What's everyone's top movies of 1980?

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1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Elephant Man
3. Superman II
4. Airplane!
5. Raging Bull
6. Stir Crazy
7. Popeye
8. The Big Red One
9. Somewhere In Time
10. The Long Riders
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Airplane!
The Shining
The Stunt Man
Atlantic City
Friday the 13th
The Blues Brothers
The Long Riders
Superman II
Caddyshack
Altered States
Stir Crazy



Nostro's 1980 Top 10

#10.

Prom Night

#9.

Friday the 13th

#8.

The Blue Lagoon

#7.

Dressed to Kill

#6.

Flash Gordon

#5.

Inferno

#4.

Terror Train

#3.

The Fog

#2.

The Empire Strikes Back

#1.

The Shining



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1. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
2. Die Hard
3. The Shining
4. Castle in the Sky
5. My Neighbor Totoro
6. The Little Mermaid
7. Superman II (Lester version)
8. Back to the Future
9. Kiki's Delivery Service
10. Porco Rosso
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1- The Shining


2- The Empire Strikes Back


3- Breaker Morant


4- Friday The 13th


5- The Changeling


6- The Fog


7- The Blues Brothers


8- Cannibal Holocaust


9- Dressed To Kill


10- Raging Bull
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Blade Runner (1982)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Back to the Future (1985)

National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)

Sixteen Candles (1984)

Heathers (1988)

Pale Rider (1985)

Uncle Buck (1989)

Excalibur (1981)

Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)

In no order. Sorry no pictures.



Blade Runner (1982)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Back to the Future (1985)

National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)

Sixteen Candles (1984)

Heathers (1988)

Pale Rider (1985)

Uncle Buck (1989)

Excalibur (1981)

Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)

In no order. Sorry no pictures.
it's not the decade it's the year 1980



1. The Shining
2. Breaker Morant
3. Stardust Memories
4. Empire Strikes Back
5. Mon Oncle d'Amérique
6. Ordinary People
7. Le Dernier Métro
8. Atlantic City
9. Kagemusha
10. Raging Bull
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Bright light. Bright light. Uh oh.
The Empire Strikes Back
The Stunt Man
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Blues Brothers
Altered States
The Elephant Man
Raging Bull
Inside Moves
The Shining
Atlantic City
Seems Like Old Times
Used Cars
Breaker Morant
Superman II
Coal Miner's Daughter
Hopscotch
Airplane!
Fame
Hero at Large
Resurrection
Little Darlings



Mark f, rep+ for including Inside Moves and Resurrection on your list. Both great movies. I would go along with most of the films of 1980 listed, and include The Hollywood Knights. Love that movie. "Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia. He was an English Guy. He came to fight the Turkish."
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1. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
2. Tess (Roman Polanski)
3. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
4. The Empire Stirkes Back (Irvin Kershner)
5. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
6. Airplane! (Abrahams, Zucker, and Zucker)
7. The Stunt Man (Richard Rush)
8. Inside Moves (Richard Donner)
9. The Blues Brothers (John Landis)
10. The Last Metro (François Truffaut)
11. Kegamusha: The Shadow Warrior (Akira Kurosawa)
12. Melvin & Howard (Jonathan Demme)
13. Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
14. The Big Red One (Sam Fuller)
15. Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
16. My Bodyguard (Tony Bill)
17. Breaker Morant (Bruce Beresford)
18. Resurrection (Daniel Petrie)
19. Coal Miner's Daughter (Michael Apted)
20. The Long Riders (Walter Hill)

OTHER FAVORITES (in no particular order): The Return of the Secaucus 7 (John Sayles), Private Benjamin (Howard Zieff), Hopscotch (Ronald Neame), The Changeling (Peter Medak), Caddyshack (Harold Ramis), Gloria (John Cassavetes), The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie), Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg), Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood), American Gigolo (Paul Schrader), 9 to 5 (Colin Higgins), Seems Like Old Times (Jay Sandrich)

GUILTY PLEASURES: Xanadu (Robert Greenwald), Flash Gordon (Mike Hodges), Hero at Large (Martin Davidson), Popeye (Robert Altman), Any Which Way You Can (Buddy Van Horn), Little Darlings (Ronald F. Maxwell), Stir Crazy (Sidney Poitier), The Island (Michael Ritchie), Super Fuzz (Sergio Corbucci), Ruckus (Max Klevin)

ALL THE REST I'VE SEEN (unless I missed something): Alligator, Altered States, The Apple, The Awakening, The Baltimore Bullet, Battle Beyond the Stars, The Black Marble, The Blue Lagoon, Brubaker, Cannibal Holocaust, Carny, Can't Stop the Music, A Change of Seasons, Cheech & Chong's Next Movie, City of Women, The Competition, Cruising, The Dogs of War, Dressed to Kill, The Earthling, Fade to Black, Fame, Fatso, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, The Final Countdown, The First Deadly Sin, First Family, The Fog, The Formula, Foxes, Friday the 13th, Galaxina, Gilda Live!, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Hardly Working, The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood, H.E.A.L.T.H., Heart Beat, Heaven's Gate, He Knows You're Alone, Herbie Goes Bananas, Hide in Plain Sight, The Hollywood Knights, Home Movies, Honeysuckle Rose, How to Beat the High Cost of Living, Humanoids from the Deep, The Hunter, The idolmaker, In God We Trust, It's My Turn, The Jazz Singer, Just Tell Me What You Want, The Last Flight of Noah's Ark, The Last Married Couple in America, Little Miss Marker, Loulou, The Man with Bogart's Face, Maniac, Middle Age Crazy, Midnight Madness, The Mirror Crack'd, Motel Hell, The Mountain Men, My American Uncle, Night of the Juggler, Nijinski, The Ninth Configuration, The Nude Bomb, Oh God! Book II, Oh Heavenly Dog, One Trick Pony, Out of the Blue, Permanent Vacation, Pray TV, The Private Eyes, Prom Night, Raise the Titanic, Roadie, Rough Cut, Saturn 3, The Sea Wolves, Serial, Simon, Smokey and the Bandit II, Somewhere in Time, Spetters, Stardust Memories, Superman II, Terror Train, Tom Horn, Tribute, Up the Academy, Urban Cowboy, Used Cars, The Watcher in the Woods, When Time Ran Out, Where the Buffalo Roam, Wholly Moses!, Willie & Phil, Windwalker.
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1. The Blues Brothers
2. The Shining
3. Raging Bull
4. Airplane!
5. The Empire Strikes Back
6. The Elephant Man
7. The Long Good Friday
8. Ordinary People
9. Used Cars
10. Caddyshack
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Iro's Top 100 Movies v3.0



Raging Bull
The Falls
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Empire Strikes Back
The Elephant Man

And I was going to only post 5 but has anyone else seen Arrebato (and yeah, I know imdb says 1979 but they're wrong sometimes)?



That movie's pretty crazy. Crazy good.
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1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Flash Gordon
3. Raging Bull
4. Superman II
5. Used Cars
6. The Blues Brothers
7. Airplane
8. Caddyshack
9. Stir Crazy
10. The Shining
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Popeye is a guilty pleasure for me since i was 4 years old.