My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown 1989

All movies on IMDB released from 1980 to 1989, with over 50,000 votes.

Tearjerkers
I made this list to remind me before watching or rewatching so I can prepare myself. Some provoke happy tears but I still want to know ahead of time. I hate crying. It causes headaches and stuffy noses.

Here you'll find feature films based on real events, and a few documentaries

This list is based on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_actual_events and other sources

Various genres of films which I’ve rated a 7 or an 8. I hope you enjoy these too :)

This list is a work-in-progress and it's not in order yet. I don't even know if I will put it in a numerical order of sorts, because how can you really decide what makes a movie better than another? But as for now, these are some of the films I consider my absolute favorite.

#BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS & CORRESPONDING MOVIE BY YEAR

1. 1936
   • Gale Sondergaard (Faith Paleologus) - Anthony Adverse
2. 1937
   • Alice Brady (Molly O'Leary) - In Old Chicago
3. 1938
   • Fay Bainter (Belle Massey) - Jezebel
4. 1939
   • Hattie McDaniel (Mammy) - Gone With The Wind
     
5. 1940
   • Jane Darwell (Ma Joad) - The Grapes of Wrath
6. 1941
   • Mary Astor (Sandra Kovak) - The Great Lie
7. 1942
   • Teresa Wright (Carol Beldon) - Mrs. Miniver
8. 1943
   • Katina Paxinou (Pilar) - For Whom The Bell Tolls
9. 1944
   • Ethel Barrymore (Ma Mott) - None but the Lonely Heart
10. 1945
    • Anne Revere (Araminty Brown) - National Velvet
11. 1946
    • Anne Baxter (Sophie Nelson-MacDonald) - The Razor's Edge
12. 1947
    • Celeste Holm (Anne Dettrey) - Gentleman's Agreement
13. 1948
    • Claire Trevor (Gaye Dawn) - Key Largo
14. 1949
    • Mercedes McCambridge (Sadie Burke) - All the King's Men
15. 1950
    • Josephine Hull (Veta Louise Simmons) - Harvey
16. 1951
    • Kim Hunter (Stella Kowalski) - A Streetcar Named Desire
17. 1952
    • Gloria Grahame (Rosemary Bartlow) - The Bad and the Beautiful
18. 1953
    • Donna Reed (Alma Burke/Lorene) - From Here to Eternity
19. 1954
    • Eva Marie Saint (Edie Doyle) - On the Waterfront
20. 1955
    • Jo Van Fleet (Cathy Ames/Kate Trask) - East of Eden
21. 1956
    • Dorothy Malone (Marylee Hadley) - Written on the Wind
22. 1957
    • Miyoshi Umeki (Katsumi Kelly) - Sayonara
23. 1958
    • Wendy Hiller (Pat Cooper) - Separate Tables
24. 1959
    • Shelley Winters (Petronella van Daan) - The Diary of Anne Frank
25. 1960
    • Shirley Jones (Lulu Baines) - Elmer Gantry
26. 1961
    • Rita Moreno (Anita del Carmen) - West Side Story
27. 1962
    • Patty Duke (Helen Keller) - The Mirable Worker
28. 1963
    • Margaret Rutherford (The Duchess of Brighton) - The V.I.P.s
29. 1964
    • Lila Kedrova (Madame Hortense) - Zorba the Greek
30. 1965
    • Sheley Winters (Rose-ann D'Arcey) - A Patch of Blue
31. 1966
    • Sandy Dennis (Honey) - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
32. 1967
    • Estelle Parsons (Blanche Barrow) - Bonnie and Clyde
33. 1968
    • Ruth Gordon (Minnie Castevet) - Rosemary's Baby
34. 1969
    • Goldie Hawn (Toni Simmons) - Cactus Flower
35. 1970
    • Helen Hayes (Ada Quonsett) - Airport
36. 1971
    • Cloris Leachman (Ruth Popper) - The Last Picture Show
