1980 directorial debut films

1980 film by Robert Redford

Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!) is a 1980 American comedy film written and directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker in their directorial debut, and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Lorna Patterson, Stephen Stucker, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows the plot, central characters, and some dialogue. It also draws many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in

Caddyshack is a 1980 American sports comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney, and starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe and Bill Murray with supporting roles by Sarah Holcomb, Cindy Morgan, and Doyle-Murray. It tells the story of a caddie, vying for a caddie scholarship, who becomes involved in a feud on the links between one of the country club's founders and a nouveau riche guest. A subplot involves a greenskeeper who uses extreme methods against an elusive gopher.

1980 American musical film directed by Robert Greenwald

1980 film by Pedro Almodóvar

1980 film by Buddy Van Horn

1980 film by John Irvin

1980 film directed by Armand Mastroianni

1980 Canadian film by Roger Spottiswoode

1980 film by Julien Temple

1980 film directed by Jim Jarmusch

1980 film by Adrian Lyne

1980 film by Nancy Walker

1980 film by Govind Nihalani

1980 film directed by Art Linson

1980 film by Sai Paranjpye

1980 film by Mike Newell

1980 film by Walter Bernstein

1980 film by Jay Sandrich

1980 film directed by Michael Nankin

1980 film by Ronald F. Maxwell

1980 film by George Bowers

1980 film by Jean-Pierre Denis

1980 film by Tony Bill

1980 film by Konstantin Lopushansky

1980 film by William Peter Blatty

1980 American drama film directed by Lee Grant

1980 film by Richard Lang

1980 film by Hou Hsiao-Hsien

1980 film by Carlo Verdone

1980 film by Gordon Willis

1980 film by Peter Greenaway

1980 film by Brian Gibson

1982 film by Richard Elfman

1980 musical film directed by Taylor Hackford

1980 film by James Caan

1980 film by Ketan Mehta

1980 film by Salvatore Piscicelli

1980 film directed by John Sayles

1980 film directed by Max Kalmanowicz

1980 film by Rob Cohen