Best award winning movies with a plenty of twist from 1980s
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a plenty of twist from 1980s! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a plenty of twist from 1980s, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Prizzi's Honor (1985)
Charley Partanna is a hitman who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime families in the US. When he sees Irene Walker, it's love at first sight. But he soon finds that she, too, is a killer for hire. Charley can overlook his suspicions, but he can't turn off his heart. And the couple must remember that even if they love each other, the Prizzis love only money.
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- 1985-06-14 | Romance / Comedy
Cast
- Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner
Rating
6.376
2 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
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- 1988-03-25 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas
Rating
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7.4
3 Diva (1981)
Jules, a young Parisian postman, secretly records a concert performance given by the opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises. The following day, Jules runs into a woman who is being pursued by armed thugs. Before she is killed, the woman slips an audio cassette into his mail bag...
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- 1981-03-11 | Action / Drama
Cast
- Frédéric Andréi, Richard Bohringer
Rating
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6.742
4 A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only one after the collection.
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- 1988-07-15 | Comedy / Crime
Cast
- Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese
Rating
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7.2
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5 Blood Simple (1985)
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
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- 1985-01-18 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- John Getz, Frances McDormand
Rating
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7.2
6 House of Games (1987)
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
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- 1987-10-11 | Crime / Thriller
Cast
- Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna
Rating
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6.8
7 Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
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- 1986-02-07 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey
Rating
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7.512
8 Mephisto (1981)
A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.
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- 1981-02-11 | Drama
Cast
- Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda
Rating
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7.18
9 The Last Emperor (1987)
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
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- 1987-10-04 | Drama / History
Cast
- John Lone, Peter O'Toole
Rating
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7.627
10 Amadeus (1984)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer who unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined Antonio Salieri. Resenting Mozart for both his hedonistic lifestyle and his undeniable talent, the highly religious Salieri is gradually consumed by his jealousy and becomes obsessed with Mozart's downfall, leading to a devious scheme that has dire consequences for both men.
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- 1984-09-19 | History / Music
Cast
- F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce
Rating
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8.032
