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The year 1980 in film involved some significant events.

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Rank Title Studio Release Date US Gross
1. The Empire Strikes Back 20th Century Fox May 21st 1980 $209,398,025
2.9 to 5
Nine to Five

Nine to Five, also known as 9 to 5, is a 1980 United States comedy film film starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Dabney Coleman....
 20th Century Fox December 19th 1980 $103,290,500
3.Stir Crazy Columbia December 12th 1980 $101,300,000
4. Airplane!
Airplane!

Airplane! is a Cinema of the United States comedy film directed and written by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Lorna Patterson....
 Paramount June 27th 1980 $83,453,539
5. Any Which Way You Can
Any Which Way You Can

Any Which Way You Can is a 1980 in film comedy film, starring Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis , William Smith , and Ruth Gordon....
 Warner Brothers December 17th 1980 $70,687,344
6.Private Benjamin
Private Benjamin

Private Benjamin is a 1980 comedy film starring Goldie Hawn. The film was one of the biggest box office hits of 1980, and also spawned a short-lived television series....
 Warner Bros October 10th 1980 $69,847,348
7. Coal Miner's Daughter
Coal Miner's Daughter

Coal Miner's Daughter is an United States 1980 in film which tells the story of country music performer Loretta Lynn. It stars Sissy Spacek in her Academy Award for Best Actress winning role, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo and Levon Helm, and was directed by Michael Apted....
 Universal March 07th 1980 $67,182,787
8. Smokey and the Bandit II
Smokey and the Bandit II

Smokey and the Bandit II is a comedy film released on August 15, 1980 in the United States. It is the sequel to the 1977 in film film Smokey and the Bandit....
 Universal August 15th 1980 $66,132,626
9. The Blue Lagoon Columbia June 20th 1980 $58,853,106
10. The Blues Brothers Universal June 20th 1980 $57,229,890







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The year 1980 in film involved some significant events.

Events

  • April 30 - The Roger Daltrey
    Roger Daltrey

    Roger Harry Daltrey Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock music band The Who....
     film, McVicar
    McVicar (film)

    McVicar is a dramatic British film issued in 1980 in film by The Who Films, Ltd., starring Roger Daltrey of The Who in the title role of John McVicar....
    , opens in London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
    , England
    England

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  • May 21 - The Empire Strikes Back
    Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

    Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is a 1980 in film space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner. The screenplay, based on a story by George Lucas, was written by Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett....
     is released and is the biggest grosser of the year just as its precessdor, Star Wars
    Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

    Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is an Cinema of the United States 1977 in film space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It was the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: Star Wars#Original trilogy continue the story, while a Star Wars#Prequel trilogy contributes backstory, primarily for the troubled charac...
     did three years before.
  • Sharon Stone
    Sharon Stone

    Sharon Yvonne Stone is an United Statesn actress, film producer and former Model . She first acheived international recognition for her performance in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct....
     makes her film debut in the Woody Allen
    Woody Allen

    Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
     movie Stardust Memories
    Stardust Memories

    Stardust Memories is a 1980 in film written and directed by Woody Allen, who considers this to be one of his best films in addition to The Purple Rose of Cairo and Match Point....
     (released September 26 in USA)


Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Studio Release Date US Gross
1. The Empire Strikes Back 20th Century Fox May 21st 1980 $209,398,025
2.9 to 5
Nine to Five

Nine to Five, also known as 9 to 5, is a 1980 United States comedy film film starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Dabney Coleman....
 20th Century Fox December 19th 1980 $103,290,500
3.Stir Crazy Columbia December 12th 1980 $101,300,000
4. Airplane!
Airplane!

Airplane! is a Cinema of the United States comedy film directed and written by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Lorna Patterson....
 Paramount June 27th 1980 $83,453,539
5. Any Which Way You Can
Any Which Way You Can

Any Which Way You Can is a 1980 in film comedy film, starring Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis , William Smith , and Ruth Gordon....
 Warner Brothers December 17th 1980 $70,687,344
6.Private Benjamin
Private Benjamin

Private Benjamin is a 1980 comedy film starring Goldie Hawn. The film was one of the biggest box office hits of 1980, and also spawned a short-lived television series....
 Warner Bros October 10th 1980 $69,847,348
7. Coal Miner's Daughter
Coal Miner's Daughter

Coal Miner's Daughter is an United States 1980 in film which tells the story of country music performer Loretta Lynn. It stars Sissy Spacek in her Academy Award for Best Actress winning role, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo and Levon Helm, and was directed by Michael Apted....
 Universal March 07th 1980 $67,182,787
8. Smokey and the Bandit II
Smokey and the Bandit II

Smokey and the Bandit II is a comedy film released on August 15, 1980 in the United States. It is the sequel to the 1977 in film film Smokey and the Bandit....
 Universal August 15th 1980 $66,132,626
9. The Blue Lagoon Columbia June 20th 1980 $58,853,106
10. The Blues Brothers Universal June 20th 1980 $57,229,890
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1980&p=.htm

Awards


Academy Awards
53rd Academy Awards

The 53rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1980 in film, were presented March 31, 1981, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles....
:

Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
: Ordinary People
Ordinary People

Ordinary People is a 1980 in film United States motion picture drama that marked the directorial debut of Robert Redford. The story concerns the disintegration of an upper middle class family in Lake Forest, Illinois, following the death of the oldest son....
Best Director
Academy Award for Directing

The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing is one of the Academy Award presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Film directors working in the film industry....
: Robert Redford
Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, actor, film producer, businessman, model , environmentalism, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival....
 - Ordinary People
Ordinary People

Ordinary People is a 1980 in film United States motion picture drama that marked the directorial debut of Robert Redford. The story concerns the disintegration of an upper middle class family in Lake Forest, Illinois, following the death of the oldest son....
Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro

Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States actor, director and producer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time....
 - Raging Bull
Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Sissy Spacek
Sissy Spacek

Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek is an Academy Award–winning United States actress and singer. Her screen debut was in the 1972 film Prime Cut co-starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman....
 - Coal Miner's Daughter
Best Supporting Actor
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Timothy Hutton
Timothy Hutton

Timothy T. Hutton is an United States actor. He is the youngest actor to win the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he won at the age of 20 for his performance as Conrad Jarrett in Ordinary People ....
 - Ordinary People
Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen

Mary Nell Steenburgen is an Academy Awards-winning United States actor....
 - Melvin and Howard
Melvin and Howard

Melvin and Howard is a 1980 in film United States comedy-drama film directed by Jonathan Demme. The screenplay by Bo Goldman was inspired by real-life Utah service station owner Melvin Dummar, who was listed as the beneficiary of $156 million in a will allegedly handwritten by Howard Hughes that was discovered in the headquarters of The...
Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ....
: Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears
Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears

Moscow Does not Believe in Tears is a Soviet film made by Mosfilm. It was written by Valentin Chernykh and directed by Vladimir Menshov. The leading roles were played by Menshov's wife Vera Alentova and by Aleksey Batalov....
 (?????? ?????? ?? ?????), directed by Vladimir Menshov
Vladimir Menshov

Vladimir Menshov is a Russians actor and film director. He is noted for depicting the Russian everyman and working class life in his films. Like many other Russian filmmakers, he studied acting and directing at the state film school VGIK, the world's oldest educational institution in cinematography....
, USSR


Golden Globe Awards
38th Golden Globe Awards

The 38th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1980, were held on January 31, 1981....
:

Drama:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
: Ordinary People
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore is an United States Actor and comedian, primarily known for her roles in sitcoms and television.Moore is arguably best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show , in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and for her earlier role as L...
 - Ordinary People


Musical or comedy:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 in film by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
: Coal Miner's Daughter
Coal Miner's Daughter

Coal Miner's Daughter is an United States 1980 in film which tells the story of country music performer Loretta Lynn. It stars Sissy Spacek in her Academy Award for Best Actress winning role, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo and Levon Helm, and was directed by Michael Apted....
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Ray Sharkey
Ray Sharkey

Ray Sharkey was an United States Golden Globe-winning actor best known for his role as Sonny Steelgrave in the television series, Wiseguy....
 - The Idolmaker
The Idolmaker

The Idolmaker is a 1980 musical film drama starring Ray Sharkey, Peter Gallagher, , Tovah Feldshuh and Joe Pantoliano.The film is based on the life of rock promoter and producer Bob Marcucci, who discovered and promoted several rock 'n' roll stars including Frankie Avalon and Fabian ....
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
: Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter


Other
Best Director
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America....
: Robert Redford - Ordinary People
Best Foreign Language Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
: Tess
Tess

For other uses, see Tess Tess is a 1979 in film English language romance film directed by Roman Polanski, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles....
, United Kingdom


Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
 (Cannes Film Festival):
All That Jazz
All That Jazz

All That Jazz is a 1979 in film United States musical film directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse is a autobiographical novel fantasy based on aspects of the dancer, choreographer, and director's life and career....
, directed by Bob Fosse
Bob Fosse

Robert Louis ?Bob? Fosse was an American musical theater choreographer and theatre director, and a film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction....
, United States
Kagemusha
Kagemusha

is a 1980 in film film by Akira Kurosawa. The title is a term used for an impersonator. It is set in the Sengoku period era of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class criminal who is taught to impersonate a dying warlord in order to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan....
, ??? (Shadow Warrior), directed by Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa

was a prominent Japanese people filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and film editing. His first credited film as director, , was released in 1943, his last as director, , in 1993....
, Japan


Golden Lion
Golden Lion

The Leone d?Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Biennale Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes....
 (Venice Film Festival):
Atlantic City
Atlantic City (film)

Atlantic City is a film directed by Louis Malle. Filmed in late 1979, it was released in France and Germany in 1980 and in the United States in 1981....
, directed by Louis Malle
Louis Malle

Louis Malle was a French film director, working in both French and English....
, USA / Canada / France
Gloria
Gloria (film)

Gloria is a 1980 film written and directed by John Cassavetes. It tells the story of a gangster's girlfriend who goes on the run with a young boy who is being hunted by the mob for information he may or may not have....
, directed by John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes

John Nicholas Cassavetes was an United Statesn actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in many Hollywood films, and is considered a pioneer of independent film....
, United States


Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Heartland
Heartland (film)

Heartland is a 1979 in film film, directed by Richard Pearce, starring Rip Torn and Conchata Ferrell. The movie is a stark depiction of early Homesteading life in the American West, and is based on a 1914 published reminiscence by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, titled Letters of a Woman Homesteader....
, directed by Richard Pearce, United States
Palermo or Wolfsburg
Palermo or Wolfsburg

Palermo or Wolfsburg is a 1980 in film film by Werner Schroeter. It tells the story of an Italy immigrant who comes to West Germany in search of work. The film won the 1980 Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival....
 (Palermo oder Wolfsburg), directed by Werner Schroeter
Werner Schroeter

Werner Schroeter is a Germans film director and screenwriter, considered one of the most important of his country in the post-war period. He has also worked in film as a producer, cinematographer, editor and actor....
, West Germany


Films released in 1980


Friday, February 08th 1980
  • American Gigolo
    American Gigolo

    American Gigolo is a 1980 in film Thriller , written and directed by Paul Schrader. Schrader based the film on French director Robert Bresson's Pickpocket ....
  • Cruising
    Cruising (film)

    Cruising is a 1980 film directed by William Friedkin and starring Al Pacino. The film is loosely based on the novel Cruising by New York Times reporter Gerald Walker, about a New York City serial killer targeting gay men in the 1970s....
  • The Fog
    The Fog

    The Fog is a 1980 horror movie directed by John Carpenter, who also wrote the screenplay and composed the music of the film. It stars Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins and Janet Leigh....
  • Midnight Madness
    Midnight Madness

    Midnight Madness is a 1980 cult film comedy film from Walt Disney Pictures, starring David Naughton . The film is about a group of college students who participate in an all night puzzle solving race....


