| 1. | | The Marathon Family (1982) |
| 2. | | Who's Singin' Over There? (1980) |
| 3. | | Balkan Spy (1984) |
| 4. |  | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
While Luke takes advanced Jedi training from Yoda, his friends are relentlessly pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke. tt0080684
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| 5. | | The Broken Landlord (1985) |
| 6. |  | Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis. tt0082971+
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| 7. |  | Cinema Paradiso (1988)
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist. tt0095765
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| 8. |  | Back to the Future (1985)
In 1985, Doc Brown invents time travel; in 1955, Marty McFly accidentally prevents his parents from meeting, putting his own existence at stake. tt0088763
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| 9. |  | The Shining (1980)
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. tt0081505
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| 10. |  | Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
A tragic film covering a young boy and his little sister's struggle to survive in Japan during World War II. tt0095327+
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| 11. |  | Das Boot (1981)
The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror. tt0082096
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| 12. |  | Aliens (1986)
The planet from Alien (1979) has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, enough? tt0090605+
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| 13. |  | Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to Brooklyn over 30 years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life. tt0087843
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| 14. |  | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
After rescuing Han Solo from the palace of Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels attempt to destroy the Second Death Star, while Luke Skywalker tries to bring his father back to the Light Side of the Force. tt0086190
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| 15. |  | Amadeus (1984)
The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback mode by Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum. tt0086879+
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| 16. |  | Full Metal Jacket (1987)
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal basic training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 Hue, Vietnam. tt0093058
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| 17. | | Cat City (1986) |
| 18. |  | Raging Bull (1980)
An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it. tt0081398+
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| 19. |  | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
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. tt0097576
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| 20. |  | Ran (1985)
An elderly lord abdicates to his three sons, and the two corrupt ones turn against him. tt0089881+
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| 21. |  | Scarface (1983)
In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug empire while succumbing to greed. (Cartel not Mafia) tt0086250+
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| 22. |  | Lion of the Desert (1981)
In the Fascist Italy Pre-World War II of Benito Mussolini, the cruel General Rodolfo Graziani is directly assigned by Il Dulce to fight in the colonial war in Libya to vanquish the Arab ...tt0081059
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| 23. |  | My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wonderous forest spirits who live nearby. tt0096283+
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| 24. |  | Die Hard (1988)
New York cop John McClane gives terrorists a dose of their own medicine as they hold hostages in an LA office building. tt0095016+
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| 25. | | A Short Film About Love (1988) |
| 26. | | Kin-dza-dza! (1986) |
| 27. | | Time of the Gypsies (1988) |
| 28. |  | The Elephant Man (1980)
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity. tt0080678
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| 29. |  | Blade Runner (1982)
Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to earth seeking their maker. tt0083658+
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| 30. |  | Fanny and Alexander (1982)
The title characters are children in the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century... tt0083922
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| 31. |  | Come and See (1985)
During WWII, a Belorussian boy is thrust into the atrocities of war, fighting with a hopelessly unequipped Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces...tt0091251
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| 32. | | Yol (1982) |
| 33. |  | The Princess Bride (1987)
A classic fairy tale, with swordplay, giants, an evil prince, a beautiful princess, and yes, some kissing (as read by a kindly grandfather). tt0093779
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| 34. |  | The Thing (1982)
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills. tt0084787
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| 35. |  | Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Warrior/pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.tt0087544+
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| 36. |  | Platoon (1986)
A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. tt0091763
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| 37. | | Nostalghia (1983) |
| 38. |  | Stand by Me (1986)
After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find a body of a missing boy tt0092005
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| 39. |  | Jean de Florette (1986)
A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.tt0091288
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| 40. |  | Gandhi (1982)
Biography of Mahatma Gandhi , the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British through his philosophy of non-violent protest. tt0083987
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| 41. |  | A Christmas Story (1983)
Ralphie has to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect gift for the 1940's. tt0085334+
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| 42. |  | Castle in the Sky (1986)
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle. tt0092067+
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| 43. | | A Short Film About Killing (1988) |
| 44. | | The Sacrifice (1986) |
| 45. |  | Fitzcarraldo (1982)
The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.tt0083946
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| 46. |  | Paris, Texas (1984)
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his... tt0087884
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| 47. |  | Manon of the Spring (1986)
A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her her father's land caused his death years earlier.tt0091480
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| 48. |  | Wings of Desire (1987)
An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.tt0093191+
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| 49. |  | Akira (1988)
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psionic psychopath that only two kids and a group of psionics can stop. tt0094625+
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| 50. |  | The Terminator (1984)
A human-looking, apparently unstoppable cyborg is sent from the future to kill Sarah Connor; Kyle Reese is sent to stop it. tt0088247+
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