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1980s Comedy-drama Movies

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Annie(1982)

PG
| 2h 7min | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 322 votes)

An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his home to promote his image, Annie is selected. While Annie gets accustomed to living in Warbucks' mansion, she still longs to meet her parents. So Warbucks announces a search for them and a reward, which brings out many frauds.

Directed by John Huston - With Albert Finney, Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters, Geoffrey Holder, Edward Herrmann, Shawnee Smith, ...
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The Breakfast Club(1985)

R
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Drama
3.9/5 (with 3,607 votes)

Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.

Directed by John Hughes - With Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Paul Gleason, ...
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Oliver & Company(1988)

G
| 1h 17min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 687 votes)

This animated take on Oliver Twist re-imagines Oliver as an adorable orphaned kitten who struggles to survive in New York City and falls in with a band of canine criminals led by an evil human. First, Oliver meets Dodger, a carefree mutt with street savoir faire. But when Oliver meets wealthy Jenny on one of the gang's thieving missions, his life changes forever.

Directed by George Scribner
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Tucker: The Man and His Dream(1988)

PG
| 1h 51min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 156 votes)

Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by his own unrealistic expectations and the Detroit automobile industry tycoons.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola - With Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Elias Koteas, Frederic Forrest, Christian Slater, ...
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Working Girl(1988)

R
| 1h 54min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama
3.3/5 (with 400 votes)

Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her apartment and even her wardrobe. She creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her to the top, or finish her off for good.

Directed by Mike Nichols - With Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Philip Bosco, ...
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Mickey's Christmas Carol(1983)

G
| 26min | Kids & Family, Animation
3.8/5 (with 382 votes)

Ebenezer Scrooge is far too greedy to understand that Christmas is a time for kindness and generosity. But with the guidance of some new found friends, Scrooge learns to embrace the spirit of the season. A retelling of the classic Dickens tale with Disney's classic characters.

Directed by Burny Mattinson
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Tootsie(1982)

PG
| 1h 56min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 748 votes)

When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego - Dorothy Michaels - in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.

Directed by Sydney Pollack - With Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Dabney Coleman, ...
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Arthur(1981)

PG
| 1h 37min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 179 votes)

Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.

Directed by Steve Gordon - With Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jill Eikenberry, Stephen Elliott, ...
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The Ballad of Narayama(1983)

2h 10min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 69 votes)

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse he/she would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.

Directed by Shohei Imamura - With Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Mitsuko Baishō, Shoichi Ozawa, Taiji Tonoyama, Nenji Kobayashi, ...

Cocktail(1988)

R
| 1h 44min | Romance / Love, Drama, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 624 votes)

After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.

Directed by Roger Donaldson - With Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, Kelly Lynch, Lisa Banes, ...
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Beau Pere(1981)

2h 3min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 43 votes)

Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.

Directed by Bertrand Blier - With Patrick Dewaere, Ariel Besse, Maurice Ronet, Macha Méril, Nathalie Baye, Nicole Garcia, ...

Mystic Pizza(1988)

R
| 1h 44min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 207 votes)

Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut.

Directed by Donald Petrie - With Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor, Vincent D'Onofrio, William R. Moses, Adam Storke, ...
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown(1988)

R
| 1h 28min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 374 votes)

Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar - With Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Rossy de Palma, Chus Lampreave, Loles León, Javier Bardem, ...
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The Big Chill(1983)

R
| 1h 45min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 235 votes)

Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own.

Directed by Lawrence Kasdan - With Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, ...
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Bronco Billy(1980)

PG
| 1h 56min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 105 votes)

An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.

Directed by Clint Eastwood - With Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Scatman Crothers, Bill McKinney, Dan Vadis, ...
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Desperately Seeking Susan(1985)

PG-13
| 1h 44min | Comedy, Crime
3.0/5 (with 182 votes)

Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous. Roberta goes too, and in a series of events involving amnesia and mistaken identity, steps into Susan's life.

Directed by Susan Seidelman - With Rosanna Arquette, Aidan Quinn, Madonna, Robert Joy, Laurie Metcalf, John Turturro, ...
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Lucas(1986)

PG-13
| 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 93 votes)

A socially inept fourteen year old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends -- Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love -- fall for each other.

Directed by David Seltzer - With Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Winona Ryder, Guy Boyd, ...

About Last Night...(1986)

R
| 1h 53min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 88 votes)

A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.

Directed by Edward Zwick - With Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Jim Belushi, Elizabeth Perkins, George DiCenzo, Megan Mullally, ...
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Hannah and Her Sisters(1986)

PG-13
| 1h 47min | Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 424 votes)

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

Directed by Woody Allen - With Michael Caine, Mia Farrow, Carrie Fisher, Barbara Hershey, Lloyd Nolan, Maureen O'Sullivan, ...
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Stardust Memories(1980)

PG
| 1h 29min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 173 votes)

While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

Directed by Woody Allen - With Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-Christine Barrault, Woody Allen, Tony Roberts, Daniel Stern, ...
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Class(1983)

R
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 68 votes)

Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is emboldened to seek out older women in the cocktail lounges of nearby Chicago, where he meets and beds the alluring Ellen, who unfortunately turns out to be Skip's mother. The division between the friends is further deepened when a cheating scandal engulfs the school.

Directed by Lewis John Carlino - With Andrew McCarthy, Jacqueline Bisset, Rob Lowe, Cliff Robertson, John Cusack, Alan Ruck, ...
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Law of Desire(1987)

NC-17
| 1h 42min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 113 votes)

Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar - With Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Manuela Velasco, Rossy de Palma, Nacho Martínez, ...
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The Last American Virgin(1982)

R
| 1h 32min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 91 votes)

The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.

Directed by Boaz Davidson - With Lawrence Monoson, Diane Franklin, Louisa Moritz

Bagdad Cafe(1987)

1h 35min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 155 votes)

A surreal comedy depicting a diverse cast of characters and the changes they undergo as the German tourist Jasmin interacts with each of them at a remote truck stop in the middle of the Mojave desert.

Directed by Percy Adlon - With Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance, Christine Kaufmann, George Aguilar, Monica Calhoun, ...
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Local Hero(1983)

PG
| 1h 51min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 136 votes)

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

Directed by Bill Forsyth - With Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay, Peter Capaldi
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains(1982)

1h 27min | Comedy, Drama, Music
3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.

Directed by Lou Adler - With Diane Lane, Laura Dern, Brent Spiner, Elizabeth Daily, Paul Cook, Paul Simonon, ...
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Shadows in Paradise(1986)

1h 14min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 107 votes)

An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.

Directed by Aki Kaurismäki - With Matti Pellonpää, Kati Outinen, Mari Rantasila, Sakari Kuosmanen, Esko Nikkari, Pekka Laiho, ...

Barfly(1987)

R
| 1h 40min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 140 votes)

Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's company—and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.

Directed by Barbet Schroeder - With Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Maud Krige, Jack Nance, J. C. Quinn, Frank Stallone, ...
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Time of the Gypsies(1988)

2h 22min | Drama, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 153 votes)

In this luminous tale set in the former Yugoslavia, Perhan, an engaging young Romany with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime that threatens to destroy him and those he loves.

Directed by Emir Kusturica - With Davor Dujmović, Borivoje Todorović, Ljubica Adžović, Predrag Laković, Branko Đurić, Husnija Hasimović, ...
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Radio Days(1987)

PG
| 1h 30min | Comedy, Drama, Music
3.5/5 (with 233 votes)

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

Directed by Woody Allen - With Mia Farrow, Michael Tucker, Julie Kavner, Dianne Wiest, Danny Aiello, Tony Roberts, ...
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