10 Timeless 1980s Movies That Still Hold Up Today!

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Dive into the nostalgia of the 1980s with our countdown of 10 iconic movies that continue to captivate audiences of all ages. From action-packed thrillers to heartwarming tales, these films have stood the test of time and remind us of the enduring power of storytelling. Join us on a journey through the 80s and be inspired by the resilience, imagination, and unbreakable spirit of that unforgettable decade. Don't miss this trip down memory lane!
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:33 Die Hard
02:53 Stand by Me
04:34 BeetleJuice
06:20 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
07:55 Back to the Future
09:50 The Princess Bride
11:30 Full Metal Jacket
13:53 The Untouchables
15:25 Aliens
16:58 ET The Extra Terrestrial

[@asifkhan4822]

Surprised you missed all the first 3 Indiana Jones movies, Lethal Weapon, The Karate Kid and Beverly Hills Cop which are key touchstone essential 80's movies.

[@phigmentor]

I think the point of this episode is non franchise movies?

[@shannon_w.]

These were definitely some classics! Here is a few more Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Steel Magnolias,any John Hughes film, Nightmare on Elm St, Friday The 13th, The Lost Boys, Home Alone, Xanadu. I could go on and on! The 80's brought some of the most iconic films in entertainment history!

[@jenniferk9242]

Re: Fast Times, I don't think the underage sex, especially underage girls having sex with college/adult guys holds up by today's societal and film standards. I just watched it again a few months ago and still love it... But then again, I was one of those underage teen girls in the early/mid 80s 😂

[@josephrowe849]

Home Alone is a 90's film. (1990)

[@sogman808]

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is Prime #1 on your list. I grew up in the 70s and I've seen (and enjoyed) all the movies you've listed but .. seriously, Ferris Bueller is the movie I _always_ stop to watch. "Come on, Come on, Come on baby now (come on baby), .. come on and work it all out!" Add "Yellow - Oh Yeah" to the sound track and .. well, now it's addictive

[@IceManLikeGervin]

The 1970s and 1980s movies are the best in my mind!!! So many 1980s movies still stand up in 2023. The Goonies, Rambo First Blood, Empire Strikes Back, They Live, Back To The Future, The Blues Brothers, Hollywood Shuffle, The Thing, Beverly Hills Cop, Gremlins, Friday The 13th, The Lost Boys, The Outsiders, Platoon, Airplane!, Scarface, Do The Right Thing, Trading Places, The Terminator, Midnight Run, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Harlem Knights, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, A Soldier's Story, Ghostbusters, The Breakfast Club, The Road Warrior, Caddyshack, Repo Man, Big, Return Of The Jedi and many more.

[@someguy2998]

"Best decade ever" Comic Book Guy

[@chrisk7626]

I have a personal list of perfect movies Ferris Bueller is one of them🎉🎉

[@stvinney]

Ive been on a nostalgia kick lately and subsequently dragging my 10 year old son to watch along with me He's always reluctant but always entertained Something about the 80s. They knew how to draw the kids in and keep the adults engaged

[@michaelward5370]

I love all these movies! I'm so glad Full Metal Jacket was on the list, it's one of my favourite films of all time! Personally, though, I would've found a place on the list for Robocop, The Thing and American Werewolf In London!

[@ericsmithhart8509]

This is some calgon take me back to my childhood gold! Love it!

[@Middle-Road.Kim.K]

The quintessential list!👍👍 Princess Bride is still one of my faves, I pull it off the shelf a few times every year, especially when I need to escape reality for a bit. Oh, and thank GOODNESS the writers of BttF changed the time machine from a fridge to a car. Who knows how many kids we'd have lost as it came out years before the safety regulation of removing doors from discarded fridges was created.

[@josephrowe849]

Ghostbusters, The Secret of NIMH, Labyrinth, Twins, Trading Places, Scrooged, Coming to America, The Great Outdoors, Good Morning Vietnam, Ernest Goes to Camp, Purple Rain, The Karate Kid, Uncle Buck, UHF and Stripes are my picks.

