1980s FilmFilter CategoriesALL1980198119821983198419851986198719881989Reviewed 1980William Friedkin | United Artists#14 Cruising 1980Stanley Kubrick | Warner Bros.#1 The Shining 1980Martin Scorsese | United Artists#2 Raging Bull 1980Rainer Werner Fassbinder | New Yorker#3 In a Year with 13 Moons 1980Akira Kurosawa | 20th Century Fox#4 Kagemusha 1980Irvin Kershner | 20th Century Fox#5 Star Wars Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back 1980Samuel Fuller | United Artists#6 The Big Red One 1980Michael Cimino | United Artists#7 Heaven's Gate 1980Errol Morris | New Yorker#8 Gates of Heaven 1980Brian De Palma | Filmways#9 Dressed to Kill 1980Bill Gunn#10 Personal Problems 1980David Lynch | Paramount#11 The Elephant Man 1980Nicolas Roeg | World Northal#12 Bad Timing 1980Jean-Luc Godard | New Yorker#13 Every Man for Himself 1980Stephen Frears#15 Bloody Kids 1980Roman Polanski | Columbia#16 Tess 1980John Cassavetes | Columbia#17 Gloria 1980Seijun Sezuki | Little More Co.#18 Zigeunerweisen 1980Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Omni Zoetrope#19 Hitler: A Film from Germany 1980Gillian Armstrong | Analysis#20 My Brilliant Career 1980Alain Resnais | New World#21 My American Uncle 1980Jonathan Demme | Universal#22 Melvin and Howard 1980Ken Russell | Warner Bros.#23 Altered States 1980Robert Zemeckis | Columbia#24 Used Cars 1980Maurice Pialat | New Yorker#25 Loulou 1981Andrzej Wajda | United Artists Classics#1 Man of Iron 1981François Truffaut | United Artists Classics#2 The Last Metro 1981Hector Babenco | Unifilms#3 Pixote 1981Brian De Palma | Filmways#4 Blow Out 1981Steven Spielberg | Paramount#5 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981Warren Beatty — TS7 | Paramount#6 Reds 1981Manoel de Oliveira | Joseph Papp#7 Doomed Love 1981Eric Rohmer | New Yorker#8 The Aviator's Wife 1981John Carpenter | AVCO Embassy#9 Escape from New York 1981Terry Gilliam | AVCO Embassy#10 Time Bandits 1981David Cronenberg | AVCO Embassy#11 Scanners 1981Michael Mann | United Artists#12 Thief Abel Ferrara | Rochelle#13 Ms. 4519811981anemptytextlline 1981Albert Brooks | Colmbia#14 Modern Romance 1981John Boorman | Orion/Warner Bros.#15 Excalibur 1981Sidney Lumet | Orion/Warner Bros.#16 Prince of the City 1981Louis Malle | New Yorker#17 My Dinner with Andre 1981Walter Hill | 20th Century Fox#18 Southern Comfort 1981Ulrich Edel | New World#19 Christiane F. 1981Ivan Passer | United Artists#20 Cutter's Way 1981Connie Field | First Run Features#21 The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter 1981John Waters | New Line#22 Polyester 1981John Landis | Universal#23 An American Werewolf in London 1981K. Balachander#24 Ek Duuje Ke Liye 1981István Szabó | New Yorker#25 Confidence 1982Andrei Tarkovsky | Media Transactions#1 Stalker 1982Werner Herzog | New World#2 Fitzcarraldo 1982Ridley Scott | Warner Bros.#3 Blade Runner 1982Steven Spielberg | Universal#4 E.T. the Extra Terrestrial 1982Tobe Hooper | MGM#5 Poltergeist 1982John Carpenter | Universal#6 The Thing 1982George Miller | Warner Bros.