37. 1972
    • Eileen Heckart (Mrs. Baker) - Butterflies Are Free
38. 1973
    • Tatum O'Neal (Addie Loggins) - Paper Moon
39. 1974
    • Ingrid Bergman (Greta Ohlsson) - Murder on the Orient Express
40. 1975
    • Lee Grant (Felicia Karpf) - Shampoo
41. 1976
    • Beatrice Staight (Louise Schumacher) - Network
42. 1977
    • Vanessa Redgrave (Julia) - Julia
43. 1978
    • Maggie Smith (Diana Barrie) - California Suite
44. 1979
    • Maryl Streep (Joanna Kramer) - Kramver vs. Kramer
45. 1980
    • Mary Steenburgen (Lynda West-Dummar) - Melvin and Howard
46. 1981
    • Maureen Stapleton (Emma Goldman) - Reds
47. 1982
    • Jessica Lange (Julie Nichols) - Tootsie
48. 1983
    • Linda Hunt (Billy Kwan) - The Year of Living Dangerously
49. 1984
    • Peggy Ashcroft (Mrs. Moore) - A Passage to India
50. 1985
    • Anjelica Juston (Maerose Prizzi) - Prizzi's Honor
51. 1986
    • Dianne Wiest (Holly) - Hannah and Her Sisters
52. 1987
    • Olympia Dukakis (Rose Castorini) - Moonstruck
53. 1988
    • Geena Davis (muriel Pritchett) - The Accidental Tourist
54. 1989
    • Brenda Fricker (Bridget Fagan-Brown) - My Left Foot
55. 1990
    • Whoopi Coldberg (Oda Mae Brown) - Ghost
56. 1991
    • Mercedes Ruehl (Anne Napolitano) - The Fisher King
57. 1992
    • Marisa Tomei (Mona Lisa Vito) - My Cousin Vinny
58. 1993
    • Anna Paquin (Flora McGrath) - The Piano
59. 1994
    • Dianne Wiest (Helen Sinclair) - Bullets over Broadway
60. 1995
    • Mira Sorvino (Linda Ash) - Mighty Aphrodite
61. 1996
    • Juliette Binoche (Hana) - The English Patient
62. 1997
    • Kim Basinger (Lynn Margaret Bracken) - L.A. Confidential
63. 1998
    • Judi Dench (Queen Elizabeth I) - Shakespeare in Love
64. 1999
    • Angelina Jolie (Lisa Rowe) - Girl, Interrupted
65. 2000
    • Marcia Gay Harden (Lee Krasner) - Pollock
66. 2001
    • Jennifer Connelly (Alicia Nash) - A Beautiful Mind
67. 2002
    • Catherine Zeta Jones (Velma Kelly) - Chicago
68. 2003
    • Renee Zellweger (Ruby Thewes) - Cold Mountain
69. 2004
    • Cate Blanchett (Katharine Hepburn) - The Aviator
70. 2005
    • Rachel Wiesz (Tessa Quayle) - The Constant Gardener
71. 2006
    • Jennifer Hudson (Eddie White) - Dreamgirls
72. 2007
    • Tilda Swinton (Karen Crowder) - Michael Clayton
73. 2008
    • Penelop Cruz (Maria Elena) - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
74. 2009
    • Mo'Nique (Mary Lee Johnston) - Precious
75. 2010
    • Melissa Leo (Alice Eklund-Ward) - The Fighter
76. 2011
    • Octavia Spencer (Minny Jackson) - The Help
77. 2012
    • Anne Hathaway (Fantine) - Les Miserables
78. 2013
    • Lupita Nyong'o (Patsey) - 12 Years a Slave
79. 2014
    • Patricia Arquette (Olivia Evans) - Boyhood
80. 2015
    • Alicia Vikander (Gerda Wegener) - The Danish Girl
81. 2016
    • Viola Davis (Rose Lee Maxson) - Fences
82. 2017
    • Allison Janney (LaVona Golden) - I, Tonya
83. 2018
    • Regina King (Sharon Rivers) - If Beale Street Could Talk
84. 2019
    • Laura Dern (Nora Fanshaw) - Marriage Story
85. 2020
    • Youn Yuh-jung (Soon-ja) - Minari
86. 2021
    • Ariana DeBose (Anita) - West Side Story
87. 2022
    • Jamie Lee Curtis (Deirdre Beaubeirdre) - Everything Everywhere All at Once

Actresses only show up next to their first movie until Trakt allows the same item multiple times on a list

