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The following is an overview of events in 1980 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.
Highest-grossing films (U.S.)[]
The top ten 1980 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Box-office gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Empire Strikes Back | Fox | $181,379,640[2] |
| 2 | 9 to 5 | $103,290,500 | |
| 3 | Stir Crazy | Columbia | $101,300,000 |
| 4 | Airplane! | Paramount | $83,453,539 |
| 5 | Any Which Way You Can | Warner Bros. | $70,687,344 |
| 6 | Private Benjamin | $69,847,348 | |
| 7 | Coal Miner's Daughter | Universal | $67,182,787 |
| 8 | Smokey and the Bandit II | $66,132,626 | |
| 9 | The Blue Lagoon | Columbia | $58,853,106 |
| 10 | The Blues Brothers | Universal | $57,229,890 |
Worldwide gross revenue[]
The following table lists known worldwide gross revenue figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1980. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1980.
| Title | Gross | Source | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Empire Strikes Back | $538,375,067 | [3] | United States |
| The Gods Must Be Crazy | $200,000,000 | [4] | South Africa |
| Airplane! | $130,000,000 | [5] | United States |
| The Blues Brothers | $115,229,890 | [6] |
Events[]
- April 29 – Sir Alfred Hitchcock, known as "the Master of Suspense", dies at his home in Bel Air, California, at the age of 80.
- May 21 – The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the highest-grossing film of the year (just as its predecessor, Star Wars, was three years prior .
- June 9 – Richard Pryor sets himself on fire while free-basing cocaine and drinking 151-proof rum. Pryor ran down his street in Northridge, California, until subdued by police.
- June 20 – The Blues Brothers is released, and in addition to becoming one of the top-grossing films of the year, it also became the first feature film to be based on characters created on Saturday Night Live.
- November 19 – Heaven's Gate becomes one of the biggest box office bombs of all-time and its colossal failure bankrupts United Artists.
- Allied Artists is sold to Lorimar Productions.
Context[]
Industry professionals predicted comedy films and upbeat entertainment to dominate theaters in 1980. This was a response to poor morale in a nation suffering through economic recession, which generally increased theatrical visits as audiences sought escapism and ignored romantic films and depictions of blue-collar life.[7][8] The financial success and low cost of production cost of comedies such as Blazing Saddles (1974) and Animal House (1978), had further driven demand for comedies; Airplane!, The Blues Brothers, Caddyshack, and The Jerk, were all scheduled for release that year. The average cost of making films had risen to $6 million which had reduced the number of films being made for niche audiences. Some studios continued to release a wide variety of films, hoping that few significant successes would compensate for other failures.[8]
A surge of interest in science-fiction following Star Wars' release had led to many low-budget entries in the genre attempting to profit by association, and big budget entries such as Star Trek: The Motion Picture and The Black Hole, both of which were released in late 1979, just months before The Empire Strikes Back.[9]
Awards[]
| Category/Organization | 38th Golden Globe Awards January 31, 1981 |
34th BAFTA Awards March 22, 1981 |
53rd Academy Awards March 31, 1981 | |
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| Drama | Musical or Comedy | |||
| Best Film | Ordinary People | Coal Miner's Daughter | The Elephant Man | Ordinary People |
| Best Director | Robert Redford Ordinary People |
Akira Kurosawa Kagemusha |
Robert Redford Ordinary People | |
| Best Actor | Robert De Niro Raging Bull |
Ray Sharkey The Idolmaker |
John Hurt The Elephant Man |
Robert De Niro Raging Bull |
| Best Actress | Mary Tyler Moore Ordinary People |
Sissy Spacek Coal Miner's Daughter |
Judy Davis My Brilliant Career |
Sissy Spacek Coal Miner's Daughter |
| Best Supporting Actor | Timothy Hutton Ordinary People |
N/A | Timothy Hutton Ordinary People | |
| Best Supporting Actress | Mary Steenburgen Melvin and Howard |
N/A | Mary Steenburgen Melvin and Howard | |
| Best Screenplay, Adapted | William Peter Blatty The Ninth Configuration |
Jerzy Kosinski Being There |
Alvin Sargent Ordinary People | |
| Best Screenplay, Original | Bo Goldman Melvin and Howard | |||
| Best Original Score | Dominic Frontiere The Stunt Man |
John Williams The Empire Strikes Back |
Michael Gore Fame | |
| Best Original Song | "Fame" Fame |
N/A | "Fame" Fame | |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Tess | N/A | Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears | |
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- All That Jazz, directed by Bob Fosse, United States
- Kagemusha, 影武者 (Shadow Warrior), directed by Akira Kurosawa, Japan
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Atlantic City, directed by Louis Malle, US / Canada / France
- Gloria, directed by John Cassavetes, United States
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Heartland, directed by Richard Pearce, United States
- Palermo or Wolfsburg (Palermo oder Wolfsburg), directed by Werner Schroeter, West Germany
Notable films released in 1980[]
United States unless stated
#[]
- 9 to 5, directed by Colin Higgins, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman
A[]
- The Agency, starring Robert Mitchum, Lee Majors, Valerie Perrine – (Canada)
- Airplane!, starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Alien Dead, directed by Fred Olen Ray, starring Buster Crabbe
- Alligator, directed by Lewis Teague, starring Robert Forster, Robin Riker, and Michael Gazzo
- Altered States, directed by Ken Russell, starring William Hurt and Blair Brown
- American Gigolo, directed by Paul Schrader, starring Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton and Héctor Elizondo
- Antropophagus, directed by Joe D'Amato, starring George Eastman, Tisa Farrow, Zora Kerova, Saverio Vallone, and Serena Grandi (Italy)
- Any Which Way You Can, directed by Buddy Van Horn, starring Clint Eastwood, Geoffrey Lewis, William Smith, Barry Corbin, Ruth Gordon
- Arrebato (Rapture), directed by Ivan Zulueta, starring Eusebio Poncela, and Cecilia Roth (Spain)
- Atlantic City (Released in the U.S. in 1981), directed by Louis Malle, starring Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon – (Canada/France) – Golden Lion winner
- The Awakening, starring Charlton Heston, Susannah York and Stephanie Zimbalist – (U.K.)
B[]
- Babylon, starring Brinsley Forde – (U.K.)
- A Bad Son (un mauvais fils), directed by Claude Sautet – (France)
- Bad Timing, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Denholm Elliott, Harvey Keitel – (U.K.)
- The Baltimore Bullet, starring James Coburn
- Berlin Alexanderplatz, a TV mini-series directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring , Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa – (West Germany)
- The Big Brawl, starring Jackie Chan – (Hong Kong/United States)
- The Big Red One, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine
- Bizalom (Confidence), directed by István Szabó – (Hungary)
- The Black Marble, directed by Harold Becker, starring Robert Foxworth, Paula Prentiss, Harry Dean Stanton
- The Blood of Hussain, directed by Jamil Dehlavi – (Pakistan)
- The Blue Lagoon, starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins
- The Blues Brothers, directed by John Landis, starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway, Carrie Fisher, John Candy, Henry Gibson
- Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)
- Borderline, directed by Jerrold Freedman, starring Charles Bronson, Wilford Brimley, Bruno Kirby, Ed Harris, Kenneth McMillan, John Ashton
- Breaker Morant, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Edward Woodward – (Australia)
- Bronco Billy, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Sam Bottoms, Scatman Crothers
- Brubaker, directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Robert Redford, David Keith, Jane Alexander, Yaphet Kotto
C[]
- Caboblanco, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Dominique Sanda
- Caddyshack, directed by Harold Ramis, starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe, Cindy Morgan, Bill Murray
- The Candidate (Der Kandidat), directed by Volker Schlöndorff – (West Germany)
- Cannibal Holocaust, directed by Ruggero Deodato, starring Robert Kerman – (Italy)
- Can't Stop the Music, directed by Nancy Walker, starring Valerie Perrine, Caitlyn Jenner, Steve Guttenberg, Village People
- Carny, starring Jodie Foster, Gary Busey and Robbie Robertson
- Chann Pardesi, starring Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Om Puri – (India)
- A Change of Seasons, starring Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek
- The Changeling, starring George C. Scott – (Canada)
- Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
- Children's Island (Barnens ö) – (Sweden)
- La Cicala (The Cicada), starring Anthony Franciosa and Virna Lisi – (Italy)
- City of Women (La città delle donne), directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni – (Italy)
- The Club, starring Jack Thompson – (Australia)
- Coal Miner's Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones
- The Competition, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving, Lee Remick, Sam Wanamaker
- The Constant Factor (Constans) – (Poland)
- The Crime of Cuenca (El crimen de Cuenca) – (Spain)
- Cruising, directed by William Friedkin, starring Al Pacino
- Cutting It Short (Postřižiny), directed by Jiří Menzel – (Czechoslovakia)
D[]
- Dadar Kirti (Deeds of My Elder Brother) – (India)
- Death Watch (La Mort en direct), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, starring Romy Schneider and Harvey Keitel – (France)
- Delusion directed by Alan Beattie, starring Patricia Pearcy and Joseph Cotten
- Die Laughing, starring Robby Benson and Bud Cort
- Dinosaurs, starring Bob West
- The Dogs of War, starring Christopher Walken – (US/UK)
- Dostana (Friendship), starring Amitabh Bachchan – (India)
- Dressed to Kill, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Michael Caine, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Angie Dickinson
E[]
- Elisita – (Spain)
- The Elephant Man, directed by David Lynch, starring John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins – (US/UK)
- The Empire Strikes Back, directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams
- Encounters of the Spooky Kind (Gui da gui), directed by and starring Sammo Hung – (Hong Kong)
- Every Man for Himself (Sauve qui peut (la vie)), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jacques Dutronc and Isabelle Huppert – (France)
- The Exterminator, starring Robert Ginty and Samantha Eggar
F[]
- Fade to Black, starring Dennis Christopher
- The Falls, directed by Peter Greenaway – (U.K.)
- Fame, directed by Alan Parker, starring Irene Cara
- Fatso, directed by and starring Anne Bancroft, with Dom DeLuise
- The Final Countdown, starring Kirk Douglas, Katharine Ross, Martin Sheen
- The First Deadly Sin, starring Frank Sinatra, David Dukes, Martin Gabel, Brenda Vaccaro, Faye Dunaway
- First Family, directed by Buck Henry, starring Bob Newhart, Madeline Kahn, Gilda Radner
- Flash Gordon, directed by Mike Hodges, starring Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Chaim Topol – (US/UK)
- The Fog, directed by John Carpenter, starring Adrienne Barbeau and Jamie Lee Curtis
- Foolin' Around, starring Gary Busey, Annette O'Toole, Eddie Albert, Cloris Leachman
- The Formula, starring George C. Scott and Marlon Brando
- Foxes, directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Jodie Foster, Cherie Currie, Scott Baio and Adam Faith
- Friday the 13th, directed by Sean S. Cunningham, starring Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King and Harry Crosby
G[]
- The Gamekeeper, directed by Ken Loach – (U.K.)
- Gamera: Super Monster (Uchu Kaijū Gamera) – (Japan)
- Germany, Pale Mother (Deutschland bleiche Mutter), starring Eva Mattes – (West Germany)
- Gilda Live, starring Gilda Radner, Father Guido Sarducci
- Gloria, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands – Golden Lion winner
- The Gods Must Be Crazy, directed by Jamie Uys, starring N!xau, Sandra Prinsloo and Marius Weyers – (South Africa)
- Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras) – (Canada)
- The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, a mockumentary directed by Julien Temple, featuring The Sex Pistols and Malcolm McLaren – (U.K.)
H[]
- Hangar 18, starring Darren McGavin and Robert Vaughn
- Health, a.k.a. H.E.A.L.T.H., directed by Robert Altman, starring Carol Burnett, Lauren Bacall, Glenda Jackson, James Garner
- Heart Beat, starring Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, John Heard
- He Knows You're Alone, starring Don Scardino and Caitlin O'Heaney
- Heaven's Gate, directed by Michael Cimino, starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Jeff Bridges
- Herbie Goes Bananas, directed by Vincent McEveety, starring Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman and Charles Martin Smith
- Hero at Large, starring John Ritter and Anne Archer
- Hey Babe!, starring Yasmine Bleeth and Buddy Hackett – (Canada)
- Hirak Rajar Deshe (Kingdom of Diamonds), directed by Satyajit Ray – (India)
- The Hit (Trhák) – (Czechoslovakia)
- Home Movies, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Kirk Douglas, Vincent Gardenia, Gerrit Graham, Nancy Allen
- Hopscotch, directed by Ronald Neame, starring Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson
- How to Beat the High Cost of Living, starring Susan Saint James, Jessica Lange, Jane Curtin, Dabney Coleman, Richard Benjamin
- Humanoids from the Deep, starring Vic Morrow, Doug McClure, Ann Turkel
- The Hunter, starring Steve McQueen (in his final film), Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson, Eli Wallach
I[]
- The Idolmaker, directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Ray Sharkey and Peter Gallagher
- Inferno, directed by Dario Argento – (Italy)
- Inside Moves, directed by Richard Donner, starring John Savage, David Morse, Diana Scarwid
- The Island, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Michael Caine
- It's My Turn, directed by Claudia Weill, starring Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin
J[]
- The Jazz Singer, starring Neil Diamond, Lucie Arnaz, Laurence Olivier
- Just Tell Me What You Want, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Ali MacGraw, Alan King, Peter Weller, Myrna Loy
K[]
- Karz (In Debt), starring Rishi Kapoor – (India)
- Kagemusha, directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara – (Japan) – Palme d'Or winner
- Khubsoorat, starring Ashok Kumar and Rekha – (India)
- Klondike Fever, starring Jeff East, Rod Steiger, Angie Dickinson, Gordon Pinsent – (Canada)
L[]
- Ladies' Choice (Dami Kanyat), directed by Ivan Andonov, starring Stefan Danailov – (Bulgaria)
- The Last Flight of Noah's Ark, starring Elliott Gould, Geneviève Bujold, Ricky Schroder
- The Last Married Couple in America, starring Natalie Wood, George Segal, Valerie Harper, Richard Benjamin
- The Last Metro (Le dernier metro), directed by François Truffaut, starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu – (France)
- The Last Witness (Choehuui jeungin) – (South Korea)
- The Lathe of Heaven, starring Bruce Davison
- Legend of Tianyun Mountain (Tiān yún shān chuán qí) – (China)
- The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, a documentary film
- Little Darlings, starring Tatum O'Neal, Kristy McNichol, Armand Assante and Matt Dillon
- Little Miss Marker, starring Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart
- The Long Good Friday, directed by John Mackenzie, starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren – (U.K.)
