1980s Film

1980
William Friedkin | United Artists
#14
Cruising
1980
Stanley Kubrick | Warner Bros.
#1
The Shining
1980
Martin Scorsese | United Artists
#2
Raging Bull
1980
Rainer Werner Fassbinder | New Yorker
#3
In a Year with 13 Moons
1980
Akira Kurosawa | 20th Century Fox
#4
Kagemusha
1980
Irvin Kershner | 20th Century Fox
#5
Star Wars Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back
1980
Samuel Fuller | United Artists
#6
The Big Red One
1980
Michael Cimino | United Artists
#7
Heaven's Gate
1980
Errol Morris | New Yorker
#8
Gates of Heaven
1980
Brian De Palma | Filmways
#9
Dressed to Kill
1980
Bill Gunn
#10
Personal Problems
1980
David Lynch | Paramount
#11
The Elephant Man
1980
Nicolas Roeg | World Northal
#12
Bad Timing
1980
Jean-Luc Godard | New Yorker
#13
Every Man for Himself
1980
Stephen Frears
#15
Bloody Kids
1980
Roman Polanski | Columbia
#16
Tess
1980
John Cassavetes | Columbia
#17
Gloria
1980
Seijun Sezuki | Little More Co.
#18
Zigeunerweisen
1980
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Omni Zoetrope
#19
Hitler: A Film from Germany
1980
Gillian Armstrong | Analysis
#20
My Brilliant Career
1980
Alain Resnais | New World
#21
My American Uncle
1980
Jonathan Demme | Universal
#22
Melvin and Howard
1980
Ken Russell | Warner Bros.
#23
Altered States
1980
Robert Zemeckis | Columbia
#24
Used Cars
1980
Maurice Pialat | New Yorker
#25
Loulou
1981
Andrzej Wajda | United Artists Classics
#1
Man of Iron
1981
François Truffaut | United Artists Classics
#2
The Last Metro
1981
Hector Babenco | Unifilms
#3
Pixote
1981
Brian De Palma | Filmways
#4
Blow Out
1981
Steven Spielberg | Paramount
#5
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
Warren Beatty — TS7 | Paramount
#6
Reds
1981
Manoel de Oliveira | Joseph Papp
#7
Doomed Love
1981
Eric Rohmer | New Yorker
#8
The Aviator's Wife
1981
John Carpenter | AVCO Embassy
#9
Escape from New York
1981
Terry Gilliam | AVCO Embassy
#10
Time Bandits
1981
David Cronenberg | AVCO Embassy
#11
Scanners
1981
Michael Mann | United Artists
#12
Thief
Abel Ferrara | Rochelle
#13
Ms. 45
1981
1981
anemptytextlline
1981
Albert Brooks | Colmbia
#14
Modern Romance
1981
John Boorman | Orion/Warner Bros.
#15
Excalibur
1981
Sidney Lumet | Orion/Warner Bros.
#16
Prince of the City
1981
Louis Malle | New Yorker
#17
My Dinner with Andre
1981
Walter Hill | 20th Century Fox
#18
Southern Comfort
1981
Ulrich Edel | New World
#19
Christiane F.
1981
Ivan Passer | United Artists
#20
Cutter's Way
1981
Connie Field | First Run Features
#21
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
1981
John Waters | New Line
#22
Polyester
1981
John Landis | Universal
#23
An American Werewolf in London
1981
K. Balachander
#24
Ek Duuje Ke Liye
1981
István Szabó | New Yorker
#25
Confidence
1982
Andrei Tarkovsky | Media Transactions
#1
Stalker
1982
Werner Herzog | New World
#2
Fitzcarraldo
1982
Ridley Scott | Warner Bros.
#3
Blade Runner
1982
Steven Spielberg | Universal
#4
E.T. the Extra Terrestrial
1982
Tobe Hooper | MGM
#5
Poltergeist
1982
John Carpenter | Universal
#6
The Thing
1982
George Miller | Warner Bros.
