Movies released in 1980| 18 Weapons of Kung Fu | Chen Hung-min |
| Agency | George Kaczender |
| Airplane! | Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker |
| Alien 2: On Earth | Ciro Ippolito, Biagio Proietti |
| Alien Dead, The | Fred Olen Ray |
| Alligator | Lewis Teague |
| Altered States | Ken Russell |
| American Gigolo | Paul Schrader |
| Animalympics | Steven Lisberger |
| Anthropophagous | Joe D'Amato |
| Apple, The | Menahem Golan |
| Arrival, The | Ruth Norman |
| Atlantic City | Louis Malle |
| Attic, The | Gary Graver, George Edwards |
| Babylon | Franco Rosso |
| Babysitter, The | Peter Medak |
| Bad Timing | Nicolas Roeg |
| Bat Without Wings | Chor Yuen |
| Battle Beyond the Stars | Jimmy T. Murakami |
| Be Forever Yamato | Toshio Masuda, Leiji Matsumoto, Tomoharu Katsumata |
| Beasts' Carnival, The | Paul Naschy |
| Below the Belt | Robert Fowler |
| Berenstain Bears Meet Bigpaw, The | Al Kouzel, Mordicai Gerstein |
| Beyond Evil | Herb Freed |
| Big Brawl, The | Robert Clouse |
| Big Red One, The | Samuel Fuller |
| Black Angel | Roger Christian |
| Blood Beach | Jeffrey Bloom |
| Blues Brothers, The | John Landis |
| Boogey Man, The | Ulli Lommel |
| Breaker Morant | Bruce Beresford |
| Bruce, King of Kung Fu | Bruce Le, Darve Lau |
| Buddha Assassinator, The | Dung Gam-Woo |
| Buddhist Fist, The | Yuen Woo-ping |
| Caddyshack | Harold Ramis |
| Cannibal Holocaust | Ruggero Deodato |
| Changeling, The | Peter Medak |
| Children, The | Max Kalmanowicz |
| Christmas Evil | Lewis Jackson |
| City of the Living Dead | Lucio Fulci |
| Clan of the White Lotus | Lo Lieh |
| Contamination | Luigi Cozzi |
| Coward Bastard | Kuei Chih-Hung |
| Crazy Horse & Intelligent Monkey | Tony Liu Chun-Ku, Chen Hsi |
| Crazy Thunder Road | Gakuryuu Ishii |
| Cries in the Night | William Fruet |
| Cruising | William Friedkin |
| D.O.A. | Lech Kowalski |
| Daggers 8 | Cheung Sum, Wilson Tong |
| Dance of Death | Chen Chi-Hwa |
| Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind | Tsui Hark |
| Day Time Ended, The | John 'Bud' Cardos |
| Deadline | Mario Philip Azzopardi |
| Death Ship | Alvin Rakoff |
| Defiance | John Flynn |
| Devil Hunter | Jesús Franco |
| Die Laughing | Jeff Werner |
| Diva in the Netherworld | Takafumi Nagamine |
| Doctor Butcher M.D. | Marino Girolami |
| Dogs of War, The | John Irvin |
| Don't Answer the Phone! | Robert Hammer |
| Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype | Charles B. Griffith |
| Dressed to Kill | Brian De Palma |
| Elephant Man, The | David Lynch |
| Empire Strikes Back, The | Irvin Kershner |
| Encounters of the Spooky Kind | Sammo Hung |
| Exterminator, The | James Glickenhaus |
| Fade to Black | Vernon Zimmerman |
| Fame | Alan Parker |
| Fantastica | Gilles Carle |
| Fearless Dragons | Lee Chiu |
| Fiend | Don Dohler |
| Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, The | Piers Haggard |
| Final Countdown, The | Don Taylor |
| First Deadly Sin, The | Brian G. Hutton |
| Flag of Iron, The | Chang Cheh |
| Flash Gordon | Mike Hodges |
| Fog, The | John Carpenter |
| Forbidden Zone | Richard Elfman |
| Foxes | Adrian Lyne |
| Friday the 13th | Sean S. Cunningham |
| Galaxina | William Sachs |
| Gamera: Super Monster | Noriaki Yuasa |
| Get Rollin' | J. Terrance Mitchell |
| Gods Must Be Crazy, The | Jamie Uys |
| Golem | Piotr Szulkin |
| Gong Show Movie, The | Chuck Barris |
| Gorp | Joseph Ruben |
| Hangar 18 | James L. Conway |
| Harlequin | Simon Wincer |
| Haunted Tales | Chor Yuen, Mou Tun-fei |
| Hawk the Slayer | Terry Marcel |
| He Knows You're Alone | Armand Mastroianni |
| Hearse, The | George Bowers |
| Heaven and Hell | Chang Cheh |
| Heaven's Gate | Michael Cimino |
| Heroes, The | Pao Hsueh-Li, Wu Ma |
| Heroes Shed No Tears | Chor Yuen |
| Hex | Kuei Chih-Hung |
| Hollywood Knights, The | Floyd Mutrux |
| Hopscotch | Ronald Neame |
| Hot T-Shirts | Chuck Vincent |
| House on the Edge of the Park | Ruggero Deodato |
| How to Beat the High Cost of Living | Robert Scheerer |
| Humanoids from the Deep | Jimmy T. Murakami, Barbara Peeters |
| Hunter, The | Buzz Kulik |
| Hurricane Rosie | Mario Monicelli |
| Idolmaker, The | Taylor Hackford |
