List of American films of 1980

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This is a list of American films released in 1980.

Box office

The highest-grossing American films released in 1980, by domestic box office

gross revenue, are as follows:[1]

Highest-grossing films of 1980
Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross
1 The Empire Strikes Back
20th Century Fox
 $209,398,025
2 9 to 5 $103,290,500
3 Stir Crazy Columbia $101,300,000
4 Airplane! Paramount $83,453,539
5 Any Which Way You Can Warner Bros. $70,687,344
6 Private Benjamin $69,847,348
7 Coal Miner's Daughter Universal $67,182,787
8 Smokey and the Bandit II $66,132,626
9 The Blue Lagoon Columbia $58,853,106
10 The Blues Brothers Universal $57,229,890

January–March

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Y 		18 Cardiac Arrest Film Ventures International Murray Mintz (director/screenplay); Max Gail, Garry Goodrow, Mike Paul Chan, Ray Reinhardt, Robert Behling, Susan O'Connell, Fred Ward
Just Tell Me What You Want Warner Bros. Sidney Lumet (director); Jay Presson Allen (screenplay); Ali MacGraw, Alan King, Peter Weller, Myrna Loy, Dina Merrill, Keenan Wynn, Tony Roberts, Judy Kaye, Joseph Maher
Windows United Artists / Mike Lobell Productions
Joseph Cortese, Elizabeth Ashley, Kay Medford, Michael Lipton, Ron Ryan
, Michael Gorrin, Russell Horton, Rick Petrucelli, Tony DiBenedetto, Marty Greene, Gerry Vichi
22 In Search of Historic Jesus Sunn Classic Pictures Henning Schellerup (director); Jack Jacobs, Lee Roddy, Charles E. Sellier Jr., Robert Starling, Malvin Wald (screenplay); John Rubinstein, Brad Crandall
23 Caboblanco AVCO Embassy Pictures
Morton S. Fine, Milton S. Gelman (screenplay); Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Dominique Sanda, Fernando Rey, Denny Miller, Simon MacCorkindale, Camilla Sparv, Gilbert Roland, Clifton James
30 To All a Goodnight Intercontinental Releasing Corporation / Four Features Partners David Hess (director); Alex Rebar (screenplay); Jennifer Runyon, Forrest Swanson, Linda Gentile, William Lauer, Judith Bridges, Katherine Herrington, Buck West, Sam Shamshak, Angela Bath, Denise Stearns, Solomon Trager, Jeff Butts, Dan Stryker
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MacDonald Carey, William Dozier
Fatso
Brooksfilms
 Anne Bancroft (director/screenplay); Dom DeLuise, Anne Bancroft, Candice Azzara, Ron Carey, David Comfort, Richard Karron, Michael Lombard, Ralph Manza, Estelle Reiner, Natasha Ryan, Sal Viscuso, Paul Zegler, Father Bob Curtis
Simon Orion Pictures Marshall Brickman (director/screenplay); Alan Arkin, Madeline Kahn, Austin Pendleton, Judy Graubart, William Finley, Wallace Shawn, Jayant, Max Wright, Fred Gwynne, Adolph Green, Keith Szarabajka, Ann Risley, Rex Robbins, David Warrilow, Louise Lasser, Dick Cavett, Pierre Epstein, Roy Cooper, Hetty Galen
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2001: A Space Odyssey
 (re-release)		 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Stanley Kubrick (director/screenplay); Arthur C. Clarke (screenplay); Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan, Douglas Rain, Edward Bishop, Penny Brahms, Alan Gifford, Ann Gillis, Vivian Kubrick, Kenneth Kendall, Frank Miller, Edwina Carroll, Heather Downham, Maggie d'Abo, Chela Matthison, Judy Keirn
Hero at Large United Artists
AJ Carothers (screenplay); John Ritter, Anne Archer, Bert Convy, Kevin McCarthy, Harry Bellaver, Leonard Harris, Kevin Bacon, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Robin Sherwood, Penny Crone, Jane Hallaren
The Fog AVCO Embassy Pictures John Carpenter (director/screenplay); Debra Hill (screenplay); Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Houseman, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook, Tom Atkins, Nancy Loomis, Charles Cyphers, George Buck Flower, Darwin Joston, Rob Bottin, John Carpenter, Ty Mitchell, James Canning, John F. Goff, Regina Waldon
The Last Married Couple in America Universal Pictures Gilbert Cates (director); John Herman Shaner (screenplay); George Segal, Natalie Wood, Richard Benjamin, Valerie Harper, Dom DeLuise, Bob Dishy, Arlene Golonka, Allan Arbus, Priscilla Barnes, Catherine Hickland, Sondra Currie, Oliver Clark
