10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1980-х по версии Jeffrey M. Anderson (Combustible Celluloid):

1989
1. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
2. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
3. Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)
4. The Killer (John Woo)
5. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam)
6. Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch)
7. Heathers (Michael Lehmann)
8. The War of the Roses (Danny De Vito)
9. Henry V (Kenneth Branagh)
10. The Little Mermaid (John Musker, Ron Clements)

Runners up: Blue Steel (Kathryn Bigelow), The 'burbs (Joe Dante), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg), Johnny Handsome (Walter Hill), Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte), Roger & Me (Michael Moore), Sex, Lies & Videotape (Steven Soderbergh), Street of No Return (Samuel Fuller), Sweetie (Jane Campion)

1988
1. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemekis)
2. The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
3. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
4. Bird (Clint Eastwood)
5. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
6. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
7. A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton)
8. Au Revoir Les Enfants (Louis Malle)
9. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman)
10. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)

Runners up: Die Hard (John McTiernan), Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies), Gang of Four (Jacques Rivette), High Hopes (Mike Leigh), Medea (Lars von Trier), Midnight Run (Martin Brest), Monkey Shines (George A. Romero), The Naked Gun (David Zucker), Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet), They Live (John Carpenter), The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris), Tucker (Francis Ford Coppola), The Vanishing (George Sluizer), Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)

1987
1. The Dead (John Huston)
2. Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi)
3. Radio Days (Woody Allen)
4. Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow)
5. Raising Arizona (Joel & Ethan Coen)
6. Where Is the Friend's Home? (Abbas Kiarostami)
7. A Better Tomorrow II (John Woo)
8. Robocop (Paul Verhoeven)
9. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
10. The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)

Runners up: Barfly (Barbet Schroeder), Boyfriends & Girlfriends (Eric Rohmer), Broadcast News (James L. Brooks), A Chinese Ghost Story (Ching Siu-tung), City on Fire (Ringo Lam), The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci), Good Morning, Vietnam (Barry Levinson), Hellraiser (Clive Barker), The Hidden (Jack Sholder), High Tide (Gillian Armstrong), Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth), House of Games (David Mamet), Innerspace (Joe Dante), Intervista (Federico Fellini), Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring (Claude Berri), Planes, Trains & Automobiles (John Hughes), Project A II (Jackie Chan), Roxanne (Fred Schepisi), Swimming to Cambodia (Jonathan Demme)

1986
1. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
2. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
3. Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox)
4. Stand by Me (Rob Reiner)
5. The Fly (David Cronenberg)
6. Aliens (James Cameron)
7. Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)
8. A Better Tomorrow (John Woo)
9. Manhunter (Michael Mann)
10. The Color of Money (Martin Scorsese)

Runners up: The Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang), Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes), From Beyond (Stuart Gordon), Ginger and Fred (Federico Fellini), Labyrinth (Jim Henson), Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz), Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan), Mauvais sang (Leos Carax), Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark), Le rayon vert (Eric Rohmer), 'Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier), Two Friends (Jane Campion)

1985
1. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)
2. Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
3. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
4. Pee-wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton)
5. Back to the Future (Robert Zemekis)
6. To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin)
7. Come and See (Elem Klimov)
8. Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon)
9. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
10. Prizzi's Honor (John Huston)

Runners up: The Breakfast Club (John Hughes), Day of the Dead (George A. Romero), The Falcon and the Snowman (John Schlesinger), Louie Bluie (Terry Zwigoff), Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood), Phenomena (Dario Argento), The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen), Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky), The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Witness (Peter Weir)

1984
1. Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
2. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
3. Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen)
4. Repo Man (Alex Cox)
5. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
6. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
7. The Cotton Club (Francis Ford Coppola)
8. The Terminator (James Cameron)
9. Starman (John Carpenter)
10. Amadeus (Milos Forman)

Runners up: Choose Me (Alan Rudolph), Gremlins (Joe Dante), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Speilberg), Love Streams (John Cassavetes), Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders), Secret Honor (Robert Altman), The Times of Harvey Milk (Rob Epstein)

1983
1. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
3. L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
4. The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi)
5. The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman)
6. Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola)
7. Local Hero (Bill Forsyth)
8. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
9. Scarface (Brian De Palma)
10. Zelig (Woody Allen)

Runners up: A Christmas Story (Bob Clark), The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg), The Osterman Weekend (Sam Peckinpah), Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer), Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand), Sans Soleil (Chris Marker), Trading Places (John Landis)

1982
1. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
2. The Road Warrior (George Miller)
3. One from the Heart (Francis Ford Coppola)
4. White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
5. The Thing (John Carpenter)
6. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
7. Burden of Dreams (Les Blank)
8. My Favorite Year (Richard Benjamin)
9. Cat People (Paul Schrader)
10. Basket Case (Frank Henenlotter)

Runners up: Diner (Barry Levinson), The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway), 48 HRS (Walter Hill), Identification of a Woman (Michelangelo Antonioni), Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer), Tenebre (Dario Argento)

1981
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
2. Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
3. Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
4. Scanners (David Cronenberg)
5. Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan)
6. My Dinner With Andre (Louis Malle)
7. Gregory's Girl (Bill Forsyth)
8. The Woman Next Door (Francois Truffaut)
9. Escape from New York (John Carpenter)
10. Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)

Runners up: The Beyond (Lucio Fulci), Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan), Southern Comfort (Walter Hill), Superman II (Richard Donner, Richard Lester), Tim Bandits (Terry Gilliam)

1980
1. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
2. The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller)
3. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
4. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
5. The Stunt Man (Richard Rush)
6. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
7. Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
8. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)
9. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker)
10. The Blues Brothers (John Landis)

Runners up: Cruising (William Friedkin), The Falls (Peter Greenaway), The Fog (John Carpenter), Gloria (John Cassavetes), Inferno (Dario Argento), The Last Metro (Francois Truffaut), The Long Riders (Walter Hill), Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme), Popeye (Robert Altman)