You might have been a kid in the 80s if some movies you can remember watching include E.T., The Last Starfighter, The Empire Strikes Back, or Ghostbusters, to name a few. And chances are you’ve got some entertaining to do at home these days. So we’ve put together some family-friendly 80s movies to stream for your kids (or yourself). Don’t blame me if you end up watching them instead of doing work! And FYI it is expected for you to say, “In my day, we watched this on HBO or VHS.”
(Tell me that you didn’t just remember what the beginning of an HBO movie or the VCR starting up sounded like.) And while we each have a different interpretation of what is a family-friendly movie, there’s a good chance many of these will be playing on a television near you soon…
- Adventures in Babysitting
- Back to the Future
- Battle Beyond the Stars
- Beastmaster
- Big Trouble in Little China
- Cloak & Dagger – Filmed in San Antonio. Check more SA location movies here.
- D.A.R.Y.L.
- Flash Gordon
- Flight of the Navigator
- Gremlins
- Harry and the Hendersons
- Hocus Pocus
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
- Hook
- Ice Pirates
- Innerspace – play on words for this one
- Krull
- Labyrinth
- Ladyhawk
- Legend
- Little Monsters
- Masters of the Universe
- SpaceCamp
- Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
- The Dark Crystal
- The Explorers
- The Goonies
- The Great Muppet Caper
- The Indiana Jones Trilogy
- The Karate Kid
- The Muppets Take Manhattan
- The NeverEnding Story
- The Princess Bride
- The Three Amigos
- The Time Bandits
- The Wizard
- Tron
- Uncle Buck
- Willow
This is not THE definitive list of family-friendly 80s movies to watch with your kids (or without). Keep in mind that the MPAA ratings for movies have evolved a bit, and what was rated PG when we were kids in the 80s is now on prime time television; what may be scary or inappropriate for some, may not be for others. And, there’s another entire list we could make to watch with tweens and teens!
Have fun going through this list! Let us know what you’re watching by tagging us on social media with #ACM80sMovies or share your movie watch card (if you’re on mobile, tap and hold the image below to save to your phone/tablet) and use the same tag!
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