Everyone has different taste in movies; here are some that I enjoyed; they range from silly to serious and some that are just “cultural-literacy”; YMMV. The list is very far from exhaustive (even of movies I like) and I’ll add to it over time.

Is it just me or were the 1980s an unusually good decade for movies and music?

Comedy/Action

• Dr. Strangelove (1964)
• Idiocracy (2006)
• Young Frankenstein (1974)
• Blazing Saddles (1974)
• Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
• Little Shop of Horrors (1986 version)
• Trading Places (1983)
• 48 Hours (1982)
• Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
• Die Hard (1988)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981 and some of its sequels)
• The Great Dictator (1940)
• 3 Idiots (2009)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) and Life of Brian (1979)

Horror

• The Exorcist (the OG of modern horror)
• The Thing (1982 version only)
• The Craft (1996)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 version)
• Night of the Living Dead (the OZ)
• Village of the Damned (1960 version)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984 version)
• The Sixth Sense
• The Shining (1980 version)
• The Fly (1986 version)
• Let the Right One In (2008 version)
• Scream (1996 version)
• Halloween (1978 version)
• Nosferatu (1922 – yep, silent, but the OG of horror movies)
• Psycho (1960)

Science Fiction

• Blade Runner (1982 version)
• Star Wars (1977: A New Hope, 1980: Empire Strikes Back, 1983: Return of the Jedi)
• The Matrix (1999)
• The Terminator (1984) also: T2
• They Live (1988)
• The Man From Earth (2007)
• Alien (1979)
• The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951 version)
• Godzilla (1954 version – the OG of monster movies)
• Planet of the Apes (1968 and 2011 prequel Rise of …)
• 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Predator (1987 – 2 actors went on to govern US states)
• Back to the Future (1985)

Super Hero

• Most Marvel movies until 2020

Drama/Other

• Enter the Dragon (the OG of kung fu movies)
• Casablanca (1942)
• The African Queen (1952)
• Do The Right Thing (1989)
• Mad Max (1980, and several of its sequels)
• First Blood (1982, and none of its sequels)
• Jackie Brown (1997)
• The Usual Suspects (1995)
• Cast Away (2000)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
• It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
• The Sound of Music (1965)
• Parasite (2019)
• Leon: The Professional (1994)
• Inglorious Basterds (2009 version)
• Memento (2000)
• The Truman Show (1998)
• Kill Bill (2003)