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

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