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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Quinci LeGardye

The 50 Best Movies From the '80s

The dance studio scene in the movie dirty dancing.

Popular culture is obsessed with the '80s—Stranger Things, anyone?—and it's not hard to see why. The '80s were a golden decade in film, boasting a near-endless list of must-watch movies you've likely seen many times before, even if you were a '90s or '00s baby: Dirty Dancing, E.T., Footloose!

That doesn't necessarily mean that every beloved film from the decade has aged well. A handful are fairly problematic when looked at through our 21st-century eyes. Many include offensive portrayals of race (or blatant racism), treat sexual harassment like a joke, and feature casually rampant homophobia, to name just some of the questionable content you’ll want to keep an eye out for.

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