Annual Premiere Index ยท 1980

1980 Movie Premieres

Explore upcoming and released 1980 movies and TV series, theatrical drop dates, community ratings, and streaming availability in US.

Movie โ˜… 6.4
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Friday the 13th

Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

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Friday the 13th

1980
Movie โ˜… 8.2
The Shining

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

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The Shining

1980
Movie โ˜… 8.4
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The Empire Strikes Back

The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair.

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The Empire Strikes Back

1980
Movie โ˜… 7.3
+3
Airplane!

An ex-fighter pilot is forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

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Airplane!

1980
Movie โ˜… 7.7
+4
The Blues Brothers

Just released from prison, Jake Blues puts his old band back together with his brother Elwood to save the Catholic home where they were raised.

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The Blues Brothers

1980
Movie โ˜… 7.3
The Gods Must Be Crazy

A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.

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The Gods Must Be Crazy

1980
Movie โ˜… 6.3
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Cannibal Holocaust

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

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Cannibal Holocaust

1980
Movie โ˜… 7.9
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Raging Bull

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

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Raging Bull

1980
Movie โ˜… 7.8
Kagemusha

A feudal epic presenting the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. The impostor becomes comfortable living his life among nobility, but his responsibilities to his station grow more demanding the longer he occupies it.

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Kagemusha

1980
Movie โ˜… 8.0
The Elephant Man

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous faรงade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity.

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The Elephant Man

1980
Movie โ˜… 7.2
The Long Good Friday

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.

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The Long Good Friday

1980
Movie โ˜… 6.7
+3
The Fog

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

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The Fog

1980
Movie โ˜… 6.7
Superman II

Three Kryptonian criminals led by General Zod team up with Lex Luthor to conquer Earth, forcing a depowered Superman to regain his strength and stop them.

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Superman II

1980
Movie โ˜… 6.9
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Dressed to Kill

After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.

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Dressed to Kill

1980
Movie โ˜… 6.8
Encounters of the Spooky Kind

"Big Guts" Cheung, a man well known in his local village for his lack of fear, is put to the test after being tricked into spending the night in a temple full of spirits, zombies, and vampires.

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Encounters of the Spooky Kind

1980
Movie โ˜… 6.3
Flash Gordon

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

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Flash Gordon

1980
Movie โ˜… 6.1
The Blue Lagoon

Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline and Richard make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatures and nature's beauty. But will they ever see civilization again?

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The Blue Lagoon

1980
Movie โ˜… 5.6
Popeye

Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancรฉ, Bluto.

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Popeye

1980
Movie โ˜… 6.6
Caddyshack

At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist Judge Smails, and then the caddy golf tournament which Smails sponsors.

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Caddyshack

1980
Movie โ˜… 6.6
+3
The Final Countdown

During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941โ€”mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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The Final Countdown

1980
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