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Index, by year: 1980s

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1980s

1989

Ghostbusters II (1989, Ivan Reitman)
The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989, Bill Bixby)
Black Rain (1989, Ridley Scott)
The Big Picture (1989, Christopher Guest)
The Karate Kid Part III (1989, John G. Avildsen)
Halloween 5 (1989, Dominique Othenin-Girard)
Tango & Cash (1989, Andrey Konchalovskiy)
The Killer (1989, John Woo)
Erik the Viking (1989, Terry Jones)
Lords of the Deep (1989, Mary Ann Fisher)
The Tall Guy (1989, Mel Smith)
The Mighty Quinn (1989, Carl Schenkel)
Great Balls of Fire! (1989, Jim McBride)
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989, Jim Sheridan)
DeepStar Six (1989, Sean S. Cunningham)
Puppetmaster (1989, David Schmoeller)
Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin (1989, Christian I. Nyby II)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder (1989, Christian I. Nyby II)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson (1989, Christian I. Nyby II)
A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit (1989, Nick Park)
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989, Stephen Hopkins)
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989, Rob Hedden)
Henry V (1989, Kenneth Branagh)
Mystery Train (1989, Jim Jarmusch)
Major League (1989, David S. Ward)
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989, Stephen Herek)
The Fly II (1989, Chris Walas)
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989, William Shatner)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989, Joe Johnston)
Fletch Lives (1989, Michael Ritchie)
Weekend at Bernie’s (1989, Ted Kotcheff)
Coffee and Cigarettes II (1989, Jim Jarmusch)
Adventures in Babysitting (1989, Joel Zwick)
Halloween 5 (1989, Dominique Othenin-Girard)
Tummy Trouble (1989, Rob Minkoff and Frank Marshall)
Back to the Future Part II (1989, Robert Zemeckis)
Twister (1989, Michael Almereyda)
Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation (1989, Eric Zala)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, Woody Allen)
Slipstream (1989, Steven Lisberger)
Second Sight (1989, Joel Zwick)
The ‘burbs (1989, Joe Dante)
Gross Anatomy (1989, Thom E. Eberhardt)
The Package (1989, Andrew Davis)
Let It Ride (1989, Joe Pytka)
Blind Fury (1989, Phillip Noyce)
Christmas Vacation (1989, Jeremiah S. Chechik)
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989, Richard Donner)
Batman (1989, Tim Burton)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989, Steven Spielberg)
The Abyss (1989, James Cameron), the special edition
Parenthood (1989, Ron Howard)
True Believer (1989, Joseph Ruben)
The Return of Swamp Thing (1989, Jim Wynorski)
Perfect Witness (1989, Robert Mandel)
License to Kill (1989, John Glen)
The January Man (1989, Pat O'Connor)
The Dream Team (1989, Howard Zieff)
Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989, Arthur Penn)
Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989, Omori Kazuki)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989, Oliver Stone)
The Punisher (1989, Mark Goldblatt)
Leviathan (1989, George P. Cosmatos)
Field of Dreams (1989, Phil Alden Robinson)
Sea of Love (1989, Harold Becker)