Friday, February 15th 1980
  • Caligula
    Caligula

    Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , more commonly known by his nickname Caligula , was the third Roman Emperor, reigning from 16 March 37 until his assassination on 24 January 41....
  • Saturn 3
    Saturn 3

    Saturn 3 is a 1980 science fiction film starring Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett and Harvey Keitel. Direction is credited to Stanley Donen but the project was conceived by John Barry who was due to direct until a dispute with Douglas led to his being fired....


Friday, February 29th 1980
  • Don't Answer The Phone
  • Foxes


Friday, March 07th 1980
  • Coal Miner's Daughter
    Coal Miner's Daughter

    Coal Miner's Daughter is an United States 1980 in film which tells the story of country music performer Loretta Lynn. It stars Sissy Spacek in her Academy Award for Best Actress winning role, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo and Levon Helm, and was directed by Michael Apted....


Friday, March 14th 1980
  • Defiance
    Defiance (1980 film)

    Defiance is a 1980 American film starring Jan-Michael Vincent, Art Carney, and Theresa Saldana.Jan-Michael Vincent portrays a young man seaman who takes up temporary housing in a neighborhood overrun by gangs, while waiting for his next orders to ship out....


Friday, March 21st 1980
  • Forbidden Zone
    Forbidden Zone

    Forbidden Zone is a 1982 Musical film comedy film based upon the stage performances of the Oingo Boingo. The film stars Herv? Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell and members of the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, and features appearances by Warhol Superstar Viva , Joe Spinell and The Kipper Kids....
  • Little Darlings
    Little Darlings

    Little Darlings is a 1980 in film teen film starring Tatum O'Neal, Kristy McNichol, Matt Dillon and Armand Assante, directed by Ronald F. Maxwell....


Friday, March 28th 1980
  • The Changeling
  • Don't Go In The House
    Don't Go in the House

    Don't Go in the House is a low budget slasher film emulating Psycho that gained notoriety as a video nasty and remains banned in some countries....


Friday, May 09th 1980
  • Friday the 13th
  • The Nude Bomb
    The Nude Bomb

    The Nude Bomb is a 1980 comedy film film based on the television series Get Smart. It starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, and was film director by Clive Donner....


Friday, May 16th 1980
  • Breaker Morant
    Breaker Morant (film)

    Breaker Morant is a 1980 Australian feature film, directed by Bruce Beresford and starring British actor Edward Woodward as Breaker Morant. The all-Australian supporting cast features Bryan Brown as Lieutenant Handcock, Lewis Fitz-Gerald as Lieutenant Witton, and Jack Thompson as Major J.F....
  • Fame
    Fame (film)

    Fame is a 1980 musical film conceived and produced by David De Silva, directed by Alan Parker, and written by Christopher Gore. The film follows a group of students through their studies at the New York High School of Performing Arts ....
  • The Long Riders
    The Long Riders

    The Long Riders is a 1980 Western directed by Walter Hill . It was produced by James Keach, Stacy Keach and Tim Zinnemann and featured an original soundtrack by Ry Cooder....


Wednesday, May 21st 1980
  • The Empire Strikes Back
    Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

    Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is a 1980 in film space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner. The screenplay, based on a story by George Lucas, was written by Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett....


Friday, May 23rd 1980
  • The Shining
    The Shining (film)

    The Shining is a 1980 in film Horror film film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Stephen King's The Shining . Though not initially successful, the film has had status as a cult film for years....


Friday, May 30th 1980
  • Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)
  • The Hollywood Knights
    The Hollywood Knights

    The Hollywood Knights is an American motion picture comedy written and directed by Floyd Mutrux, depicting the crass and juvenile antics of a group of young practical jokers in Beverly Hills....


Friday, June 06th 1980
  • Up the Academy
    Up the Academy

    Mad Presents Up the Academy is an United States of America teen film comedy film released in 1980, with a plot about the outrageous antics of a group of misfits at a military school....
  • Urban Cowboy
    Urban Cowboy

    Urban Cowboy is a 1980 United States romance film about the love-hate relationship between cowboy Bud Davis and cowgirl Sissy ....


Friday, June 13th 1980
  • Mad Max
    Mad Max

    Mad Max is a Australian films of the 1970s Cinema of Australia apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction action film thriller film directed by George Miller and written by Miller and Byron Kennedy....
  • The Island
    The Island (1980 film)

    The Island is a 1980 film. David Warner played the leader of a band of modern-day pirates who raid yachts and sailing boats in the Caribbean....
  • Wholly Moses!


Friday, June 20th 1980
  • The Blues Brothers
    The Blues Brothers (film)

    The Blues Brothers is a 1980 in film musical film comedy film directed by John Landis and starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as "Joliet" Jake and Elwood Blues, characters developed from a "Saturday Night Live" musical sketch....
  • Brubaker
    Brubaker

    Brubaker is an United States 1980 in film film about a prison in distress and the Warden Henry Brubaker who attempts to reform the system....


Friday, June 27th 1980
  • The Stunt Man
    The Stunt Man

    The Stunt Man is a critically acclaimed 1980 United States film directed by Richard Rush , starring Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback and Barbara Hershey....


Wednesday, July 02nd 1980
  • Airplane!
    Airplane!

    Airplane! is a Cinema of the United States comedy film directed and written by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Lorna Patterson....
  • Alligator
    Alligator

    An Alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. The name alligator is an anglicization form of the Spanish language el lagarto , the name by which early Spain explorers and settlers in Florida called the alligator....


Friday, July 04th 1980
  • The Blue Lagoon
    The Blue Lagoon (1980 film)

    The Blue Lagoon is a 1980 in film English language romance film and adventure film starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins, Film producer and Film director by Randal Kleiser....


