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#1. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

★ 8.4/10 19,071 votes

The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair.

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#2. Scarface (1983)

★ 8.2/10 13,631 votes

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

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#3. Ratas de la ciudad (1985)

★ 8.1/10 24 votes

A father on the search for his missing child discovers a revealing and shocking drama. The true adventures of thousands of juvenile criminals who live in a big city. They live in ghettos, in a world ful of violence, corruption and hate. They form gangs who attack and rob innocent victims, leaving a trail of terror behind.

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#4. Ran (1985)

★ 8.0/10 1,954 votes

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

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#5. Castle in the Sky (1986)

★ 8.0/10 4,864 votes

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

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#6. Aliens (1986)

★ 8.0/10 11,337 votes

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.

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#7. Akira (1988)

★ 7.9/10 5,096 votes

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

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#8. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

★ 7.9/10 14,172 votes

When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.

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#9. Return of the Jedi (1983)

★ 7.9/10 17,505 votes

Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, the Emperor prepares to crush the Rebellion with a more powerful Death Star, and the Rebel fleet mounts a massive attack on the space station. Luke Skywalker confronts Darth Vader in a final climactic duel before the evil Emperor.

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#10. Buddha's Palm (1982)

★ 7.9/10 37 votes

An old blind martial master living in a cave teaches a young swordsman the secret of the Buddha's Palm, a legendary martial arts technique, which propels him into a whole new world of evil knights, hidden temples, dragon dogs, and magical objects.

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#11. Kireedam (1989)

★ 7.9/10 47 votes

Sethu aspires to become a police officer to fulfil his father's dream. However, his life turns upside down when he intervenes in a scuffle with a criminal to save his father's life.

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#12. Saint Seiya: Legend of Crimson Youth (1988)

★ 7.9/10 258 votes

The Sun God Abel returns to life, bent on punishing the humans and cleansing Earth from their presence. When Athena joins him, leaving humans to their fate, the Bronze Saints must defend the world in their greatest battle yet.

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#13. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

★ 7.9/10 11,495 votes

In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world!

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#14. Die Hard (1988)

★ 7.8/10 12,815 votes

High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. One man has manages to escape... An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only chance anyone has got.

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#15. Kagemusha (1980)

★ 7.8/10 776 votes

A feudal epic presenting the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. The impostor becomes comfortable living his life among nobility, but his responsibilities to his station grow more demanding the longer he occupies it.

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