When Ridley Scott gave movie fans 1979's Alien, he kickstarted the craze for extraterrestrials on the big screen. Indeed, the '80s marked the decade when we began seeing way more aliens in movies.

The 1980s produced so many great movies that many absolute gems have been overlooked, but there are some films that deserve to be revered as classics. Cinema peaked in the '80s, and nearly every genre ...