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The 100 Best Films of the 1980s I was born in 1971 so grew up on eighties movies. It's great to see a list of the best films from that decade that's as versatile as this one from Slant Magazine. It's even better to see titles on it that I haven't watched. Yet. The source list can be found at Slant Magazine. The List # Title Year Director IMDb 1 L’ argent 1983 Robert Bresson IMDb 2 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee IMDb 3 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch IMDb 4 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick IMDb 5 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese IMDb 6 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman IMDb 7 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg IMDb 8 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov IMDb 9 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog IMDb 10 Sans soleil 1983 Chris Marker IMDb 11 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven IMDb 12 Dekalog 1989 Krysztof Kieślowski IMDb 13 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese IMDb 14 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg IMDb 15 Blow Out 1981 Brian De Palma IMDb 16 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter IMDb 17 Where Is the Friend’s House? 1987 Abbas Kiarostami IMDb 18 Possession 1981 Andrzej Żuławski IMDb 19 Love Streams 1984 John Cassavetes IMDb 20 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies IMDb 21 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders IMDb 22 Bad Blood 1986 Leos Carax IMDb 23 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg IMDb 24 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder IMDb 25 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott IMDb 26 Something Wild 1986 Jonathan Demme IMDb 27 The Green Ray 1986 Éric Rohmer IMDb 28 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg IMDb 29 Vagabond 1985 Agnès Varda IMDb 30 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa IMDb 31 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann IMDb 32 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen IMDb 33 Nostalghia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky IMDb 34 Modern Romance 1981 Albert Brooks IMDb 35 The Killer 1989 John Woo IMDb 36 To Our Loves 1983 Maurice Pialat IMDb 37 Body Double 1984 Brian De Palma IMDb 38 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris IMDb 39 Sex, Lies and Videotape 1989 Steven Soderbergh IMDb 40 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch IMDb 41 They Live 1988 John Carpenter IMDb 42 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Paul Schrader IMDb 43 Stop Making Sense 1984 Jonathan Demme IMDb 44 Sherman’s March 1985 Ross McElwee IMDb 45 Ms .45 1981 Abel Ferrara IMDb 46 Chocolat 1988 Claire Denis IMDb 47 Thief 1981 Michael Mann IMDb 48 Taipei Story 1985 Edward Yang IMDb 49 Dressed to Kill 1980 Brian De Palma IMDb 50 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story 1987 Todd Haynes IMDb 51 After Hours 1985 Martin Scorsese IMDb 52 Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch IMDb 53 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen IMDb 54 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam IMDb 55 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg IMDb 56 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Isao Takahata IMDb 57 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway IMDb 58 Koyaanisqatsi 1983 Godfrey Reggio IMDb 59 The Vanishing 1988 George Sluizer IMDb 60 El Sur 1983 Víctor Erice IMDb 61 Matador 1986 Pedro Almodóvar IMDb 62 Stranger Than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch IMDb 63 Crimes of Passion 1984 Ken Russell IMDb 64 Wings of Desire 1988 Wim Wenders IMDb 65 The Road Warrior 1981 George Miller IMDb 66 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron IMDb 67 Tenebrae 1982 Dario Argento IMDb 68 Pauline at the Beach 1983 Éric Rohmer IMDb 69 Empire of the Sun 1987 Steven Spielberg IMDb 70 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick IMDb 71 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Martin Scorsese IMDb 72 Day of the Dead 1985 George A. Romero IMDb 73 A City of Sadness 1989 Hou Hsiao-hsien IMDb 74 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Otomo IMDb 75 Evil Dead II 1987 Sam Raimi IMDb 76 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan IMDb 77 Polyester 1981 John Waters IMDb 78 The Decline of Western Civilization 1981 Penelope Spheeris IMDb 79 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis IMDb 80 The Fog 1980 John Carpenter IMDb 81 Police Story 1985 Jackie Chan & Chi-Hwa Chen IMDb 82 My Brother’s Wedding 1983 Charles Burnett IMDb 83 The Aviator’s Wife 1981 Éric Rohmer IMDb 84 The Ballad of Narayama 1983 Shohei Imamura IMDb 85 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson IMDb 86 Streetwise 1984 Martin Bell IMDb 87 White Dog 1982 Samuel Fuller IMDb 88 Near Dark 1987 Kathryn Bigelow IMDb 89 Repo Man 1984 Alex Cox IMDb 90 Predator 1987 John McTiernan IMDb 91 Meantime 1983 Mike Leigh IMDb 92 Querelle 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder IMDb 93 On the Silver Globe 1988 Andrzej Żuławski IMDb 94 Sweetie 1989 Jane Campion IMDb 95 Lost in America 1985 Albert Brooks IMDb 96 My American Uncle 1980 Alain Resnais IMDb 97 Castle in the Sky 1986 Hayao Miyazaki IMDb 98 The Sacrifice 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky IMDb 99 Desert Hearts 1985 Donna Deitch IMDb 100 The Atomic Cafe 1982 Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty & Pierce Rafferty IMDb

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