#7 Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior 1982Dario Argento | Titanus#8 Tenebre 1982Wolfgang Petersen | Triumph#9 Das Boot 1982Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Filmverlag der Autoren#10 Veronika Voss 1982Andrei Konchalovskiy | IFEX#11 Siberiade 1982Jean-Luc Godard | Parafrance#12 Passion 1982Kathleen Collins#13 Losing Ground 1982Samuel Fuller | Paramount#14 White Dog 1982Blake Edwards | MGM#15 Victor/Victoria 1982Sydney Pollack | 20th Century Fox#16 The Verdict 1982Amy Heckerling | Universal#17 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982Steven Lisberger | Buena Vista#18 TRON 1982Les Blank | Flower#19 Burden of Dreams 1982Nathaniel Dorsky | Canyon Cinema#20 Hours for Jerome 1982Nils Malmros | Scandinavia Today#21 Tree of Knowledge 1982Jean-Jacques Beineix | United Artists Classics#22 Diva 1982Barry Levinson | MGM#23 Diner 1982Yilmaz Guney & Serif Goran | NEF-MK2#24 Yol 1982István Szabó | Analysis#25 Mephisto 1983Chris Marker | New Yorker#1 Sans Soleil 1983Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Teleculture#2 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1983Ingmar Bergman | Embassy#3 Fanny and Alexander 1983Martin Scorsese | 20th Century Fox#4 The King of Comedy 1983Brian De Palma | Universal#5 Scarface 1983James L. Brooks | Paramount#6 Terms of Endearment 1983David Cronenberg | Universal#7 Videodrome 1983Eric Rohmer | Orion Classics#8 Pauline at the Beach 1983Maurice Pialat | Gaumont#9 À nos amours 1983Godfrey Reggio | Island Alive/New Cinema#10 Koyaanisqatsi 1983Bill Forsyth | Warner Bros.#11 Local Hero 1983Philip Kaufman | Warner Bros.#12 The Right Stuff 1983Andrzej Zulawski | Limelight Intl.#13 Possession 1983Paolo & Vittorio Taviani | United Artists#14 The Night of the Shooting Stars 1983Víctor Erice | C.B. Films S.A.#15 El Sur 1983Humberto Solás | ICAIC#16 Cecilia 1983Francis Ford Coppola | Universal#17 Rumble Fish 1983Sam Raimi | New Line#18 The Evil Dead 1983Dennis Hopper | United Artists#19 Out of the Blue 1983Joseph Losey | Triumph#20 The Trout 1983Lizzie Borden | First Fun#21 Born in Flames 1983Kon Ichikawa | Tôhô#22 The Makioka Sisters 1983Nagisa Ôshima | Universal#23 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 1983Kundan Shah#24 Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro 1983Carlos Saura | Orion Classics#25 Carmen 1984Robert Bresson | Cinecom#1 L'argent 1984Andrei Tarkovsky | Grange#2 Nostalgia 1984Shohei Imamura | Kino Intl.#3 The Ballad of Narayama 1984Wim Wenders | 20th Century Fox#4 Paris, Texas 1984James Cameron | Orion#5 The Terminator 1984Milos Forman | Orion#6 Amadeus 1984John Cassavetes | Cannon#7 Love Streams 1984Rob Epstein | TC#8 The Life and Times of Harvey Milk 1984Jim Jarmusch | Samuel Goldwyn#9 Stranger than Paradise 1984Sergio Leone | Ladd#10 Once Upon a Time in America 1984Gregory Nava | Cinecom#11 El Norte 1984Joe Dante | Warner Bros.#12 Gremlins 1984Martin Brest | Paramount#13 Beverly Hills Cop 1984Alex Cox | Universal#14 Repo Man 1984Brian De Palma | Columbia#15 Body Double 1984Rob Reiner | Embassy#16 This is Spinal Tap 1984Erich Rohmer | Orion Classics#17 Full Moon in Paris 1984Bertrand Tavernier | MGM/UA Classics#18 A Sunday in the Country 1984Leos Carax | Forum#19 Boy Meets Girl 1984John Huston | Universal#20 Under the Volcano 1984John Carpenter | Columbia#21 Starman 1984Alan Rudolph | Island Alive#22 Choose Me 1984John Sayles | Cinecom#23 The Brother from Another Planet 1984Jean-Luc Godard | Intl. Spectrafilm#24 First Name: Carmen 1984Martin Bell | Angelika Films#25 Streetwise 1985Claude Lanzmann | New Yorker#1 Shoah 1985Terry Gilliam | Universal#2 Brazil 1985Akira Kurosawa | Orion Classics#3 Ran 1985Joel & Ethan Coen | Circle#4 Blood Simple 1985Robert Zemeckis | Universal#5 Back to the Future 1985Woody Allen | Orion#6 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985Tim Burton | Warner Bros.