#7
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
1982
Dario Argento | Titanus
#8
Tenebre
1982
Wolfgang Petersen | Triumph
#9
Das Boot
1982
Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Filmverlag der Autoren
#10
Veronika Voss
1982
Andrei Konchalovskiy | IFEX
#11
Siberiade
1982
Jean-Luc Godard | Parafrance
#12
Passion
1982
Kathleen Collins
#13
Losing Ground
1982
Samuel Fuller | Paramount
#14
White Dog
1982
Blake Edwards | MGM
#15
Victor/Victoria
1982
Sydney Pollack | 20th Century Fox
#16
The Verdict
1982
Amy Heckerling | Universal
#17
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1982
Steven Lisberger | Buena Vista
#18
TRON
1982
Les Blank | Flower
#19
Burden of Dreams
1982
Nathaniel Dorsky | Canyon Cinema
#20
Hours for Jerome
1982
Nils Malmros | Scandinavia Today
#21
Tree of Knowledge
1982
Jean-Jacques Beineix | United Artists Classics
#22
Diva
1982
Barry Levinson | MGM
#23
Diner
1982
Yilmaz Guney & Serif Goran | NEF-MK2
#24
Yol
1982
István Szabó | Analysis
#25
Mephisto
1983
Chris Marker | New Yorker
#1
Sans Soleil
1983
Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Teleculture
#2
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1983
Ingmar Bergman | Embassy
#3
Fanny and Alexander
1983
Martin Scorsese | 20th Century Fox
#4
The King of Comedy
1983
Brian De Palma | Universal
#5
Scarface
1983
James L. Brooks | Paramount
#6
Terms of Endearment
1983
David Cronenberg | Universal
#7
Videodrome
1983
Eric Rohmer | Orion Classics
#8
Pauline at the Beach
1983
Maurice Pialat | Gaumont
#9
À nos amours
1983
Godfrey Reggio | Island Alive/New Cinema
#10
Koyaanisqatsi
1983
Bill Forsyth | Warner Bros.
#11
Local Hero
1983
Philip Kaufman | Warner Bros.
#12
The Right Stuff
1983
Andrzej Zulawski | Limelight Intl.
#13
Possession
1983
Paolo & Vittorio Taviani | United Artists
#14
The Night of the Shooting Stars
1983
Víctor Erice | C.B. Films S.A.
#15
El Sur
1983
Humberto Solás | ICAIC
#16
Cecilia
1983
Francis Ford Coppola | Universal
#17
Rumble Fish
1983
Sam Raimi | New Line
#18
The Evil Dead
1983
Dennis Hopper | United Artists
#19
Out of the Blue
1983
Joseph Losey | Triumph
#20
The Trout
1983
Lizzie Borden | First Fun
#21
Born in Flames
1983
Kon Ichikawa | Tôhô
#22
The Makioka Sisters
1983
Nagisa Ôshima | Universal
#23
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
1983
Kundan Shah
#24
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
1983
Carlos Saura | Orion Classics
#25
Carmen
1984
Robert Bresson | Cinecom
#1
L'argent
1984
Andrei Tarkovsky | Grange
#2
Nostalgia
1984
Shohei Imamura | Kino Intl.
#3
The Ballad of Narayama
1984
Wim Wenders | 20th Century Fox
#4
Paris, Texas
1984
James Cameron | Orion
#5
The Terminator
1984
Milos Forman | Orion
#6
Amadeus
1984
John Cassavetes | Cannon
#7
Love Streams
1984
Rob Epstein | TC
#8
The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
1984
Jim Jarmusch | Samuel Goldwyn
#9
Stranger than Paradise
1984
Sergio Leone | Ladd
#10
Once Upon a Time in America
1984
Gregory Nava | Cinecom
#11
El Norte
1984
Joe Dante | Warner Bros.
#12
Gremlins
1984
Martin Brest | Paramount
#13
Beverly Hills Cop
1984
Alex Cox | Universal
#14
Repo Man
1984
Brian De Palma | Columbia
#15
Body Double
1984
Rob Reiner | Embassy
#16
This is Spinal Tap
1984
Erich Rohmer | Orion Classics
#17
Full Moon in Paris
1984
Bertrand Tavernier | MGM/UA Classics
#18
A Sunday in the Country
1984
Leos Carax | Forum
#19
Boy Meets Girl
1984
John Huston | Universal
#20
Under the Volcano
1984
John Carpenter | Columbia
#21
Starman
1984
Alan Rudolph | Island Alive
#22
Choose Me
1984
John Sayles | Cinecom
#23
The Brother from Another Planet
1984
Jean-Luc Godard | Intl. Spectrafilm
#24
First Name: Carmen
1984
Martin Bell | Angelika Films
#25
Streetwise
1985
Claude Lanzmann | New Yorker
#1
Shoah
1985
Terry Gilliam | Universal
#2
Brazil
1985
Akira Kurosawa | Orion Classics
#3
Ran
1985
Joel & Ethan Coen | Circle
#4
Blood Simple
1985
Robert Zemeckis | Universal
#5
Back to the Future
1985
Woody Allen | Orion
#6
The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985
Tim Burton | Warner Bros.
