• Raging Bull - (1980, Martin Scorsese) (Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci)
• E.T. The Extra Terrestrial - (1982, Steven Spielberg) (Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark - (1981, Steven Spielberg) (Harrison Ford, Paul Freeman)
• Amadeus - (1984, Milos Forman) (F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce)
• Platoon - (1986, Oliver Stone) (Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen)
• Cinema Paradiso - (1988, Giuseppe Tornatore) (Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio)
• Once Upon a Time in America - (1984, Sergio Leone) (Robert DeNiro, James Woods)
• Blade Runner - (1982, Ridley Scott) (Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer)
• Ran - (1985, Akira Kurosawa) (Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao)
• Do the Right Thing - (1989, Spike Lee) (Spike Lee, John Turturro)
• Blue Velvet - (1986, David Lynch) (Kyle MacLachlin, Dennis Hopper)
• The Empire Strikes Back - (1980, Irvin Kershner) (Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford)
• The Elephant Man - (1980, David Lynch) (John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins)
• The Shining - (1980, Stanley Kubrick) (Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall)
• Full Metal Jacket - (1987, Stanley Kubrick) (Mathew Modine, Adam Baldwin)
• Brazil - (1985, Terry Gilliam) (Jonathan Pryce, Robert DeNiro)
• Airplane! - (1980, Jim Abrahams) (Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty)
• Das Boot - (1981, Wolfgang Peterson) (Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer)
• Tootsie - (1982, Sydney Pollack) (Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange)
• The Untouchables - (1987, Brian De Palma) (Kevin Costner, Sean Connery)
• The Terminator - (1984, James Cameron) (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton)
• Die Hard - (1988, John McTiernan) (Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman)
• The Last Emperor - (1987, Bernardo Bertolucci) (John Lone, Joan Chen)
• Gandhi - (1982, Richard Attenborough) (Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen)
• Raising Arizona - (1987, Joel Coen) (Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter)
• The Princess Bride - (1987, Rob Reiner) (Cary Elwes, Robin Wright Penn)
• The Big Chill - (1983, Lawrence Kasdan) (Kevin Kline, Glenn Close)
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High - (1982, Amy Heckerling) (Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh)
• Scarface - (1983, Brian De Palma) (Al Pacino, Steven Bauer)
• A Christmas Story - (1983, Bob Clark) (Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon)
• Poltergeist - (1982, Tobe Hooper) (Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams)
• Terms of Endearment - (1983, James L. Brooks) (Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine)
• This Is Spinal Tap - (1984, Rob Reiner) (Michael McKean, Christopher Guest)
• Crimes and Misdemeanors - (1989, Woody Allen) (Woody Allen, Martin Landau)
• sex, lies, and videotape - (1989, Steven Soderbergh) (James Spader, Andie MacDowell)
• Back to the Future - (1985, Robert Zemeckis) (Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd)
• Rain Man - (1988, Barry Levinson) (Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise)
• Ordinary People - (1980, Robert Redford) (Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - (1988, Robert Zemeckis) (Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd)
• Hannah and Her Sisters - (1986, Woody Allen) (Woody Allen, Mia Farrow)
• When Harry Met Sally - (1989, Rob Reiner) (Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan)
• Henry V - (1989, Kenneth Branagh) (Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi)
• Blood Simple - (1984, Joel Coen) (John Getz, Frances McDormand)
• The Right Stuff - (1983, Philip Kaufman) (Scott Glenn, Ed Harris)
• The Color Purple - (1985, Steven Spielberg) (Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg)
• Kagemusha - (1980, Akira Kurosawa) (Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki)
• Wings of Desire - (1987, Wim Wenders) (Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin)
• The Little Mermaid - (1989, Ron Clements, John Musker) (Jodi Benson, Sam Wright)
• Tender Mercies - (1983, Bruce Beresford) (Robert Duvall, Tess Harper)
• Chariots of Fire - (1981, Hugh Hudson) (Ben Cross, Ian Charleson)
• Salvador - (1986, Oliver Stone) (James Woods, James Belushi)
• Atlantic City - (1980, Louise Malle) (Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon)
• My Left Foot - (1989, Jim Sheridan) (Daniel Day Lewis, Fiona Shaw)
• Glory - (1989, Edward Zwick) (Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman)
• Jean de Florette - (1986, Claude Berri) (Gerard Depardieu, Yves Montand)
• The Killing Fields - (1984, Roland Joffe) (Sam Waterston, John Malcovich)
• The Last Metro - (1980, Francois Truffaut) (Gerard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve)
• A Room With a View - (1986, James Ivory) (Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter)
• A Passage to India - (1984, David Lean) (Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee)
• Missing - (1982, Costa Gavras) (Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek)
• Places in the Heart - (1984, Robert Benton) (Sally Field, John Malcovich)
