Ms. 45
Fabolous Baker Boys
The Hunger
Back to the Future
Ferris Buller's Day Off
Thief
To Live and Die in LA
Blow Out
Hannah and the Sisters
The Killer

Pretty sure Midnight Run in 1988 saved his ass in terms of star power.  That was a hit and he's been milking that one in terms of playing the grouch (think Meet the Parents) for a while now.  He did a lot of "director's films" / maybe a bit arty like Once Upon a Time in America and Brazil, King of Comedy in the 80s.

I'm pretty sure there are a lot of curious films on my list.  Back to the Future and Ferris Bueller are seminal comedies that are very 80s but really rewatchable.  Also, I read about this somewhere else but the 80s seemed , at least in some films seem to wax poetic about the 50s.  You can see the 50s infleunce in a shit ton of other films.

Mentioned it before but To Live and Die in LA is the Friedkin film I watch the most, and just have fun with it.  It's got the Wang Chung soundtrack but it shows how vapid the characters were.  Great performance by William Dafoe as Rick Masters.

Ms. 45 is one where it shows grungy, pre cleaned NYC but it also has a really unique character and performance from Zoe Lund.  James mentioned Hannah and Her Sisters and I'll just say when you get older it just connected with me.  It has none of the neuroticness of Annie Hall but I watch and just feel kind of moved afterwards.

Picked Blow Out for the De Palma.  Features a great Travolta performance, has a meta sort of plot on filmaking and I love Philly as a character in the movie.

The Killer is gun fu as it's finest and there was a ton of imiataions in world cinema afterwards.

Missed the cut: 
The Terminator, this one really should have been up there.  It's more satisfying than T2. 
Raiders of the Lost Ark, ushered in Ford as the action star of the 80s.
The Vanishing (Dutch orignal), the ending is damn chilling
48 Hrs, mismatched buddy comedy at it's best
Videodrome:  predicted how we'd get hooked to reality TV, I really almost dumped Ferris and put this on the list
Tenebrae:  Argento's most accesible thriller, plot is easy to understand and it just kind of hums along at a nice pace;

Watched a bunch lately (in order of decade from new to older)

The Killer : hey a new Fincher film.  And this one is very good.  One caveat, the first twenty mins nothing much happens.  But after that it's basically wonderful modern neo noir goodness.  It works as a "globetrotting" film as well a modern crime film.  There are references to Amazon,  smartphones etc (modern stuff) but it's still a revenge film in the vein of the better ones. 

True Grit:  this was a good film.  I just expected a classic given what I read.  The child actress Stanfield, definitely deserved the Oscar.  Bridges gave a good performance too but I felt like they rewarded him for slightling him for better performances in the past.  Matt Damon was fine as a supporting character.  I did really like a sequence near the end that took place in the night as they were racing through the forest.

Ghost World: this is technically a 90s film.  I kind of felt there was a connection to Reality Bites.  I mean it's semi similar material with the main characters just floating aimlessly.  I totally forgot what a horrible character Enid (Thora Birch) was.  She destroys a couple of relationships in that film for no real reason.  Ilyena Douglas does  a great portrayal of one of those left leaning art professors.  Oh, I did laugh when they showed a Radio Shack at the end.

One False Move :  I've mentioned this one before.  So I'll just go over stuff I found interesting.  Most of the main characters are filled with shades of gray.  Also, the stuff with the crimminals was far more interesting.  The cops were just kind of there.  Oh while watching this I was struck with the thought that this type of film could only be made in America.  You have this blues soundtrack that's playing in the back along with the setting of small town USA and its just kind of soothing and the film kind of rolls along.  Oh, I totally missed the race stuff at the end, the first time around.  It's really strong and powerful.

Warning Sign: first off in a post covid world, this was a lot more possible than one imagined.  Anyway to the film.  This was really good.  I'm not sure if the science/medical stuff was accurate at all but I didn't care it kept me entertained.  It works as both a conspiracy film and as a disaster film.  Acting is fine with Kathleen Quinlan, Sam Waterson and the late Yaphet Kotto.  There were a couple of scary moments in this that almost delved into horror.  I much preferred this to Outbreak which came out 10 years ago in 1995.

Oof.

Fernando can’t compete with car bombing rivals etc.  And somehow I’m not surprised; that nice guy or whatever act was always a facade for Combs.

I really don’t know how he survives.  He comes off as both an idiot, creep and a scumbag.

I wouldn’t be surprised if his wife divorces him.  Seems like he’s been cheating on her.