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The most successful movies, first aired in 1980 year
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The Blues Brothers (1980) USAAfter the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit "The Penguin", the last of the nuns who raised them in a boarding school... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 115 229 890 IMDb: 7.9/10 (212 728) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Superman II (1980) USA,  United Kingdom,  Canada,  FranceSuperman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 108 185 706 IMDb: 6.8/10 (113 937) |
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Airplane! (1980) USA Still craving for the love of his life, Ted Striker follows Elaine onto the flight that she is working on as a member of the cabin crew... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 83 453 539 IMDb: 7.7/10 (258 418) User Rating: /10 Votes: 5 |
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The Blue Lagoon (1980) USA Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 58 853 106 IMDb: 5.8/10 (75 918) User Rating: /10 Votes: 45 |
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The Shining (1980) USA, United Kingdom Signing a contract, Jack Torrance, a normal writer and former teacher agrees to take care of a hotel which has a long, violent past that puts everyone in the hotel in a nervous situation... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 45 655 744 IMDb: 8.4/10 (1 096 071) User Rating: /10 Votes: 4 |
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Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980) USA Cheech must deal with losing his job, his angry neighbor, and trying to score with sexy Donna... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 41 675 194 IMDb: 6.0/10 (14 845) |
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Friday the 13th (1980) USA One summer at Camp Crystal Lake, a group of young counselors begin to get ready to lead campers... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 39 754 601 IMDb: 6.4/10 (156 179) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Little Darlings (1980) USA Fifteen year olds Ferris Whitney and Angel Bright meet when they attend the same summer camp and are assigned the bunks next to each other in the same cabin... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 34 326 249 IMDb: 6.5/10 (6 462) User Rating: /10 Votes: 7 |
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Dressed to Kill (1980) USA A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 31 899 000 IMDb: 7.1/10 (47 675) |
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The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) Botswana,  South AfricaA Sho in the Kalahari desert encounters technology for the first time--in the shape of a Coke bottle... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 30 031 783 IMDb: 7.3/10 (59 124) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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The Elephant Man (1980) USA, United Kingdom John Merrick (whose real name was Joseph, as this is based on a true story) is an intelligent and friendly man, but he is hated by his Victorian-era English society because he is severely deformed... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 26 010 864 IMDb: 8.2/10 (256 441) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Bronco Billy (1980) USA Bronco Billy McCoy is the proud owner of a small traveling Wild West show... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 24 265 659 IMDb: 6.1/10 (12 642) |
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My Bodyguard (1980) USA Clifford Peache is the new kid in Lake View High School... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 22 482 952 IMDb: 7.1/10 (10 753) |
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The Fog (1980) USA The Centenary of the small sea town, Antonio Bay, is approaching... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 21 448 782 IMDb: 6.8/10 (82 312) User Rating: /10 Votes: 3 |
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Altered States (1980) USA It's the late 1960's... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 19 853 892 IMDb: 6.9/10 (38 184) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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The Octagon (1980) USA Scott's life is plagued by two kinds of flashbacks... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 18 971 000 IMDb: 5.0/10 (6 117) |
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Herbie Goes Bananas (1980) USA Pete Stancheck inherits from his Uncle Jim Douglas a race car being stored in Puerto Vallarta... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 18 000 000 IMDb: 4.9/10 (6 191) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Honeysuckle Rose (1980) USA After displaying his easygoing charm in a number of television appearances and a showy supporting role in The Electric Horseman, Willie Nelson scored his first leading role in this romantic comedy-drama in which he (appropriately enough) plays a musician... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 17 815 212 IMDb: 6.3/10 (1 844) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Hero at Large (1980) USA An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is hired to to promote... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 15 934 737 IMDb: 5.9/10 (1 805) |
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The Island (1980) USA In New York, the journalist Blair Maynard convinces his editor to travel to Florida to investigate the mysterious disappearance of ships in the Bermuda's Triangle area... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 15 716 828 IMDb: 5.3/10 (4 693) |
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Prom Night (1980) Canada For six long years, Hamilton High School seniors Kelly Lynch, Jude Cunningham, Wendy Richards and Nick McBride have been hiding the truth of what happened to ten-year-old Robin Hammond the day her broken body was discovered near an abandoned convent... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 14 796 236 IMDb: 5.3/10 (20 685) |
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Oh, God! Book II (1980) USA Second 'Oh God' movie has God appearing before 11-year-old Tracy Richards to ask for her help to spread his word and influence over the world which she suggests the slogan 'Think God.' Naturaly, Tracy's divorced parents Paula and Don think Tracy's just crazy and plot to halt her 'heaven-sent' mission to spread God's word... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 14 504 277 IMDb: 5.3/10 (2 495) |
