100 Top 10 Movies of the 1980s - Statistics

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Clue Movie % Correct
The rebels have been brutally overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base The Empire Strikes Back
90%
A young man is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time traveling DeLorean Back to the Future
89%
Elliot befriends an adorable alien that just wants to phone home E.T.
89%
3 unemployed parapsychology professors set up shop as a ghost removal service Ghostbusters
89%
Students at the Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class Top Gun
86%
Mr Miyagi agrees to teach a bullied boy martial arts The Karate Kid
85%
Ferris is determined to have a good time, school day or not. Leisure rules! Ferris Bueller's Day Off
83%
Balboa takes on Mr. T Rocky 3
83%
Indy is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis Raiders of the Lost Ark
82%
Adorable creatures become malevolent destructors don't get 'em wet and never, EVER feed them after midnight! Gremlins
81%
Luke finally becomes a full fledged Jedi, but the dark side is stronger than ever Return of the Jedi
81%
Clark agrees to sacrifice his powers to marry Lois Superman 2
81%
Detroit cop chases a killer to the very different environment of California Beverly Hills Cop
80%
A reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City Crocodile Dundee
80%
A good girl falls for her bad boy dance instructor Dirty Dancing
80%
Marty has to return to 1955 to fix events - without running into himself! Back to the Future Part II
79%
The Dark Knight begins his war on crime with his first major enemy, the Joker Batman
79%
Balboa takes on the Russians Rocky 4
79%
A toon hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
78%
A teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned Footloose
76%
A boy wishes to be an adult at a magic wish machine Big
75%
John McClane, officer of the NYPD, tries to save wife Holly Gennaro and several others Die Hard
75%
Ripley returns to face not just one Alien, but hordes of them Aliens
74%
An unorthodox and irreverent DJ begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the US Armed Services Radio station in Vietnam Good Morning, Vietnam
74%
The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
74%
Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised. The Blues Brothers
74%
Daniel accompanies Mr Miiyagi to Okinawa who is off to see his dying father and confront his old rival, while Daniel inadvertently makes an enemy of his own The Karate Kid Part II
74%
Detroit cop Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to solve another crime Beverly Hills Cop II
73%
The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business Ghostbusters 2
73%
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guys' girlfriends Three men and a baby
73%
An African prince goes to Queens, NY to find a wife whom he can respect for her intelligence Coming to America
72%
Arriving in India, Indy is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
72%
A group of misfits go on a treasure hunt to save their homes The Goonies
71%
A family is terrorized in their new home by unfriendly spirits Poltergeist
69%
An out of work actor dresses up as a woman to get a role on a soap and falls in love Tootsie
69%
A welder and exotic dancer, wants to become a ballet dancer Flashdance
68%
A veteran cop, Murtaugh, is partnered with a young suicidal cop, Riggs. Both having one thing in common; hating working in pairs. Now they must learn to work with one another to stop a gang of drug smugglers Lethal Weapon
68%
A physically perfect but innocent man goes in search of his long-lost twin brother, who is a short small-time crook Twins
68%
A crew taken ill. Surely the only person capable of landing is an ex pilot afraid to fly Airplane
67%
A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain with an unscrupulous sea-witch in order to meet a human prince on land The Little Mermaid
67%
A young orphan girl's adventures in finding a family that will take her Annie
66%
A group of misfits face off against police instructors Police Academy
66%
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country Rain Man
66%
Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under Crocodile Dundee II
65%
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years Driving Miss Daisy
65%
A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man Platoon
64%
A man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy Splash
64%
A talented New York bartender takes a job at a bar in Jamaica and falls in love Cocktail
61%
When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana Jones must follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
61%
An investor and a con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet Trading Places
61%
Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn, old and in love On Golden Pond
60%
Two British runners take a physical and spiritual journey on the path to the 1924 Olympics Chariots of Fire
59%
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities Lethal Weapon 2
58%
3 employees of a sexist bigot find a way to turn the tables on him 9 to 5
57%
Genetically engineered series villain Khan returns to antagonize the crew of the Enterprise Star Trek 2
57%
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game playing WarGames
57%
A sheltered young high society woman joins the US army on a whim Private Benjamin
56%
Capt Kirk steals the Enterprise to return to the Genesis planet Star Trek 3
56%
After a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver. Meanwhile the point-of-view of the newborn boy is narrated through voice over Look Who's Talking
55%
Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team The Untouchables
54%
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him Fatal Attraction
53%
A romance writer teams with a low life adventurer to rescue her kidnapped sister Romancing the Stone
53%
Kirk and Spock time travel to Earth circa 1986 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
52%
Old folks discover the fountain of youth in a swimming pool filled with alien pods Cocoon
50%
A cop must adjust to Amish life to protect a boy who was the sole witness to a murder Witness
49%
The Bandit goes on another cross country run, transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas Smokey and the Bandit 2
48%
Incompetent cop Frank Drebin has to foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II The Naked Gun
48%
Stressed about college and trashing his father's Porsche, Joel does the logical thing... turns his house into a brothel! Risky Business
45%
2 friends dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun Stripes
45%
Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives The Witches of Eastwick
44%
After he's laid off, a husband switches roles with his wife Mr Mom
43%
A plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free spirited big game hunter Out of Africa
40%
Town Sheriff fights to keep a historical whorehouse open when a TV preacher targets it The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
40%
A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death leads 007 to uncover an international jewel smuggling operation Octopussy
39%
Saturday Night Fever's Tony returns in this sequel directed by Sylvester Stallone Staying Alive
39%
The life and trials of a young African American woman The Color Purple
39%
A cop reluctantly teams up with a criminal paroled to him, in order to track down a killer 48 Hours
38%
A happy drunk with no ambition. He is also the heir to a vast fortune which will only be his if he marries Susan Arthur
38%
John is released from prison by the government for a top secret covert mission First Blood
38%
Millionaire Rodney Dangerfield returns to college to help his son get through Back to School
36%
A group of Florida high schoolers seek out to help a buddy lose his virginity Porky's
34%
A wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross country car race The Cannonball Run
34%
2 government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War Spies like Us
33%
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers Terms of Endearment
29%
Loretta Castorini, a book keeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she agreed to marry Moonstruck
28%
A young boy joins a group of time travelling, treasure hunting dwarves Time Bandits
28%
Death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the mother, father and the younger son Ordinary People
26%
Jack and Joan tire of their easy life in this sequel to Romancing the Stone The Jewel of the Nile
26%
A talented young man can't get an executive position without rising through the ranks, so he comes up with a shortcut, which also benefits his love life The Secret of My Success
26%
007 is assigned to hunt for a lost encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands For Your Eyes Only
25%
The Buckman family is a midwestern family all dealing with their lives: estranged relatives, raising children, pressures of the job, and learning to be a good parent and spouse Parenthood
23%
A cop has to watch his partner fall for the woman they've been assigned to watch Stakeout
22%
A young man must complete his work at a Navy Flight school to become an aviator An Officer and a Gentleman
19%
Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a western prison Stir Crazy
18%
A detective specializing in missing children tracks down a very special boy The Golden Child
18%
A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did Ruthless People
13%
A rape victim is exacting revenge in a small town outside San Francisco Sudden Impact
11%
A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling The Verdict
11%
A lost and alone kitten joins a gang of dogs engaged in petty larceny in New York Oliver & Company
8%
Hoping to break a case a reporter prints a story about an innocent man, who vows to get even Absence of Malice
5%
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