In my opinion, the best period for movies was the 1980’s as you had many types of amazing quality movies such as Big blockbusters like Return of the Jedi Back, and Back to The Future to Dramas like the Breakfast Club and Pretty and Pink to Comedies like Police Academy and Sixteen Candles.

The following list is my opinion of the top 100 best movies from the 1980s.

From my list, you can see it is an eclectic list with a preference for John Hughes movies as well as fantasy/Sci-Fi.  On my list, John Hughes has #1 and #2 as well as 3 in the top 15 and 4 in the top 25, and 8 in the top 100. What can I say? I am a huge John Hughes fan, and his resume of great 80’s movies speaks for itself!

In the comments below, please let me know your favorite 80’s movies

1. Breakfast Club
2. Pretty in Pink
3. The Lost Boys
4. Field of Dreams
5. Back to the Future
6. Lucas
7. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
8. The Goonies
9. The Empire Strikes Back
10. THE NEVERENDING STORY
11. Say Anything
12. Sixteen Candles
13. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
14. Willow
15. The Princess Bride
16. Return of the Jedi
17. Police Academy #1
18. Rain Man
19. Highlander
20. Near Dark
21. The Boy who could Fly
22. Ferris Buellers Day Off
23. Back to the Future #2
24. The Elephant Man
25. Ghost Busters
26. Stand By Me
27. Can’t Buy me Love
28. Batteries not Included
29. UHF
30. The Last Starfighter
31. FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR
32. Superman 2
33. Superman 3
34. Mad Max 2: The Road Warriors
35. Three men and a Baby
36. Dirty Dancing
37. The Naked Gun
38. Beetlejuice
39. Labyrinth
40. La Bamba
41. Porky’s
42. Mask
43. Twins
44. Better off Dead
45. Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
46. Police Academy 3: Back in Training
47. Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure
48. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
49. Revenge of the Nerds
50. Conan the barbarian
51. Conan the Destroyer
52. See No Evil, Hear No Evil
53. Porky’s Revenge
54. NATIONAL LAMPOON’S VACATION
55. The Dark Crystal
56. Spaceballs
57. A Fish Called Wanda
58. The Outsiders
59. Trading Places
60. Krull
61. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
62. House II: The Second Story
63. Batman
64. Ghostbusters II
65. Fright Night
66. The Frisco Kid
67. Airplane
68. Ladyhawke
69. An American Werewolf in London
70. Adventure in Babysitting
71. Flash Gordon
72. Three O’Clock High
73. Major League
74. House
75. Karate Kid
76. They Live
77. Blade Runner
78. PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES
79. The Terminator
80. A Nightmare on Elm Street
81. National Lampoon’s European Vacation
82. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
83. Honey, I shrunk the Kids
84. Trading Places
85. The Whoopee Boys
86. 18 again
87. Moonstruck
88. Little Darlings
89. Coming to America
90. Look Who’s Talking
91. InnerSpace
92. Back to School
93. The Cannonball Run
94. Uncle Buck
95. Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
96. Airplane II: The Sequel
97. Terms of Endearment
98. My Left Foot
99. The Flamingo Kid
100. The Great Muppet Caper

Looking for a job and creating a resume is a daunting task that requires a lot of time and energy. Just the time alone to create an effective professional resume is very tiresome. I believe part of the process of looking for a job; you must be in a positive state of mind. A great recommendation is to unwind during your job hunting and do an activity like watching a good movie, especially one of these 100 from the 1980s.