Alien Contamination (1980)
Rating: ★
Deadly Alien Eggs
Director: Luigi Cozzi
Actors: Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Siegfried Rauch
Category: Science Fiction
The Alien Dead (1980)
Rating: ★
Zombie Film
Director: Fred Olen Ray
Actors: Raymond Roberts, Larry Buster Crabbe, Linda Lewis, Dennis Underwood, …
Category: Horror
The Aliens Are Coming (1980)
Rating: ★
Alien Invasion
Director: Harvey Hart
Actors: Tom Mason, Max Gail, Melinda Fee, Fawne Harriman, …
Category: Science Fiction
Alligator (1980)
Rating: ★★★
Giant Alligator
Director: Lewis Teague
Actors: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Henry Silva, Michael Gazzo, …
Category: Horror
Altered States (1980)
Rating: ★★★★
Drug Trips & The Meaning of Life/Reversion to Caveman
Director: Ken Russell
Actors: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid
Category: Science Fiction
Anthropophagus (1980)
Rating: ★★
Cannibal Killer
Director: Joe D'Amato
Actors: Tisa Farrow, Zora Kerova, Serena Grandi, George Eastman
Category: Horror
The Attic (1980)
Rating: ★★½
Gothic Madness and Family Secrets
Director: George Edwards
Actors: Carrie Snodgress, Ray Milland, Ruth Cox, Rosemary Murphy, …
Category: Horror
The Awakening (1980)
Rating: ★★★
Resurrected Mummy Queen
Director: Mike Newell
Actors: Charlton Heston, Stephanie Zimbalist, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, …
Category: Horror
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Rating: ★★★
Space Opera
Director: Jimmy T. Murakami
Actors: Richard Thomas, George Peppard, Sybil Danning, John Saxon, …
Category: Science Fiction
Blood Beach (1980)
Rating: ★★
Monster Movie Spoof
Director: Jeffrey Bloom
Actors: David Huffman, Marianna Hill, John Saxon, Burt Young, …
Category: Horror
Bloodeaters (1980)
Rating: ★
Toxic Marijuana Turns Hippies Into Zombies
Director: Charles McCrann
Actors: Charles McCrann, John Amplas
Category: Horror
The Boogey Man (1980)
Rating: ★★
Haunted Mirror
Director: Ulli Lommel
Actors: Suzanna Love, John Carradine, Nicholas Love
Category: Horror
Cannibal Apocalypse (1980)
Rating: ★★
Cannibalistic Vietnam Vets
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Actors: John Saxon, John Morghen
Category: Horror
The Chain Reaction (1980)
Rating: ★★
Nuclear Accident Action Thriller
Director: Ian Barry
Category: Science Fiction
The Changeling (1980)
Rating: ★★★
Ghost Story
Director: Peter Medak
Category: Horror
The Children (1980)
Rating: ★★
Zombie Children
Director: Max Kalmanowicz
Category: Horror
Christmas Evil (1980)
Rating: ★★★
Psycho Santa/Christmas Slasher
Director: Lewis Jackson
Actors: Brandon Maggart, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull, Peter Friedman
Category: Horror
City of the Living Dead (1980)
Rating: ★★
Italian Zombie Film
Director: Lucio Fulci
Actors: Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Janet Agren, …
Category: Horror
The Clones of Bruce Lee (1980)
Rating: ★
Clones of Martial Arts Star
Director: Joseph Velasco
Actors: Dragon Lee, Bruce Le, Bruce Lai, Bruce Thai
Category: Science Fiction
Cruising (1980)
Rating: ★★
Serial Killer/Gay Subculture
Director: William Friedkin
Actors: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox, …
Category: Horror
The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb (1980)
Rating: ★
“True Story” of the Discovery of Tutankhamun’s Tomb
Director: Philip Leacock
Actors: Robin Ellis, Raymond Burr, Harry Andrews, Eva Marie Saint, …
Category: Fantasy
The Day Time Ended (1980)
Rating: ★★
Mysterious Extraterrestrial Phenomena
Director: John 'Bud' Cardos
Actors: Jim Davis, Chris Mitchum, Dorothy Malone, Marcy Lafferty, …
Category: Science Fiction
Death Ship (1980)
Rating: ★★
Ghost Ship
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Actors: George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Sally Ann Howes, Nick Mancuso, …
Category: Horror
Deathwatch (1980)
Rating: ★★★½
Future Media Obsession with a Dying Woman
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Category: Science Fiction