- The Long Riders, directed by Walter Hill, starring the Keach brothers, Carradine brothers and Quaid brothers
- Loulou, starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu – (France)
- Loving Couples, directed by Jack Smight, starring Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn, Stephen Collins, Susan Sarandon
M[]
- The Magician of Lublin, starring Alan Arkin, Valerie Perrine, Louise Fletcher
- The Man with Bogart's Face, starring Robert Sacchi, Misty Rowe, Victor Buono, Yvonne De Carlo, Herbert Lom
- Manila by Night – (Philippines)
- McVicar, directed by Tom Clegg, starring Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell – (U.K.)
- Melvin and Howard, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen
- Midnight Madness, directed by Michael Nankin and David Wechter, starring David Naughton, Debra Clinger, Stephen Furst, Eddie Deezen, Maggie Roswell, Brad Wilkin, Michael J. Fox, Alan Solomon
- The Mirror Crack'd, directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson – (U.K.)
- Mon oncle d'Amérique, directed by Alain Resnais, starring Gérard Depardieu – (France) – Cannes Special Jury Prize
- Motel Hell, starring Rory Calhoun
- Mother's Day, starring Nancy Hendrickson
- The Mountain Men, starring Charlton Heston and Brian Keith
- My Bodyguard, directed by Tony Bill, starring Matt Dillon, Adam Baldwin, Chris Makepeace, Martin Mull
N[]
- The Nest (El Nido) – (Spain)
- Nightkill, starring Robert Mitchum
- Nijinsky, starring George de la Peña and Alan Bates
- The Ninth Configuration, directed by William Peter Blatty, starring Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller
O[]
- O Megalexandros (Alexander the Great), directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos – (Greece)
- Oh, God! Book II, starring George Burns
- One Trick Pony, written by and starring Paul Simon, with Blair Brown, Joan Hackett, Rip Torn
- The Orchestra Conductor (Dyrygent), directed by Andrzej Wajda, starring John Gielgud – (Poland)
- Ordinary People, directed by Robert Redford, starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch, Elizabeth McGovern
- Out of the Blue, directed by and starring Dennis Hopper, with Linda Manz, Raymond Burr – (Canada)
P[]
- Pepi, Luci, Bom, directed by Pedro Almodóvar – (Spain)
- Palermo or Wolfsburg – (West Germany) – Golden Bear winner
- Permanent Vacation, directed by Jim Jarmusch
- The Pilot, directed by and starring Cliff Robertson, with Diane Baker and Gordon MacRae
- Playing for Time, directed by Daniel Mann, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Alexander
- Popeye, directed by Robert Altman, starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall
- Pray TV, starring Dabney Coleman
- Private Benjamin, directed by Howard Zieff, starring Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante, Robert Webber, Harry Dean Stanton
- The Private Eyes, starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts
- Prom Night, starring Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis
Q[]
- Qurbani (Sacrifice), directed by and starring Feroz Khan – (India)
R[]
- Raging Bull, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty
- Resurrection, starring Ellen Burstyn and Eva Le Gallienne
- The Return of the King, animated film, voices of Orson Bean, John Huston, William Conrad
- Return of the Secaucus 7, directed by John Sayles
- El Retorno del Hombre Lobo (Return of the Werewolf) – (Spain)
- Roadie, directed by Alan Rudolph, starring Meat Loaf and Kaki Hunter
- Le Roi et l'oiseau (The King and the Mocking Bird), animated film – (France)
- Rockshow, concert film featuring Paul McCartney and Wings – (U.K.)
- Rough Cut, directed by Don Siegel, starring Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down, David Niven
- Rude Boy, a rockumentary featuring The Clash – (U.K.)
S[]
- Sällskapsresan (The Charter Trip), directed by and starring Lasse Åberg – (Sweden)
- Saturn 3, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel
- The Sea Wolves, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, Roger Moore – (UK/US/Switzerland)
- See You in the Next War (enja u sledećem ratu) – (Yugoslavia)
- Seems Like Old Times, starring Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase and Charles Grodin
- Serial, starring Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, Christopher Lee, Bill Macy, Sally Kellerman, Tom Smothers
- The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
- Simon, starring Alan Arkin
- A Small Circle of Friends, starring Brad Davis and Karen Allen
- Smokey and the Bandit II, directed by Hal Needham, starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed and Dom DeLuise
- Solo Sunny – (East Germany)
- Somewhere in Time, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour
- Special Treatment (Poseban tretman) – (Yugoslavia)
- Stardust Memories, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Charlotte Rampling and Jessica Harper
- Stir Crazy, directed by Sidney Poitier, starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder
- Stalker, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and released in 1979 but later released in 1980
- The Stunt Man, directed by Richard Rush, starring Peter O'Toole, Barbara Hershey, Steve Railsback
- Sunday Lovers, starring Gene Wilder, Roger Moore, Lino Ventura
- Superman II, starring Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Terence Stamp
T[]
- Terror Train, starring Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner
- La terrazza (The Terrace), starring Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi – (Italy)
- That Sinking Feeling, directed by Bill Forsyth, starring John Gordon Sinclair – (U.K.)
- Those Lips, Those Eyes, starring Frank Langella, Glynnis O'Connor, Tom Hulce
- Times Square, directed by Allen Moyle, starring Robin Johnson, Trini Alvarado, Tim Curry
- To Love the Damned (Maledetti vi amerò) – (Italy)
- Tom Horn, starring Steve McQueen, Richard Farnsworth, Linda Evans
- Tribute, starring Jack Lemmon – (Canada)
- Twelve Months (Sekai Meisaku Douwa Mori wa Ikiteiru / Dvenadtsat mesyatsev) – (Japan/U.S.S.R.)
U[]
- The Unseen, starring Barbara Bach and Stephen Furst
- Up the Academy, directed by Robert Downey Sr.
- Urban Cowboy, directed by James Bridges, starring John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn, Madolyn Smith, Barry Corbin
- Used Cars, directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Kurt Russell, Deborah Harmon, Jack Warden, Gerrit Graham
V[]
- Virus (Fukkatsu no hi), starring Sonny Chiba and Glenn Ford – (Japan)
- Le Voyage en douce, starring Dominique Sanda and Geraldine Chaplin – (France)
W[]
- Waiter, Scarper! (Vrchní, prchni!) – (Czechoslovakia)
- The Watcher in the Woods, starring Bette Davis – (UK/US)
- When Time Ran Out, starring Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Burgess Meredith, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons
- Where the Buffalo Roam, directed by Art Linson, starring Bill Murray and Peter Boyle
- Wholly Moses!, starring Dudley Moore, Laraine Newman, Paul Sand, Dom DeLuise
- Who's Singin' Over There? (Ko to tamo peva) – (Yugoslavia)
- Why Would I Lie?, starring Treat Williams, Lisa Eichhorn, Valerie Curtin
- Willie & Phil, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Margot Kidder, Ray Sharkey, Michael Ontkean
- Windows, starring Talia Shire and Elizabeth Ashley
- Witches' Brew, starring Teri Garr and Richard Benjamin
X[]
- Xanadu, starring Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck, Gene Kelly
Y[]
- The Young Master (Shi di chu ma), directed by and starring Jackie Chan – (Hong Kong)
- Yūgure made – (Japan)
Z[]
- Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs), directed by Seijun Suzuki – (Japan)
1980 Wide-release movies[]
United States unless stated
January–March[]
| Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J A N U A R Y |
18 | Cardiac Arrest | Film Ventures International | Murray Mintz (director/screenplay); Max Gail, Garry Goodrow, Mike Paul Chan, Ray Reinhardt, Robert Behling, Susan O'Connell, Fred Ward | Slasher, Thriller | Live action |
| Just Tell Me What You Want | Warner Bros. | Sidney Lumet (director); Jay Presson Allen (screenplay); Ali MacGraw, Alan King, Peter Weller, Myrna Loy, Dina Merrill, Keenan Wynn, Tony Roberts, Judy Kaye, Joseph Maher | Comedy | Live action | ||
| Windows | United Artists / Mike Lobell Productions | Gordon Willis (director); Barry Siegel (screenplay); Talia Shire, Joseph Cortese, Elizabeth Ashley, Kay Medford, Michael Lipton, Ron Ryan, Michael Gorrin, Russell Horton, Rick Petrucelli, Tony DiBenedetto, Marty Greene, Gerry Vichi | Thriller | Live action | ||
| 22 | In Search of Historic Jesus | Sunn Classic Pictures | Henning Schellerup (director); Jack Jacobs, Lee Roddy, Charles E. Sellier Jr., Robert Starling, Malvin Wald (screenplay); John Rubinstein, Brad Crandall | Documentary | Live action | |
| 23 | Caboblanco | AVCO Embassy Pictures | J. Lee Thompson (director); Morton S. Fine, Milton S. Gelman (screenplay); Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Dominique Sanda, Fernando Rey, Denny Miller, Simon MacCorkindale, Camilla Sparv, Gilbert Roland, Clifton James | Drama | Live action | |
| 30 | To All a Goodnight | Intercontinental Releasing Corporation / Four Features Partners | David Hess (director); Alex Rebar (screenplay); Jennifer Runyon, Forrest Swanson, Linda Gentile, William Lauer, Judith Bridges, Katherine Herrington, Buck West, Sam Shamshak, Angela Bath, Denise Stearns, Solomon Trager, Jeff Butts, Dan Stryker | Slasher | Live action | |
| F E B R U A R Y |
1 | American Gigolo | Paramount Pictures | Paul Schrader (director/screenplay); Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Nina van Pallandt, Tom Stewart, Robert Wightman, David Cryer, Brian Davies, Richard Derr, Bill Duke, Héctor Elizondo, Frances Bergen, Carol Bruce, K Callan, Patricia Carr, Carole Cook, MacDonald Carey, William Dozier | Neo-Noir, Crime, Drama | Live action |
| Fatso | 20th Century Fox / Brooksfilms | Anne Bancroft (director/screenplay); Dom DeLuise, Anne Bancroft, Candice Azzara, Ron Carey, David Comfort, Richard Karron, Michael Lombard, Ralph Manza, Estelle Reiner, Natasha Ryan, Sal Viscuso, Paul Zegler, Father Bob Curtis | Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| Simon | Orion Pictures | Marshall Brickman (director/screenplay); Alan Arkin, Madeline Kahn, Austin Pendleton, Judy Graubart, William Finley, Wallace Shawn, Jayant, Max Wright, Fred Gwynne, Adolph Green, Keith Szarabajka, Ann Risley, Rex Robbins, David Warrilow, Louise Lasser, Dick Cavett, Pierre Epstein, Roy Cooper, Hetty Galen | Comedy | Live action | ||
| 8 | 2001: A Space Odyssey (re-release) | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Stanley Kubrick (director/screenplay); Arthur C. Clarke (screenplay); Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan, Douglas Rain, Edward Bishop, Penny Brahms, Alan Gifford, Ann Gillis, Vivian Kubrick, Kenneth Kendall, Frank Miller, Edwina Carroll, Heather Downham, Maggie d'Abo, Chela Matthison, Judy Keirn | Epic, Sci-Fi | Live action | |
| Hero at Large | United Artists | Martin Davidson (director); AJ Carothers (screenplay); John Ritter, Anne Archer, Bert Convy, Kevin McCarthy, Harry Bellaver, Leonard Harris, Kevin Bacon, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Robin Sherwood, Penny Crone, Jane Hallaren | Superhero, Comedy | Live action | ||
| The Fog | AVCO Embassy Pictures | John Carpenter (director/screenplay); Debra Hill (screenplay); Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Houseman, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook, Tom Atkins, Nancy Loomis, Charles Cyphers, George Buck Flower, Darwin Joston, Rob Bottin, John Carpenter, Ty Mitchell, James Canning, John F. Goff, Regina Waldon | Horror | Live action | ||
| The Last Married Couple in America | Universal Pictures | Gilbert Cates (director); John Herman Shaner (screenplay); George Segal, Natalie Wood, Richard Benjamin, Valerie Harper, Dom DeLuise, Bob Dishy, Arlene Golonka, Allan Arbus, Priscilla Barnes, Catherine Hickland, Sondra Currie, Oliver Clark | Comedy | Live action | ||
| Midnight Madness | Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution | Michael Nankin, David Wechter (directors/screenplay); David Naughton, Michael J. Fox, Stephen Furst, Maggie Roswell, Eddie Deezen, Dirk Blocker, Patricia Alice Albrecht, Andy Tennant, Irene Tedrow, John Fiedler, Charlie Brill, Loretta Tupper, Marvin Kaplan, Georgia Schmidt, Paul Reubens, John Voldstad, Emily Greer, Debra Clinger, Brad Wilkin, Alan Solomon, Debi Richter, Kirsten Baker, Ceil Gabot, Tony Salome | Comedy | Live action | ||
| The Young Master | Golden Harvest / Media Asia Group | Jackie Chan (director/screenplay); Edward Tang, Lau Tin-chi, Tung Lu (screenplay); Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Fung Fung, Shih Kien, Tien Feng, Lee Hoi-sang, Lily Li, Hwang In-Shik, Fung Hak-kun, Wei Pai, Fan Mei, Yue Tau-ean, Bruce Tang Yim-chan | Action, Martial Arts | Live action | ||
| 15 | Caligula | Produzioni Atlas Consorziate (P.A.C.) / Analysis Film Releasing Corporation / Penthouse Films International / Felix Cinematografica | Tinto Brass (director/screenplay); Giancarlo Lui, Bob Guccione (directors); Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Guido Mannari, Patrick Allen, Giancarlo Badessi, Adriana Asti, Leopoldo Trieste, Paolo Bonacelli, Joss Ackland, John Steiner, Mirella D'Angelo, Richard Parets, Osiride Pevarello, Anneka Di Lorenzo, Bruno Brive, Paula Mitchell, Donato Placido, Lori Wagner, Valerie Rae Clark, Susanne Saxon, Jane Hargrave, Carolyn Patsis, Bonnie Dee Wilson | Historical, Drama | Live action | |
| Cruising | United Artists / Lorimar Film Entertainment | William Friedkin (director/screenplay); Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox, Don Scardino, Joe Spinell, Jay Acovone, Randy Jurgensen, Barton Heyman, Gene Davis, Arnaldo Santana, Larry Atlas, Allan Miller, Sonny Grosso, Edward O'Neill, Michael Aronin, James Remar, William Russ, Mike Starr, Leo Burmester, Henry Judd Baker, Steve Inwood, Keith Prentice, Leland Starnes, Powers Boothe | Crime, Thriller | Live action | ||
