# The best foreign films of the 1980s (Kinema Junpo)

Kinema Junpo's top ten foreign films of the 1980s, chosen for the Japanese magazine's centenary: from number one, Blade Runner, to Stranger Than Paradise, A City of Sadness and Cinema Paradiso (with ties).

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- Mar 3, 2020 · kobeeiga
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## Top 12

1. **Blade Runner (1982)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Ridley Scott. Hunting replicants in the Los Angeles of 2019. Number one.
2. **Back to the Future (1985)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Robert Zemeckis. Back to 1955 in a DeLorean. Joint third.
3. **E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Steven Spielberg. A boy and an alien left behind on Earth. Joint fifth.
4. **Freeze Die Come to Life (1989)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Vitali Kanevsky. A boy in a postwar mining town in the Soviet Far East. Joint fifth.
5. **The Big Red One (1980)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Samuel Fuller. An infantry squad that fights through the Second World War. Joint fifth.
6. **Gloria (1980)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — John Cassavetes. Gena Rowlands protects a boy from the Mob. Joint tenth.
7. **A Better Tomorrow (1986)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — John Woo. The defining Hong Kong noir. Joint fifth.
8. **Where Is the Friend's House? (1987)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Abbas Kiarostami. A boy sets out to return his friend's notebook. Joint fifth.
9. **Cinema Paradiso (1988)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Giuseppe Tornatore. Projectionist Alfredo and young Totò. Joint tenth.
10. **The Blues Brothers (1980)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — John Landis. Two brothers on a mission from God. Joint tenth.
11. **Stranger Than Paradise (1984)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Jim Jarmusch. New York, Cleveland and Florida. Number two.
12. **A City of Sadness (1989)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Hou Hsiao-hsien. A Taiwanese family and the February 28 Incident. Golden Lion. Joint third.

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