The Top-100 Movies from the 1980s (That EVERYONE Should Watch!) 

Thanks for watching guys! What are some of your favorite movies from the 1980s?

I'm kinda pissed that you didn't include The Lost Boys if I'm honest. I loved Licence to Drive BUT Lost Boys is ICONIC!!!

War games from 1983 , that one needs a place in the top 100

Airplane, An American Werewolf in London, Platoon, After Hours, Amadeus, Das Boot, Tootsie. So many great movies from that decade.

Back to the Future is a masterpiece. One of the best movies ever made. Easily number one!

This took a lot of time. I walked 10 minutes to the grocery store listening to this, picked up some milk, walked back home, ate some cereal and just finished this. What a blast from the past!

Romancing the Stone!

My list of the best movies of the 1980s, in no particular order: 1.) Baby, It's You 2.) Drugstore Cowboy 3.) Melvin and Howard 4.) Atlantic City 5.) Raging Bull 6.) Reds 7.) Roger & Me 8.) Blade Runner 9.) Full Metal Jacket 10.) Last Exit to Brooklyn 11.) Repo Man 12.) Raiders of the Lost Ark 13.) Empire Strikes Back 14.) River's Edge 15.) Risky Business

RIP Carl Weathers who gets things started in this video.

Cool list. I’d put The Last Dragon on there somewhere. The Neverending Story is pure 80s fantasy along with Legend. And then idk how I didn’t see this in the comments, but Conan the Barbarian should be top 10 easily

I was worried when #2 hadn't shown up yet, but now you're in my top 5. I'm surprised that the NeverEnding Story wasn't included anywhere.

Love love love 80s movies!

1) stand by me 2) the lost boys 3) silver bullet 4) brotherhood of justice 5) trapped in silence 6) the burbs

I can't believe North Shore made this list. I've had flashbacks of it for years, but could never remember the name. Awesome!!!

Couldnt see Lost boys, everyone from the 80s knows that film its a classic

Uncle Buck is hugely underrated

Rocky 3, European Vacation, Legend, Willow, Conan the Barbarian, Lost Boys, Romancing The Stone, Jewel of the Nile, and of course, Neverending Story need to make it on here. Overall the list was good and very, very well put together and great comentary. Thank you!

This is freaking awesome! And you chose my favorite movie as number #1. I actually called into a radio show one time for a back to the future trivia, I wiped the floor with the host, it was great.

Congratulations Anthony on completing your Top 100 epic! It's great to see them all together in this 2 hour 80s marathon! Merry Christmas and Stay Gold, Australia's Retro Man.

I'm shocked that most people don't have Ghostbusters in their top 5 or 10. That movie is a GD masterpiece

Why has this only got 1,9k likes. Deserves a million. Great bit of work here dude. Thanks for the night time chill out viewing ✌️😁

Great list. Reminds me of why the 80's are one of the best decades ever. Miles ahead of the current era in terms of quality. I just don't bother watching lots of newer movies, mostly stick with these classics from the 80's/90's and 2000-2010's. 2020's so far has been pretty lame.

the list is amazing you help me a lot ...to find some tresure of old movies am born 86...you bring so many memories thank you bro

Great and fun list. Lots of movies I have yet to see. Thankyou for the effort you put into making this video. Thankyou!!👍

Great list! And I love how you use the film logos in the bottom left :)

1 Raiders Of The Lost Ark 2 E T 3 Ghostbusters 4 Beetlejuice 5 The Terminator 6 Predator 7 Aliens 8 Top Gun 9 Back To The Future 10 Willow 11 The Witches Of Eastwick 12 Coming To America 13 The Fly 14 Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back 15 Star Wars Episode VI The Return Of Jedi 16 Gremlins

‘Roger Rabbit’ (#45) is still undefeated in the animation in real life feature category, and still holds up as top 20 films to show your kids by age 10 today (for me)

My top 5 favorite 80's movies just based on the nostalgia are: 1. The Wizard 2. Little Monsters 3. UHF 4. Creepshow 2 5. Deadly Friend

Raiders of the Lost Ark, Escape From New York, Empire Strikes Back, Beverly Hills Cop, Terminator, Aliens, Risky Business, Visionquest, Back to the Future, Karate Kid, Breakfast Club, Rocky IV, Johnny Handsome, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Fright Night.

Savannah Smiles -82, Six Pack with Kenny Rodgers -82, Blue Lagoon -80, and Mask with Cher -85

Excellent list of movies, many of which are also my favs but another of mine is Flight of the Navigator, loved that film.