Don’t Answer the Phone! (1980)
Rating: ★★
Slasher Film
Director: Robert Hammer
Actors: Nicholas Worth, Ben Frank, Gary Allen, Denise Galik, …
Category: Horror
Dracula (1980)
Rating: ★★
Anime/Dracula vs Satanism
Director: Minoru Okazaki
Category: Horror
Dracula Exotica (1980)
Rating: ★★
Dracula Porn Film
Director: Shaun Costello
Actors: Jamie Gillis, Samantha Fox
Category: Horror
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Rating: ★★★★
Psycho-Sexual Thriller
Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Angie Dickinson, Michael Caine, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, …
Category: Horror
The Exterminator (1980)
Rating: ★★
Ultra-Violent Vigilante Film
Director: James Glickenhaus
Actors: Robert Ginty, Christopher George, Samantha Eggar, Steve James
Category: Horror
Fade to Black (1980)
Rating: ★★★
Movie-Obsessed Psycho
Director: Vernon Zimmerman
Actors: Dennis Christopher, Linda Kerridge, Tim Thomerson, Norman Burton, …
Category: Horror
The Falls (1980)
Rating: ★★★★
Absurdist Post-Holocaust
Director: Peter Greenaway
Category: Fantasy, Science Fiction
The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu (1980)
Rating: ★★½
Fu Manchu Spoof
Director: Piers Haggard
Actors: Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren, David Tomlinson, Sid Caesar, …
Category: Fantasy
The Final Countdown (1980)
Rating: ★★
Aircraft Carrier Time-Travels Back to Pearl Harbor
Director: Don Taylor
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, James Farentino, Charles Durning, …
Category: Science Fiction
Firebird 2015 AD (1980)
Rating: ★
Car Races in a Dystopian Future
Director: David M. Robertson
Actors: Darren McGavin, Doug McClure, Robert Wisden, Mary Beth Rubens, …
Category: Science Fiction
The First Deadly Sin (1980)
Rating: ★
Cop vs Serial Killer
Director: Brian G. Hutton
Actors: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, Martin Gabel, David Dukes, …
Category: Horror
Flash Gordon (1980)
Rating: ★★★
Campy Space Opera
Director: Mike Hodges
Actors: Sam Jones, Max Von Sydow, Timothy Dalton, Brian Blessed, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Fog (1980)
Rating: ★★★½
Vengeful Ghosts
Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh, …
Category: Horror
The Formula (1980)
Rating: ★★
International Thriller/Hunt for a Nazi Fuel Substitute
Director: John G. Avildsen
Actors: George C. Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller, John Van Dreelen, …
Category: Science Fiction
Friday the 13th (1980)
Rating: ★★
Slasher Film
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Actors: Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer, Kevin Bacon, Robbi Morgan
Category: Horror
Funeral Home (1980)
Rating: ★★
Psycho-Thriller
Director: William Fruet
Actors: Lesleh Donaldson, Kay Hawtry, Barry Morse
Category: Horror
Galaxina (1980)
Rating: ★
Female Android
Director: William Sachs
Actors: Dorothy Stratten, Stephen Macht, Avery Schreiber, Tad Horino, …
Category: Science Fiction
Gamera: Super Monster (1980)
Rating: 0
Japanese Monster Movie
Director: Noriaki Yuasa
Category: Science Fiction
Golem (1980)
Rating: ★★
Dystopian SF
Director: Piotr Szulkin
Category: Science Fiction
Hangar 18 (1980)
Rating: ★★
Crashed UFO
Director: James L. Conway
Actors: Gary Collins, Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn, James Hampton, …
Category: Science Fiction
Harlequin (1980)
Rating: ★★★½
Enigmatic Magician
Director: Simon Wincer
Category: Fantasy
Hawk the Slayer (1980)
Rating: ★
Sword and Sorcery
Director: Terry Marcel
Actors: Jack Palance, John Terry, Bernard Bresslaw, Morgan Sheppard, …
Category: Fantasy
He Knows You’re Alone (1980)
Rating: ★★
Slasher Film
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Actors: Caitlin O'Heaney, Don Scardino, Tom Hanks, Patsy Pease
Category: Horror
The Hearse (1980)
Rating: ★★
Ghost Vehicle
Director: George Bowers
Actors: Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten, David Gautreaux, Perry Lang, …