#7 Pee-Wee's Big Adventure 1985Emir Kusturica | Cannon#8 When Father Was Away on Business 1985Jean-Luc Godard | New Yorker#9 Hail Mary 1985Martin Scorsese | Warner Bros.#10 After Hours 1985Paul Schrader | Warner Bros.#11 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985Steven Spielberg | Warner Bros.#12 The Color Purple 1985George A. Romero | UFDC#13 Day of the Dead 1985Dan O'Bannon | Orion#14 The Return of the Living Dead 1985Chi-Hwa Chen & Jackie Chan | Golden Harvest#15 Police Story 1985John Hughes | Universal#16 The Breakfast Club 1985Edward Yang#17 Taipei Story 1985Luis Puenzo | Almi#18 The Official Story 1985Albert Brooks | Warner Bros.#19 Lost in America 1985William Friedkin | MGM/UA#20 To Live and Die in L.A. 1985Robert Altman#21 Secret Honor 1985Béla Tarr#22 Almanac of Fall 1985Stuart Gordon | Empire#23 Re-Animator 1985Maurice Pialat | Gaumont#24 Police 1985Joyce Chopra | International Spectrafilm#25 Smooth Talk 1986David Lynch | Des Laurentiis#1 Blue Velvet 1986Woody Allen | Orion#2 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986Eric Rohmer | Orion Classics#3 The Green Ray 1986Andrei Tarkovsky | Orion Classics#4 Sacrifice 1986Oliver Stone | Orion#5 Platoon 1986David Cronenberg | 20th Century Fox#6 The Fly 1986John Woo | Cinema City#7 A Better Tomorrow 1986Leos Carax | AAA Classic/Revcom#8 Mauvais sang 1986James Cameron | 20th Century Fox#9 Aliens 1986Ross McElwee | First Run#10 Sherman's March 1986Agnès Varda | Grange#11 Vagabond 1986Edward Yang | Inbaubel#12 The Terrorizers 1986Jonathan Demme#13 Something Wild 1986Jim Jarmusch#14 Down by Law 1986Spike Lee | Island#15 She's Gotta Have It 1986Paul Vecchiali | Les Films de l'Atalante#16 Rosa la rose, fille publique 1986James Ivory | Cinecom#17 A Room With a View 1986Derek Jarman | Cinevista#18 Caravaggio 1986Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | ATG#19 Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast Robert Harmon | TriStar#20 The Hitcher19861986anemptytextlline 1986John Carpenter | 20th Century Fox#21 Big Trouble in Little China 1986Lloyd Kaufman | Troma#22 The Toxic Avenger 1986Stephen Frears | Orion Classics#23 My Beautiful Launderette 1986Paolo & Vittorio Taviani#24 Kaos 1986Nagisa Ôshima | Acteurs Auteurs Associés#25 Max My Love 1987Paul Verhoeven | Orion#1 RoboCop 1987Elem Klimov |IFEX#2 Come and See 1987Steven Spielberg | Warner Bros.#3 Empire of the Sun 1987Louis Malle | Orion Classics#4 Au Revoir les Enfants 1987Stanley Kubrick | Warner Bros.#5 Full Metal Jacket 1987James Bening#6 Landscape Suicide 1987Bernardo Bertolucci | Columbia#7 The Last Emperor 1987John Huston | Vestron#8 The Dead 1987Abbas Kiarostami#9 Where is the Friend's House? 