Friday, July 11th 1980
  • My Bodyguard
    My Bodyguard

    My Bodyguard is a 1980 in film comedy-drama film released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Tony Bill, and written by Alan Ormsby. It stars Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin , Matt Dillon, Martin Mull, and Ruth Gordon....
  • Oh! Heavenly Dog
  • Used Cars
    Used Cars

    Used Cars is a 1980 in film comedy satire film. It stars Kurt Russell, Jack Warden , Deborah Harmon, and Gerrit Graham.Kurt Russell portrays a devious car salesman working for affable but monumentally unsuccessful used car dealer Luke Fuchs ....


Friday, July 18th 1980
  • The Big Red One
    The Big Red One

    The Big Red One is a 1980 war film screenwriter and film director by Samuel Fuller, produced by Lorimar Productions and released by United Artists in the U.S....
  • Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
    Cheech & Chong's Next Movie

    Cheech & Chong's Next Movie is the second feature-length film by Cheech and Chong, released in 1980 in film.It was directed by Tommy Chong....
  • Honeysuckle Rose
    Honeysuckle Rose (film)

    Honeysuckle Rose is a 1980 in film romantic drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Willie Nelson....
  • Prom Night


Friday, July 18th 1980
  • Caddyshack
    Caddyshack

    Caddyshack is a 1980 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney....


Friday, August 01st 1980
  • The Final Countdown


Friday, August 08th 1980
  • Xanadu
    Xanadu (film)

    Xanadu is a 1980 in film musical film/romance film directed by Robert Greenwald. It is an unofficial remake of the 1947 film Down to Earth starring Rita Hayworth....


Friday, August 15th 1980
  • The Octagon
    The Octagon (film)

    The Octagon is a 1980 in film action film directed by Eric Karson and written by Paul Aaron and Leigh Chapman. It was filmed in Los Angeles, California and released on August 14, 1980....
  • Smokey and the Bandit II
    Smokey and the Bandit II

    Smokey and the Bandit II is a comedy film released on August 15, 1980 in the United States. It is the sequel to the 1977 in film film Smokey and the Bandit....


Other Movies From 1980

  • 9 to 5
    Nine to Five

    Nine to Five, also known as 9 to 5, is a 1980 United States comedy film film starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Dabney Coleman....
  • Altered States
    Altered States

    Altered States is a 1980 in film science fiction film adaptation of a novel by the same name by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky....
  • Any Which Way You Can
    Any Which Way You Can

    Any Which Way You Can is a 1980 in film comedy film, starring Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis , William Smith , and Ruth Gordon....
    , starring Clint Eastwood
    Clint Eastwood

    Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in Action films and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....
  • The Apple
  • Atlantic City
    Atlantic City (film)

    Atlantic City is a film directed by Louis Malle. Filmed in late 1979, it was released in France and Germany in 1980 and in the United States in 1981....
    , Golden Lion
    Golden Lion

    The Leone d?Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Biennale Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes....
     winner
  • Bad Timing
    Bad Timing

    Bad Timing is a 1980 in film film directed by Nicolas Roeg, produced by Jeremy Thomas. The title of this movie was also used by musician Jim O'Rourke for his album Bad Timing ....
    , directed by Nicolas Roeg
    Nicolas Roeg

    'Nicolas Jack Roeg', British Society of Cinematographers is an England film director and cinematographer. Contributing to the visual look of Lawrence of Arabia and Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death , and co-directing Performance , he would later become the guiding force behind such landmark films as Walkabout , Don'...
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz
    Berlin Alexanderplatz (television)

    Berlin Alexanderplatz, originally broadcast in 1980 in television, is a 14-part television series adapted and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the Alfred D?blin novel of the Berlin Alexanderplatz, and stars G?nter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa, Elisabeth Trissenaar and Gottfried John....
  • The Blues Brothers
    The Blues Brothers (film)

    The Blues Brothers is a 1980 in film musical film comedy film directed by John Landis and starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as "Joliet" Jake and Elwood Blues, characters developed from a "Saturday Night Live" musical sketch....
  • Breaker Morant
  • Cannibal Holocaust
    Cannibal Holocaust

    Cannibal Holocaust is a controversial exploitation film directed by Ruggero Deodato from a screenplay by Gianfranco Clerici. Filmed in the Amazon Rainforest, the movie tells the story of four documentary film who journey deep into the jungle to film Indigenous peoples of the Americas tribes....
    , directed by Ruggero Deodato
    Ruggero Deodato

    Request page deletion due to lack of notability.Ruggero Deodato is a controversial Italy film director, actor and screen writer, best known for directing horror films....
    , starring Robert Kerman
    Robert Kerman

    Robert Charles Kerman , also known as R. Bolla, or Richard Bolla, is an United States actor. As R. Bolla, he appeared in over 100 pornographic films, most famously Debbie Does Dallas ....
  • La Cicala
    La Cicala

    La Cicala is a 1980 Italy drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada....
  • City Of Women (La città delle donne), directed by Federico Fellini
    Federico Fellini

    Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
    , starring Marcello Mastroianni
    Marcello Mastroianni

    Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni was an Italians actor.During his career, Mastroianni had won or been nominated multiple times for awards such as Volpi Cup, Best Actor Award , BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, David di Donatello for Best Actor, Nastro d'Argento, Sant Jordi Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion...
  • The Club
    The Club (play)

    The Club is a satirical play by Australian playwright David Williamson, that follows the fortunes of a Australian rules football club over the course of a season....
  • The Constant Factor
    The Constant Factor

    The Constant Factor is a 1980 Polish film directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. It tells the story of a young man struggling to face the death of his mother and harbouring a desire to climb the Himalayas as his father had done....
  • The Competition
    The Competition (film)

    The Competition is an American movie starring Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving, made in 1980. The plot turns on the conflict between professionalism and romantic love at an International Piano Competition....
  • Dressed to Kill
  • The Elephant Man, directed by David Lynch
    David Lynch

    David Keith Lynch is an United States film director, screenwriter, Film producer, Painting, cartoonist, composer, video artist and performance artist....
    , starring John Hurt
    John Hurt

