FabSwingers.com forum: 80s movies

By *ittleMissCali OP Woman
over a year ago

all loved up

What are your top 80s movies...

This for me is one of those things that I can say ohhhh its this, this and that... then someone else mentions a film and I am all " Ohhhhh that's a great film"

To be fair I really think the majority of my watch again movies come from about 82 to 92 if I am honest...

So hit me with your best 80s Movies...

This came about after watching Ghostbusters this morning and realising it was 1984 !!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Big Trouble In Little China

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Die Hard

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By *hrisUB3Man
over a year ago

Heathrow

First Blood

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Some Kind Of Wonderful, Weird Science, An American Werewolf In London, Escape From New York, The Thing......so, so many.

Probably most of my favourite films are from the eighties (and my favourite music to)

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By *he Mac LassWoman
over a year ago

Hefty Hideaway

Heathers

Stand By Me

Tootsie

The 80s birthed so many great movies I could carry on naming them for ages!

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

Good start ....

Top Gun, loved his GPZ750R and Kelly McGillis

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lady in Red

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By *anielpiercedMan
over a year ago

by the seaside

Ferris Beullers Day Off, Blade Runner, Mad Max, Weird Science, Breakfast Club.

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

Oooh Full Metal Jacket, Beetlejuice, Stand By Me, Airplane, The Shining..... I could go on, too many great 80s films.

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By *ittleMissCali OP Woman
over a year ago

all loved up

"Ferris Beullers Day Off, Blade Runner, Mad Max, Weird Science, Breakfast Club."
Love all of them.. Weird Science it great..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cocktail

Rain Man

Top Gun

Dirty Dancing

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By *cgkcCouple
over a year ago

Hitchin

Withnail and I

P xxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Far too many! The thing, the shining, lethal weapon series, gremlins... and top gun to name a few

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By *s_macWoman
over a year ago

Traffic land

The Goonies, ET

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By *ittleMissCali OP Woman
over a year ago

all loved up

I am glad its not me that thinks that the 80s just produced SO MANY great movies..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

D.A.R.R.Y.L

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oooh Full Metal Jacket, Beetlejuice, Stand By Me, Airplane, The Shining..... I could go on, too many great 80s films. "

Surely you can't be serious

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By *lippery-when-wet-180Woman
over a year ago

South Dub

Weird Science

The Goonies

Dirty Dancing

Big

Bugs Malone

All of Back to the Future

All of Karate Kid

Ghostbusters

Lost Boys

I’m sure there’s more

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

"Oooh Full Metal Jacket, Beetlejuice, Stand By Me, Airplane, The Shining..... I could go on, too many great 80s films.

Surely you can't be serious

I am, and don't call me Shirley

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stir Crazy

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By *lippery-when-wet-180Woman
over a year ago

South Dub

"Weird Science

The Goonies

Dirty Dancing

Big

Bugs Malone

All of Back to the Future

All of Karate Kid

Ghostbusters

Lost Boys

I’m sure there’s more

Splash

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

The Blues Brothers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Iron Eagle

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By *HaRiFMan
over a year ago

Beyond the shadows.

Porky's followed by Lost boys, Weird Science and the brat pack movies

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Weird Science

The Goonies

Dirty Dancing

Big

Bugs Malone

All of Back to the Future

All of Karate Kid

Ghostbusters

Lost Boys

I’m sure there’s more

Splash "

Running scared

See no evil hear no evil

Trading places

Iron eagle

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Road House.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Goonies and Neverending Story.

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

Labyrinth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Goonies and Neverending Story."

Watched the Goonies the other day. Still as great as it was then.

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By *hortfuseWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

Short circuit

Dead poets society

Lady hawke

About last night

Breakfast club

Pretty in pink

st Elmo's fire

Lost boys

Footloose

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Platoon

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I got a friend to watch The Goonies for the first time yesterday. I never realised how much stuff is in it that you would never get in a kids movie these days.

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By *octor-PepperMan
over a year ago

preston

Got to be Road House

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

"Got to be Road House"

Oh yes! Love that film!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Another one for The Goonies and all the Back to the Futures (especially 1 and 3)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So many

If I write some , I’d come back with 29 more

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Got to be Road House"

I've had to put it on, what a film

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

Lost boys, flatliners, cocktail, there's so many of them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

'Traffic crossing Leeds bridge.' 80's. (1888- actually exits)

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

The Lost Boys is good. Watched it last night.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Heathers

Stand By Me

Tootsie

The 80s birthed so many great movies I could carry on naming them for ages! "

Love Heathers Christian slater was my first crush(the wife BTW) xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Blade Runner.. one of best sci fi ever ever ever

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Top Secret

Stand by Me

National Lampoons Vacation

Trading Places

Fletch

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

Uncle Buck

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By *ranberriesWoman
over a year ago

London

Dirty Dancing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Running Scared was filmed ahead of Lethel Weapon but released after, still the first "80's Buddy Cop" movies.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Betty Blue

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Heathers

Stand By Me

Tootsie

The 80s birthed so many great movies I could carry on naming them for ages! "

Hardly anyone I know has seen Heathers!

