I feel like it's hard to make 1980s film recommendations to millennials, who I'm pretty sure make up the vast majority of people who'll see this. We grew up with a lot of these films, we got recommended them by our parents and older relatives, and even a lot of the decade's bombs, like Blade Runner, The Thing, and Labyrinth, are now widely considered classics. So this top 10 list is going to be films that I rarely hear brought up or at least recommended. Not all of these are top tier stuff, but I think they're all worth watching.

And for those wondering why I'm skipping the 1970s, in my effort to finally build up my film literacy, that's a decade I still don't feel like I've explored enough to make a good list yet, but it's coming eventually.

So I've been watching a lot of old movies over the last few years, largely through laserdisc collecting, and I've made threads for my top 10 films of the 40s, 50s, and 60s, but there are other old films I think are worth watching and want to talk about. I made another thread for this, but I feel like that kind of thread might get a bit unwieldy if I let it get too big, so I think I'm going to start a new one of these every 10 films or so. Some of these films will be great, some will be flawed but interesting, and some will be complete messes that are compelling to watch for whatever reason.