| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| 2010 |
Peter Hyams |
Roy Scheider, Helen Mirren, John Lithgow, Bob Balaban, Dana Elcar |
Science fiction |
sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai |
W. D. Richter |
Peter Weller, Ellen Barkin, John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum |
Science fiction |
20th Century Fox |
| Against All Odds |
Taylor Hackford |
Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward, James Woods, Richard Widmark, Dorian Harewood, Alex Karras, Jane Greer |
Drama |
remake of Out of the Past |
| All of Me |
Carl Reiner |
Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Dana Elcar |
Comedy |
Columbia |
| Alley Cat |
Victor M. Ordonez |
Karin Mani, Robert Torti |
Action |
|
| Amadeus |
Miloš Forman |
Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, Elizabeth Berridge, Jeffrey Jones |
Biography |
bio of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; won 8 Oscars |
| The Ambassador |
J. Lee Thompson |
Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Donald Pleasence, Rock Hudson |
Thriller |
Cannon Group |
| American Dreamer |
Rick Rosenthal |
Tom Conti, JoBeth Williams, Giancarlo Giannini |
Comedy |
Warner Bros. |
| Angel |
Robert Vincent O'Neill |
Donna Wilkes, Dick Shawn, Susan Tyrrell |
Action |
New World Pictures |
| Bachelor Party |
Neal Israel |
Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox |
| Bad Manners |
Bobby Houston |
Martin Mull, Karen Black |
Comedy |
New World |
| Beat Street |
Stan Lathan |
Rae Dawn Chong, Guy Davis |
Drama, Music |
|
| Before Stonewall |
Greta Schiller |
|
Documentary |
|
| Best Defense |
Willard Huyck |
Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw, George Dzundza |
Comedy |
Paramount |
| Beverly Hills Cop |
Martin Brest |
Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher, Bronson Pinchot, Ronny Cox |
Comedy |
1984 top-grossing film; 2 sequels |
| Birdy |
Alan Parker |
Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage |
Drama |
based on William Wharton novel |
| Blame It on Rio |
Stanley Donen |
Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Michelle Johnson, Demi Moore, Valerie Harper |
Comedy |
Donen's final film |
| Blind Date |
Nico Mastorakis |
Kirstie Alley, Joseph Bottoms, Keir Dullea |
Thriller |
New Line Cinema |
| Blood Simple |
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
John Getz, Frances McDormand, M. Emmet Walsh, Dan Hedaya, Samm-Art Williams |
Suspense |
first film from Coen brothers |
| Body Double |
Brian De Palma |
Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry, Deborah Shelton |
Suspense |
Columbia |
| Body Rock |
Marcelo Epstein |
Lorenzo Lamas, Ray Sharkey |
Musical |
|
| Bolero |
John Derek |
Bo Derek, George Kennedy, Olivia d'Abo, Andrea Occhipinti |
Drama |
won 6 Razzie awards |
| The Bostonians |
James Ivory |
Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy |
Drama |
based on Henry James novel |
| The Bounty |
Roger Donaldson |
Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Daniel Day-Lewis, Laurence Olivier |
Drama |
remake of Mutiny on the Bounty |
| Breakin' |
Joel Silberg |
Lucinda Dickey, Christopher McDonald, Ice-T |
Musical |
|
| Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo |
Sam Firstenberg |
Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo Quinones, Ice-T |
Musical |
sequel |
| Broadway Danny Rose |
Woody Allen |
Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, Nick Apollo Forte |
Comedy, Drama |
Orion |
| The Brother from Another Planet |
John Sayles |
Joe Morton, Steve James |
Comedy |
Cinecom |
| The Buddy System |
Glenn A. Jordan |
Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Nancy Allen, Jean Stapleton |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox |
