Top 10 Best Sci-fi Movies
by Year 1980-1989

1. The Abyss
(James Cameron) (Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio)

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2. Leviathan
(George P. Cosmatos) (Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays)

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3. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
(William Shatner) (William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy)

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4. Slipstream
(Steven Lisberger) (Mark Hamill, Bill Paxton, Bob Peck)

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5. Tetsuo: The Iron Man
(Shin'ya Tsukamoto) (Tomorô Taguchi, Shin'ya Tsukamoto)

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6. DeepStar Six
(Sean S. Cunningham) (Greg Evigan, Nancy Everhard, Miguel Ferrer)

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7. The Blood of Heroes
(David Webb Peoples) (Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Delroy Lindo)

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8. Robot Jox
(Stuart Gordon) (Gary Graham, Anne-Marie Johnson, Paul Koslo)

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9. Cyborg
(Albert Pyun) (Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter, Alex Daniels)

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10. The Terror Within
(Thierry Notz) (Andrew Stevens, George Kennedy, Terri Treas)

1. They Live
(John Carpenter) (Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster)

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2. Alien Nation
(Graham Baker) (James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp)

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3. Heart of a Dog
(Vladimir Bortko) (Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov)

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4. The Blob
(Chuck Russell) (Shawnee Smith, Kevin Dillon, Jeffrey DeMunn)

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5. Cocoon: The Return
(Daniel Petrie) (Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Courteney Cox)

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6. Short Circuit 2
(Kenneth Johnson) (Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb)

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7. Pulse
(Paul Golding) (Cliff De Young, Roxanne Hart, Joey Lawrence)

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8. Critters 2: The Main Course
(Mick Garris) (Scott Grimes, Liane Curtis, Terrence Mann)

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9. The Brain
(Ed Hunt) (Tom Bresnahan, Cynthia Preston, David Gale)

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10. World Gone Wild
(Lee H. Katzin) (Bruce Dern, Michael Paré, Catherine Mary Stewart)

1. Predator
(John McTiernan) (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura)

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2. RoboCop
(Paul Verhoeven) (Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox)

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3. The Running Man
(Paul Michael Glaser) (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso)

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4. The Hidden
(Jack Sholder) (Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Claudia Christian)

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5. Innerspace
(Joe Dante) (Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy)

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6. The Kindred
(Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow) (Rod Steiger, Kim Hunter)

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7. The Curse
(David Keith) (Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, John Schneider)

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8. Steel Dawn
(Lance Hool) (Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi, Anthony Zerbe)

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9. Veld (aka The Veldt)
(Nazim Tulyahodzhayev) (Yury Belyayev, Nelli Pshyonnaya)

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10. Creepozoids
(David DeCoteau) (Linnea Quigley, Ken Abraham, Richard L. Hawkins)

1. Aliens
(James Cameron) (Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton)

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2. The Fly
(David Cronenberg) (Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz)

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3. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
(Leonard Nimoy) (William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy)

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4. Flight of the Navigator
(Randal Kleiser) (Joey Cramer, Cliff De Young, Veronica Cartwright)

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5. The Manhattan Project
(Marshall Brickman) (John Lithgow, Christopher Collet)

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6. From Beyond
(Stuart Gordon) (Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ted Sorel)

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7. Short Circuit
(John Badham) (Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens)

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8. Invaders from Mars
(Tobe Hooper) (Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms)

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9. Critters
(Stephen Herek) (Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Zane)

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10. Maximum Overdrive
(Stephen King) (Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Yeardley Smith)

1. Brazil
(Terry Gilliam) (Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Ian Holm)

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2. Back to the Future
(Robert Zemeckis) (Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd)

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3. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
(George Miller, George Ogilvie) (Mel Gibson)

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4. Enemy Mine
(Wolfgang Petersen) (Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James)

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5. Cocoon
(Ron Howard) (Don Ameche, Steve Guttenberg, Tahnee Welch)

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6. Explorers
(Joe Dante) (Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson)

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7. Lifeforce
(Tobe Hooper) (Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Peter Firth)

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8. D.A.R.Y.L.
(Simon Wincer) (Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Barret Oliver)

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9. The Quiet Earth
(Geoff Murphy) (Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge)