Midnight Madness Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Debi Richter
, Kirsten Baker, Ceil Gabot, Tony Salome
The Young Master
Media Asia Group
Hwang In-Shik
, Fung Hak-kun, Wei Pai, Fan Mei, Yue Tau-ean, Bruce Tang Yim-chan
15 Caligula Produzioni Atlas Consorziate (P.A.C.) / Analysis Film Releasing Corporation / Penthouse Films International / Felix Cinematografica Tinto Brass (director/screenplay); Giancarlo Lui, Bob Guccione (directors); Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Guido Mannari, Patrick Allen, Giancarlo Badessi, Adriana Asti, Leopoldo Trieste, Paolo Bonacelli, Joss Ackland, John Steiner, Mirella D'Angelo, Richard Parets, Osiride Pevarello, Anneka Di Lorenzo, Bruno Brive, Paula Mitchell, Donato Placido, Lori Wagner, Valerie Rae Clark, Susanne Saxon, Jane Hargrave, Carolyn Patsis, Bonnie Dee Wilson
Cruising
Lorimar Film Entertainment
Gene Davis, Arnaldo Santana, Larry Atlas, Allan Miller, Sonny Grosso, Edward O'Neill, Michael Aronin, James Remar, William Russ, Mike Starr, Leo Burmester, Henry Judd Baker, Steve Inwood, Keith Prentice, Leland Starnes, Powers Boothe
Mad Max Warner Bros. / Roadshow Film Distributors / Kennedy Miller Productions
Sheila Florence, John Ley, Steve Millichamp, Vincent Gil, Lulu Pinkus, Reg Evans
, Karen Moregold
Saturn 3 ITC Film Distribution Stanley Donen (director); Martin Amis (screenplay); Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel, Roy Dotrice, Ed Bishop
25 Scruples
Warner Bros. Television Distribution
 Alan J. Levi (director); James Lee (teleplay); Lindsay Wagner, Barry Bostwick, Marie-France Pisier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Kim Cattrall, Gene Tierney, Nick Mancuso, Gavin MacLeod, Connie Stevens, Robert Reed, Gary Graham
29 Good Riddance
Pan-Canadian Film Distributors
 Francis Mankiewicz (director); Réjean Ducharme (screenplay); Charlotte Laurier, Marie Tifo, Germain Houde, Louise Marleau, Roger Lebel, Gilbert Sicotte, Serge Thériault, Jean Pierre Bergeron, Leo Ilial
Don't Answer the Phone
 Crown International Pictures Robert Hammer (director/screenplay); Michael D. Castle (screenplay); James Westmoreland,
Pamela Jean Bryant
Foxes
Casablanca Records & Filmworks
 Adrian Lyne (director); Gerald Ayres (screenplay); Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Sally Kellerman, Randy Quaid, Cherie Currie, Lois Smith, Laura Dern, Robert Romanus, Adam Faith, Marilyn Kagan, Kandice Stroh
The Ninth Configuration Warner Bros. / United Film Distribution William Peter Blatty (director/screenplay); Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders, Neville Brand, George DiCenzo, Moses Gunn, Robert Loggia, Joe Spinell, Alejandro Rey, Tom Atkins, Steve Sandor, Richard Lynch, William Peter Blatty
S*H*E Nb Productions Robert Michael Lewis (director);
Rory Maclean
, Fritz Hammer
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Lady and the Tramp (re-release)
Buena Vista Film Distribution
 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske (directors); Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Bill Thompson, Dallas McKennon, Bill Baucom, Verna Felton, Peggy Lee, George Givot, Lee Millar, Stan Freberg, Alan Reed, Thurl Ravenscroft, The Mellomen
Permanent Vacation Cinesthesia Jim Jarmusch (director/screenplay); Richard Boes, Ruth Bolton, Sara Driver, María Duval, Frankie Faison, Jane Fire, Suzanne Fletcher, Leila Gastil, Chris Hameon, John Lurie, Eric Mitchell, Chris Parker, Lisa Rosen, Felice Rosser, Evelyn Smith, Charlie Spademan
14 Defiance American International Pictures John Flynn (director); Thomas Michael Donnelly, Mark Tulin (screenplay); Jan-Michael Vincent, Theresa Saldana, Art Carney, Danny Aiello, Rudy Ramos, Lenny Montana, Joseph Campanella, Santos Morales, Frank Pesce, Fernando López
A Small Circle of Friends United Artists Rob Cohen (director); Tim Zinnemann (screenplay); Brad Davis, Karen Allen, Jameson Parker, Shelley Long, Peter Mark
15 Breaker Morant Roadshow Film Distributors
Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Terence Donovan, Ray Meagher, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Rod Mullinar, Frank Wilson, David Wenham, Alan Cassell, Vincent Ball, Chris Haywood, Russell Kiefel
