# The Golden Lion winners of the 1980s

The films awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival from 1980 to 1989, with the shared prize of 1980.

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- Nov 17, 2025 · Simona Bianco
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## Top 11

1. **Atlantic City** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Louis Malle, 1980 (shared). Burt Lancaster as an ageing small-time crook in Atlantic City.
2. **Gloria** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — John Cassavetes, 1980 (shared). Gena Rowlands protects a boy from the mob.
3. **The State of Things** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Wim Wenders, 1982. A film crew stranded in Portugal without money.
4. **First Name: Carmen** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jean-Luc Godard, 1983. Carmen reimagined as a story of bank robbers.
5. **Au revoir les enfants** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Louis Malle, 1987. A Catholic boarding school hiding Jewish boys in 1944.
6. **The Legend of the Holy Drinker** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Ermanno Olmi, 1988. Rutger Hauer as a vagrant in Paris.
7. **Marianne and Juliane** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Margarethe von Trotta, 1981. Two sisters, one of them a Red Army Faction terrorist.
8. **A Year of the Quiet Sun** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Krzysztof Zanussi, 1984. A Polish widow and an American soldier in 1946.
9. **Vagabond** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Agnès Varda, 1985. Sandrine Bonnaire as a drifter found dead in a ditch.
10. **The Green Ray** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Éric Rohmer, 1986. A lonely young woman on holiday looks for the green flash.
11. **A City of Sadness** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989. Taiwan and the 28 February 1947 incident.

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