Call it boredom, but I felt like digging into another decade, and the list subforum has not gotten a great deal of attention lately. So here's the decade myself, and several other members were born in, and I think it will offer a unique perspective on how we grew up with certain films. 

1980 
Ordinary People (US - Robert Redford) 
Berlin Alexanderplatz (West Germany/Italy - Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 
Raging Bull (US - Martin Scorsese) 
The Shining (US/UK - Stanley Kubrick) 
Airplane (US - Jim Abraham/David Zucker/Jerry Zucker) 
The Empire Strikes Back (US - Irvin Kirshner) 
The Blues Brothers (US - John Landis) 

1981 
Reds (US - Warren Beatty) 
Das Boot (West Germany - Wolfgang Petersen) 
Gallipoli (Australia - Peter Weir) 
Escape From New York (US - John Carpenter) 

1982 
The Executioner's Song (US - Lawrence Schiller) 
Fanny and Alexander (Sweden - Ingmar Bergman) 
Blade Runner (US - Ridley Scott) 
Pink Floyd The Wall (US/UK - Alan Parker) 
Videodrome (Canada - David Cronenberg) 
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (US - Amy Heckerling) 
Diner (US - Barry Levinson) 
Sophie's Choice (US - Alan J. Pakula) 
One From the Heart (US - Francis Ford Coppola) 
Koyaanisqatsi (US - Godfrey Reggio) 

1983 
The Right Stuff (US - Phillip Kauffman) 
Sans Soleil (France - Chris Marker) 
Return of the Jedi (US - Richard Marquand) 
A Christmas Story (Canada - Bob Clark) 
Trading Places (US - John Landis) 
Delirious (US - Bruce Gowers) 
My Brother's Wedding (US - Charles Burnett) 

1984 
The Times of Harvey Milk (US - Robert Epstein) 
The Terminator (US - James Cameron) 
Stop Making Sense (US - Jonathan Demme) 
This is Spinal Tap (US - Rob Reiner) 
Once Upon a Time in America (US/Italy - Sergio Leone) 

1985 
Brazil (US - Terry Gilliam) 
The Purple Rose of Cairo (US - Woody Allen) 
Shoah (France/Switzerland - Claude Lanzmann) 
Clue (US - Jonathan Lynn) 
Ran (Japan/France - Akira Kurosawa) 
The Breakfast Club (US - John Hughes) 
Boycott (Iran - Mohsehn Makhmalbaf) 
Pee-Wees Big Adventure (US - Tim Burton) 
Come and See (USSR - Elem Klimov) 

1986 
Platoon (US - Oliver Stone) 
Big Trouble in Little China (US - John Carpenter) 
The Singing Detective (UK - Jon Amiel) 
Ferris Buellers Day Off (US - John Hughes) 
A Room With a View (UK - James Ivory) 
Salvador (US - Oliver Stone) 
Blue Velvet (US - David Lynch) 
The Fly (US/Canada - David Cronenberg) 

1987 
Cobra Verde (West Germany - Werner Herzog) 
Akira (Japan - Katsuhiro Otomo) 
Raising Arizona (US - Joel and Ethan Coen) 
Princess Bride (US - Rob Reiner) 
Predator (US - John McTiernan) 
The Last Emperor (US/China/Italy - Bernardo Bertolucci) 
Full Metal Jacket (US/UK - Stanley Kubrick) 
Spaceballs (US - Mel Brooks) 
Raw (US - Robert Townsend) 
Wings of Desire (West Germany/France - Wim Wenders) 
Hollywood Shuffle (US - Robert Townsend) 
Camp de Thiaroye (Senegal/Tunisia/Algeria - Ousmane Sembene/Thiermo Faty Sow) 

1988 
The Last Temptation of Christ (US - Martin Scorsese) 
Drowning by Numbers (Netherlands - Peter Greenaway) 
Coming to America (US - John Landis) 
Im Gonna Git You Sucka (US - Keenan Ivory Wayans) 
Bull Durham (US - Ron Shelton) 
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (US - Robert Zemeckis) 
The Decalogue (Poland - Krzysztof Kieslowski) 
Die Hard (US - John McTiernan) 
Rain Man (US - Barry Levinson) 
Dead Ringers (Canada - David Cronenberg) 
Landscape in the Mist (Greece/West Germany - Theo Angeloupoulos) 
A Fish Called Wanda (UK - Charles Crichton) 

1989 
Born on the Fourth of July (US - Oliver Stone) 
The Cyclist (Iran - Mohsen Makhmalbaf) 
Tango and Cash (US - Andrei Konchalovsky) 
Do the Right Thing (US - Spike Lee) 
Heathers (US - Michael Lehmann) 
Drugstore Cowboy (US - Gus Van Sant) 
Major League (US - David S. Ward) 
The Little Mermaid (US - Ron Clements) 
When Harry Met Sally (US - Rob Reiner) 

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