Top Films of the 1980s (Calculated)

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Body Heat (1981) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
Body Heat
director: Lawrence Kasdan actor: William Hurt / Kathleen Turner
other title: Brivido caldo / Høj puls
During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.
Victor/Victoria (1982) [Movie] TMDB
Victor/Victoria
director: Blake Edwards actor: Julie Andrews / James Garner
other title: Victor Victoria / Victor ou Victória
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Damnation (1988) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Kárhozat
director: Béla Tarr actor: Székely B. Miklós / György Cserhalmi
other title: Perdizione / Danação
Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be incurable but for the existence of the Titanik Bar and its beautiful, haunting singer. But the lady is married and Karrer is determined to keep her husband away...
On Golden Pond (1981) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb NeoDB Douban
On Golden Pond
director: Mark Rydell actor: Katharine Hepburn / Henry Fonda
other title: Sul lago dorato / Deres sensommer
For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When their daughter Chelsea arrives, the family is forced to renew the bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years.
Out of the Blue (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Out of the Blue
director: Dennis Hopper actor: Linda Manz / Dennis Hopper
other title: Snack Bar Blues / Caído del cielo
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData NeoDB IMDb
Kiss of the Spider Woman
director: Héctor Babenco actor: William Hurt / Raúl Juliá
other title: Il bacio della donna ragno / Edderkoppekvindens kys
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies.
Man of Iron (1981) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData NeoDB
Człowiek z żelaza
director: Andrzej Wajda actor: Jerzy Radziwiłowicz / Krystyna Janda
other title: L'uomo di ferro / Der Mann aus Eisen
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
A Summer at Grandpa's (1984) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
冬冬的假期
director: Hou Hsiao-hsien actor: Wong Kai-Gwong / Lee Suk-Ching
other title: In vacanza dal nonno / Un été chez grand-père
A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.
God's Country (1985) [Movie] TMDB
God's Country
director: Louis Malle actor: Louis Malle
In 1979, Louis Malle films the thriving lives of a Minnesota farming community, but returns six years later to document its drastic economic decline, offering a poignant look at the impact of political changes.
Heart of a Dog (1988) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData NeoDB
Собачье сердце
director: Vladimir Bortko actor: Evgeniy Evstigneev / Boris Plotnikov
other title: Cœur de chien / Corazón de perro
"Heart of a Dog" is a Soviet film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s iconic novella. Set in 1920s Moscow, it tells the satirical and darkly humorous story of a stray dog named Sharik, who is transformed into a human by Professor Preobrazhensky through a daring medical experiment. The resulting man, Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, embodies the social and ideological tensions of early Soviet society. With its sharp critique of class struggle, human nature, and the perils of radical change, the film is celebrated for its faithful adaptation, brilliant performances, and rich allegorical depth.
Prince of the City (1981) [Movie] TMDB KevGa-NeoDB WikiData IMDb
Prince of the City
director: Sidney Lumet actor: Treat Williams / Jerry Orbach
other title: Il principe della città / Le Prince de New York
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.
Barefoot Gen (1983) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
はだしのゲン
director: Mori Masaki actor: Issei Miyazaki / Masaki Kouda
other title: Gen di Hiroshima / Gen Pés Descalços
A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
The Broken Landlord (1985) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
Züğürt Ağa
director: Nesli Çölgeçen actor: Şener Şen / Erdal Özyağcılar
other title: Züğürt Ağa
The landowner (Agha) of the Haraptar village marries off his old father with the young and beautiful Kiraz. But on the nuptial night, his father dies and everything starts to go bad for the Agha. Due to the long drought and provocations of Kekec Salman (big brother of Kiraz), the peasants steal the crops and run away to Istanbul. Without the peasants and crops, Agha is also forced to sell the village and move to Istanbul. But he cannot keep up with the big city life and consumes all his money and belongings. Agha's wife and relatives leave him during this downfall.
The Seventh Continent (1989) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
Der siebente Kontinent
director: Michael Haneke actor: Birgit Doll / Dieter Berner
other title: Il settimo continente / O Sétimo Continente
Chronicles three years of a middle-class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, troubled only by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, however, they're planning something much more sinister.
Blood Wedding (1981) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData NeoDB Douban
Bodas de sangre
director: Carlos Saura actor: Antonio Gades / Cristina Hoyos
other title: Bodas de sangre - Nozze di sangue / Bluthochzeit
A dance troupe prepares for and completes a dress rehearsal of Federico García Lorca's tragic play "Blood Wedding," which is about a bride who runs away from her wedding with a former boyfriend.
Mona Lisa (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Mona Lisa
director: Neil Jordan actor: Bob Hoskins / Cathy Tyson
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.
Voyage to Cythera (1984) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Ταξίδι στα Κύθηρα
director: Theo Angelopoulos actor: Manos Katrakis / Mairi Hronopoulou
other title: Viaggio a Citera / Viagem a Cythera
An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the state of things.
Mississippi Burning (1988) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData Douban IMDb TMDB
Mississippi Burning
director: Alan Parker actor: Gene Hackman / Willem Dafoe
other title: Mississippi Burning - Le radici dell'odio / Mississippi i flammer
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
Mystery Train (1989) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Mystery Train
director: Jim Jarmusch actor: Youki Kudoh / Masatoshi Nagase
other title: Mystery train: martedì notte a Memphis / Mystery Train - Martedì notte a Memphis
In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an Italian woman in mourning who stumbles upon a fleeing charlatan girl; and a comical trio of accidental thieves looking for a place to hide.
Moonlighting (1982) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData NeoDB Douban
Moonlighting
director: Jerzy Skolimowski actor: Jeremy Irons / Eugene Lipinski
other title: Schwarzarbeit / Travail au noir
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.
Created date: Nov. 10, 2025