| Mad Max | Warner Bros. / Roadshow Film Distributors / Kennedy Miller Productions | George Miller (director/screenplay); James McCausland (screenplay); Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, Roger Ward, Geoff Parry, Jonathan Hardy, Brendan Heath, Sheila Florence, John Ley, Steve Millichamp, Vincent Gil, Lulu Pinkus, Reg Evans, Karen Moregold | Action, Thriller | Live action | ||
| Saturn 3 | ITC Film Distribution | Stanley Donen (director); Martin Amis (screenplay); Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel, Roy Dotrice, Ed Bishop | Sci-Fi | Live action | ||
| 25 | Scruples | CBS / Warner Bros. Television Distribution | Alan J. Levi (director); James Lee (teleplay); Lindsay Wagner, Barry Bostwick, Marie-France Pisier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Kim Cattrall, Gene Tierney, Nick Mancuso, Gavin MacLeod, Connie Stevens, Robert Reed, Gary Graham | Romance, Drama | Live action | |
| 29 | Good Riddance | Pan-Canadian Film Distributors | Francis Mankiewicz (director); Réjean Ducharme (screenplay); Charlotte Laurier, Marie Tifo, Germain Houde, Louise Marleau, Roger Lebel, Gilbert Sicotte, Serge Thériault, Jean Pierre Bergeron, Leo Ilial | Drama | Live action | |
| Don't Answer the Phone | Crown International Pictures | Robert Hammer (director/screenplay); Michael D. Castle (screenplay); James Westmoreland, Denise Galik, Nicholas Worth, Ben Frank, Flo Garrish, Stan Haze, Gary Allen, Michael D. Castle, Pamela Jean Bryant | Horror | Live action | ||
| Foxes | United Artists / PolyGram Pictures / Casablanca Records & Filmworks | Adrian Lyne (director); Gerald Ayres (screenplay); Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid, Cherie Currie, Lois Smith, Laura Dern, Robert Romanus, Adam Faith, Marilyn Kagan, Kandice Stroh | Coming-of-Age, Drama | Live action | ||
| The Ninth Configuration | Warner Bros. / United Film Distribution | William Peter Blatty (director/screenplay); Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders, Neville Brand, George DiCenzo, Moses Gunn, Robert Loggia, Joe Spinell, Alejandro Rey, Tom Atkins, Steve Sandor, Richard Lynch, William Peter Blatty | Drama | Live action | ||
| S*H*E | Nb Productions | Robert Michael Lewis (director); Richard Maibaum (screenplay); Cornelia Sharpe, Omar Sharif, Robert Lansing, Anita Ekberg, Fabio Testi, William Traylor, Isabella Rye, Tom Christopher, Mario Colli, Claudio Ruffini, Geoffrey Copleston, Fortunato Arena, Gino Marturano, Emilio Messina, Rory Maclean, Fritz Hammer | Spy | Live action | ||
| M A R C H |
7 | Coal Miner's Daughter | Universal Pictures | Michael Apted (director); Tom Rickman (screenplay); Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo, Levon Helm, William Sanderson, Grant Turner, Ernest Tubb, Roy Acuff, Minnie Pearl, Bob Elkins, Phyllis Boyens, Bob Hannah | Biography, Musical | Live action |
| Lady and the Tramp (re-release) | Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Film Distribution | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske (directors); Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Bill Thompson, Dallas McKennon, Bill Baucom, Verna Felton, Peggy Lee, George Givot, Lee Millar, Stan Freberg, Alan Reed, Thurl Ravenscroft, The Mellomen | Musical, Romance | Animation | ||
| Permanent Vacation | Cinesthesia | Jim Jarmusch (director/screenplay); Richard Boes, Ruth Bolton, Sara Driver, María Duval, Frankie Faison, Jane Fire, Suzanne Fletcher, Leila Gastil, Chris Hameon, John Lurie, Eric Mitchell, Chris Parker, Lisa Rosen, Felice Rosser, Evelyn Smith, Charlie Spademan | Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| 14 | Defiance | American International Pictures | John Flynn (director); Thomas Michael Donnelly, Mark Tulin (screenplay); Jan-Michael Vincent, Theresa Saldana, Art Carney, Danny Aiello, Rudy Ramos, Lenny Montana, Joseph Campanella, Santos Morales, Frank Pesce, Fernando López | Action, Neo-Noir, Crime | Live action | |
| A Small Circle of Friends | United Artists | Rob Cohen (director); Tim Zinnemann (screenplay); Brad Davis, Karen Allen, Jameson Parker, Shelley Long, Peter Mark | Drama | Live action | ||
| 15 | Breaker Morant | Roadshow Film Distributors | Bruce Beresford (director/screenplay); Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens (screenplay); Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Terence Donovan, Ray Meagher, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Rod Mullinar, Frank Wilson, David Wenham, Alan Cassell, Vincent Ball, Chris Haywood, Russell Kiefel, Rob Steele, Chris Smith, Frank Wilson, Bruno Knez | War, Drama | Live action | |
| 21 | Forbidden Zone | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | Richard Elfman (director/screenplay); Matthew Bright, Nick James, Nick L. Martinson (screenplay); Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell, Marie-Pascale Elfman, Danny Elfman, Gisele Lindley, Jan Stuart Schwartz, Virginia Rose, Ugh-Fudge Bwana, Phil Gordon, Hyman Diamond, Toshiro Boloney, Viva, Joe Spinell, The Kipper Kids, Kedric Wolfe, Herman Bernstein, Richard Elfman | Musical, Fantasy, Comedy | Live action | |
| Little Darlings | Paramount Pictures | Ronald F. Maxwell (director); Kimi Peck, Dalene Young (screenplay); Tatum O'Neal, Kristy McNichol, Armand Assante, Matt Dillon, Maggie Blye, Nicolas Coster, Marianne Gordon, Krista Errickson, Alexa Kenin, Cynthia Nixon, Mary Betten, Abby Bluestone, Troas Hayes, Simone Schachter, Jenn Thompson | Teen, Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| Little Miss Marker | Universal Pictures | Walter Bernstein (director/screenplay); Damon Runyon (screenplay); Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart, Sara Stimson, Brian Dennehy, Kenneth McMillan, Lee Grant, Andrew Rubin, Ralph Manza | Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| Nijinsky | Paramount Pictures / Hera Productions | Herbert Ross (director); Hugh Wheeler, Romola Nijinsky, Vaslav Nijinsky (screenplay); Alan Bates, Leslie Browne, George de la Peña, Alan Badel, Colin Blakely, Carla Fracci, Ronald Pickup, Vernon Dobtcheff, Frederick Jaeger, Janet Suzman, Siân Phillips, Ronald Lacey, Jeremy Irons, Anton Dolin, Hetty Baynes | Biography | Live action | ||
| 28 | The Changeling | Pan-Canadian Film Distributors / Chessman Park Productions | Peter Medak (director); William Gray, Diana Maddox (screenplay); George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, John Colicos, Jean Marsh, Helen Burns, Madeleine Sherwood, Barry Morse, Helen Burns, Frances Hyland, Eric Christmas, Roberta Maxwell, J. Kenneth Campbell, Janne Mortil, Terence Kelly, Antonia Rey, Louis Zorich, Bernard Behrens, James B. Douglas, Michelle Martin, Voldi Way | Horror | Live action | |
| Gilda Live | Warner Bros. | Mike Nichols (director); Anne Beatts, Lorne Michaels, Marilyn Suzanne Miller, Don Novello, Michael O'Donoghue, Gilda Radner, Paul Shaffer, Rosie Shuster, Alan Zweibel (screenplay); Gilda Radner | Comedy, Documentary | Live action | ||
| Serial | Paramount Pictures | Bill Persky (director); Rich Eustis, Michael Elias (screenplay); Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, Jennifer McAllister, Sally Kellerman, Bill Macy, Pamela Bellwood, Peter Bonerz, Christopher Lee, Sam Chew Jr., Nita Talbot, Barbara Rhoades, Stacey Nelkin, Tom Smothers, Clark Brandon, Robin Sherwood, Anthony Battaglia, Ann Weldon, Patch Mackenzie, Paul Rossilli | Comedy | Live action | ||
| Tom Horn | Warner Bros. / First Artists / Solar Productions | William Wiard (director); Thomas McGuane, Bud Shrake (screenplay); Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush, Slim Pickens, Elisha Cook, Roy Jenson, James Kline, Geoffrey Lewis, Harry Northup, Steve Oliver, Bill Thurman, Bobby Bass, Mickey Jones, Mel Novak, Chuck Hayward, Clark Coleman, Drummond Barclay, Peter Canon, Bert Williams | Western | Live action | ||
| When Time Ran Out | Warner Bros. | James Goldstone (director); Carl Foreman, Stirling Silliphant (screenplay); Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Red Buttons, Barbara Carrera, Valentina Cortese, Veronica Hamel, Alex Karras, Burgess Meredith, Ernest Borgnine, James Franciscus, John Considine, Sheila Allen, Pat Morita, Lonny Chapman, Sandy Kenyon, Ava Readdy, Glynn Rubin | Disaster | Live action | ||
April–June[]
| Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A P R I L |
1 | The Baltimore Bullet | AVCO Embassy Pictures | Robert Ellis Miller (director); John Brascia, Robert Vincent O'Neil (screenplay); James Coburn, Omar Sharif, Bruce Boxleitner, Ronee Blakley, Jack O'Halloran, Calvin Lockhart, Michael Lerner, Rockne Tarkington, Paul Barselou | Comedy | Live action |
| 7 | Health | 20th Century Fox / Lion's Gate Films | Robert Altman (director/screenplay); Frank Barhydt, Paul Dooley (screenplay); Carol Burnett, Glenda Jackson, James Garner, Lauren Bacall, Paul Dooley, Henry Gibson, Alfre Woodard, Donald Moffat, Dick Cavett, Dinah Shore, Nancy Foster, Nathalie Blossom, Julie Janney, Patty Katz, Diane Shaffer | Comedy | Live action | |
| North Sea Hijack | Universal/CIC | Andrew V. McLaglen (director); Jack Davies (screenplay); Roger Moore, Lea Brodie, James Mason, Anthony Perkins, Michael Parks, David Hedison, Jack Watson, George Baker, Jeremy Clyde, David Wood, Faith Brook, Anthony Pullen Shaw, Philip O'Brien, John Westbrook, Jennifer Hilary, John Lee | Action | Live action | ||
| 10 | Bad Timing | World Northal | Nicolas Roeg (director); Yale Udoff (screenplay); Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Massey, Dana Gillespie, William Hootkins, Eugene Lipinski, Ania Marson, Lex van Delden, Gertan Klauber, George Roubicek, Robert Walker, Stefan Gryff, Sevilla Delofski | Drama | Live action | |
| Home Movies | United Artists | Brian De Palma (director); Kim Ambler, Dana Edelman, Robert Harders, Stephen Le May, Charlie Loventhal, Gloria Norris (screenplay); Kirk Douglas, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Vincent Gardenia, Gerrit Graham, Theresa Saldana | Comedy | Live action | ||
| 17 | The Private Eyes | New World Pictures / The Private Eyes Partners Limited | Lang Elliott (director); Tim Conway, John Myhers (screenplay); Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Trisha Noble, John Fujioka, Bernard Fox, Grace Zabriskie, Stan Ross, Irwin Keyes, Suzy Mandel | Comedy, Mystery | Live action | |
| Stalker | Goskino / Mosfilm | Andrei Tarkovsky (director/screenplay); Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky (screenplay); Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko, Alisa Freindlich, Sergei Yakovlev, Natasha Abramova, Faime Jurno, E. Kostin, Raymo Rendi, Vladimir Zamansky | Sci-Fi, Art, Drama | Live action | ||
| The Watcher in the Woods | Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution | John Hough (director); Brian Clemens, Harry Spalding, Rosemary Anne Sisson (screenplay); Bette Davis, Carroll Baker, David McCallum, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards, Ian Bannen, Richard Pasco, Frances Cuka, Benedict Taylor, Eleanor Summerfield, Georgina Hale, Katharine Levy | Horror | Live action | ||
| 24 | Death Watch | Quartet Films / SELTA Films / Little Bear / Sara Films / Gaumont / Antenne 2 / TV 13 Munich | Bertrand Tavernier (director/screenplay); David Rayfiel (screenplay); Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Max von Sydow, Harry Dean Stanton, Thérèse Liotard, William Russell, Vadim Glowna, Caroline Langrishe, Bernhard Wicki, Robbie Coltrane | Sci-Fi | Live action | |
| 25 | Heart Beat | Warner Bros. | John Byrum (director/screenplay); Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, John Heard, Ray Sharkey, Ann Dusenberry, Margaret Fairchild, John Larroquette, David Lynch, Tony Bill, Don Brodie | Romance, Drama | Live action | |
| Where the Buffalo Roam | Universal Pictures | Art Linson (director); John Kaye (screenplay); Bill Murray, Peter Boyle, Bruno Kirby, René Auberjonois, R.G. Armstrong, Mark Metcalf, Craig T. Nelson, Brian Cummings | Biography, Comedy | Live action | ||
| M A Y |
1 | Gorp | American International Pictures | Joseph Ruben (director); Jeffrey Konvitz, A. Martin Zweiback (screenplay); Michael Lembeck, Dennis Quaid, Fran Drescher, Rosanna Arquette, Philip Casnoff, Lisa Shure, David Huddleston, Robert Trebor, Lou Wagner, Julius Harris | Comedy | Live action |
| 9 | Friday the 13th | Paramount Pictures | Sean S. Cunningham (director); Victor Miller (screenplay); Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Mark Nelson, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, Kevin Bacon, Rex Everhart, Ronn Carroll, Walt Gorney, Ari Lehman, Peter Brouwer, Willie Adams, Debra S. Hayes, Sally Anne Golden | Slasher | Live action | |
| The Nude Bomb | Universal Pictures | Clive Donner (director); Bill Dana, Arne Sultan, Leonard Stern (screenplay); Don Adams, Sylvia Kristel, Rhonda Fleming, Dana Elcar, Pamela Hensley, Andrea Howard, Norman Lloyd, Vittorio Gassman, Earl Maynard, Robert Karvelas, Gary Imhoff, Sarah Rush, Joey Forman, Robert Ball, Walter Brooke, Richard Sanders, Vito Scotti, Bill Dana, Thomas Hill | Spy, Comedy | Live action | ||
| Out of the Blue | Les Productions Karim | Dennis Hopper (director); Leonard Yakir, Gary Jules Juvenat (screenplay); Linda Manz, Dennis Hopper, Sharon Farrell, Don Gordon, Raymond Burr, Eric Allen, Fiona Brody, David Crowley, Joan Hoffman, Carl Nelson, Francis Ann Pettit, Glen Pfeifer, Jim Byrnes, Pointed Sticks | Drama | Live action | ||
| 11 | The Return of the King | ABC / Topcraft / Rankin/Bass Productions | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. (directors); Romeo Muller (screenplay); Orson Bean, John Huston, William Conrad, Roddy McDowall, Theodore Bikel, Paul Frees, Nellie Bellflower, Brother Theodore, Casey Kasem, Sonny Melendrez, Don Messick, John Stephenson, Glenn Yarbrough | Musical, Fantasy | Animation | |
