The 80’s were a great time, not only was the fashion amazing, the movies became instant classics. Movies such as "The Breakfast Club," "Top Gun," "Back to the Future," "Die Hard," and "Ghost Busters" are just a few of the movies that will live on forever, but this list is full of classic movies. If you haven't seen at least 65/80 of these movies, you haven't lived. Enjoy this collection of movies, and if you were around when they came out, enjoy this trip down memory lane, maybe there are some movies on here you loved but forgot about. Enjoy!

1980:

1. "The Shining" (1980)

Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, and Danny Lloyd

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

2. "Airplane!" (1980)

Starring: Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty

A man afraid to fly must ensure that a plane lands safely after the pilots become sick.

3. "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980)

Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, and Frank Oz

After the rebels have been brutally overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywalker takes advanced Jedi training with Master Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke.

4. "Raging Bull" (1980)

Starring: Robert De Niro

An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it.

5. "The Blues Brothers" (1980)

Starring: John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd

Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised.

5. "Flash Gordon" (1980)

Starring: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Ornella Muti, Max von Sydow, Chaim Topol, Timothy Dalton, Mariangela Melato, Brian Blessed, and Peter Wyngarde

A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

6. "Caddyshack" (1980)

Starring: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O’Keefe, and Bill Murray

An exclusive golf course has to deal with a brash new member and a destructive dancing gopher.

7. "Xandu" (1980)

Starring:Olivia Newton John, Michael Beck, and Gene Kelly

The story of a girl who makes dreams come true.

8. "The Elephant Man" (1980)

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, Sir John Gielgud, and Wendy Hiller

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity

1981:

9. "The Evil Dead (1981)'

Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Hal Delrich, Betsy Baker, and Sarah York

Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.

10. "Raiders of the Lost Arc (1981)"

Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, and Denholm Elliot

Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.

11. "An American Werewolf in London (1981)"

Starring: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, and John Woodvine

Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.

12. "Blowout (1981)"

Starring: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, and Dennis Franz

A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.

13. "Das Boot (1981)"

Starring: Jurgen Pronchnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann

The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror.

1982:

14. "E.T. (1982)"

Starring: Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, and Henry Thomas

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home-world.

15. "Blade Runner (1982)"

Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos

A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

16. "The Thing (1982)"

Starring: Kurt Russell

It's the first week of winter in 1982. An American Research Base is greeted by an alien force, that can assimilate anything it touches. It's up to the members to stay alive, and be sure of who is human, and who has become one of the Things.

17. "Annie (1982)"

Starring: Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry, Geoffrey Holder, Edward Herrmann, and Aileen Quinn

A young orphan girl's adventures in finding a family that will take her.

18. "Poltergeist (1982)"

Starring: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, and Beatrice Straight

A family's home is haunted by a host of ghosts.

19. "Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)"

Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Brian Backer, Robert Romanus, and Ray Walston

A group of Southern California high school students are enjoying their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock n' roll.

20. "Tootsie (1982)"

Starring: Don Mcguire and Larry Gelbart

Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.

21. "The Verdict (1982)"

Starring: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, and Milo O’Shea

A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.

22. "Creep Show (1982)"

Starring: Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, Carrie Nye, E.G. Marshall, and Viveca Lindfors

An anthology which tells five terrifying tales based on the E.C. horror comic books of the 1950s.

23. "First Blood (1982)"

Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, and Brian Dennehy

Former Green Beret John Rambo is pursued into the mountains surrounding a small town by a tyrannical sheriff and his deputies, forcing him to survive using his combat skills.

1983:

24. "A Christmas Story (1983)"

Starring: Melinda Dillon, Leigh Brown, and Peter Billingsley

In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie attempts to convince his parents, his teacher, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.

25. "Scarface (1983)"

Starring: Al Pacino

In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.

26. "The Outsiders (1983)"

Starring: C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Parick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Diane Lane, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, and Leif Garrett

The rivalry between two gangs, the poor greasers and the rich Socs, only heats up when one gang member kills a member of the other.

27. "National Lampoons Vacation (1983)"

Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid, John Candy, and Christie Brinkley

The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the Walley World theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated.

1984:

28. "Ghostbusters (1984)"

Starring: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, and Rick Moranis

Three former parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.

29. "Sixteen Candles (1984)"

Starring: Molly Ringwald, Paul Dooley, Justin Henry, and Michael Anthony Hall

A girl's "sweet" sixteenth birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible.

30. "Gremlins (1984)"

Starring: Zachary Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday, and Frances Lee McCain

A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.

32. "A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)"

Starring: Johm Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Johnny Depp, and Robert Englund

Several people are hunted by a cruel serial killer who kills his victims in their dreams. While the survivors are trying to find the reason for being chosen, the murderer won't lose any chance to kill them as soon as they fall asleep.

33. "Footloose (1984)"

Starring: Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest, and John Lithgow

A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.

34. "The Karate Kid (1984)"

Starring: Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki “Pat” Morita, and Elisabeth Shue

A martial arts master agrees to teach karate to a bullied teenager.

35. "Beverly Hills Cop (1984)"

Starring: Eddie Murphy

A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.

1985:

36. "The Breakfast Club (1985)"

Starring:Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy

Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.

37. "The Goonies (1985)"

Starring: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, and Ke Huy Quan

In order to save their home from foreclosure, a group of misfits set out to find a pirate's ancient valuable treasure.

38. "Back to the Future (1985)"

Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and Crispin Glover

Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.

39. "Day of the Dead (1985)"

Starring: Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joe Pilato, and Richard Liberty

A small group of military officers and scientists dwell in an underground bunker as the world above is overrun by zombies.