My films before 1992 would be Mannequin, Splash, Blue Lagoon, The Hand that Rocks the cradle, terminator 1&2, Mermaids, Dirty Dancing, Top Gun

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By *ranberriesWoman
over a year ago

London

Beetle Juice,

Scar Face,

Big,

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By *arlomaleMan
over a year ago

darlington

Terminator

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By *tace 309TV/TS
over a year ago

durham

Raiders of the lost ark

Robocop

The thing

Full metal jacket

Creepshow

Raging bull

Gremlins

The living daylights

The verdict

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The 80s really was a decade of amazing cinema!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dirty dancing

Mannequin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Batman

The goonies

Big trouble in little China

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

* Batteries Not Included

* Short Circuit

* Flight of the Navigator

* Dark Crystal

* Labyrinth

* Goonies

* Gremlins

* Raiders of the Lost Ark

* Beverley Hills Cop

* Never-ending Story

* Beatle Juice

The list goes on... I just love 80s movies the best.

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By *eryBigGirlWoman
over a year ago

East Yorkshire

"Weird Science

The Goonies

Dirty Dancing

Big

Bugs Malone

All of Back to the Future

All of Karate Kid

Ghostbusters

Lost Boys

I’m sure there’s more

Bugsy Malone wasn’t an 80’s film it’s older tha people realise as it was release in 1976!!

My favourites got to be Pretty in Pink

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anything by John Hughes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Angel Heart

The Untouchables

Mississippi Burning

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By *ueen of sleezeWoman
over a year ago

Yorkshire

"Ferris Beullers Day Off, Blade Runner, Mad Max, Weird Science, Breakfast Club."
excellent choice xxx

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By *ueen of sleezeWoman
over a year ago

Yorkshire

"Anything by John Hughes "

Absolutely xxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Some great mentions, so just cos I don't it's been said yet I think 'Glory' should get a mention. I thought Denzel Washington was ace in that film...Matthew Broderick, not so much,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lost boys is probably up there when I was a younging. They have that twilight shite now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some great mentions, so just cos I don't it's been said yet I think 'Glory' should get a mention. I thought Denzel Washington was ace in that film...Matthew Broderick, not so much,

Glory is an awesome film and unlike alot of American films did do the true story some justice

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By *r imp miss minxCouple
over a year ago

Colchester

Dance Craze 1981. Still dancing!!!

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Rambo

Predator

Dead pool

Sudden impact

Breakfast club

Wired Science.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

I forgot these two classics

Revenge of the Nerds

Top Secret

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Blade Runner.. one of best sci fi ever ever ever"

Yes, Indeed it was light years ahead of silly "westerns in space shoot-em-ups".

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There are no bad 80s movies the best time for cinema

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"There are no bad 80s movies the best time for cinema "

What about Leonard Part 6?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"There are no bad 80s movies the best time for cinema

What about Leonard Part 6?

Well maybe not that one in hindsight

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stand by me. Goonies. Back to the future. Gremlins. Flight of the navigator. Ghost busters. Rocky 3. Monster Squad. Lost boys.

These are off the bat, there’s too many to mention, I could go on.

80s90s films are so iconic I think film making hit a peak. The bar has been raised many times since, but there were some great directors out and the films were just fantastic.

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By *ou only live onceMan
over a year ago

London

Stand By Me (rightly getting a lot of love on this thread)

The Lost Boys; Karate Kid; When Harry Met Sally; The Breakfast Club...

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By *omSub_bullcplCouple
over a year ago

Biddeford

The Last Starfighter. Love that movie.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh a bad bad decade for films! Introduction of high concept films that are basically music videos (top gun).

Not many great films.....

But one particularly was great to start the 80s....nothing else comes anywhere near....Raging Bull!! In fact one of the best of all time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Last Starfighter. Love that movie.

I'm glad I read the comments, that film is brill!

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By *wingin CatMan
over a year ago

London

Airplane

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By *wingin CatMan
over a year ago

London

"Dance Craze 1981. Still dancing!!!

Agreed. With the current interest in 2-Tone music, it's surprising it hasn't been shown again for ages.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rumblefish

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh a bad bad decade for films! Introduction of high concept films that are basically music videos (top gun).

Not many great films.....

