Explore the definitive decade that reshaped Hollywood. The 1980s introduced the modern blockbuster, elevated practical special effects to an art form, and established genres that continue to influence filmmaking today. Browse our curated categories below.
An NYPD officer attempts to save hostages from terrorists in a Los Angeles skyscraper during a Christmas party, redefining the solitary action hero.
Archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time and the Nazis to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant in this globe-trotting adventure.
A traumatized Vietnam War veteran relies on his combat and survival skills when a hostile sheriff forces him to flee into the mountains.
A visually arresting neo-noir set in a dystopian future, following a former police officer tasked with tracking down rogue synthetic humans.
A relentless cyborg assassin is sent back in time to eliminate the mother of the future human resistance leader.
Fifty-seven years after surviving a deadly extraterrestrial encounter, Ellen Ripley returns to the alien planet accompanying a unit of space marines.
Three eccentric parapsychologists establish a ghost-catching business in New York City, blending sharp wit with supernatural thrills.
A high school student accidentally travels thirty years into the past and must ensure his parents fall in love to secure his own existence.
Five high school students from distinct social cliques spend a Saturday in detention, discovering they share more in common than they realized.
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings.
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims, leading to profound paranoia.
Teenagers are terrorized in their dreams by the spirit of a murdered child killer, where death in the dream world results in death in reality.