| 16 | Fame | United Artists | Alan Parker (director); Christopher Gore (screenplay); Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean, Antonia Franceschi, Boyd Gaines, Albert Hague, Tresa Hughes, Steve Inwood, Paul McCrane, Anne Meara, Joanna Merlin, Barry Miller, Jim Moody, Gene Anthony Ray, Maureen Teefy, Debbie Allen, Richard Belzer, Bill Britten, Isaac Mizrahi, Sal Piro, Michael DeLorenzo, Meg Tilly | Teen, Drama | Live action | |
| The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle | Virgin Films | Julien Temple (director/screenplay); Malcolm McLaren, Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Sid Vicious, Johnny Rotten, Ronnie Biggs, Mary Millington, Irene Handl, Liz Fraser, Jess Conrad, Helen of Troy, Tenpole Tudor, James Aubrey, Johnny Shannon, Judy Croll, Peter Dean, Dave Dee, Alan Jones | Mockumentary | Live action | ||
| Humanoids from the Deep | New World Pictures | Barbara Peeters (director); Frederick James (screenplay); Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow, Lynn Schiller, Anthony Pena, Denise Galik, David Strassman, Greg Travis, Linda Shayne, Cindy Weintraub, Meegan King, Breck Costin, Hoke Howell, Don Maxwell, Lisa Glaser, Julie Kestel, Bruce Monette, Shawn Erler | Sci-Fi | Live action | ||
| The Long Riders | United Artists / Huka Productions | Walter Hill (director); Bill Bryden, Steven Phillip Smith, Stacy Keach, James Keach (screenplay); David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, James Keach, Stacy Keach, Dennis Quaid, Randy Quaid, Christopher Guest, Nicholas Guest, Savannah Smith Boucher, James Whitmore Jr., Kevin Brophy, Harry Carey Jr., Shelby Leverington, Felice Orlandi, Pamela Reed, Lin Shaye, James Remar, Ever Carradine, Kalen Keach | Western | Live action | ||
| 21 | The Empire Strikes Back | 20th Century Fox / Lucasfilm | Irvin Kershner (director); Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan (screenplay); Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, Frank Oz, Alec Guinness, Jeremy Bulloch, John Hollis, Jack Purvis, Clive Revill, Kenneth Colley, Julian Glover, Michael Sheard, Michael Culver, Bruce Boa, Christopher Malcolm, Denis Lawson, Richard Oldfield, John Morton, Ian Liston, John Ratzenberger, Brigitte Kahn, Bob Anderson, Richard Bonehill, Tony Clarkin, Peter Diamond, Marjorie Eaton, Mike Edmonds, Stuart Fell, Joe Johnston, Ralph McQuarrie, Treat Williams, Jason Wingreen | Sci-Fi, Fantasy | Live action | |
| 23 | Carny | United Artists / Lorimar Film Entertainment | Robert Kaylor (director/screenplay); Phoebe Kaylor, Robbie Robertson, Thomas Baum (screenplay); Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson, Meg Foster, Kenneth McMillan, Elisha Cook Jr., Tim Thomerson, Teddy Wilson, John Lehne, Bill McKinney, Bert Remsen, Woodrow Parfrey, Alan Braunstein, Tina Andrews, Craig Wasson, Fred Ward, Johann Petursson | Drama | Live action | |
| Die Laughing | Orion Pictures | Jeff Werner (director); Jerry Segal, Robby Benson, Scott Parker (screenplay); Robby Benson, Linda Grovenor, Charles Durning, Elsa Lanchester, Bud Cort, Rita Taggart, Larry Hankin, Sam Krachmalnick, Peter Coyote, Charles Fleischer, Carel Struycken, Maurice Argent, Rhoda Gemignani, O-Lan Jones, Marty Zagon, Michael David Lee, Charles Harwood, Melanie Henderson, Chuck Dorsett, John Bracci, John Tim Burrus, Roger Johnson, John E. Tidwell, Cynthia Brian | Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| The Gong Show Movie | Universal Pictures | Chuck Barris (director/screenplay); Robert Downey (screenplay); Chuck Barris, Robin Altman, James B. Douglas, Mabel King, Jaye P. Morgan, Rip Taylor | Comedy | Live action | ||
| The Shining | Warner Bros. | Stanley Kubrick (director/screenplay); Diane Johnson (screenplay); Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone, Joe Turkel, Anne Jackson, Tony Burton, Barry Dennen, Lia Beldam, Billie Gibson, Lisa and Louise Burns | Horror | Live action | ||
| 30 | Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) | Paramount Pictures / Bill Melendez Productions / Lee Mendelson Film Productions / United Feature Syndicate | Bill Melendez, Phil Roman (directors); Charles M. Schulz (screenplay); Arrin Skelley, Daniel Anderson, Patricia Patts, Casey Carlson, Annalisa Bortolin, Laura Planting, Bill Melendez, Pascale De Barolet, Roseline Rubens, Debbie Muller, Scott Beach | Comedy | Animation | |
| The Hollywood Knights | Columbia Pictures / PolyGram Pictures / Casablanca Filmworks | Floyd Mutrux (director/screenplay); Robert Wuhl, Tony Danza, Fran Drescher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stuart Pankin, Debra Feuer, Leigh French, Glenn Withrow, Gary Graham, Sandy Helberg, Gailard Sartain, Richard Schaal, Randy Gornel, James Jeter, P.R. Paul, Julius Averitt, Carol Ann Williams | Teen, Comedy | Live action | ||
| J U N E |
1 | The Mountain Men | Columbia Pictures / Polyc International BV | Richard Lang (director); Fraser Clarke Heston (screenplay); Charlton Heston, Brian Keith, Stephen Macht, John Glover, Seymour Cassel, Bill Lucking, Victor Jory, Michael Greene, Victoria Racimo, David Ackroyd, Cal Bellini, Ken Ruta | Adventure, Western | Live action |
| 4 | The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood | Cannon Films / Golan-Globus Productions | Alan Roberts (director); Devin Goldenberg (screenplay); Martine Beswick, Adam West, Phil Silvers, Chris Lemmon, Edie Adams, Richard Deacon, Dick Miller, Charles Green, Lisa London, Tanya Boyd, Susan Kiger, Lindsay Bloom, Army Archerd, Kim Hopkins | Comedy | Live action | |
| 6 | Galaxina | Crown International Pictures | William Sachs (director/screenplay); Stephen Macht, Avery Schreiber, James David Hinton, Dorothy Stratten, Lionel Mark Smith, Tad Horino, Percy Rodrigues, George Mather, Susan Kiger, Rhonda Shear, Ronald J. Knight, Herb Kaplowitz, Nancy McCauley, Fred D. Scott | Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comedy | Live action | |
| Up the Academy | Warner Bros. | Robert Downey Sr. (director); Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses (screenplay); Wendell Brown, Tommy Citera, Ron Leibman, Harry Teinowitz, Hutch Parker, Ralph Macchio, Tom Poston, King Coleman, Barbara Bach, Ian Wolfe, Antonio Fargas, Stacey Nelkin, Leonard Frey, Robert Downey Jr. | Comedy | Live action | ||
| Urban Cowboy | Paramount Pictures | James Bridges (director/screenplay); Aaron Latham (screenplay); John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn, Barry Corbin, Madolyn Smith, Brooke Alderson, Cooper Huckabee, James Gammon, Mickey Gilley, Johnny Lee, Bonnie Raitt, Charlie Daniels, Tamara Champlin, Jerry Hall, Ellen March, Jessie La Rive, Howard Henson, Connie Hanson, Becky Conway, Cyndy Hall | Romance, Western | Live action | ||
| 11 | Bronco Billy | Warner Bros. | Clint Eastwood (director); Dennis Hackin (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Scatman Crothers, Bill McKinney, Sam Bottoms, Dan Vadis, Sierra Pecheur, Walter Barnes, Woodrow Parfrey, Beverlee McKinsey, Doug McGrath, Hank Worden, Tessa Richarde, William Prince | Western | Live action | |
| 13 | The Children | World Northal | Max Kalmanowicz (director); Carlton J. Albright, Edward Terry (screenplay); Martin Shakar, Gil Rogers, Gale Garnett, Shannon Bolin, Peter Maloney, Tracy Griswold, Joy Glaccum, Jeptha Evans, Clara Evans, Sarah Albright, Nathanael Albright, Julie Carrier, Michelle Le Mothe, Edward Terry, Jessie Abrams, Rita Montone, John P. Codiglia, Martin Brennan, J.D. Clarke, James Klawin, Arthur Chase, Suzanne Barnes, Diane Deckard, David Platt, Michael Carrier, June Berry, Ray Delmolino, X. Ben Fakackt | Horror | Live action | |
| The Island | Universal Pictures / Zanuck/Brown Company | Michael Ritchie (director); Peter Benchley (screenplay); Michael Caine, David Warner, Angela Punch McGregor, Frank Middlemass, Don Henderson, Dudley Sutton, Colin Jeavons, Jeffrey Frank, Zakes Mokae, Brad Sullivan, Reg Evans | Action, Adventure, Thriller | Live action | ||
| Roadie | United Artists | Alan Rudolph (director/screenplay); Big Boy Medlin, Michael Ventura, Zalman King (screenplay); Meat Loaf, Kaki Hunter, Art Carney, Gailard Sartain, Don Cornelius, Rhonda Bates, Joe Spano, Allan Graf, Merle Kilgore, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Alice Cooper, Blondie, Roy Orbison, Hank Williams Jr., Larry Lindsey, Marcy Hanson, Carole McClellan, Ray Benson, Joe Gannon, Jesse Frederick, Richard Marion, Sonny Davis, Alvin Crow and the Pleasant Valley Boys, Rick Crow and Asleep at the Wheel, Eric Gardner | Musical, Comedy | Live action | ||
| Wholly Moses! | Columbia Pictures | Gary Weis (director); Guy Thomas (screenplay); Dudley Moore, Laraine Newman, James Coco, Paul Sand, Jack Gilford, Dom DeLuise, John Houseman, Madeline Kahn, David L. Lander, Richard Pryor, John Ritter, Richard B. Shull, Tanya Boyd, Ruth Manning, Walker Edmiston | Comedy, Parody, Spoof | Live action | ||
| 19 | Animalympics | NBC / Lisberger Studios | Steven Lisberger (director/screenplay); Michael Fremer (screenplay); Billy Crystal, Gilda Radner, Harry Shearer, Michael Fremer | Comedy | Animation | |
| Rough Cut | Paramount Pictures | Don Siegel (director); Larry Gelbart (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down, David Niven, Timothy West, Patrick Magee, Al Matthews, Susan Littler, Joss Ackland, Isabel Dean, Wolf Kahler, Andrew Ray, Julian Holloway, Douglas Wilmer, Geoffrey Russell, Ronald Hines, David Howey, Frank Mills, Roland Culver, Alan Webb, Cassandra Harris, Sue Lloyd, Cyril Appleton | Heist | Live action | ||
| 20 | The Blues Brothers | Universal Pictures | John Landis (director/screenplay); Dan Aykroyd (screenplay); John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Carrie Fisher, Aretha Franklin, Henry Gibson, John Candy, John Lee Hooker, Kathleen Freeman, Steve Lawrence, Twiggy, Frank Oz, Jeff Morris, Charles Napier, Steven Spielberg, Stephen Bishop, Steven Williams, Armand Cerami, John Landis, Joe Walsh, Ben Piazza, Cindy Fisher, Paul Reubens, Rosie Shuster, Chaka Khan, Gary McLarty, Pinetop Perkins, Mr. T, Carolyn Franklin, De'voreaux White, James Avery, Lou Berryman, Luis Contreras, Raven De La Croix, Ralph Foody, Leonard R. Garner Jr., Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Murphy Dunne, Willie "Too Big" Hall, Tom "Bones" Malone, "Blue Lou" Marini, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, "Mr. Fabulous" Alan Rubin | Musical, Comedy | Live action | |
| Brubaker | 20th Century Fox | Stuart Rosenberg (director); W.D. Richter (screenplay); Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Morgan Freeman, Matt Clark, Tim McIntire, Richard Ward, M. Emmet Walsh, Albert Salmi, Linda Haynes, Everett McGill, Val Avery, Ronald C. Frazier, David D. Harris, Joe Spinell, Wilford Brimley, Nathan George, William Newman, John McMartin, Nicolas Cage | Drama | Live action | ||
| Can't Stop the Music | Associated Film Distribution / EMI Films | Nancy Walker (director); Allan Carr, Bronte Woodard (screenplay); Steve Guttenberg, Valerie Perrine, Bruce Jenner, Paul Sand, Tammy Grimes, Village People, June Havoc, Barbara Rush, Altovise Davis, Marilyn Sokol, Russell Nype, Jack Weston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Dick Patterson | Musical, Comedy | Live action | ||
| 25 | Herbie Goes Bananas | Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution | Vincent McEveety (director); Don Tait (screenplay); Cloris Leachman, Charles Martin Smith, Stephan W. Burns, John Vernon, Elyssa Davalos, Joaquin Garay III, Harvey Korman, Richard Jaeckel, Alex Rocco, Fritz Feld, Vito Scotti, Jose Gonzales-Gonzales, Allan Hunt, Iris Adrian, Jack Perkins, Alma Beltran, Don Diamond, Buddy Joe Hooker, Steve Boyum, Ceil Cabot, Dante D'Andre, Jeff Ramsey | Comedy, Adventure | Live action | |
| The Last Flight of Noah's Ark | Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution | Charles Jarrott (director); Steven W. Carabatsos, Sandy Glass, George Arthur Bloom (screenplay); Elliott Gould, Geneviève Bujold, Ricky Schroder, Vincent Gardenia, Tammy Lauren, John Fujioka, Yuki Shimoda, Dana Elcar, John P. Ryan, Peter Renaday, Ruth Manning, Arthur Adams, Austin Willis, Bob Whiting | Family, Adventure | Live action | ||
| The Stunt Man | 20th Century Fox / Melvin Simon Productions | Richard Rush (director/screenplay); Lawrence B. Marcus (screenplay); Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Allen Garfield, Alex Rocco, Sharon Farrell, Adam Roarke, Philip Bruns, Charles Bail, James Avery, Gregg Berger | Action, Comedy | Live action | ||
July–September[]
| Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J U L Y |
2 | Airplane! | Paramount Pictures / Howard W. Koch Productions | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker (directors/screenplay); Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Lorna Patterson, Stephen Stucker, Frank Ashmore, Jonathan Banks, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Barbara Billingsley, Lee Bryant, Nicholas Pryor, Joyce Bulifant, Maureen McGovern, Kenneth Tobey, Barbara Stuart, Rossie Harris, Al White, David Leisure, Jason Wingreen, Jill Whelan, Ethel Merman, Jimmie Walker, James Hong, Howard Jarvis, Michael Laurence, Craig Berenson, Marcy Goldman, Norman Alexander Gibbs, David Hollander, Michelle Stacy, Lee Terri | Comedy | Live action |
| Alligator | Group 1 Films | Lewis Teague (director); John Sayles (screenplay); Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Sidney Lassick, Jack Carter, Perry Lang, Henry Silva, Bart Braverman, Royce D. Applegate, Jim Boeke, Peter Miller, Pat Petersen, Kendall Carly Browne, Micol, Angel Tompkins, Sue Lyon, Dick Richards, Michael Mazurki, Kane Hodder | Horror | Live action | ||
| Jane Austen in Manhattan | Contemporary Films | James Ivory (director); Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (screenplay); Anne Baxter, Robert Powell, Michael Wager, Sean Young, Charles McCaughan, Tim Choate, John Guerrasio, Iman, Katrina Hodiak, Kurt Johnson, Philip Lenkowsky, Nancy New | Romance, Drama | Live action | ||
