They Shoot Pictures Don't They 80s Ranked

By: Elston

All movies on TSPDT list, organized by decade, organized by rank. ie Raging Bull is the highest ranking film on TSPDT for 1980s, followed by Blade Runner, etc.

• 01
  Raging Bull
  Martin Scorsese
• 02
  Blade Runner
  Ridley Scott
• 03
  Fanny and Alexander — The Theatrical Version
  Ingmar Bergman
• 04
  Blue Velvet
  David Lynch
• 05
  Ran
  Akira Kurosawa
• 06
  E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
  Steven Spielberg
• 07
  The Decalogue
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 08
  The Shining
  Stanley Kubrick
• 09
  Once Upon a Time in America
  Sergio Leone
• 10
  Shoah
  Claude Lanzmann
• 11
  Brazil
  Terry Gilliam
• 12
  Do the Right Thing
  Spike Lee
• 13
  Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Steven Spielberg
• 14
  Sans soleil
  Chris Marker
• 15
  L'argent
  Robert Bresson
• 16
  Close-Up
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 17
  Berlin Alexanderplatz
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 18
  Cinema Paradiso
  Giuseppe Tornatore
• 19
  Crimes and Misdemeanors
  Woody Allen
• 20
  Wings of Desire
  Wim Wenders
• 21
  The Terminator
  James Cameron
• 22
  Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
  Irvin Kershner
• 23
  A Time to Live and a Time to Die
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 24
  Aliens
  James Cameron
• 25
  Come and See
  Elem Klimov
• 26
  Paris, Texas
  Wim Wenders
• 27
  Amadeus
  Miloš Forman
• 28
  A City of Sadness
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 29
  The King of Comedy
  Martin Scorsese
• 30
  Tootsie
  Sydney Pollack
• 31
  Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
  George Miller
• 32
  Back to the Future
  Robert Zemeckis
• 33
  Stranger Than Paradise
  Jim Jarmusch
• 34
  Love Streams
  John Cassavetes
• 35
  The Dead
  John Huston
• 36
  The Sacrifice
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 37
  My Neighbor Totoro
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 38
  Full Metal Jacket
  Stanley Kubrick
• 39
  This Is Spinal Tap
  Rob Reiner
• 40
  Where Is the Friend's Home?
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 41
  Nostalghia
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 42
  Evil Dead II
  Sam Raimi
• 43
  Local Hero
  Bill Forsyth
• 44
  My Life as a Dog
  Lasse Hallström
• 45
  Videodrome
  David Cronenberg
• 46
  The Right Stuff
  Philip Kaufman
• 47
  Dead Ringers
  David Cronenberg
• 48
  Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  John Hughes
• 49
  Blow Out
  Brian De Palma
• 50
  Scarface
  Brian De Palma
• 51
  Distant Voices, Still Lives
  Terence Davies
• 52
  Reds
  Warren Beatty
• 53
  Midnight Run
  Martin Brest
• 54
  The Killer
  John Woo
• 55
  Time of the Gypsies
  Emir Kusturica
• 56
  Passion
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 57
  Die Hard
  John McTiernan
• 58
  Every Man for Himself
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 59
  The Verdict
  Sidney Lumet
• 60
  Heaven's Gate
  Michael Cimino
• 61
  Down by Law
  Jim Jarmusch
• 62
  Fitzcarraldo
  Werner Herzog
• 63
  Diner
  Barry Levinson
• 64
  Kagemusha
  Akira Kurosawa
• 65
  The Woman Next Door
  François Truffaut
• 66
  Blood Simple
  Joel Coen
• 67
  The Fly
  David Cronenberg
• 68
  Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
  Marcel Ophüls
• 69
  Homeland: A German Chronicle
  Edgar Reitz
• 70
  The Elephant Man
  David Lynch
• 71
  Raising Arizona
  Joel Coen
• 72
  Mon oncle Antoine
  Claude Jutra
• 73
  Gandhi
  Richard Attenborough
• 74
  Dead Poets Society
  Peter Weir
• 75
  The Green Ray
  Éric Rohmer
• 76
  The Last Temptation of Christ
  Martin Scorsese
• 77
  Yellow Earth
  Chen Kaige
• 78
  Witness
  Peter Weir
• 79
  Zelig
  Woody Allen
• 80
  The Princess Bride
  Rob Reiner
• 81
  Gregory's Girl
  Bill Forsyth
• 82
  Hannah and Her Sisters
  Woody Allen
• 83
  RoboCop
  Paul Verhoeven
• 84
  Vagabond
  Agnès Varda
• 85
  Law of Desire
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 86
  Excalibur
  John Boorman
• 87
  Sugar Cane Alley
  Euzhan Palcy
• 88
  Ordinary People
  Robert Redford
• 89
  A Fish Called Wanda
  Charles Crichton
• 90
  The Thin Blue Line
  Errol Morris
• 91
  Grave of the Fireflies
  Isao Takahata
• 92
  Red Sorghum
  Zhang Yimou
• 93
  The Purple Rose of Cairo
  Woody Allen
• 94
  The Blues Brothers
  John Landis
• 95
  Broadway Danny Rose
  Woody Allen
• 96
  The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  Peter Greenaway
• 97
  Brightness
  Souleymane Cissé
• 98
  Mephisto
  István Szabó
• 99
  The Times of Harvey Milk
  Rob Epstein
• 100
  Pixote, the Law of the Weakest
  Héctor Babenco
• 101
  Ballad of Narayama
  Shôhei Imamura
• 102
  The Year of Living Dangerously
  Peter Weir
• 103
  Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
  Robert Zemeckis
• 104
  American Gigolo
  Paul Schrader
• 105
  Veronika Voss
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 106
  The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  Philip Kaufman
• 107
  The World According to Garp
  George Roy Hill
• 108
  Out of Africa
  Sydney Pollack
• 109
  And the Ship Sails On
  Federico Fellini
• 110
  Radio Days
  Woody Allen
• 111
  Cutter's Way
  Ivan Passer
• 112
  Too Early, Too Late
  Danièle Huillet
• 113
  Night of the Shooting Stars
  Paolo Taviani
• 114
  El Sur
  Víctor Erice
• 115
  Koyaanisqatsi
  Godfrey Reggio
• 116
  My Friend Ivan Lapshin
  Aleksei German
• 117
  Toute une nuit
  Chantal Akerman
• 118
  A Short Film About Love
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 119
  Near Dark
  Kathryn Bigelow