    'John Vincent Hurt', Order of the British Empire is an England actor. Hurt initially came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons , and has since retained a career as a leading actor and supporting actor of many popular motion pictures, including: Watership Down , Midnight Exp...
     and Anthony Hopkins
    Anthony Hopkins

    Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, Order of the British Empire is a Welsh People film, theater and television actor. Considered by many to be one of film's greatest living actors, he is best known for his portrayal of cannibalism serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 in film blockbuster The Silence of the Lambs , its sequel, Hannibal ,...
  • Flash Gordon
    Flash Gordon (film)

    Flash Gordon is a 1980 in film science fiction film, based on the eponymous comic strip character Flash Gordon . The film was Film director by Mike Hodges and Film producer by Dino De Laurentiis....
  • Galaxina
    Galaxina

    Galaxina is a low-budget 1980 United States science fiction Film, best remembered for its lead actress, Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten ....
  • Gamera: Super Monster
    Gamera: Super Monster

    , a 1980 in film Kaiju eiga , was the belated final entry in the Showa era Gamera series, and the last Gamera film written by Nisan Takahashi and directed by Noriaki Yuasa....
  • Germany Pale Mother
    Germany Pale Mother

    Germany Pale Mother is a 1980 in film West Germany drama film written and directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms. It was shown at the 1980 Berlin International Film Festival where it was nominated for a Golden Bear award....
  • Gilda Live
    Gilda Live

    Gilda Live is an American film released in 1980 in film starring Gilda Radner. It was directed by Mike Nichols and was produced by Lorne Michaels....
     Starring Gilda Radner
    Gilda Radner

    Gilda Susan Radner was an American comedienne and actress, best known for her five years as part of the original cast of the National Broadcasting Company comedy series Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award....
    , Father Guido Sarducci
    Father Guido Sarducci

    Father Guido Sarducci is a fictional character made famous by United States comedian Don Novello. Sarducci, a chain-smoking priest with tinted eyeglasses, works in the United States as gossip columnist and rock critic for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano ....
  • Gloria
    Gloria (film)

    Gloria is a 1980 film written and directed by John Cassavetes. It tells the story of a gangster's girlfriend who goes on the run with a young boy who is being hunted by the mob for information he may or may not have....
    , directed by John Cassavetes
    John Cassavetes

    John Nicholas Cassavetes was an United Statesn actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in many Hollywood films, and is considered a pioneer of independent film....
    , starring Gena Rowlands
    Gena Rowlands

    Gena Rowlands is an American award nominated actress....
    , Golden Lion
    Golden Lion

    The Leone d?Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Biennale Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes....
     winner
  • The Gods Must Be Crazy
    The Gods Must Be Crazy

    The Gods Must Be Crazy is a film released in 1980, written and directed by Jamie Uys. Set in Botswana and South Africa, it tells the story of Xi, a Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert whose tribe has no knowledge of the world beyond....
  • Heaven's Gate
    Heaven's Gate (film)

    Heaven's Gate is a 1981 in film western movie depicting the Johnson County War, a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s....
    , directed by Michael Cimino
    Michael Cimino

    Michael Cimino is an United States, Academy Award-winning film director. He is often cited as an example of meteoric rises and falls that were seen in Hollywood in the 1970s....
  • Herbie Goes Bananas
    Herbie Goes Bananas

    Herbie Goes Bananas was the fourth of a series of films made by Walt Disney Productions starring Herbie – the white Volkswagen racing VW Beetle with a mind of its own....
  • Hero at Large
    Hero at Large

    Hero at Large is a 1980 in film comedy film starring John Ritter and Anne Archer. The film was written by former The Walt Disney Company screenwriter, AJ Carothers and directed by Martin Davidson....
  • Hey Babe!
    Hey Babe!

    Hey Babe!, also known as Babe! and also knownas Rise and Shine, was a 1980 Film whichwas a musical film drama that starred Yasmine Bleeth and...
    , starring Yasmine Bleeth
    Yasmine Bleeth

    Yasmine Amanda Bleeth is an American television and film actress.She played a continuing role on the worldwide-syndicated TV series Baywatch, as Caroline Holden...
     and Buddy Hackett
    Buddy Hackett

    Buddy Hackett was an United States comedian and actor. In his later life, he and his wife set up the Sinigita Animal Sanctuary in the San Fernando Valley, California....
  • Hopscotch
    Hopscotch (film)

    Hopscotch is a 1980 United States film directed by Ronald Neame and produced by Otto Plaschkes. It was written by Bryan Forbes and Brian Garfield, based on his Hopscotch ....
  • The Idolmaker
    The Idolmaker

    The Idolmaker is a 1980 musical film drama starring Ray Sharkey, Peter Gallagher, , Tovah Feldshuh and Joe Pantoliano.The film is based on the life of rock promoter and producer Bob Marcucci, who discovered and promoted several rock 'n' roll stars including Frankie Avalon and Fabian ....
    , starring Ray Sharkey
    Ray Sharkey

    Ray Sharkey was an United States Golden Globe-winning actor best known for his role as Sonny Steelgrave in the television series, Wiseguy....
  • In Search of Historic Jesus, (documentary)
  • Inferno
    Inferno (1980 film)

    Inferno is a 1980 in film Cinema of Italy supernatural horror film written and directed by Dario Argento. The film stars Irene Miracle, Leigh McCloskey, Eleonora Giorgi, Daria Nicolodi, and Alida Valli....
    , directed by Dario Argento
    Dario Argento

    Dario Argento is an Italy film director, film producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror film and slasher film....
  • Inside Moves
    Inside Moves

    Inside Moves is a drama film film director by Richard Donner....
    , directed by Richard Donner
    Richard Donner

    Richard Donner is an United States film director, film producer, and comic book writer. The production company, The Donners' Company, is owned by Donner and his wife, producer Lauren Shuler Donner....
    , starring John Savage
    John Savage (actor)