| The Sea Wolves | Paramount Pictures / Rank Film Distributors | Andrew V. McLaglen (director); Reginald Rose (screenplay); Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard, Barbara Kellerman, Patrick Macnee, Kenneth Griffith, Patrick Allen, Wolf Kahler, Robert Hoffmann, Dan van Husen, George Mikell, Jürgen Andersen, Bernard Archard, Martin Benson, Faith Brook, Allan Cuthbertson, Edward Dentith, Clifford Earl, Rusi Ghandhi, Percy Herbert, Patrick Holt, Donald Houston, Glyn Houston, Victor Langley, Terence Longdon, Michael Medwin, W. Morgan Sheppard, John Standing, Graham Stark, Keith Stevenson, Jack Watson, Moray Watson, Brook Williams, Marc Zuber, Mohan Agashe | War | Live action | ||
| 5 | The Blue Lagoon | Columbia Pictures | Randal Kleiser (director); Douglas Day Stewart (screenplay); Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels, Alan Hopgood, Gus Mercurio, Elva Josephson, Glenn Kohan, Bradley Pryce, Chad Timmermans | Romance, Survival, Drama | Live action | |
| 11 | How to Beat the High Cost of Living | American International Pictures | Robert Scheerer (director); Robert Kaufman, Leonora Thung (screenplay); Jane Curtin, Susan Saint James, Jessica Lange, Dabney Coleman, Richard Benjamin, Fred Willard, Eddie Albert, Cathryn Damon, Ronnie Schell, Michael Bell, Sybil Danning, Al Checco, Susan Tolsky, Art Metrano, Garrett Morris | Crime, Comedy | Live action | |
| Oh! Heavenly Dog | 20th Century Fox | Joe Camp (director/screenplay); Rod Browning (screenplay); Chevy Chase, Benji, Jane Seymour, Omar Sharif, Robert Morley, Stuart Germain, Alan Sues, John Stride, Donnelly Rhodes, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Richard Vernon, Frank Williams, Susan Kellermann, Lorenzo Music, Harry Hill, Kay Tremblay, Albin Pahernik, Margierite Corriveau, Gerald Iles, Jérôme Tiberghien | Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| Used Cars | Columbia Pictures | Robert Zemeckis (director/screenplay); Bob Gale (screenplay); Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Gerrit Graham, Deborah Harmon, Frank McRae, Joe Flaherty, David L. Lander, Michael McKean, Michael Talbott, Harry Northup, Alfonso Arau, Cheryl Rixon, Al Lewis, Woodrow Parfrey, Dub Taylor, Wendie Jo Sperber, Marc McClure, Betty Thomas, Dick Miller, Rita Taggart, Terence Knox, Will McMillan | Black Comedy | Live action | ||
| 18 | The Big Red One | United Artists / Lorimar | Samuel Fuller (director/screenplay); Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco, Kelly Ward, Siegfried Rauch, Stéphane Audran, Marthe Villalonga, Perry Lang, Matteo Zoffoli | Epic, War | Live action | |
| Cheech & Chong's Next Movie | Universal Pictures | Tommy Chong (director/screenplay); Cheech Marin (screenplay); Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Evelyn Guerrero, Edie McClurg, Paul Reubens, Betty Kennedy, Sy Kramer, Rikki Marin, Bob McClurg, John Paragon, Jake Steinfeld, Cassandra Peterson, Rita Wilson, Michael Winslow, John Steadman, Faith Minton, Ben Powers, Carl Weintraub, Lupe M. Ontiveros | Comedy | Live action | ||
| Honeysuckle Rose | Warner Bros. | Jerry Schatzberg (director); John Binder, Gustaf Molander, Carol Sobieski, Gösta Stevens, William D. Wittliff (screenplay); Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, Amy Irving, Slim Pickens, Joey Floyd, Charles Levin, Mickey Rooney Jr., Lane Smith, Pepe Serna, Priscilla Pointer, Diana Scarwid, Jeannie Seely, Emmylou Harris, Mickey Raphael, Grady Martin, Rex Ludwick, Bee Spears | Romance, Drama | Live action | ||
| The Little Dragons | Aurora Film Corporation / Eastwind Productions | Curtis Hanson (director); Harvey Applebaum, Louis G. Atlee, Rudolph Borchert, Alan Ormsby (screenplay); Charles Lane, Ann Sothern, Chris Peterson, Pat Petersen, Sally Boyden, Rick Lenz, Sharon Clark, Joe Spinell, John Davis Chandler, Clifford A. Pellow, Stephen Young, Pat E. Johnson, Bong Soo Han, Tony Bill, Spencer Quinn, Topo Swope, Jim Sherwood | Action, Adventure | Live action | ||
| Prom Night | AVCO Embassy Pictures | Paul Lynch (director); William Gray (screenplay); Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen, Casey Stevens, Eddie Benton, Michael Tough, Robert A. Silverman, Pita Oliver, David Mucci, Mary Beth Rubens, George Touliatos, Melanie Morse, David Bolt, Jeff Wincott, David Gardner, Joy Thompson, Sheldon Rybowski, Antoinette Bower | Slasher | Live action | ||
| 24 | The Earthling | Filmways Pictures | Peter Collinson (director); Lanny Cotler (screenplay); William Holden, Ricky Schroder | Adventure | Live action | |
| 25 | Caddyshack | Orion Pictures | Harold Ramis (director/screenplay); Douglas Kenney, Brian Doyle-Murray (screenplay); Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe, Bill Murray, Sarah Holcomb, Scott Colomby, Cindy Morgan, Dan Resin, Henry Wilcoxon, Elaine Aiken, Albert Salmi, Ann Ryerson, Brian Doyle-Murray, Hamilton Mitchell, Peter Berkrot, John F. Barmon Jr., Lois Kibbee, Brian McConnachie, Scott Powell, Jackie Davis, Thomas A. Carlin, Mel Pape | Sports, Comedy | Live action | |
| Dressed to Kill | Filmways Pictures | Brian De Palma (director/screenplay); Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz, David Margulies, Brandon Maggart, William Finley, Ken Baker, Susanna Clemm | Thriller | Live action | ||
| Middle Age Crazy | 20th Century Fox / Krofft Entertainment / Canadian Film Development Corporation / Guardian Trust Company / Tormont Films | John Trent (director); Carl Kleinschmitt, Jerry Lee Lewis (screenplay); Bruce Dern, Ann-Margret, Graham Jarvis, Deborah Wakeham, Eric Christmas, Helen Hughes, Geoffrey Bowes, Patricia Hamilton, Michael Kane, Diane Dewey, Vivian Reis, Anni Lantuch, Gina Dick, John Facenda | Comedy | Live action | ||
| A U G U S T |
1 | The Final Countdown | United Artists / The Bryna Company | Don Taylor (director); David Ambrose, Gerry Davis, Thomas Hunter, Peter Powell (screenplay); Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, Charles Durning, Victor Mohica, James C. Lawrence, Soon-Tek Oh, Joe Lowry, Alvin Ing, Mark Thomas, Harold Bergman, Richard Liberty, Lloyd Kaufman, Dan Fitzgerald, Peter Douglas | Sci-Fi, War | Live action |
| The Hunter | Paramount Pictures / Rastar | Buzz Kulik (director); Ted Leighton, Peter Hyams (screenplay); Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson, Richard Venture, Tracey Walter, Thomas Rosales Jr., Theodore Wilson | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Live action | ||
| I Go Pogo | Marc Paul Chinoy (director); Skip Hinnant, Ruth Buzzi, Stan Freberg, Arnold Stang, Jonathan Winters, Jimmy Breslin, Vincent Price | Comedy | Animation | |||
| Loose Shoes | National American Films / Brooksfilms | Ira Miller (director/screenplay); Royce D. Applegate, Dan Praiser, Charley Smith (screenplay); Royce D. Applegate, Bill Murray, Lewis Arquette, Howard Hesseman, Susan Tyrrell, Ed Lauter, Tom Baker, Buddy Hackett, Sean Frye, Sandy Helberg, Rod McCary, Sid Haig, Larry Hankin, David Downing, Kinky Friedman, Dan McBride, Brad Ashcraft, Dustin Day, Alexander Stowe | Comedy | Live action | ||
| Raise the Titanic | Associated Film Distribution / ITC Entertainment | Jerry Jameson (director); Adam Kennedy (screenplay); Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer, Dirk Blocker, Alec Guinness, Bo Brundin, M. Emmet Walsh, J.D. Cannon, Norman Bartold, Elya Baskin, Robert Broyles, Paul Carr, Michael C. Gwynne, Harvey Lewis | Adventure | Live action | ||
| 8 | The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu | Orion Pictures / Braun Entertainment Group / Playboy Productions | Piers Haggard (director); Rudy Dochtermann, Jim Moloney, Peter Sellers (screenplay); Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren, David Tomlinson, Sid Caesar, Simon Williams, Steve Franken, Stratford Johns, John Le Mesurier, John Sharp, Clive Dunn, Clément Harari, Burt Kwouk, Kwan-Young Lee, John Tan, Philip Tan, Serge Julien, Johns Rajohnson, Katia Tchenko | Comedy | Live action | |
| Xanadu | Universal Pictures | Robert Greenwald (director); Richard Christian Danus, Marc Reid Rubel (screenplay); Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, Matt Lattanzi, James Sloyan, Dimitra Arliss, Katie Hanley, Fred McCarren, Ren Woods, Melvin Jones, Ira Newborn, Jo Ann Harris, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Coral Browne, Darcel Wynne, Adolfo "Shabba-Doo" Quinones, Miranda Garrison, Sandahl Bergman, Lynne Latham, John "Fee" Waybill, Prairie Prince, Bill Spooner, Vince Welnick, Deborah Jennsen, Alexander Cole, Melinda Phelps, Cherise Bate, Juliette Marshall, Marilyn Tokuda, Yvette Van Voorhees, Teri Beckerman, Rick Anderson, Michael Cotten, Roger Steen, Re Styles | Musical, Fantasy | Live action | ||
| 10 | Why Would I Lie? | United Artists | Larry Peerce (director); Peter Stone (screenplay); Treat Williams, Lisa Eichhorn, Gabriel Macht, Susan Heldfond, Anne Byrne, Valerie Curtin, Jocelyn Brando, Nicolas Coster, Severn Darden, Sonny Davis, Mitzi Hoag, Ilene Kristen, Jan D'Arcy, Jane Burkett, Kay Cummings, Mia Bendixsen, Harriet Gibson, Cynthia Hoppenfeld, Natalie Core, Shirley Slater, Marian Gants | Comedy, Drama | Live action | |
| 15 | The Kidnapping of the President | Crown International Pictures | George Mendeluk (director); Richard Murphy, Charles Templeton (screenplay); William Shatner, Hal Holbrook, Van Johnson, Ava Gardner, Miguel Fernandes, Cindy Girling, Elizabeth Shepherd, Michael J. Reynolds, Gary Reineke, Maury Chaykin, Murray Westgate, Ken Anderson, Sully Boyar, Aubert Pallascio, Virginia Podesser | Thriller | Live action | |
| Smokey and the Bandit II | Universal Pictures / Rastar | Hal Needham (director); Jerry Belson, Brock Yates (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Dom DeLuise, Paul Williams, Pat McCormick, David Huddleston, Mike Henry, John Anderson, Brenda Lee, The Statler Brothers, "Mean Joe" Greene, Mel Tillis, Joe Klecko, Don Williams, Terry Bradshaw, Nancy Lenehan, John Megna, Chuck Yeager, John Robert Nicholson | Action, Comedy | Live action | ||
| Those Lips, Those Eyes | United Artists | Michael Pressman (director); David Shaber (screenplay); Frank Langella, Glynnis O'Connor, Tom Hulce, Jerry Stiller, Herbert Berghof, Kevin McCarthy, Joseph Maher, George Morfogen | Romance | Live action | ||
| Willie & Phil | 20th Century Fox | Paul Mazursky (director/screenplay); Michael Ontkean, Margot Kidder, Ray Sharkey, Jan Miner, Tom Brennan, Julie Bovasso, Louis Guss, Kathleen Maguire, Kaki Hunter, Kristine DeBell, Jerry Hall | Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| 22 | The Octagon | American Cinema Releasing / American Cinema Productions | Eric Karson (director); Leigh Chapman (screenplay); Chuck Norris, Karen Carlson, Lee Van Cleef, Tadashi Yamashita, Carol Bagdasarian, Richard Norton, Art Hindle, Kim Lankford, Kurt Grayson, Yuki Shimoda, Jack Carter, Ernie Hudson, Larry D. Mann, Aaron Norris, John Fujioka, Michael Norris, Brian Tochi | Action, Martial Arts | Live action | |
| 29 | He Knows You're Alone | United Artists | Armand Mastroianni (director); Scott Parker (screenplay); Caitlin O'Heaney, Don Scardino, Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Rolfing, Lewis Arlt, Patsy Pease, James Rebhorn, Dana Barron, Tom Hanks, Paul Gleason, James Carroll, Russell Todd | Slasher | Live action | |
| McVicar | Crown International Pictures / The Who Films / Polytel | Tom Clegg (director/screenplay); John McVicar (screenplay); Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell, Billy Murray, Georgina Hale, Steven Berkoff, Brian Hall, Matthew Scurfield, Harry Fielder, Ian Hendry, Malcolm Tierney, Robert Walker Jr., James Marcus, Tony Haygarth, Anthony May, Peter Jonfield, Leonard Gregory, Joe Turner, Jeremy Blake, Anthony Trent, Terence Stuart, Charles Cork, Paul Kernber, Ronald Herdman, Tony Rohr, Michael Feast, Richard Simpson, Ricky Parkinson | Drama | Live action | ||
| S E P T E M B E R |
8 | Battle Beyond the Stars | New World Pictures | Jimmy T. Murakami (director); John Sayles (screenplay); Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, George Peppard, John Saxon, Sybil Danning, Darlanne Fluegel, Sam Jaffe, Jeff Corey, Morgan Woodward, Marta Kristen, Earl Boen, Lynn Carlin, Lara Cody, Julia Duffy, John Gowens, Larry Meyers, Steve Davis | Space Opera | Live action |
| Return of the Secaucus 7 | Libra Films / Salsipuedes Productions | John Sayles (director/screenplay); Bruce MacDonald, Maggie Renzi, David Strathairn, Adam LeFevre, Maggie Cousineau, Gordon Clapp, Jean Passanante, Karen Trott, Mark Arnott, John Sayles, Marisa Smith, Amy Schewel, Carolyn Brooks, Eric Forsythe, Nancy Mette | Drama | Live action | ||
| 9 | Phobia | Paramount Pictures | John Huston (director); Peter Bellwood, Lew Lehman, Jimmy Sangster (screenplay); Paul Michael Glaser, Susan Hogan, John Colicos, David Eisner, Lisa Langlois, Alexandra Stewart, Kenneth Welsh, David Bolt, Patricia Collins, Robert O'Ree, Neil Vipond, Marian Waldman | Horror, Thriller | Live action | |
| 10 | The Big Brawl | Warner Bros. / Golden Harvest | Robert Clouse (director/screenplay); Jackie Chan, José Ferrer, Kristine DeBell, Mako, Ron Max, David Sheiner, Rosalind Chao, Lenny Montana, Pat E. Johnson, Hard Boiled Haggerty, Chao-Li Chi, Jocelyn Lew, Peter Marc, Gene LeBell, Larry Drake | Martial Arts, Action, Comedy | Live action | |
| The Gods Must Be Crazy | 20th Century Fox | Jamie Uys (director/screenplay); N!xau, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, Nic de Jager, Ken Gampu, Brian O'Shaughnessy, Pip Freedman, Jamie Uys, Michael Thys, Louw Verwey, Simon Sabela, Fanyana Sidumo, Joe Seakatsie | Comedy | Live action | ||
| 19 | The Exterminator | Amsell Entertainment / AVCO Embassy Pictures / Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment / Interstar Pictures | James Glickenhaus (director/screenplay); Robert Ginty, Samantha Eggar, Christopher George, Steve James, George Lee Cheung, Toni Di Benedetto, Dick Boccelli, Patrick Farrelly, Michele Harrell, David Lipman, Tom Everett, Ned Eisenberg, Irwin Keyes, Cindy Wilks, Dennis Boutsikaris, Mark Buntzman, Tony Munafo, Roger Grimsby, Judy Licht, Stan Getz, Samuel L. Jackson | Action | Live action | |
