Top 100 80s Movies you MUST SEE with your teenagers. I am not just suggesting you see these movies, I am insisting that NOT watching them with your kids means you’re missing out on a fantastic bonding experience. So, start watching. Make it a weekly family movie night or a punishment—I don’t really care . . . just DO IT.

Pop the popcorn, put out the candy, soda and pillows and prepare for an evening of groans, laughs, and discussions about what the movie means to you and what your children found interesting about it. I always end up sharing stories about growing up in a world where computers and video games, VCRs and CDs were a thing of the future. My kids talk about what they imagine their future will look like and how the movies of today will be outdated and a history lesson for their own children.

You will soon find yourselves agreeing on how bad the special effects are and how the predictable plot lines are jam-packed with melodrama and corny one-liners. The following list are movies I have loved, or that were recommended to me. They are some of the cheesiest movies ever, but the values and lessons are ageless. The movies of today are so filled with distracting explosions and CG animations that it’s hard to feel an emotional connection in the way you can with the movies of the 80s.

And the kickass soundtracks and the memorable characters will soon have you all hooked. I guarantee you will not regret your trip down memory lane, because you’ll be taking your favourite people along for the ride. So, pick a title, sit back, relax and enjoy the show:

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street
2. Airplane
3. Alien (1979 but close enough)
4. An American Werewolf in London
5. Back to the Future
6. Beetlejuice
7. Big
8. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
9. Blade Runner
10. Castle in the Sky
11. Christine
12. Clash of  the Titans
13. Cocoon
14. Conan the Barbarian
15. Crocodile Dundee
16. Dark Crystal
17. Day of the Living Dead
18. Dead Poets Society
19. Die Hard
20. Dirty Dancing
21. Dune
22. E.T.
23. Empire of the Sun
24. Enemy Mine
25. Explorers
26. Fame
27. Fast times at Ridgemont High
28. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
29. Field of Dreams
30. First Blood
31. Flashdance
32. Flight of the Navigator
33. Footloose
34. Friday the 13th
35. Fright Night
36. Ghostbusters
37. Good Morning Vietnam
38. Goonies
39. Gremlins
40. Harry and the Hendersons
41. Heathers
42. Innerspace
43. Karate Kid
44. Lean on Me
45. Lost Boys
46. Mask
47. Misery
48. My Left Foot
49. Overboard
50. Police Academy
51. Poltergeist
52. Predator
53. Pretty in Pink
54. Princess Bride
55. Raiders of the Lost Ark
56. Rain Man
57. Real Genius
58. Red Dawn
59. Revenge of the Nerds
60. Risky Business
61. Robocop
62. Romancing the Stone
63. Say Anything
64. Shawshank Redemption
65. Short Circuit
66. Sixteen Candles
67. Some Kind of Wonderful
68. Spaceballs
69. Splash
70. Stand and Deliver
71. Stand by Me
72. Star Wars
73. Stripes
74. TAPS
75. Teen Wolf
76. Terminator
77. The Breakfast Club
78. The Dead Zone
79. The Elephant Man
80. The Gods Must Be Crazy
81. The Labyrinth
82. The Last Emperor
83. The Last Starfighter
84. The Outsiders
85. The Running Man
86. The Shining
87. The Thing
88. The Wizard
89. This is Spinal Tap
90. Three Amigos
91. Time Bandits
92. Tootsie
93. Top Gun
94. TRON
95. Twilight Zone: The Movie
96. UHF
97. Vacation
98. Weekend at Bernies
99. Weird Science
100. Willow

Is your favourite 80s movie in the list? Did I miss any? Comment below…