1987James L. Brooks | 20th Century Fox#10 Broadcast News 1987Oliver Stone | 20th Century Fox#11 Wall Street 1987Brian De Palma | Paramount#12 The Untouchables 1987David Mamet | Orion#13 House of Games 1987Pedro Almodóvar | Cinevista#14 Law of Desire 1987Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Intl. Film Circuit#15 Dust in the Wind 1987John McTiernan | 20th Century Fox#16 Predator 1987Bill Forsyth | Ciolumbia#17 Housekeeping 1987John Sayles | Cinecom#18 Matewan 1987Sam Raimi | Rosebud#19 Evil Dead II 1987Rob Reiner | 20th Century Fox#20 The Princess Bride 1987Joel & Ethan Coen | 20th Century Fox#21 Raising Arizona 1987Elaine May | Columbia#22 Ishtar 1987Ching Sui-tung | Media Asia#23 A Chinese Ghost Story 1987Sammo Hung | Golden Harvest#24 Eastern Condors 1987Jûzô Itami | New Yorker#25 Tampopo 1988Jean-Luc Godard | Cannon#1 King Lear 1988Isao Takahata | Tôhô#2 Grave of Fireflies 1988Win Wenders | Orion Classics#3 Wings of Desire 1988Martin Scorsese | Universal#4 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988John McTiernan | 20th Century Fox#5 Die Hard 1988Errol Morris | Miramax#6 The Thin Blue Line 1988David Cronenberg | 20th Century Fox#7 Dead Ringers 1988Zhang Yimou | New Yorker#8 Red Sorghum 1988Pedro Almodóvar | Orion Classics#9 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988Hayao Miyazaki | Tôhô#10 My Neighbor Totoro 1988Krzysztof Kieslowski | Film Polski#11 A Short Film About Killing 1988Béla Tarr | Movies Inspired#12 Damnation 1988Joan Micklin Silver | Warner Bros.#13 Crossing Delancey 1988Charles Crichton | MGM/UA#14 A Fish Called Wanda 1988Barry Levinson | MGM/UA#15 Rain Man 1988Clint Eastwood | Warner Bros.#16 Bird 1988John Carpenter | Universal#17 They Live 1988Martin Brest | Universal#18 Midnight Run 1988Tian Zhuangzhuang | Intl. Film Circuit#19 The Horse Thief 1988Chen Kaige | Intl. Film Circuit#20 Yellow Earth 1988Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Intl. Film Circuit#21 A Time to Live, a Time to Die 1988Ermanno Olmi | Columbia Italia#22 The Legend of the Holy Drinker 1988John Landis | Paramount#23 Coming to America 1988Derek Jarman | Blue Dolphin#24 The Last of England 1988Mira Nair | Cinecom#25 Salaam Bombay! 1989Spike Lee | Universal#1 Do the Right Thing 1989Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Era Intl.#2 A City of Sadness 1989Souleymane Cissé | Cinecom#3 Brightness 1989Terence Davies | Avenue#4 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1989Tim Burton | Warner Bros.#5 Batman 1989Woody Allen | Orion#6 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989Oliver Stone | Universal#7 Born on the Fourth of July 1989Andrzej Żuławski |KADR#8 On the Silver Globe 1989Steven Soderbergh | Miramax#9 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989Rob Reiner | Columbia#10 When Harry Met Sally... 1989Katsuhiro Ôtomo | Streamline#11 Akira 1989Brian De Palma | Columbia#12 Casualties of War 1989Abbas Kiarostami#13 Homework 1989Marlon Riggs#14 Tongues Untied 1989Gus Van Sant | Avenue#15 Drugstore Cowboy 1989Jim Jarmusch | Orion Classics#16 Mystery Train 1989Tsui Hark | Gordon's#17 Peking Opera Blues 1989Takeshi Kitano#18 Violent Cop 1989Al Reinert | Apollo#19 For All Mankind 1989Cameron Crowe | 20th Century Fox#20 Say Anything... 1989Jacques Rivette | Metropolis#21 The Gang of Four 1989Aki Kaurismäki | Kino Intl.#22 Ariel 1989Claude Chabrol | New Yorker#23 Story of Women 1989Maurice Pialat#24 Under the Sun of Satan 1989Patrick Tam#25 My Heart Is That Eternal Rose