But one particularly was great to start the 80s....nothing else comes anywhere near....Raging Bull!! In fact one of the best of all time "

Bad decade...Rain Man is a classic.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Airplane"

Thought that was late 70s.....but if 80s, the original and best spoof and one of the best comedies...life of Brian was when??

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By *ye of the beholder117Man
over a year ago

Westcliff

commando

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

" commando "

Oh yea Commando is great. Full Metal Jacket is better though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Labyrinth"

Perfect choice

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

" commando

Oh yea Commando is great. Full Metal Jacket is better though. "

It is a funny film, the rocket launcher that fires when it empty, magically reloading M60 machine guns.

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By *s_JWoman
over a year ago

Derby

The Lost Boys, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Beullers day off, and loads more but have mind block lol!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oh a bad bad decade for films! Introduction of high concept films that are basically music videos (top gun).

Not many great films.....

But one particularly was great to start the 80s....nothing else comes anywhere near....Raging Bull!! In fact one of the best of all time

Bad decade...Rain Man is a classic. "

Always a few gems even in the worst decades. Tom cruise showed he could actually act in rain man to be fair

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Watching film right now from 1990....looks dated...Harrison Ford, presumed innocent

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

" commando "

One of Arnie’s very best and crammed with his trade mark one liners; ‘I let him go’ - having just dropped Sully off the cliff and..... ‘I eat Green Berets for breakfast.’

And who can forget Bennett, the main villain?

He was awesome! ‘Johnnnnn - I’m not going to shoot you between the eyes.....I’m going to shoot you between the balls!’

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rocky and back to the future, goonies plus stand by me and scarface to name a few! The 80s and 90s was the best!

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By *viatrixWoman
over a year ago

Redhill

"Weird Science

The Goonies

Dirty Dancing

Big

Bugs Malone

All of Back to the Future

All of Karate Kid

Ghostbusters

Lost Boys

I’m sure there’s more

Love your list- just what I’d choose...

I’d only add Amadeus to it and it’s perfect!

Oh, and Short Circuit 1&2

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Midnight Run

The Untouchables

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By *ittleMissCali OP Woman
over a year ago

all loved up

So many on here I had forgotten about

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So many on here I had forgotten about

All before my time cali

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Midnight Run

The Untouchables "

Midnight Run!! Oh yes!! Great shout

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Two from opposite ends of the spectrum

A Nightmare On Elm Street.

Jean De Florette.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lost Boys

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By *itty9899Man
over a year ago

Craggy Island

Raiders of the lost ark

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By *illy_WxmMan
over a year ago

wrexham

Back to the future

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By *ittleMissCali OP Woman
over a year ago

all loved up

"So many on here I had forgotten about

All before my time cali

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you will have seen most of them... my kids have lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anything with Bruce Lee/ van damn THANKYOU

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

Like so many before. Great decade for rewatchable movies...

About last night

Breakfast club

Blade Runner

Ferris Beullers day off

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Educating Rita

Blame it on Rio

Woman in Red

Midnight Run - underrated genius

Running Scared. - love this

Dead Poets Society - and this

Bad Influence

Stand by me

And just under the wire for 1991 that nobody mentioned yet..

City Slickers "hellooooooo"

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By *ercuryMan
over a year ago

Grantham

Took the girlfriend's best friend to see Officer and a Gentleman.

Happy memories of that night!

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By *atandjayCouple
over a year ago

Brighton

"The Blues Brothers

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100%

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Porkys

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport

Raiders of the lost ark

Terminator

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

Stripes

Hear no evil see no evil

Poltergeist

Friday 13th

Halloween

Private Benjamin

Dune

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

..the fog...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Muriel's Wedding.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

The fog good choice

Knighmare on elm street

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rambo

rocky

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By *den-Valley-coupleCouple
over a year ago

Cumbria

"Big Trouble In Little China"

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By *den-Valley-coupleCouple
over a year ago

Cumbria

"Raiders of the lost ark

Terminator"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Porkys "

haha what a film

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By *ouis CyphreMan
over a year ago

The Midlands

Angel Heart

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By *ngelina4uWoman
over a year ago

Camberley/Middleton

Back to the future it is ageless.

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By *wingin CatMan
over a year ago

London

"Airplane

Thought that was late 70s.....but if 80s, the original and best spoof and one of the best comedies...life of Brian was when?? "

Life of Brian (excellent film, by the way!) was released in the UK in November 1979, and Airplane was released in July 1980.

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By *rtraymondo76Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham

"Airplane

Thought that was late 70s.....but if 80s, the original and best spoof and one of the best comedies...life of Brian was when??

Life of Brian (excellent film, by the way!) was released in the UK in November 1979, and Airplane was released in July 1980."

Yeah. Airplane. If I was an automatic pilot I'd have a smile on my face as well.

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