Ok, here's finally my own 80s list. I guess I haven't seen nearly as much as all of the others, but it's all about quality. These films will (hopefully) remain on the list as new ones will be added. "> 


1980 
Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino / USA) 
Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa / Japan, USA) 
Loulou (Maurice Pialat / France) 
Permanent Vacation (Jim Jarmusch / USA) 
The Big Red One [reconstructed version] (Samuel Fuller / USA) 
The Elephant Man (David Lynch / USA) 
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick / UK) 

1981 
Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix / France) 
Eyewitness (Peter Yates / USA) 
Mad Max 2 (George Miller / Australia) 
Pennies from Heaven (Herbert Ross / USA) 
Possession (Andrzej Zulawski / France, West Germany) 
Tarzan, the Ape Man (John Derek / USA) 

1982 
Bakuretsu toshi Burst City (Sogo Ishii / Japan) 
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott / USA) 
Conan the Barbarian (John Milius / USA) 
Die Erben The Inheritors (Walter Bannert / Austria) 
Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski / UK) 
Moznosti dialogu Dimensions of Dialogue (Jan Svankmajer / Czechoslovakia) 
Sans soleil Sunless (Chris Marker / France) 
Victor/Victoria (Blake Edwards / USA, UK) 

1983 
Der Aufenthalt The Turning Point (Frank Beyer / East Germany) 
Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio / USA) 
La lune dans le caniveau The Moon in the Gutter (Jean-Jacques Beineix / France, Italy) 
Mortelle randonne Deadly run (Claude Miller / France) 
Scarface (Brian De Palma / USA) 
Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch / USA) 
The Hunger (Tony Scott / USA) 
Wu lang ba gua gun Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Chia-Liang Liu / Hong Kong) 

1984 
Klassenverhältnisse Class Relations (Daniele Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub / West Germany, France) 
L' amour à mort Love Unto Death (Alain Resnais / France) 
La pirate The Pirate (Jacques Doillon / France) 
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders / West Germany, France) 
The Terminator (James Cameron / USA) 

1985 
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis / USA) 
La vie de famille Family Life (Jacques Doillon / France) 
Otac na sluzbenom putu When father was away on business (Emir Kusturica / Yugoslavia) 
Qingmei Zhuma Taipei Story (Edward Yang / Taiwan) 
Ran (Akira Kurosawa / Japan, France) 
Sans toit ni loi Vagabond (Agnès Varda / France, UK) 
Tenshi no tamago Angel's Egg (Mamoru Oshii / Japan) 
Zina (Ken McMullen / UK) 

1986 
Blue Velvet (David Lynch / USA) 
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes / USA) 
Mauvais sang Bad Blood (Leos Carax / France) 
Offret The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky / Sweden, UK, France) 
Rosa Luxemburg (Margarethe von Trotta / West Germany, Czechoslovakia) 

1987 
Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo / Japan) 
Frantic (Roman Polanski / France, USA) 
Khane-ye doust kodjast? Where is my friends house? (Abbas Kiarostami / Iran) 
Predator (John McTiernan / USA) 
Sign 'o' the Times (Prince, Albert Magnoli / USA) 
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner / USA) 

1988 
Feet of Song (Erica Russell / UK) 
Hotaru no haka Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata / Japan) 
Les ministéres de l'art (Philippe Garrel / France) 
The Accidental Tourist (Lawrence Kasdan / USA) 
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman / USA) 
Tonari no Totoro My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki / Japan) 
Wong gok ka moon As Tears Go By (Wong Kar Wai / Hong Kong) 

1989 
Arousi-ye Khouban Marriage of the Blessed (Mohsen Makhmalbaf / Iran) 
Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis / USA) 
Batman (Tim Burton / USA) 
L'enfant de l'hiver Winter's Child (Olivier Assayas / France) 
Majo no takkyûbin Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki / Japan) 
Monsieur Hire M. Hire (Patrice Leconte / France) 
Sale comme un ange Dirty Like an Angel (Catherine Breillat / France) 
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway / UK, France, Netherlands) 


by country: 

USA: 25 
France: 16 
Japan: 8 
UK: 5 
West Germany: 3 
Hong Kong: 2 
Iran: 2 
Australia: 1 
Austria: 1 
Czechoslovakia: 1 
East Germany: 1 
Sweden: 1 
Taiwan: 1 
Yugoslavia: 1 
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Total: 68 

* I've recently completely rediscovered Wong Kar Wai's debut feature "As Tears Go By" (1988). What a film!!! I'm still overwhelmed. The same can be said about the impact of the Austrian Film "The Inheritors" (1982) which I only saw by chance at the cinema. What a discovery!!