1985 — Back To The Future
Time travel movies appear from time to time, but none have done it better than this 1985 masterpiece. Combining the sparkle of the 1980s with the nostalgia of the 1950s resulted in a rock-and-roll journey with enough nuanced elements to justify multiple viewings. Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is a wannabe musician who assists Doc Brown (the brilliantly wacky Christopher Lloyd) with his weird experiments — and his latest one is poised to transform the future… or the past… or both!
1985 — Back To The Future
1986 — Stand By Me
Stranger Things may have had the creative monopoly on friendship in the 1980s, but it couldn’t exist without apparent inspiration from Stand By Me, Rob Reiner’s great adaptation of Stephen King’s coming-of-age short tale. What begins as a boyhood quest to uncover a dead body becomes considerably more of a drama than an adventure as each guy is forced to confront the possibility that his childhood aspirations will never come true.
1986 — Stand By Me