1980 Movies

This Decade | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 |

All Decades | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2020 |

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 at the Cinema

  1. Breaker Morant
  2. The Empire Strikes Back
  3. Flash Gordon
  4. Herbie Goes Bananas

All the films I've seen from 1980 on the Small Screen

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

What's left to see from 1980?

  1. Agency, The – (Canada)
  2. Alien Dead
  3. Antropophagus - (Italy)
  4. Arrebato (Rapture) - (Spain)
  5. Atlantic City – (Canada/France)
  6. Awakening, The – (U.K.)
  7. Babylon – (U.K.)
  8. Bad Son, A (un mauvais fils) – (France)
  9. Bad Timing – (U.K.)
  10. Baltimore Bullet, The
  11. Berlin Alexanderplatz – (West Germany)
  12. Big Brawl, The – (Hong Kong/United States)
  13. Big Red One, The
  14. Bizalom (Confidence) – (Hungary)
  15. Black Marble, The
  16. Blood of Hussain, The – (Pakistan)
  17. Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)
  18. Bronco Billy
  19. Brubaker
  20. Caboblanco
  21. Can't Stop the Music
  22. Candidate, The (Der Kandidat)
  23. Carny
  24. Change of Seasons, A
  25. Chann Pardesi – (India)
  26. Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
  27. Children's Island (Barnens ö) – (Sweden)
  28. City of Women (La città delle donne) – (Italy)
  29. Club, The – (Australia)
  30. Competition, The
  31. Constant Factor, The (Constans) – (Poland)
  32. Crime of Cuenca, The (El crimen de Cuenca) – (Spain)
  33. Cruising
  34. Cutting It Short (Postřižiny) – (Czechoslovakia)
  35. Dadar Kirti (Deeds of My Elder Brother) – (India)
  36. Death Watch (La Mort en direct) – (France)
  37. Delusion
  38. Die Laughing
  39. Dogs of War, The
  40. Dostana (Friendship) – (India)
  41. El Retorno del Hombre Lobo (Return of the Werewolf) – (Spain)
  42. Elisita – (Spain)
  43. Encounters of the Spooky Kind (Gui da gui) – (Hong Kong)
  44. Every Man for Himself (Sauve qui peut (la vie)) – (France)
  45. Exterminator, The
  46. Fade to Black
  47. Falls, The – (U.K.)
  48. Fame
  49. Fatso
  50. First Deadly Sin, The
  51. First Family
  52. Foolin' Around
  53. Formula, The
  54. Foxes
  55. Gamekeeper, The – (U.K.)
  56. Gamera: Super Monster (Uchu Kaijū Gamera) – (Japan)
  57. Germany, Pale Mother (Deutschland bleiche Mutter) – (West Germany)
  58. Gilda Live
  59. Gloria
  60. Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras) – (Canada)
  61. Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, a mockumentary, The – (U.K.)
  62. Hangar 18
  63. He Knows You're Alone
  64. Health, a.k.a. H.E.A.L.T.H.
  65. Heart Beat
  66. Heaven's Gate
  67. Hero at Large
  68. Hey Babe! – (Canada)
  69. Hirak Rajar Deshe (Kingdom of Diamonds) – (India)
  70. Hit, The (Trhák) – (Czechoslovakia)
  71. Home Movies
  72. Hopscotch
  73. How to Beat the High Cost of Living
  74. Humanoids from the Deep
  75. Hunter, The
  76. Idolmaker, The
  77. Inside Moves
  78. It's My Turn
  79. Jazz Singer, The
  80. Just Tell Me What You Want
  81. Karz (In Debt) – (India)
  82. Khubsoorat – (India)
  83. Klondike Fever
  84. La Cicala (The Cicada) – (Italy)
  85. La terrazza (The Terrace) – (Italy)
  86. Ladies' Choice (Dami Kanyat) – (Bulgaria)
  87. Last Flight of Noah's Ark, The
  88. Last Married Couple in America, The
  89. Last Witness, The (Choehuui jeungin) – (South Korea)
  90. Lathe of Heaven, The
  91. Le Roi et l'oiseau (The King and the Mocking Bird) – (France)
  92. Le Voyage en douce – (France)
  93. Legend of Tianyun Mountain (Tiān yún shān chuán qí) – (China)
  94. Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, The
  95. Little Darlings
  96. Little Miss Marker
  97. Long Good Friday, The – (U.K.)
  98. Long Riders, The
  99. Loulou
  100. Loving Couples
  101. Magician of Lublin, The
  102. Man with Bogart's Face, The
  103. Manila by Night – (Philippines)
  104. McVicar – (U.K.)
  105. Melvin and Howard
  106. Midnight Madness
  107. Mirror Crack'd, The – (U.K.)
  108. Mon oncle d'Amérique
  109. Motel Hell
  110. Mother's Day
  111. Mountain Men, The
  112. My Bodyguard
  113. Nest, The (El Nido) – (Spain)
  114. Nightkill
  115. Nijinsky
  116. Ninth Configuration, The
  117. O Megalexandros (Alexander the Great) – (Greece)
  118. One Trick Pony
  119. Orchestra Conductor, The (Dyrygent) – (Poland)
  120. Ordinary People
  121. Out of the Blue
  122. Palermo or Wolfsburg – (West Germany)
  123. Pepi – (Spain)
  124. Permanent Vacation
  125. Pilot, The
  126. Playing for Time
  127. Pray TV
  128. Private Eyes, The
  129. Qurbani (Sacrifice) – (India)
  130. Resurrection
  131. Return of the King, The
  132. Return of the Secaucus 7
  133. Roadie
  134. Rockshow – (U.K.)
  135. Rough Cut
  136. Rude Boy, a rockumentary featuring The Clash – (U.K.)
  137. Sea Wolves, The
  138. See You in the Next War (enja u sledećem ratu) – (Yugoslavia)
  139. Seems Like Old Times
  140. Serial
  141. Simon
  142. Small Circle of Friends, A
  143. Solo Sunny – (East Germany)
  144. Somewhere in Time
  145. Special Treatment (Poseban tretman) – (Yugoslavia)
  146. Stalker
  147. Stardust Memories
  148. Stunt Man, The
  149. Sunday Lovers
  150. Sällskapsresan (The Charter Trip) – (Sweden)
  151. Terror Train
  152. That Sinking Feeling – (U.K.)
  153. Those Lips
  154. Times Square
  155. To Love the Damned (Maledetti vi amerò) – (Italy)
  156. Tom Horn
  157. Tribute – (Canada)
  158. Twelve Months (Sekai Meisaku Douwa Mori wa Ikiteiru / Dvenadtsat mesyatsev) – (Japan/U.S.S.R.)
  159. Unseen, The
  160. Up the Academy
  161. Urban Cowboy
  162. Used Cars
  163. Virus (Fukkatsu no hi) – (Japan)
  164. Waiter, Scarper! (Vrchní, prchni!) – (Czechoslovakia)
  165. Watcher in the Woods, The – (UK/US)
  166. When Time Ran Out
  167. Where the Buffalo Roam
  168. Who's Singin' Over There? (Ko to tamo peva) – (Yugoslavia)
  169. Wholly Moses!
  170. Why Would I Lie?
  171. Willie & Phil
  172. Windows
  173. Witches' Brew
  174. Yūgure made – (Japan)
  175. Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs) – (Japan)