, Rob Steele, Chris Smith, Frank Wilson, Bruno Knez
21 Forbidden Zone The Samuel Goldwyn Company Richard Elfman (director/screenplay); Matthew Bright, Nick James, Nick L. Martinson (screenplay); Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell, Marie-Pascale Elfman, Danny Elfman, Gisele Lindley, Jan Stuart Schwartz, Virginia Rose, Ugh-Fudge Bwana, Phil Gordon, Hyman Diamond, Toshiro Boloney, Viva, Joe Spinell, The Kipper Kids, Kedric Wolfe, Herman Bernstein, Richard Elfman
Little Darlings Paramount Pictures Ronald F. Maxwell (director); Kimi Peck, Dalene Young (screenplay); Tatum O'Neal, Kristy McNichol, Armand Assante, Matt Dillon, Maggie Blye, Nicolas Coster, Marianne Gordon, Krista Errickson, Alexa Kenin, Cynthia Nixon, Mary Betten, Abby Bluestone, Troas Hayes, Simone Schachter, Jenn Thompson
Little Miss Marker Universal Pictures Walter Bernstein (director/screenplay); Damon Runyon (screenplay); Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart, Sara Stimson, Brian Dennehy, Kenneth McMillan, Lee Grant, Andrew Rubin, Ralph Manza
Nijinsky Paramount Pictures / Hera Productions
Romola Nijinsky, Vaslav Nijinsky (screenplay); Alan Bates, Leslie Browne, George de la Peña, Alan Badel, Colin Blakely, Carla Fracci, Ronald Pickup, Vernon Dobtcheff, Frederick Jaeger, Janet Suzman, Siân Phillips, Ronald Lacey, Jeremy Irons, Anton Dolin, Hetty Baynes
28 The Changeling
Pan-Canadian Film Distributors
/ Chessman Park Productions		 Peter Medak (director); William Gray, Diana Maddox (screenplay); George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, John Colicos, Jean Marsh, Helen Burns, Madeleine Sherwood, Barry Morse, Helen Burns, Frances Hyland, Eric Christmas, Roberta Maxwell, J. Kenneth Campbell, Janne Mortil, Terence Kelly, Antonia Rey, Louis Zorich, Bernard Behrens, James B. Douglas, Michelle Martin, Voldi Way
Gilda Live Warner Bros. Mike Nichols (director); Anne Beatts, Lorne Michaels, Marilyn Suzanne Miller, Don Novello, Michael O'Donoghue, Gilda Radner, Paul Shaffer, Rosie Shuster, Alan Zweibel (screenplay); Gilda Radner
Serial Paramount Pictures
Jennifer McAllister, Sally Kellerman, Bill Macy, Pamela Bellwood, Peter Bonerz, Christopher Lee, Sam Chew Jr., Nita Talbot, Barbara Rhoades, Stacey Nelkin, Tom Smothers, Clark Brandon, Robin Sherwood
, Anthony Battaglia, Ann Weldon, Patch Mackenzie, Paul Rossilli
Tom Horn Warner Bros. / First Artists / Solar Productions
Elisha Cook, Roy Jenson, James Kline, Geoffrey Lewis, Harry Northup, Steve Oliver, Bill Thurman, Bobby Bass, Mickey Jones, Mel Novak, Chuck Hayward
, Clark Coleman, Drummond Barclay, Peter Canon, Bert Williams
When Time Ran Out Warner Bros. James Goldstone (director); Carl Foreman, Stirling Silliphant (screenplay); Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Red Buttons, Barbara Carrera, Valentina Cortese, Veronica Hamel, Alex Karras, Burgess Meredith, Ernest Borgnine, James Franciscus, John Considine, Sheila Allen, Pat Morita, Lonny Chapman, Sandy Kenyon, Ava Readdy, Glynn Rubin

April–June

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AVCO Embassy Pictures
 Robert Ellis Miller (director); John Brascia, Robert Vincent O'Neil (screenplay); James Coburn, Omar Sharif, Bruce Boxleitner, Ronee Blakley, Jack O'Halloran, Calvin Lockhart, Michael Lerner, Rockne Tarkington, Paul Barselou
7 Health
20th Century Fox
/ Lion's Gate Films		 Robert Altman (director/screenplay); Frank Barhydt, Paul Dooley (screenplay); Carol Burnett, Glenda Jackson, James Garner, Lauren Bacall, Paul Dooley, Henry Gibson, Alfre Woodard, Donald Moffat, Dick Cavett, Dinah Shore, Nancy Foster, Nathalie Blossom, Julie Janney, Patty Katz, Diane Shaffer
North Sea Hijack
Universal/CIC
 Andrew V. McLaglen (director); Jack Davies (screenplay); Roger Moore, Lea Brodie, James Mason, Anthony Perkins, Michael Parks, David Hedison, Jack Watson, George Baker, Jeremy Clyde, David Wood, Faith Brook, Anthony Pullen Shaw, Philip O'Brien, John Westbrook, Jennifer Hilary, John Lee
