Besides the greats already listed...
I started sifting through my brain... and then moved on to some lists to help me remember some titles.
No time to really sort them... and some are not for 'kids'... depending on the age of the kid.
Anything with a " * " Is something special, IMO. Not always widely popular... but really good, and should be watched.
Anything with a " ? " Means I cant remember how good it was... or if its not kid related.
- Big Trouble In Little China
* Remo Williams the Adventure Begins (Great comedy and action combo)
- The Last Dragon
* 36th Chamber of Shaolin (not from 80s... but is a must watch. Watch the english dub version on this one)
* Drive (Dacascos - 1987) (Marks moves in this film are pretty damn fly. Starts a little cheesy.. but by the end, one should really enjoy it)
- Red Scorpion?
- Red Heat?
- Kickboxer
- Tiger Claws?
- Highlander
- Bloodsport
- Roadhouse
- Flash Gordon
- Conan The Barbarian / Destroyer
- Back to the Future
- Tron
- Cannonball Run
- Beverly Hills cop
- Ferris Beulers Day Off
* Mannequin
- One Crazy Summer
- Say Anything
- Beetlejuice
- Weird Science
- Vacation Movies (Chevy Chase)
- Police Academy Series
- The Three Amigos
- Trading Places
- Airplane
- Caddy Shack
- Stir Crazy?
- Coming to America
- A Christmas Story
- Scrooged
- Overboard
- Red Dawn
- 48 Hours
- Gleaming the Cube?
* Stand and Deliver (Powerful real life tale, that inspires)
- Pretty in Pink
- The Witches of Eastwick
- Footloose
- Fletch / Fletch Lives
- Romancing the Stone
* They Live (great classic, that in many ways mirrors our leaderships inner workings!
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- War Games
- The Wraith?
- Iron Eagle
- Top Gun
- Labyrinth
- Indiana Jones (all)
- Big
- The Blues Brothers
- Crocodile Dundee(s)
- The Great Outdoors
- Batman
- Lethal Weapon
- The Golden Child
- Cocoon
- Amadeus?
- A view to a Kill
- Back to School
- Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure
* Black Rain (Great action / drama - of an American cop, working in Japan)
* Crossroads (Ralf Macchio of Karate Kid fame. Has an EPIC guitar battle at the end - against Steve Vai)
- The Goonies
- Jumpin Jack Flash
- Just one of the Guys?
- My Stepmother is an Alien
- Running Scared?
- Summer Rental (John Candy)
- Tango and Cash
- Major League
- Clash of the Titans
- Ghandi ?
* Gotcha! (A lesser known title, that is really great. A lighter-hearted action - spy thriller )
- Spies Like Us
- The Jewel of the Nile
- Cloak and Dagger
- The Manhattan Project
- The Philidelphia Experiment ?
- All of Me ?
- Gung Ho?
- Volunteers?
- Porkys?
- Brewsters Millions?
- Cocktail
- The Color Purple
- Great Balls of Fire
- Alien Nation?
- Breakin / Breakin II ?
- Mom and Dad save the world?
- Night of the Comet
- The Shining!
- The Lost Boys
- Once Bitten
* Tucker: The man and his dreams (Great drama about the creator of the great Tucker Automobile, ...destroyed by outside corruption)
* Fright Night
* warlock (Not sure if this is as well known as I suspect. Very cool film. Not as scary as witchboard, but has a great feel to it)
* witchboard (scary flick last I remember. A great ride)