Movies of the 80s
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We love the 1980s. Everything on this page is all about movies of the 1980s. Starting in 1980 and working our way the decade, we are preserving the stories and movies of the greatest decade, the 80s. https://www.youtube.com/@Moviesofthe80s
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Uncommon Valor and the Screenplay That Disappeared
A Hit Arrives — and a Trend Is Born When Uncommon Valor opened in theaters on December 16, 1983, it was immediately embraced as both a commercial hit and a cultural corrective. Gene Hackman was praised for his granite-solid performance, Patrick Swayze emerged as a rising star, and the film joined a growing wave of early-’80s movies determined to reshape how Americans viewed the Vietnam War.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Serve
The Keep (1983): How Michael Mann’s Ambitious Horror Epic Became Hollywood’s Great Orphan
“Success has a thousand fathers… while defeat is an orphan.” — ancient proverb Released in December 1983, The Keep should have been a prestige genre event. Instead, it became one of the most infamous misfires of the decade — a big-budget sci-fi/horror/war hybrid that collapsed under the weight of its ambition.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Horror
The Karen Silkwood Mystery: The True Story Behind Silkwood (1983)
In 1983, director Mike Nichols released Silkwood, a political drama rooted in one of the most disturbing real-life stories of 1970s America. Starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, and Cher, the film dramatizes the final months of Karen Silkwood — a nuclear plant worker whose death remains officially ruled an accident, but widely questioned.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Criminal
Threshold, the Artificial Heart, and the Blurred Line Between Medicine and Science Fiction
When I was researching the very much-forgotten early 1980s medical drama Threshold — starring Donald Sutherland and Jeff Goldblum — I wondered why it’s often tagged as both drama and science fiction. At first glance, Threshold feels like a serious medical story grounded in real-world cardiac science, not a genre-bender. But perhaps history itself has reframed the story.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
The Bold Change That Saved 'Terms of Endearment': Jack Nicholson’s Invented Role
Jack Nicholson wasn’t initially intended to be in Terms of Endearment. Today, that feels impossible. Nicholson drops into the role of Garrett Breedlove — astronaut, ladies’ man, social irritant — so comfortably, so perfectly, that the movie now feels inconceivable without him. His roguish charm, his timing, the way he needles and softens Aurora Greenaway in equal measure: it’s all baked into the film’s identity. Nicholson won an Academy Award for the role for a reason. His performance isn’t just memorable; it’s inseparable from what Terms of Endearment ultimately became.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
Why Clint Eastwood Came Back to Dirty Harry — And Why Hollywood Needed Him To
After The Enforcer, Eastwood Walked Away After playing San Francisco detective Dirty Harry Callahan in three blockbuster films, Clint Eastwood was finished. Not burned out for the moment. Not waiting for the right script. Finished.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Geeks
Scarface 1932 vs. Scarface 1983: Two Gangsters, Two Americas
Two Scarfaces, Two Americas The 1932 Scarface arrives in the middle of the Prohibition era, when newspapers obsessed over Al Capone and the public devoured gangster headlines the way we devour celebrity feuds. Howard Hawks and producer Howard Hughes made a film that felt like overhearing the city’s dirtiest gossip whispered through a dictionary of bullets. It’s blunt, fast, and sharp—almost breathless in the way it barrels through Tony Camonte’s rise and fall.
By Movies of the 80s2 months ago in Criminal
From Krull to Classic: How Peter Yates Saved His 1983 With The Dresser
Few directors had a year quite like Peter Yates in 1983. Within six months, the English filmmaker went from delivering one of the decade’s most expensive box office bombs to receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Director.
By Movies of the 80s3 months ago in Geeks
Fred Williamson’s Big Gamble: The True Story Behind 'The Big Score' (1983)
The Legend of Dirty Harry — And the Man Who Saw an Opportunity In the 1970s, Clint Eastwood turned Dirty Harry into a film icon. The character was so massive that Eastwood eventually grew tired of playing him. Scripts for future Dirty Harry movies were auctioned off so he could move on to other projects.
By Movies of the 80s3 months ago in Geeks
From Fantasy Vows to Real Lives: The Forgotten Newlyweds of 1983's 'Krull' Wedding Contest
A Wedding Day… and a Flop for the Ages Imagine planning your wedding — the dress, the guest list, the forever memory. Now imagine the landmark moment of your life is permanently entwined with a science-fiction bomb that cost tens of millions of dollars and baffled audiences for decades. For twelve couples from across America in 1983, that isn’t imagination.
By Movies of the 80s3 months ago in Geeks