8 The Gambler CBS / Sony Pictures Television / Ken Kragen Productions Dick Lowry (director); Jim Byrnes (screenplay); Kenny Rogers, Christine Belford, Bruce Boxleitner, Harold Gould, Clu Gulager, Lance LeGault, Lee Purcell, Ronnie Scribner, Noble Willingham, Bruce M. Fischer, Lee Paul, Marianne Gordon, David S. Cass Sr., Borah Silver, Lew Brown, Robert Lussier, Edward Walsh, Cathy Worthington, Charles Knapp, Ed Bakey, Neil Summers
10 Bad Timing World Northal Nicolas Roeg (director); Yale Udoff (screenplay); Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Massey, Dana Gillespie, William Hootkins, Eugene Lipinski, Ania Marson, Lex van Delden, Gertan Klauber, George Roubicek, Robert Walker, Stefan Gryff, Sevilla Delofski
Home Movies United Artists Brian De Palma (director); Kim Ambler, Dana Edelman, Robert Harders, Stephen Le May, Charlie Loventhal, Gloria Norris (screenplay); Kirk Douglas, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Vincent Gardenia, Gerrit Graham, Theresa Saldana
17 The Private Eyes New World Pictures / The Private Eyes Partners Limited Lang Elliott (director); Tim Conway, John Myhers (screenplay); Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Trisha Noble, John Fujioka, Bernard Fox, Grace Zabriskie, Stan Ross, Irwin Keyes, Suzy Mandel
Stalker
Goskino / Mosfilm
Arkady Strugatsky (screenplay); Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko, Alisa Freindlich, Sergei Yakovlev, Natasha Abramova, Faime Jurno, E. Kostin, Raymo Rendi, Vladimir Zamansky
The Watcher in the Woods Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution John Hough (director); Brian Clemens, Harry Spalding, Rosemary Anne Sisson (screenplay); Bette Davis, Carroll Baker, David McCallum, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards, Ian Bannen, Richard Pasco, Frances Cuka, Benedict Taylor, Eleanor Summerfield, Georgina Hale, Katharine Levy
24 Death Watch Quartet Films / SELTA Films / Little Bear / Sara Films /
Antenne 2
/ TV 13 Munich		 Bertrand Tavernier (director/screenplay); David Rayfiel (screenplay); Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Max von Sydow, Harry Dean Stanton, Thérèse Liotard, William Russell, Vadim Glowna, Caroline Langrishe, Bernhard Wicki, Robbie Coltrane
25 Heart Beat Warner Bros. John Byrum (director/screenplay); Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, John Heard, Ray Sharkey, Ann Dusenberry, Margaret Fairchild, John Larroquette, David Lynch, Tony Bill, Don Brodie
Where the Buffalo Roam
Universal Pictures
R.G. Armstrong, Mark Metcalf, Craig T. Nelson, Brian Cummings
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9 Friday the 13th Paramount Pictures
Robbi Morgan, Kevin Bacon, Rex Everhart, Ronn Carroll, Walt Gorney, Ari Lehman
, Peter Brouwer, Willie Adams, Debra S. Hayes, Sally Anne Golden
The Nude Bomb Universal Pictures Clive Donner (director); Bill Dana, Arne Sultan, Leonard Stern (screenplay); Don Adams, Sylvia Kristel, Rhonda Fleming, Dana Elcar, Pamela Hensley, Andrea Howard, Norman Lloyd, Vittorio Gassman, Earl Maynard, Robert Karvelas, Gary Imhoff, Sarah Rush, Joey Forman, Robert Ball, Walter Brooke, Richard Sanders, Vito Scotti, Bill Dana, Thomas Hill
Out of the Blue Les Productions Karim Dennis Hopper (director); Leonard Yakir, Gary Jules Juvenat (screenplay); Linda Manz, Dennis Hopper, Sharon Farrell, Don Gordon, Raymond Burr, Eric Allen, Fiona Brody, David Crowley, Joan Hoffman, Carl Nelson, Francis Ann Pettit, Glen Pfeifer, Jim Byrnes, Pointed Sticks
11 The Return of the King
Rankin/Bass Productions
Arthur Rankin Jr. (directors); Romeo Muller (screenplay); Orson Bean, John Huston, William Conrad, Roddy McDowall, Theodore Bikel, Paul Frees, Nellie Bellflower, Brother Theodore, Casey Kasem, Sonny Melendrez, Don Messick, John Stephenson, Glenn Yarbrough
16 Fame United Artists Alan Parker (director); Christopher Gore (screenplay); Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean, Antonia Franceschi, Boyd Gaines, Albert Hague, Tresa Hughes, Steve Inwood, Paul McCrane, Anne Meara, Joanna Merlin, Barry Miller, Jim Moody, Gene Anthony Ray, Maureen Teefy, Debbie Allen, Richard Belzer, Bill Britten, Isaac Mizrahi, Sal Piro, Michael DeLorenzo, Meg Tilly
