Best movies of 1980s

Strange Behavior(1981)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers.



The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle(1980)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular ...



Shao Lin da peng da shi(1980)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The workers of a dye factory have their pay cut by 20% when the factory owner brings in some Manchu thugs to try and increase production. Desperate to reclaim their full wages, the workers ...



Les sous-doués(1980)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Baptiste 'Bebel' Lavalle and his classmates in Versailles' private high-school Louis XIV enjoy their carefree life enough to deliberately fail the exams, a national record of zero ...



Zoot Suit(1981)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A kind of musical accompanying the story of the early 1940's and the effect that the "zoot suit" (a man's suit of long jacket and pegged pants, always worn with a long keychain that looped ...



Sauve qui peut (la vie)(1980)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations.



Czlowiek z zelaza(1981)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A worker becomes a "man of iron" forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love, a reporter searches for courage, and a nation undergoes historic change. ...



Garazh(1980)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The members of a Soviet cooperative have pooled their money to have a badly needed parking garage built. But it turns out that the garage will have four fewer spaces than planned. In brutal...



Bai ga jai(1981)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A rich man's son (Yuen Biao) believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a ...



Nightmare(1981)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A mental patient embarks on a murder spree upon escaping from an institution.



Eyes of a Stranger(1981)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A reporter suspects a creepy neighbor, who lives in the high-rise building across from hers, is a serial killer terrorizing the Miami area.



The First Deadly Sin(1980)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A police inspector, nearing retirement, tracks a serial killer who is terrorizing New York.



Il marchese del Grillo(1981)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The marquess of Grillo is a good-natured, clever and women-loving man who is always inventing stories and cracking all types of jokes. The film tells the story of his life.



Si wang ta(1981)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

While investigating his friend Chin Ku's (Hwang Jang Lee) death, martial artist Billy Lo (Bruce Lee) is killed. His younger brother, Bobby Lo (Kim Tai Chung), investigates both deaths. His ...



Black Cat (Gatto nero)(1981)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Robert Miles is a psychic that can communicate with the dead. He also has the ability to control the mind of his cat (who incidentally is black). He uses the cat to take vengeance upon his ...



Hangar 18(1980)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Shortly after the launch of a satellite from a space shuttle the satellite collides with an UFO in front of the crew's eyes. Because of an election campaign some politicians try to hide the...



Le lac des morts vivants(1981)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WW II, come back.



Apocalypse domani(1980)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Giovanni Lambardo Radice and John Saxon are Vietman vets that bring back contagious virus that turn people into cannibals when bitten.



Private Lessons(1981)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An immigrant housemaid seduces a 15-year-old boy and later fakes her own death as part of his chauffeur's blackmail plot. Troubles arise when the two start to fall in love.



Vabank(1981)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Set in Warsaw in 1930's. After six years in jail, framed for bank robbery by an accomplice, the legendary Kwinto has only revenge on his mind. He is a safecracker in the old style, a thief ...




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