Good list just so many great 80s movies. Missing Next of Kin, Cyborg, Universal Soldier, Dirty Dancing, Foot Loose, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Wizard. Animated movies like Oliver, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Fern Gully, Land Before Time, Secret of Nympth, The Transformers The Movie, Duck Tales The Legend of the Lost Lamp, An American Tale, Fox and the Hound

Love the video watched it all ! You got a like & follow… However! American werewolve in London and Midnight Run 🤔 Awesome video 👍

Great list! I enjoyed watching. 80s by far was the best decade for motion pictures. I really liked the fact you had Temple of Doom above Raiders. I personally always liked that one the best as well. Some movies I would’ve liked to see Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan, Return of The Jedi, Spaceballs, An American Werewolf in London, The Lost Boys, The Last Temptation of Christ. And was Platoon on there? I can’t remember…like I said SO many good movies

I just subbed for a couple of reasons, 1. You have a comprehensive list without focusing too much on the very mainstream, and, 2. You're not giving too much away. So many movie recommendation channels tell the whole plot and I'm normally looking for a movie to watch that I haven't seen. Kudos to you and I will be watching more.

Awesome list! There are a few titles in there that I haven’t seen - so I’ll be checking them out when I get the chance. ;) I’d like to have seen Adventures in Babysitting make the cut (it’s a childhood favourite of mine, and the directorial debut of Chris Columbus).

I can't believe you missed out some total classics like..... WELL THE 80s FILM OF ALL... LOST BOYS I mean come on, I can't believe this wasn't on the listing and It should have been in the top ten. Then there is all these classics like... Labyrinth Never Ending Story My Science Project Enemy Mine Wild Cats Running Scared House and House 2 Wanted Dead Or Alive Delta Force Hills Have Eyes The Howling Top Secret Real Genius Porky's Revenge Of The Nerds Better Off Dead Pretty In Pink St Elmo's Fire My Summer Vacation Summer School Trick Or Treat Critters Young Blood Short Circuit Cocoon Howard The Duck ? The Garbage Pal Kids ? Little Shop Of Horrors Conan The Barbarian Best Defence's Wrath Highlander Iron Eagles Heartbreak Ridge Tequila Sunrise Midnight Run Midnight Express Manic Cop ? Cyborg The Abyss Adventures Of Babysitting Red Heat Lemon Popsicle High Times At Richmond High... I could keep going but getting bored typing lol 😂😂😂

Out of order, but great, great list. Full of iconic movies!!

1) Top Gun 2) Back to the Future 3) Revenge of the Nerds 4) The Breakfast Club 5) Terminator

Some movies in the 80s has that magical touch (dont know how to describe) that movies from today never can reach. Like Gremlings, ET, Star Wars, Indianer Jones, Goonies, Big Trouble in little China, Back to the Future, Ghostbuster,... films that will touch our kids today for sure.

Only one police academy movie? One crazy summer was totally 80s! Mannequin. Fright Night, Lost Boys but others already mentioned it. Dead Poets Society, Good morning Vietnam.

Cobra at #11 is a wild take lol

I should say The Wraith always gets me with an awesome soundtrack and awesome chase car. Maniac Cop was sooooo gooood! Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann was so freaking cool, I always wanted to have that helmet. Critters was off the chain! Love those eating hairy fuzz balls. Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone sci fi in that era was so creative and fill with fun. I like your list but I have a bunch that complete mine! I was born in 1978, grew up watching great tv series, movies and music.

Back to the future, The last Emperor, Dune (1984), Highlander, The Neverending Story

Only halfway through, but loving the list so far. Thank you for taking the time to put this out there.

I thank God every day that I'm a Gen X that grew up in the 80s (and I don't even believe in God). It was a decade or so of an absolute explosion of creativity. Music had so many genres, Rock, Pop Rock, Hard Rock, Synthwave, Punk, New Romantics, Ballads, Blues, Dance, you name it. Almost every movie that came out was gold, and there were a lot of them. You'd go to the movies without even checking what was on, you knew there'd be something worth watching. TV wasn't that great tbh, endless reruns of the Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island etc. The 90s/2000s were the golden age of tv for me.

Back to the future has to be the greatest movie ever made

Great Job!!! This helped me create a list to watch with my kids. I do think that "the lost boys" is missing form the list. But still a great job. Kuddos to you!!

No.82, North Shore. I've never heard of that movie despite growing up in the 70s and 80s. However, I know surfing, and I spotted *LAIRD HAMILTON* there. Arguably the greatest big wave surfer that's ever lived. Seen at 22.40 and 22.53

Great list but I would have added these '80s gems! Willow, Naked gun, Little monsters, Critters, The wizard, The last Starfighter, Rad , The Fly , The never ending story, Dune, adventures in babysitting, tremors, House, Explorers, UHF, The Jerk, Labyrinth, The dark Crystal, The blob (1988), Pet cemetery, In the mouth of madness, Leviathan, IT, Romancing the Stone/Jewel of the Nile, Total recall, Dead Calm, Spaceballs, The Abyss, and My science project. Yes a few of those are from 1990 but most are '80s. That's all I can think of at the moment😅

No mention of She's Out of Control, The Explorers, Ladyhawke, The Dark Crystal, Loverboy, Maximum Overdrive, The Beastmaster, Red Sonja, Beyond Thunderdome, Greystoke, Cloak & Dagger, Flight of the Navigator, Total Recall, Fright Night, The Gate, Leviathan, The Abyss, Krull, the list goes on.