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The Last Married Couple in America (1980) USA Jeff and Mari Thompson have been married for fifteen years... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 12 835 544 IMDb: 5.4/10 (731) |
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The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (1980) USA When Noah Dugan agrees to fly missionary Bernadette Lafleur and her cargo of animals to a remote island, its only because he is on the run from a couple of bookies... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 11 000 000 IMDb: 5.7/10 (1 521) User Rating: /10 Votes: 5 |
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The Hollywood Knights (1980) USA Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 10 000 000 IMDb: 6.2/10 (5 109) |
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Serial (1980) USA It's the end of the 70s... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 9 870 727 IMDb: 6.5/10 (1 125) |
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The Formula (1980) West Germany, USAA detective uncovers a formula that was devised by the Nazis in WW II to make gasoline from synthetic products, thereby eliminating the necessity for oil--and oil companies... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 8 894 289 IMDb: 5.6/10 (2 829) |
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Fatso (1980) USA Dominick DiNapoli has always been a big kid who loved eating... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 7 653 061 IMDb: 6.2/10 (2 356) |
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Foxes (1980) USA Four best friends, with four different personalities, have issues of their own... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 7 470 348 IMDb: 6.1/10 (4 977) |
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The Big Red One (1980) USA The story of a hardened army Sergeant and four of his men from their first fight at the Kasserine Pass after the invasion of North Africa through to the invasion of Sicily, D-Day, the Ardennes forest and the liberation of a concentration camp at the end of the war... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 7 206 823 IMDb: 7.1/10 (21 263) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Little Miss Marker (1980) USA Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in 1930's... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 6 321 392 IMDb: 6.3/10 (1 683) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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The Dogs of War (1980) United Kingdom Jamie Shannon is a soldier of fortune -- a mercenary who will stage a coup or a revolution for the right price... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 5 484 132 IMDb: 6.3/10 (9 308) |
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The Watcher in the Woods (1980) USA When a normal American family moves into a beautiful old English house in a wooded area, strange, paranormal appearances befall them in this interesting twist to the well-known haunted-house tale... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 5 000 000 IMDb: 6.1/10 (6 985) |
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He Knows You're Alone (1980) USA A reluctant bride to be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 4 875 436 IMDb: 5.0/10 (4 127) |
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Melvin and Howard (1980) USA This movie tells the possibly true story of Melvin Dummar... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 4 309 490 IMDb: 6.8/10 (5 247) |
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Gloria (1980) USA Mild mannered Jack Dawn has been secretly working as an accountant for the mob... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 4 059 673 IMDb: 7.1/10 (11 287) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Resurrection (1980) USA Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 3 910 019 IMDb: 7.1/10 (3 384) |
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38.
Hide in Plain Sight (1980) USA This was based on a true story... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 3 806 930 IMDb: 6.4/10 (994) |
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Midnight Madness (1980) USA Leon planned "The Great Allnighter" by picking college students to participate in his night long scavenger hunt... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 2 900 000 IMDb: 6.3/10 (3 864) |
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El Nido (1980) Spain,  ArgentinaIn a town near Salamanca, an eccentric widower, aged 60, is captivated by an imp, a precocious 13 year old... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 1 477 487 IMDb: 7.0/10 (625) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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Why Would I Lie? (1980) USA Cletus is a compulsive liar... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 1 175 855 IMDb: 5.9/10 (303) |
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Heart Beat (1980) USA The life and friendship between the icons of the Beat Generation - Neal Cassady, Carolyn Cassady and Jack Kerouac... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 954 046 IMDb: 5.7/10 (735) |
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A Small Circle of Friends (1980) USA Harvard in the 1960's: a time of social upheaval and student unrest... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 766 760 IMDb: 5.9/10 (502) |
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Desh Drohee (1980) IndiaCumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 358 094 IMDb: 5.9/10 (14) |
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Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) France Prof... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 38 465 IMDb: 7.6/10 (6 775) |
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Taxi zum Klo (1980) West Germany Frank Ripploh is a bit of a rascal: he's a bearded and shaggy-haired teacher, and he's gay with a very active sex life and an interest in making films... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 2 878 IMDb: 6.5/10 (1 751) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
