Movie Releases by User Score
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1.
Raging Bull
November 14, 1980
Scorcese recounts the gritty life self-destructive boxer Jake LaMotta (De Niro) who never backs down from a fight on his way to a middleweight title shot.
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Ordinary People
September 18, 1980
In Robert Redford's directorial debut, the accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the austere mother (Mary Tyler Moore), the compassionate, well-meaning father (Donald Sutherland), and the guilt-ridden younger son (Timothy Hutton).
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Wise Blood
February 17, 1980
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
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Kagemusha
October 10, 1980
A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
May 21, 1980
Three years after the events of Star Wars, Imperial forces continue to pursue the Rebels. After the Rebellion?s defeat on the ice planet Hoth, Luke journeys to the planet Dagobah to train with Jedi Master Yoda, who has lived in hiding since the fall of the Republic. In an attempt to convert Luke to the dark side, Darth Vader lures young Skywalker into a trap in the Cloud City of Bespin. In the midst of a fierce lightsaber duel with the Sith Lord, Luke faces a startling revelation. [20th Century Fox]
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Tess
December 12, 1980
A young strong-willed peasant girl, becomes the affection of two men, in the end tragically falling into the arms of one.
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Airplane!
July 2, 1980
A straight-faced yet absurdist comedy about a burned out lovelorn ex-pilot is pressed into service when an airliner's crew succumbs to food poisoning.
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The Elephant Man
October 10, 1980
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.
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Scum
August 20, 1980
An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the 70's.
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The Big Red One
July 18, 1980
World War I veteran Sergeant Possum (Lee Marvin) wants to get the job done and to get himself and his squad of green recruits out alive. It's just a job: Kill the enemy before they kill you. And through the seemingly endless bloodshed from North Africa, to Sicily, the Normandy Invasion and the push into Germany, his now-veteran squad—Gruff (Mark Hamill), Zab (Robert Carradine), Vinci (Bobby CiCicco) and Johnson (Kelly Ward)—learns both the brutal horror of war and to never become emotionally close with a new recruit.
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11.
The Stunt Man
June 27, 1980
A fugitive stumbles on a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady.
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Dressed to Kill
July 25, 1980
A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.
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13.
Mad Max
February 15, 1980
Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson), an Australian policeman, sets out to avenge his wife and son.
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Breaker Morant
October 15, 1980
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
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The Changeling
March 28, 1980
A man staying at a secluded historical mansion finds himself being haunted by the presence of a spectre.
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Inferno
April 2, 1980
An American college student in Rome and his sister in New York investigate a series of killings in both locations where their resident addresses are the domain of two covens of witches.
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Gloria
October 1, 1980
When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
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Used Cars
July 11, 1980
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman (Kurt Russel) to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival - and to fun his fledgling senate campaign.
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The Long Riders
May 16, 1980
Walter Hill's major contribution to the group of westerns about the James-Younger gang, which robbed trains and banks, wreaking havoc in post-civil war Missouri.
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Carny
May 23, 1980
Tired of her dull job as a waitress, Donna decides to join two carnival hustlers and see what life in their field is like.
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21.
My Bodyguard
September 26, 1980
When a boy comes to a new school and gets harassed by a bully, he acquires the services of the school's most feared kid as a bodyguard.
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The Shining
May 23, 1980
A married couple with a small son are employed to look after a resort hotel high in the Colorado mountains. As a result, they are the sole occupants during the long winter. The hotel manager warns them not to accept the job because of a tragedy that occurred during the winter of 1970. (Warner Bros.)
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Bronco Billy
June 11, 1980
The Wild West has been tamed, leaving no place for a group of romantic roustabouts except their small traveling show. Meanwhile a desperate heiress (Sondra Locke), who has been left stranded by her con-artist husband, will do anything for a ride to the next town—even if that means allowing a blindfolded Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood) to throw knives at her for a scant audience. So begins a tumultuous relationship and roller coaster adventure.
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24.
Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
July 18, 1980
The two perpetually stoned musicians and their friends go through another series of misadventures.
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25.
Foxes
February 29, 1980
A group of four teenage girls come of age in the asphalt desert of Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley arranged with a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.
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Popeye
December 12, 1980
The cartoon comes to the big screen as mysterious Popeye the Sailorman docks in Sweethaven where he falls for Olive Oyl, fights with Bluto and becomes a mama to "infankt" Sweetpea.
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Motel Hell
October 24, 1980
A seemingly friendly farmer and his sister kidnap unsuspecting travelers and bury them alive, using them to create the "special meat" they are famous for.
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The Tin Drum
April 11, 1980
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
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Inside Moves
December 19, 1980
After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Roary begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds himself playing basketball for the Golden State Warriors, Roary and the rest of the bar regulars hope his success will provide a lift to their sagging spirits. Will Jerry forget his friends? What about his junkie hooker girlfriend and her pimp?