Great 80s movie list!! Love the 1980's movies 😊😊🤩🤩👍👍😍😍💯💯💯! The Blues Brothers should be in the top 100 movies in the 80s list!!

Thank you for the list, man. Found some gems. Your number 1 is well placed. Cheers.

It's absolutely subjective but War Games, Electric Dreams, After Hours and Night Shift would definitely be on my list. Not to mention. Paris, Texas, Wings Of Desire, Who's Singin' Over There, Cinema Paradiso and some more European and Yugoslavian movies... Never the less, I'm enjoying watching your countdown and remembering the lines in front of an old cinema...

Only 5 mins in and I found some good ones..... gr8 job, informative and stright to the point. 👍🏽

I love this list. Rest in power to Carl Weathers. There Definitely should have been a sequel to Action Jackson

What a great list. It reminds of the manner of 80's movies. So pleasant compared to today.

80s was just a great decade! Graduated High School in 81, went into the Army!!!!! Love it from there!

So much action in 80s!! Indiana Jones, Predator, Aliens, Rambo,Terminator, Star Wars,Mad Max, all with few CGI

My top 10 would be: 1. Back to the Future 1 and 2 (yes I cheat) 2. Rocky 3 and 4 (yes I cheat) 3. The Karate Kid 1 and 2 (yes I cheat) 4. Die Hard 5. Predator 6. The Goonies 7. Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi (yes I cheat) 8. Indiana Jones trilogy (yes I cheat) 9. The Princess Bride 10. Coming to America Honorable mention to Beverly Hills Cop, Scarface, Rain Man, Christmas Vacation, The Terminator, Ghostbusters, and Major League. Movies that weren't in your top 100 that would have made my list Rain Man, Splash, The Neverending Story, The Last Dragon, Flight of the Navigator, Labyrinth, The Lost Boys, Romancing the Stone, Enemy Mine, La Bamba, Adventures in Babysitting, Legend, Conan the Barabarian and Conan the Destroyer, Willow, Spaceballs, Revenge of the Nerds, Better Off Dead, Little Shop of Horrors, and A Christmas Story.

Your #94 is my #1. Monster Squad for the win!

Can't abide by the order of your picks (pretty off the wall compared to conventional lists) but gotta give you props for exposing some very obscure titles. The 80s are my favorite all-time decade, and there are a handful of titles on your list I've never seen and intend to check out. Gracias.

I stopped watching at 92 - ‘Say Anything’. That film is in the top 20 easily. I’ve never seen a better written, better acted and more honest story about two people in their first real relationship.

Sixteen Candles somewhere for me...nice list overall.

Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Little China: my favorite.

I'm just laughing at Over The Top being higher on this list than Crocodile Dundee. But we all have our own list, which makes movies all the more fun.

Great list (I love that you put F/X on here). Now, let's get weird. Add...An American Werewolf in London, Princess Bride, One Crazy Summer, Labrynth, Pee Wee, Runaway (Tom Sellick), Lost Boys, Videodrome, Serpent and the Rainbow, Flatliners, Heathers, Eraserhead, UHF, Back to School, Do the Right Thing, Naked Lunch, Vamp, Near Dark, Hell Comes to Frogtown, Toxic Avenger, Purple Rain, The Fly, Dreamscape, The Last Dragon, Hollywood Shuffle, I'm Gonna Get U Sucka, Space Balls, Less Than Zero, and Buckaroo Banzai.

When Policy Academy is #99, you know the 80s was an amazing decade for movies!

The 80s' had some great movies for sure, I'm glad I was a teen and saw a lot of these and the ones mentioned in the comments. Yes, I have a lot of them sitting on my movie shelf....in DVD/Blue Ray; it'll take too much room for VHS😃

My Top 5 would be: Ghostbusters, Die Hard, Terminator, Aliens, Back to the future...in a random order, too hard, cause I love them all

the 1980s. Just graduated from high school. Started off at a community college part time while working. Had time to collect comics and see GREAT MOVIES with friends. Man, the memories we had, espeically on 1981 Summer break. AND WE SUBSCRIBED TO THE GREAT MAG, called "Starlog" , which is now defunct.

