List of Years in Film - 1980s

1980s

See also: 1980s in film

• 1980 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Raging Bull, The Shining, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Kagemusha
• 1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark, Das Boot, Mad Max 2, Reds, Blow Out
• 1982 - Blade Runner, Tootsie, Fitzcarraldo, Fanny and Alexander, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Gandhi
• 1983 - Sans Soleil, L'Argent, The King of Comedy, The Right Stuff, Nostalghia
• 1984 - This is Spinal Tap, Amadeus, The Terminator, Once Upon a Time in America, Paris, Texas
• 1985 - Come and See, The Time to Live and the Time to Die, Ran, Brazil, Shoah, Back to the Future
• 1986 - Blue Velvet, Aliens, The Sacrifice, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Down by Law, Platoon
• 1987 - Wings of Desire, The Dead, Evil Dead II, Where Is the Friend's Home?, Full Metal Jacket
• 1988 - The Decalogue, My Neighbour Totoro, Midnight Run, Dead Ringers, Cinema Paradiso, Die Hard
• 1989 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Do the Right Thing, Close-Up, Crimes and Misdemeanors, A City of Sadness, Time of the Gypsies; first publication of Empire