    ----John Savage is an American film actor, Film producer, production manager, and composer....
     and Diana Scarwid
    Diana Scarwid

    Diana Scarwid is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor. Scarwid has done work in film, television and theater....
  • It's My Turn
    It's My Turn

    "It's My Turn" is a 1980 song, which was also developed into a film of the same name. The song, written by Carole Bayer Sager and Michael Masser for Diana Ross, was released as a single and became a top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number nine....
  • The Jazz Singer
    The Jazz Singer (1980 film)

    The Jazz Singer was a 1980 in film musical film remake of the 1927 in film classic The Jazz Singer . It starred Neil Diamond, Lucie Arnaz and Laurence Olivier, and was co-film director by Richard Fleischer and Sidney J....
    , starring Neil Diamond
    Neil Diamond

    Neil Leslie Diamond is an United States of America singer-songwriter.Neil Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters....
  • Kagemusha
    Kagemusha

    is a 1980 in film film by Akira Kurosawa. The title is a term used for an impersonator. It is set in the Sengoku period era of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class criminal who is taught to impersonate a dying warlord in order to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan....
    , Palme d'Or
    Palme d'Or

    The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
     winner
  • The Last Flight of Noah's Ark
    The Last Flight of Noah's Ark

    The Last Flight Of Noah's Ark is a film released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 25, 1980. The film stars Elliott Gould, Genevi?ve Bujold and Ricky Schroder....
  • Little Miss Marker
    Little Miss Marker

    Little Miss Marker is a 1934 in film film starring Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, and Dorothy Dell. It is based on the short story of the same name by Damon Runyon....
     starring Julie Andrews
    Julie Andrews

    Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, Order of the British Empire is an award-winning English actress, singer, author and Cultural icon. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards honours....
  • Loulou
    Loulou (film)

    Loulou is a 1980 in film France drama film directed by Maurice Pialat. It stars Isabelle Huppert and G?rard Depardieu. For Loulou, Pialat was nominated for the Golden Palm award at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival....
  • The Long Good Friday
    The Long Good Friday

    The Long Good Friday is a Cinema of the United Kingdom gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. It was completed in 1979 in film but, because of release delays, it is generally credited as a 1980 film....
  • Lulu (not same as above)
  • The Man with Bogart's Face
    The Man with Bogart's Face

    The Man with Bogart's Face is a 1980 in film comedy film, released by 20th Century Fox and based on a novel of the same name; Andrew J. Fenady, author of the novel, produced the film and wrote the screenplay....
  • McVicar
    McVicar (film)

    McVicar is a dramatic British film issued in 1980 in film by The Who Films, Ltd., starring Roger Daltrey of The Who in the title role of John McVicar....
  • Melvin and Howard
    Melvin and Howard

    Melvin and Howard is a 1980 in film United States comedy-drama film directed by Jonathan Demme. The screenplay by Bo Goldman was inspired by real-life Utah service station owner Melvin Dummar, who was listed as the beneficiary of $156 million in a will allegedly handwritten by Howard Hughes that was discovered in the headquarters of The...
    , directed by Jonathan Demme
    Jonathan Demme

    Robert Jonathan Demme is an Academy Award for Directing-winning United States film director, film producer and writer....
    , starring Paul LeMat, Jason Robards
    Jason Robards

    Jason Nelson Robards, Jr., was an Academy Award & Emmy Award-winning United States actor and a World War II United States Navy combat veteran. He became famous playing works of United States dramatist Eugene O'Neill, and would regularly play O'Neill's works throughout his career....
     and Mary Steenburgen
    Mary Steenburgen

    Mary Nell Steenburgen is an Academy Awards-winning United States actor....
  • Mon oncle d'Amérique
    Mon oncle d'Amérique

    Mon oncle d'Am?rique, sometimes released as My American Uncle, is a 1980 France film directed by Alain Resnais....
    , Cannes Special Jury Prize
  • No Child's Land
  • O Megalexandros
  • Oh, God! Book II
    Oh, God! Book II

    Oh, God! Book II is a 1980 in film comedy film which is a sequel to the 1977 film, Oh God!. It stars George Burns, Suzanne Pleshette, David Birney and Louanne....
  • One Trick Pony starring Paul Simon
    Paul Simon

    Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
     written by Paul Simon
    Paul Simon

    Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
  • Ordinary People
    Ordinary People

    Ordinary People is a 1980 in film United States motion picture drama that marked the directorial debut of Robert Redford. The story concerns the disintegration of an upper middle class family in Lake Forest, Illinois, following the death of the oldest son....
    , directed by Robert Redford
    Robert Redford

    Charles Robert Redford Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, actor, film producer, businessman, model , environmentalism, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival....
    , starring Donald Sutherland
    Donald Sutherland

    'Donald McNicol Sutherland',? Order of Canada is a Canada character actor with a film career spanning over 50 years. He is currently working in the American television series, Dirty Sexy Money. Sutherland's most notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, in 1967, and M*A*S*H and Kelly's...
    , Mary Tyler Moore
    Mary Tyler Moore

    Mary Tyler Moore is an United States Actor and comedian, primarily known for her roles in sitcoms and television.Moore is arguably best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show , in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and for her earlier role as L...
    , Timothy Hutton
    Timothy Hutton

    Timothy T. Hutton is an United States actor. He is the youngest actor to win the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he won at the age of 20 for his performance as Conrad Jarrett in Ordinary People ....
     and Judd Hirsch
    Judd Hirsch

    Judd Hirsch is an American actor known for playing the characters Alex Reiger on the television comedy series Taxi and Alan Eppes on the current CBS series Numb3rs....
  • Palmero oder Wolsfburg, Golden Bear (award) winner
  • Permanent Vacation
    Permanent Vacation (film)

    Permanent Vacation is a 1980 in film Drama film film directed, written and produced by Jim Jarmusch. It was the director's first release, and was shot on 16 mm film shortly after he dropped out of film school....
  • Popeye
    Popeye (film)

