The best foreign films of the 1980s (Kinema Junpo)
The top 3 according to 8 votes from people: Blade Runner (1982) · Back to the Future (1985) · E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). (Updated Mar 3, 2020.)
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).
Automatically translated (original in 日本語). See the original
Top 12
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1
Blade Runner (1982)
Ridley Scott. Hunting replicants in the Los Angeles of 2019. Number one.
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2
Back to the Future (1985)
Robert Zemeckis. Back to 1955 in a DeLorean. Joint third.
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3
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Steven Spielberg. A boy and an alien left behind on Earth. Joint fifth.
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4
Freeze Die Come to Life (1989)
Vitali Kanevsky. A boy in a postwar mining town in the Soviet Far East. Joint fifth.
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5
The Big Red One (1980)
Samuel Fuller. An infantry squad that fights through the Second World War. Joint fifth.
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6
Gloria (1980)
John Cassavetes. Gena Rowlands protects a boy from the Mob. Joint tenth.
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7
A Better Tomorrow (1986)
John Woo. The defining Hong Kong noir. Joint fifth.
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8
Where Is the Friend's House? (1987)
Abbas Kiarostami. A boy sets out to return his friend's notebook. Joint fifth.
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9
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Giuseppe Tornatore. Projectionist Alfredo and young Totò. Joint tenth.
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10
The Blues Brothers (1980)
John Landis. Two brothers on a mission from God. Joint tenth.
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11
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Jim Jarmusch. New York, Cleveland and Florida. Number two.
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12
A City of Sadness (1989)
Hou Hsiao-hsien. A Taiwanese family and the February 28 Incident. Golden Lion. Joint third.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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