11. Scum
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan Clarke
Actors: Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth, John Blundell, Phil Daniels, Philip Jackson
Plot: Brutality and violence in a modern prison for youthful offenders.
12. Coal Miner's Daughter
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Apted
Actors: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm, William Sanderson, Phyllis Boyens, Beverly D'Angelo
Plot: Autobiography of country music legend Loretta Lynn as she rises from poverty and homemaking to face the uphill battle of making it in the industry.
13. Breaker Morant
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bruce Beresford
Actors: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Terence Donovan
Plot: Three Australian officers, though acting under orders, are tried for shooting prisoners during the Boer war, but they put up a stronger defense to being used as scapegoats than anticipated.
14. Tin Drum, The ( Blechtrommel, Die )
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Actors: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski, Tina Engel
Plot: Based on one of the most important fiction works of the 20th Century, the Tin Drum follows the fortunes of Oskar Matzerath a gifted introvert who on his 3rd birthday (after receiving a tin drum as a present) decides to stop growing and refuses to join the adult society that he holds in contempt.Matzerath lives through one of the most turbulent periods of European history as he sees the rise of the Nazi regime, the fall of Danzig to the German Army,the Second World War and the fall again of Danzig this time to the Russians.
Oskar falls in love and discovers the heartbreak of the sudden death of his mother, all the while he continues to play his Tin Drum.
15. Mad Max
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Miller
Actors: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, Roger Ward
Plot: Australia has become a nightmare in a future where biker gangs control the roads and society is all but lost. One cop takes the law into his own hands after a brutal gang murders his partner, wife and young son.
16. Sitting Ducks
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Henry Jaglom
Actors: Michael Emil, Zack Norman, Patrice Townsend, Irene Forrest, Richard Romanus, Kelly Rogers
Plot: A pair of small-time criminals rip off the mob in order to fund their dreams of becoming a comedic duo. En route to Miami - where they plan to escape to Costa Rica, they pick up a pair females and a chauffeur/singer and that's where the fun really begins.
17. Nine to Five
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Colin Higgins
Actors: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Elizabeth Wilson, Sterling Hayden
Plot: Three women work for a pig of a boss and decide to stage a coup. They trap the boss and run the department on their own, greatly improving things, but the charade becomes harder and harder to keep up as things progress.
18. Somewhere in Time
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Actors: Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright, Bill Erwin, William H. Macy
Plot: Richard Collier is on a writers block so he goes on vacation. He sees a picture of the most beautiful woman and says he must meet her. So now he must find a way to travel back in time to be with her.
19. Friday the 13th
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Actors: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Kevin Bacon, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Jeannine Taylor
Plot: When a young boy drowns in a lake due to his camp counselors not supervising him, revenge is taken. The question is, who is taking the revenge?
20. Who Sings Over There ( Ko to tamo peva )
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Serbian
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Slobodan Sijan
Actors: Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Pavle Vujisic, Tasko Nacic, Slavko Stimac
