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Kinsie asked in Entertainment & MusicMovies · 1 decade ago

What are the best movies from the 70s, 80s and 90's?

I love movies like the Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and The Wedding Singer, what are some movies from that time period (and around it) that i should look into?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Based on your tastes, I'd recommend you check out:

    American Grafitti (1973)

    Tootsie (1982)

    Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

    Real Genius (1985)

    Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

    When Harry Met Sally (1989)

    Career Opportunities (1990)

    Dazed and Confused (1993)

    Airheads (1994)

    Reality Bites (1994)

    Before Sunrise (1995)

    Clueless (1995)

    Empire Records (1995)

    The Truth About Cats and Dogs (1996)

    Grosse Point Blank (1997)

    Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)

    Election (1999)

  • 1 decade ago

    movies from the 70s i love are

    American Graffitti

    Halloween

    Grease

    Jaws

    Rocky

    Texas Chainsaw Massacre

    Saturday Night Fever

    Carrie

    Animal House

    Willy Wonka & The Chocalate Factory

    The Exorcist

    movies i love from the 80s are

    Back To The Future

    Stand By Me

    The Goonies

    Sixteen Candles

    Gremlins

    The Breakfast Club

    Harlem Nights

    Pretty In Pink

    Fast Times At Ridgemont High

    A Nightmare On Elm Street

    Coming To America

    Friday The 13th

    Do The Right Thing

    Poltergeist

    National Lampoons Vacation

    A Christmas Story

    Ferris Beullers Day Off

    Uncle Buck

    Little Darlings

    The Shining

    Childs Play

    Airplane

    great movies from the 90s are

    Pulp Fiction

    Boyz N The Hood

    Clueless

    Scream

    Menace To Society

    A League Of Their Own

    Urban Legend

    Malcolm X

    The Silence Of The Lambs

    Billy Madison

    Happy Gilmore

    The Waterboy

    The Wedding Singer

    The Sixth Sense

    Dazed & Confused

    Titanic

    Friday

    Poison Ivy

    Home Alone

    Aladdin

    Edward Scissorhands

  • Carrie

    Foxes

    Youngblood

    All the Right Moves

    Risky Business

    Endless Love

    Valley Girl

    Fast Times at Ridgemont High

    Ferris Bueller's Day Off

    Weird Science

    Some Kind of Wonderful

    Can't Buy Me Love

    Pretty in Pink

    For Keeps?

    The Lost Boys

    License to Drive

    The Virgin Suicides (1999 movie I think, but it's setting is in the 70s)

    Heathers

    The Goonies

    Stand By Me

    Gremlins

    Drop Dead Fred

    St. Elmo's Fire

    About Last Night

    Cocktail

    Planes, Trains and Automobiles

    Private Benjamin

    An Officer and a Gentleman

    Uncle Buck

    The Coneheads

    Dazed and Confused

    Blind Date

    Twins

    Terminator

    Animal House

    Porky's

    National Lampoon's Vacation, European Vacation and Christmas Vacation

    Caddyshack

  • 5 years ago

    60's - Hard Day's Night 70's - Jaws 80's - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure 90's - Titanic 2000's - Signs 2010's - 21 Jump Street

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Breakfast Club

  • 1 decade ago

    The Goonies,Stand By Me,The Outsiders,Rumblefish

  • Breakfast Club!

    I have that movie memorized haha I love it!

    *Lunch scene*

    John: What are we having?

    Brian: Just you standard, regular lunch I guess."

    *John looks at apple juice*

    Brian: That's apple juice..

    John: I can read.

    *John looks at suspicious can-thing*

    John: Milk?

    Brian: Uhh soup..

    John: PB&J with the crusts cut off. Well Brian. This is a very nutricious lunch you have. All the food groups are represented. Did your mother marry Mr.Rogers?

    Brian: Uh no, Mr.Johnson.

    John: Ah.

    *Janitor walks in*

    John: Uh, Carl. Can I ask you a question?

    Carl: Sure.

    John: How does one become a janitor?

    Carl: You wanna become a janitor?

    John: No, I just want to know how one BECOMES a janitor. Because Andrew here, is very interested in pursuing a career in the custodial arts.

    Best parts of the movie. I told you I had it memorized :]

    Source(s): My noodle
  • Wierd Scinece

    Back to the future

    Dirty dancing

  • 1 decade ago

    the original freddy and jason movies(not freddy v jason), the breakfast club, pulp fiction is super wierd(great), jungle fever, breakfast club, starsky and hutch, breakfast club, the breakfast club, O! and poultergiest, a great.

  • 1 decade ago

    Child's Play...

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