    Popeye is a 1980 in film live-action film directed by Robert Altman and adapted from E. C. Segar's Thimble Theatre comic strip. The screenplay by Jules Feiffer was based directly on Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye the Sailor, a hardcover reprint collection of 1936-37 Segar strips published in 1971 by Woody Gelman's Nostalgia Press...
    , starring Robin Williams
    Robin Williams

    Robin McLaurim Williams is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, and Grammy Award-winning United Statesn comedian and actor.Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980....
     and Shelley Duvall
    Shelley Duvall

    Shelley Alexis Duvall is an award-winning United States film and television actor. She began her career in the 1970s, playing characters in the movies of Robert Altman, and eventually starred in movies by Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam, Steve Martin and Tim Burton....
  • Private Benjamin
    Private Benjamin

    Private Benjamin is a 1980 comedy film starring Goldie Hawn. The film was one of the biggest box office hits of 1980, and also spawned a short-lived television series....
    , starring Goldie Hawn
    Goldie Hawn

    Goldie Jean Hawn is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe- winning United Statesn actress, film director and film producer, best known for her 'dumb blonde' persona in a series of popular comedy....
  • Raging Bull, directed by Martin Scorsese
    Martin Scorsese

    Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
    , starring Robert De Niro
    Robert De Niro

    Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States actor, director and producer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time....
    , Joe Pesci
    Joe Pesci

    'Joseph Frank "Joe" Pesci' is an United Statesn actor, comedian, singer and musician.Known for his tough guy roles, Pesci has starred in a number of high-profile films such as Goodfellas, Raging Bull, My Cousin Vinny, Lethal Weapon 2, Lethal Weapon 3, Lethal Weapon 4, Casino and more recently The Good Shepher...
     and Cathy Moriarty
    Cathy Moriarty

    Cathy Moriarty-Gentile is an United States actress.Moriarty was born in The Bronx, New York City of Irish Catholic descent, the daughter of Catherine, a homemaker, and John Moriarty, a warehouse worker....
  • Resurrection
    Resurrection (1980 film)

    Resurrection is a 1980 film which tells the story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people....
    , starring Ellen Burstyn
    Ellen Burstyn

    Ellen Burstyn is an Academy Awards-winning American actress....
     and Eva Le Galliene
  • The Return of the King
    The Return of the King (1980 film)

    The Return of the King is an animation adaptation of the The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien which was released by Rankin/Bass as a TV special in 1980 in film....
  • El Retorno del Hombre Lobo
    El Retorno del Hombre Lobo

    El Retorno del Hombre-Lobo, also known as The Craving, Return of the Wolfman, Return of the Werewolf and Night of the Werewolf, is a 1980 in film Spanish horror film that is the ninth in a long series about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy....
  • Seems Like Old Times
    Seems Like Old Times (film)

    Seems Like Old Times is a 1980 in film comedy film film starring Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn and movie director by Jay Sandrich. Nick Gardenia , ex-husband of Glenda Parks , seems to have the worst luck of anyone in the world....
  • Somewhere in Time
    Somewhere in Time (film)

    Somewhere in Time is a 1980 in film time travel romance film directed by Jeannot Szwarc, screenplay by Richard Matheson and starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour , Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright and featuring an early appearance by then-unknown William H....
     starring Christopher Reeve
    Christopher Reeve

    Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. He established himself early as a The Juilliard School-trained stage actor before portraying Superman in four films, from 1978 to 1987....
     and Jame Seymour
    Jane Seymour (actress)

    'Jane Seymour', Order of the British Empire is an England actor best known as a Bond girl in the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die and the star of the 1990s United States television series Dr....
  • Stardust Memories
    Stardust Memories

    Stardust Memories is a 1980 in film written and directed by Woody Allen, who considers this to be one of his best films in addition to The Purple Rose of Cairo and Match Point....
  • Stir Crazy
    Stir Crazy (film)

    Stir Crazy is a American films of 1980 United States comedy film starring Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor as two men framed for a bank robbery and each ending up with a 125 year prison sentence, alongside a real bank robber and a man who killed his stepfather ....
    , starring Richard Pryor
    Richard Pryor

    Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III was an United States comedian, actor and writer.Pryor was a storyteller known for unflinching examinations of racism and customs in modern life, and was well-known for his frequent use of colorful, vulgar and profane language and racial epithets....
     and Gene Wilder
    Gene Wilder

    Gene Wilder is an American Emmy Award-winning and twice Academy Award-nominated theatre and film actor, film director, screenwriter, and author....
  • Tess
    Tess

    For other uses, see Tess Tess is a 1979 in film English language romance film directed by Roman Polanski, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles....
     (U.S. release)
  • Tribute
    Tribute (film)

    Tribute is a play by Bernard Slade.The plot focuses on Scottie Templeton, a popular actor who has spent his life shirking responsibility....
    , starring Jack Lemmon
    Jack Lemmon

    'John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III' was an United States actor known principally for his comedic roles. He starred in over 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses , Irma La Douce, The Odd Couple , The Out-of-Towners , Glengarry Glen Ross , The China Syndrome and JFK ....
  • The Young Master
    The Young Master

    The Young Master is a Hong Kong films of 1980 Hong Kong martial arts film-Hong Kong action cinema starring Jackie Chan as Dragon.The film is notable for being the first that Jackie Chan worked on for Golden Harvest, and despite being his second film as director , this is often incorrectly credited as his directorial debut....
  • Virus
  • The Watcher in the Woods
    The Watcher in the Woods

    The Watcher in the Woods is a 1980 horror film from Walt Disney Pictures, that has developed into something of a cult film over the years. It was based on the A Watcher in the Woods by Florence Engel Randall....
  • When Time Ran Out
    When Time Ran Out

    When Time Ran Out... is a disaster film released in 1980, starring Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, James Franciscus, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Burgess Meredith, Valentina Cortese, Veronica Hamel, Pat Morita, Edward Albert, and Barbara Carrera....
  • Windwalker
    Windwalker (1980 film)

    Windwalker is a 1980 in film Western adventure film, based on a novel by Blaine M. Yorgason, starring Trevor Howard and Nick Ramus. It was shot in various outdoor locations in Utah....
  • Zigeunerweisen
    Zigeunerweisen (film)

    is a 1980 in film Independent film Cinema of Japan directed by Seijun Suzuki and based on Hyakken Uchida novel, Disk of Sarasate. It takes its title from a gramophone recording of Pablo de Sarasate's violin composition, Zigeunerweisen, which features prominently in the story....
    , directed by Seijun Suzuki
    Seijun Suzuki

    , born Seitaro Suzuki on May 24, 1923, is a Japanese film director. His films are renowned by film enthusiasts worldwide for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility....