| Inferno | Dario Argento |
| Invasion of the Aluminum People | David Boone |
| Island, The | Michael Ritchie |
| Island Claws | Hernan Cardenas |
| Ivory Ape, The | Tsugunobu Kotani |
| Kagemusha | Akira Kurosawa |
| Kamen Rider: Eight Riders vs. Galaxy King | Shotaro Ishinomori, Kimio Hirayama |
| Ki or Breathing | Toshio Matsumoto |
| Kid with a Tattoo, The | Sun Chung |
| Killer Constable | Kuei Chih-Hung |
| Last Hunter, The | Antonio Margheriti |
| Last Prom, The | Gene McPherson |
| Leg Fighters, The | Lee Tso-Nam |
| Legend of the Fox | Chang Cheh |
| Little Darlings | Ronald F. Maxwell |
| Long Good Friday, The | John Mackenzie |
| Long Island Cannibal Massacre, The | Nathan Schiff |
| Long Riders, The | Walter Hill |
| Lost Souls | Mou Tun-fei |
| Macabre | Lamberto Bava |
| Magnitude 7.9 | Kenjirô Ohmori |
| Mama Dracula | Boris Szulzinger |
| Maniac | William Lustig |
| Master, The | Tony Liu Chun-Ku |
| Master Killers | Wang Hung-Chang |
| Melvin and Howard | Jonathan Demme |
| Midnight Madness | Michael Nankin, David Wechter |
| Mirror Crack'd, The | Guy Hamilton |
| Motel Hell | Kevin Connor |
| Mother's Day | Charles Kaufman |
| My Bodyguard | Tony Bill |
| New Year's Evil | Emmett Alston |
| Night of the Demon | Jim West |
| Night of the Hunted, The | Jean Rollin |
| Night of the Juggler | Sidney J. Furie, Robert Butler |
| Night of the Zombies | Bruno Mattei |
| Nightmare City | Umberto Lenzi |
| Nightmares | John D. Lamond |
| Nine to Five | Colin Higgins |
| Ninth Configuration, The | William Peter Blatty |
| Nude Bomb, The | Clive Donner |
| Octagon, The | Eric Karson |
| Patrick Still Lives | Mario Landi |
| Paul's Case | Lamont Johnson |
| Pepi, Luci, Bom | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Pinball Summer | George Mihalka |
| Pinocchio's Christmas | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. |
| Popeye | Robert Altman |
| Private Benjamin | Howard Zieff |
| Private Eyes, The | Lang Elliott |
| Prom Night | Paul Lynch |
| Pumaman | Alberto De Martino |
| Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese |
| Raise the Titanic | Jerry Jameson |
| Rapture | Iván Zulueta |
| Rebel Intruders, The | Chang Cheh |
| Rebellious Reign | Hsiang Fang |
| Red Rose | P. Bharathiraja |
| Rendezvous with Death | Sun Chung |
| Return, The | Greydon Clark |
| Return, The | Vladimir Tarasov |
| Return of the King, The | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. |
| Return to the 36th Chamber | Liu Chia-Liang |
| Satan's Slave | Sisworo Gautama Putra |
| Saturn 3 | Stanley Donen |
| Scared to Death | William Malone |
| Schizoid | David Paulsen |
| Seven Magnificent Kung Fu Kids | Ting Shan-Hsi |
| Shining, The | Stanley Kubrick |
| Shogun Assassin | Robert Houston, Kenji Misumi |
| Smokey and the Bandit II | Hal Needham |
| SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back | Robert Guenette |
| Stir Crazy | Sidney Poitier |
| Stunt Man, The | Richard Rush |
| Super Fuzz | Sergio Corbucci |
| Super Power | Chan Wei Lin |
| Superman II | Richard Lester |
| Swift Sword | Ho Meng-Hua |
| Sword, The | Patrick Tam Kar-Ming |
| Terror Train | Roger Spottiswoode |
| This Is America Part 2 | Romano Vanderbes |
| Times Square | Allan Moyle |
| To All a Goodnight | David Hess |
| Tomb of Dracula, The | Minoru Okazaki |
| Two Champions of Shaolin | Chang Cheh |
| Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties | Jesús Franco |
| Two Wondrous Tigers | Cheung Sum |
| Unbeaten 28, The | Joseph Kuo |
| Under Siege | René Cardona Jr. |
| Unseen, The | Danny Steinmann |
| Up the Academy | Robert Downey Sr. |
| Urban Cowboy | James Bridges |
| Used Cars | Robert Zemeckis |
| Victim, The | Sammo Hung |
| Virus | Kinji Fukasaku |
| War of the Shaolin Temple | Da Chiao Lin |
| Watcher in the Woods, The | John Hough |
| We're Going to Eat You | Tsui Hark |
| What a Honeymoon | Jesús Franco |
| White Cannibal Queen | Jesús Franco |
| Windows | Gordon Willis |
| Without Warning | Greydon Clark |
| Woman Avenger | Lee Tso-Nam |
| Xanadu | Robert Greenwald |
| Yogi's First Christmas | Ray Patterson, Hawley Pratt, Gerry Chiniquy |
| Young Master, The | Jackie Chan |
| Zigeunerweisen | Seijun Suzuki |