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Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner
The Shining (film)
The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson. It is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel and stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd and Scatman Crothers. The film presents the descent into insanity of a recovering alcoholic and aspiring novelist who takes a job as winter caretaker for a mountain resort hotel with his wife and clairvoyant son.
Raging Bull
1980 film directed by Martin Scorsese
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
1980 film by Vladimir Menshov
The Elephant Man
1980 film by David Lynch
The Blues Brothers
1980 film directed by John Landis
Friday the 13th
1980 film directed by Sean S. Cunningham
Superman II
1980 film directed by Richard Lester
The Blue Lagoon
1980 film by Randal Kleiser
Ordinary People
1980 film by Robert Redford
Airplane!
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
The Gods Must Be Crazy
1980 film directed by Jamie Uys
Cannibal Holocaust
1980 Italian horror film directed by Ruggero Deodato
The Last Metro
1980 film by François Truffaut
Kagemusha
is a 1980 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class petty thief who is taught to impersonate the dying daimyō Takeda Shingen to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan. Kagemusha is the Japanese term for a political decoy, literally meaning "shadow warrior". The film ends with the climactic 1575 Battle of Nagashino.
Atlantic City
1980 film directed by Louis Malle
Heaven's Gate
1980 American Western film directed by Michael Cimino
The Fog
1980 film directed by John Carpenter
American Gigolo
1980 film directed by Paul Schrader
Flash Gordon
1980 film by Mike Hodges
Dressed to Kill
1980 US film directed by Brian De Palma
Caddyshack
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.
Popeye
1980 film by Robert Altman
Fame
1980 film by Alan Parker
La Boum
1980 film by Claude Pinoteau
Stardust Memories
1980 film by Woody Allen
Brubaker
Brubaker is a 1980 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It stars Robert Redford as a newly arrived prison warden, Henry Brubaker, who attempts to clean up a corrupt and violent penal system. The screenplay by W. D. Richter is a fictionalized version of the 1969 book, Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal by Tom Murton and Joe Hyams, detailing Murton's uncovering of the 1967 prison scandal. The film features a large supporting cast, including Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Tim McIntire, Matt Clark, M. Emmet Walsh, Everett McGill a
My American Uncle
1980 film by Alain Resnais
City of Women
1980 French-Italian film by Federico Fellini
Coal Miner's Daughter
1980 film by Michael Apted
The Final Countdown
1980 film by Don Taylor
Bronco Billy
1980 film by Clint Eastwood
Somewhere in Time
1980 film by Jeannot Szwarc
Cruising
1980 film by William Friedkin
9 to 5
1980 film directed by Colin Higgins
Private Benjamin
1980 film by Howard Zieff
Pepi, Luci, Bom
1980 film by Pedro Almodóvar
Xanadu
1980 American musical film directed by Robert Greenwald
The Mirror Crack'd
1980 film by Guy Hamilton
The Big Red One
1980 film by Samuel Fuller
Gloria
1980 film directed by John Cassavetes
The Changeling
1980 film directed by Peter Medak
Inferno
1980 film directed by Dario Argento
Any Which Way You Can
1980 film by Buddy Van Horn
The Young Master
1980 film by Jackie Chan
The King and the Mockingbird
1953 and 1980 film by Paul Grimault
Altered States
1980 film by Ken Russell
The Long Good Friday
1980 film directed by John Mackenzie
From the Life of the Marionettes
1980 television film by Ingmar Bergman
Prom Night
1980 film directed by Paul Lynch
Alligator
1980 film by Lewis Teague
The Taming of the Scoundrel
1980 Italian film by Giuseppe Moccia, Franco Castellano
Alibaba Aur 40 Chor
1980 film by Umesh Mehra
Super Fuzz
1980 film directed by Sergio Corbucci
Bad Timing
1980 film by Nicolas Roeg
Ashita no Joe
Japanese manga series
The Long Riders
1980 film by Walter Hill
Le Guignolo
1980 film by Georges Lautner
City of the Living Dead
1980 film directed by Lucio Fulci
3000 Leagues in Search of Mother
1976 Japanese anime directed by Isao Takahata