10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1980-х по версии Dave Kehr (Chicago Reader):

1980 
01. The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson)
02. The Human Factor (Otto Preminger)
03. Contract (Krzysztof Zanussi)
04. The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller)
05. Used Cars (Robert Zemeckis)
06. Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam)
07. The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard)
08. Gloria (John Cassavetes)
09. Mad Max (George Miller)
10. The Long Riders (Walter Hill)

1981 
01. Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
02. Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
03. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (Fred Schepisi)
04. Ici et ailleurs (Jean-Luc Godard)
05. Every Man for Himself (Jean-Luc Godard)
06. Confidence (Istvan Szabo)
07. From the Clouds to Resistance (Jean-Marie Straub/Daniele Huillet)
08. Modern Romance (Albert Brooks)
09. Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
10. Reds (Warren Beatty)

1982
The Aviator's Wife (Eric Rohmer)
Barbarosa (Fred Schepisi)
Coup de torchon (Bertrand Tavernier)
Eijanaika (Shohei Imamura)
Mes petites amoureuses (Jean Eustache)
Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Le pont du nord (Jacques Rivette)
Smash Palace (Roger Donaldson)
Too Early, Too Late (Jean-Marie Straub/Daniele Huillet)
Victor/Victoria (Blake Edwards)

1983 
01. Francisca (Manoel de Oliveira)
02. A Room in Town (Jacques Demy)
03. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
04. Ana (Antonio Reis/Margarida Cordeiro)
05. The Golden Eighties (Chantal Akerman)
06. The State of Things (Wim Wenders)
07. Exposed (James Toback)
08. Risky Business (Paul Brickman)
09. Sudden Impact (Clint Eastwood)
10. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)

1984 
01. L'argent (Robert Bresson)
02. Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
03. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
04. Passion (Jean-Luc Godard)
05. A Sunday in the Country (Bertrand Tavernier)
06. The Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raul Ruiz)
07. A nos amours (Maurice Pialat)
08. In the White City (Alain Tanner)
09. Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax)
10. My Brother's Wedding (Charles Burnett)

1985 
01. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
02. Lost in America (Albert Brooks)
03. Mikey and Micky (Elaine May)
04. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
05. Les enfants (Marguerite Duras)
06. Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
07. Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood)
08. City of Pirates (Raul Ruiz)
09. Maria's Lovers (Andrei Konchalovsky)
10. The Legend of Tianyun Mountain (Xie Jin)

1986
01. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)
02. The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
03. Something Wild (Jonathan Demme)
04. Vagabond (Agnes Varda)
05. The Fly (David Cronenberg)
06. Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph)
07. Himatsuri (Mitsuo Yanagimachi)
08. Heartbreak Ridge (Clint Eastwood)
09. Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Ford Coppola)
10. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)

1987 
01. Hope and Glory (John Boorman)
02. The Stepfather (Joseph Ruben)
03. Swimming to Cambodia (Jonathan Demme)
04. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
05. Therese (Alain Cavalier)
06. Street Smart (Jerry Schatzberg)
07. Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow)
08. Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
09. House of Games (David Mamet)
10. Roxanne (Fred Schepisi)

1988
01. Melo (Alain Resnais)
02. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis)
03. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
04. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
05. Shy People (Andrei Konchalovsky)
06. Monkey Shines (George A. Romero)
07. The Land Before Time (Don Bluth)
08. A World Apart (Chris Menges)
09. The Naked Gun
10. Bird (Clint Eastwood)

1989
01. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies)
02. Say Anything (Cameron Crowe)
03. Pink Cadillac (Buddy Van Horn)
04. Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)
05. High Hopes (Mike Leigh)
06. Always (Steven Spielberg)
07. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton)
08. Queen of Hearts (Jon Amiel)
09. The Fabulous Baker Boys (Steve Kloves)
10. Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Eric Rohmer)