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle Virgin Films Julien Temple (director/screenplay); Malcolm McLaren, Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Sid Vicious, Johnny Rotten, Ronnie Biggs, Mary Millington, Irene Handl, Liz Fraser, Jess Conrad, Helen of Troy, Tenpole Tudor, James Aubrey, Johnny Shannon, Judy Croll, Peter Dean, Dave Dee, Alan Jones
Humanoids from the Deep New World Pictures
Lynn Schiller, Anthony Pena, Denise Galik, David Strassman, Greg Travis, Linda Shayne
, Cindy Weintraub, Meegan King, Breck Costin, Hoke Howell, Don Maxwell, Lisa Glaser, Julie Kestel, Bruce Monette, Shawn Erler
The Long Riders United Artists / Huka Productions
Walter Hill (director); Bill Bryden, Steven Phillip Smith, Stacy Keach, James Keach (screenplay); David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, James Keach, Stacy Keach, Dennis Quaid, Randy Quaid, Christopher Guest, Nicholas Guest, Savannah Smith Boucher, James Whitmore Jr., Kevin Brophy, Harry Carey Jr., Shelby Leverington, Felice Orlandi, Pamela Reed, Lin Shaye, James Remar, Ever Carradine, Kalen Keach
21 The Empire Strikes Back
20th Century Fox / Lucasfilm
 Irvin Kershner (director); Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan (screenplay); Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, Frank Oz, Alec Guinness, Jeremy Bulloch, John Hollis, Jack Purvis, Clive Revill, Kenneth Colley, Julian Glover, Michael Sheard, Michael Culver, Bruce Boa, Christopher Malcolm, Denis Lawson, Richard Oldfield, John Morton, Ian Liston, John Ratzenberger, Brigitte Kahn, Bob Anderson, Richard Bonehill, Tony Clarkin, Peter Diamond, Marjorie Eaton, Mike Edmonds, Stuart Fell, Joe Johnston, Ralph McQuarrie, Treat Williams, Jason Wingreen
23 Carny
Lorimar Film Entertainment
 Robert Kaylor (director/screenplay); Phoebe Kaylor,
Johann Petursson
Die Laughing Orion Pictures Jeff Werner (director); Jerry Segal, Robby Benson, Scott Parker (screenplay); Robby Benson, Linda Grovenor, Charles Durning, Elsa Lanchester, Bud Cort, Rita Taggart, Larry Hankin, Sam Krachmalnick, Peter Coyote, Charles Fleischer, Carel Struycken, Maurice Argent, Rhoda Gemignani, O-Lan Jones, Marty Zagon, Michael David Lee, Charles Harwood, Melanie Henderson, Chuck Dorsett, John Bracci, John Tim Burrus, Roger Johnson, John E. Tidwell, Cynthia Brian
The Gong Show Movie Universal Pictures Chuck Barris (director/screenplay); Robert Downey (screenplay); Chuck Barris, Robin Altman, James B. Douglas, Mabel King, Jaye P. Morgan, Rip Taylor
The Shining Warner Bros.
Barry Nelson, Philip Stone, Joe Turkel, Anne Jackson, Tony Burton, Barry Dennen
, Lia Beldam, Billie Gibson, Lisa and Louise Burns
30 Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)
Lee Mendelson Film Productions / United Feature Syndicate
 Bill Melendez, Phil Roman (directors); Charles M. Schulz (screenplay); Arrin Skelley, Daniel Anderson, Patricia Patts, Casey Carlson, Annalisa Bortolin, Laura Planting, Bill Melendez, Pascale De Barolet, Roseline Rubens, Debbie Muller, Scott Beach
The Hollywood Knights Columbia Pictures / PolyGram Pictures / Casablanca Filmworks Floyd Mutrux (director/screenplay); Robert Wuhl, Tony Danza, Fran Drescher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stuart Pankin, Debra Feuer, Leigh French, Glenn Withrow, Gary Graham, Sandy Helberg, Gailard Sartain, Richard Schaal, Randy Gornel, James Jeter, P.R. Paul, Julius Averitt, Carol Ann Williams
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4 The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
Golan-Globus Productions
 Alan Roberts (director); Devin Goldenberg (screenplay); Martine Beswick, Adam West, Phil Silvers, Chris Lemmon, Edie Adams, Richard Deacon, Dick Miller, Charles Green, Lisa London, Tanya Boyd, Susan Kiger, Lindsay Bloom, Army Archerd, Kim Hopkins
6 Galaxina Crown International Pictures William Sachs (director/screenplay);
George Mather, Susan Kiger, Rhonda Shear
, Ronald J. Knight, Herb Kaplowitz, Nancy McCauley, Fred D. Scott
Up the Academy Warner Bros. Robert Downey Sr. (director); Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses (screenplay); Wendell Brown, Tommy Citera, Ron Leibman, Harry Teinowitz, Hutch Parker, Ralph Macchio, Tom Poston, King Coleman, Barbara Bach, Ian Wolfe, Antonio Fargas, Stacey Nelkin, Leonard Frey, Robert Downey Jr.