#7
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
1985
Emir Kusturica | Cannon
#8
When Father Was Away on Business
1985
Jean-Luc Godard | New Yorker
#9
Hail Mary
1985
Martin Scorsese | Warner Bros.
#10
After Hours
1985
Paul Schrader | Warner Bros.
#11
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985
Steven Spielberg | Warner Bros.
#12
The Color Purple
1985
George A. Romero | UFDC
#13
Day of the Dead
1985
Dan O'Bannon | Orion
#14
The Return of the Living Dead
1985
Chi-Hwa Chen & Jackie Chan | Golden Harvest
#15
Police Story
1985
John Hughes | Universal
#16
The Breakfast Club
1985
Edward Yang
#17
Taipei Story
1985
Luis Puenzo | Almi
#18
The Official Story
1985
Albert Brooks | Warner Bros.
#19
Lost in America
1985
William Friedkin | MGM/UA
#20
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985
Robert Altman
#21
Secret Honor
1985
Béla Tarr
#22
Almanac of Fall
1985
Stuart Gordon | Empire
#23
Re-Animator
1985
Maurice Pialat | Gaumont
#24
Police
1985
Joyce Chopra | International Spectrafilm
#25
Smooth Talk
1986
David Lynch | Des Laurentiis
#1
Blue Velvet
1986
Woody Allen | Orion
#2
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
Eric Rohmer | Orion Classics
#3
The Green Ray
1986
Andrei Tarkovsky | Orion Classics
#4
Sacrifice
1986
Oliver Stone | Orion
#5
Platoon
1986
David Cronenberg | 20th Century Fox
#6
The Fly
1986
John Woo | Cinema City
#7
A Better Tomorrow
1986
Leos Carax | AAA Classic/Revcom
#8
Mauvais sang
1986
James Cameron | 20th Century Fox
#9
Aliens
1986
Ross McElwee | First Run
#10
Sherman's March
1986
Agnès Varda | Grange
#11
Vagabond
1986
Edward Yang | Inbaubel
#12
The Terrorizers
1986
Jonathan Demme
#13
Something Wild
1986
Jim Jarmusch
#14
Down by Law
1986
Spike Lee | Island
#15
She's Gotta Have It
1986
Paul Vecchiali | Les Films de l'Atalante
#16
Rosa la rose, fille publique
1986
James Ivory | Cinecom
#17
A Room With a View
1986
Derek Jarman | Cinevista
#18
Caravaggio
1986
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | ATG
#19
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
Robert Harmon | TriStar
#20
The Hitcher
1986
1986
anemptytextlline
1986
John Carpenter | 20th Century Fox
#21
Big Trouble in Little China
1986
Lloyd Kaufman | Troma
#22
The Toxic Avenger
1986
Stephen Frears | Orion Classics
#23
My Beautiful Launderette
1986
Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
#24
Kaos
1986
Nagisa Ôshima | Acteurs Auteurs Associés
#25
Max My Love
1987
Paul Verhoeven | Orion
#1
RoboCop
1987
Elem Klimov |IFEX
#2
Come and See
1987
Steven Spielberg | Warner Bros.
#3
Empire of the Sun
1987
Louis Malle | Orion Classics
#4
Au Revoir les Enfants
1987
Stanley Kubrick | Warner Bros.
#5
Full Metal Jacket
1987
James Bening
#6
Landscape Suicide
1987
Bernardo Bertolucci | Columbia
#7
The Last Emperor
1987
John Huston | Vestron
#8
The Dead
1987
Abbas Kiarostami
#9
Where is the Friend's House?
