Top 60 movies of 1980
The Shining
The Empire Strikes Back
Airplane!
Raging Bull
The Blues Brothers
The Elephant Man
Superman II
Cannibal Holocaust
Friday the 13th
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Blue Lagoon
The Fog
Kagemusha
Dressed to Kill
Caddyshack
Somewhere in Time
Flash Gordon
The Party
Ordinary People
The Long Good Friday
The Final Countdown
Cruising
Inferno
Nine to Five
The Taming of the Scoundrel
American Gigolo
Heaven's Gate
Brubaker
The Changeling
The Young Master
Altered States
City of Women
Return to the 36th Chamber
Popeye
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Little Lord Fauntleroy
City of the Living Dead
Fame
Stir Crazy
The Under-Gifted
Stardust Memories
The Big Red One
The Long Riders
Urban Cowboy
Private Benjamin
Prom Night
Alligator
Used Cars
Maniac
Atlantic City
Encounters of the Spooky Kind
Super Fuzz
Shogun Assassin
Any Which Way You Can
The Mirror Crack'd
Bronco Billy
Smokey and the Bandit II
Tender Cousins
Terror Train
Emmanuelle: Queen of Sados
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