| Melvin and Howard | Universal Pictures | Jonathan Demme (director); Bo Goldman (screenplay); Paul Le Mat, Mary Steenburgen, Pamela Reed, Jason Robards, Michael J. Pollard, Jack Kehoe, Rick Lenz, Dabney Coleman, Charles Napier, Melvin Dummar | Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| Mother's Day | United Film Distribution Company / Duty Productions / Saga Films A.B. | Charles Kaufman (director/screenplay); Warren Leight (screenplay); Nancy Hendrickson, Rose Ross, Robert Collins, Deborah Luce, Tiana Pierce, Gary Pollard, Michael McCleery, Karl Sandys | Slasher | Live action | ||
| Ordinary People | Paramount Pictures / Wildwood Enterprises, Inc. | Robert Redford (director); Alvin Sargent (screenplay); Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth McGovern, M. Emmet Walsh, Dinah Manoff, Fredric Lehne, James B. Sikking, Basil Hoffman, Quinn Redeker, Mariclare Costello, Meg Mundy, Elizabeth Hubbard, Adam Baldwin, Richard Whiting, Tim Clarke, Scott Doebler | Drama | Live action | ||
| Super Fuzz | Columbia / AVCO Embassy / El Pico S.A. / Trans Cinema TV | Sergio Corbucci (director/screenplay); Sabatino Ciuffini (screenplay); Terence Hill, Ernest Borgnine, Joanne Dru, Marc Lawrence, Julie Gordon, Lee Sandman, Sal Borghese, Woody Woodbury | Superhero, Comedy | Live action | ||
| 26 | Divine Madness | Warner Bros. | Michael Ritchie (director); Jerry Blatt, Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch (screenplay); Bette Midler | Concert | Live action | |
| Hopscotch | AVCO Embassy Pictures | Ronald Neame (director); Bryan Forbes, Brian Garfield (screenplay); Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, Herbert Lom, George Baker, Ivor Roberts, Lucy Saroyan, Severn Darden, George Pravda, Mike Gwilym, David Matthau, Terry Beaver, Ray Charleson, Jacquelyn Hyde | Spy, Comedy | Live action | ||
| In God We Tru$t | Universal Pictures | Marty Feldman (director/screenplay); Chris Allen (screenplay); Marty Feldman, Andy Kaufman, Louise Lasser, Peter Boyle, Richard Pryor, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Severn Darden | Comedy | Live action | ||
| My Bodyguard | 20th Century Fox / Melvin Simon Productions | Tony Bill (director); Alan Ormsby (screenplay); Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon, Martin Mull, Ruth Gordon, John Houseman, Craig Richard Nelson, Kathryn Grody, Joan Cusack, George Wendt, Jennifer Beals, Richard Bradley, Tim Reyna, Dean R. Miller, Hank Salas | Family, Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| Resurrection | Universal Pictures | Daniel Petrie (director); Lewis John Carlino (screenplay); Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth, Roberts Blossom, Clifford David, Pamela Payton-Wright, Jeffrey DeMunn, Eva Le Gallienne, Lois Smith, Richard Hamilton, Sylvia Walden, Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood | Drama | Live action | ||
| Stardust Memories | United Artists | Woody Allen (director/screenplay); Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-Christine Barrault, Tony Roberts, Daniel Stern, Amy Wright, Helen Hanft, John Rothman, Anne De Salvo, Leonardo Cimino, Sharon Stone, Jack Rollins, Judith Roberts, Candy Loving, Brent Spiner, Judith Crist, Irwin Keyes, Bonnie Hellman, Cynthia Gibb, Annie Korzen, Largo Woodruff, James Otis, Alice Spivak, Armin Shimerman, Laraine Newman, Louise Lasser, Joe Wilder, Hank Jones, Richie Pratt, Arvell Shaw, Earl Shendell, William Zinsser | Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| Without Warning | Filmways Pictures / World Amusement Partnership | Greydon Clark (director); Lyn Freeman, Daniel Grodnik, Ben Nett, Steve Mathis (screenplay); Jack Palance, Martin Landau, Tarah Nutter, Christopher S. Nelson, Cameron Mitchell, Neville Brand, Ralph Meeker, Darby Hinton, David Caruso, Lynn Thell, Sue Ane Langdon, Larry Storch, Kevin Peter Hall | Horror, Sci-Fi | Live action | ||
October–December[]
| Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O C T O B E R |
3 | Coast to Coast | Paramount Pictures | Joseph Sargent (director); Stanley Weiser (screenplay); Dyan Cannon, Robert Blake, Quinn Redeker, Michael Lerner, Maxine Stuart, William Lucking, Rozelle Gayle, George P. Wilbur, Darwin Joston, Dick Durock, Cassandra Peterson, Karen Montgomery, Vicki Frederick, John Roselius | Romance, Comedy | Live action |
| The First Deadly Sin | Filmways Pictures | Brian G. Hutton (director); Mann Rubin (screenplay); Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, James Whitmore, David Dukes, Brenda Vaccaro, Martin Gabel, Anthony Zerbe, George Coe, Joe Spinell, Jeffrey DeMunn, Bruce Willis | Crime, Thriller | Live action | ||
| Gloria | Columbia Pictures | John Cassavetes (director/screenplay); Gena Rowlands, Julie Carmen, Buck Henry, John Adames, Lupe Garnica, John Finnegan, Tom Noonan, J.C. Quinn, Sonny Landham, Lawrence Tierney | Neo-Noir, Crime, Thriller | Live action | ||
| The Man with Bogart's Face | 20th Century Fox / Melvin Simon Productions | Robert Day (director); Andrew J. Fenady (screenplay); Robert Sacchi, Franco Nero, Michelle Phillips, Olivia Hussey, Misty Rowe, Victor Buono, Sybil Danning, Herbert Lom, Richard Bakalyan, Gregg Palmer, Jay Robinson, George Raft, Yvonne De Carlo, Mike Mazurki, Henry Wilcoxon, Victor Sen Yung | Comedy | Live action | ||
| Oh, God! Book II | Warner Bros. | Gilbert Cates (director); Josh Greenfeld, Hal Goldman, Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs, Melissa Miller (screenplay); George Burns, Suzanne Pleshette, David Birney, Louanne Sirota, John Louie, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Conrad Janis, Hans Conried | Comedy | Live action | ||
| One-Trick Pony | Warner Bros. | Robert M. Young (director); Paul Simon (screenplay); Paul Simon, Blair Brown, Rip Torn, Joan Hackett, Allen Garfield, Mare Winningham, Michael Pearlman, Lou Reed, Steve Gadd, Eric Gale, Tony Levin, Richard Tee, Harry Shearer, Daniel Stern, Sam & Dave, The Lovin' Spoonful, Tiny Tim, The B-52's, David Sanborn | Music, Drama | Live action | ||
| Somewhere in Time | Universal Pictures / Rastar | Jeannot Szwarc (director); Richard Matheson (screenplay); Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright, Bill Irwin, George Voskovec, Susan French, John Alvin, Eddra Gale, Tim Kazurinsky, Richard Matheson, William H. Macy, Sean Hayden, Ali Matheson | Romance, Fantasy, Drama | Live action | ||
| Terror Train | 20th Century Fox / Astral Bellevue Pathe / Sandy Howard Productions / Triple T Productions | Roger Spottiswoode (director); T.Y. Drake (screenplay); Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner, Timothy Webber, Anthony Sherwood, Joy Boushel, D.D. Winters, Howard Busgang, David Copperfield, Sandee Currie, Derek MacKinnon, Elizabeth Cholette, Don Lamoreux, Steve Michaels, Charles Biddle Sr., Thom Haverstock, Greg Swanson | Slasher | Live action | ||
| 10 | The Elephant Man | Paramount Pictures | David Lynch (director/screenplay); Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren (screenplay); Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Hannah Gordon, Freddie Jones, Michael Elphick, Dexter Fletcher, Helen Ryan, John Standing, Lesley Dunlop, Phoebe Nicholls, W. Morgan Sheppard, Kenny Baker, Pat Gorman, Pauline Quirke, Nula Conwell | Historical, Drama | Live action | |
| It's My Turn | Columbia Pictures / Rastar | Claudia Weill (director); Eleanor Bergstein (screenplay); Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin, Beverly Garland, Steven Hill, Jennifer Salt, Dianne Wiest, Daniel Stern | Romance, Comedy, Drama | Live action | ||
| Kagemusha | 20th Century Fox / Toho | Akira Kurosawa (director/screenplay); Masato Ide (screenplay); Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu, Hideji Ōtaki, Daisuke Ryu, Masayuki Yui, Kaori Momoi, Mitsuko Baisho, Hideo Murota, Takayuki Shiho, Kōji Shimizu, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Noburo Shimizu, Sen Yamamoto, Shuhei Sugimori, Elichi Kanakubo, Francis Selleck | Period, Drama | Live action | ||
| Private Benjamin | Warner Bros. | Howard Zieff (director); Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller (screenplay); Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante, Robert Webber, Richard Herd, Sam Wanamaker, Barbara Barrie, Gretchen Wyler, Mary Kay Place, Harry Dean Stanton, Hal Williams, P.J. Soles, Craig T. Nelson, Albert Brooks, Alan Oppenheimer, Toni Kalem, Damita Jo Freeman, Alston Ahern, Lee Wallace, Danny Wells | Comedy | Live action | ||
| Song of the South (re-release) | Walt Disney Productions / RKO Radio Pictures | Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson (directors); Morton Grant, Maurice Rapf, Dalton S. Reymond, Bill Peet, George Stallings, Ralph Wright (screenplay); James Baskett, Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, Glenn Leedy, Ruth Warrick, Hattie McDaniel, Lucile Watson, Mary Field, Johnny Lee, Nick Stewart, Roy Glenn, Clarence Nash, Erik Rolf, Olivier Urbain, George Nokes, Gene Holland, Helen Crozier, Anita Brown | Musical, Drama | Live action/Animation | ||
| 14 | Fade to Black | Compass International Pictures / American Cinema Releasing | Vernon Zimmerman (director/screenplay); Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Norman Burton, Morgan Paull, Gwynne Gilford, Eve Brent Ashe, James Luisi, Linda Kerridge, John Steadman, Mickey Rourke, Peter Horton, Melinda O. Fee, Marcie Barkin | Horror, Comedy | Live action | |
| 17 | Foolin' Around | Columbia Pictures / GCC Productions | Richard T. Heffron (director); Michael Kane, David Swift (screenplay); Gary Busey, Annette O'Toole, Eddie Albert, Tony Randall, Cloris Leachman, Michael Talbott, John Calvin, William H. Macy | Comedy, Romance, Sports | Live action | |
| Loving Couples | 20th Century Fox / Time-Life Films | Jack Smight (director); Martin Donovan (screenplay); Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn, Susan Sarandon, Stephen Collins, Sally Kellerman, Nan Martin, Anne Bloom, Helena Carroll, Marilyn Chris, Pat Corley, Michael Currie, John de Lancie, Peter Hobbs, Sam Weisman | Romance, Comedy | Live action | ||
| Schizoid | Cannon Group / Golan-Globus Productions | David Paulsen (director/screenplay); Klaus Kinski, Marianna Hill, Craig Wasson, Donna Wilkes, Christopher Lloyd, Richard Herd, Joe Regalbuto, Flo Gerrish, Kiva Lawrence | Slasher | Live action | ||
| Times Square | Associated Film Distribution / EMI Films / Robert Stigwood Organisation | Allan Moyle (director); Jacob Brackman (screenplay); Tim Curry, Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson, Peter Coffield, Herbert Berghof, David Margulies, Anna Maria Horsford, Michael Margotta, J.C. Quinn, Tim Choate, Elizabeth Peña, Steve James, Jay Acovone | Drama | Live action | ||
| 18 | Motel Hell | United Artists | Kevin Connor (director); Robert Jaffe, Steven-Charles Jaffe (screenplay); Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons, Nina Axelrod, Wolfman Jack, Elaine Joyce, Monique St. Pierre, Rosanne Katon, John Ratzenberger, Dick Curtis, E. Hampton Beagle, Everett Creach, Michael Melvin, Victoria Hartman, Gwil Richards, Toni Gillman, Marc Silver, Shaylin Hendrixson, Heather Hendrixson | Comedy, Horror | Live action | |
| 31 | The Awakening | Orion Pictures / EMI Films | Mike Newell (director); Chris Bryant, Allan Scott, Clive Exton (screenplay); Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, Stephanie Zimbalist, Patrick Drury, Bruce Myers, Nadim Sawalha, Ian McDiarmid, Ahmed Osman, Miriam Margoyles, Michael Mellinger, Leonard Maguire, Ishia Bennison, Madhav Sharma, Chris Fairbanks, Michael Halphie | Horror | Live action | |
| Borderline | Associated Film Distribution / ITC Entertainment / Marble Arch Productions | Jerrold Freedman (director/screenplay); Steve Kline (screenplay); Charles Bronson, Ed Harris, Bruno Kirby, Wilford Brimley, Michael Lerner, Bert Remsen, Kenneth McMillan, Karmin Murcelo, Norman Alden, John Ashton, Charles Cyphers, Enrique Castillo | Action, Crime, Drama | Live action | ||
| Sunday Lovers | United Artists / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Bryan Forbes, Édouard Molinaro, Gene Wilder, Dino Risi (directors); Leslie Bricusse, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Francis Veber, Gene Wilder (screenplay); Gene Wilder, Roger Moore, Kathleen Quinlan, Lino Ventura, Ugo Tognazzi, Priscilla Barnes, Lynn Redgrave, Liù Bosisio, Denholm Elliott, Sylva Koscina, Beba Lončar, Rossana Podestà, Milena Vukotic, Robert Webber, Madeleine Barbulée, Lory Del Santo, Luis Ávalos, Catherine Spaak, Francesco D'Adda, Catherine Salviat, George Hillsden, Adelita Requena, Tommy Duggan, Pierre Douglas, Michèle Montel, Gino Da Ronch, Gianfilippo Carcano, Vittorio Zarfati, María Teresa Lombardo, Dianne Crittenden, Randolph Dobbs | Romance, Comedy | Live action | ||
| Touched by Love | Columbia Pictures / Rastar | Gus Trikonis (director); Hesper Anderson (screenplay); Diane Lane, Deborah Raffin, Michael Learned, John Amos, Cristina Raines, Mary Wickes, Clu Gulager | Drama | Live action | ||
| Witches' Brew | United Artists | Richard Shorr (director/screenplay); Syd Dutton (screenplay); Teri Garr, Richard Benjamin, Lana Turner, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Jordan Charney, Angus Scrimm, James Winkler, Bill Sorrells, Kelly Jean Peters, Nathan Roth, Bonnie Gondel | Comedy, Horror | Live action | ||
| N O V E M B E R |
3 | The Long Good Friday | Paramount Pictures / Black Lion Films / HandMade Films / Calendar Productions | John Mackenzie (director); Barrie Keeffe (screenplay); Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Bryan Marshall, Derek Thompson, Eddie Constantine, Dave King, P.H. Moriarty, Paul Freeman, Stephen Davies, Brian Hall, Paul Barber, Pauline Melville, Nigel Humphreys, Karl Howman, Gillian Taylforth, Dexter Fletcher, Pierce Brosnan, Daragh O'Malley, Kevin McNally | Gangster | Live action |
| 7 | The Boogeyman | Jerry Gross Organization | Ulli Lommel (director/screenplay); Suzanna Love, John Carradine, Ron James, Nicholas Love, Raymond Boyden | Horror | Live action | |