40. "Weird Science (1985)"

Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and Kelly Le Brock

Two high school nerds attempt to create the perfect woman, but she turns out to be more than that.

41. "Teen Wolf (1985)"

Starring: Michael J. Fox, James Hampton, Scott Paulin, Susan Ursitti, Jerry Levine, and Jay Tarses

A struggling high school student discovers that his family has an unusual pedigree when he finds himself turning into a werewolf.

42. "Better Off Dead (1985)"

Starring: John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Diane Franklin, and Kim Darby

A teenager has to deal with his girlfriend dumping him among family crises, homicidal paper boys, and a rival skier.

43. "Clue (1985)"

Starring: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Khn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, and Lesley Ann Warren

Six guests are invited to a strange house and must cooperate with the staff to solve a murder mystery.

44. "The Color Purple (1985)"

Starring: Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, and Whoopi Goldberg

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering years of abuse from her father and others over 40 years.

45. "Fright Night (1985)"

Starring: Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse, Stephen Geoffreys, and Roddy McDowall

When a teenager learns that his next door neighbour is a vampire, no one will believe him.

1986:

46. "Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)"

Starring: Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, and Alan Ruck.

A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite what the principal thinks of that.

47. "Aliens (1986)"

Starring: Sigourney Weaver

The planet from Alien (1979) has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough?

48. "Stand by me (1986)"

Starring: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell, and Kiefer Sutherland

After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.

49. "Top Gun (1986)"

Starring: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt, Michael Ironside, John Stockwell, Barry Tubb, Rick Rossovich, Tim Robbins, Whip Hubley, James Tolkan, and Meg Ryan

As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.

50. "Pretty in Pink (1986)"

Starring: Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts, James Spader, Andrew McCarthy, and Alexa Kenin.

A poor girl must choose between the affections of her doting childhood sweetheart and a rich but sensitive playboy.

51. "Down by Law (1986)"

Starring: Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni

The story of three different men in a Louisiana prison and their eventual journey.

52. "Platoon (1986)"

Starring: Tom Berenger, Williem Dafoe, and Charlie Sheen

A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

53. "Big Trouble in Little China (1986)"

Starring: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, and Dennis Dun

An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown.

54. "Blue Velvet (1986)"

Starring: Kyle Maclachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, George Dickerson, and Dean Stockwell

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

1987:

55. "Spaceballs (1987)"

Starring: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, George Wyner, and Joan Rivers

Planet Spaceballs' President Skroob sends Lord Dark Helmet to steal planet Druidia's abundant supply of air to replenish their own, and only Lone Starr can stop them.

56. "Predator (1987)"

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers

A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

57. "The Untouchables (1987)"

Starring: Kevin Costner, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro, and Sean Connery

Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team.

58. "The Lost Boys (1987)"

Starring: Corey Feldman, Jami Gertz, Corey Haim, Edward Herrmann, Barnard Hughes, Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland, and Dianne Wiest

After moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires.

59. "Dirty Dancing (1987)"

Starring: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, and Cynthia Rhodes

Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.

60. "The Princess Bride (1987)"

Starring: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, Robin Wright, Peter Falk, and Billy Crystal

While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him a story called The Princess Bride.

61. "Broadcast News (1987)"

Starring: William Hurt, Albert Brooks, and Holly Hunter

Take two rival TV reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well and watch the sparks fly.

62. "Robocop (1987)"

Starring: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, and Miguel Ferrer

In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.

63. "Full Metal Jacket (1987)"

Starring: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard, Kevyn Major Howard, and Ed O'Ross

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

64. "Empire of the Sun (1987)"

Starring: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, and Nigel Havers

A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.

65. "Jaws: The Revenge (1987)"

Starring: Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles, Karen Young, and Michael Caine

Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.

1988:

70. "Die Hard (1988)"

Starring: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia

John McClane, officer of the NYPD, tries to save his wife Holly Gennaro and several others that were taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

71. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)"

Starring: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, and Joanna Cassidy

A toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder.

72. "Beetle Juice (1988)"

Starring: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara, Winona Ryder, and Michael Keaton

A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a "bio-exorcist" in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house.

73. "Heathers (1988)"

Starring: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, and Shannen Doherty

In order to get out of the snobby clique that is destroying her good-girl reputation, an intelligent teen teams up with a dark sociopath in a plot to kill the cool kids.

74. "Coming to America (1988)"

Starring: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, John Amos, Madge Sinclair, and Shari Headley

An African prince goes to Queens, New York City to find a wife whom he can respect for her intelligence and will.

75. "Rain Man (1988)"

Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, and Valeria Golino

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.

1989:

76. "Steel Magnolias (1989)"

Starring: Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts, Tom Skerritt, Dylan McDermott, Kevin J. O'Connor, and Sam Shepard

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.

77. "Honey I Shrunk The Kids (1989)"

Starring: Rick Moranis

The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.

78. "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)"

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, and George Carlin

Two seemingly dumb teens struggle to prepare a historical presentation with the help of a time machine.

79. "When Harry Met Sally (1989)"

Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, and Bruno Kirby

Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.

80. "Pet Sematary (1989)"

Starring: Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby, Brad Greenquist, Michael Lombard, Miko Hughes, and Blaze Berdahl

Behind a young family's home in Maine is a terrible secret that holds the power of life after death. When tragedy strikes, the threat of that power soon becomes undeniable.

I hope you enjoyed these blasts from the past, if there are any 80’s movies I missed that you enjoy, leave it in the comment section.

*ALL DESCRIPTIONS FOR THE MOVIES COME FROM IMBD*