My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Animation, Comedy, Family
Two young girls, 10-year-old Satsuki and her 4-year-old sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuki and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon... [show more]
Hitoshi Takagi
Noriko Hidaka
Chika Sakamoto
Hayao Miyazaki
The Princess Bride (1987)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
An elderly man reads the book "The Princess Bride" to his sick and thus currently bedridden adolescent grandson, the reading of the book which has been passed down within the family for generations. The grandson is sure he won't like the story, with a romance at its core, he prefers something with... [show more]
Cary Elwes
Mandy Patinkin
Robin Wright
Rob Reiner
Castle in the Sky (1986)
Animation, Adventure, Family
A young boy stumbles into a mysterious girl who floats down from the sky. The girl, Sheeta, was chased by pirates, army and government secret agents. In saving her life, they begin a high flying adventure that goes through all sorts of flying machines, eventually searching for Sheeta's identity in a... [show more]
Mayumi Tanaka
Keiko Yokozawa
Kotoe Hatsui
Hayao Miyazaki
A Christmas Story (1983)
Comedy, Family
Christmas is approaching and 9 year-old Ralphie wants only one thing: a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun. When he mentions it at the dinner table, his mother's immediate reaction is that he'll shoot his eye out. He then decides on a perfect theme for his teacher but her reaction is like his. He... [show more]
Peter Billingsley
Melinda Dillon
Darren McGavin
Bob Clark
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Animation, Adventure, Family
In Disney's beguiling animated romp, rebellious 16-year-old mermaid Ariel is fascinated with life on land. On one of her visits to the surface, which are forbidden by her controlling father, King Triton, she falls for a human prince. Determined to be with her new love, Ariel makes a dangerous deal... [show more]
Jodi Benson
Samuel E. Wright
Rene Auberjonois
Ron Clements
John Musker
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and Chewbacca face attack by the Imperial forces and its AT-AT walkers on the ice planet Hoth. While Han and Leia escape in the Millennium Falcon, Luke travels to Dagobah in search of Yoda. Only with the Jedi Master's help will Luke survive when the Dark Side... [show more]
Mark Hamill
Harrison Ford
Carrie Fisher
Irvin Kershner
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie, and the children... [show more]
Henry Thomas
Drew Barrymore
Peter Coyote
Steven Spielberg
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Animation, Family, Fantasy
This is the story of a young witch, named Kiki who is now 13 years old. But she is still a little green and plenty headstrong, but also resourceful, imaginative, and determined. With her trusty wisp of a talking cat named Jiji by her side she's ready to take on the world, or at least the quaintly... [show more]
Kirsten Dunst
Minami Takayama
Rei Sakuma
Hayao Miyazaki
Field of Dreams (1989)
Drama, Family, Fantasy
Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the... [show more]
Kevin Costner
James Earl Jones
Ray Liotta
Phil Alden Robinson
Savannah Smiles (1982)
Comedy, Family
The young daughter of a politician runs away due to lack of attention. She hides in the car of two not-so-bright crooks who are slowly converted into parent figures to her. A surprising bond of love and redirection forms among the trio as the police close down on the supposed kidnappers.
