Totally ’80s
From the rise of the Hollywood teen comedy to the emergence of France’s cinéma du look, the filmmaking trends of this wild decade yielded some unforgettable classics.
| Spine # | Title | Director | Country | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1293 |
|
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure | Tim Burton | United States, | 1985 |
| 552 |
|
Broadcast News | James L. Brooks | United States, | 1987 |
| 1075 |
|
Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Amy Heckerling | United States, | 1982 |
| 1227 |
|
Risky Business | Paul Brickman | United States, | 1983 |
| 905 |
|
The Breakfast Club | John Hughes | United States, | 1985 |
| 984 |
|
1984 | Michael Radford | United Kingdom, | 1984 |
| 768 |
|
The French Lieutenant’s Woman | Karel Reisz | United Kingdom, | 1981 |
| 941 |
|
Smithereens | Susan Seidelman | United States, | 1982 |
| 995 |
|
Polyester | John Waters | United States, | 1981 |
| 1221 |
|
Querelle | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Germany, | 1982 |
| 1002 |
|
Betty Blue | Jean-Jacques Beineix | France, | 1986 |
| 20 |
|
Sid & Nancy | Alex Cox | United Kingdom, | 1986 |
| 37 |
|
Time Bandits | Terry Gilliam | United Kingdom, | 1981 |
| 133 |
|
The Vanishing | George Sluizer | France, | 1988 |
| 166 |
|
Down by Law | Jim Jarmusch | United States, | 1986 |
| 178 |
|
My Life as a Dog | Lasse Hallström | Sweden, | 1985 |
| 267 |
|
Kagemusha | Akira Kurosawa | Japan, | 1980 |
| 330 |
|
Au revoir les enfants | Louis Malle | France, | 1987 |
| 356 |
|
Sweetie | Jane Campion | New Zealand, | 1989 |
| 399 |
|
House of Games | David Mamet | United States, | 1987 |
| 432 |
|
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | Paul Schrader | United States, | 1985 |
| 462 |
|
The Last Metro | François Truffaut | France, | 1980 |
| 469 |
|
The Hit | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom, | 1984 |
| 535 |
|
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence | Nagisa Oshima | United Kingdom, | 1983 |
| 563 |
|
Something Wild | Jonathan Demme | United States, | 1986 |
| 566 |
|
Insignificance | Nicolas Roeg | United Kingdom, | 1985 |
| 625 |
|
Eating Raoul | Paul Bartel | United States, | 1982 |
| 665 |
|
Babette’s Feast | Gabriel Axel | Denmark, | 1987 |
| 691 |
|
Thief | Michael Mann | United States, | 1981 |
| 1185 |
|
After Hours | Martin Scorsese | United States, | 1985 |
| 775 |
|
A Room with a View | James Ivory | United Kingdom, | 1986 |
| 258 |
|
Tanner ’88 | Robert Altman | United States, | 1988 |