1987
James L. Brooks | 20th Century Fox
#10
Broadcast News
1987
Oliver Stone | 20th Century Fox
#11
Wall Street
1987
Brian De Palma | Paramount
#12
The Untouchables
1987
David Mamet | Orion
#13
House of Games
1987
Pedro Almodóvar | Cinevista
#14
Law of Desire
1987
Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Intl. Film Circuit
#15
Dust in the Wind
1987
John McTiernan | 20th Century Fox
#16
Predator
1987
Bill Forsyth | Ciolumbia
#17
Housekeeping
1987
John Sayles | Cinecom
#18
Matewan
1987
Sam Raimi | Rosebud
#19
Evil Dead II
1987
Rob Reiner | 20th Century Fox
#20
The Princess Bride
1987
Joel & Ethan Coen | 20th Century Fox
#21
Raising Arizona
1987
Elaine May | Columbia
#22
Ishtar
1987
Ching Sui-tung | Media Asia
#23
A Chinese Ghost Story
1987
Sammo Hung | Golden Harvest
#24
Eastern Condors
1987
Jûzô Itami | New Yorker
#25
Tampopo
1988
Jean-Luc Godard | Cannon
#1
King Lear
1988
Isao Takahata | Tôhô
#2
Grave of Fireflies
1988
Win Wenders | Orion Classics
#3
Wings of Desire
1988
Martin Scorsese | Universal
#4
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
John McTiernan | 20th Century Fox
#5
Die Hard
1988
Errol Morris | Miramax
#6
The Thin Blue Line
1988
David Cronenberg | 20th Century Fox
#7
Dead Ringers
1988
Zhang Yimou | New Yorker
#8
Red Sorghum
1988
Pedro Almodóvar | Orion Classics
#9
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988
Hayao Miyazaki | Tôhô
#10
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
Krzysztof Kieslowski | Film Polski
#11
A Short Film About Killing
1988
Béla Tarr | Movies Inspired
#12
Damnation
1988
Joan Micklin Silver | Warner Bros.
#13
Crossing Delancey
1988
Charles Crichton | MGM/UA
#14
A Fish Called Wanda
1988
Barry Levinson | MGM/UA
#15
Rain Man
1988
Clint Eastwood | Warner Bros.
#16
Bird
1988
John Carpenter | Universal
#17
They Live
1988
Martin Brest | Universal
#18
Midnight Run
1988
Tian Zhuangzhuang | Intl. Film Circuit
#19
The Horse Thief
1988
Chen Kaige | Intl. Film Circuit
#20
Yellow Earth
1988
Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Intl. Film Circuit
#21
A Time to Live, a Time to Die
1988
Ermanno Olmi | Columbia Italia
#22
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
1988
John Landis | Paramount
#23
Coming to America
1988
Derek Jarman | Blue Dolphin
#24
The Last of England
1988
Mira Nair | Cinecom
#25
Salaam Bombay!
1989
Spike Lee | Universal
#1
Do the Right Thing
1989
Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Era Intl.
#2
A City of Sadness
1989
Souleymane Cissé | Cinecom
#3
Brightness
1989
Terence Davies | Avenue
#4
Distant Voices, Still Lives
1989
Tim Burton | Warner Bros.
#5
Batman
1989
Woody Allen | Orion
#6
Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989
Oliver Stone | Universal
#7
Born on the Fourth of July
1989
Andrzej Żuławski |KADR
#8
On the Silver Globe
1989
Steven Soderbergh | Miramax
#9
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
1989
Rob Reiner | Columbia
#10
When Harry Met Sally...
1989
Katsuhiro Ôtomo | Streamline
#11
Akira
1989
Brian De Palma | Columbia
#12
Casualties of War
1989
Abbas Kiarostami
#13
Homework
1989
Marlon Riggs
#14
Tongues Untied
1989
Gus Van Sant | Avenue
#15
Drugstore Cowboy
1989
Jim Jarmusch | Orion Classics
#16
Mystery Train
1989
Tsui Hark | Gordon's
#17
Peking Opera Blues
1989
Takeshi Kitano
#18
Violent Cop
1989
Al Reinert | Apollo
#19
For All Mankind
1989
Cameron Crowe | 20th Century Fox
#20
Say Anything...
1989
Jacques Rivette | Metropolis
#21
The Gang of Four
1989
Aki Kaurismäki | Kino Intl.
#22
Ariel
1989
Claude Chabrol | New Yorker
#23
Story of Women
1989
Maurice Pialat
#24
Under the Sun of Satan
1989
Patrick Tam
#25
My Heart Is That Eternal Rose