My favorite films of the 1980s.

Rated 10/10
Stardust Memories (Allen, 1980)
Raging Bull (Scorcese, 1980)
Atlantic City (Malle, 1980)
Return of the Secaucus Seven (Sayles, 1980)
My Dinner With Andre (Malle, 1981)
The King of Comedy (Scorcese, 1982)
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)
Baby It’s You (Sayles, 1983)
Local Hero (Forsyth, 1983)
This Is Spinal Tap (Reiner, 1984)
Brazil (Gilliam, 1985)
Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky, 1986)
Hannah and Her Sisters (Allen, 1986)
Wings of Desire (Wenders, 1987)
Raising Arizona (Coen & Coen, 1987)
The Vanishing (Sluizer, 1988)
The Thin Blue Line (Morris, 1988)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen, 1989)
Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)
Say Anything… (Crowe, 1989)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Soderbergh, 1989)

Rated 9/10
The Elephant Man (Lynch, 1980)
The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (Blank, 1980)
Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio, 1982)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Heckerling, 1982)
The World According to Garp (Hill, 1982)
Missing (Costa-Gavras, 1982)
Sans Soleil (Marker, 1983)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (Richter, 1984)
The Killing Fields (Joffé, 1984)
28 Up (Apted, 1984)
The Times of Harvey Milk (Epstein, 1984)
Stop Making Sense (Demme, 1984)
Broadway Danny Rose (Allen, 1984)
Streetwise (Bell, 1984)
A Room With a View (Ivory, 1985)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Babenco, 1985)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (Allen, 1985)
The Official Story (Puenzo, 1985)
Insignificance (Roeg, 1985)
Sherman’s March (McElwee, 1986)
The Dead (Huston, 1987)
Broadcast News (Brooks, 1987)
A Cry in the Dark (Schepisi, 1988)
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (Ophüls, 1988)