Breaker Morant (1980)

9 to 5 (1980)

Summary: Employees Violet, Judy, and Dora Lee of sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot Franklin Hart Junior find a way to turn the tables on him. Dolly Parton's film debut was later a short-lived TV sitcom and a Broadway musical.

Release Date: December 19, 1980

Genre: Comedy

Director: Colin Higgins

Writers: Patricia Resnick

, Colin Higgins

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: PG

Production: IPC Films, Twentieth Century Fox, Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, CBS, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Twilight Time

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 103,290,500

International: $ 12,973

Stir Crazy (1980)

Summary: Set up and wrongfully accused, two best friends are sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit. However, no prison cell can keep them locked in a cage.

Release Date: December 12, 1980

Genres: Comedy, Crime

Director: Sidney Poitier

Writers: Bruce Jay Friedman

, Charles Blackwell

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, RCA SelectaVision VideoDiscs, Home Box Office (HBO), Columbia TriStar Home Video, Columbia Tristar Television Distribution, Comedy Central, Sony Pictures Television, Image Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 101,300,000

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980)

Summary: Three young provincial women come to Moscow in search of what people in all the capitals of the world are looking for - love, happiness and prosperity. Their destinies develop exactly as the character of each of the girls suggests.

Release Date: February 11, 1980

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Vladimir Menshov

Writers: Valentin Chernykh

, Vladimir Menshov

Runtime: 2 h 30 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Mosfilm, Vtoroe Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie

Distributor: International Film Exchange (IFEX), RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Kino Video, RUSCICO, Sovexportfilm

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 900,000

Heaven's Gate (1980)

Summary: During the Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, a sheriff born into wealth does his best to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.

Release Date: April 24, 1981

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western

Director: Michael Cimino

Writer: Michael Cimino

Runtime: 3 h 39 min

MPAA: R

Production: Partisan Productions

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 44,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,484,331

International: $ 192

Contamination (1980)

Summary: A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.

Release Date: June 11, 1982

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Luigi Cozzi

Writers: Luigi Cozzi

, Erich Tomek

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: R

Production: Alex Cinematografica, Barthonia Film, Lisa-Film

Distributor: The Cannon Group, 3GTG, Arrow Video, Blue Underground, El Rey Network, Full Moon Streaming, Mill Creek Entertainment, Oldies.com, Paragon Video Productions, SGL Entertainment, Tubi TV, Viacom, Westlake Entertainment Group

Countries: Italy, West Germany

Language: English

Germany Pale Mother (1980)

Summary: Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Ber...

Release Date: September 26, 1980

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms

Writer: Helma Sanders-Brahms

Runtime: 2 h 32 min

Production: Helma Sanders-Brahms Filmproduktion, Literarisches Colloquium, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Distributor: New Yorker Films

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Battle Creek Brawl (1980)

Summary: A young Asian-American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fighting competition.

Release Date: August 29, 1980

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Robert Clouse

Writers: Robert Clouse

, Fred Weintraub

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: R

Production: Golden Harvest Company, Warner Bros., Paragon Films Ltd.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, Fortune Star Media Limited, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Shout! Factory

Countries: Hong Kong, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 8,527,743

Private Benjamin (1980)

Summary: A sheltered young high-society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a trickier situation than she ever expected.

Release Date: October 10, 1980

Genres: Comedy, War

Director: Howard Zieff

Writers: Nancy Meyers

, Charles Shyer

, Harvey Miller

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Z Channel, Home Box Office (HBO), Movie Channel, ON-TV, Showtime Networks, CBS, HBO Max, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,500,000

Domestic: $ 69,847,348

Fame (1980)

Summary: Four teenagers must prove their mettle as they begin their journey at the New York High School of Performing Arts. They must navigate through heartbreak, school work, adolescence and challenges.

Release Date: May 16, 1980

Genres: Drama, Musical, Music

Director: Alan Parker

Writer: Christopher Gore

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: R

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), United Artists, MGM/CBS Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, HBO Max, WGN

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 21,202,829

International: $ 878

Hero at Large (1980)

Summary: A struggling actor buying milk stops a robbery while wearing a superhero uniform, promoting a movie. The unknown hero decides to try again. Can he impress his cute neighbor?

Release Date: February 08, 1980

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Martin Davidson

Writer: AJ Carothers

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Kings Road Entertainment, Kings Road Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: CBS

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 15,934,737

When Time Ran Out... (1980)

Summary: An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.

Release Date: March 28, 1980

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: James Goldstone

Writers: Gordon Thomas

, Max Morgan Witts

, Carl Foreman

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: PG

Production: International Cinema

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,763,988

The Exterminator (1980)

Summary: A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York City. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York City into a great war zone, and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.

Release Date: September 19, 1980

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: James Glickenhaus

Writer: James Glickenhaus

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Interstar, Interstar

Distributor: Home Box Office (HBO), Embassy Home Entertainment, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Synapse Films, Amsell Entertainment, North American Pictures, Renaissance Content Group, Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment, Tango Entertainment, Troma Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

The Last Metro (1980)

Summary: In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Germans while doing both of their jobs.

Release Date: February 19, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance, War

Director: François Truffaut

Writers: François Truffaut

, Suzanne Schiffman

, Jean-Claude Grumberg

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Les Films du Carrosse, Sédif Productions, TF1 Films Production

Distributor: United Artists Classics, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, Key Video, MK2 Films, The Criterion Channel

Country: France

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,007,945

Humanoids from the Deep (1980)

Summary: Humanoid sea creatures start killing a fishing town's residents, and raping their women. It's up to the townsfolk and a visiting biologist to fight back and fend them off.

Release Date: May 16, 1980

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Directors: Barbara Peeters

, Jimmy T. Murakami

Writers: Frank Arnold

, Martin B. Cohen

, William Martin

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: R

Production: New World Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)

Summary: The fictionalized life of singer Loretta Lynn, a girl who rose from humble beginnings to become a country music star in the 1960s/70s.

Release Date: March 07, 1980

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Michael Apted

Writers: Thomas Rickman

, Loretta Lynn

, George Vecsey

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures

Distributor: RCA (II), American Broadcasting Company (ABC), MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), DiscoVision

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 67,182,787

Caddyshack (1980)

Summary: An exclusive golf course has to deal with a flatulent new member and a destructive dancing gopher.

Release Date: July 25, 1980

Genres: Comedy, Sport

Director: Harold Ramis

Writers: Brian Doyle-Murray

, Harold Ramis

, Douglas Kenney

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: R

Production: Orion Pictures, Orion Pictures

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Warner Bros., CBS, HBO Max, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 39,918,650

Flash Gordon (1980)

Summary: A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

Release Date: December 05, 1980

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Mike Hodges

Writers: Lorenzo Semple Jr.

, Michael Allin

, Alex Raymond

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Starling Films, Starling Films, Famous Films (II), Famous Films (II), Dino De Laurentiis Company, Dino De Laurentiis Company

Distributor: Arrow Video, Cinema Classics, Image Entertainment, MGM Television, Paramount Television

Countries: United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands, Italy

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 27,107,960

International: $ 77,249

American Gigolo (1980)

Summary: A Los Angeles escort is accused of a murder which he did not commit.

Release Date: February 01, 1980

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Paul Schrader

Writer: Paul Schrader

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Freddie Fields Productions, Freddie Fields Productions

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment, RCA SelectaVision VideoDiscs

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,800,000

Domestic: $ 22,743,674

International: $ 1,460