A list of fantasy films released in the 1980s.
1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989 |
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Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes | ||
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1980 | ||||||
Flash Gordon | Mike Hodges | Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Chaim Topol | ||||
Hawk the Slayer | Terry Marcel | Jack Palance, John Terry, Bernard Bresslaw | ||||
Return of the King | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. | Orson Bean, John Huston, Roddy McDowall | Television movie, Animated film | |||
Xanadu | Robert Greenwald | Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck | ||||
1981 | ||||||
Blind Chance | Krzysztof Kieslowski | Boguslaw Linda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz | ||||
Clash of the Titans | Desmond Davis | Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Claire Bloom, Burgess Meredith, Maggie Smith, Ursula Andress, Judi Bowker, Siân Phillips, Laurence Olivier | ||||
Dragonslayer | Matthew Robbins | Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ralph Richardson | ||||
Excalibur | John Boorman | Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson, Nicholas Clay | ||||
Heavy Metal | Gerald Potterton | Animated film | ||||
The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire | Nicholas Corea | Lane Caudell, Belinda Bauer, Victor Campos, Kabir Bedi, George Kennedy | German: de:Der Zauberbogen | |||
Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven Spielberg | Harrison Ford, Karen Allen | ||||
Time Bandits | Terry Gilliam | John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall | ||||
1982 | ||||||
Ator the Fighting Eagle | Joe D'Amato | Miles O'Keeffe, Sabrina Siani, Ritza Brown | ||||
The Beastmaster | Don Coscarelli | Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn | ||||
Conan the Barbarian | John Milius | Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow | ||||
The Dark Crystal | Jim Henson, Frank Oz | Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen | ||||
The Flight of Dragons | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. | John Ritter, James Earl Jones | Television movie, Animated film | |||
The Last Unicorn | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. | Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Tammy Grimes, Robert Klein, Angela Lansbury, Christopher Lee, Keenan Wynn | Animated film | |||
The Secret of NIMH | Don Bluth | Hermione Baddeley, John Carradine, Dom DeLuise, Elizabeth Hartman, Derek Jacobi, Arthur Malet, Paul Shenar, Peter Strauss | Animated film | |||
The Sword and the Sorcerer | Albert Pyun | Lee Horsley, Kathleen Beller, Simon MacCorkindale | ||||
1983 | ||||||
Conquest | Lucio Fulci | Jorge Rivero, Andrea Occhipinti, Sabrina Siani | ||||
The Dead Zone | David Cronenberg | Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt | Horror | |||
Deathstalker | James Sbardellati | Richard Hill, Barbi Benton, Richard Brooker | ||||
Fire and Ice | Ralph Bakshi | Randy Norton, Cynthea Leake | Animated film | |||
Krull | Peter Yates | Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones | ||||
The Man Who Wasn't There | Bruce Malmuth | Steve Guttenberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Lisa Langlois | ||||
Thor the Conqueror | Tonino Ricci, Anthony Richmond | Conrad Nichols, Christopher Holm, Maria Romano | ||||
Videodrome | David Cronenberg | James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits | Horror, Science Fiction | |||
Zu Warriors | Tsui Hark | Yuen Biao | ||||
1984 | ||||||
The Princess and the Goblin | József Gémes | Joss Ackland, Claire Bloom, Roy Kinnear, Sally Ann Marsh | Animated film | |||
Ator l'invincibile 2 | Joe D'Amato | Miles O'Keeffe, Lisa Foster, Charles Borromel | ||||
All of Me | Carl Reiner | Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant | ||||
The Company of Wolves | Neil Jordan | Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Stephen Rea | ||||
Conan the Destroyer | Richard Fleischer | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Wilt Chamberlain | ||||
Esprit D'Amour | Ringo Lam | Alan Tam, Ni Shu-chun | ||||
Ghostbusters | Ivan Reitman | Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis | Horror, Science Fiction | |||
Gremlins | Joe Dante | Hoyt Axton, John Louie, Keye Luke, Don Steele, Susan Burgess, Scott Brady, Zach Galligan | ||||
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Steven Spielberg | Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw | ||||
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | Hayao Miyazaki | Anime film | ||||
The Neverending Story | Wolfgang Petersen | Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach | ||||
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter | Tage Danielsson | Hanna Zetterberg, Börje Ahlstedt, Lena Nyman | ||||
Sheena | John Guillermin | Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Donovan Scott | ||||
Splash | Ron Howard | Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, Eugene Levy | ||||
Supergirl | Jeannot Szwarc | Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, Peter O'Toole | ||||
Sword of the Valiant | Stephen Weeks | Miles O'Keeffe, Sean Connery, Cyrielle Claire, Trevor Howard, Peter Cushing, John Rhys-Davies | ||||
The Warrior and the Sorceress | John C. Broderick | David Carradine, Luke Askew, Maria Socas | ||||
1985 | ||||||
Barbarian Queen | Héctor Olivera | Lana Clarkson, Victor Bo, Dawn Dunlap | Produced by Roger Corman | |||
The Black Cauldron | Ted Berman, Richard Rich | Grant Bardsley, Susan Sheridan, Nigel Hawthorne, Freddie Jones, Arthur Malet, Phil Fondacaro, John Hurt | Animated film | |||
Brazil | Terry Gilliam | Jonathan Pryce, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Robert De Niro | ||||