[@user-wk8mw6to2g]

Mystic Pizza (1988) Fatal Attraction (1987)

[@robinbates6230]

I definitely will never forget ET. The first time, I went to see it in the theater. I left about 5-10 mins at the beginning. Crying hysterical by people running through the field. Didn't show anything but running and something sounding like it was crying. I finally sat through the whole thing. It was so heart touching and filled with love. Thanks to my mom, keeping on insisting I go and see it. I was too hooked on Poltergeist. I love ET and will never get tired of it. This is a must-see movie if you haven't seen it yet. You definitely won't be disappointed.

[@robertp5935]

ET came out in 1982

[@ButtersCCookie]

Worse movie ever made. We have enough Worldly problems to be supporting and celebrating another planets' problems. Aliens are just a distraction for the easily amused.

[@francescathomas3502]

Aliens and Full metal jacket were not my favouirtes but the rest were brilliant. But as other comment have said - there were tons of other brilliant other 80s movies that this list did not mention. The Breakfast Club, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Star Trek 4 the Voyage Home, Speed, Dirty Dancing, Top Gun, Indiana Jones 3 and Ghostbusters - these were all BIG favourites of mine!!!

[@jasonbelkengren1855]

How you missed 1984's Ghostbusters amazes me. That movie holds up better than the Ghostbusters released in 2016

[@josephrowe849]

Holds up better than Frozen Empire.

[@michaelwall3393]

I would have chosen different, and realize that this is not a top ten just ten and potentially another list of ten movies that are timeless that indicate that you have other list of ten timeless movies from the 1980s. My ten timeless movies from the 1980s will include a couple of series as well as standalone films. This my first ten but can easily give a top 50 as there are 50 awesome movies from the 1980s easily if not 100. 10. The Burbs 09. The Lost Boys 08. Predator 07. Ghostbusters 06. Spaceballs 05. Police Academy 1-4 04. Indiana Jones 1-3 03. Rambo 1-3 02. Die Hard 01. Silver Bullet Keep in mind I am leaving off Cobra, Commando, Great Outdoors, Planes-Trains-&-Automobiles, Funny Farm, Uncle Buck, The Running Man, Over The Top, Black Cauldron, The re-release of Sword In The Stone, Star Trek 2-5, Empire Strikes Back, Return of The Jedi , High Spirits, Short Circuit, Gremlins, Gremlins 2, Ghoulies, Nightmare On Elm Street series, Friday The 13th series, Monster Squad, An American Werewolf In London, Fright Night, Fright Night Part 2, Stripes, Vegas Vacation, Money Pit, Joe vs Volcano, Secret Of Nihm, All Dogs Go To Heaven, Cannon Ball Run movies 1-3, Smokey & The Bandit movies, Deer Hunter, Robo Cop, The best Batman or one of the best although movie should have been called Joker, Conan movies, The Beastmaster, Excalibur, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Watchers, Highlander 1-2, Beetle Juice, Edward Scissor Hands, Superman 2-4, Buckaroo Bonzai, The Thing, The Fog, The original movie of Salem’s Lot and the Return or sequel, War Games, Tango & Cash, Overboard, Big Trouble In Little China, Bloodsport, Puppet Master, Phantasm, K-9, Turner & Hooch, and many many more.

[@lovekay5262]

Hi 👋 love the movies 🍿 also Harry and the Hendersons was great 👍 and The Legend of Billie Jean. ❤

[@retren]

So good!

[@1trushadowclw642]

ET was 82 not 86

[@keithe2150]

If you’re taking the time to add a comment, make sure you take the time to hit the like button. I enjoy Kevin‘s videos very much and look forward to them but unfortunately, this week I missed the live broadcast because of a phone call. Sit back and have a cuppa coffee and enjoy these. If nothing else you’ll be able to grow back in your mind 30 years when things were a lot simpler, even though we didn’t realize how bad the time again, thank you Kevin for . another great video.