Urban Cowboy Paramount Pictures James Bridges (director/screenplay); Aaron Latham (screenplay); John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn, Barry Corbin, Madolyn Smith, Brooke Alderson, Cooper Huckabee, James Gammon, Mickey Gilley, Johnny Lee, Bonnie Raitt, Charlie Daniels, Tamara Champlin, Jerry Hall, Ellen March, Jessie La Rive, Howard Henson, Connie Hanson, Becky Conway, Cyndy Hall
11 Bronco Billy Warner Bros. Clint Eastwood (director); Dennis Hackin (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Scatman Crothers, Bill McKinney, Sam Bottoms, Dan Vadis, Sierra Pecheur, Walter Barnes, Woodrow Parfrey, Beverlee McKinsey, Doug McGrath, Hank Worden, Tessa Richarde, William Prince
13 The Children World Northal Max Kalmanowicz (director); Carlton J. Albright, Edward Terry (screenplay); Martin Shakar, Gil Rogers, Gale Garnett, Shannon Bolin, Peter Maloney, Tracy Griswold, Joy Glaccum, Jeptha Evans, Clara Evans, Sarah Albright, Nathanael Albright, Julie Carrier, Michelle Le Mothe, Edward Terry, Jessie Abrams, Rita Montone, John P. Codiglia, Martin Brennan, J.D. Clarke, James Klawin, Arthur Chase, Suzanne Barnes, Diane Deckard, David Platt, Michael Carrier, June Berry, Ray Delmolino, X. Ben Fakackt
The Island
Zanuck/Brown Company
Michael Ritchie (director); Peter Benchley (screenplay); Michael Caine, David Warner, Angela Punch McGregor, Frank Middlemass, Don Henderson, Dudley Sutton, Colin Jeavons, Jeffrey Frank, Zakes Mokae, Brad Sullivan, Reg Evans
Roadie United Artists
Marcy Hanson, Carole McClellan, Ray Benson, Joe Gannon, Jesse Frederick, Richard Marion, Sonny Davis, Alvin Crow and the Pleasant Valley Boys, Rick Crow and Asleep at the Wheel
, Eric Gardner
Wholly Moses! Columbia Pictures
David L. Lander, Richard Pryor, John Ritter, Richard B. Shull, Tanya Boyd, Ruth Manning, Walker Edmiston
19 Animalympics
Lisberger Studios
 Steven Lisberger (director/screenplay); Michael Fremer (screenplay); Billy Crystal, Gilda Radner, Harry Shearer, Michael Fremer
Rough Cut Paramount Pictures Don Siegel (director); Larry Gelbart (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down, David Niven, Timothy West, Patrick Magee, Al Matthews, Susan Littler, Joss Ackland, Isabel Dean, Wolf Kahler, Andrew Ray, Julian Holloway, Douglas Wilmer, Geoffrey Russell, Ronald Hines, David Howey, Frank Mills, Roland Culver, Alan Webb, Cassandra Harris, Sue Lloyd, Cyril Appleton
20 The Blues Brothers Universal Pictures
Lou Berryman, Luis Contreras, Raven De La Croix, Ralph Foody, Leonard R. Garner Jr., Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Murphy Dunne, Willie "Too Big" Hall, Tom "Bones" Malone, "Blue Lou" Marini, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, "Mr. Fabulous" Alan Rubin
Brubaker
20th Century Fox
Richard Ward, M. Emmet Walsh, Albert Salmi, Linda Haynes, Everett McGill, Val Avery, Ronald C. Frazier, David D. Harris, Joe Spinell, Wilford Brimley, Nathan George, William Newman, John McMartin, Nicolas Cage
Can't Stop the Music
EMI Films
Bronte Woodard (screenplay); Steve Guttenberg, Valerie Perrine, Bruce Jenner, Paul Sand, Tammy Grimes, Village People, June Havoc, Barbara Rush, Altovise Davis, Marilyn Sokol, Russell Nype, Jack Weston, Leigh Taylor-Young
, Dick Patterson
25 Herbie Goes Bananas Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Jose Gonzales-Gonzales, Allan Hunt, Iris Adrian, Jack Perkins, Alma Beltran, Don Diamond, Buddy Joe Hooker, Steve Boyum
, Ceil Cabot, Dante D'Andre, Jeff Ramsey
The Last Flight of Noah's Ark Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution Charles Jarrott (director); Steven W. Carabatsos, Sandy Glass, George Arthur Bloom (screenplay); Elliott Gould, Geneviève Bujold, Ricky Schroder, Vincent Gardenia, Tammy Lauren, John Fujioka, Yuki Shimoda, Dana Elcar, John P. Ryan, Peter Renaday, Ruth Manning, Arthur Adams, Austin Willis, Bob Whiting
The Stunt Man
20th Century Fox / Melvin Simon Productions
Philip Bruns, Charles Bail, James Avery, Gregg Berger

July–September

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Rossie Harris, Al White, David Leisure, Jason Wingreen, Jill Whelan, Ethel Merman, Jimmie Walker, James Hong, Howard Jarvis, Michael Laurence
, Craig Berenson, Marcy Goldman, Norman Alexander Gibbs, David Hollander, Michelle Stacy, Lee Terri