#BEST ACTOR & CORRESPONDING MOVIE BY YEAR

1. 1927/1928
   • Emil Jannings (Grand Duke Sergius Alexander) - The Last Command
   • Emil Jannings (August Schilling) - The Way of All Flesh
2. 1928/1929
   • Warner Baxter (The Cisco Kid) - In Old Arizona
3. 1929/1930
   • George Arliss (Benjamin Disraeli) - Disraeli
4. 1930/1931
   • Lionel Barrymore (Stephen Ashe) - A Free Soul
5. 1931/1932
   • Wallace Beery (Andy "Champ" Purcell) - The Champ
   • Fredric March (Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde) - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6. 1932/1933
   • Charles Laughton (King Henry VIII of England) - The Private Life of Henry VIII
7. 1934
   • Clark Gable (Peter Warne) - It Happened One Night
8. 1935
   • Victor McLaglen (Gypo Nolan) - The Informer
9. 1936
   • Paul Muni (Louis Pasteur) - The Story of Louis Pasteur
10. 1937
    • Spencer Tracy (Manuel Fidello) - Captains Courageous
11. 1938
    • Spencer Tracy (Father Flanagan) - Boys Town
12. 1939
    • Robert Donat (Charles Edward Chipping) - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
13. 1940
    • James Stewart (Macaulay "Mike" Connor) - The Philadelphia Story
14. 1941
    • Gary Cooper (Sgt. Alvin York) - Sergeant York
15. 1942
    • James Cagney (George M. Cohan) - Yankee Doodle Dandy
16. 1943
    • Paul Lukas (Kurt Muller) - Watch on the Rhine
17. 1944
    • Bing Crosby (Father Chuck O'Malley) - Going My Way
18. 1945
    • Ray Milland (Don Birnam) The Lost Weekend
19. 1946
    • Fredric March (Platoon Sergeant Al Stephenson) - The Best Years of Our Lives
20. 1947
    • Ronal Colman (Anthony John) - A Double Life
21. 1948
    • Laurence Olivier (Hamlet, Prince of Denmark) - Hamlet
22. 1949
    • Broderick Crawford (Willie Stark) - All the King's Men
23. 1950
    • Jose Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac) - Cyrano de Bergerac
24. 1951
    • Humphrey Bogart (Charlie Allnut) - The African Queen
25. 1952
    • Gary Cooper (Marshal Will Kane) - High Noon
26. 1953
    • William Holden (Sgt. J. J. Sefton) - Stalag 17
27. 1954
    • Marlon Brando (Terry Malloy) - On the Waterfront
28. 1955
    • Ernest Borgnine (Marty Piletti) - Marty
29. 1956
    • Yul Brynner (King Mongkut of Slam) - The King and I
30. 1957
    • Alec Guiness (Lt. Colonel Nicholson) - The Bridge on the River Kwai
31. 1958
    • David Niven (Major Angus Pollock) - Separate Tables
32. 1959
    • Charlton Heston (Judah Ben-Hur) - Ben-Hur
33. 1960
    • Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry) - Elmer Gantry
34. 1961
    • Maximilian Schell (Hans Rolfe) - Judgment at Nuremberg
35. 1962
    • Gregory Peck (Atticus Finch) - To Kill a Mockingbird
36. 1963
    • Sidney Poitier (Homer Smith) - Lilies of the Field
37. 1964
    • Rex Harrison (Professor Henry Higgins) - My Fair Lady
38. 1965
    • Lee Marvin (Kid Shellen & Tim Strawn) - Cat Ballou
39. 1966
    • Paul Scofield (Sir Thomas More) - A Man for All Seasons
40. 1967
    • Rod Steiger (Police Chief Bill Gillespie) - In the Heat of the Night
41. 1968
    • Cliff Robertson (Charly Gordon) - Charly
42. 1969
    • John Wayne (Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn) - True Grit
43. 1970
    • George C. Scott (General George S. Patton Jr.) - Patton
44. 1971
    • Gene Hackman (Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle) - The French Connection
45. 1972
    • Marlon Brando (Vito Corleone) - The Godfather
46. 1973
    • Jack Lemmon (Harry Stoner) - Save the Tiger
47. 1974
    • Art Carney (Harry Coombes) - Harry and Tonto
48. 1975
    • Jack Nicholson (Randle Patrick "Mac" McMurphy) - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
49. 1976