Mark Miller
Donovan Scott
Bridgette Andersen
Pierre De Moro
The Goonies (1985)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
Mikey and his friends have always wanted to go on an adventure. One night they are all in Mikey's attic and Mikey stumbles across an old map. Mikey has always wanted to know if One-eyed Willy ever was a real person and now he might. They set off and later realize that they have to go through the... [show more]
Sean Astin
Josh Brolin
Jeff Cohen
Richard Donner
The Karate Kid (1984)
Action, Drama, Family
Daniel and his mother move from New Jersey to California. She has a wonderful new job, but Daniel quickly discovers that a dark haired Italian boy with a Jersey accent doesn't fit into the blond surfer crowd. Daniel manages to talk his way out of some fights, but he is finally cornered by several... [show more]
Ralph Macchio
Pat Morita
Elisabeth Shue
John G. Avildsen
Back to the Future (1985)
Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean "time machine" invented by a slightly mad scientist. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and... [show more]
Michael J. Fox
Christopher Lloyd
Lea Thompson
Robert Zemeckis
Action, Adventure
The year is 1936. An archeology professor named Indiana Jones is venturing in the jungles of South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap but miraculously escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The... [show more]
Harrison Ford
Karen Allen
Paul Freeman
Steven Spielberg
The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
Adventure, Drama, Family
Natty Gann is a 12-year-old Depression-era girl whose single father leaves her behind in Chicago while he goes to Washington State to look for work in the timber industry. Natty runs away from the guardian she was left with to follow Dad. She befriends and is befriended by a wolf that has been... [show more]
Meredith Salenger
John Cusack
Jed
Jeremy Kagan
Babette's Feast (1987)
Drama
In a remote 19th-century Danish village, two sisters lead a rigid life centered around their father, the local minister, and their church. Both had opportunities to leave the village: one could have married a young army officer and the other, a French opera singer. Their father objected in each... [show more]
Stéphane Audran
Bodil Kjer
Birgitte Federspiel
Gabriel Axel
The NeverEnding Story (1984)
Adventure, Drama, Family
Bastian is a young boy who lives a dreary life being tormented by school bullies. On one such occasion he escapes into a book shop where the old proprieter reveals an ancient story-book to him, which he is warned can be dangerous. Shortly after, he "borrows" the book and begins to read it in the... [show more]
Noah Hathaway
Barret Oliver
Tami Stronach
Wolfgang Petersen
Labyrinth (1986)
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Teenager Sarah is forced by her father and her stepmother to babysit her baby brother Toby while they are outside home. Toby does not stop crying and Sarah wishes that her stepbrother be taken by the Goblin King Jareth. Out of the blue, Toby stops crying and when Sarah looks for him in the cradle,... [show more]
David Bowie
Jennifer Connelly
Toby Froud
Jim Henson
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
The cartoonish and childish character Pee-wee Herman goes on a big adventure for the first time ever when his beloved shiny new bicycle is stolen by his nemesis Francis Buxton, a fellow man-child and neighborhood rich "kid." And he sets off on an obsessive cross-country journey, determined to... [show more]
Paul Reubens
Elizabeth Daily
Mark Holton
Tim Burton
The Right Stuff (1983)
Adventure, Biography, Drama
Tom Wolfe's book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be... [show more]
Sam Shepard
Scott Glenn
Ed Harris
Philip Kaufman
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985)
Animation, Action, Adventure
Based on elements from the stories of Mark Twain, this feature-length Claymation fantasy follows the adventures of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn as they stowaway aboard the interplanetary balloon of Mark Twain. Twain, disgusted with the human race, is intent upon finding Halley's Comet... [show more]
James Whitmore
Michele Mariana
Gary Krug
Will Vinton
Action, Adventure
An art collector appeals to Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. He learns that another archaeologist has disappeared while searching for the precious goblet, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones. The artifact is much harder to find than they expected, and its... [show more]
Harrison Ford
Sean Connery
Alison Doody
Steven Spielberg
Gandhi (1982)
Biography, Drama, History
In 1893, Mohandas K. Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian and traveling in a first class compartment. Gandhi realizes that the laws are biased against Indians and decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all Indians in South Africa. After numerous... [show more]
Ben Kingsley
John Gielgud
Rohini Hattangadi
Richard Attenborough
Ghostbusters (1984)
Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz and Egon Spengler work at Columbia University. where they delve into the paranormal and fiddle with many unethical experiments on their students. As they are kicked out of the University, they really understand the paranormal and go into business for themselves. Under the... [show more]
Bill Murray
Dan Aykroyd
Sigourney Weaver
Ivan Reitman
Local Hero (1983)
Comedy, Drama
Oil billionaire Happer sends Mac to a remote Scottish village to secure the property rights for an oil refinery they want to build. Mac teams up with Danny and starts the negotiations, the locals are keen to get their hands on the 'Silver Dollar' and can't believe their luck. However, a local hermit... [show more]
Burt Lancaster
Peter Riegert
Fulton Mackay
Bill Forsyth
The Dark Crystal (1982)
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Another planet, another time. One thousand years ago, the mysterious Dark Crystal was damaged by one of the Urskeks and an age of chaos has began. The evil race of grotesque birdlike lizards, the Skeksis, gnomish dragons who rule their fantastic planet with an iron claw. Meanwhile, orphan Jen,... [show more]
Jim Henson
Kathryn Mullen
Frank Oz
Jim Henson
Frank Oz
Follow That Bird (1985)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
Eccentric and lovable Big Bird lives a very carefree life with his friends on Sesame Street. But his happiness is cut short when a strict social worker named Miss Finch sends him away to live with a wacky family of Dodos. After a long week and feeling homesick, he decides that he has had enough and... [show more]
Caroll Spinney
Jim Henson
Frank Oz
Ken Kwapis
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Luke Skywalker battles Jabba the Hutt and Darth Vader to save his comrades in the Rebel Alliance and triumph over the Galactic Empire. Han Solo and Princess Leia reaffirm their love, and team with Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, the Ewoks, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 to aid in the disruption of the Dark... [show more]
Mark Hamill
Harrison Ford
Carrie Fisher
Richard Marquand
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect. Groundbreaking interaction between the live and... [show more]
Bob Hoskins
Christopher Lloyd
Joanna Cassidy
Robert Zemeckis
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey during the Depression and is searching for an escape from her dreary life. Tom Baxter is a dashing young archaeologist in the film "The Purple Rose of Cairo." After losing her job Cecilia goes to see the film in hopes of raising her spirits. Much to her surprise... [show more]
Mia Farrow
Jeff Daniels
Danny Aiello
Woody Allen
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Animation, Adventure, Family
In Victorian London, England, a little mouse girl's toymaker father is abducted by a peglegged bat. She enlists the aid of Basil of Baker Street, the rodent world's answer to Sherlock Holmes. The case expands as Basil uncovers the crime's link to a plot against the Crown itself.
Vincent Price
Barrie Ingham
Val Bettin
Ron Clements
Burny Mattinson
Dave Michener
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
A 12-year-old boy goes missing in 1978, only to reappear once more in 1986. In the eight years that have passed, he hasn't aged. It is no coincidence that at the time he "comes back", a flying saucer is found, entangled in power lines.
Joey Cramer
Paul Reubens
Cliff De Young
Randal Kleiser
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
It is the 23rd century. Admiral James T. Kirk is an instructor at Starfleet Academy and feeling old; the prospect of attending his ship, the USS Enterprise--now a training ship--on a two-week cadet cruise does not make him feel any younger. But the training cruise becomes a deadly serious mission... [show more]
William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
DeForest Kelley
Nicholas Meyer
On Golden Pond (1981)
Drama
The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage. This summer their daughter Chelsea -- whom they haven't seen for years -- feels she must be there for Norman's birthday. She and her... [show more]
Katharine Hepburn
Henry Fonda
Jane Fonda
Mark Rydell
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Comedy
High school student Ferris Bueller wants a day off from school and he's developed an incredibly sophisticated plan to pull it off. He talks his friend Cameron into taking his father's prized Ferrari and with his girlfriend Sloane head into Chicago for the day. While they are taking in what the city... [show more]
Matthew Broderick
Alan Ruck
Mia Sara
John Hughes
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Animation, Adventure, Drama
To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she suspected.
Elizabeth Hartman
Derek Jacobi
Dom DeLuise
Don Bluth
Hoosiers (1986)
Drama, Sport
Based on the true story of a small-town Indiana team that made the state finals in 1954, this movie chronicles the attempts of a coach with a spotty past, and the town's basketball-loving drunk to lead their high school team to victory.
