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69 Best Movies from 1980 till 1983
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl ( 1982 )
Genre: Documentary | Comedy | Musical
Runtime: 81
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English
Director: Terry Hughes | Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Graham Chapman | John Cleese | Terry Gilliam | Eric Idle | Terry Jones | Michael Palin | Tim Brooke-Taylor | Marty Feldman | Angus James | David Lipscomb
Stars: Graham Chapman | John Cleese | Terry Gilliam | Eric Idle
Plot: The Monty Python troupe perform a combination of classic sketches and new material at the Hollywood Bowl.
'Breaker' Morant ( 1980 )
Genre: Drama | History | War
Runtime: 107
Country: Australia
Language: English | Afrikaans
Director: Bruce Beresford
Writer: Jonathan Hardy | David Stevens | Bruce Beresford | Harold Lander | Kenneth G. Ross | Kit Denton
Stars: Edward Woodward | Jack Thompson | John Waters | Bryan Brown
Plot: Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
First Blood ( 1982 )
Genre: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Runtime: 93
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Writer: David Morrell | Michael Kozoll | William Sackheim | Sylvester Stallone
Stars: Sylvester Stallone | Richard Crenna | Brian Dennehy | Bill McKinney
Plot: A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ( 1982 )
Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 113
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Writer: Gene Roddenberry | Jack B. Sowards | Harve Bennett | Jack B. Sowards | Nicholas Meyer | Samuel A. Peeples
Stars: William Shatner | Leonard Nimoy | DeForest Kelley | James Doohan
Plot: With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.
The Verdict ( 1982 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 129
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Sidney Lumet
Writer: Barry Reed | David Mamet | Jay Presson Allen
Stars: Paul Newman | Charlotte Rampling | Jack Warden | James Mason
Plot: An outcast, alcoholic Boston lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.
Missing ( 1982 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 122
Country: United States | Mexico
Language: English | Spanish | French
Director: Costa-Gavras
Writer: Costa-Gavras | Donald E. Stewart | Thomas Hauser | John Nichols
Stars: Jack Lemmon | Sissy Spacek | Melanie Mayron | John Shea
Plot: "When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him."
My Dinner with Andre ( 1981 )
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Runtime: 110
Country: United States
Language: English | French
Director: Louis Malle
Writer: Wallace Shawn | Andre Gregory
Stars: Andre Gregory | Wallace Shawn | Jean Lenauer | Roy Butler
Plot: Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.
Mephisto ( 1981 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 146
Country: Hungary | West Germany | Austria
Language: German | Hungarian | English
Director: István Szabó
Writer: Péter Dobai | István Szabó | Klaus Mann
Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer | Ildikó Bánsági | Krystyna Janda | Rolf Hoppe
Plot: In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?
Airplane! ( 1980 )
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 88
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Jim Abrahams | David Zucker | Jerry Zucker
Writer: Jim Abrahams | David Zucker | Jerry Zucker | Hall Bartlett | John C. Champion | Arthur Hailey | Arthur Hailey
Stars: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Lloyd Bridges | Peter Graves | Julie Hagerty
Plot: After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.
Ordinary People ( 1980 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 124
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Robert Redford
Writer: Judith Guest | Alvin Sargent | Nancy Dowd
Stars: Donald Sutherland | Mary Tyler Moore | Judd Hirsch | Timothy Hutton
Plot: The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father and the guilt-ridden younger son.
Zelig ( 1983 )
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 79
Country: United States
Language: English | German
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Stars: Woody Allen | Mia Farrow | Patrick Horgan | John Buckwalter
Plot: "Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he\'s around, and meets various famous people.
Victor/Victoria ( 1982 )
Genre: Comedy | Music | Romance
Runtime: 134
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English | French
Director: Blake Edwards
Writer: Blake Edwards | Hans Hoemburg | Reinhold Schünzel
Stars: Julie Andrews | James Garner | Robert Preston | Lesley Ann Warren
Plot: A struggling female soprano in 1934 Paris finally finds work after posing as a female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life when a visiting Chicago gangster finds himself inexplicably attracted to the seemingly male performer.
Mad Max 2 ( 1981 )
Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Runtime: 96
Country: Australia
Language: English
Director: George Miller
Writer: Terry Hayes | George Miller | Brian Hannant | George Miller | Byron Kennedy
Stars: Mel Gibson | Bruce Spence | Michael Preston | Max Phipps
Plot: In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community get rid of a horde of bandits.
On Golden Pond ( 1981 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 109
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Mark Rydell
Writer: Ernest Thompson | Ernest Thompson
Stars: Katharine Hepburn | Henry Fonda | Jane Fonda | Doug McKeon
Plot: Curmudgeon Norman is estranged from his daughter Chelsea. Nevertheless, at Golden Pond he and his wife agree to look after Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.
Trading Places ( 1983 )
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 116
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: John Landis
Writer: Timothy Harris | Herschel Weingrod
Stars: Denholm Elliott | Dan Aykroyd | Maurice Woods | Richard D. Fisher Jr.
Plot: A snobbish Wall Street commodities broker and a wily street hustler find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaire brothers who run a brokerage house.
The Meaning of Life ( 1983 )
Genre: Comedy | Musical
Runtime: 107
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English
Director: Terry Jones
Writer: Graham Chapman | John Cleese | Terry Gilliam | Eric Idle | Terry Jones | Michael Palin
Stars: Graham Chapman | John Cleese | Terry Gilliam | Eric Idle
Plot: The comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way.
Sophie's Choice ( 1982 )
Genre: Drama | Romance
Runtime: 150
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English | Polish | German
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Writer: William Styron | Alan J. Pakula
Stars: Meryl Streep | Kevin Kline | Peter MacNicol | Rita Karin
Plot: Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.
The Secret of NIMH ( 1982 )
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 82
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Don Bluth
Writer: Robert C. O'Brien | Don Bluth | John Pomeroy | Gary Goldman | Will Finn | Ken Anderson
Stars: Derek Jacobi | Elizabeth Hartman | Arthur Malet | Dom DeLuise
Plot: To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she suspected.
An American Werewolf in London ( 1981 )
Genre: Comedy | Horror
Runtime: 97
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English
Director: John Landis
Writer: John Landis
Stars: Joe Belcher | David Naughton | Griffin Dunne | David Schofield
Plot: American college students David Kessler and Jack Goodman on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. Jack dies. David recovers in a hospital, where he has nightmares.
The Long Good Friday ( 1980 )
Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 114
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English | French
Director: John Mackenzie
Writer: Barrie Keeffe
Stars: Paul Freeman | Leo Dolan | Kevin McNally | Patti Love
Plot: An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.