Best 1980s TV Movie Movies

Looking for the best 1980s TV Movie movies? These are the 13 highest-rated 1980s TV Movie titles in our catalogue, led by Kenny & Dolly: A Christmas to Remember, Child Bride of Short Creek and A Caribbean Mystery. The list is ranked by audience score; open any title for its cast, trailer and legal places to watch.

1. Kenny & Dolly: A Christmas to Remember (1984)

★ 7.0/10

A holiday musical special with Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers based around their best-selling album "Once Upon a Christmas."
2. Child Bride of Short Creek (1981)

★ 6.5/10

A dramatization of the true account of a fundamentalist sect in Arizona that practices polygamy, and a returning Korean War veteran's rebellion against his father when he learns that the latter plans to increase his…
3. A Caribbean Mystery (1983)

★ 6.2/10

Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer…
4. Sparkling Cyanide (1983)

★ 6.0/10

The beautiful but unfaithful wife of a successful lawyer meets her untimely end at their anniversary dinner. After a suicide note is found soon after her death, it seems more likely that she was murdered, as all the…
5. Parent Trap III (1989)

★ 5.9/10

When Jeff plans to marry again, his triplet daughters Megan, Lisa and Jessie try to bring him together with Susan.
6. The Preppie Murder (1989)

★ 5.8/10

This is the story of a young woman who was found dead. Now the police investigate, and evidence points to a man she was seen leaving a party with. Now when questioned, he claims that her death was accidental, as a…
7. Beverly Hills Cowgirl Blues (1985)

★ 5.5/10

A Wyoming cop teams with a Beverly Hills policeman to track down the killer of her best friend.
8. Champagne Charlie (1989)

★ 5.3/10

This is the story of the Charles Heidsieck who opened the market for Champagne sales in America just prior to the American Civil War. He is a reluctant French spy and is captured and spends time in a Union prison…
9. Tears in the Rain (1988)

★ 4.9/10

When Casey Cantrell's mother died, her last wish was that her daughter would give a letter to Lord Richard Bredon, living in the UK. When Casey arrives in London, Lord Bredon denies ever having known her mother.
10. Apology (1986)

★ 4.2/10

For her upcoming exhibition, "Apology," Lily, a New York conceptual artist, is designing a sound and sculpture installation inspired by the testimony of anonymous phone callers who, after responding to a public advert…
11. Born to Be Sold (1981)

★ 3.8/10

A social worker tries to break up a ring of crooks who buy newborn babies from teenaged mothers and sell them to couples who can't obtain them through legal adoption channels.
12. Thursday's Child (1983)

★ 1.0/10

Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the…
13. The Parade (1984)

★ 1.0/10

When her estranged, drifter husband Matt returns after spending seven years in prison to ask her to let him be a part of her life again, Rachel Kirby's life is thrown into turmoil, which also affects her teenage…