1988

Miracle Mile (1988, Steve De Jarnatt)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988, Charles Crichton)
Fright Night Part 2 (1988, Tommy Lee Wallace)
Poltergeist III (1988, Gary Sherman)
Red Scorpion (1988, Joseph Zito)
Red Heat (1988, Walter Hill)
Fresh Horses (1988, David Anspaugh)
Bad Dreams (1988, Andrew Fleming)
Biloxi Blues (1988, Mike Nichols)
The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988, Nicholas Corea)
Stormy Monday (1988, Mike Figgis)
Alien Nation (1988, Graham Baker)
Waxwork (1988, Anthony Hickox), the unrated version
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake (1988, Ron Satlof)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace (1988, Christian I. Nyby II)
Young Guns (1988, Christopher Cain)
Shoot to Kill (1988, Roger Spottiswoode)
Above the Law (1988, Andrew Davis)
They Live (1988, John Carpenter)
Maniac Cop (1988, William Lustig)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988, Renny Harlin)
The Beast (1988, Kevin Reynolds)
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988, John Carl Buechler)
Working Girl (1988, Mike Nichols)
Clean and Sober (1988, Glenn Gordon Caron)
Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988, Bud Yorkin)
Trancers: City of Lost Angels (1988, Charles Band)
The Blob (1988, Chuck Russell)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988, Martin Scorsese)
Without a Clue (1988, Thom E. Eberhardt)
High Spirits (1988, Neil Jordan)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, Robert Zemeckis)
Crocodile Dundee II (1988, John Cornell)
A New Life (1988, Alan Alda)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988, Frank Oz)
Switching Channels (1988, Ted Kotcheff)
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988, Dwight H. Little)
Midnight Crossing (1988, Roger Holzberg)
Willow (1988, Ron Howard)
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988, David Zucker)
It Takes Two (1988, David Beaird)
Beetlejuice (1988, Tim Burton)
Moving (1988, Alan Metter)
Phantasm II (1988, Don Coscarelli)
Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988, Tony Randel)
Child’s Play (1988, Tom Holland)
Midnight Run (1988, Martin Brest)
Grievous Bodily Harm (1988, Mark Joffe)
Caddyshack II (1988, Allan Arkush)
Bloodsport (1988, Newt Arnold)
Rambo III (1988, Peter MacDonald)
The Presidio (1988, Peter Hyams)
Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan)
Apartment Zero (1988, Martin Donovan)
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1988, Bob Ellis)
Shakedown (1988, James Glickenhaus)
Bat*21 (1988, Peter Markle)

1987

The Princess Bride (1987, Rob Reiner)
Teen Wolf Too (1987, Christopher Leitch)
Full Metal Jacket (1987, Stanley Kubrick)
The Sicilian (1987, Michael Cimino), the director’s cut
Personal Foul (1987, Ted Lichtenfeld)
High Tide (1987, Gillian Armstrong)
Roxanne (1987, Fred Schepisi)
Born in East L.A. (1987, Cheech Marin)
La Bamba (1987, Luis Valdez)
Raising Arizona (1987, Joel Coen)
Street Smart (1987, Jerry Schatzberg)
Tin Men (1987, Barry Levinson)
Masters of the Universe (1987, Gary Goddard)
The Hidden (1987, Jack Sholder)
Making Mr. Right (1987, Susan Seidelman)
The Untouchables (1987, Brian De Palma)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel (1987, Christian I. Nyby II)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam (1987, Ron Satlof)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit (1987, Richard Lang)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love (1987, Ron Satlof)
Summer School (1987, Carl Reiner)
Baby Boom (1987, Charles Shyer)
Over the Top (1987, Menahem Golan)
Jaws: The Revenge (1987, Joseph Sargent), the international version
The Bedroom Window (1987, Curtis Hanson)
Bates Motel (1987, Richard Rothstein)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987, Chuck Russell)
Predator (1987, John McTiernan)
Hope and Glory (1987, John Boorman)
Cross My Heart (1987, Armyan Bernstein)
Evil Dead II (1987, Sam Raimi)
Mannequin (1987, Michael Gottlieb)
Robocop (1987, Paul Verhoeven), the director's cut
Red’s Dream (1987, John Lasseter)
Best Seller (1987, John Flynn)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987, John Hughes)
Number One with a Bullet (1987, Jack Smight)
Black Widow (1987, Bob Rafelson)
Geometria (1987, Guillermo del Toro), the director’s cut
House of Games (1987, David Mamet)
Adventures in Babysitting (1987, Chris Columbus)
Innerspace (1987, Joe Dante)
Winston (1987, Steven Soderbergh)
Dragnet (1987, Tom Mankiewicz)
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987, Sidney J. Furie)
Hellraiser (1987, Clive Barker)
The Lost Boys (1987, Joel Schumacher)
Near Dark (1987, Kathryn Bigelow)
Lethal Weapon (1987, Richard Donner)
Moonstruck (1987, Norman Jewison)
Ground Zero (1987, Michael Pattinson and Bruce Myles)
Prince of Darkness (1987, John Carpenter)
Dead of Winter (1987, Arthur Penn)
The Squeeze (1987, Roger Young)
Harry and the Hendersons (1987, William Dear)
Dangerous Game (1987, Stephen Hopkins)
Spaceballs (1987, Mel Brooks)
Ground Zero (1987, Michael Pattinson and Bruce Myles)
Stakeout (1987, John Badham)
Nadine (1987, Robert Benton)
Crazy Moon (1987, Allan Eastman)
The Living Daylights (1987, John Glen)
The Monster Squad (1987, Fred Dekker)
Matewan (1987, John Sayles)

