1985?

Just a small selection

Back to the Future
The Goonies
Rocky IV
Legend
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Brazil
Clue
Commando
Pale Rider
LadyHawke
Red Sonja
Enemy Mine
Day of the Dead
Return of the Living Dead
European Vacation
Spies Like Us
The Jewel of the Nile
Brewster's Millions
Remo Williams
Into the Night
Vampire Hunter D
Def-Con 4

Yeah, easy

1994

Forrest Gump
Shawshank redemption
Clerks
The lion king
Pulp fiction
True lies
Dumb and dumber
Ace Ventura
The santa clause
Legends of the fall
The mask
Speed

Wow.   I read OP, and thought he nailed it.   Then read first post and he blew it out of the water.  
FPNI

1989

Indiana Jones and Last Crusade
Batman
Both Roadhouse and Next of Kin.  
Turner and Hooch
Parenthood
Licence to Kill
Lethal Weapon 2
Ghostbusters 2
Dead Poets Society
Driving Miss Daisy
Little Mermaid
Dangerous Liasons
Punisher  

I've only heard of 4 of those movies.

peewee's is the only movie on your list worth a damn.

1984 was hard to beat:

Ghostbusters
The adventures of Buckaroo Banzi
All of Me
Beverly Hills Cop
Blame it on Rio
C.H.U.D.
Children of the Corn
Conan the Destroyer
The Terminator
Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter
Gremlins
Temple of Doom
The Natural
Revenge of the Nerds

...and the list goes on.

I read the title and immediately though 1985.  

That's a pretty good list.

1993

Falling Down
Jurassic Park
Schindler's List
Tombstone
Dazed and Confused
The Fugitive
Demolition Man
Groundhog Day
The Sandlot
Cool Runnings
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
A Bronx Tale

1992

My Cousin Vinny.

Enough fucking said

1979

Apocalypse Now
The Jerk
Monty Python Life of Brian
Alien
Kramer vs. Kramer
Mad Max
The Warriors
Star Trek-The Motion Picture
1941
Escape from Alcatraz
Rocky II

1984
Amadeus
The Killing Fields
This Is Spinal Tap
The Terminator
Once Upon a Time in America
A Passage to India
Ghostbusters
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Beverly Hills Cop
Places in the Heart
A Soldier's Story
The Karate Kid
Repo Man
The Natural
Purple Rain
All of Me
Iceman
Moscow on the Hudson
The Flamingo Kid
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
The Cotton Club
Gremlins
Starman
Splash
Romancing the Stone
Swing Shift
Body Double
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
Micki & Maude
Dune
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
The Muppets Take Manhattan
The NeverEnding Story
Police Academy
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Red Dawn
Revenge of the Nerds
The River
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Woman in Red
2010
The Bounty
Electric Dreams
Heartbreakers
Irreconcilable Differences
Love Letters
Racing with the Moon
Tightrope
Top Secret!
Footloose
The Last Starfighter
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Johnny Dangerously
Supergirl
Missing in Action
Conan the Destroyer
Children of the Corn
The Ice Pirates
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Firestarter
Cannonball Run II
City Heat
Dreamscape
Tank
Oh, God! You Devil
Night of the Comet

This

Well, i guess there are some pretty good years out there, but it looks like the 80's wins for great movies.

We should meet in the Alamo's basement and discuss this.

I was thinking, 92, 93, or 94.

No one liked 2017?

Well, the best movie of all time was released in 1986, so... yes.

1984 FAIL...   no mention of

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

Oh yeah, Detroit was an awesome movie. Real classic.

I can certainly say that there hasnt been a good movie year since 1994 but most of the years posted were great years.

Step aside youngsters -
1977
Star Wars
Saturday Night Fever
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Smokey and the Bandit

These four alone are enough but here are a few more -

Slap Shot
High Anxiety
The Spy Who Loved Me
Semi-Tough

I couldn't stand Pee Wee Herman long before he got caught tugging himself.  He always gave me sort of a pedo vibe...

This thread just reminded me how great movies used to be, and how much Hollywood absolutely sucks balls these days.

Good God, movies are absolute shit now in comparison.

1982:

The Thing
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Blade Runner.
Firefox

That's all I need to list.

nope, there isn't. good post

Everyone should know that 1980 was the best year for film...EVAR

list inbound...

Airplane!
Atlantic City
The Big Red One
The Blues Brothers
Caddyshack
Dressed to Kill
The Elephant Man
The Empire Strikes Back
The Final Countdown
Flash Gordon
Friday the 13th
Heaven's Gate
Hollywood Knights
The Jazz Singer
Nine to Five
The Octagon
Ordinary People
Private Benjamin
Private Eyes
Prom Night
Raging Bull
Running Scared
The Shining
Smokey and the Bandit II
Somewhere in Time
Stir Crazy
The Stuntman
Superman II
Urban Cowboy
Used Cars
Watcher in the Woods
Xanadu

These were just the most popular American films of 1980.  There are MOAR, but I think I have proven my point.

