1980s Christmas films

Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. It stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia, with Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, and Hart Bochner in supporting roles. Die Hard follows a New York City police detective, John McClane (Willis), who becomes entangled in a terrorist takeover of a Los Angeles skyscraper while visiting his estranged wife during a Christmas Eve party.

1982 film by Ingmar Bergman

1985 film directed by Sylvester Stallone

1983 film by Nagisa Ōshima

1989 film by Neil Jordan

1983 Mickey Mouse short directed by Burny Mattinson

1985 film by Phillip Borsos

1988 film by Brian Gilbert

1985 film by Jeannot Szwarc

1984 US television film directed by Clive Donner

Trancers (also released as Future Cop) is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by Charles Band and starring Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, and Art LaFleur. It is the first film in the Trancers series. Thomerson plays Jack Deth, a Philip Marlowe-esque police detective from the 23rd century who travels to the 1980s to bring his old nemesis to justice. The film portrays a unique method of time travel: people can travel back in time by injecting themselves with a drug that allows them to take over the body of an ancestor.

1984 Swedish film directed by Bo Widerberg

1989 film by John D. Hancock

1986 film directed by Clive Donner