Category: Horror
Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
Rating: ★★
Italian Zombie Film
Director: Bruno Mattei
Actors: Margit Evelyn Newton, Frank Garfield, Robert O'Neil
Category: Horror
Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
Rating: ★
Cute Car/Disney Comedy
Director: Vincent McEveety
Actors: Harvey Korman, Joaquin Garay III, Cloris Leachman, Charles Martin Smith, …
Category: Fantasy
Hero (1980)
Rating: ½
Finn MacCool Legend
Director: Barney Platts-Mills
Category: Fantasy
Hero at Large (1980)
Rating: ★
Pretend Superhero
Director: Martin Davidson
Actors: John Ritter, Anne Archer, Bert Convy, Kevin McCarthy, …
Category: Fantasy
House on the Edge of the Park (1980)
Rating: ★★
Home Invasion/Sadism and Brutality
Director: Ruggero Deodato
Category: Horror
Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
Rating: ★★★
Horny Mutant Fish People
Director: Barbara Peeters
Actors: Doug McClure, Vic Morrow, Ann Turkel, Cindy Weintraub, …
Category: Horror
Inferno (1980)
Rating: ★★★★
Witchcraft Murders
Director: Dario Argento
Actors: Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Daria Nicolodi, Sacha Pitoeff, …
Category: Horror
The Island (1980)
Rating: ★★
Lost Society of Pirate Descendants
Director: Michael Ritchie
Actors: Michael Caine, David Warner, Frank Middlemass, Colin Jeavons, …
Category: Science Fiction
Island Claws (1980)
Rating: ★★
Giant Crabs Amok
Director: Hernan Cardenas
Actors: Robert Lansing, Barry Nelson, Nita Talbot
Category: Science Fiction
The King and the Mockingbird (1980)
Rating: ★★★½
Animation/Fairytale
Director: Paul Grimault
Category: Fantasy
The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
Rating: ★★★½
Man Whose Dreams Change the World When He Wakes
Director: Fred Barzyk, David Loxton
Actors: Bruce Davison, Kevin Conway, Margaret Avery
Category: Science Fiction
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980)
Rating: ★★
Headless Horseman
Director: Henning Schellerup
Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Meg Foster, Dick Butkus, James Griffith, …
Category: Horror
Macabre (1980)
Rating: ★★★
Necrophilia
Director: Lamberto Bava
Actors: Bernice Stegers, Stanko Molnar, Veronica Zinny
Category: Horror
Mama Dracula (1980)
Rating: 0
Vampire Comedy
Director: Boris Szulzinger
Category: Horror
Maniac (1980)
Rating: ★★★
Psycho Film
Director: William Lustig
Actors: Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro, Kelly Piper
Category: Horror
The Martian Chronicles (1980)
Rating: ★★
Human Colonisation of Mars/Ray Bradbury Adaptation
Director: Michael Anderson
Actors: Rock Hudson, Darren McGavin, Fritz Weaver, Bernie Casey, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Monster Club (1980)
Rating: ★★
Horror Anthology
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Actors: Vincent Price, John Carradine, Donald Pleasence, Barbara Kellerman, …
Category: Horror
Motel Hell (1980)
Rating: ★★
Backwoods Brutality Comedy
Director: Kevin Connor
Actors: Rory Calhoun, Nancy Parsons, Paul Linke, Nina Axelrod, …
Category: Horror
Mother’s Day (1980)
Rating: ★★
Backwoods Brutality
Director: Charles Kaufman
Category: Horror
Nightmare City (1980)
Rating: ★★
Italian Zombie Film
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Actors: Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Mel Ferrer, Francisco Rabal, …
Category: Horror
The Nude Bomb (1980)
Rating: ★
Get Smart Movie/Spy Spoof
Director: Clive Donner
Actors: Don Adams, Sylvia Kristel, Vittorio Gassman, Dana Elcar, …
Category: Science Fiction
Oh God Book II (1980)
Rating: ★
The Almighty Appears Comedy
Director: Gilbert Gates
Actors: George Burns, Louanne, David Birney, Suzanne Pleshette
Category: Fantasy
Oh Heavenly Dog (1980)
Rating: ★★
Man Reincarnates as a Dog Comedy
Director: Joe Camp
Actors: Chevy Chase, Jane Seymour, Omar Shariff
Category: Fantasy
Patrick Still Lives (1980)
Rating: ★★★
Psychic Coma Patient
Director: Mario Landi
