Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1980

All Things Pass – Paul Verhoeven

Alligator – Lewis Teague

The Anthropophagus Beast – Joe d’Amanto

The Apple – Menahem Golan

Arrebato (Rapture) - Ivan Zulueta

Apocalypse domain – Antonio Margheriti

The Awakening – Mike Newell

Babylon – Franco Rosso

Bad Timing – Nicolas Roeg

The Baltimore Bullet  - Robert Ellis Miller

Berlin Alexanderplatz – Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The Big Brawl (Battle Creek Brawl) – Robert Clouse

Best Boy -

The Big Red One – Sam Fuller

The Black Marble – Harold Becker

The Blood of Hussain – Jamil Dehlavi

The Boogeyman – Ulli Lommel

La Boum – Claude Pinoteau

Brubacker – Stuart Rosenberg

Cabablanco – J. Lee Thompson

The Candidate (Der Kandidat) – Volker Schondorff

Cannibal Holocaust – Ruggero Deodato

La casa sperduta nel parco – Ruggero Deodato

A Change of Seasons – Richard Lang

La Cicala – Alberto Lattuada

Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie – Tommy Chong

Children’s Island (Barnens O) – Kay Pollak

City of Women – Frderico Fellini

The Club – Bruce Beresford

The Competition – Joel Oliansky

The Constant Factor (Constans) – Krysztof Zanussi

El crimen de Cuenca – Pilar Miro

Cutting It Short (Postriziny) – Jiri Menzel

Death Watch (La Mort en direct) – Bertrand Tavernier

Deadly Companion – George Bloomfield

Dedicatoria – Jamie Chavarri

The Earthling – Peter Collinson

Eaten Alive! (Mangiati vivi) – Umberto Lenzi

Elisita – Jaun Cano Arecha

Encounter of the Spooky Kind – Sammo Hung

Every Man for Himself (Sauve qui peut) – Jean-Luc Godard

The Falls – Peter Greenaway

Fantastica – Gilles Carle

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu – Piers Haggard / Peter Sellers

The Final Countdown – Don Taylor

The First Deadly Sin – Brian G. Hutton

First Family – Buck Henry

From the Life of the Marionettes – Ingmar Bergman

The Formula – John G. Avildsen

Galaxina – William Sachs

The Gamekeeper – Ken Loach

Gates of Heaven – Errol Morris

Geroge ad Mildred – Perter Frazer-Jones

Germany, Pale Mother (Deutschland, bleiche Mutter) – Helma Sanders-Brahms

Germinal – Gerard Depardieu

Gilda Live – Mike Nichols

Gloria – John Cassavetes

God’s Angry Man – Werner Hertzog

Good Riddance (Les Bons debarras) Francis Mankiewicz

The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle – Julien Temple

Hanger 18 – James L. Conway

The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood – Alan Roberts

Hawk the Slayer – Terry Marcel

He Knows You’re Alone – Armand Mastroianni

Head On – Michael Grant

Health – Robert Altmen

Herbie Goes Bananas – Vincent McEveety

Hey Babe! (Rise and Shine) – Rafal Zielinski

Hopscotch – Ronald Neame

The Hunter – Buzz Kulik

Hurray For Betty Boop – Dan Dalton

Hussy – Matthew Chapman

The Idolmaker – Taylor Hackford

I’m Photogenic – Dino Risi

It’s My Turn – Claudia Weill

The Jazz Singer – Richard Fleischer

Just Tell Me What You Want – Sidney Lumet

Karz – Subhash Ghai

Ladies Choice (Dami Kanyat) – Ivan Andonov

The Lathe of Heaven – Ursula K. Le Guin

Legend of Tianyun Mountain (Tian yun shan chuan qi) – Xie Jin

La Legion sauté sur Kolwezi – Raoul Coutard

Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter – Connie Field

Little Miss Marker – Walter Bernstein

Loulou – Maurice Pialat

Loving Couples – Jach Smight

The Man with Bogart’s Face – Robert Day

Marmalade Revolution (Marmeladupproret) Erland Josphson

McVicar – Tom Clegg

Il mistero Oberwald – Michelangelo Antoniono

Mon Oncle d”Amerique – Alain Resnais

The Monster Club – Roy Ward Baker

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears – Vladimir Menshov

The Mountain Men – Richard Lang

El Nido (the Nest) – Jaime de Arminan

Nightkill – Ted Post

Nijinsky – Herbert Ross

The Ninth Configuration – William Peter Blatty

North Sea Hijack - Adrew V. McLaglen

Oh God! Book II – Gilbert Cates

Out of the Blue – Dennis Hopper

Palermo or Wolfsburg – Werner Schoeter

Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del monton – Pedro Almodovar

Permanent Vacation – Jim Jarmush

The Pilot – Cliff Robertson

The Private Eyes – Lang Elliott

Public Telephone – Jean-Marie Perier

L’Uomo Puma – Alberto De Martino

Qurbani – Feroz Khan

Resurrection – Daniel Petrie

El Retorno del Hombre Lobo (Return of the Werewolf) – Jacinto Molina

Le Roi et l’oisea (The King and the Bird) – Paul Grimault

Richard’s Things – Anthony Harvey

Rise and Fall of Idi Amin – Sharad Patel / Chris Sutton

Rockshow – Bob Mercer

Rough Cut – Don Siegel

Rude Boy – Jack Hazan / David Mingay

Un sacco bello – Carlo Verdone

Sallskapsresan (the Charter Trip) – Lasse Aberg / Peter Hald

The Sea Wolves – Andrew V. McLaglen

Seems Like Old Times – Jay Sandrich

Serial – Bill Persky

The Shillingbury Blowers – Val Guest

Simon – Marshall Brickman

Sir Henry at Rawlinson End – Steve Roberts

A Small Circle of Friends – Rob Cohen

Smokey and the Bandit II – Hal Needham

Spetters – Paul Verhoeven

Sweet William – Claude Whatham

That Sinking Feeling – Bill Forsyth

La terrazzo – Ettore Scola

Terror Train – Roger Spottiswoode

To Love The Damned – Marco Tullio Goirdana

Tom Horn – William Wiard

Tribute – Bob Clark

Tusk – Alejandro Jodorowsky

Virus – Kinji Fukasaku

Waiter, Scraper! – Ladislav Smolajak

The Watcher in the Woods – John Hough

When Time Ran Out – James Goldstone

Who’s Singin’ Over There? – Slobodan Sijan

Why Would I Lie? – Larry Peerce

The Wildcats of St. Trinian’s – Frank Launder

Windows – Gordon Willis

The Young Master – Jackie Chan

Yugure made – Kazuo Kuroki

Le Voyage en douce – Michel Deville

A Week’s Vacation – Bertrand Tavernier

Xanadu – Robert Greenwald

Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs) Seijun Suzuki