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• A full list of 1980 Wide Release Films on Wikipedia

My Top Picks

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Breaker Morant
3. The Shining
4. Mad Max
5. Flash Gordon
6. Superman II

Notable Mentions ("Surprise" Films)

1. The Gods Must Be Crazy
2. Airplane!
3. The Blues Brothers
4. Dressed to Kill
5. The Elephant Man
6. Friday the 13th

The Biggest Disappointments

1. The Changeling
2. Popeye
3. Any Which Way You Can
4. Oh, God! Book II
   

All the films I've seen from 1980

1. 9 to 5
2. Airplane!
3. Alligator
4. Altered States
5. American Gigolo
6. Any Which Way You Can
7. The Blue Lagoon
8. The Blues Brothers
9. Breaker Morant
10. Caddyshack
11. Caligula
12. The Changeling
13. Coal Miner's Daughter
14. Dressed to Kill
15. The Elephant Man
16. The Empire Strikes Back
17. The Final Countdown
18. Flash Gordon
19. The Fog
20. Friday the 13th
    
21. The Gods Must Be Crazy
22. Hammer House of Horror (Series)
    
23. Herbie Goes Bananas
24. The Island
25. The Last Metro
    
26. Mad Max
27. The Nude Bomb
28. Oh, God! Book II
29. Popeye
30. Private Benjamin
31. Prom Night
32. Raging Bull
33. Saturn 3
34. The Shining
35. Smokey and the Bandit II
36. Stir Crazy
37. Superman II
    
38. Xanadu

Films I'd really like to see from 1980