Best Movies From the 80's

I love the Nightmare on Elm Street series, as well as this cheesy Valley girl comedy Earth Girls Are Easy. I also like the Breakfast Club, Weird Science, and Spaceballs (those were all from the 80s, right?). And didn't the original Terminator come out back then, too? I loved it so much.

I love Say Anything, Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club and Troop Beverly Hills (or is that one 90's?).

My best movies of the 80's are Gandhi, The Last Emperor,Out Of Africa,Sophie's Choice, The Big Chill,Moon struck, Mask,and Cousins. These are the ones that come o mind, I know I have left off many more. The 80's were a good for movies.

Oh yeah love The Outsiders. I also liked, Grease, The Indiana Jones movies, and Stand by Me. Now my kids are watching them and loving them. They watch them more than the new movies out in last 10 years.

Oh my gosh, I can't believe I forgot Ghostbusters and the Back To The Future series. Thanks, lpetges. Also, I can't believe I forgot two or the best trilogies of all time. The end of the Star Wars series came out in the 80s, as well as the Indiana Jones movies. Where would we be without such awesome Harrison Ford movies?

I love everything mentioned in the original post, and pretty much everything mentioned in everyone's comments. I agree completely that the eighties were great in terms of movies. I wish I could say the same for now. I don't like a lot of what's coming out, and I'm not really sure why. They just don't appeal to me like some (like these older ones) do.

I am not going to list more movies since I think most of the good ones have already been mentioned, but I think no matter how good movie sare today, '80's movies are still the best. Like, The Goonies, and Dirty Dancing. Although I have seen these movies over a hundred times each, I still choose to watch them now over the newer movies that I haven't seen.