1986

The Karate Kid Part II (1986, John G. Avildsen)
River’s Edge (1986, Tim Hunter)
The Color of Money (1986, Martin Scorsese)
Aliens (1986, James Cameron)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986, Frank Oz)
Absolute Beginners (1986, Julien Temple)
Wildcats (1986, Michael Ritchie)
Malcolm (1986, Nadia Tass)
Sid and Nancy (1986, Alex Cox)
Hoosiers (1986, David Anspaugh)
House (1986, Steve Miner)
The B.R.A.T. Patrol (1986, Mollie Miller)
TerrorVision (1986, Ted Nicolaou)
The Big Easy (1986, Jim McBride)
Flight of the Navigator (1986, Randal Kleiser)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star (1986, Ron Satlof)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun (1986, Ron Satlof)
From Beyond (1986, Stuart Gordon), the director’s cut
Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986, Tom McLoughlin)
The Fly (1986, David Cronenberg)
Labyrinth (1986, Jim Henson)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986, John Carpenter)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986, Leonard Nimoy)
Invaders from Mars (1986, Tobe Hoober)
Touch and Go (1986, Robert Mandel)
The Money Pit (1986, Richard Benjamin)
Crocodile Dundee (1986, Peter Faiman)
Coffee and Cigarettes (1986, Jim Jarmusch)
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986, Brian Gibson)
Three Amigos (1986, John Landis)
Aliens (1986, James Cameron), the special edition
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1986, Jeannot Szwarc)
Clockwise (1986, Christopher Morahan)
One Crazy Summer (1986, Savage Steve Holland)
King Kong Lives (1986, John Guillermin)
Psycho III (1986, Anthony Perkins)
The Delta Force (1986, Menahem Golan)
Running Scared (1986, Peter Hyams)
Half Moon Street (1986, Bob Swaim)
Maximum Overdrive (1986, Stephen King)
Highlander (1986, Russell Mulcahy)
Howard the Duck (1986, Willard Huyck)
The Morning After (1986, Sidney Lumet)
Manhunter (1986, Michael Mann), the restored director's cut
Ruthless People (1986, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker)
F/X (1986, Robert Mandel)
Last Resort (1986, Zane Buzby)
8 Million Ways to Die (1986, Hal Ashby)
Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986, Penny Marshall)

1985

Day of the Dead (1985, George A. Romero)
Teen Wolf (1985, Rod Daniel)
Rocky IV (1985, Sylvester Stallone), the director’s cut
Witness (1985, Peter Weir)
Year of the Dragon (1985, Michael Cimino)
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985, Jim Wheat and Ken Wheat)
The Falcon and the Snowman (1985, John Schlesinger)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985, William Friedkin)
Zone Troopers (1985, Danny Bilson)
Return to Oz (1985, Walter Murch)
Police Story (1985, Jackie Chan)
Enemy Mine (1985, Wolfgang Petersen)
Tampopo (1985, Itami Jûzô)
Fright Night (1985, Tom Holland)
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985, George Miller and George Ogilvie)
The Mean Season (1985, Phillip Borsos)
Perry Mason Returns (1985, Ron Satlof)
Ladyhawke (1985, Richard Donner)
Heaven Help Us (1985, Michael Dinner)
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985, Jack Sholder)
Re-Animator (1985, Stuart Gordon)
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985, Danny Steinmann)
The Goonies (1985, Richard Donner)
After Hours (1985, Martin Scorsese)
Vision Quest (1985, Harold Becker)
Creature (1985, William Malone)
Fletch (1985, Michael Ritchie)
The Jewel of the Nile (1985, Lewis Teague)
Back to the Future (1985, Robert Zemeckis)
Real Genius (1985, Martha Coolidge)
My Science Project (1985, Jonathan R. Betuel)
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985, Jerry Paris)
Into the Night (1985, John Landis)
The Stuff (1985, Larry Cohen)
Spies Like Us (1985, John Landis)
Clue (1985, Jonathan Lynn)
Rocky IV (1985, Sylvester Stallone)
Commando (1985, Mark L. Lester), the director’s cut
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985, George P. Cosmatos)
Defence of the Realm (1985, David Drury)
Badge of the Assassin (1985, Mel Damski)
Pale Rider (1985, Clint Eastwood)
Trancers (1985, Charles Band)
Volunteers (1985, Nicholas Meyer)
White Nights (1985, Taylor Hackford)

