Films That Define a Decade: '80s

Collection of four classic films from the 1980s. In 'The Blues Brothers' (1980), brothers Jake (John Belushi) and Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) lend a hand when the church orphanage in which they were raised is threatened with closure. Resolving to get their old band together and stage a fund-raising gig, the brothers must overcome a number of unexpected obstacles along the way. In 'An American Werewolf in London' (1981), American students David Kessler (David Naughton) and Jack Goodman (Griffin Dunne) are spending their holidays backpacking around England. After becoming lost on the moors, they are attacked by a savage animal. Jack is killed, but when David wakes in a London hospital weeks later he is horrified to receive a visit from the rotting corpse of an undead Jack, who informs him that the creature which attacked them was in fact a werewolf. Unless David kills himself, he will fall prey to the monster's curse at the next full moon. 'Scarface' (1983) follows the story of up-and-coming gangster Tony Montana (Al Pacino) after he arrives in Miami as a Cuban refugee. With his friend Manny (Steven Bauer), Tony carries out a hit on a politician, earning him the gratitude of drug dealer Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia). Tony rises rapidly in the organisation, but courts disaster when he becomes involved with Frank's cocaine-addicted wife, Elvira (Michelle Pfeiffer). Finally, in 'The Thing' (1982), a research team in the Antarctic is terrorised by a shape-changing monster following the discovery of an alien spaceship deep beneath the ice. Unsure of who is alive and who has been assimilated by the creature, R.J. MacReady (Kurt Russell) and the rest of his men face a desperate battle to survive.

Director: John Landis
Director: Brian De Palma
Director: John Carpenter
Producer: Robert K. Weiss
Producer: George Folsey Jr.
Producer: Martin Bregman
Producer: David Foster
Producer: Lawrence Turman
Writer: Dan Aykroyd
Writer: John Landis
Writer: Oliver Stone
Writer: Bill Lancaster
Music: Elmer Bernstein
Music: Giorgio Moroder
Music: Ennio Morricone
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
Cinematographer: John A. Alonzo
Cinematographer: Robert Paynter
Cinematographer: Stephen M. Katz
Actor: John Belushi
Actor: Dan Aykroyd
Actor: Carrie Fisher
Actor: John Candy
Actor: David Naughton
Actor: Griffin Dunne
Actor: Jenny Agutter
Actor: David Schofield
Actor: Al Pacino
Actor: Steven Bauer
Actor: Michelle Pfeiffer
Actor: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Actor: Kurt Russell
Actor: Wilford Brimley
Actor: T.K. Carter
Actor: David Clennon
Actor: Robert Loggia
Director: John Hughes
Assistant Director: Ken Collins
Assistant Director: Stephen Lim
Director: Ivan Reitman
Producer: John Hughes
Producer: Peter Guber
Producer: Jon Peters
Executive Producer: Michael Chinich
Producer: Ivan Reitman
Writer: John Hughes
Writer: Harold Ramis
Music: Keith Forsey
Music: Creedence Clearwater Revival
Music: Ira Newborn
Music: Ray Parker Jr
Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto
Actor: Emilio Estevez
Actor: Judd Nelson
Actor: Paul Gleason
Actor: Molly Ringwald
Actor: Anthony Michael Hall
Actor: Ally Sheedy
Actor: Perry Crawford
Actor: Mary Christian
Actor: Ron Dean
Actor: John Kapelos
Actor: John Woodvine
Actor: Brian Glover
Actor: Lila Kaye
Actor: Rik Mayall
Actor: Donald McKillop
Actor: Frank Oz
Actor: Matthew Broderick
Actor: Alan Ruck
Actor: Mia Sara
Actor: Jeffrey Jones
Actor: Jennifer Grey
Actor: Cindy Pickett
Actor: Lyman Ward
Actor: Charlie Sheen
Actor: Virginia Capers
Actor: Kristy Swanson
Actor: Edie McClurg
Actor: Bill Murray
Actor: Harold Ramis
Actor: Rick Moranis
Actor: Ernie Hudson
Actor: David Marguiles
Actor: Sigourney Weaver
Actor: Annie Potts
Actor: William Atherton
Actor: Steven Tash