| Christmas Evil | Pan American Pictures / Edward R. Pressman Film | Lewis Jackson (director/screenplay); Brandon Maggart, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull, Andy Fenwick, Mark Chamberlin, Peter Friedman, Patricia Richardson, Mark Margolis, Rutanya Alda, Joe Jamrog, Peter Neuman, Scott McKay, Gus Salud, Wally Moran, Burt Kleiner | Slasher | Live action | ||
| 11 | Shogun Assassin | New World Pictures / Katsu | Robert Houston (director/screenplay); David Weisman, Kazuo Koike (screenplay); Tomisaburo Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Akiji Kobayashi, Shin Kishida, Taketoshi Naito, Akihiro Tomikawa, Reiko Kasahara, Minoru Ooki, Shougen Nitta, Tokio Ooki | Live action | ||
| 14 | The Idolmaker | United Artists | Taylor Hackford (director); Edward di Lorenzo (screenplay); Ray Sharkey, Peter Gallagher, Joe Pantoliano, Tovah Feldshuh, Paul Land, Maureen McCormick, Olympia Dukakis, John Aprea | Musical, Drama | Live action | |
| Raging Bull | United Artists | Martin Scorsese (director); Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin (screenplay); Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana, Frank Vincent, Lori Anne Flax, Mario Gallo, Frank Adonis, Joseph Bono, Frank Topham, Charles Scorsese, Geraldine Smith, Candy Moore, James V. Christy, Peter Savage, Don Dunphy, McKenzie Westmore, Gene LeBell, Shay Duffin, Martin Scorsese, John Turturro, Coley Wallace, Johnny Barnes, Bill Hanrahan, Kevin Mahon, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Floyd Anderson, Johnny Turner, Louis Raftis | Biography, Sports, Drama | Live action | ||
| 19 | Heaven's Gate | United Artists / Partisan Productions | Michael Cimino (director/screenplay); Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, Joseph Cotten, Geoffrey Lewis, Paul Koslo, Richard Masur, Ronnie Hawkins, Terry O'Quinn, Tom Noonan, Mickey Rourke, Willem Dafoe, Roseanne Vela, Nicholas Woodeson | Epic, Western | Live action | |
| 21 | The Apple | The Cannon Group / NF Geria II / Filmgesellschaft mbH | Menahem Golan (director/screenplay); Catherine Mary Stewart, Allan Love, Grace Kennedy, George Gilmour, Joss Ackland, Vladek Sheybal, Ray Shell, Miriam Margoyles, Derek Deadman, George S. Clinton, Finola Hughes, Femi Taylor, John Chester, Michael Logan, Francesca Poston, Leslie Meadows, Gunter Notthoff, Clem Davies, Coby Recht, Iris Recht | Sci-Fi, Musical, Comedy | Live action | |
| Babylon | Kino Lorber Repertory / Seventy-Seven / National Film Finance Corporation | Franco Rosso (director/screenplay); Martin Stellman (screenplay); Brinsley Forde, Karl Howman, Trevor Laird, T-Bone Wilson, Mel Smith, Stefan Kalipha, Mark Monero, Alan Igbon, King Sounds, Maggie Steed, Mikey Campbell, Angus Zeb, David Gant, Gary Whelan, Vilma Hollingbery, Jah Shaka, Brian Bovell, Victor Romero Evans, David N. Haynes, Archie Pool, Beverly Michaels, Beverley Dublin, Granville Garner, David Cunningham, Cosmo Laidlaw, Yvonne Agard, Donovan Platt, Anthony Trent, Patrick Worrall, Malcolm Frederick, Cynthia Powell, Ann Duncan | Drama | Live action | ||
| Hurray for Betty Boop | Paramount Pictures / Fleischer Studios | Dave Fleischer (director); Mae Questel | Comedy | Animation | ||
| The Visitor | American International Pictures / The International Picture Show Company / Brouwersgracht Investments / Film Ventures International / Swan American Film | Giulio Paradisi (director); Luciano Comici, Robert Mundi (screenplay); John Huston, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen, Shelley Winters, Joanne Nail, Sam Peckinpah, Paige Conner, Neal Boortz, Steve Somers, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Franco Nero | Sci-Fi, Horror | Live action | ||
| 26 | Rockshow | Miramax Films / MPL Communications | Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, Jimmy McCulloch, Joe English | Concert | Live action | |
| D E C E M B E R |
1 | A Change of Seasons | 20th Century Fox / Film Finance Group / Polyc International BV | Richard Lang (director); Erich Segal, Martin Ransohoff, Ronni Kern, Fred Segal (screenplay); Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek, Michael Brandon, Mary Beth Hurt, Edward Winter, K Callan, Rod Colbin, Steve Eastin, Billy Beck, Karen Philipp, Paul Bryar | Comedy, Drama | Live action |
| 3 | The Competition | Columbia Pictures / Rastar Films | Joel Oliansky (director/screenplay); Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving, Lee Remick, Sam Wanamaker, Joseph Cali, Gloria Stroock, Priscilla Pointer, James B. Sikking, Ty Henderson, Vicki Kriegler, Adam Stern, Bea Silvern, Philip Sterling, Delia Salvi | Drama, Musical | Live action | |
| 4 | Superman II in Australia only opens worldwide on June 19, 1981. | Warner Bros. / Dovemead Ltd. / International Film Production | Richard Lester (director); Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman (screenplay); Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Sarah Douglas, Margot Kidder, Jack O'Halloran, Valerie Perrine, Susannah York, Clifton James, E.G. Marshall, Marc McClure, Terence Stamp | Superhero, Action | Live action | |
| 5 | Flash Gordon | Universal Pictures / Starling Productions / Famous Films | Mike Hodges (director); Lorenzo Semple Jr. (screenplay); Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Topol, Ornella Muti, Timothy Dalton, Brian Blessed, Peter Wyngarde, Mariangela Melato, Richard O'Brien, John Osborne, Philip Stone, John Hallam, Suzanne Danielle, John Morton, William Hootkins, Robbie Coltrane, Peter Duncan, John Hollis, Leon Greene, Tony Scannell, Bogdan Kominowski, George Harris, Deep Roy, Bob Goody, Kenny Baker, Malcolm Dixon | Space Opera | Live action | |
| 6 | Popeye | Paramount Pictures / Walt Disney Productions / Robert Evan Productions / King Features Syndicate | Robert Altman (director); Jules Feiffer (screenplay); Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Paul L. Smith, Paul Dooley, Richard Libertini, Ray Walston, Donald Moffat, Roberta Maxwell, Donovan Scott, Allan F. Nicholls, Bill Irwin, Sharon Kinney, Linda Hunt, Geoff Hoyle, Wayne Robson, Klaus Voormann, Van Dyke Parks, Dennis Franz, Carlos Brown, Jack Mercer, John Wallace, MacIntyre Dixon, Wesley Ivan Hurt, Peter Bray | Musical, Comedy | Live action | |
| 12 | Stir Crazy | Columbia Pictures | Sidney Poitier (director); Bruce Jay Friedman (screenplay); Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown, JoBeth Williams, Miguel Ángel Suárez, Craig T. Nelson, Barry Corbin, Charles Weldon, Nicolas Coster, Joel Brooks, Jonathan Banks, Erland Van Lidth, Cedrick Hardman, Luis Ávalos, Esther Sutherland, Pamela Poitier, Claudia Cron, Grand L. Bush, Lee Purcell, Lewis Van Bergen, Franklin Ajaye, Alvin Ing, Herbert Hirschman, Mickey Jones, Billy Beck | Comedy | Live action | |
| 17 | Any Which Way You Can | Warner Bros. / The Malpaso Company | Buddy Van Horn (director); Stanford Sherman, Jeremy Joe Kronsberg (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Ruth Gordon, William Smith, Barry Corbin, Harry Guardino, Michael Cavanaugh, James Gammon, John Quade, Al Ruscio, Jack Murdock, George Murdock, Dick Durock, Camila Ashlend, Anne Ramsey, Logan Ramsey, Jim Stafford, Michael Talbott, Mark L. Taylor, Jack Thibeau, Charles Walker | Action, Comedy | Live action | |
| The Dogs of War | United Artists | John Irvin (director); Gary DeVore, George Malko (screenplay); Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely, Hugh Millais, Paul Freeman, Jean-François Stévenin, JoBeth Williams, Maggie Scott, Robert Urquhart, Winston Ntshona, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Harlan Cary Poe, Ed O'Neill, Shane Rimmer, George Harris, David Schofield, Terence Rigby, Olu Jacobs, Alan Beckwith, Jim Broadbent | War | Live action | ||
| Nightkill | Cine Artist Film | Ted Post (director); Joan Andre (screenplay); Jaclyn Smith, Mike Connors, James Franciscus, Robert Mitchum, Fritz Weaver, Sybil Danning, Belinda Mayne, Michael Anderson Jr., Tina Menard, Melanie MacQueen | Crime, Horror, Thriller | Live action | ||
| 19 | 9 to 5 | 20th Century Fox / IPC Films | Colin Higgins (director/screenplay); Patricia Resnick (screenplay); Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Elizabeth Wilson, Sterling Hayden, Henry Jones, Lawrence Pressman, Marian Mercer, Renn Woods, Norma Donaldson, Roxanna Bonilla-Giannini, Peggy Pope, Richard Stahl, Ray Vitte | Comedy | Live action | |
| The Aristocats (re-release) | Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution | Wolfgang Reitherman (director); Ken Anderson, Larry Clemmons, Eric Cleworth, Vance Gerry, Julius Svendsen, Ralph Thomas, Ralph Wright (screenplay); Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers, Paul Winchell, Lord Tim Hudson, Thurl Ravenscroft, Dean Clark, Liz English, Gary Dubin, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Vito Scotti, Pat Buttram, George Lindsey, Hermione Baddeley, Charles Lane, Nancy Kulp, Monica Evans, Carole Shelley, Bill Thompson, Peter Renaday, Mel Blanc, Ruth Buzzi, Robie Lester | Romance, Musical, Comedy | Live action | ||
| The Formula | United Artists / CIP Filmproduktion | John G. Avildsen (director); Steve Shagan (screenplay); Marlon Brando, George C. Scott, Marthe Keller, John Gielgud, G.D. Spradlin, Beatrice Straight, Richard Lynch, John van Dreelen, Robin Clarke, Ike Eisenmann, Marshall Thompson, Dieter Schidor, Werner Kreindl, Jan Niklas, Wolfgang Preiss, David Byrd, Ferdy Mayne, Alan North, Calvin Jung, Louis Basile, Gerry Murphy, Craig T. Nelson, Herb Voland | Mystery | Live action | ||
| Inside Moves | Associated Film Distribution / ITC Entertainment | Richard Donner (director); Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson (screenplay); John Savage, David Morse, Diana Scarwid, Amy Wright, Tony Burton, Bill Henderson, Steve Kahan, Jack O'Leary, Bert Remsen, Harold Russell, Pepe Serna, Harold Sylvester, William Frankfather, Arnold Williams, George Brenlin, Gerri Dean | Drama | Live action | ||
| The Jazz Singer | Associated Film Distribution / EMI Films | Richard Fleischer (director); Herbert Baker, Stephen H. Foreman (screenplay); Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, Lucie Arnaz, Catlin Adams, Franklin Ajaye, Paul Nicholas, Sully Boyar, Mike Kellin, James Booth | Musical, Drama | Live action | ||
| The Mirror Crack'd | Columbia-Warner Distributors / EMI Films / GW Films | Guy Hamilton (director); Jonathan Hales, Barry Sandler (screenplay); Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Rock Hudson, Edward Fox, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, Charles Gray, Richard Pearson, Wendy Morgan, Margaret Courtenay, Carolyn Pickles, Charles Lloyd-Pack, Pat Nye, Norman Wooland, Richard Leech, Sam Kydd, Pierce Brosnan, Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan, Nigel Stock, Hildegard Neil, John Bennett, Allan Cuthbertson, Marella Oppenheim, Maureen Bennett, Eric Dodson, Thick Wilson, Peter Woodthorpe | Mystery | Live action | ||
| Seems Like Old Times | Columbia Pictures / Rastar | Jay Sandrich (director); Neil Simon (screenplay); Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, Charles Grodin, Robert Guillaume, Yvonne Wilder, Harold Gould, George Grizzard, T.K. Carter, Judd Omen, Marc Alaimo, Chris Lemmon | Comedy | Live action | ||
| 25 | Altered States | Warner Bros. | Ken Russell (director); Sidney Aaron (screenplay); William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid, Thaao Penghlis, Drew Barrymore, Megan Jeffers, Dori Brenner, Peter Brandon, George Gaynes, Jack Murdock, John Larroquette | Sci-Fi, Horror | Live action | |
| First Family | Warner Bros. / F.F. Associates | Buck Henry (director/screenplay); Bob Newhart, Madeline Kahn, Gilda Radner, Richard Benjamin, Bob Dishy, Harvey Korman, Fred Willard, Rip Torn, Austin Pendleton, John Hancock, Julius Harris | Comedy | Live action | ||
| Never Never Land | Sharp Features | Paul Annett (director); Petula Clark, Cathleen Nesbitt, John Castle, Anne Seymour, Heather Miller, Evelyn Laye, Roland Culver | Drama | Live action | ||
Births[]
- January 4 - Greg Cipes, voice actor
- January 7
- Hele Kõrve, Estonian actress and singer
- Simon Woods, English actor and writer
- January 8 – Sam Riley, English actor and singer
- January 16 – Lin-Manuel Miranda, American singer-songwriter and actor[10]
- January 17 – Zooey Deschanel, American singer-songwriter and actress[11]
- January 18
- Estelle, British singer, songwriter, record producer and actress
- Jason Segel, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, author and producer
- January 21
- Nana Mizuki, Japanese singer and voice actress
- Kim Sharma, Indian actress
- January 29 - Jason James Richter, American actor and musician
- January 30 – Wilmer Valderrama, American actor
- February 2 – Zhang Jingchu, Chinese actress
- February 8 - Sinead Matthews, English actress
- February 11 – Matthew Lawrence, American actor[12]
- February 12 – Christina Ricci, American actress[13]
- February 14 – Michelle Ye, Hong Kong actress and producer
- February 17 - Jason Ritter, American actor, voice actor and producer[14]
- March 2 - Rebel Wilson, Australian actress, comedian, writer and producer[15]
- March 3 – Katherine Waterston, American actress[16]
- March 7
- Laura Prepon, American actress
- Mart Toome, Estonian actor
- March 9 – Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor
- March 25 - Tinsel Korey, Canadian actress and singer-songwriter
- March 31
- Kate Micucci, American actress
- Maaya Sakamoto, Japanese singer and voice actress
- April 8 – Carrie Savage, American voice actress
- April 13
- Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress
- Kelli Giddish, American actress
- April 17 - Samantha Soule, American actress
- April 25 - Daniel MacPherson, Australian actor and television presenter
- April 26
- Jordana Brewster, American actress
- Channing Tatum, American actor[17]
- May 2 - Ellie Kemper, American actress and comedian[18]
- May 8
- Jasen Fisher, American former child actor
- Kimberlee Peterson, American actress
- May 22
- Lucy Gordon (actress), English actress and model (d. 2009)
- Mark Hildreth, Canadian actor, voice actor
- Evelin Võigemast, Estonian actress
- May 25 - Will Janowitz, American actor
- May 27 - Ben Feldman, American actor and producer.