Filter CategoriesALL1980198119821983198419851986198719881989Reviewed 1980William Friedkin | United Artists#14 Cruising 1980Stanley Kubrick | Warner Bros.#1 The Shining 1980Martin Scorsese | United Artists#2 Raging Bull 1980Rainer Werner Fassbinder | New Yorker#3 In a Year with 13 Moons 1980Akira Kurosawa | 20th Century Fox#4 Kagemusha 1980Irvin Kershner | 20th Century Fox#5 Star Wars Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back 1980Samuel Fuller | United Artists#6 The Big Red One 1980Michael Cimino | United Artists#7 Heaven's Gate 1980Errol Morris | New Yorker#8 Gates of Heaven 1980Brian De Palma | Filmways#9 Dressed to Kill 1980Bill Gunn#10 Personal Problems 1980David Lynch | Paramount#11 The Elephant Man 1980Nicolas Roeg | World Northal#12 Bad Timing 1980Jean-Luc Godard | New Yorker#13 Every Man for Himself 1980Stephen Frears#15 Bloody Kids 1980Roman Polanski | Columbia#16 Tess 1980John Cassavetes | Columbia#17 Gloria 1980Seijun Sezuki | Little More Co.#18 Zigeunerweisen 1980Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Omni Zoetrope#19 Hitler: A Film from Germany 1980Gillian Armstrong | Analysis#20 My Brilliant Career 1980Alain Resnais | New World#21 My American Uncle 1980Jonathan Demme | Universal#22 Melvin and Howard 1980Ken Russell | Warner Bros.#23 Altered States 1980Robert Zemeckis | Columbia#24 Used Cars 1980Maurice Pialat | New Yorker#25 Loulou 1981Andrzej Wajda | United Artists Classics#1 Man of Iron 1981François Truffaut | United Artists Classics#2 The Last Metro 1981Hector Babenco | Unifilms#3 Pixote 1981Brian De Palma | Filmways#4 Blow Out 1981Steven Spielberg | Paramount#5 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981Warren Beatty — TS7 | Paramount#6 Reds 1981Manoel de Oliveira | Joseph Papp#7 Doomed Love 1981Eric Rohmer | New Yorker#8 The Aviator's Wife 1981John Carpenter | AVCO Embassy#9 Escape from New York 1981Terry Gilliam | AVCO Embassy#10 Time Bandits 1981David Cronenberg | AVCO Embassy#11 Scanners 1981Michael Mann | United Artists#12 Thief Abel Ferrara | Rochelle#13 Ms. 4519811981anemptytextlline 1981Albert Brooks | Colmbia#14 Modern Romance 1981John Boorman | Orion/Warner Bros.#15 Excalibur 1981Sidney Lumet | Orion/Warner Bros.#16 Prince of the City 1981Louis Malle | New Yorker#17 My Dinner with Andre 1981Walter Hill | 20th Century Fox#18 Southern Comfort 1981Ulrich Edel | New World#19 Christiane F. 1981Ivan Passer | United Artists#20 Cutter's Way 1981Connie Field | First Run Features#21 The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter 1981John Waters | New Line#22 Polyester 1981John Landis | Universal#23 An American Werewolf in London 1981K. Balachander#24 Ek Duuje Ke Liye 1981István Szabó | New Yorker#25 Confidence 1982Andrei Tarkovsky | Media Transactions#1 Stalker 1982Werner Herzog | New World#2 Fitzcarraldo 1982Ridley Scott | Warner Bros.#3 Blade Runner 1982Steven Spielberg | Universal#4 E.T. the Extra Terrestrial 1982Tobe Hooper | MGM#5 Poltergeist 1982John Carpenter | Universal#6 The Thing 1982George Miller | Warner Bros.#7 Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior 1982Dario Argento | Titanus#8 Tenebre 1982Wolfgang Petersen | Triumph#9 Das Boot 1982Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Filmverlag der Autoren#10 Veronika Voss 1982Andrei Konchalovskiy | IFEX#11 Siberiade 1982Jean-Luc Godard | Parafrance#12 Passion 1982Kathleen Collins#13 Losing Ground 1982Samuel Fuller | Paramount#14 White Dog 1982Blake Edwards | MGM#15 Victor/Victoria 1982Sydney Pollack | 20th Century Fox#16 The Verdict 1982Amy Heckerling | Universal#17 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982Steven Lisberger | Buena Vista#18 TRON 1982Les Blank | Flower#19 Burden of Dreams 1982Nathaniel Dorsky | Canyon Cinema#20 Hours for Jerome 1982Nils Malmros | Scandinavia Today#21 Tree of Knowledge 1982Jean-Jacques Beineix | United Artists Classics#22 Diva 1982Barry Levinson | MGM#23 Diner 1982Yilmaz Guney & Serif Goran | NEF-MK2#24 Yol 1982István Szabó | Analysis#25 Mephisto 1983Chris Marker | New Yorker#1 Sans Soleil 1983Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Teleculture#2 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1983Ingmar Bergman | Embassy#3 Fanny and Alexander 1983Martin Scorsese | 20th Century Fox#4 The King of Comedy 1983Brian De Palma | Universal#5 Scarface 1983James L. Brooks | Paramount#6 Terms of Endearment 1983David Cronenberg | Universal#7 Videodrome 1983Eric Rohmer | Orion Classics#8 Pauline at the Beach 1983Maurice Pialat | Gaumont#9 À nos amours 1983Godfrey Reggio | Island Alive/New Cinema#10 Koyaanisqatsi 1983Bill Forsyth | Warner Bros.#11 Local Hero 1983Philip Kaufman | Warner Bros.#12 The Right Stuff 1983Andrzej Zulawski | Limelight Intl.#13 Possession 1983Paolo & Vittorio Taviani | United Artists#14 The Night of the Shooting Stars 1983Víctor Erice | C.B. Films S.A.#15 El Sur 1983Humberto Solás | ICAIC#16 Cecilia 1983Francis Ford Coppola | Universal#17 Rumble Fish 1983Sam Raimi | New Line#18 The Evil Dead 1983Dennis Hopper | United Artists#19 Out of the Blue 1983Joseph Losey | Triumph#20 The Trout 1983Lizzie Borden | First Fun#21 Born in Flames 1983Kon Ichikawa | Tôhô#22 The Makioka Sisters 1983Nagisa Ôshima | Universal#23 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 1983Kundan Shah#24 Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro 1983Carlos Saura | Orion Classics#25 Carmen 1984Robert Bresson | Cinecom#1 L'argent 1984Andrei Tarkovsky | Grange#2 Nostalgia 1984Shohei Imamura | Kino Intl.#3 The Ballad of Narayama 1984Wim Wenders | 20th Century Fox#4 Paris, Texas 1984James Cameron | Orion#5 The Terminator 1984Milos Forman | Orion#6 Amadeus 1984John Cassavetes | Cannon#7 Love Streams 1984Rob Epstein | TC#8 The Life and Times of Harvey Milk 1984Jim Jarmusch | Samuel Goldwyn#9 Stranger than Paradise 1984Sergio Leone | Ladd#10 Once Upon a Time in America 1984Gregory Nava | Cinecom#11 El Norte 1984Joe Dante | Warner Bros.#12 Gremlins 1984Martin Brest | Paramount#13 Beverly Hills Cop 1984Alex Cox | Universal#14 Repo Man 1984Brian De Palma | Columbia#15 Body Double 1984Rob Reiner | Embassy#16 This is Spinal Tap 1984Erich Rohmer | Orion Classics#17 Full Moon in Paris 1984Bertrand Tavernier | MGM/UA Classics#18 A Sunday in the Country 1984Leos Carax | Forum#19 Boy Meets Girl 1984John Huston | Universal#20 Under the Volcano 1984John Carpenter | Columbia#21 Starman 1984Alan Rudolph | Island Alive#22 Choose Me 1984John Sayles | Cinecom#23 The Brother from Another Planet 1984Jean-Luc Godard | Intl. Spectrafilm#24 First Name: Carmen 1984Martin Bell | Angelika Films#25 Streetwise 1985Claude Lanzmann | New Yorker#1 Shoah 1985Terry Gilliam | Universal#2 Brazil 1985Akira Kurosawa | Orion Classics#3 Ran 1985Joel & Ethan Coen | Circle#4 Blood Simple 1985Robert Zemeckis | Universal#5 Back to the Future 1985Woody Allen | Orion#6 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985Tim Burton | Warner Bros.