1980 > all other years.

Yes they are.

84, 85 winning so far by a landslide.

1982 was an incredible year.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Blade Runner

The Thing

48 Hrs.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Poltergeist

First Blood

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Rocky III

Airplane II: The Sequel

Tron

1981!  Some of my favorites in bold:

A

Absence of Malice, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon

An American Werewolf in London, directed by John Landis, starring David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, Jenny Agutter – (U.S.A./U.K.)

Arthur, starring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Stephen Elliott, Jill Eikenberry

B

 Body Heat, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Ted Danson, Richard Crenna, J. A. Preston, Mickey Rourke

  Das Boot (Released in the U.S. in 1982), directed by Wolfgang Petersen, starring Jürgen Prochnow – (West Germany)

C

  The Cannonball Run, directed by Hal Needham, starring Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett

Chariots of Fire, directed by Hugh Hudson, starring Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers – (U.K.)

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen, starring Peter Ustinov, Lee Grant, Angie Dickinson

 Clash of the Titans, starring Harry Hamlin, Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith – (U.S.A./U.K.)

Condorman, starring Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Barbara Carrera – (U.K.)

Continental Divide, starring John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Garfield

D

Dark Night of the Scarecrow

Death Hunt, starring Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Andrew Stevens, Carl Weathers, Angie Dickinson

Dragonslayer, starring Peter MacNicol

E

  Escape from New York, directed by John Carpenter, starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau

The Evil Dead, directed by Sam Raimi, starring Bruce Campbell

An Eye for an Eye, starring Chuck Norris

F

 For Your Eyes Only, starring Roger Moore (as James Bond), with Carole Bouquet, Lynn-Holly Johnson – (U.K.)

Fort Apache, The Bronx, directed by Daniel Petrie, starring Paul Newman, Ed Asner, Ken Wahl

The Fox and the Hound, with the voices of Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey

The French Lieutenant's Woman, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons – (U.K.)

Friday the 13th Part II, directed by Steve Miner, starring Amy Steel, John Furey and Adrienne King

H

Halloween II, directed by Rick Rosenthal, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence

Heavy Metal, starring John Candy – (Canada)

 History of the World, Part I, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, with Gregory Hines, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman

The Howling, directed by Joe Dante, starring Dee Wallace and Patrick Macnee

I-J

The Incredible Shrinking Woman, starring Lily Tomlin and Charles Grodin

L

Lady Chatterley's Lover, starring Sylvia Kristel and Nicholas Clay

Looker, directed by Michael Crichton, starring Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey

The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

M

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, starring Mel Gibson – (Australia)


Mommie Dearest, starring Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest – winner of five Golden Raspberry Awards including Worst Picture and Worst Actress (Dunaway)

N

Neighbors, starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd

Nice Dreams, a Cheech & Chong film

Nighthawks, starring Sylvester Stallone, Rutger Hauer, Billy Dee Williams

The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, starring Kristy McNichol, Dennis Quaid, Mark Hamill

O

On Golden Pond, directed by Mark Rydell, starring Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda

P

Pennies from Heaven, starring Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper, Christopher Walken – based on the TV series by Dennis Potter

The Postman Always Rings Twice, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange

Private Lessons, starring Sylvia Kristel, Howard Hesseman, Ed Begley, Jr.

Q

Quest for Fire (aka La Guerre du feu), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud – (Canada/France/U.S.A.)

R

Raiders of the Lost Ark, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Harrison Ford and Karen Allen

Reds, directed by and starring Warren Beatty, with Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Maureen Stapleton, Gene Hackman, Paul Sorvino

S

S.O.B., directed by Blake Edwards, starring Julie Andrews, William Holden, Robert Preston, Richard Mulligan

Scanners, directed by David Cronenberg – (Canada)

Sharky's Machine, directed by and starring Burt Reynolds, with Rachel Ward, Henry Silva, Vittorio Gassman, Charles Durning, Earl Holliman

Stripes, directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, John Larroquette, John Candy

Student Bodies

T

Taps, directed by Harold Becker, starring Timothy Hutton, George C. Scott, Ronny Cox, Sean Penn, Tom Cruise

Tarzan, the Ape Man, starring Bo Derek and Richard Harris

Time Bandits, directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall – (U.K.)

Agreed, he was a creepy character, kind of puts everything bad gen-x into 1 guy.