1980s satirical films

1985 dystopian film by Terry Gilliam

Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!) is a 1980 American comedy film written and directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker in their directorial debut, and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Lorna Patterson, Stephen Stucker, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows the plot, central characters, and some dialogue. It also draws many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in

Spaceballs is a 1987 American space opera parody film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks. It primarily parodies the original Star Wars trilogy, but also other popular franchises such as Star Trek, Alien, The Wizard of Oz, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, and Transformers. The film stars Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis and Daphne Zuniga, with the supporting cast including Dick Van Patten, George Wyner, Lorene Yarnell, and the voice of Joan Rivers. In addition to Brooks playing a dual role, the film features Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise and Rudy De Luca in cameo appe

1982 film by Martin Scorsese

1983 film directed by John Landis

1988 film by John Carpenter

1989 American buddy cop action comedy film

1989 film by Woody Allen

1983 film directed by Terry Jones

1985 film by Martin Scorsese

1983 film by Paul Brickman

1983 film directed by Harold Ramis

Caddyshack is a 1980 American sports comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney, and starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe and Bill Murray with supporting roles by Sarah Holcomb, Cindy Morgan, and Doyle-Murray. It tells the story of a caddie, vying for a caddie scholarship, who becomes involved in a feud on the links between one of the country club's founders and a nouveau riche guest. A subplot involves a greenskeeper who uses extreme methods against an elusive gopher.

1987 film by James L. Brooks

Heathers is a 1989 American teen satirical black comedy crime film written by Daniel Waters and directed by Michael Lehmann, in both of their respective film debuts. The film stars Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker and Penelope Milford. The plot revolves around four teenage girls—three of whom are named Heather—in a clique at an Ohio high school, one of whose lives is disrupted by the arrival of Jason "J.D." Dean, a misanthrope intent on murdering the popular students and staging their deaths as suicides.

1981 film by Bertrand Tavernier

1980 French-Italian film by Federico Fellini

This Is Spinal Tap is a 1984 American mockumentary comedy film directed by Rob Reiner in his feature directorial debut. Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer play members of the parody heavy metal band Spinal Tap. Reiner plays Martin "Marty" Di Bergi, a documentary filmmaker following the band's American tour.

1984 film directed by Brian De Palma

1980 film by Pedro Almodóvar

1985 American black comedy/zombie film directed by Dan O'Bannon

1986 film by Federico Fellini

1987 film by Peter Jackson

1984 film by Alex Cox

1986 film by Roman Polanski

1988 film by John Waters

1983 film by Pedro Almodóvar

1989 film by Peter Jackson

1980 film by Robert Zemeckis

1988 film by John De Bello

1982 film by Lindsay Anderson

1989 film directed by Brian Yuzna

American science-fiction film 1987

1987 film directed by Peter Horton, Carl Gottlieb, Joe Dante, Robert K. Weiss, John Landis

1982 film by Richard Brooks

Zerograd (), also translated as City Zero, Zero City or Zero Town, is a 1989 Russian mystery film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov, described as an absurdist comedy by Mosfilm. A Moscow engineer Alexey Varakin visits a factory in a small town on a business trip, where his bizarre adventures begin. At the factory he sees a naked secretary, but nobody seems to pay attention to this; later we encounters a prosecutor who wants to commit a crime, and other strange characters. In addition it turns out that he cannot leave the town.

1985 film directed by Larry Cohen

1981 film by John Waters

1986 film directed by Béla Ternovszky

1987 film by Norman Mailer

1984 film by Arthur Hiller

1982 film by Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader, Pierce Rafferty

1985 film by Albert Pyun

1987 film by Peter George

1980 film directed by Kevin Connor

1980 film directed by Robert Altman

1980 film by William Peter Blatty

1987 film by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao

1985 film by Ken Finkleman

1986 film by David Byrne

1989 film by Bruce Robinson

1983 film by Lizzie Borden

1980 Tamil film directed by K. Balachander

1982 film by Steven Paul

1980 film directed by Marshall Brickman

1986 film by Tom DeSimone

1989 film by Paul Bartel

1987 film by John Moffitt

1987 film by Robert Townsend

1985 cyberpunk television movie