Alligator Group 1 Films Lewis Teague (director); John Sayles (screenplay); Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Sydney Lassick, Jack Carter, Perry Lang, Henry Silva, Bart Braverman, Royce D. Applegate, Jim Boeke, Peter Miller, Pat Petersen, Kendall Carly Browne, Micol, Angel Tompkins, Sue Lyon, Dick Richards, Michael Mazurki, Kane Hodder
Jane Austen in Manhattan Contemporary Films James Ivory (director); Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (screenplay); Anne Baxter, Robert Powell, Michael Wager, Sean Young, Charles McCaughan, Tim Choate, John Guerrasio, Iman, Katrina Hodiak, Kurt Johnson, Philip Lenkowsky, Nancy New
The Sea Wolves
Rank Film Distributors
 Andrew V. McLaglen (director); Reginald Rose (screenplay); Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard, Barbara Kellerman, Patrick Macnee, Kenneth Griffith, Patrick Allen, Wolf Kahler, Robert Hoffmann, Dan van Husen, George Mikell, Jürgen Andersen, Bernard Archard, Martin Benson, Faith Brook, Allan Cuthbertson, Edward Dentith, Clifford Earl, Rusi Ghandhi, Percy Herbert, Patrick Holt, Donald Houston, Glyn Houston, Victor Langley, Terence Longdon, Michael Medwin, W. Morgan Sheppard, John Standing, Graham Stark, Keith Stevenson, Jack Watson, Moray Watson, Brook Williams, Marc Zuber, Mohan Agashe
5 The Blue Lagoon Columbia Pictures Randal Kleiser (director); Douglas Day Stewart (screenplay); Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels, Alan Hopgood, Gus Mercurio, Elva Josephson, Glenn Kohan, Bradley Pryce, Chad Timmermans
11 How to Beat the High Cost of Living American International Pictures Robert Scheerer (director); Robert Kaufman, Leonora Thung (screenplay); Jane Curtin, Susan Saint James, Jessica Lange, Dabney Coleman, Richard Benjamin, Fred Willard, Eddie Albert, Cathryn Damon, Ronnie Schell, Michael Bell, Sybil Danning, Al Checco, Susan Tolsky, Art Metrano, Garrett Morris
Oh! Heavenly Dog
20th Century Fox
 Joe Camp (director/screenplay); Rod Browning (screenplay); Chevy Chase, Benji, Jane Seymour, Omar Sharif, Robert Morley, Stuart Germain, Alan Sues, John Stride, Donnelly Rhodes, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Richard Vernon, Frank Williams, Susan Kellermann, Lorenzo Music, Harry Hill, Kay Tremblay, Albin Pahernik, Margierite Corriveau, Gerald Iles, Jérôme Tiberghien
Used Cars Columbia Pictures
David L. Lander, Michael McKean, Michael Talbott, Harry Northup, Alfonso Arau, Cheryl Rixon, Al Lewis, Woodrow Parfrey, Dub Taylor, Wendie Jo Sperber, Marc McClure, Betty Thomas, Dick Miller, Rita Taggart, Terence Knox, Will McMillan
18 The Big Red One United Artists / Lorimar Samuel Fuller (director/screenplay); Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco, Kelly Ward, Siegfried Rauch, Stéphane Audran, Marthe Villalonga, Perry Lang, Matteo Zoffoli
Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
 Universal Pictures Tommy Chong (director/screenplay); Cheech Marin (screenplay); Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Evelyn Guerrero, Edie McClurg, Paul Reubens, Betty Kennedy, Sy Kramer, Rikki Marin, Bob McClurg, John Paragon, Jake Steinfeld, Cassandra Peterson, Rita Wilson, Michael Winslow, John Steadman, Faith Minton, Ben Powers, Carl Weintraub, Lupe M. Ontiveros
Honeysuckle Rose Warner Bros. Jerry Schatzberg (director); John Binder, Gustaf Molander, Carol Sobieski, Gösta Stevens, William D. Wittliff (screenplay); Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, Amy Irving, Slim Pickens, Joey Floyd, Charles Levin, Mickey Rooney Jr., Lane Smith, Pepe Serna, Priscilla Pointer, Diana Scarwid, Jeannie Seely, Emmylou Harris, Mickey Raphael, Grady Martin, Rex Ludwick, Bee Spears
The Little Dragons Aurora Film Corporation / Eastwind Productions
Bong Soo Han, Tony Bill, Spencer Quinn, Topo Swope
, Jim Sherwood
Prom Night AVCO Embassy Pictures Paul Lynch (director); William Gray (screenplay); Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen, Casey Stevens, Eddie Benton, Michael Tough, Robert A. Silverman, Pita Oliver, David Mucci, Mary Beth Rubens, George Touliatos, Melanie Morse, David Bolt, Jeff Wincott, David Gardner, Joy Thompson, Sheldon Rybowski, Antoinette Bower
24 The Earthling Filmways Pictures Peter Collinson (director); Lanny Cotler (screenplay); William Holden, Ricky Schroder
25 Caddyshack Orion Pictures
Mel Pape
Dressed to Kill Filmways Pictures Brian De Palma (director/screenplay); Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz, David Margulies, Brandon Maggart, William Finley, Ken Baker, Susanna Clemm
Middle Age Crazy
