The Essentials (Film): The 1980s

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• Berlin Alexanderplatz / Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1980)
• The Big Red One / Samuel Fuller (1980)
• Every Man For Himself / Jean-Luc Godard (1980)
• Germany, Pale Mother / Helma Sanders-Brahms (1980)
• Gloria / John Cassavetes (1980)
• Kagemusha / Akira Kurosawa (1980)
• Melvin and Howard / Jonathan Demme (1980)
• Mon oncle d'Amérique / Alain Resnais (1980)
• Out of the Blue / Dennis Hooper (1980)
• Raging Bull / Martin Scorsese (1980)
• The Shining / Stanley Kubrick (1980)
• The Aviator’s Wife / Éric Rohmer (1981)
• Blow Out / Brian De Palma (1981)
• Francisca / Manoel de Oliveira (1981)
• Le pont du Nord / Jacques Rivette (1981)
• Lola / Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1981)
• Modern Romance / Albert Brooks (1981)
• My Dinner with André / Louis Malle (1981)
• Possession / Andrzej Żuławski (1981)
• Reds / Warren Beatty (1981)
• You Are Not I / Sara Driver (1981) 
• Blade Runner / Ridley Scott (1982)
• Burden of Dreams / Les Blank (1982)
• Fanny and Alexander / Ingmar Bergman (1982)
• Finye / Souleymane Cissé (1982)
• Fitzcarraldo / Werner Herzog (1982)
• A Good Marriage / Éric Rohmer (1982)
• Moonlighting / Jerzy Skolimowski (1982)
• Passion / Jean-Luc Godard (1982)
• The State of Things / Wim Wenders (1982)
• The Thing / John Carpenter (1982)
• Too Early, Too Late / Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub (1982)
• White Dog / Samuel Fuller (1982)
• À nos amours / Maurice Pialat (1983)
• L’argent / Robert Bresson (1983)
• City of Pirates / Raoúl Ruiz (1983)
• The Eighties / Chantal Akerman (1983)
• The King of Comedy / Martin Scorsese (1983)
• My Brother’s Wedding / Charles Burnett (1983)
• Nostalghia / Andrei Tarkovsky (1983)
• Pauline at the Beach / Éric Rohmer (1983)
• Sans soleil / Chris Marker (1983)
• Sudden Impact / Clint Eastwood (1983)
• Three Crowns of the Sailor / Raoúl Ruiz (1983)
• Videodrome / David Cronenberg (1983)
• Full Moon in Paris / Éric Rohmer (1984)
• Love Streams / John Cassavetes (1984)
• Manuel on the Island of Wonders / Raoúl Ruiz (1984)
• My Friend Ivan Lapshin / Aleksei German (1984)
• Once Upon a Time in America / Sergio Leone (1984)
• Paris, Texas / Wim Wenders (1984)
• Repo Man / Alex Cox (1984)
• Stranger Than Paradise / Jim Jarmusch (1984)
• Yellow Earth / Chen Kaige (1984)
• Brazil / Terry Gilliam (1985)
• Day of the Dead / George Romero (1985)
• Hail Mary / Jean-Luc Godard (1985)
• Lost in America / Albert Brooks (1985)
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters / Paul Schrader (1985)
• Mix-Up / Françoise Romand (1985)
• Ran / Akira Kurosawa (1985)
• The Runner / Amir Naderi (1985)
• Shoah / Claude Lanzmann (1985)
• Taipei Story / Edward Yang (1985)
• A Time to Live and a Time to Die / Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1985)
• Vagabond / Agnès Varda (1985)
• Blue Velvet / David Lynch (1986)
• Down by Law / Jim Jarmusch (1986)
• Dust in the Wind / Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1986)
• The Green Ray / Éric Rohmer (1986)
• Hannah and Her Sisters / Woody Allen (1986)
• The Horse Thief / Tian Zhuangzhuang (1986)
• Landscape Suicide / James Benning (1986)
• Life is a Dream / Raoúl Ruiz (1986)
• Mélo / Alain Resnais (1986)
• Mon cas / Manoel de Oliveira (1986)
• Routine Pleasures / Jean-Pierre Gorin (1986)
• The Sacrifice / Andrei Tarkovsky (1986)
• Stand by Me / Rob Reiner (1986)
• The Terrorizers / Edward Yang (1986)
• The Blind Owl / Raoúl Ruiz (1987)
• Boyfriends and Girlfriends / Éric Rohmer (1987)
• The Dead / John Huston (1987)
• From the Pole to the Equator / Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi (1987)
• Full Metal Jacket / Stanley Kubrick (1987)
• Housekeeping / Bill Forsyth (1987)
• House of Games / David Mamet (1987)
• King Lear / Jean-Luc Godard (1987)
• King of the Children / Chen Kaige (1987)
• Robocop / Paul Verhoeven (1987)
• Under the Sun of Satan / Maurice Pialat (1987)
• Where is the Friend’s House? / Abbas Kiarostami (1987)
• Wings of Desire / Wim Wenders (1987)
• Yeelen / Souleymane Cissé (1987)
• Ariel / Aki Kaurismäki (1988)
• Chocolat / Claire Denis (1988)
• Damnation / Béla Tarr (1988)
• Dead Ringers / David Cronenberg (1988)
• Distant Voices, Still Lives / Terence Davies (1988)
• Grave of the Fireflies / Isao Takahata (1988)
• Heathers / Michael Lehmann (1988)
• Landscape in the Mist / Theodoros Angelopoulos (1988)
• My Neighbor Totoro / Hayao Miyazaki (1988)
• Rouge / Stanley Kwan (1988)
• A Short Film About Killing / Kryzsztof Kieślowski (1988)
• A Short Film About Love / Kryzsztof Kieślowski (1988)
• A Tale of the Wind / Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan (1988)
• They Live / John Carpenter (1988)
• The Thin Blue Line / Errol Morris (1988)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit? / Robert Zemekis (1988)
• The Asthenic Syndrome / Kira Muratova (1989)
• Black Rain / Shohei Imamura (1989)
• A City of Sadness / Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1989)
• The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover / Peter Greenaway (1989)
• Crimes and Misdemeanors / Woody Allen (1989)
• The Decalogue / Krzysztof Kieślowski (1989)
• Do the Right Thing / Spike Lee (1989)
• Drugstore Cowboy / Gus Van Sant (1989)
• Gang of Four / Jacques Rivette (1989)
• Mystery Train / Jim Jarmusch (1989)
• O Sangue / Pedro Costa (1989)
• Recollections of the Yellow House / João César Monteiro (1989)
• Santa Sangre / Alejandro Jodorowksy (1989)
• Say Anything... / Cameron Crowe (1989)
• sex, lies and videotape / Steven Soderbergh (1989)
• Sweetie / Jane Campion (1989)