Best movies of 1980

Titles indexed: 72

The Shining

Rating: 8.2

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated fro...

My Bodyguard

Rating: 6.3

Clifford Peache, an easygoing teenager, is finding less than easy to fit in at his new high school, where a tough-talking bully terrorizes h...

Prom Night

Rating: 5.7

At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years p...

For the Matches

Rating: 6.2

In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unf...

Airplane!

Rating: 7.3

An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning....

Friday the 13th

Rating: 6.4

Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drownin...

The Changeling

Rating: 7.0

After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big...

Raging Bull

Rating: 7.9

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it....

Popeye

Rating: 5.5

Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ash...

Brubaker

Rating: 7.1

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate....

Gnomes

Rating: 6.5

A family of gnomes preparing for the wedding of their eldest son must engage in a battle of wits with an enemy family of vicious trolls....

Ordinary People

Rating: 7.5

Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guil...

Flitterwochen

Rating: 6.0

Customs officers Katti and Wolfgang are so deeply in love with each other that they are barely aware of their surroundings. But after the we...

The Blue Lagoon

Rating: 6.1

Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the...

Cruising

Rating: 6.6

When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, young rookie Steve Burn...

Flash Gordon

Rating: 6.2

A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth....

Dressed to Kill

Rating: 7.0

After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While th...

Hopscotch

Rating: 7.0

When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, howev...

Death Ship

Rating: 5.1

Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that th...

The Party

Rating: 6.6

A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorc...

Sankarabharanam

Rating: 5.2

Sankara Shastri is a devout and famous classical singer who finds a fan in Tulasi, a prostitute's daughter. She wants to devote herself to h...

Wholly Moses

Rating: 4.7

Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the comm...

Galaxina

Rating: 4.0

Galaxina is a lifelike, voluptuous android who is assigned to oversee the operations of an intergalactic Space Police cruiser captained by i...

Nightmare City

Rating: 5.7

In a nameless European city, a local reporter and his doctor wife try to escape from hordes of blood thirsty zombies, undead people exposed ...

Bad Timing

Rating: 6.5

Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milen...

Foxes

Rating: 5.9

A group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley, as set to a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs ...

The Hunter

Rating: 5.9

During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitiv...

Carny

Rating: 6.2

Tired of being a small-town waitress, Donna departs with the latest carnival show, living with entertainers Frankie and Patch in a tense, em...

Shaan

Rating: 6.8

DSP Shiv Kumar returns home to his wife Sheetal and their young daughter and announces that he has been transferred to Bombay. Shiv Kumar ha...

Oh, God! Book II

Rating: 5.3

God appears before 11-year-old Tracy Richards to ask for her help to spread his word and influence over the world which she suggests the slo...

Madness

Rating: 4.9

An escaped convicted murderer invades the cottage of a man, his wife and the wife's sister, whereupon he proceeds to torment this already dy...

Spoiled Children

Rating: 5.0

This satirical comedy follows the strict older generation pitting themselves against the pleasure-seeking youths, both in 1947 and in 1978....

Inside Moves

Rating: 6.3

After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting m...

The Black Hand

Rating: 3.0

Three old schoolmates, who in their time as students had formed a kind of secret society called The Black Hand, in order to embitter teacher...

Night of Death!

Rating: 5.5

When she takes up her new post at an eerie convalescent home deep in the French countryside, nurse Martine soon discovers that several missi...

Fatty Finn

Rating: 5.8

The 10-year-old Hubert Finn, known as "Fatty", lived in poor conditions in Australia in the 1930s. He and his friends stick together as they...

Chocolate

Rating: 5.0

El Muertes and El Jato travel to Morocco to get some chocolate but run into trouble when they are assaulted by locals. Magda, El Jato's girl...

Nefeli

Rating: 2.5

A beautiful woman is going to the island of Lesbos to rest, there she will meet two other beautiful young women and it will be great having ...

Fish Hawk

Rating: 6.5

A hardened and embittered man turns his life around with the help of a farm boy in this uplifting family tale. Down on his luck and dependen...

Wall Street

Rating: 0.0

Shot at high noon in New York’s financial district, Wallstreet is much like a vertical tickertape, charting the existence of typical office ...

Birthday Night

Rating: 0.0

The Night had her birthday, and gave a party to which she invited Dima, a little boy so afraid of the dark that he could never sleep when th...

Anonym

Rating: 0.0

While searching for a criminal, investigators find themselves in a series of dramatic and dangerous situations. The risk is even greater whe...

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