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| C.H.U.D. |
Douglas Cheek |
John Heard, Daniel Stern |
Horror, Science fiction |
New World |
| Cannonball Run II |
Hal Needham |
Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis, Jr., Marilu Henner, Jackie Chan, Telly Savalas, Frank Sinatra |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.; sequel to 1981 film; final film of Martin, Sinatra |
| Children of the Corn |
Fritz Kiersch |
Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton |
Horror |
first in series |
| Choose Me |
Alan Rudolph |
Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren, Geneviève Bujold, Rae Dawn Chong |
Drama |
|
| City Heat |
Richard Benjamin |
Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Madeline Kahn, Richard Roundtree, Jane Alexander, Rip Torn |
Crime comedy |
Warner Bros. |
| Cloak & Dagger |
Richard Franklin |
Dabney Coleman, Henry Thomas |
Adventure, Family |
Universal |
| The Company of Wolves |
Neil Jordan |
Angela Lansbury, Stephen Rea |
Fantasy, Horror |
ITC |
| Conan the Destroyer |
Richard Fleischer |
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Wilt Chamberlain, Olivia d'Abo, Mako |
Action, Fantasy |
sequel to Conan the Barbarian |
| The Cotton Club |
Francis Ford Coppola |
Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee, Bob Hoskins, James Remar, Nicolas Cage, Maurice Hines, Fred Gwynne, Gwen Verdon |
Drama, Musical |
based on famed Harlem club |
| Country |
Richard Pearce |
Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Wilford Brimley |
Drama |
Touchstone |
| Crackers |
Louis Malle |
Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden, Sean Penn |
Crime comedy |
Universal |
| Crimes of Passion |
Ken Russell |
Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins |
Drama |
New World |
| Dreamscape |
Joseph Ruben |
Dennis Quaid, Christopher Plummer, Kate Capshaw, Max von Sydow, David Patrick Kelly |
Science fiction |
20th Century Fox |
| Dune |
David Lynch |
Kyle MacLachlan, Sting, Sean Young, Kenneth McMillan, Francesca Annis, José Ferrer, Patrick Stewart, Alicia Witt, Virginia Madsen |
Science fiction |
based on the novel by Frank Herbert |
| Electric Dreams |
Steve Barron |
Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen |
Comedy |
|
| The Evil That Men Do |
J. Lee Thompson |
Charles Bronson, José Ferrer |
Action |
Tri-Star |
| Falling in Love |
Ulu Grosbard |
Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel |
Romance |
Paramount |
| Fear City |
Abel Ferrara |
Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Melanie Griffith |
Action |
|
| Finders Keepers |
Richard Lester |
Michael O'Keefe, Louis Gossett, Jr., Beverly D'Angelo |
Comedy |
CBS Films |
| Firestarter |
Mark L. Lester |
Drew Barrymore, David Keith, George C. Scott, Martin Sheen, Heather Locklear, Louise Fletcher |
Thriller |
based on a story by Stephen King |
| Firstborn |
Michael Apted |
Teri Garr, Peter Weller, Corey Haim |
Drama |
Paramount |
| The Flamingo Kid |
Garry Marshall |
Matt Dillon, Richard Crenna, Héctor Elizondo |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox |
| Flashpoint |
William Tannen |
Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams |
Action |
HBO Films |
| Footloose |
Herbert Ross |
Kevin Bacon, John Lithgow, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest, Chris Penn |
Drama, Musical |
remade in 2011 |
| Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter |
Joseph Zito |
Corey Feldman, Crispin Glover, Kimberly Beck |
Horror |
sequel |
| Gallavants |
Art Vitello |
Robert Lydiard, Vic Perrin, Peter Cullen |
Animation |
|
| Garbo Talks |
Sidney Lumet |
Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher |
Drama |
United Artists |
| Ghostbusters |
Ivan Reitman |
