1. The Thing
   Aliens
2. Ghostbusters
   Die Hard

"If there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!"

1. Back to the Future
   Lethal Weapon
2. Weird Science
   Dune

"Back to the Future" was turned down by over 40 major movie networks. When it finally got picked up, many edits were made and one suggestion was changing the title to "Spaceman from Pluto" — thankfully, that one didn't go through.

1. Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back
   The Big Blue
2. Spies Like Us
   Major League

Disney bought the rights to Star Wars franchise back in 2012 along with Lucasfilm for a staggering $4.05 billion dollars.

1. The Outsiders
   Dirty Dancing
2. The Women in Red
   The Blues Brothers

Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised in "The Blues Brothers."

1. The Breakfast Club
   The Outsiders
2. Adventures in Babysitting
   Back to the Future

"The Breakfast Club" is one the most iconic movies of the 1980s. The Brat Pack stars in this famous film about five teens who learn about each other's lives in one afternoon stuck in detention.

1. Conan the Destroyer
   Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi
2. Cinema Paradiso
   The Name of the Rose

"Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi" won numerous awards and was nominated for four Oscars including best effects and art direction.

1. The Goonies
   The Karate Kid
2. The Thing
   Adventures in Babysitting

In order to save their home from foreclosure, a group of misfits set out to find a pirate's ancient valuable treasure in "The Goonies."

1. Coming to America
   Sixteen Candles
2. Once Upon a Time in America
   The Princess Bride

"The Princess Bride" is one the most beloved romantic comedies of the '80s. It has the perfect mix of humor and romance. If you haven't watched this movie 100 times already, you are missing out!

1. Batman
   Beetlejuice
2. The Outsiders
   Dead Poets Society

In "Batman," the Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime, with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker.

1. Labyrinth
   Conan the Barbarian
2. The Neverending Story
   Legend

"The Neverending Story" is a charming tale about a boy who escapes into a magic world within an old book and is a must-see for people of all ages.

1. Heathers
   A Nightmare on Elm Street
2. The Shining
   Predator

In "The Shining," a family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father to violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
   Adventures in Babysitting
2. Dirty Dancing
   E.T.

Another classic '80s comedy starring Elizabeth Shue, which includes the timeless line "Don't &%^# with the babysitter."

1. The Breakfast Club
   Stand by Me
2. Sixteen Candles
   The Neverending Story

A girl's 16th birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible in "Sixteen Candles."

1. Lethal Weapon
   Scarface
2. The Untouchables
   Bloodsport

Oliver Stone wrote "Scarface" while battling an addiction to cocaine.

1. Kickboxer
   Flash Gordon
2. Risky Business
   Full Metal Jacket

In "Full Metal Jacket," a war movie directed by the great Stanley Kubrick, Matthew Modine stars as Private Joker and Vincent D'Onofrio as Private Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence.

1. Rain Man
   Top Gun
2. Clue
   RoboCop

It's no "Citizen Kane," but nothing will beat "Top Gun" for great visuals, a terrific soundtrack, and snappy, quotable lines.

1. They Live
   See No Evil, Hear No Evil
2. The Goonies
   Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris knows how to have fun — whether it be cutting class or hanging out with his friends, he always knows how to make the most of every situation.

1. The Shining
   Aliens
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street
   Psycho

1986's "Aliens" is the sequel to the 1979 blockbuster "Alien," both starring Sigourney Weaver as Officer Ripley.

1. Die Hard
   Batman
2. The Terminator
   Haunted Honeymoon

In "Die Hard," Bruce Willis stars as NYPD officer John McClane, who tries to save his wife and several others who have been taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

1. Footloose
   Spaceballs
2. Airplane!
   National Lampoon's Vacation

The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the Walley World theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated in "National Lampoon's Vacation."

1. Spaceballs
   The Evil Dead
2. Beetlejuice
   E.T.

Tim Burton guides a stellar cast including Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis and Winona Ryder through a comedy where a couple of ghosts have their home taken over by trendy yuppies.

1. The Blue Lagoon
   Road House
2. The Lost Boys
   Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Causing quite a bit of controversy when it was first released in 1980, in "The Blue Lagoon" Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins star as shipwrecked teens learning about love.

1. Platoon
   Empire of the sun
2. Rocky
   Road House

"Road House" is the stuff that B-movie legends are made of. Patrick Swayze's Dalton is perhaps the only Mercedes-driving, philosophy-majoring bouncer at a rowdy Southern bar in history.

1. Come and See
   The 'Burbs
2. The Outsiders
   Trading Places

The rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, heats up when one gang member kills a member of the other in "The Outsiders."

