Rain Man, the hit movie of 1988 starrs Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. The story of a selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, whose estranged father dies and bequeaths his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son, Raymond, a high functioning autistic of whose existence Charlie was unaware.

This 1987 movie about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China is the first feature film for which the producers were authorised by the Chinese government to film in the Forbidden City in Beijing.

Platoon, released in 1986 is director Oliver Stone’s first Vietnam ‘trilogy’ (1989: Born on the Fourth of July, 1993: Heaven & Earth), the movie was also written by Stone and starred Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen & Keith David.

Out of Africa is the 1985 move starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, it was directed and produced by Sydney Pollack. The story based loosely on the autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of the author Karen Blixen).

Released in 1984 and set in the latter half of the 18th century Amadeus was directed by Peter Shaffer, adapted from his stage play of the same name. Loosely based on the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, two composers who lived in Vienna, Austria during that period.