
- The Man with One Red Shoe
- Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
- Shag
- SpaceCamp
- Top Secret!
- Raising Arizona
Did I miss any? Let me know what your favorite one is! Now to decide which one to watch first…