1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
   Krull
2. Little Shop of Horrors
   Moonstruck

E.T. phone home... E.T. has grossed over $400,000,000 since it was released in 1982.

1. Cocktail
   Top Secret!
2. Airplane!
   Christine

Imagine being afraid to fly and then having to help land the plane yourself? You might be yelling a little more than just "Airplane!"

1. Mississippi Burning
   Witness
2. Dead Poets Society
   Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

In "Dead Poets Society," English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective.

1. Glory
   The Terminator
2. Superman III
   Ordinary People

"Come with me if you want to live..."

1. Footloose
   Valley Girl
2. Pretty in Pink
   Dirty Dancing

While spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, in the hit '80s film "Dirty Dancing."

1. Mischief
   Explorers
2. Young Guns
   The Lost Boys

If I was Michael and Sam, I would convince my family to move as far away from California as possible.

1. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
   The Mission
2. Leviathan
   Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Could you imagine living in a world without computers and civilized society? I can't, so I'm glad we are not living in a post-apocalyptic world.

1. Return to Oz
   Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Popeye
   Explorers

"Raiders of the Lost Ark" alone has grossed over $200 million since its release in 1981.

1. Explorers
   Mad Max 2: Road Warrior
2. Re-Animator
   The Living Daylights

Do you think you would have what it takes to protect an entire community in a post-apocalyptic world?

1. The Big Chill
   Rambo
2. Possession
   The Thing

Director John Carpenter created an excessively gory masterpiece of suspenseful storytelling in "The Thing."

1. Red Heat
   Dressed to Kill
2. Dune
   The Return of the Living Dead

He who controls the spice controls the universe!

1. Back to the Future
   The Shining
2. The Outsiders
   The Karate Kid

"Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off. Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off. Don't forget to breathe, very important."

1. Coming to America
   Harlem Nights
2. The Last Emperor
   The Mission

A prince from Africa goes to America to find his future wife since he does not want to marry the brainwashed women his parents picked for him.

1. Heaven's Gate
   Against All Odds
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street
   Body Double

"I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy..."

1. The Neverending Story
   Labyrinth
2. The Last Dragon
   The Color of Money

Would you go left or right? Well, we wouldn't go either in this tale of a 16-year-old girl who is given 13 hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue her baby brother from the Goblin King.

1. The Evil Dead
   The Accused
2. Cyborg
   Near Dark

"We're going to get you. We're going to get you. Not another peep. Time to go to sleep."

1. Urban Cowboy
   Fletch
2. Heartbreak Ridge
   Fast Times at Ridgemont High

With an all-star cast including Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Judge Reinhold and Ray Walston, "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" also debuts future stars including Nicolas Cage, Eric Stoltz and Anthony Edwards.

1. The Money Pit
   Wild Orchid
2. Lethal Weapon
   The Year of Living Dangerously

An iconic buddy/cop movie that spawned three sequels, "Lethal Weapon" is a cut above the standard action movie.

1. Back to the Future
   Weird Science
2. The Meaning of Life
   SpaceCamp

Another classic from director John Hughes, "Weird Science" is basically what happens if Frankenstein were to take place in the 1980s, and legend has it that Hughes wrote this film in only two days.

1. Hoosiers
   Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
   Black Widow

The Indiana Jones franchise is estimated to be worth over a billion dollars.

1. The Goonies
   The Breakfast Club
2. Stand by Me
   Ferris Bueller's Day Off

"Stand by Me" is a classic coming-of-age movie that we really hope you've seen already — and if you haven't ever seen it, we are judging you. The movie, released in 1986, takes place in 1959 and is based on the novella by Stephen King called "The Body."

1. Alien
   Predator
2. Masters of the Universe
   Blood Simple

Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in this 1987 sci-fi action film set in the jungles of Central America.

1. Romancing the Stone
   Blade Runner
2. Beverly Hills Cop
   Willow

Director Ridley Scott achieved the famous "shining eyes" effect by using a technique known as the "Schüfftan process," where light is bounced into the actors' eyes off a piece of half-mirrored glass mounted at a 45-degree angle to the camera.

1. Once Upon a Time in America
   Endless Love
2. Perfect
   Hannah and Her Sisters

Robert De Niro stars as Noodles in this 1984 crime drama.

1. Teen Wolf
   Heathers
2. The Big Chill
   Vision Quest

In order to get out of the snobby clique that is destroying her good-girl reputation, an intelligent teen teams up with a dark sociopath in a plot to kill the cool kids in "Heathers."

1. Summer School
   Better Off Dead
2. Just One of the Guys
   Always

Lane, an emotional teenager, decides it's better to commit suicide than to face another day feeling rejected by his ex-girlfriend. Thankfully, he gives up the attempt and decides to become a better man than the guy she fell for.