Лучшие ленты 1980-х годов по версии издания Paste Magazine:

Top-10:
1. Raging Bull
2. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
3. Do the Right Thing
4. The Princess Bride
5. The Thin Blue Line
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. The Empire Strikes Back
8. Ordinary People
9. The Right Stuff
10. Raising Arizona

11-20:
11. Brazil
12. Blade Runner
13. The Mission
14. Die Hard
15. Amadeus
16. The Killing Fields
17. Dangerous Liaisons
18. Ran
19. Chariots of Fire
20. A Fish Called Wanda

21-30:
21. The Big Chill
22. Das Boot
23. Blue Velvet
24. Sophie’s Choice
25. Aliens
26. The Untouchables
27. Field of Dreams
28. Fanny and Alexander
29. sex, lies & videotape
30. Shoah

31-40:
31. Cinema Paradiso
32. The King of Comedy
33. Full Metal Jacket
34. The Shining
35. Wings of Desire
36. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
37. Gates of Heaven
38. Crimes and Misdemeanors
39. When Harry Met Sally
40. House of Games

41-50:
41. Broadcast News
42. Hannah and Her Sisters
43. Kagemusha
44. Coal Miner’s Daughter
45. My Left Foot
46. My Life as a Dog
47. Platoon
48. Tender Mercies
49. Nostalghia
50. Babette’s Feast

51-60:
51. Bull Durham
52. This Is Spinal Tap
53. The Last Temptation of Christ
54. The Moderns
55. Back to the Future
56. The Elephant Man
57. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
58. An American Werewolf in London
59. The Last Emperor
60. The Last Metro

61-70:
61. She’s Gotta Have It
62. The Little Mermaid
63. Blood Simple
64. Au Revoir, les Enfants
65. The Natural
66. Say Anything
67. Monsieur Hire
68. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
69. A Room With a View
70. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

71-80:
71. A Christmas Story
72. The Vanishing
73. Fitzcarraldo
74. The Brother from Another Planet
75. The Terminator
76. Caddyshack
77. My Neighbor Totoro
78. Sixteen Candles
79. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
80. Ladyhawke