Movies Released in 1980

Superman II

📅 Release: December 4, 1980

📖 Synopsis: Three Kryptonian criminals led by General Zod team up with Lex Luthor to conquer Earth, forcing a depowered Superman to regain his strength and stop them.

Raging Bull

📅 Release: November 14, 1980

📖 Synopsis: The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

📖 Synopsis: A beautiful young ballet dancer is accepted into a prestigious and exclusive dance academy. Overjoyed at the opportunity to further her career and repair her relationship with her boyfriend, she soon discovers that the academy has a dark side to it--and she may not be able to esc...

The Elephant Man

📅 Release: October 9, 1980

📖 Synopsis: A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film),...

The Gods Must Be Crazy

📅 Release: September 10, 1980

📖 Synopsis: A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.

Caddyshack

📅 Release: July 25, 1980

📖 Synopsis: At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist Judge Smails, and then the cad...

Tanshin Funin: Niizuma No Himitsu

📅 Release: July 19, 1980

📖 Synopsis: A lonely wife has a love affair with the newly widowed neighbor while her husband is away on business.

The Blue Lagoon

📅 Release: July 5, 1980

📖 Synopsis: Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline and Richard make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatu...

Airplane!

📅 Release: June 27, 1980

📖 Synopsis: An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

The Blues Brothers

📅 Release: June 16, 1980

📖 Synopsis: Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.

The Shining

📅 Release: May 23, 1980

🎭 Genre: Horror

🎬 Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone, Joe Turkel, Anne Jackson, Tony Burton, Lia Beldam

📖 Synopsis:

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

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The Empire Strikes Back

📅 Release: May 20, 1980

📖 Synopsis: The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droid...

Juvenile Wife

📅 Release: April 26, 1980

📖 Synopsis: A newlywed wife suffers the consequences for her husband’s actions when he cheats a customer at his credit company out of a large sum of money.

Dolce... Calda Lisa

📅 Release: March 28, 1980

📖 Synopsis: 80's Italian sleaze with the luscious Claudia Rocchi, Italian porno regular Guia Lauri Filzi, and softcore actress Annj Goren. The film is about Lisa, a young pretty wife stuck with an older husband who cannot satisfy her sexually nor in other ways. She becomes bored with her e...

Cannibal Holocaust

📅 Release: February 7, 1980

📖 Synopsis: A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes....

Nefeli

📅 Release: January 1, 1980

📖 Synopsis: A beautiful woman is going to the island of Lesbos to rest, there she will meet two other beautiful young women and it will be great having sex with everyone.