Yay! I guessed your #1 movie way ahead of time. Great series! I watched it (well, listened to it) while driving from Gunma to Nagoya to pick up a desk from Ikea. Because they only had the desk I wanted in frigging Nagoya. Thanks for the entertainment!

GREAT GREAT JOB, MAN! 👍 Thanks a lot for inspiration and time travel 👍

Great list, mine would look difrent, but that's greate because everyone have diffrent movie taste, and i love to see diffrent point o view :)

love that you ranked the thing one place higher than ET. The thing and ET were released around the same time. Et with a friendly alien, destroyed the reception that the thing should have received with a bad alien but also an unexplainable alien. Plus Et also almost destroyed the gaming market.

VERY entertaining video, wow!

Pretty good list. I was trying to guess them from your description alone without looking at the poster corner. Only 9 I have not seen.

Midnight Run 🔥 Lost Boys 🧛‍♂️ Stakeout 🔫

This man put Young Guns ahead of Raiders of the Lost Ark. MADNESS!

I'm sure these lists can't be easy to do, but how could you leave off Revenge Of The Nerds, funniest movie of the decade.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

100 movies and you don't have(SMOKIE AND THE BANDIT)( THE LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN )( SIXTEEN CANDLES)( NEIGHBORS) (MAXIMUM OVER)(BAD NEWS BEARS) (all FRIDAY 13TH MOVIES) (REVENGE OF THE NERDS) (ROMANCE OF THE STONES) (CHEECH &CHONG)(CANNONBALL RUN 2) ... That's just a few come to mind and that would be in the top 50s

Excellent list. I'd have swapped some out for following: 1) The Lost Boys 2) The Outsiders 3) Beverly Hills Cop 2 4) Can't Buy Me Love 5) The Blues Brothers 6) Silverado 7) St Elmo's Fire 8) Platoon 9) Heaven Help Us 10) Red Heat

All the John Hughes movies should be in the top 20

The Hitcher, The Unnamable, Night of the Demons, and Arena were pretty good 80's flicks👍🏼

Love the list and I must have watched 95% of these movies but, I feel that the naked gun should have been in there absolutely

Can't believe Back to the Future Part II, Conan the Barbarian and Rocky III aren't on this list!

Best Of The Best is an under rated 80s movie.

Short circuit, the wraith, Howard, the duck, the adventures of Baron Munchhausen, etc

My top 10 in no particular order... 1. They Live - 1988 2. Predator - 1987 3. Blade Runner - 1982 4. Escape from New York - 1981 5. Aliens - 1986 6. The Breakfast Club - 1985 7. Streets of Fire - 1984 8. Rumble Fish - 1983 9. Robocop - 1987 10. The Outsiders - 1983

count how many actors in "action jackson" were also in "die hard", "predator", "commando", & many other joel silver productions.

Man, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a film that I've seen about 15 times and each time I re-watch it, I STILL get belly laughs!! Easily one of the greatest, most consecutive-laugh-filled movie I've ever seen.

62/100, still a lot to discover! That said, I do miss quite a number of movies I would place well above many of those. In no particular order: Amadeus Das Boot My Neighbor Totoro Spaceballs The Blues Brothers The Fly Airplane! Evil Dead II Come and See Grave of the Fireflies A Fish Called Wanda Akira Fast Times at Ridgemont High Highlander The Naked Gun Koyaanisqatsi Labyrinth The Killer This is Spinal Tap Tron War Games Midnight Run 48 Hrs. License to Kill Brazil Do the Right Thing Short Circuit

I'm convinced you just put these in the order that you thought of them. I know all movies are subjective but some of your picks are just wild. Raiders at 41. Empire at 31. Then you got cobra just outside your top 10 movies of the decade. Rambo part 2 at 5, man. It is your list tho.

Great list... I would trade out a few for The Never Ending Story, Cloak and Dagger, The Lost Boys, Romancing The Stone, A Name Of The Rose and Revenge Of The Nerds.... Great list and very entertaining video

Loads of great films from the 80s lovedcthem all ❤

I don't think you're that old to remember some of these movies I'm glad you take an interest

It never fails to offend me that Top Gun steals all the limelight from its far more entertaining predecessor, Iron Eagle. I love that Over the Top is on here. Awesome film, even better soundtrack. I would also argue that D.A.R.Y.L. deserves a spot here, but I might be the only one.

The rankings aren't good at all, but it's still a great list. I have to remind myself, this is his list, his rankings!

A pretty comprehensive list and was a nice video to watch. Brought back lot's of memories. Still, there's also a lot of multiple entries from certain series of movies, leaving no room for others like: Akira Batteries Not Included Do The Right Thing Hellraiser Labyrinth Neverending Story The Secret of NIMH Turner & Hooch Just to name a few that came to mind.