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts |
Science fiction, Comedy |
Columbia; first of series |
| Gimme an 'F' |
Paul Justman |
Stephen Shellen, Jennifer Cooke, Beth Miller |
Comedy |
|
| Girls Nite Out |
Robert Deubel |
Julia Montgomery, Rutanya Alda |
Horror |
|
| Grandview, U.S.A. |
Randal Kleiser |
Jamie Lee Curtis, Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Troy Donahue, Carole Cook |
Drama |
Paramount |
| Gremlins |
Joe Dante |
Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton |
Comedy, Horror |
sequel in 1990 |
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| Hard to Hold |
Larry Peerce |
Rick Springfield, Patti Hansen, Albert Salmi |
Musical |
Universal |
| Harry & Son |
Paul Newman |
Paul Newman, Robby Benson, Ellen Barkin, Judith Ivey, Ossie Davis, Joanne Woodward |
Drama |
Orion |
| Heartbreakers |
Bobby Roth |
Peter Coyote, Nick Mancuso, Kathryn Harrold, Max Gail, Carol Wayne |
Drama |
Orion |
| Hot Dog... The Movie |
Peter Markle |
David Naughton, Shannon Tweed |
Comedy |
|
| The Hotel New Hampshire |
Tony Richardson |
Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Rob Lowe, Nastassja Kinski, Anita Morris, Matthew Modine |
Comedy, drama |
based on a novel by John Irving |
| The Ice Pirates |
Stewart Raffill |
Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Anjelica Huston |
Sci-fi |
MGM |
| Iceman |
Fred Schepisi |
Timothy Hutton, John Lone, Lindsay Crouse |
Sci-fi |
|
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom |
Steven Spielberg |
Harrison Ford, Jonathan Ke Quan, Kate Capshaw |
Action |
sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| Irreconcilable Differences |
Charles Shyer |
Ryan O'Neal, Drew Barrymore, Shelley Long |
Comedy |
Warner Bros. |
| The Jesse Owens Story |
Richard Irving |
Dorian Harewood, Dan Ammerman |
Biography |
|
| Johnny Dangerously |
Amy Heckerling |
Michael Keaton, Marilu Henner, Griffin Dunne, Joe Piscopo, Maureen Stapleton, Peter Boyle |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox |
| Just the Way You Are |
Édouard Molinaro |
Kristy McNichol, Michael Ontkean |
Comedy |
MGM |
| The Karate Kid |
John G. Avildsen |
Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, William Zabka, Martin Kove |
Drama |
3 sequels plus 2010 remake |
| Killpoint |
Frank Harris |
Richard Roundtree, Leo Fong, Cameron Mitchell |
Action |
|
| Lace |
William Hale |
Phoebe Cates, Angela Lansbury, Brooke Adams, Bess Armstrong, Anthony Quayle, Herbert Lom |
Drama |
TV mini-series; based on Shirley Conran novel |
| Lassiter |
Roger Young |
Tom Selleck, Jane Seymour, Lauren Hutton |
Adventure |
|
| The Last Starfighter |
Nick Castle |
Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Dan O'Herlihy, Catherine Mary Stewart |
Science fiction |
Lorimar |
| The Little Drummer Girl |
George Roy Hill |
Diane Keaton, Klaus Kinski, Sami Frey |
Thriller |
based on a novel by John le Carré |
| The Lonely Guy |
Arthur Hiller |
Steve Martin, Judith Ivey, Charles Grodin |
Comedy |
based on Bruce Jay Friedman book |
| Love Letters |
Amy Holden Jones |
Jamie Lee Curtis, James Keach, Bonnie Bartlett |
Thriller |
New World Pictures |
| Love Streams |
John Cassavetes |
Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes |
Drama |
Cannon |
| Making the Grade |
Dorian Walker |
Judd Nelson, Gordon Jump |
Comedy |
|
| Maria's Lovers |
Andrei Konchalovsky |
Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Robert Mitchum |
Drama |
Cannon |
| Mass Appeal |
Glenn Jordan |
Jack Lemmon, Željko Ivanek, Charles Durning |
Drama |
based on play |
| Meatballs Part II |
Ken Weiderhorn |
Richard Mulligan, Kim Richards |
Comedy |
sequel to Meatballs |
| Micki and Maude |
Blake Edwards |
Dudley Moore, Ann Reinking, Amy Irving |
Comedy |
Columbia |
| Mike's Murder |