Gene Hackman
Barbara Hershey
Dennis Hopper
David Anspaugh
Hope and Glory (1987)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War II. For a young boy, this time in history was more of an adventure, a total upheaval of order, restrictions and discipline. The liberating effect of the war on... [show more]
Sarah Miles
David Hayman
Sebastian Rice-Edwards
John Boorman
Adventure, Drama, Family
The story of two animals and their adventures. Milo, the cat, and Otis, the dog, are two animals who grew up together on the same farm. One day, the two are separated and begin a journey to find each other. The adventurous, and often perilous quest finds the two animals traveling across mountains,... [show more]
Kyôko Koizumi
Dudley Moore
Chatran
Masanori Hata
My Bodyguard (1980)
Comedy, Drama, Family
Clifford Peache is the new kid in Lake View High School. Faced with all the stress that role entails he makes his situation worse by insulting Moody, the leader of a group of toughs who extort lunch money from kids. These punks pretend to be bodyguards for the kids to protect them from Linderman... [show more]
Chris Makepeace
Adam Baldwin
Matt Dillon
Tony Bill
Hairspray (1988)
Comedy, Drama, Family
'Pleasantly Plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using her fame to speak out for the causes she believes in, most of all integration. In doing so, she earns the wrath of the show's former star, Amber Von... [show more]
Sonny Bono
Ruth Brown
Divine
John Waters
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Comedy, Crime
Wealthy native Brit Lawrence Jamieson, living in Beaumont-sur-Mer on the French Riviera, earns most of his money through big cons on wealthy unsuspecting women. With the help of his associates, corrupt Police Inspector Andre, who provides him most of his intel, and his butler Arthur, he pulls scams... [show more]
Steve Martin
Michael Caine
Glenne Headly
Frank Oz
The Natural (1984)
Drama, Sport
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league in this magical sports fantasy. With the aid of a bat cut from a lightning struck tree, Hobbs lives the fame he should have had earlier when, as a... [show more]
Robert Redford
Robert Duvall
Glenn Close
Barry Levinson
The Man from Snowy River (1982)
Adventure, Drama, Romance
Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the low lands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet. Kirk Douglas plays two roles as twin brothers who haven't spoken for years, one of whom was... [show more]
Kirk Douglas
Tom Burlinson
Terence Donovan
George Miller
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Comedy, Drama
Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His roommate, Neil Perry, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the thumb of his overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet Professor Keating, their... [show more]
Robin Williams
Robert Sean Leonard
Ethan Hawke
Peter Weir
The King of Comedy (1982)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Rupert Pupkin is obsessed with becoming a comedy great. However, when he confronts his idol, talk show host Jerry Langford, with a plea to perform on the Jerry's show, he is only given the run-around. He does not give up, however, but persists in stalking Jerry until he gets what he wants.... [show more]
Robert De Niro
Jerry Lewis
Diahnne Abbott
Martin Scorsese
Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Adventure, Drama
The researcher Tyler is assigned by his government to travel to the Arctic to study the wolves that they believe are responsible for the reduction of the caribou population. The reckless pilot Rosie takes him to the wilderness and he is left alone with his supply in an extremely cold spot. He is... [show more]
Charles Martin Smith
Brian Dennehy
Zachary Ittimangnaq
Carroll Ballard
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
Adventure, Comedy
A Sho in the Kalahari desert encounters technology for the first time--in the shape of a Coke bottle. He takes it back to his people, and they use it for many tasks. The people start to fight over it, so he decides to return it to the God--where he thinks it came from. Meanwhile, we are introduced... [show more]
N!xau
Marius Weyers
Sandra Prinsloo
Jamie Uys
Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
The fantastic tale of an 18th century aristocrat, his talented henchmen and a little girl in their efforts to save a town from defeat by the Turks. Being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, a trip to the moon, a dance with Venus and an escape from the Grim Reaper are only some of the improbable... [show more]
John Neville
Eric Idle
Sarah Polley
Terry Gilliam
Eight Men Out (1988)
Drama, History, Sport
A semi-fictionalized account of the scandal surrounding the 1919 World Series, coined the Black Sox Scandal, is presented. The Chicago White Sox, considered the cream of the crop and one of the best major league teams ever, has just won the American League pennant, and are odds on favorites to win... [show more]
John Cusack
Clifton James
Jace Alexander
John Sayles
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