• A Soldier's Story - (1984, Norman Jewison) (Adolph Caesar, Howard E. Rollins)
• Prizzi's Honor - (1985, John Huston) (Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner)
• A Fish Called Wanda - (1988, Charles Crichton) (Kevin Kline, John Cleese)
• Witness - (1985, Peter Weir) (Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis)
• Driving Miss Daisy - (1989, Bruce Beresford) (Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy)
• Fanny and Alexander - (1982, Ingmar Bergman) (Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve)
• Return of the Jedi - (1983, Richard Marquand) (Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street - (1984, Wes Craven) (John Saxon, Robert Englund)
• Broadcast News - (1987, James L. Brooks) (William Hurt, Holly Hunter)
• The King of Comedy - (1983, Martin Scorsese) (Robert DeNiro, Jerry Lewis)
• Bull Durham - (1988, Ron Shelton) (Kevin Costner, Tim Robbins)
• The Vanishing - (1988, George Sluizer) (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets)
• Hope and Glory - (1987, John Boorman) (Sebastian Rice Edwards, Sarah Miles)
• My Dinner with Andre - (1981, Louise Malle) (Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory)
• Field of Dreams - (1989, Phil Alden Robinson) (Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones)
• Hoosiers - (1986, David Anspaugh) (Gene Hackman, Dennis Hopper)
• Ghostbusters - (1984, Ivan Reitman) (Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray)
• The Breakfast Club - (1985, John Hughes) (Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez)
• Big - (1988, Penny Marshall) (Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins)
• Caddyshack - (1980, Harold Ramis) (Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield)
• Arthur - (1981, Steve Gordon) (Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli)
• Kiss of the Spider Woman - (1985, Hector Babenco) (William Hurt, Raul Julia)
• The Color of Money - (1986, Martin Scorsese) (Paul Newman, Tom Cruise)
• She's Gotta Have It - (1986, Spike Lee) (Tracy Camilla Johns, Spike Lee)
• Body Heat - (1981, Lawrence Kasdan) (William Hurt, Kathleen Turner)
• The Executioner's Song - (1982, Lawrence Schiller) (Tommy Lee Jones, Rosanna Arquette)
• Moonstruck - (1987, Norman Jewison) (Cher, Nicolas Cage)
• The Stunt Man - (1980, Richard Rush) (Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback)
• Local Hero - (1983, Bill Forsyth) (Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert)
• Melvin and Howard - (1980, Jonathan Demme) (Jason Robards, Paul Le Mat)
• Dangerous Liaisons - (1988, Stephen Frears) (Glenn Close, John Malcovich)
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off - (1986, John Hughes) (Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck)
• The Road Warrior - (1981, George Miller) (Mel Gibson, Syd Heylen)
• The Last Temptation of Christ - (1988, Martin Scorsese) (Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel)
• Mona Lisa - (1986, Neil Jordan) (Bob Hoskins, Michael Caine)
• Fatal Attraction - (1987, Adrian Lyne) (Michael Douglas, Glenn Close)
• Out of Africa - (1985, Sydney Pollack) (Meryl Streep, Robert Redford)
• Stand By Me - (1986, Rob Reiner) (River Phoenix, Corey Feldman)
• Lost in America - (1985, Albert Brooks) (Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty)

20 More Worth Mentioning

• The Decalogue - (1980, Krzysztof Kieslowski) (Miroslaw Baka, Henryk Baranowski, Artur Barcis)
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown - (1982, P. Almodóvar) (Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas)
• Reds - (1981, Warren Beatty) (Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson)
• Shoah - (1985, Claude Lanzmann) (Claude Lanzmann, Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik)
• Goodbye Children - (1987, Louis Malle) (Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö)
• Come and See - (1985, Elem Klimov) (Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius)
• Paris, Texas - (1984, Wim Wenders) (Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell)
• The Big Red One - (1980, Samuel Fuller) (Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine)
• Fitzcarraldo - (1982, Werner Herzog) (Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy)
• Diner - (1982, Barry Levinson) (Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Daniel Stern)
• The Dead - (1987, John Huston) (Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Dan O'Herlihy)
• Manon of the Spring - (1986, Claude Berri) (Yves Montand, Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil)
• Pixote - (1981, Hector Babenco) (Fernando Ramos Da Silva, Jorge Juliao)
• Stranger Than Paradise - (1984, Jim Jarmusch) (John Lurie, Eszter Balint)
• Night of the Shooting Stars - (1982, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani) (Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano)
• Born on the Fourth of July - (1989, Oliver Stone) (Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava)
• My American Uncle - (1980, Alain Resnais) (Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia)
• Aliens - (1986, James Cameron) (Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn)
• The Dresser - (1983, Peter Yates) (Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox)
• Batman - (1989, Tim Burton) (Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger)