1980s: Films
TOP 51 FILMS OF THE 1980s
1. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
2. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
3. Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir)
4. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
5. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
6. Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)
7. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
8. Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
9. Repo Man (Alex Cox)
10. This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
11. Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
12. The Hit (Stephen Frears)
13. Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch)
14. Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson)
15. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
16. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
17. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
18. The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci)
19. Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)
20. Batman (Tim Burton)
21. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman)
22. Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
23. Beetlejuice (Tim Burton)
24. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
25. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
26. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
27. Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox)
28. Gandhi (Richard Attenborough)
29. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes)
30. House of Games (David Mamet)
31. ET (Steven Spielberg)
32. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
33. The Terminator (James Cameron)
34. Stand by Me (Rob Reiner)
35. Aliens (James Cameron)
36. The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir)
37. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
38. When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner)
39. Raising Arizona (Coen Brothers)
40. Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)
41. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
42. Scarface (Brian de Palma)
43. The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg)
44. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
45. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
46. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
47. Amadeus (Milos Foreman)
48. Blood Simple (Coen Brothers)
49. Gallipoli (Peter Weir)
50. Diner (Barry Levinson)
51. Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam)
GOLDEN CAT AWARD (BEST DIRECTOR OF THE DECADE): Jim Jarmusch
BEST ACTOR OF THE DECADE: Daniel Day-Lewis
Written by G. William Locke