1980 Top Ten List

  • Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
  • Mon oncle d'Amérique (Alain Resnais)
  • Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
  • 'Breaker' Morant (Bruce Beresford)
  • The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie)
  • The Falls (Peter Greenaway)
  • Airplane! (Jim Abrahams & David Zucker & Jerry Zucker)
  • Bloody Kids (Stephen Frears)
  • Seems Like Old Times (Jay Sandrich)
  • The Long Riders (Walter Hill)

    • Additional 1980 Films By Rating

  • The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller)
  • Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
  • The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
  • Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
  • Spooky Encounters (Sammo Hung)
  • Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino)
  • Used Cars (Robert Zemeckis)
  • Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (Les Blank)
  • Gregory's Girl (Bill Forsyth)
  • Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
  • Superman II (Richard Lester)
  • Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
  • Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper)
  • Caddyshack (Harold Ramis)
  • Hopscotch (Ronald Neame)
  • The Last Metro (François Truffaut)
  • The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
  • The Stunt Man (Richard Rush)
  • Nine to Five (Colin Higgins)
  • Pixote (Hector Babenco)
  • Altered States (Ken Russell)
  • Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)
  • Every Man for Himself (Jean-Luc Godard)
  • Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
  • The Fog (John Carpenter)
  • Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg)
  • Serial (Bill Persky)
  • Roadie (Alan Rudolph)
  • The Calm (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
  • Leap Into the Void (Marco Bellocchio)
  • Cruising (William Friedkin)
  • Gloria (John Cassavetes)
  • Permanent Vacation (Jim Jarmusch)
  • Galaxina (William Sachs)