- June 10 - Jessica DiCicco, American film, television and voice actress
- June 15 - Candace Brown, American actress and comedian
- June 16 – Sibel Kekilli, German actress
- June 20 - Tika Sumpter, American actress, singer, producer, television host and model
- June 23
- Heath Freeman, American actor (d. 2021)
- Melissa Rauch, American actress and comedian
- June 24 – Minka Kelly, American actress
- June 26 - Jason Schwartzman, American actor, producer and musician
- July 3 – Olivia Munn, American actress
- July 6 – Eva Green, French actress
- July 10 - James Rolfe, American filmmaker, actor, YouTuber and online personality
- July 15 – Jasper Pääkkönen, Finnish actor and film producer
- July 17 – Brett Goldstein, British actor and comedian
- July 18 – Kristen Bell, American actress
- July 19 - Mark Webber (actor), American actor, screenwriter and director
- August 3 – Teuku Rifnu Wikana, Indonesian actor
- August 6 - Monique Ganderton, Canadian stunt performer and actress
- August 10 – Pua Magasiva, New Zealand actor (d. 2019)[19]
- August 18 – Preeti Jhangiani, Indian actress
- August 25 – Jackie Tohn, American actress and singer
- August 26
- September 7 - J. D. Pardo, American actor
- September 9 – Michelle Williams, American actress
- September 12 - Hiroyuki Sawano, Japanese music composer
- September 13 – Ben Savage, American actor
- September 21 – Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
- September 25 - T.I., American actor and rapper
- September 29 - Zachary Levi, American actor and singer
- October 8
- Nick Cannon, American comedian, rapper and television host
- Nathan Head, British actor
- October 14 – Ben Whishaw, English actor
- October 18
- Erin Dean, American former actress
- Natasha Rothwell, American writer, actress and comedian
- October 19 – Benjamin Salisbury, American actor
- October 24 – Monica, American singer-songwriter, producer and actress
- October 29 – Ben Foster, American actor
- November 5 - Luke Hemsworth, Australian actor
- November 12 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor
- November 29 - Jason Griffith, American actor and voice actor
- December 3
- Anna Chlumsky, American actress
- Jenna Dewan, American actress and dancer
- December 9 – Simon Helberg, American actor and comedian
- December 18 - Christina Aguilera, American singer, songwriter, actress and television personality
- December 19
- Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
- Marla Sokoloff, American actress
- December 30 – Eliza Dushku, American actress
Deaths[]
| Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films |
| January | 14 | Robert Ardrey | 71 | US | Screenwriter |
|
| 17 | Barbara Britton | 60 | US | Actress |
| |
| 22 | Iris Meredith | 64 | US | Actress |
| |
| 24 | Lil Dagover | 92 | Germany | Actress |
| |
| 24 | James Poe | 58 | US | Screenwriter |
| |
| 26 | Dolly Rudeman | 77 | Netherlands | Film poster designer |
| |
| 27 | Peppino De Filippo | 76 | Italy | Actor | ||
| 28 | Erle C. Kenton | 83 | US | Director |
| |
| 29 | Jimmy Durante | 86 | US | Actor, Singer |
| |
| February | 1 | Romolo Valli | 54 | Italy | Actor |
|
| 4 | David Whitaker | 52 | UK | Writer |
| |
| 9 | Renée Houston | 77 | UK | Actress, Writer | ||
| 13 | David Janssen | 48 | US | Actor |
| |
| 18 | Gale Robbins | 58 | US | Actress, Singer |
| |
| 26 | Mario Mattoli | 81 | Italy | Director, Screenwriter |
| |
| 27 | George Tobias | 78 | US | Actor |
| |
| March | 5 | Jay Silverheels | 67 | US | Actor |
|
| 8 | Frank McDonald | 80 | US | Director |
| |
| 27 | Steve Fisher | 67 | US | Screenwriter |
| |
| 28 | Dick Haymes | 61 | US | Actor, Singer |
| |
| 30 | David Sharpe | 70 | US | Stuntman, Actor |
| |
| April | 9 | Kathleen Burke | 66 | US | Actress |
|
| 10 | Kay Medford | 65 | US | Actress |
| |
| 11 | Charlotte Henry | 66 | US | Actress |
| |
| 15 | Raymond Bailey | 75 | US | Actor |
| |
| 16 | Harry Hutchinson | 87 | Ireland | Actor | Blowup | |
| 17 | Alf Sjöberg | 76 | Sweden | Director |
| |
| 19 | Tony Beckley | 50 | UK | Actor |
| |
| 25 | Mario Bava | 65 | Italy | Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer |
| |
| 26 | Cicely Courtneidge | 87 | UK | Actress, Singer | ||
| 29 | William Clemens | 74 | US | Director |
| |
| 29 | Alfred Hitchcock | 80 | UK | Director, Producer |
| |
| May | 1 | Henry Levin | 70 | US | Director |
|
| 1 | Gene Markey | 84 | US | Screenwriter |
| |
| 2 | George Pal | 72 | Hungary | Producer |
| |
| 4 | Kay Hammond | 71 | UK | Actress |
| |
| 12 | Lillian Roth | 69 | US | Actress, Writer |
| |
| 14 | Hugh Griffith | 67 | Wales | Actor |
| |
| 16 | José Calvo | 64 | Spain | Actor |
| |
| June | 4 | Gloria Saunders | 52 | US | Actress |
|
| 12 | Milburn Stone | 75 | US | Actor |
| |
| 18 | Terence Fisher | 76 | UK | Director |
| |
| 22 | Monang Carvajal | 82 | Philippines | Actress |
| |
| 23 | John Laurie | 83 | UK | Actor |
| |
| 23 | Odile Versois | 50 | France | Actress | ||
| 28 | Jose Iturbi | 84 | Spain | Conductor, Actor |
| |
| July | 6 | Gail Patrick | 69 | US | Producer, Actress |
|
| 7 | Reginald Gardiner | 77 | UK | Actor |
| |
| 7 | Dore Schary | 74 | US | Producer, Screenwriter, Studio Executive |
| |
| 11 | Peggy Knudsen | 57 | US | Actress |
| |
| 24 | Peter Sellers | 54 | UK | Actor |
| |
| 30 | Charles McGraw | 66 | US | Actor |
| |
| 31 | Bobby Van | 51 | US | Actor, Dancer |
| |
| August | 1 | Strother Martin | 61 | US | Actor |
|
| 7 | Norman Atkyns | 74 | UK | Actor | Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell | |
| 9 | Elliot Nugent | 83 | US | Director |
| |
| 14 | Dorothy Stratten | 20 | US | Actress |
| |
| 25 | Gower Champion | 59 | US | Actor, Dancer, Director |
| |
| September | 3 | Barbara O'Neil | 70 | US | Actress |
|
| 4 | Duncan Renaldo | 76 | US | Actor |
| |
| 5 | Barbara Loden | 48 | US | Actress, Director | ||
| 24 | Theodor Luts | 84 | Brazil | Cinematographer, Director | Substitute Wife | |
| 25 | Lewis Milestone | 84 | Russia | Director |
| |
| October | 6 | Hattie Jacques | 58 | UK | Actress |
|
| 28 | Leon Janney | 63 | Mexico | Actor |
| |
| November | 4 | Noel Langley | 68 | South Africa | Screenwriter |
|
| 7 | Emilio Cigoli | 70 | Italy | Actor |
| |
| 7 | Steve McQueen | 50 | Mexico | Actor, Producer |
| |
| 9 | Carmel Myers | 81 | US | Actress |
| |
| 15 | Bill Lee | 64 | US | Actor, Singer |
| |
| 22 | Mae West | 87 | US | Actress, Writer |
| |
| 24 | George Raft | 79 | US | Actor |
| |
| 26 | Rachel Roberts | 53 | US | Actress |
| |
| December | 8 | John Lennon | 40 | US | Actor, Musician, Producer |
|
| 16 | Peter Collinson | 44 | US | Director, Producer, Writer |
| |
| 18 | Gabrielle Robinne | 94 | France | Actress | The Assassination of the Duke of Guise | |
| 20 | Ben Sharpsteen | 85 | US | Director, Producer |
| |
| 21 | Marc Connelly | 90 | US | Actor |
| |
| 23 | Memmo Carotenuto | 72 | Italy | Actor | ||
| 28 | Sam Levene | 75 | US | Actor |
| |
| 31 | Raoul Walsh | 93 | US | Director, Writer, Actor |
|
Film debuts[]
- Christopher Atkins – The Blue Lagoon
- Adam Baldwin – My Bodyguard
- Drew Barrymore – Altered States
- Jennifer Beals – My Bodyguard
- Pierce Brosnan – The Long Good Friday
- Robbie Coltrane – Flash Gordon
- Jane Curtin – How to Beat the High Cost of Living
- Joan Cusack – My Bodyguard
- Willem Dafoe – Heaven's Gate
- Tony Danza – The Hollywood Knights
- John Diehl – Falling in Love Again
- Frankie Faison – Permanent Vacation
- Michael J. Fox – Midnight Madness
- Peter Gallagher – The Idolmaker
- Julie Hagerty – Airplane!
- Tom Hanks – He Knows You're Alone
- Linda Hunt – Popeye
- William Hurt – Altered States
- Timothy Hutton – Ordinary People
- Jeremy Irons – Nijinsky
- Ralph Macchio – Up the Academy
- Gabriel Macht – Why Would I Lie?
- William H. Macy – Somewhere in Time
- Sophie Marceau – La Boum
- Christopher McDonald – The Hearse
- Elizabeth McGovern – Ordinary People
- Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull
- David Morse – Inside Moves
- Cynthia Nixon – Little Darlings
- Catherine O'Hara – Deadly Companion
- Ed O'Neill – Cruising
- Terry O'Quinn – Heaven's Gate
- Joe Pantoliano – The Idolmaker
- Dolly Parton – 9 to 5
- Michelle Pfeiffer – The Hollywood Knights
- Richard Portnow – Roadie
- Harold Ramis – Caddyshack (director)
- Judge Reinhold – Running Scared
- Paul Reubens – Pray TV
- Sharon Stone – Stardust Memories
- David Strathairn – Return of the Secaucus 7
- Meg Tilly – Fame
- John Turturro – Raging Bull
- Dianne Wiest – It's My Turn
- Bruce Willis – The First Deadly Sin
- Mare Winningham – One-Trick Pony
- Nicholas Woodeson – Heaven's Gate
- Sean Young – Jane Austen in Manhattan
See also[]
- List of American films of 1980
- List of British films of 1980
- List of French films of 1980
- List of German films of the 1980s
- List of Bollywood films of 1980
- List of Italian films of 1980
- List of Japanese films of 1980
- List of Swedish films of the 1980s
Notes[]
References[]
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- ^ "'Star Wars' B.O. History". Variety. May 17, 1999. p. 30.
- ^ "The Empire Strikes Back (1980)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 13, 2013.
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- ^ 1980 in film at the American Film Institute Catalog
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- ^ Owen, Catrin. "Pua Magasiva's life in the spotlight and the 'demons' behind it". Stuff. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
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