Top Movies of 1980


The top movies of 1980 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

111. The Boogeyman

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ulli Lommel
Actors: Suzanna Love, Ron James, John Carradine, Nicholas Love, Raymond Boyden, Felicite Morgan
Plot: As children, Lacey and Willy killed their mom's abusive boyfriend. Years later, Lacey accidentally frees the dead man's spirit from an old mirror, and it goes on a murderous rampage.

112. Heart Beat

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Byrum
Actors: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, John Heard, Ray Sharkey, Ann Dusenberry, Margaret Fairchild

113. The Man You Loved to Hate

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Patrick Montgomery
Actors: Ed Binns, Erich von Stroheim, Paul Kohner, Marcel Dalio, Leonard Spigelgass, Samuel Marx

114. Flash Gordon

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mike Hodges
Actors: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Timothy Dalton, Topol, Brian Blessed
Plot: A retelling of the classic sci-fi character.

115. The American Success Company

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: William Richert
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Belinda Bauer, Ned Beatty, Steven Keats, Bianca Jagger, John Glover

116. Foxes

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Adrian Lyne
Actors: Jodie Foster, Cherie Currie, Marilyn Kagan, Scott Baio, Randy Quaid, Lois Smith

117. Don't Answer the Phone!

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Hammer
Actors: James Westmoreland, Ben Frank, Flo Lawrence, Nicholas Worth, Denise Galik, Stan Haze

118. Terror Train

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Actors: Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner, David Copperfield, Derek McKinnon, Timothy Webber
Plot: A masquerade for New Year's Eve aboard a train becomes a bloodbath when a killer decides to get revenge on six college kids over a prank gone wrong years before.

119. The Blue Lagoon

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Randal Kleiser
Actors: Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels, Elva Josephson, Glenn Kohan
Plot: A boy and girl stranded alone on a desert island grow up together, eventually becoming lovers.

120. The Mountain Men

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Lang
Actors: Charlton Heston, Brian Keith, Victoria Racimo, Stephen Macht, Seymour Cassel, Cal Bellini
Plot: Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp, two aging beaver trappers in the high Rockies, find their lives on the line when they encounter Running Moon, a beautiful Blackfoot runaway.Though Tyler wants no part of her, she takes him as her own--which angers her true mate, Heavy Eagle, the powerful local Blackfoot.

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