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60. Big Trouble in Little China
Director – John Carpenter
Cast – Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 78%
Release Date – 1 July 1986
Box Office – $11.1 Million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Comedy
Awards – None
Plot – A Truck driver is caught inbetween a battle between an immortal chinese emperor and a common chinese man.
59. Gandhi
Director – Richard Attenborough
Cast – Ben Kingsley, Martin Sheen
IMDB Rating – 8.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 86%
Release Date – 30 November 1982
Box Office – $127.8 Million
Genre – Biography, History
Awards – Nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won 8 – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography,Best Costume Design, best Film Editing
Plot – A Biographical Film on the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the father of Indian Nation.
58. The Fly
Director – David Cronenberg
Cast – Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis
IMDB Rating – 7.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 92%
Release Date – 15 August 1986
Box Office – $60.6 Million
Genre – Horror, Sci Fi
Awards – Won Academy Award for Best Make up
Plot – A Scientist is experimenting to build a teleporting machine. However, His experiment goes horribly wrong and he become a fly-human mutant.
57. Gremlins
Director – Joe Dante
Cast – Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 84%
Release Date – 8 June 1984
Box Office – $153.1 Million
Genre – Horror, Comedy
Awards – None
Plot – A Young man buys a unique pet who is always hungry. The Man was advised to follow three rules to keep the pet but he broke them and chaos ensues.
56. Dirty Dancing
Director – Emile Ardolino
Cast –
IMDB Rating – 6.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 71%
Release Date – 17 August 1987
Box Office – $214.6 Million
Genre – Music, Romance
Awards – Academy Award for Best Original Song
Plot – A Young woman falls in love with her dance instructor for summer holidays.
55. Beverly Hills Cop
Director – Martin Brest
Cast – Eddie Murphy
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 82%
Release Date – 28 September 1985
Box Office – $316.4 Million
Genre – Action, Comedy
Awards – Nominated for Best Screenplay
Plot – A Cop is assigned a case in Beverely Hills.
54. Who framed Roger Rabbit?
Director – Robert Zemeckis
Cast – Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd
IMDB Rating – 7.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 97%
Release Date – 21 June 1988
Box Office – $329.8 Million
Genre – Comedy, Animation
Awards – Nominated for 6 Oscars and Won 3 – Best Visual Effects, best Film Editing, Best Sound Effects editing. Also the film won Special Achievement Academy Award
Plot – A private detective is hired for a case regarding a toon rabbit murdering his boss.
53. SpaceBalls
Director – Mel Brooks
Cast – John Candy, Mel Brooks
IMDB Rating – 7.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 58%
Release Date – 24 June 1987
Box Office – $38.1 Million
Genre – Comedy
Awards – None
Plot – A Spoof on Star Wars.
52. Caddyshack
Director – Harold Ramis
Cast – Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 74%
Release Date – 25 July 1980
Box Office – $39.8 Million
Genre – Comedy
Awards – None
Plot – A Group of golf enthusiasts join a golf course membership and unwillingly ruins it.
51. Good Morning,Vietnam
Director – Barry Levinson
Cast – Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 90%
Release Date – 15 January 1988
Box Office – $123.9 Million
Genre – Comedy, Biography
Awards – Robin Williams was Nominated for Best Actor
Plot – A DJ runs a radio show in Vietnam during the war.
50. Big
Director – Penny Marshall
Cast – Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 97%
Release Date – 3 June 1988
Box Office – $151.7 Million
Genre – Comedy, Family
Awards – Nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor
Plot – A 13 Year old boy becomes a young man after he wish to get big.
49. The Abyss
Director – James Cameron
Cast – Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 89%
Release Date – 9 August 1989
Box Office – $90 Million
Genre – Adventure, Mystery
Awards – Academy For Best Visual Effects
Plot – A crew faces a deep quatic alien species that is intelligent.
48. The Little Mermaid
Director – Ron Clements, John Musker
Cast –
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 93%
Release Date – 13 November 1989
Box Office – $211.3 Million
Genre – Animation, Comedy, Romance
Awards – 2 Academy Awards for Best Score and Best Song
Plot – A deep Sea mermaid falls in love with a human.
47. A Christmas Story
Director – Bob Clark
Cast – Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 89%
Release Date – 11 December 1987
Box Office – $20.6 Million
Genre – Comedy, Family
Awards – None
Plot – A Boy wishes for a BB gun for Christmas.
46. The Karate Kid
Director – John G Avildsen
Cast – Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki Morita
IMDB Rating – 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 88%
Release Date – 22 June 1984
Box Office – $91 Million
Genre – Sports, Family
Awards – Nominated for best Actor in Supporting Role
Plot – A High School Teenager seeks help from an old man to learn karate.
45. Brazil
Director – Terry Gilliam
Cast – Jonathan Pryce, Robert Deniro, Bob Hoskins
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 98%
Release Date – 18 December 1985
Box Office – $9.9 Million
Genre – Sci Fi
Awards – Nominated for Best Screenplay and Best Art Direction
Plot – A man in futuristic world become enemy of government after he tries to correct a minor error.
44. The Elephant Man
Director – David Lynch
Cast – John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins
IMDB Rating – 8.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 91%
Release Date – 2 October 1980
Box Office – $26 Million
Genre – Biography
Awards – It was nominated ofr 8 Major academy awards but it sadly won none. However, the widespread cult fan base of the film prompted academy awards association to add Oscar for Best Makeup in their future ceremonies.
Plot – A doctor helps a man to discover his true personality even though he is heavily disfigured.
43. RoboCop
Director – Paul Verhoeven
Cast – Peter Weller, Nancy Allen
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 89%
Release Date – 30 September 1988
Box Office – $53.4 Million
Genre – Action, Sci Fi
Awards – Won Academy Award for Best Sound Editing
Plot – In a Dystopian world a cyborg becomes the best cop who eradicates crime from the city.
42. The Blues Brothers
Director – John Landis
Cast – John Belushi, dan Aykoryd
IMDB Rating – 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 83%
Release Date – 16 June 1980
Box Office – $115.2 Million
Genre – Musical, Comedy
Awards – None
Plot – A man who is recently released from prison decide to bring back an old musical band so that he can make legtimate money to save his catholic home.
41. Beetlejuice
Director – Tim Burton
Cast – Alec Baldwin, Genna Davis, Winona Ryder
IMDB Rating – 7.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 84%
Release Date – 29 March 1988
Box Office – $73.7 Million
Genre – Fantasy, Comedy
Awards – Oscar for Best Makeup
Plot – A family brings home an evil spirit to drive awat the good spirit of a couple who claims the home of the family.
