Best award winning movies with dazzling visual from 1980s

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with dazzling visual from 1980s! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with dazzling visual from 1980s, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 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

rating icon 7.627
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #24 for
    deservedly won awards
  2. Ranked #30 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #97 for
    hagiography

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2 The Mission (1986)

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.

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1986-09-24 | Adventure / Drama

Cast

Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons

Rating

rating icon 7.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #6 for
    critically acclaimed
  2. Ranked #73 for
    extraordinary
  3. Ranked #148 for
    tour de force

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3 Ran (1985)

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.

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1985-06-01 | Action / Drama

Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao

Rating

rating icon 8.069
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #42 for
    backstabbing
  2. Ranked #64 for
    with mercenaries
  3. Ranked #104 for
    implacable

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4 Blade Runner (1982)

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

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1982-06-25 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer

Rating

rating icon 7.938
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #80 for
    cyborg
  2. Ranked #113 for
    futuristic society
  3. Ranked #117 for
    orwellian

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5 A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)

Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. No one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao-Tsing, with whom he falls in love.

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1987-07-18 | Fantasy / Action

Cast

Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong

Rating

rating icon 7.262
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #33 for
    gun fu
  2. Ranked #34 for
    swordsmanship
  3. Ranked #81 for
    propulsive

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6 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

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1988-12-07 | Fantasy / Adventure

Cast

John Neville, Eric Idle

Rating

rating icon 6.944
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #36 for
    iconoclast
  2. Ranked #121 for
    escapist fantasy
  3. Ranked #131 for
    imaginary fairy tale

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7 Empire of the Sun (1987)

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.

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1987-12-09 | Drama / History

Cast

Christian Bale, John Malkovich

Rating

rating icon 7.518
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #125 for
    spoiled brat
  2. Ranked #152 for
    Aerial Combat
  3. Ranked #171 for
    most underrated

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8 Hope and Glory (1987)

A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.

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1987-09-03 | Drama / War

Cast

Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir

Rating

rating icon 6.842
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #34 for
    tetchy
  2. Ranked #109 for
    cantankerous
  3. Ranked #132 for
    childhood

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9 Paris, Texas (1984)

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

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1984-07-16 | Drama

Cast

Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski

Rating

rating icon 8.103
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #38 for
    tour de force
  2. Ranked #83 for
    ambling
  3. Ranked #151 for
    foster father

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10 Wings of Desire (1987)

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.

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1987-09-23 | Drama / Fantasy

Cast

Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin

Rating

rating icon 7.763
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #89 for
    freak show
  2. Ranked #98 for
    elegiac
  3. Ranked #102 for
    harsh sound

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