Deathtrap (1982)
Lumet's 1982 stage-play adaptation. The script doubles back on itself three times.
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1980sThe Dogs of War (1980)
Irvin's 1980 mercenary thriller. Christopher Walken leads a coup in a fictional African country.
1980sDas Boot (1981)
Petersen's 1981 German U-boat drama. Three-hour theatrical, six-hour director's cut, miniseries.
1980sBrubaker (1980)
Rosenberg's 1980 prison-reform drama. Robert Redford as the warden who arrives undercover as an inmate.
1980sRaging Bull (1980)
Scorsese's 1980 boxing biopic of Jake LaMotta. Black-and-white, Schoonmaker-cut, De Niro at 60 pounds heavier.
1980sDune (1984)
Seen four times, dated but good for its time. Visuals are still strange in ways no modern adaptation has matche.
1980sThe Living Planet (1984)
Attenborough's 1984 sequel to Life on Earth, organized by ecosystem. Twelve episodes from polar ice to ocean trench.
1980sCobra (1986)
Cosmatos's 1986 Stallone action thriller. Compressed 87-minute runtime, iconographic Cobretti character.
1980sCode of Silence (1985)
Andrew Davis's 1985 Chicago cop thriller. Among the stronger Chuck Norris theatrical efforts.
1980sStar Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is the Star Trek film that exists primarily to undo the consequences of the previous Star Trek film. Christopher Lloyd plays the Klingon commander Kruge.
1980sHeavy Metal (1981)
Multiple animation studios contributed individual segments under different supervising animators. The film made approximately twenty million dollars on a nine million dollar budget.
1980sThe Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Buckaroo Banzai is one of the strangest films Twentieth Century Fox released in the 1980s and one of the most beloved cult artifacts of that decade. Peter Weller plays Buckaroo Banzai, a neurosurgeon, particle physicist, samurai, race car driver, and…