25 Movies You Won't Believe Turn 30 This Year

Get the tissues ready for this love story of female friendship as Bette Midler's C.C. helps her childhood friend Hillary (Barbara Hershey) through her final stages of cancer.

It's showtime! Michael Keaton terrorizes Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, and Winona Ryder in this classic spooky flick.

Tom Hanks earned his first Oscar nomination playing the grown-up version of a 12-year-old who wishes to be "big" . . . and his wish comes true.

Ha ha! Join Paul Reubens on his adventure to help a traveling circus and bring joy to the little town where the circus sets up camp.

A classic baseball movie, Bull Durham is a must watch for any fan of America's pastime. Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon are great in it as a catcher nearing the end of his career and the woman he falls in love with (who also happens to be a baseball expert).

On Nov. 8, 2018, Chucky the murderous doll will officially be 30 years old. He doesn't look a day over three.

Who's ready to do the hippy-hippy shake with Tom Cruise and Elisabeth Shue?

Eddie Murphy is an African prince who flees his arranged marriage for America in order to find a wife who will love him for who he is. A classic '80s comedy.

Before Cruel Intentions, there was Dangerous Liaisons, starring Glenn Close as a scheming woman and John Malkovich as her accomplice in seducing the religious wife of a Parliament member. Look for Keanu Reeves and Uma Thurman in small roles from early in their careers.

Yippee ki-yay! Whether it's a Christmas movie or not (the debate rages on), there's nothing debatable about how great this Bruce Willis-Alan Rickman action movie is.

This one is a true Christmas movie and stars everyone's favorite '80s weirdo, Ernest P. Worrell (played by Jim Varney), who must return Santa's magical sack to him after Santa leaves it in his cab.

One of the top British comedies of all time, this classic stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline as part of a heist team out to steal from a wealthy barrister, played wonderfully by John Cleese of Monty Python fame.

It doesn't get much more '80s than John Candy and Dan Aykroyd, but throw in camping, Annette Bening, and an amazing story about a bear and you've got a great family comedy. Don't forget to try the ol' 96-er — if you finish it all, everyone eats for free.

Before Hairspray was a Tony-winning Broadway musical, it was a John Waters dance comedy film starring Ricki Lake, Divine, Debbie Harry, Sonny Bono, and Jerry Stiller.

What is your damage if you haven't seen this dark teen comedy starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater? (Or, for those of you too young to know who those people are, the mom from Stranger Things and the dad from Mr. Robot.)

Treat your inner child to a rewatch of this classic animated film about an orphaned dinosaur who must travel to the Great Valley to find a new home.

A staple of '80s comedies was the "crazy night where everything goes wrong" plot and almost no film did it better than License to Drive. Corey Haim is adorable as a kid who fakes having passed his driver's test and takes his friends out on the town. Look for Heather Graham in one of her earliest roles.

Come for a young Julia Roberts, stay for the more interesting and heartbreaking storylines led by Lili Taylor and Annabeth Gish in this coming-of-age drama set in the fictional seaside Connecticut town of Mystic. Fun fact: a very young Matt Damon appears in one scene.

Leslie Nielsen kicks off his goofy trilogy with this first Police Squad movie, where he plays a detective investigating an assassination plot against Queen Elizabeth II.

This is the story of a selfish, slick man named Charlie (Tom Cruise) who discovers that his wealthy father left everything to his autistic brother, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman). It won best picture and earned Dustin Hoffman the best actor Oscar (though Cruise was snubbed, not even earning an Oscar nom).

A Christmas Carol has been done (and done and done and done), but the Bill Murray version is easily the funniest adaptations. Carol Kane as the Ghost of Christmas Present is a particular standout.

Students of the '90s have almost certainly seen the true story of a high school math teacher who takes his class full of underachievers and has them taking AP Calculus by the time they graduate. Edward James Olmos received an Oscar nomination for playing the teacher and a young Lou Diamond Phillips stars as one of the students.

Raise your hand if you're still terrified of Christopher Lloyd's Judge Doom and his cartoon-killing "dip"? Us too. But this animation-meets-live-action comedy is a treasure.

Coffee, tea, or watching this movie? How about all three. An all-star cast — Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith, and Joan Cusack — stars in this dramedy about professional women in New York.

A guilty pleasure to be sure, but who doesn't want to watch all the hottest actors of the day star in a Western? There's Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen (before he went off the rails), Lou Diamond Phillips, Kiefer Sutherland, and Dermot Mulroney as the titular "young guns," plus a pre-pre-pre-Lost Terry O'Quinn as their lawyer friend.