Top Ten Film Lists 1980-1984 (Alphabetical)

1984

• AMADEUS  (Milos Forman)

• BROADWAY DANNY ROSE  (Woody Allen)

• GHOSTBUSTERS  (Ivan Reitman)

• THE KILLING FIELDS  (Roland Joffe)

• THE NATURAL  (Barry Levinson)

• ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA  (Sergio Leone)

• PARIS, TEXAS  (Wim Wenders)

• A PASSAGE TO INDIA  (David Lean)

• THE TERMINATOR  (James Cameron)

• THIS IS SPINAL TAP  (Rob Reiner)

1983

• THE BIG CHILL  (Lawrence Kasdan)

• A CHRISTMAS STORY  (Bob Clark)

• THE DRESSER  (Peter Yates)

• THE KING OF COMEDY  (Martin Scorsese)

• L'ARGENT  (Robert Bresson)

• THE RIGHT STUFF  (Philip Kaufman)

• SCARFACE  (Brian De Palma)

• SILKWOOD  (Mike Nichols)

• STAR WARS EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI  (Richard Marquand)

• TERMS OF ENDEARMENT  (James L. Brooks)

 
1982

• BLADE RUNNER  (Ridley Scott)

• DAS BOOT  (Wolfgang Petersen)

• DINER  (Barry Levinson)

• E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL  (Steven Spielberg)

• FANNY & ALEXANDER  (Ingmar Bergman)

• GANDHI  (Richard Attenborough)

• MISSING  (Costa-Gavras)

• SOPHIE'S CHOICE  (Alan J. Pakula)

• TOOTSIE  (Sydney Pollack)

• THE VERDICT  (Sidney Lumet)

1981

• ARTHUR  (Steve Gordon)

• ATLANTIC CITY  (Louis Malle)

• CHARIOTS OF FIRE  (Hugh Hudson)

• GALLIPOLI  (Peter Weir)

• MEPHISTO  (Istvan Szabo)

• ON GOLDEN POND  (Mark Rydell)

• PIXOTE  (Hector Babenco)

• RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK  (Steven Spielberg)

• REDS  (Warren Beatty)

• TIME BANDITS  (Terry Gilliam)

1980

• AIRPLANE!  (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker & Jerry Zucker)

• THE BIG RED ONE  (Samuel Fuller)

• THE ELEPHANT MAN  (David Lynch)

• KAGEMUSHA  (Akira Kurosawa)

• THE LAST METRO  (Francois Truffaut)

• MELVIN AND HOWARD  (Jonathan Demme)

• ORDINARY PEOPLE  (Robert Redford)

• RAGING BULL  (Martin Scorsese)

• THE SHINING  (Stanley Kubrick)

• STAR WARS EPISODE V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK  (Irvin Kershner)