Best 1980 Movies

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Best 1980 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 1980 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

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#20. The Long Riders

- Stacker score: 80.1
- IMDb user rating: 6.9 (votes: 14,000)
- Metascore: 68
- Director: Walter Hill
- Actors: David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Dennis Quaid
- Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $15,795,189

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#19. My Bodyguard

- Stacker score: 80.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 11,000)
- Metascore: 67
- Director: Tony Bill
- Actors: Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon
- Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $22,482,952

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#18. Gloria

- Stacker score: 81.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 13,000)
- Metascore: 68
- Director: John Cassavetes
- Actors: Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen
- Runtime: 2 hours 1 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $4,059,673

4 / 20

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#17. The Blues Brothers

- Stacker score: 81.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 224,000)
- Metascore: 60
- Director: John Landis
- Actors: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway
- Runtime: 2 hours 13 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $57,229,890

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#16. The Changeling

- Stacker score: 82.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 43,000)
- Metascore: 70
- Director: Peter Medak
- Actors: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas
- Runtime: 1 hour 47 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

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6 / 20

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#15. The Stunt Man

- Stacker score: 84.2
- IMDb user rating: 6.9 (votes: 11,000)
- Metascore: 75
- Director: Richard Rush
- Actors: Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey
- Runtime: 2 hours 11 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $7,063,886

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#14. Dressed to Kill

- Stacker score: 84.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 54,000)
- Metascore: 74
- Director: Brian De Palma
- Actors: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen
- Runtime: 1 hour 44 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $31,899,000

8 / 20

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#13. The Gods Must Be Crazy

- Stacker score: 85.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 62,000)
- Metascore: 73
- Director: Jamie Uys
- Actors: N!xau, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo
- Runtime: 1 hour 49 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $30,031,783

9 / 20

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#12. The Big Red One

- Stacker score: 86.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 22,000)
- Metascore: 77
- Director: Samuel Fuller
- Actors: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine
- Runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $7,206,220

10 / 20

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#11. Breaker Morant

- Stacker score: 88.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 15,000)
- Metascore: 73
- Director: Bruce Beresford
- Actors: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters
- Runtime: 1 hour 47 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A

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11 / 20

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#10. Superman II

- Stacker score: 88.3
- IMDb user rating: 6.8 (votes: 122,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Richard Lester, Richard Donner
- Actors: Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder
- Runtime: 2 hours 7 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $108,185,706

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#9. The Shining

- Stacker score: 88.9
- IMDb user rating: 8.4 (votes: 1.2 million)
- Metascore: 68
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Actors: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
- Runtime: 2 hours 26 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $45,634,352

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#8. Airplane!

- Stacker score: 90.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 278,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
- Actors: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen
- Runtime: 1 hour 28 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $83,453,539

14 / 20

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#7. The Long Good Friday

- Stacker score: 91.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 28,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: John Mackenzie
- Actors: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Paul Freeman
- Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

15 / 20

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#6. Atlantic City

- Stacker score: 92.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 19,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Louis Malle
- Actors: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid
- Runtime: 1 hour 44 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $12,729,675

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16 / 20

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#5. Coal Miner's Daughter

- Stacker score: 93.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 22,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Michael Apted
- Actors: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm
- Runtime: 2 hours 4 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $67,182,787

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#4. The Elephant Man

- Stacker score: 93.6
- IMDb user rating: 8.2 (votes: 276,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: David Lynch
- Actors: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft
- Runtime: 2 hours 4 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $26,010,864

18 / 20

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#3. Ordinary People

- Stacker score: 95.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 60,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Robert Redford
- Actors: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch
- Runtime: 2 hours 4 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $54,766,923

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#2. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

- Stacker score: 98.8
- IMDb user rating: 8.7 (votes: 1.5 million)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Irvin Kershner
- Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
- Runtime: 2 hours 4 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $292,753,960

20 / 20

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#1. Raging Bull

- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 400,000)
- Metascore: 90
- Director: Martin Scorsese
- Actors: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
- Runtime: 2 hours 9 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $23,383,987

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