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1980s in film

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subgenre of horror films involving a violent psychopath stalking and murdering a group of people, usually by use of bladed tools

term for a popular film or other entertainment

thumb|upright=1.1|Lobby card for David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986), an example of neo-noir. Neo-noir is a film genre from the 1970s, in the era of New Hollywood, which is primarily associated with the subversion and visual style of classic film noir tropes, adapting the themes of 1940s and 1950s American film noir for contemporary audiences, often with vibrant colors and high-contrast, more graphic depictions of violence or sexuality, thematic motifs, and nonlinear narrative or editing.

thumb|upright=1.3|Letícia Román in The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963), considered by most critics to be the first film

American film movement between the late-1960s and early-1980s

found footage film

Disney Renaissance

period of highly successful animated feature films released by Walt Disney Feature Animation (today Walt Disney Animation Studios) from 1989 to 1999

Golden Age of Porn

15-year period in which sexually explicit films experienced mainstream success

subgenre of horror film

New German Cinema

period (1962–1982) in West German cinema characterized by low-budget films influenced by the French New Wave and Italian Neorealism

Mystery Science Theater 3000

American television series

cinéma vérité

style of documentary filmmaking

group of young actors

heroic bloodshed

erotic thriller

thriller subgenre

genre of fiction

cinéma du look

style of French films, common in 1980s

genre of art cinema

essay, lecture or criticism from a particular point of view in a video/film/tv format

Hong Kong action cinema

principal source of the Hong Kong film industry's global fame

postmodernist film

Japanese cyberpunk

subgenre of science fiction produced in the East Asian country

films distributed to video, criticized for violent content

underground film

film that is out of the mainstream either in its style, genre, or financing

list of dystopian films

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national cinema

term used in film theory and criticism to describe films associated with a nation-state

film genre with two or more police protagonists with conflicting personalities

subgenre of horror fiction

thumb|right|Giuliana Calandra in the 1973 nunsploitation film [[Story of a Cloistered Nun]] Nunsploitation is a subgenre of exploitation film which had its peak in Europe in the 1970s. These films typically involve Christian nuns living in convents during the Middle Ages.

films believed to have been made solely to get nominated for Academy Awards

overview of the events of the 1980s in film

hyperlink cinema

multilinear filmmaking style

Australian New Wave

movement in Australian cinema that emerged in the 1970s

structural film

live-action or animated film featuring puppets

film genre originating in the United States

Soviet Parallel Cinema

1980s underground film movement in the Soviet Union

period film with high-quality visual production values

type of cinematography with extreme character

Ozploitation film

Ozploitation films are exploitation films – a category of low-budget horror, comedy, sexploitation and action films – made in Australia after the introduction of the R rating in 1971. The year also marked the beginnings of the Australian New Wave movement, and the Ozploitation style peaked within the same time frame (early 1970s to late 1980s).

Hong Kong New Wave

movement in Chinese-language cinema that emerged in the late 1970s

Cinema of Transgression

underground film movement