1984

Amadeus (1984, Milos Forman)
Ghostbusters (1984, Ivan Reitman)
The Karate Kid (1984, John G. Avildsen)
The Element of Crime (1984, Lars von Trier)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984, Martin Brest)
C.H.U.D. (1984, Douglas Cheek)
The Brother from Another Planet (1984, John Sayles)
Sheena (1984, John Guillermin)
The Last Starfighter (1984, Nick Castle)
The NeverEnding Story (1984, Wolfgang Petersen), the international version
Dreamscape (1984, Joseph Ruben)
Electric Dreams (1984, Steve Barron)
Firestarter (1984, Mark L. Lester)
The Ewok Adventure (1984, John Korty)
Rhinestone (1984, Bob Clark)
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984, Joseph Zito)
Footloose (1984, Herbert Ross)
Starman (1984, John Carpenter)
Against All Odds (1984, Taylor Hackford)
Repo Man (1984, Alex Cox)
Splash (1984, Ron Howard)
Romancing the Stone (1984, Robert Zemeckis)
Lassiter (1984, Robert Young)
The Best Legs in Eighth Grade (1984, Tom Patchett)
Supergirl (1984, Jeannot Szwarc), the director’s cut
Police Academy (1984, Hugh Wilson)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984, W.D. Richter)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, Wes Craven)
Tank (1984, Marvin J. Chomsky)
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984, Hugh Hudson), the extended version
Purple Rain (1984, Albert Magnoli)
The Terminator (1984, James Cameron)
Teachers (1984, Arthur Hiller)
Unfaithfully Yours (1984, Howard Zieff)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984, Steven Spielberg)
Runaway (1984, Michael Crichton)
The Natural (1984, Barry Levinson), the director’s cut
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984, Frank Oz)
Blood Simple (1984, Joel Coen)
Tightrope (1984, Richard Tuggle)
This is Spinal Tap (1984, Rob Reiner)
Godzilla (1984, Hashimoto Koji)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984, Michael Radford)
Sixteen Candles (1984, John Hughes)
Gremlins (1984, Joe Dante)
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984, Leonard Nimoy)

1983

Silkwood (1983, Mike Nichols)
Mr. Mom (1983, Stan Dragoti)
Sudden Impact (1983, Clint Eastwood)
Staying Alive (1983, Sylvester Stallone)
Scarface (1983, Brian De Palma)
WarGames (1983, John Badham)
The Man with Two Brains (1983, Carl Reiner)
V (1983, Kenneth Johnson)
Ragnarok (1983)
The Wind in the Willows (1983, Mark Hall and Chris Taylor)
The Meaning of Life (1983, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983, Jack Clayton)
Sleepaway Camp (1983, Robert Hiltzik)
The Hunger (1983, Tony Scott)
Return of the Jedi (1983, Richard Marquand)
Flashdance (1983, Adrian Lyne)
Jaws 3-D (1983, Joe Alves)
Lovesick (1983, Marshall Brickman)
The Keep (1983, Michael Mann)
Diner (1983, Barry Levinson)
High Road to China (1983, Brian G. Hutton)
The Big Chill (1983, Lawrence Kasdan)
Christine (1983, John Carpenter)
Krull (1983, Peter Yates)
Blue Thunder (1983, John Badham)
Superman III (1983, Richard Lester)
A Christmas Story (1983, Bob Clark)
Risky Business (1983, Paul Brickman), the director’s cut
Baby It’s You (1983, John Sayles)
The Osterman Weekend (1983, Sam Peckinpah)
Danton (1983, Andrzej Wajda)