#7 Pee-Wee's Big Adventure 1985Emir Kusturica | Cannon#8 When Father Was Away on Business 1985Jean-Luc Godard | New Yorker#9 Hail Mary 1985Martin Scorsese | Warner Bros.#10 After Hours 1985Paul Schrader | Warner Bros.#11 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985Steven Spielberg | Warner Bros.#12 The Color Purple 1985George A. Romero | UFDC#13 Day of the Dead 1985Dan O'Bannon | Orion#14 The Return of the Living Dead 1985Chi-Hwa Chen & Jackie Chan | Golden Harvest#15 Police Story 1985John Hughes | Universal#16 The Breakfast Club 1985Edward Yang#17 Taipei Story 1985Luis Puenzo | Almi#18 The Official Story 1985Albert Brooks | Warner Bros.#19 Lost in America 1985William Friedkin | MGM/UA#20 To Live and Die in L.A. 1985Robert Altman#21 Secret Honor 1985Béla Tarr#22 Almanac of Fall 1985Stuart Gordon | Empire#23 Re-Animator 1985Maurice Pialat | Gaumont#24 Police 1985Joyce Chopra | International Spectrafilm#25 Smooth Talk 1986David Lynch | Des Laurentiis#1 Blue Velvet 1986Woody Allen | Orion#2 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986Eric Rohmer | Orion Classics#3 The Green Ray 1986Andrei Tarkovsky | Orion Classics#4 Sacrifice 1986Oliver Stone | Orion#5 Platoon 1986David Cronenberg | 20th Century Fox#6 The Fly 1986John Woo | Cinema City#7 A Better Tomorrow 1986Leos Carax | AAA Classic/Revcom#8 Mauvais sang 1986James Cameron | 20th Century Fox#9 Aliens 1986Ross McElwee | First Run#10 Sherman's March 1986Agnès Varda | Grange#11 Vagabond 1986Edward Yang | Inbaubel#12 The Terrorizers 1986Jonathan Demme#13 Something Wild 1986Jim Jarmusch#14 Down by Law 1986Spike Lee | Island#15 She's Gotta Have It 1986Paul Vecchiali | Les Films de l'Atalante#16 Rosa la rose, fille publique 1986James Ivory | Cinecom#17 A Room With a View 1986Derek Jarman | Cinevista#18 Caravaggio 1986Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | ATG#19 Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast Robert Harmon | TriStar#20 The Hitcher19861986anemptytextlline 1986John Carpenter | 20th Century Fox#21 Big Trouble in Little China 1986Lloyd Kaufman | Troma#22 The Toxic Avenger 1986Stephen Frears | Orion Classics#23 My Beautiful Launderette 1986Paolo & Vittorio Taviani#24 Kaos 1986Nagisa Ôshima | Acteurs Auteurs Associés#25 Max My Love 1987Paul Verhoeven | Orion#1 RoboCop 1987Elem Klimov |IFEX#2 Come and See 1987Steven Spielberg | Warner Bros.#3 Empire of the Sun 1987Louis Malle | Orion Classics#4 Au Revoir les Enfants 1987Stanley Kubrick | Warner Bros.#5 Full Metal Jacket 1987James Bening#6 Landscape Suicide 1987Bernardo Bertolucci | Columbia#7 The Last Emperor 1987John Huston | Vestron#8 The Dead 1987Abbas Kiarostami#9 Where is the Friend's House? 