Are there any movies about high school in the 80s?

Thanks in part to John Hughes’ prolific output in the 80s, movies about teenagers in high school is essentially its own genre. Here are 30 of the best films about those formative years most of us spend a lifetime trying to forget.

What was the highest grossing teen movie of the 80s?

Director: John Hughes | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy Votes: 363,898 | Gross: $45.88M 4. Weird Science (1985) Error: please try again. Two high school nerds use a computer program to literally create the perfect woman, but she turns their lives upside down. Votes: 81,668 | Gross: $23.83M 5. Sixteen Candles (1984)

What was the name of the high school movie?

Set at the prestigious New York High School of Performing Arts, Fame chronicles the hopes and dreams of a group of students across all four years of high school as they struggle with auditions on their way to becoming actors, dancers, and/or singers.

What was the most popular movie in the 1980’s?

Director: Robert M. Young | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, James Russo, Alfre Woodard, Diana Scarwid Votes: 3,470 | Gross: $13.42M 3. Secret Admirer (1985) 6.6 Error: please try again. An anonymous love letter left in Michael Ryan’s locker on the last day of school wreaks havoc on his life and the lives of everyone who come in contact with it.

What are some campy movies in the 80s?

More campy camp movies…. A perfect fusion of campy and camping that combines axe murders, a lonely girl’s quest for revenge, and a surprise, gender-bending ending. Someone gets stabbed to death in a shower; someone else is stung to death by a hive of bees.

What was the first movie about summer camp?

Possibly one of the first summer camp movies was Meatballs (1979), that Bill Murray summer camp movie he shot while still part of the Saturday Night Live line-up. Murray stars as Tripper, head camp counsellor to a bunch of counsellors-in-training (CITs) at Camp North Star.