51. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Henning Schellerup
Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Paul Sand, Meg Foster, Laura Campbell, Dick Butkus, Michael Ruud
Plot: A new schoolmaster tests his nerves with the local legend of a headless horseman, all the while romancing with the local beauty. A fresh, witty look at the classic Washington Irving's tale.
52. Seems Like Old Times
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jay Sandrich
Actors: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Charles Grodin, Robert Guillaume, Harold Gould, George Grizzard
53. Hopscotch
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ronald Neame
Actors: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, Herbert Lom, David Matthau
Plot: In this comedy-thriller, a disgruntled CIA agent becomes a target when he decides to settle some scores by writing his memoirs.
54. Half a Loaf of Kung Fu ( Dian zhi gong fu gan chian chan )
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chi-Hwa Chen
Actors: Jackie Chan, Kang Chin, Chung-erh Lung, James Tien, Wen Tai Li, Ching Lan Chin
55. Shogun's Ninja ( Ninja bugeicho momochi sandayu )
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Norifumi Suzuki
Actors: Sonny Chiba, Hiroyuki Sanada, Etsuko Shihomi, Tetsurô Tanba, Isao Natsuyagi, Asao Koike
56. Urban Cowboy
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: James Bridges
Actors: John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn, Barry Corbin, Madolyn Smith Osborne, James Gammon
Plot: Urban Cowboy is a 1980 American romantic drama film about the love-hate relationship between cowboy Bud Davis (John Travolta) and cowgirl Sissy (Debra Winger). The movie captured the late 1970s/early 1980s popularity of country music with John Travolta starring after Grease and Saturday Night Fever.
57. The Tempest
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Derek Jarman
Actors: Peter Bull, Heathcote Williams, David Meyer, Neil Cunningham, Toyah Willcox, Karl Johnson
58. The Final Countdown
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Don Taylor
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, Charles Durning
Plot: The Captain (Douglas) of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nimitz, with a government civilian "efficiency expert" (Sheen) aboard, sails out of Pearl Harbor in what seems like a normal deployment to the Pacific. When a storm unlike any storm they have ever seen before engulfs them, the crew is knocked unconscious. When they awake, they slowly realize that the storm has transported them back in time to the day before the infamous Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Knowing that their ship has the aircraft, weaponry and technology 40 years more superior than the advancing Japanese fleet, the crew struggles with the ethical question: Should we stop the attack and change history forever?
59. The Mirror Crack'd
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Guy Hamilton
Actors: Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, Geraldine Chaplin, Edward Fox
60. Any Which Way You Can
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Buddy Van Horn
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, William Smith, Harry Guardino, Ruth Gordon