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Alligator
November 14, 1980
A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded laboratory rats injected with growth hormones. The small reptile grows gigantic, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage.
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Urban Cowboy
June 6, 1980
Bud is a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.
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32.
The Blues Brothers
June 20, 1980
Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised.
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Private Benjamin
October 10, 1980
A sheltered young high society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
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Battle Beyond the Stars
September 8, 1980
A young farmer sets out to recruit mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet, which is under threat of invasion by the evil tyrant Sador and his armada of aggressors.
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Fame
May 16, 1980
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
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36.
ffolkes
April 18, 1980
When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.
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Altered States
December 25, 1980
A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.
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Seems Like Old Times
December 19, 1980
Wrongfully accused of a bank robbery, a writer seeks the help of his ex-wife, who is now married to the soon-to-be D.A. of California.
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Rough Cut
June 20, 1980
Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels. Despite a continuous exchange of quips they eventually become romantically involved.
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40.
9 to 5
December 19, 1980
In Nine to Five, three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.
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Flash Gordon
December 5, 1980
Emperor Ming of planet Mongo is bored, and the only thing that seems to appease his ennui is to slowly destroy that celestial trifle known as Earth-- bombarding his new plaything with hailstorms and earthquakes. While Earth’s inhabitants scramble to understand what is happening to their planet, Dr. Hans Zarkov figures out the space coordinates of the origin of attack and commandeers a rocket. But before take-off, he inadvertently kidnaps beautiful New York reporter, Dale Arden, and famed football player, Flash Gordon. Will these mere Earthlings be able to stop the wrath of Emperor Ming? Maybe not, but Flash Gordon is no mere Earthling; he’s a New York Jet.
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42.
Heaven's Gate
November 19, 1980
A dramatization of the real-life Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, in which a Sheriff born into wealth, attempts to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.
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43.
American Gigolo
February 1, 1980
A Los Angeles male escort (Richard Gere), who mostly caters to an older female clientèle, is accused of a murder he didn't commit.
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The Fog
February 8, 1980
Legend says that Antonio Bay was built in 1880 with blood money obtained from shipwrecked lepers, which no one believes. On the eve of the town's centennial, many plan to attend the celebrations, including the murdered lepers.
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Brubaker
June 20, 1980
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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Zombie
July 18, 1980
Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
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The Final Countdown
August 1, 1980
A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Any Which Way You Can
December 17, 1980
A trucker turned prize fighter, his brother and their pet orangutan have a series of misadventures involving the mob, corrupt cops, motorcycle gangs and pretty dames.
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Caddyshack
July 25, 1980
What happens when the snobs at Bushwood Country Club, led by Ted Knight's Judge Smails are invaded by a brash businessman (Dangerfield), a gopher-hunting greens-keeper (Murray) and a horny caddy (O'Keefe)?
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50.
The Ninth Configuration
February 29, 1980
A former marine arrives at a mental asylum housed in a remote castle to run it. There he attempts to rehabilitate the patients by letting them act out their craziest fantasies and desires.
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51.
Little Darlings
March 21, 1980
Two fifteen year-old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.
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52.
Prom Night
July 18, 1980
At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years previously.
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53.
Cruising
February 15, 1980
A police detective (Al Pacino) goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men.
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Terror Train
October 3, 1980
Three years after a prank went terribly awry, the six college students responsible are targeted by a masked killer at a New Year's Eve party aboard a moving train.
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55.
Smokey and the Bandit II
August 15, 1980
Get ready for a wild ride as the notorious Bandit (Burt Reynolds) and his feisty sidekick Carrie (Sally Field) find themselves in a mission of epic proportions: transporting a pregnant elephant across the country in just 24 hours. Hot on their heels is arch-nemesis Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason), who’s determined to finally put the Bandit in the big house.
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56.
The Jazz Singer
December 19, 1980
The son of a Jewish Cantor (Neil Diamond) must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of being a popular singer.
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The Blue Lagoon
July 2, 1980
In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.
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Xanadu
August 8, 1980
The 40s meet the 80s in XANADU, a very special love story and the first lavish, old-fashioned musical to utilize today's music. Stars Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly.
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59.
The Hunter
August 1, 1980
The story of professional bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson (Steve McQueen).
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60.
Somewhere in Time
October 3, 1980
Somewhere in Time is the story of a young writer who sacrifices his life in the present to find happiness in the past, where true love awaits him. Young Richard Collier is approached by an elderly woman who gives him an antique gold watch and who pleads with him to return in time with her. Years later, Richard Collier is overwhelmed by a photograph of a beautiful young woman. Another picture of this woman in her later years reveals to him that she is the same woman who had given him the gold watch. Collier then becomes obsessed with returning to 1912 and the beautiful young woman who awaits him there. (Universal Studio)
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61.
Friday the 13th
May 9, 1980
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 drowning.
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Saturn 3
February 15, 1980
Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent eight foot robot.
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Titles with fewer than 7 critic reviews are excluded.