    • Peter Finch (Howard Beale) - Network
50. 1977
    • Richard Dreyfuss (Elliot Garfield) - The Goodbye Girl
51. 1978
    • Jon Voight (Luke Martin) - Coming Home
52. 1979
    • Dustin Hoffman (Ted Kramer) - Kramer vs. Kramer
53. 1980
    • Robert De Niro (Jake LaMotta) - Raging Bull
54. 1981
    • Henry Fonda (Norman Thayer Jr.) - On Golden Pond
55. 1982
    • Ben Kingsley (Mahatma Gandhi) - Gandhi
56. 1983
    • Robert Duvall (Mac Sledge) - Tender Mercies
57. 1984
    • F. Murray Abraham (Antonio Salleri) - Amadeus
58. 1985
    • William Hurt (Luis Molina) - Kiss of the Spider Woman
59. 1986
    • Paul Newman (Fast Eddie Felson) - The Color of Money
60. 1987
    • Michael Douglas (Gordon Gekko) - Wall Street
61. 1988
    • Dustin Hoffman (Raymond Babbitt) - Rain Man
62. 1989
    • Daniel Day-Lewis (Christy Brown) - My Left Foot
63. 1990
    • Jeremy Irons (Claus von Bulow) - Reversal of Fortune
64. 1991
    • Anthony Hopkins (Dr. Hannibal Lecter) - The Silence of the Lambs
65. 1992
    • Al Pacino (Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade) - Scent of a Woman
66. 1993
    • Tom Hanks (Andrew Beckett) - Philadelphia
67. 1994
    • Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump) - Forrest Gump
68. 1995
    • Nicolas Cage (Ben Sanderson) - Leaving Las Vegas
69. 1996
    • Geoffrey Rush (David Helfgott) - Shine
70. 1997
    • Jack Nicholson (Melvin Udall) - As Good as It Gets
71. 1998
    • Roberto Benigni (Guido Orefice) - Life is Beautiful
72. 1999
    • Kevin Spacey (Lester Burnham) - American Beauty
73. 2000
    • Russell Crowe (Maximus Decimus Meridius) - Gladiator
74. 2001
    • Denzel Washington (Detective Alonzo Harris) - Training Day
75. 2002
    • Adrien Brody (Władysław Szpilman) - The Pianist
76. 2003
    • Sean Penn (Jimmy Markum) - Mystic River
77. 2004
    • Jamie Foxx (Ray Charles) - Ray
78. 2005
    • Philip Seymour Hoffman (Truman Capote) - Capote
79. 2006
    • Forest Whitaker (Ida Amin) - The Last King of Scotland
80. 2007
    • Daniel Day-Lewis (Daniel Plainview) - There Will Be Blood
81. 2008
    • Sean Penn (Harvey Milk) - Milk
82. 2009
    • Jeff Bridges (Otis "Bad" Blake) - Crazy Heart
83. 2010
    • Colin Firth (King George VI) - The King's Speech
84. 2011
    • Jean Dujardin (George Valentin) - The Artist
85. 2012
    • Daniel Day-Lewis (Abraham Lincoln) - Lincoln
86. 2013
    • Matthew McConaughey (Ron Woodroof) - Dallas Buyers Club
87. 2014
    • Eddie Redmayne (Stephen Hawking) - The Theory of Everything
88. 2015
    • Leonardo DiCaprio (High Glass) - The Revenant
89. 2016
    • Casey Affleck (Lee Chandler) - Manchester by the Sea
90. 2017
    • Gary Oldman (Winston Churchill) - Darkest Hour
91. 2018
    • Rami Malek (Freddie Mercury) - Bohemian Rhapsody
92. 2019
    • Joaquin Phoenix (Arthur Fleck/Joker) - Joker
93. 2020
    • Anthony Hopkins (Anthony) - The Father
94. 2021
    • *** Will Smith (Richard Williams) - King Richard***
95. 2022
    • Brendan Fraser (Charlie) - The Whale

Actors only show up next to their first movie until Trakt allows the same item multiple times on a list

Updated with 2024 winners.

IMDb's Top Movies from 1989.

Minimum of 25,000 votes, minimum rating of 6.0, maximum of 100 movies.

Last Updated: June 26, 2024

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Last Updated: 2012-09-08
These Greatest Movies of the 1980s chosen for their quality direction, script, cinematography, acting, storyline, originality, and success.

Not all will be excellent, but I will have enjoyed the concept or something similar.

Some maybe a 5 star rating, some maybe a 10.

All I would recommend.

I hope you enjoy :blush:

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