1982

Night Shift (1982, Ron Howard)
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982, Colin Higgins)
Visiting Hours (1982, Jean-Claude Lord)
48 Hrs. (1982, Walter Hill)
Still of the Night (1982, Robert Benton)
Heatwave (1982, Phillip Noyce)
Basket Case (1982, Frank Henenlotter)
Tootsie (1982, Sydney Pollack)
Creepshow (1982, George A. Romero)
Turkey Shoot (1982, Brian Trenchard-Smith)
Friday the 13th Part III (1982, Steve Miner)
Firefox (1982, Clint Eastwood)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982, Steven Spielberg)
Cat People (1982, Paul Schrader)
Diner (1982, Barry Levinson)
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982, Joe Layton)
Poltergeist (1982, Tobe Hooper)
Vincent (1982, Tim Burton)
Tron (1982, Steven Lisberger)
Q (1982, Larry Cohen)
Conan the Barbarian (1982, John Milius)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982, Tommy Lee Wallace)
First Blood (1982, Ted Kotcheff)
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
Swamp Thing (1982, Wes Craven)
Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott), the final cut
Moonlighting (1982, Jerzy Skolimowski)
Evil Under the Sun (1982, Guy Hamilton)
Monkey Grip (1982, Ken Cameron)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982, Nicholas Meyer), the director’s edition
White Dog (1982, Samuel Fuller)

1981

History of the World: Part I (1981, Mel Brooks)
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981, John Badham)
Under the Rainbow (1981, Steve Rash)
Pennies from Heaven (1981, Herbert Ross)
Body Heat (1981, Lawrence Kasdan)
Madame X (1981, Robert Ellis Miller)
Scanners (1981, David Cronenberg)
The Great Muppet Caper (1981, Jim Henson)
Halloween II (1981, Rick Rosenthal)
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981, Steve Miner)
The Funhouse (1981, Tobe Hooper)
Mad Max 2 (1981, George Miller)
Escape from New York (1981, John Carpenter)
An American Werewolf in London (1981, John Landis)
The Four Seasons (1981, Alan Alda)
Wolfen (1981, Michael Wadleigh)
The Evil Dead (1981, Sam Raimi)
Thief (1981, Michael Mann)
Halloween II (1981, Rick Rosenthal), the television version
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981, Bob Rafelson)
The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981, Joel Schumacher)
The Howling (1981, Joe Dante)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
Arthur (1981, Steve Gordon)
Outland (1981, Peter Hyams)
All Night Long (1981, Jean-Claude Tramont)
Goliath Awaits (1981, Kevin Connor)
Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma)
Nighthawks (1981, Bruce Malmuth)
Das Boot (1981, Wolfgang Petersen), the uncut version
Eyewitness (1981, Peter Yates)

1980

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980, Jimmy T. Murakami)
The Babysitter (1980, Peter Medak)
Fist of Fear, Touch of Death (1980, Matthew Mallinson)
Stryker’s War (1980, Josh Becker)
The Big Red One (1980, Samuel Fuller)
Gregory’s Girl (1980, Bill Forsyth)
Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
It's Dental Flossophy, Charlie Brown (1980, Bill Melendez and Phil Roman)
Dressed to Kill (1980, Brian De Palma)
Private Benjamin (1980, Howard Zieff)
Once Upon a Spy (1980, Ivan Nagy)
My Bodyguard (1980, Tony Bill)
Seems Like Old Times (1980, Jay Sandrich)
Alligator (1980, Lewis Teague)
City of the Living Dead (1980, Lucio Fulci)
Ordinary People (1980, Robert Redford)
Atlantic City (1980, Louis Malle)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)
The Elephant Man (1980, David Lynch)
Friday the 13th (1980, Sean S. Cunningham), the uncut version
Fame (1980, Alan Parker)
Black Angel (1980, Roger Christian)
Caddyshack (1980, Harold Ramis)
The Blues Brothers (1980, John Landis)
Galaxina (1980, William Sachs)
Nine to Five (1980, Colin Higgins)
Superman II (1980, Richard Lester)
Tomb of Dracula (1980, Okazaki Minoru), the English dubbed version
Humanoids from the Deep (1980, Barbara Peters)
The Fog (1980, John Carpenter)
The Stunt Man (1980, Richard Rush)
Willie and Phil (1980, Paul Mazursky)
Superman II (1980, Richard Donner), the Richard Donner cut
Kagemusha (1980, Kurosawa Akira)
Superman II (1980, Richard Lester), the restored international cut

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