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10. Warning Sign
(Hal Barwood) (Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan, Yaphet Kotto)

1. The Terminator
(James Cameron) (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton)

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2. Starman
(John Carpenter) (Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith)

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3. Nineteen Eighty-Four
(Michael Radford) (John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton)

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4. Repo Man
(Alex Cox) (Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Olivia Barash)

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5. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
(W.D. Richter) (Peter Weller)

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6. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
(Leonard Nimoy) (William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy)

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7. The Last Starfighter
(Nick Castle) (Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Dan Mason)

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8. 2010: The Year We Make Contact
(Peter Hyams) (Roy Scheider, Helen Mirren)

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9. Runaway
(Michael Crichton) (Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Gene Simmons)

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10. The Philadelphia Experiment
(Stewart Raffill) (Michael Paré, Nancy Allen)

1. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
(Richard Marquand) (Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford)

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2. WarGames
(John Badham) (Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin)

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3. Videodrome
(David Cronenberg) (James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits)

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4. Brainstorm
(Douglas Trumbull) (Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher)

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5. Krull
(Peter Yates) (Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones, Liam Neeson)

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6. Twilight Zone: The Movie
(Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller) (Vic Morrow, Dan Aykroyd)

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7. Testament
(Lynne Littman) (Lynne Littman, William Devane, Rebecca De Mornay)

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8. Wavelength
(Mike Gray) (Robert Carradine, Cherie Currie, Keenan Wynn)

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9. Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
(Lamont Johnson) (Peter Strauss)

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10. Strange Invaders
(Michael Laughlin) (Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, June Lockhart)

1. Blade Runner
(Ridley Scott) (Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Daryl Hannah)

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2. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
(Steven Spielberg) (Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore)

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3. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
(Nicholas Meyer) (William Shatner, Ricardo Montalban)

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4. The Thing
(John Carpenter) (Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David)

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5. TRON
(Steven Lisberger) (Jeff Bridges, David Warner, Bruce Boxleitner)

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6. Android
(Aaron Lipstadt) (Klaus Kinski, Don Keith Opper, Brie Howard)

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7. Forbidden World
(Allan Holzman) (Jesse Vint, Dawn Dunlap, June Chadwick)

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8. Turkey Shoot
(Brian Trenchard-Smith) (Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey)

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9. Battletruck- (Harley Cokeliss) (Michael Beck, Annie McEnroe)

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10. Parasite
(Charles Band) (Demi Moore, Robert Glaudini, Luca Bercovici)

1. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
(George Miller) (Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence)

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2. Escape from New York
(John Carpenter) (Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence)

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3. Scanners
(David Cronenberg) (Jennifer O'Neill, Patrick McGoohan, Stephen Lack)

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4. Outland
(Peter Hyams) (Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen)

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5. Looker
(Michael Crichton) (Albert Finney, Susan Dey, James Coburn)

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6. Malevil
(Christian de Chalonge) (Michel Serrault, Jacques Dutronc)

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7. Memoirs of a Survivor
(David Gladwell) (Julie Christie, Christopher Guard)

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8. Petlya Oriona
(Vasili Levin) (Leonid Bakshtaev, Gennadi Shkuratov)

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9. Galaxy of Terror
(Bruce D. Clark) (Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston)

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10. The Last Chase
(Martyn Burke) (Lee Majors, Burgess Meredith, Alexandra Stewart)

1. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
(Irvin Kershner) (Mark Hamill)

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2. Altered States
(Ken Russell) (William Hurt, Blair Brown, Charles Haid)

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3. Death Watch
(Bertrand Tavernier) (Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Max von Sydow)

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4. The Final Countdown
(Don Taylor) (Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross)

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5. Flash Gordon
(Mike Hodges) (Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow)

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6. Hangar 18
(James L. Conway) (Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn, Gary Collins)

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7. Contamination
(Luigi Cozzi) (Ian McCulloch, Ian McCulloch, Siegfried Rauch)

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8. Virus
(Kinji Fukasaku) (Masao Kusakari, Tsunehiko Watase)

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9. Saturn 3
(Stanley Donen) (Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel)

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10. Without Warning
(Greydon Clark) (Jack Palance, Martin Landau)