James Bridges |
Debra Winger, Mark Keyloun |
Drama |
Warner Bros. |
| Missing in Action |
Joseph Zito |
Chuck Norris, James Hong, M. Emmet Walsh |
Action |
Cannon |
| Moscow on the Hudson |
Paul Mazursky |
Robin Williams, María Conchita Alonso |
Comedy |
Columbia |
| Mrs. Soffel |
Gillian Armstrong |
Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Edward Herrmann, Matthew Modine |
Drama |
MGM |
| The Muppets Take Manhattan |
Frank Oz |
Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz |
Family |
TriStar |
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Note |
| The Naked Face |
Bryan Forbes |
Roger Moore, Rod Steiger, Elliott Gould, Anne Archer, David Hedison, Art Carney |
Mystery |
based on a novel by Sidney Sheldon |
| National Lampoon's Joy of Sex |
Martha Coolidge |
Cameron Dye, Colleen Camp, Ernie Hudson |
Comedy |
based on sex manual |
| The Natural |
Barry Levinson |
Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Richard Farnsworth, Robert Prosky, Barbara Hershey, Darren McGavin |
Drama |
based on a novel by Bernard Malamud |
| The NeverEnding Story |
Wolfgang Petersen |
Barret Oliver, Noah Hathaway, Gerald McRaney |
Fantasy |
2 sequels |
| Night Patrol |
Jackie Kong |
Linda Blair, Murray Langston, Pat Paulsen |
Comedy |
|
| Night of the Comet |
Thom Eberhardt |
Catherine Mary Stewart, Geoffrey Lewis |
Sci-fi |
|
| A Nightmare on Elm Street |
Wes Craven |
Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Johnny Depp |
Horror |
first of series |
| Ninja III: The Domination |
Sam Firstenberg |
Sho Kosugi, Lucinda Dickey |
Action |
|
| No Small Affair |
Jerry Schatzberg |
Jon Cryer, Demi Moore, George Wendt |
Comedy |
Columbia |
| Not for Publication |
Paul Bartel |
Nancy Allen, David Naughton |
Comedy |
|
| Nothing Lasts Forever |
Tom Schiller |
Zach Galligan, Lauren Tom, Bill Murray |
Comedy |
not released in theaters or on DVD |
| Old Enough |
Marisa Silver |
Sarah Boyd, Rainbow Harvest, Danny Aiello |
Teen |
|
| Once Upon a Time in America |
Sergio Leone |
Robert De Niro, James Woods, Tuesday Weld, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Jennifer Connelly, Treat Williams, William Forsythe, Danny Aiello |
Drama |
winner of 2 BAFTA awards; Leone's last film |
| Over the Brooklyn Bridge |
Menahem Golan |
Elliott Gould, Shelley Winters, Margaux Hemingway, Burt Young, Carol Kane, Sid Caesar |
Comedy |
MGM/UA |
| Oxford Blues |
Robert Boris |
Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Julian Sands |
Comedy |
remake of A Yank at Oxford |
| Paris, Texas |
Wim Wenders |
Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell |
Drama |
won Palme d'Or at Cannes Festival |
| A Passage to India |
David Lean |
Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness |
Drama |
based on a novel by E. M. Forster; Lean's last film; 2 Oscars |
| The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak |
Just Jaeckin |
Tawny Kitaen, Brent Huff |
Action |
|
| The Philadelphia Experiment |
Stewart Raffill |
Michael Paré, Nancy Allen |
Sci-fi |
New World |
| Places in the Heart |
Robert Benton |
Sally Field, John Malkovich, Danny Glover, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan |
Drama |
Oscars for Field and screenplay |
| Police Academy |
Hugh Wilson |
Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, G. W. Bailey, Bubba Smith, George Gaynes, Leslie Easterbrook, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Donovan Scott |
Comedy |
first of series |
| The Pope of Greenwich Village |
Stuart Rosenberg |
Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Kenneth McMillan, Geraldine Page, M. Emmet Walsh, Burt Young |
Crime drama |
based on a novel by Vincent Patrick |
| Protocol |
Herbert Ross |
Goldie Hawn, Andre Gregory, Chris Sarandon |
Comedy |