Births

  • January 17 - Zooey Deschanel
    Zooey Deschanel

    Zooey Claire Deschanel is an United States actor, musician and singer-songwriter. Deschanel made her film debut in 1999's Mumford and soon became known for memorable, deadpan supporting roles in films such as Almost Famous and The New Guy ....
    , actress
  • February 12 - Christina Ricci
    Christina Ricci

    Christina Ricci is an Emmy Award-nominated United States actress who first achieved fame for her role as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family and its sequel Addams Family Values ....
    , actress
  • July 5 - Eva Green
    Eva Green

    Eva Ga?lle Green is a France actress, raised in Paris and living partly in London. She has been noted by Vogue for her "killer looks, intelligence and modesty", and described by The Independent as "gothic, quirky, and sexy"....
    , actress
  • July 18 - Kristen Bell
    Kristen Bell

    Kristen Anne Bell is an American actress. She has received a Satellite Award and Saturn Award, and has been nominated for a Television Critics Association Award and Teen Choice Award....
    , actress
  • December 3 - Anna Chlumsky
    Anna Chlumsky

    Anna Chlumsky is an American Actor, born to Nancy and Frank Chlumsky. She is best known for playing Vada Sultenfuss in the 1991 movie My Girl and the 1994 sequel My Girl 2....
    , actress
  • December 19 - Jake Gyllenhaal
    Jake Gyllenhaal

    Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal is an American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting at age ten....
    , actor


Deaths

  • January 24 - Lil Dagover
    Lil Dagover

    Lil Dagover was a German people stage, film and television actress whose career spanned nearly six decades....
    , actress
  • January 29 - Jimmy Durante
    Jimmy Durante

    James Francis ?Jimmy? Durante was an United States singer, pianist, comedian and actor, whose distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose ? his frequent jokes about it included a frequent self-reference that became his nickname: "Schnozzola" ? helped make him one of America's most familiar and...
    , actor
  • February 13 - David Janssen
    David Janssen

    David Janssen was a Golden Globe-winning Emmy Award- nominated United States film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr....
    , actor
  • February 19 - Bon Scott
    Bon Scott

    Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott was an Australian rock musician, best known for being the lead singer and lyricist of Australian hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980....
    , musician
  • March 5 - Jay Silverheels
    Jay Silverheels

    Jay Silverheels was a Canadian Mohawk Nation actor. He was best known as Tonto, the faithful Native American companion of The Lone Ranger in a long-running American television series....
    , actor (Tonto)
  • March 28 - Dick Haymes
    Dick Haymes

    Dick Haymes was an actor and one of the most popular Singing of the 1940s and early 1950s....
    , actor, singer
  • April 29 - Alfred Hitchcock
    Alfred Hitchcock

    Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
    , director
  • July 6 - Gail Patrick
    Gail Patrick

    'Gail Patrick' was an American film actress.Born 'Margaret LaVelle Fitzpatrick', she appeared in 62 movies between 1932 and 1948, usually as the leading lady's extremely formidable rival; some of these roles include the second wife in My Favorite Wife with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, Anna May Wong's sophisticated competitor in Dan...
    , actress
  • July 24 - Peter Sellers
    Peter Sellers

    'Richard Henry Sellers', Order of British Empire, commonly known as 'Peter Sellers' was a United Kingdom comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr....
    , actor
  • July 31 - Bobby Van
    Bobby Van

    Bobby Van was a Musician actor probably best known for his career on Broadway theatre in the 1950s and 1970s.Bobby Van was born Robert Jack Stein to vaudeville parents in The Bronx, New York City, and grew up wiktionary:backstage to many memorable Great Depression-era acts....
    , actor, dancer
  • August 14 - Dorothy Stratten
    Dorothy Stratten

    Dorothy Stratten was a Canadian model and actress. Stratten found fame as the Playboy Playmate of the Month for August 1979 and subsequently Playmate of the Year for 1980....
    , actress, Playboy Magazine model
  • August 25 - Gower Champion
    Gower Champion

    Gower Carlyle Champion was an United States theatre director, choreographer, and dancer....
    , actor, dancer, choreographer
  • October 6 - Hattie Jacques
    Hattie Jacques

    Josephine Edwina Jaques was an English comedy actress, known by the stage name Hattie Jacques.Having started her career in the 1940s, Jacques first gained attention through her appearances with Tony Hancock in The Tony Hancock Show and Hancock's Half Hour....
    , actress
  • November 7 - Steve McQueen, actor
  • November 22 - Mae West
    Mae West

    Mae West was an United States actor, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol.Known for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in Vaudeville and on the theatre in New York City before moving to Hollywood to become a comedienne, actress and writer in the film industry....
    , actress
  • November 24 - George Raft
    George Raft

    George Raft was an American film actor identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s....
    , actor
  • November 26 - Rachel Roberts
    Rachel Roberts (British actress)

    Rachel Roberts was a Wales actress noted for her fervour and passion; Roberts gave forthright performances in two key films of the 1960s....
    , actress
  • December 8 - John Lennon
    John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
    , singer/songwriter, occasional actor
  • December 31 - Raoul Walsh
    Raoul Walsh

    Raoul Walsh was an United States film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh....
    , director