1987James L. Brooks | 20th Century Fox#10 Broadcast News 1987Oliver Stone | 20th Century Fox#11 Wall Street 1987Brian De Palma | Paramount#12 The Untouchables 1987David Mamet | Orion#13 House of Games 1987Pedro Almodóvar | Cinevista#14 Law of Desire 1987Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Intl. Film Circuit#15 Dust in the Wind 1987John McTiernan | 20th Century Fox#16 Predator 1987Bill Forsyth | Ciolumbia#17 Housekeeping 1987John Sayles | Cinecom#18 Matewan 1987Sam Raimi | Rosebud#19 Evil Dead II 1987Rob Reiner | 20th Century Fox#20 The Princess Bride 1987Joel & Ethan Coen | 20th Century Fox#21 Raising Arizona 1987Elaine May | Columbia#22 Ishtar 1987Ching Sui-tung | Media Asia#23 A Chinese Ghost Story 1987Sammo Hung | Golden Harvest#24 Eastern Condors 1987Jûzô Itami | New Yorker#25 Tampopo 1988Jean-Luc Godard | Cannon#1 King Lear 1988Isao Takahata | Tôhô#2 Grave of Fireflies 1988Win Wenders | Orion Classics#3 Wings of Desire 1988Martin Scorsese | Universal#4 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988John McTiernan | 20th Century Fox#5 Die Hard 1988Errol Morris | Miramax#6 The Thin Blue Line 1988David Cronenberg | 20th Century Fox#7 Dead Ringers 1988Zhang Yimou | New Yorker#8 Red Sorghum 1988Pedro Almodóvar | Orion Classics#9 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988Hayao Miyazaki | Tôhô#10 My Neighbor Totoro 1988Krzysztof Kieslowski | Film Polski#11 A Short Film About Killing 1988Béla Tarr | Movies Inspired#12 Damnation 1988Joan Micklin Silver | Warner Bros.#13 Crossing Delancey 1988Charles Crichton | MGM/UA#14 A Fish Called Wanda 1988Barry Levinson | MGM/UA#15 Rain Man 1988Clint Eastwood | Warner Bros.#16 Bird 1988John Carpenter | Universal#17 They Live 1988Martin Brest | Universal#18 Midnight Run 1988Tian Zhuangzhuang | Intl. Film Circuit#19 The Horse Thief 1988Chen Kaige | Intl. Film Circuit#20 Yellow Earth 1988Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Intl. Film Circuit#21 A Time to Live, a Time to Die 1988Ermanno Olmi | Columbia Italia#22 The Legend of the Holy Drinker 1988John Landis | Paramount#23 Coming to America 1988Derek Jarman | Blue Dolphin#24 The Last of England 1988Mira Nair | Cinecom#25 Salaam Bombay! 1989Spike Lee | Universal#1 Do the Right Thing 1989Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Era Intl.#2 A City of Sadness 1989Souleymane Cissé | Cinecom#3 Brightness 1989Terence Davies | Avenue#4 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1989Tim Burton | Warner Bros.#5 Batman 1989Woody Allen | Orion#6 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989Oliver Stone | Universal#7 Born on the Fourth of July 1989Andrzej Żuławski |KADR#8 On the Silver Globe 1989Steven Soderbergh | Miramax#9 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989Rob Reiner | Columbia#10 When Harry Met Sally... 1989Katsuhiro Ôtomo | Streamline#11 Akira 1989Brian De Palma | Columbia#12 Casualties of War 1989Abbas Kiarostami#13 Homework 1989Marlon Riggs#14 Tongues Untied 1989Gus Van Sant | Avenue#15 Drugstore Cowboy 1989Jim Jarmusch | Orion Classics#16 Mystery Train 1989Tsui Hark | Gordon's#17 Peking Opera Blues 1989Takeshi Kitano#18 Violent Cop 1989Al Reinert | Apollo#19 For All Mankind 1989Cameron Crowe | 20th Century Fox#20 Say Anything... 1989Jacques Rivette | Metropolis#21 The Gang of Four 1989Aki Kaurismäki | Kino Intl.#22 Ariel 1989Claude Chabrol | New Yorker#23 Story of Women 1989Maurice Pialat#24 Under the Sun of Satan 1989Patrick Tam#25 My Heart Is That Eternal Rose