Actors: Sacha Pitoeff, Maria Angela Giordano
Category: Horror
Phobia (1980)
Rating: ★
Psychotherapy Psycho-Thriller
Director: John Huston
Actors: Paul Michael Glaser, John Colicos, Susan Hogan, David Bolt, …
Category: Horror
Popeye (1980)
Rating: ★★★½
Gonzo Comic-Strip Adaptation
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Wesley Ivan Hurt, …
Category: Fantasy
Prom Night (1980)
Rating: ★
Slasher Film
Director: Paul Lynch
Category: Horror
The Pumaman (1980)
Rating: 0
Superhero Film
Director: Alberto de Martino
Category: Science Fiction
Raise the Titanic (1980)
Rating: ★
Engineering Project to Raise the Titanic
Director: Jerry Jameson
Actors: Richard Jordan, Jason Robards, David Selby, Anne Archer, …
Category: Science Fiction
Resurrection (1980)
Rating: ★★
Faith Healer
Director: Daniel Petrie
Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Roberts Blossom, Eva Le Galliene, …
Category: Fantasy
The Return of the King (1980)
Rating: ★★½
J.R.R. Tolkien Adaptation/Animation/Epic Fantasy
Director: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr
Actors: Roddy McDowall, John Huston, Orson Bean, Theodore Bikel, …
Category: Fantasy
Saturn 3 (1980)
Rating: ★★
Robot Amok
Director: Stanley Donen
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, Harvey Keitel
Category: Science Fiction
Scared to Death (1980)
Rating: ★★
Genetic Monster Amok
Director: William Malone
Actors: John Stinson, Walker Edmiston
Category: Science Fiction
Schizoid (1980)
Rating: ★★
Psycho Film
Director: David Paulsen
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Marianna Hill, Donna Wilkes, Craig Wasson, …
Category: Horror
The Shining (1980)
Rating: ★★★★
Haunted Hotel/Cabin Fever/Stephen King Adaptation
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, …
Category: Horror
Simon (1980)
Rating: ★★½
Fake Alien Comedy
Director: Marshall Brickman
Actors: Alan Arkin, Madeline Kahn, Austin Pendleton, Judy Graubart, …
Category: Science Fiction
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980)
Rating: ★
Surrealism
Director: Steve Roberts
Actors: Trevor Howard, Patrick Magee, Harry Fowler, Sheila Reid, …
Category: Fantasy
Somewhere in Time (1980)
Rating: ★★
Time-Travel Romance
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Actors: Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer
Category: Fantasy
Spiderman and the Dragon’s Challenge (1980)
Rating: 0
Comic-Book Superhero
Director: Don McDougall
Actors: Nicholas Hammond, Rosalind Chao, Benson Fong, Robert F. Simon, …
Category: Science Fiction
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Rating: ★★★★★
Space Opera
Director: Irvin Kershner
Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, David Prowse, …
Category: Science Fiction
Superman II (1980)
Rating: ★★★★
Comic-Book Superhero
Director: Richard Lester
Actors: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Terence Stamp, Sarah Douglas, …
Category: Science Fiction
Tanya’s Island (1980)
Rating: ★★★
Erotic Film/Relationship Between a Woman and an Ape
Director: Alfred Sole
Actors: Vanity, Don McLeod
Category: Fantasy
Terror Train (1980)
Rating: ★★★
Trainboard Slasher
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, David Copperfield, Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner, …
Category: Horror
The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
Rating: ★★
Other-Dimensional Haunting
Director: John Hough
Actors: Lynn-Holly Johnson, Bette Davis, David McCallum, Kyle Richards, …
Category: Science Fiction
Without Warning (1980)
Rating: ★★
Alien Sportsman Hunts Human Game
Director: Greydon Clark
Actors: Martin Landau, Jack Palance, David Caruso, Lynn Theel, …
Category: Science Fiction
Xanadu (1980)
Rating: ★
Disco Fantasy/Greek Muse Comes to Earth
Director: Robert Greenwald
Actors: Michael Beck, Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Dimitra Arliss, …
Category: Fantasy
Zombie Holocaust (1980)
Rating: ½
Italian Zombie/Cannibal Film
Director: Frank Martin, Marino Girolami
Category: Horror