[@Middle-Road.Kim.K]

Totally agree. While I'm not a gatekeeper (I welcome anyone interested in 70s/80s culture - come onboard!), there IS a difference between experiencing something from the past versus living it at the time. That's why I enjoy Kevin, he's been there done that (or is extremely convincing if im wrong). I saw ET in theaters when it came out and remember being confused why most _adults_ leaving the previous screening were wiping their cheeks and blowing their noses. That just wouldn't happen nowadays as, unless you've been under a rock, you know the movie's emotional rollercoaster of an ending. Yes, a few will weep (as i would), but never again will it be a whole theater's-worth of people leaving with stunned looks. Well, unless it's rediscovered years after the apocalypse. 😂

[@keithe2150]

@@Middle-Road.Kim.K oh, when I posted this to my Facebook account I pretty much said the same exact thing. In 2000 a friend of mine brought the movie over to the house and she also brought two submarines and said I needed to watch it sat down. we watched it and she did the narration or explanation, which I think I would’ve gotten, but it was better from somebody who loved the movie. Great comment Kevin is wonderful. I look forward to his stuff and have for quite a while

[@doriangraye1971]

I know ET and Aliens did not come out the same year of 1986.

[@gregoryrome2751]

New subscriber here. When I saw Stand By Me and Die Hard included on your list, that was all I needed to subscribe. Man your content is incredible.

[@bobbysfacts1981]

E.T. was from 1982 Not 1986

[@georgeharris6851]

The Terminator mivies still hold up,especially with all the talk about AI, today. Granter, the effects on T1 look a little dated, but the effects on T2 still hold up.

[@dengelgen]

E.T is from 1982 not 1986

[@chrisk7626]

I don't know if I'm getting soft but when I Revisited Stand By Me it was just depressing it's a great movie it's just sad

[@ZapgermsNow]

Matthew Broderick looked even younger than his character was supposed to be in Ferris Bueller!

[@hunterschoumacher9560]

John Carpenter's The Thing

[@georgeharris6851]

Highlander still holds up. But you can skip Highlander 2, The Sickening, There should have been only one! H3 wasn't bad, but H1 is a classic.

[@Sappy10]

Full métal jacket is a very good movie... it shows us what could be the Vietnam war... and i am pretty sure that existed Pvt Pyle unfortunately....

[@Middle-Road.Kim.K]

I saw ET in theaters when it came out and remember being confused why most _adults_ leaving the previous screening were wiping their cheeks and blowing their noses. That just wouldn't happen at an ET screening nowadays as, unless you've been under a rock, you know the movie's emotional ending. Yes, a few will weep (as i would), but never again will it be a whole theater's-worth of people leaving with stunned looks. Well, unless it's rediscovered years after the comet zombie apocalypse. 😂

[@mikesheanon4263]

What about, predator. Run get to the chopper

[@stvinney]

Ive never watched the untouchables. Of course i know about it and it was well reviewed but does it hold up? And before you say yes, understand I DO NOT think movies like Goodfellas hold up at all I enjoyed it in the 90s Can't sit through it now

[@jbautistag]

E.T. is 1982, not 1986.

[@user-qw9fd8oj5t]

Ermey stole the steers and queers lines from Louis Gossett jr.

[@laustcawz2089]

I disagree with the "timelessness" of most of the picks. Best choice is "Die Hard". What about: "A Christmas Story" "The Big Picture" "Beverly Hills Cop" "Robocop" "Cujo" "Spaceballs" "The Verdict" "Ordinary People" ????????????????

[@isaacheres1354]

E.T wasn't in 1986, it was in 1982🙄🤦‍♂️

[@davebooth5608]

E.T. Sucked!

[@devox3291]

Im a movie fan who has never liked that movie. Happy that others do. But its not for me, either. Cant stand it.

[@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat]

Well they can't all be Flight of the Navigator.

[@ButtersCCookie]

Cory Feldman ruins so many 80s greats. His ick-ness and roaring desperation is hard to suspend. Miss times when actors didn't talk and private lives were kept manageable. At least for studio profit.

[@KrisBryant99]

What? You mean he bad in the 80s or is his current attitude ruining your nostalgia?

[@sleepysandoval8262]

E.T was from 1982 not 1986