The Golden Lion winners of the 1980s
The top 3 according to 6 votes from people: Atlantic City · Gloria · The State of Things. (Updated Nov 17, 2025.)
The films awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival from 1980 to 1989, with the shared prize of 1980.
Automatically translated (original in Italiano). See the original
Top 11
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1
Atlantic City
Louis Malle, 1980 (shared). Burt Lancaster as an ageing small-time crook in Atlantic City.
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2
Gloria
John Cassavetes, 1980 (shared). Gena Rowlands protects a boy from the mob.
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3
The State of Things
Wim Wenders, 1982. A film crew stranded in Portugal without money.
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4
First Name: Carmen
Jean-Luc Godard, 1983. Carmen reimagined as a story of bank robbers.
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5
Au revoir les enfants
Louis Malle, 1987. A Catholic boarding school hiding Jewish boys in 1944.
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6
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Ermanno Olmi, 1988. Rutger Hauer as a vagrant in Paris.
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7
Marianne and Juliane
Margarethe von Trotta, 1981. Two sisters, one of them a Red Army Faction terrorist.
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8
A Year of the Quiet Sun
Krzysztof Zanussi, 1984. A Polish widow and an American soldier in 1946.
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9
Vagabond
Agnès Varda, 1985. Sandrine Bonnaire as a drifter found dead in a ditch.
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10
The Green Ray
Éric Rohmer, 1986. A lonely young woman on holiday looks for the green flash.
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11
A City of Sadness
Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989. Taiwan and the 28 February 1947 incident.
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Comments (3)
Arrivederci ragazzi di Louis Malle mi ha distrutto.
Senza tetto né legge, Sandrine Bonnaire bravissima.
Il raggio verde di Rohmer, film delicatissimo.