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88 Best Movies from 1980 till 1984
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back ( 1980 )
Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 124
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: Leigh Brackett | Lawrence Kasdan | George Lucas
Stars: Mark Hamill | Harrison Ford | Carrie Fisher | Billy Dee Williams
Plot: After the Empire overpowers the Rebel Alliance, Luke Skywalker begins training with Jedi Master Yoda, while Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett pursue his friends across the galaxy.
Amadeus ( 1984 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | Music
Runtime: 160
Country: United States | France
Language: English | Italian | Latin
Director: Milos Forman
Writer: Peter Shaffer | Peter Shaffer | Zdenek Mahler
Stars: F. Murray Abraham | Tom Hulce | Elizabeth Berridge | Roy Dotrice
Plot: The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Raiders of the Lost Ark ( 1981 )
Genre: Action | Adventure
Runtime: 115
Country: United States
Language: English | German | Spanish
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Lawrence Kasdan | George Lucas | Philip Kaufman
Stars: Harrison Ford | Karen Allen | Paul Freeman | Ronald Lacey
Plot: In 1936, archaeologist Indiana Jones is tasked by Army Intelligence to help locate a legendary ancient power, the Ark of Covenant, before the Nazis get it first.
Das Boot ( 1981 )
Genre: Drama | War
Runtime: 149
Country: West Germany
Language: German | English | French
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Writer: Wolfgang Petersen | Lothar G. Buchheim
Stars: Jürgen Prochnow | Herbert Grönemeyer | Klaus Wennemann | Hubertus Bengsch
Plot: A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
The Shining ( 1980 )
Genre: Drama | Horror
Runtime: 146
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stephen King | Stanley Kubrick | Diane Johnson
Stars: Jack Nicholson | Shelley Duvall | Danny Lloyd | Scatman Crothers
Plot: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.
Once Upon a Time in America ( 1984 )
Genre: Crime | Drama
Runtime: 229
Country: Italy | United States
Language: English | Italian | French
Director: Sergio Leone
Writer: Harry Grey | Leonardo Benvenuti | Piero De Bernardi | Enrico Medioli | Franco Arcalli | Franco Ferrini | Sergio Leone | Stuart Kaminsky | Ernesto Gastaldi
Stars: Robert De Niro | James Woods | Elizabeth McGovern | Treat Williams
Plot: A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Scarface ( 1983 )
Genre: Crime | Drama
Runtime: 170
Country: United States
Language: English | Spanish
Director: Brian De Palma
Writer: Oliver Stone | Howard Hawks | Ben Hecht | Armitage Trail
Stars: Al Pacino | Steven Bauer | Michelle Pfeiffer | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Plot: In the 1980s, a determined criminal-minded Cuban immigrant becomes the biggest drug smuggler in Miami, and is eventually undone by his own drug addiction.
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi ( 1983 )
Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 131
Country: United States
Language: English | Kikuyu | Tagalog
Director: Richard Marquand
Writer: Lawrence Kasdan | George Lucas | George Lucas
Stars: Mark Hamill | Harrison Ford | Carrie Fisher | Billy Dee Williams
Plot: After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebel Alliance attempts to destroy the second Death Star while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.
The Thing ( 1982 )
Genre: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 109
Country: United States | Canada
Language: English | Norwegian
Director: John Carpenter
Writer: Bill Lancaster | John W. Campbell Jr.
Stars: Kurt Russell | Wilford Brimley | T.K. Carter | David Clennon
Plot: A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Koyaanisqatsi ( 1982 )
Genre: Documentary | Music
Runtime: 86
Country: United States
Language: None | Hopi | English
Director: Godfrey Reggio
Writer: Godfrey Reggio | Ron Fricke | Godfrey Reggio | Michael Hoenig | Alton Walpole | Jacques Ellul | Ivan Illich | David Monongye | Guy Debord | Leopold Kohr
Stars: Edward Asner | Pat Benatar | Jerry Brown | Johnny Carson
Plot: A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.
The Elephant Man ( 1980 )
Genre: Biography | Drama
Runtime: 124
Country: United States | United Kingdom
Language: English | French
Director: David Lynch
Writer: Christopher De Vore | Eric Bergren | David Lynch | Frederick Treves | Ashley Montagu
Stars: Anthony Hopkins | John Hurt | Anne Bancroft | John Gielgud
Plot: 'A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.'
The Terminator ( 1984 )
Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 107
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English | Spanish
Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron | Gale Anne Hurd | William Wisher
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Michael Biehn | Linda Hamilton | Paul Winfield
Plot: A cyborg assassin from the future attempts to find and kill a young woman who is destined to give birth to a warrior that will lead a resistance to save humankind from extinction.
Paris, Texas ( 1984 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 145
Country: West Germany | France | United Kingdom
Language: English | Spanish
Director: Wim Wenders
Writer: L.M. Kit Carson | Sam Shepard | Walter Donohue
Stars: Harry Dean Stanton | Sam Berry | Bernhard Wicki | Dean Stockwell
Plot: Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.
Eddie Murphy: Delirious ( 1983 )
Genre: Documentary | Comedy
Runtime: 69
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Bruce Gowers
Writer: Eddie Murphy | Eddie Murphy
Stars: Eddie Murphy | James Argiro | Gus Loundermon | Brian O'Neal
Plot: Eddie Murphy's raunchy, raucous stand-up comedy routine is captured for posterity on this tape.
Blade Runner ( 1982 )
Genre: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Runtime: 117
Country: United States | United Kingdom
Language: English | German | Cantonese
Director: Ridley Scott
Writer: Hampton Fancher | David Webb Peoples | Philip K. Dick
Stars: Harrison Ford | Sean Young | Rutger Hauer | Edward James Olmos
Plot: A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Fanny och Alexander ( 1982 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 188
Country: Sweden | France | West Germany
Language: Swedish | German | Yiddish
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Kristina Adolphson | Börje Ahlstedt | Pernilla Allwin | Kristian Almgren
Plot: Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.
Raging Bull ( 1980 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | Sport
Runtime: 129
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Jake LaMotta | Joseph Carter | Peter Savage | Paul Schrader | Mardik Martin
Stars: Robert De Niro | Cathy Moriarty | Joe Pesci | Frank Vincent
Plot: The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Gandhi ( 1982 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Runtime: 191
Country: United Kingdom | India
Language: English | Hindi
Director: Richard Attenborough
Writer: John Briley
Stars: Ben Kingsley | Rohini Hattangadi | Roshan Seth | Candice Bergen
Plot: The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Pink Floyd: The Wall ( 1982 )
Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Music
Runtime: 95
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Director: Alan Parker
Writer: Roger Waters | Roger Waters
Stars: Bob Geldof | Christine Hargreaves | James Laurenson | Eleanor David
Plot: A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Threads ( 1984 )
Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Runtime: 112
Country: United Kingdom | Australia
Language: English
Director: Mick Jackson
Writer: Barry Hines
Stars: Karen Meagher | Reece Dinsdale | David Brierly | Rita May
Plot: The effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.