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Top Ten Lists 1980-1989

-- 1980s --

-- 1989 --

#1:  Born on the Fourth of July (dir: Oliver Stone) #2:  sex, lies and videotape (dir: Steven Soderbergh) #3:  Glory (dir: Edward Zwick) #4:  Drugstore Cowboy (dir: Gus van Sant) #5:  Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (dir: John McNaughton) #6:  Do the Right Thing (dir: Spike Lee) #7:  My Left Foot (dir: Jim Sheridan) #8:  Roger & Me (dir: Michael Moore) #9:  Henry V (dir: Kenneth Branagh) #10:  Driving Miss Daisy (dir: Bruce Beresford)

-- 1988 --

#1:  The Last Temptation of Christ (dir: Martin Scorsese) #2:  Dead Ringers (dir: David Cronenberg) #3:  The Unbearable Lightness of Being (dir: Philip Kaufman) #4:  Who Framed Roger Rabbit (dir: Robert Zemeckis) #5:  Talk Radio (dir: Oliver Stone) #6:  Pelle the Conqueror (dir: Bille August) #7:  Eight Men Out (dir: John Sayles) #8:  Working Girl (dir: Mike Nichols) #9:  Tucker: The Man and His Dream (dir: Francis Ford Coppola) #10:  Rain Man (dir: Barry Levinson)

-- 1987 --

#1:  The Untouchables (dir: Brian DePalma) #2:  Au Revoir, Les Enfants (dir: Louis Malle) #3:  The Last Emperor (dir: Bernardo Bertolucci) #4:  Hope and Glory (dir: John Boorman) #5:  Wall Street (dir: Oliver Stone) #6:  Raising Arizona (dir: Joel Coen) #7:  Broadcast News (dir: James L. Brooks) #8:  Fatal Attraction (dir: Adrian Lyne) #9:  Babette's Feast (dir: Gabriel Axel) #10: Barfly (dir: Barbet Schroeder)

-- 1986 --

#1:  Mona Lisa (dir: Neil Jordan) #2:  Platoon (dir: Oliver Stone) #3:  Blue Velvet (dir: Daid Lynch) #4:  Sid & Nancy (dir: Alex Cox) #5:  Hannah and Her Sisters (dir: Woody Allen) #6:  The Mission (dir: Roland Joffe) #7:  A Room with a View (dir: James Ivory) #8:  Children of a Lesser God (dir: Randa Haines) #9:  The Color of Money (dir: Martin Scorsese) #10:  The Fly (dir: David Cronenberg)

-- 1985 --

#1:  After Hours (dir: Martin Scorsese) #2:  Brazil (dir: Terry Gilliam) #3:  Kiss of the Spider Woman (dir: Hector Babenco) #4:  My Life as a Dog (dir: Lasse Hallström) #5:  Ran (dir: Akira Kurosawa) #6:  Prizzi's Honor (dir: John Huston) #7:  The Color Purple (dir: Steven Spielberg) #8:  The Official Story (dir: Luis Puenzo) #9:  Witness (dir: Peter Weir) #10:  The Purple Rose of Cairo (dir: Woody Allen)

-- 1984 --

#1:  Blood Simple (dir: Joel Coen) #2:  Amadeus (dir: Milos Forman) #3:  Once Upon a Time in America (dir: Sergio Leone) #4:  The Killing Fields (dir: Roland Joffe) #5:  1984 (dir: Michael Radford) #6:  Broadway Danny Rose (dir: Woody Allen) #7:  Stop Making Sense (dir: Jonathan Demme) #8:  After the Rehearsal (dir: Ingmar Bergman) #9:  Places in the Heart (dir: Robert Benton) #10:  Body Double (dir: Brian DePalma)

-- 1983 --

#1:  Fanny and Alexander (dir: Ingmar Bergman) #2:  The Dead Zone (dir: David Cornenberg) #3:  The King of Comedy (dir: Martin Scorsese) #4:  Zelig (dir: Woody Allen) #5:  Scarface (dir: Brian DePalma) #6:  Silkwood (dir: Mike Nichols) #7:  Terms of Endearment (dir: James L. Brooks) #8:  The Dresser (dir: Peter Yates) #9:  Testament (dir: Lynne Littman) #10:  Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (dir: Terry Jones)

-- 1982 --

#1:  Gandhi (dir: Richard Attenborough) #2:  E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (dir: Steven Spielberg) #3:  Tootsie (dir: Sydney Pollack) #4:  Das Boot (dir: Wolfgang Petersen) #5:  The Verdict (dir: Sidney Lumet) #6:  Diva (dir: Jean-Jacques Beineix) #7:  The World According to Garp (dir: George Roy Hill) #8:  My Favorite Year (dir: Ricahrd Benjamin) #9:  Sophie's Choice (dir: Alan J. Pakula) #10:  Fast Times at Ridgemont High (dir: Amy Heckerling)

-- 1981 --

#1:  Atlantic City (dir: Louis Malle) #2:  Gallipoli (dir: Peter Weir) #3:  Reds (dir: Warren Beatty) #4:  Chariots of Fire (dir: Hugh Hudson) #5:  Raiders of the Lost Ark (dir: Steven Spielberg) #6:  True Confessions (dir: Ulu Grosbard) #7:  Thief (dir: Michael Mann) #8:  The French Lieutenant's Woman (dir: Karel Reisz) #9:  Absence of Malice (dir: Sydney Pollack) #10:  Blow Out (dir: Brian DePalma)

-- 1980 --

#1:  Raging Bull (dir: Martin Scorsese) #2:  Ordinary People (dir: Robert Redford) #3:  The Tin Drum (dir: Volker Schlöndorff) #4:  The Elephant Man (dir: David Lynch) #5:  The Shining (dir: Stanley Kubrick) #6:  Stardust Memories (dir: Woody Allen) #7:  The Stunt Man (dir: Richard Rush) #8:  Dressed to Kill (dir: Brian DePalma) #9:  Melvin and Howard (dir: Jonathan Demme) #10:  Airplane! (dir: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker)

Analysis by:
David Perry
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