Warner Bros. |
| Purple Hearts |
Sidney J. Furie |
Ken Wahl, Cheryl Ladd |
War drama |
Warner Bros. |
| Purple Rain |
Albert Magnoli |
Prince, Morris Day, Apollonia Kotero |
Drama |
Academy Award for Musical Score |
| Racing with the Moon |
Richard Benjamin |
Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage, Elizabeth McGovern |
Drama |
Paramount |
| The Razor's Edge |
John Byrum |
Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, Brian Doyle-Murray, James Keach |
Drama |
based on a novel by Somerset Maugham |
| Reckless |
James Foley |
Aidan Quinn, Daryl Hannah, Cliff De Young |
Romance |
|
| Red Dawn |
John Milius |
Patrick Swayze, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Grey, Harry Dean Stanton, Powers Boothe, Ben Johnson |
Action |
remade in 2012 |
| Repo Man |
Alex Cox |
Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter |
Comedy |
Universal |
| Revenge of the Nerds |
Jeff Kanew |
Anthony Edwards, Robert Carradine, Timothy Busfield, Curtis Armstrong |
Comedy |
3 sequels |
| Rhinestone |
Bob Clark |
Sylvester Stallone, Dolly Parton, Ron Leibman, Tim Thomerson, Richard Farnsworth |
Musical comedy |
8 Razzie nominations |
| The River |
Mark Rydell |
Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek, Scott Glenn |
Drama |
4 Oscar nominations |
| Roadhouse 66 |
John Mark Robinson |
Willem Dafoe, Judge Reinhold |
Action |
|
| Romancing the Stone |
Robert Zemeckis |
Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito |
Comedy |
followed by The Jewel of the Nile |
| The Rosebud Beach Hotel |
Harry Hurwitz |
Colleen Camp, Peter Scolari, Christopher Lee |
Comedy |
|
| Runaway |
Michael Crichton |
Tom Selleck, Gene Simmons, Cynthia Rhodes |
Sci-fi |
TriStar |
| Savage Streets |
Danny Steinmann |
Linda Blair, John Vernon |
Action |
|
| Secret Honor |
Robert Altman |
Philip Baker Hall |
Drama |
1-character story (Richard Nixon) |
| Sheena |
John Guillermin |
Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Donovan Scott |
Adventure |
based on comic-book character |
| Silent Night, Deadly Night |
Charles E. Sellier, Jr. |
Lilyan Chauvin, Robert Brian Wilson, Linnea Quigley |
Horror |
|
| Sixteen Candles |
John Hughes |
Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall |
Comedy |
Universal |
| Slapstick of Another Kind |
Steven Paul |
Jerry Lewis, Madeline Kahn |
Comedy |
based on story by Kurt Vonnegut |
| A Soldier's Story |
Norman Jewison |
Howard Rollins, Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington |
Drama |
based on a play by Charles Fuller |
| Songwriter |
Alan Rudolph |
Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Melinda Dillon |
Drama |
TriStar |
| Splash |
Ron Howard |
Daryl Hannah, Tom Hanks, John Candy, Eugene Levy |
Comedy |
Touchstone |
| Star Trek III: The Search for Spock |
Leonard Nimoy |
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, George Takei |
Science fiction |
2nd sequel to Star Trek |
| Starman |
John Carpenter |
Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith |
Science fiction |
inspired TV series |
| Stop Making Sense |
Jonathan Demme |
Talking Heads |
Documentary |
|
| Stranger Than Paradise |
Jim Jarmusch |
John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson |
Comedy |
|
| Streets of Fire |
Walter Hill |
Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Willem Dafoe |
Action |
Universal |
| Suburbia |
Penelope Spheeris |
Jennifer Clay, Flea, Christina Beck |
Comedy |
|
| Supergirl |
Jeannot Szwarc |
Helen Slater, Peter O'Toole, Faye Dunaway |
Superhero |
based on character from DC Comics |
| Surf II |
Randall M. Badat |
Eddie Deezen, Cleavon Little, Eric Stoltz |
Comedy |
|
| Swing Shift |
Jonathan Demme |
Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Ed Harris |
Drama |
Warner Bros. |
