What are 5 of your favorite 80's movies that are pretty underrated and unwatched by thousands of people?

Ricochet

After Hours

Southern Comfort

Backbeat

The Idolmaker

The Emerald Forest

Sorry, but I can't limit it to 5.

Alien Nation (1988)

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Biloxi Blues (1988)

Bull Durham (1988)

Cannery Row (1982)

Dragonslayer (1981)

Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)

Flashdance (1983)

The Fly (1986)

Heavy Metal (1981)

The January Man (1989)

Ladyhawke (1985)

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

The Long Riders (1980)

Midnight Run (1988)

The Natural (1984)

Raising Arizona (1987)

Real Genius (1985)

Romancing the Stone (1984)

Roxanne (1987)

Runaway Train (1985)

Southern Comfort (1981)

Streets of Fire (1984)

Summer School (1987)

Time Bandits (1981)

Top Secret! (1984)

Troll (1986)

Tron (1982)

Turner & Hooch (1989)

Weekend at Bernie's (1989)

The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

1. Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon

2. Bloodsport

3. Ernest Goes to Camp

4. They Live

5. No Holds Barred

Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure

Pee Wee's Big Adventure

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

The Lost Boys

Chariots of Fire

California Dreaming

Strange Brew (some parts do suck but some are funny)

I'm Gonna Get You Sucka

Airplane! (seems to go in and out of public knowledge for some reason)

Spaceballs

ARTHUR (1981) < < This original is a masterpiece. Truly.

The Couch Trip < < Fall down funny and majorly intelligent-clever.

Midnight Run < < Among the top of ultimate buddy-movies.

Who's Harry Crumb? < < Just delightful!

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels < < A gem and classic for everyone.

Overboard

Don't tell mom the babysitter is dead

Adventures in babysitting

The money pit

Ps/ I agree, the 80s perfected the comedy genre.

1.Batman (1989)

When I saw this movie in the theater back in '89, I was just a kid - a kid paralyzed by the looks and the charisma of the super-hero ever! I didn't know much about directors those times, so I gave all the credit to Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. Years later I understood that Tim Burton -leading as my favorite director- was all behind this, making Gotham City darker and wicked, taking Batman to a fearsome -unlike that horrible TV show!- and heroic level as he should have been. As Michael Keaton was born to fulfill his destiny as Batman, I don't think anyone else could handle the Joker except Jack Nicholson. I have never seen any character more suitable than these pair of super actors as super heroes. I don't know whether I should be happy or sad for the first two movie was shot by Tim Burton, for the following ones was not as good as the ones shot by him. The third one was not as bad as the fourth. But the "Batman and Robin" was the final humiliation ever made to me (I really don't know what Joel Schumacher was thinking). I bet everyone involved in the first two was crying their eyes out at the end of the movie. Anyway, Tim, Michael, Jack and Kim was the best crew for a movie, and they made it worth watching it over and over again. "Batman" is amongst the best movies I've ever seen.

you can download it from: https://movied.org/batman-1989-2_761065.html

2.Dead Poets Society (1989)

Though strictly speaking this movie is not an epic, it is one among those which is remembered as one. The dialogues are still in the minds of every malayali. Ramji Rao Speaking is one movie which i guess every malayali must have enjoyed. There is not one element in this movie which was unwanted or unnecessary. All emotions ,whether it was sadness or happiness or comedy or subtle romance, it was so beautifully displayed. Also one has to note that this was the directorial debut of the duo Siddique Lal who are arguably the only duo who have the record of delivering only hits. their movies have also been remade in tamil and Hindi and also been as successful.

Kudos also to Saikumar. it was his first movie. And the rest of the stars liks Innocent, Mukesh, Mamukoya... One has to also note that this movie did not feature any one of super stars of that era like mamooty or mohan lal. And still this movie is onbe among the top films which ran for a very long time.

It is sad that we don't come across such movies anymore in the malayalam film industry. Ramji Rao Speaking would be one movie which is well above the many movies which have come and and which are yet to come.

you can download it from: https://movied.org/dead-poets-society-1989_629899....

3.Ghost Busters (1984)

Very rarely can you pull off a successful blend of two separate movie genres,but the makers of Ghostbusters were overwhelmingly so.On the one hand,you have the comedic charm of Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd,and on the other,a genuine ghostly spookiness that makes you want to hide under a blanket.I recently bought a copy and watched it for the first time in several years,and it's still just as fresh as it was in it's initial release in 1984.It has a great supporting cast for Murray and Aykroyd,including the always great Sigourney Weaver,Rick Moranis,Ernie Hudson,and Harold Ramis,who is just as talented behind the camera as he is in front of it.Watch it with your family,but keep an eye on younger children,as the spookiness may be more than they can handle. Great stuff.

you can download it from: https://movied.org/ghostbusters-1984-2_783805.html

4.Pretty in Pink (1986)

Writer John Hughes has the 80's pegged. But this story could have been set in the 50's or 60's and still worked well. That is why I think this movie is so relevant. Devotion, friendship, and self worth are quizzed. The young actors were better than expected. I have watched this over a dozen times and I don't care if some people refer to this as a "chick flick".

A young girl falls in love with a boy from the other side of the tracks. Problems occur when his peers think the object of his desires is socially beneath him.

Molly Ringwald was very good. Andrew McCarthy and Jon Cryer seemed to feel their part more than the rest of the cast. But James Spader was such a realistic jerk, you want to get up and punch his face in. Harry Dean Stanton and Annie Potts play the adult roles of substance. Have you ever seen Stanton so sympathetic?

A very upbeat soundtrack keeps the movie flowing and helps you feel the atmosphere. Don't write this off as just another teen movie. Highly recommended.

you can download it from: https://movied.org/pretty-in-pink-1986_631037.html

5.Scarface (1983)

This is one of my all time favorites.

If the movie has a flaw, it's that it comes at you like a raging bull. It doesn't so much engage the viewer as assault him. ''Scarface'' is as voracious and unyielding a production as Tony Montana himself. Nothing is left to the viewer's imagination.

Moroder's languorous synthpop fits the action to a tee. Like the chorus in a Greek tragedy, it wails and gnashes, broods and tugs, a constant reminder of Tony's inexorable fate.

Not so much a tale of caution as a disaster in progress, ''Scarface'' rips across the screen with the unstoppable force of a runaway train.

you can download it from: https://movied.org/scarface-1983_629193.html

"The Dead Can't Lie" (sometimes called Gotham) - Virginia Madsen & Tommy Lee Jones - Low budget & ace

"Big Trouble In Little China" - Cult

"Mannequin" - Cheese

"Earth Girls Are Easy" - Silly & brilliant

"Ruthless People" - Hilarious

Without cheating and going to another answer I can not think of the '80s movies. I have seen two movies I thought were underrated and both of them were in 1994; "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" and "Silent Tongue".