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A rebellious city boy finds himself in an uptight Midwestern town where dancing and therefore all youthful joy has been banned.

Footloose

Michael Douglas plays Dan, a New York attorney who has a tryst with seductive Alex Forrest while his wife is away. Dan later shrugs off the affair as a mistake and considers it over. But Alex won't be ignored. Not now, not tomorrow, not ever.

Fatal Attraction

The visual and musical box-office smash Flashdance is the exhilarating story of Alex Owens (Jennifer Beals), a fiercely determined and beautiful 18-year-old woman, who works as a welder by day and a dancer at a local bar at night.

Flashdance

In the remote desert of New Mexico, "The Manhattan Project" is materializing the World War II effort to build the atomic bomb. Oscar-winner Paul Newman (Hud, Nobody's Fool) stars as General Leslie Groves, the military man in charge of a massive project that will produce two weapons: "Fat Man" and "Little Boy." Dwight Schultz (The Temp, Star Trek: First Contact) is J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant scientist attempting to bring the startling mission to fruition. And Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern, and Natasha Richardson co-star in this "stunning, profoundly moving" film (Michael Medved, Sneak Previews) that re-creates one of history's most compelling chapters; one that resulted in the mushroom-shaped specter that changed the world forever.

Fat Man and Little Boy

The summer of 1964... Two FBI agents--one a tight-jawed, by-the-book type, the other an experienced Southern lawman who knows how to handle people--head the government's investigation into the disappearance of three civil rights activists in Mississippi.

Mississippi Burning

A man gets a last-chance job coaching a small-town Indiana high-school basketball team and faces the dual challenge of bringing this underdog team to the 1951 state championship and redeeming himself from a mysterious past.

Hoosiers

Julian Kay has it all: the Mercedes, the clothes, access to Beverly Hills' swankiest establishments, and a stable of rich, female clients. But it all falls apart after he does a favor for his former pimp and the trick turns up dead a short while later.

American Gigolo (1980)

Francis Ford Coppola's lavish, 1930s-era epic comes to a vivid new life in this newly remastered and restored version featuring never-before-seen scenes and musical sequences.

Cotton Club Encore

The lives of a group of teenagers are thrown into a moral spin when one murders his girlfriend. Faced with the brutal reality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police.

River's Edge

One of the most critically-acclaimed films of the 80s, Children of a Lesser God garnered four Academy Award nominations and a Best Actress Oscar for Marlee Matlin.

Children of a Lesser God

Academy Award winner Sean Penn's breakthrough dramatic performance.

Bad Boys

A son wants to be like his father and earn himself a place in the family crime syndicate. Together with his brother, he forms his own gang to gain his dad's respect. Efforts backfire as the father fears that he is losing control.

At Close Range

A Philadelphia sound-effects man witnesses and records a car accident that turns out to be a politically motivated murder.

Blow Out

After narrowing down hundreds of Broadway hopefuls, choreographer Zach (Michael Douglas) leads a select group of dancers on an audition that could change their lives forever in this stunning adaptation of the hit Broadway musical.

A Chorus Line

A young writer sacrifices his life in the present to find happiness in the past, where true love awaits him.

Somewhere In Time

Urban ghetto kids from the South Bronx find creative outlets in painting graffiti, breakdancing, rapping, and developing new disco D.J. routines.

Beat Street

A white South African schoolteacher, ignorant about racism in his country, becomes involved when his black gardener is killed.

A Dry White Season

Sam Shepard's play, becomes a perfect screen adaptation. In a small motel room at the edge of the Mojave Desert, a loving couple argues, laugh, and make love--sometimes all at once. An exploration of the human heart and the strange world of romance.

Fool for Love

Based on the classic novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, this delectable thriller stars Colin Firth and Annette Bening as embittered aristocrats who weave a wicked web of cruel intentions and savage seductions. Directed by the great Milos Forman.

Valmont

Norman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.

On Golden Pond

Terry is having an affair with his boss's wife, who witnesses an attempted murder from his apartment. He agrees to report the crime himself to keep their liaison a secret but soon becomes caught in a dangerous web. Directed by Oscar winner Curtis Hanson.

The Bedroom Window

A sensual mystery thriller about strange happenings in a small North Carolina town. A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more, perhaps too much more.

Blue Velvet

This character study centers on the agonies and delights of a widower and his artistically inclined son, who try to salvage their relationship after the father gets fired from his construction job.

Harry And Son

Winner of two Academy Awards®, TENDER MERCIES is a compassionate love story tracing the relationship between a burnt-out country western star and the young widow he meets in a small Texas motel.

'80s Drama Movies

All '80s Drama Movies, listed alphabetically