The Dungeonmaster | Various | Jeffrey Byron, Richard Moll, Leslie Wing | ||||
Ladyhawke | Richard Donner | Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer | ||||
Legend | Ridley Scott | Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry | ||||
The Peanut Butter Solution | Michael Rubbo | Mathew Mackay, Siluck Saysanasy, Alison Podbrey | ||||
The Purple Rose of Cairo | Woody Allen | Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello | ||||
Return to Oz | Walter Murch | Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Fairuza Balk | ||||
Red Sonja | Richard Fleischer | Brigitte Nielsen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sandahl Bergman | ||||
Santa Claus: The Movie | Jeannot Szwarc | John Lithgow, Dudley Moore | ||||
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom | Héctor Olivera | Bo Svenson, Vidal Peterson | ||||
1986 | ||||||
Big Trouble in Little China | John Carpenter | Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun | ||||
Castle in the Sky | Hayao Miyazaki | Anime film | ||||
Dream Lovers | Tony Au | Chow Yun-fat, Cher Yeung | ||||
The Golden Child | Michael Ritchie | Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis | ||||
Highlander | Russell Mulcahy | Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown | ||||
Labyrinth | Jim Henson | David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud | ||||
Momo | Johannes Schaaf | Radost Bokel, Mario Adorf, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sylvester Groth | ||||
Peggy Sue Got Married | Francis Ford Coppola | Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller | ||||
The Worst Witch | Robert Young | Fairuza Balk, Diana Rigg, Charlotte Rae, Tim Curry | Television movie | |||
1987 | ||||||
Snow White | Michael Berz | Diana Rigg, Billy Barty, Sarah Patterson | ||||
A Chinese Ghost Story | Ching Siu Tung | Leslie Cheung, Wong Tsu Hsien, Wu Ma | ||||
The Barbarians | Ruggero Deodato | David Paul, Peter Paul, Richard Lynch | ||||
Date with an Angel | Tom McLoughlin | Michael E. Knight, Phoebe Cates, Emmanuelle Béart | ||||
Mannequin | Michael Gottlieb | Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Estelle Getty | ||||
*batteries not included | Matthew Robbins | Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae, Elizabeth Peña, Michael Carmine, Dennis Boutsikaris | ||||
Masters of the Universe | Gary Goddard | Dolph Lundgren, Courtney Cox-Arquette, Frank Langella, Meg Foster | ||||
Mio in the Land of Faraway | Vladimir Grammatikov | Christopher Lee, Christian Bale, Nicholas Pickard, Timothy Bottoms, Susannah York | ||||
The Princess Bride | Rob Reiner | Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Chris Sarandon | ||||
Rouge | Stanley Kwan | Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung, Man Chi Leung | ||||
Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders | Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk | ||||
The Witches of Eastwick | George Miller | Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon | ||||
1988 | ||||||
The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe | Richard Dempsey, Sophie Cook, Jonathan R. Scott, Sophie Wilcox | |||||
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Terry Gilliam | John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle | ||||
Alice | Jan Švankmajer | Kristina Kohoutova | ||||
Beetlejuice | Tim Burton | Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder | Horror | |||
Big | Penny Marshall | Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, John Heard | ||||
Gandahar | René Laloux | Animated film | ||||
The Land Before Time | Don Bluth | Gabriel Damon, Candace Huston, Judith Barsi, Will Ryan, Pat Hingle | Animated film | |||
My Neighbor Totoro | Hayao Miyazaki | Anime film | ||||
Peacock King | Nam Lai Choi | Yuen Biao, Gloria Yip, Hiroshi Mikami | ||||
Portrait of a Nymph | Wu Ma | |||||
Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller | Michael Rubbo | |||||
Vice Versa | Brian Gilbert | Judge Reinhold, Fred Savage, Corinne Bohrer | ||||
Willow | Ron Howard | Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis | ||||
Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Robert Zemeckis | Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy | Comedy | |||
1989 | ||||||
Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | Warwick Davis, Jonathan R. Scott, Sophie Wilcox, David Thwaites | |||||
Always | Steven Spielberg | Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson | ||||
Batman | Tim Burton | Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger | ||||
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Stephen Herek | Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin | ||||
Chances Are | Emile Ardolino | Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey, Jr., Ryan O'Neal | ||||
Dream a Little Dream | Marc Rocco | Corey Feldman, Meredith Salenger, Jason Robards, Jr. | ||||
Erik the Viking | Terry Jones | Tim Robbins, Gary Cady, Mickey Rooney | ||||
Ghostbusters II | Ivan Reitman | Ivan Reitman, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis | ||||
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Steven Spielberg | Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliot | Adventure | |||
Kiki's Delivery Service | Hayao Miyazaki | Anime film | ||||
The Little Mermaid | Ron Clements, John Musker | René Auberjonois, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Jodi Benson, Pat Carroll, Paddi Edwards, Buddy Hackett, Jason Marin, Kenneth Mars, Ben Wright, Samuel E. Wright | Animated film | |||
Little Monsters | Richard Greenberg | Fred Savage, Howie Mandel, Rick Ducommun | ||||
Santa Sangre | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Sabrina Dennison | ||||
Teen Witch | Dorian Walker | Robyn Lively, Dan Gauthier, Joshua Miller |
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