20th Century Fox / Krofft Entertainment / Canadian Film Development Corporation
/ Guardian Trust Company / Tormont Films		 John Trent (director); Carl Kleinschmitt, Jerry Lee Lewis (screenplay); Bruce Dern, Ann-Margret, Graham Jarvis, Deborah Wakeham, Eric Christmas, Helen Hughes, Geoffrey Bowes, Patricia Hamilton, Michael Kane, Diane Dewey, Vivian Reis, Anni Lantuch, Gina Dick, John Facenda
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Soon-Tek Oh, Joe Lowry, Alvin Ing, Mark Thomas, Harold Bergman, Richard Liberty, Lloyd Kaufman, Dan Fitzgerald, Peter Douglas
The Hunter
Rastar
 Buzz Kulik (director); Ted Leighton, Peter Hyams (screenplay); Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson, Richard Venture, Tracey Walter, Thomas Rosales Jr., Theodore Wilson
I Go Pogo Marc Paul Chinoy (director); Skip Hinnant, Ruth Buzzi, Stan Freberg, Arnold Stang, Jonathan Winters, Jimmy Breslin, Vincent Price
Loose Shoes National American Films /
Brooksfilms
 Ira Miller (director/screenplay); Royce D. Applegate, Dan Praiser, Charley Smith (screenplay); Royce D. Applegate, Bill Murray, Lewis Arquette, Howard Hesseman, Susan Tyrrell, Ed Lauter, Tom Baker, Buddy Hackett, Sean Frye, Sandy Helberg, Rod McCary, Sid Haig, Larry Hankin, David Downing, Kinky Friedman, Dan McBride, Brad Ashcraft, Dustin Day, Alexander Stowe
Raise the Titanic Associated Film Distribution / ITC Entertainment
J.D. Cannon, Norman Bartold, Elya Baskin, Robert Broyles, Paul Carr, Michael C. Gwynne
, Harvey Lewis
8 The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
Playboy Productions
 Piers Haggard (director); Rudy Dochtermann, Jim Moloney, Peter Sellers (screenplay); Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren, David Tomlinson, Sid Caesar, Simon Williams, Steve Franken, Stratford Johns, John Le Mesurier, John Sharp, Clive Dunn, Clément Harari, Burt Kwouk, Kwan-Young Lee, John Tan, Philip Tan, Serge Julien, Johns Rajohnson, Katia Tchenko
Xanadu Universal Pictures
Adolfo "Shabba-Doo" Quinones, Miranda Garrison, Sandahl Bergman, Lynne Latham, John "Fee" Waybill, Prairie Prince, Bill Spooner, Vince Welnick
, Deborah Jennsen, Alexander Cole, Melinda Phelps, Cherise Bate, Juliette Marshall, Marilyn Tokuda, Yvette Van Voorhees, Teri Beckerman, Rick Anderson, Michael Cotten, Roger Steen, Re Styles
10 Why Would I Lie? United Artists Larry Peerce (director); Peter Stone (screenplay); Treat Williams, Lisa Eichhorn, Gabriel Macht, Susan Heldfond, Anne Byrne, Valerie Curtin, Jocelyn Brando, Nicolas Coster, Severn Darden, Sonny Davis, Mitzi Hoag, Ilene Kristen, Jan D'Arcy, Jane Burkett, Kay Cummings, Mia Bendixsen, Harriet Gibson, Cynthia Hoppenfeld, Natalie Core, Shirley Slater, Marian Gants
15 The Kidnapping of the President Crown International Pictures
Michael J. Reynolds, Gary Reineke, Maury Chaykin, Murray Westgate, Ken Anderson, Sully Boyar, Aubert Pallascio
, Virginia Podesser
Smokey and the Bandit II
Rastar
 Hal Needham (director); Jerry Belson, Brock Yates (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Dom DeLuise, Paul Williams, Pat McCormick, David Huddleston, Mike Henry, John Anderson, Brenda Lee, The Statler Brothers, "Mean Joe" Greene, Mel Tillis, Joe Klecko, Don Williams, Terry Bradshaw, Nancy Lenehan, John Megna, Chuck Yeager, John Robert Nicholson
Those Lips, Those Eyes United Artists Michael Pressman (director); David Shaber (screenplay); Frank Langella, Glynnis O'Connor, Tom Hulce, Jerry Stiller, Herbert Berghof, Kevin McCarthy, Joseph Maher, George Morfogen
Willie & Phil
20th Century Fox
 Paul Mazursky (director/screenplay); Michael Ontkean, Margot Kidder, Ray Sharkey, Jan Miner, Tom Brennan, Julie Bovasso, Louis Guss, Kathleen Maguire, Kaki Hunter, Kristine DeBell, Jerry Hall
22 The Octagon American Cinema Releasing / American Cinema Productions Eric Karson (director); Leigh Chapman (screenplay); Chuck Norris, Karen Carlson, Lee Van Cleef, Tadashi Yamashita, Carol Bagdasarian, Richard Norton, Art Hindle, Kim Lankford, Kurt Grayson, Yuki Shimoda, Jack Carter, Ernie Hudson, Larry D. Mann, Aaron Norris, John Fujioka, Michael Norris, Brian Tochi
29 He Knows You're Alone United Artists Armand Mastroianni (director); Scott Parker (screenplay); Caitlin O'Heaney, Don Scardino, Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Rolfing, Lewis Arlt, Patsy Pease, James Rebhorn, Dana Barron, Tom Hanks, Paul Gleason, James Carroll, Russell Todd
McVicar
Polytel
 Tom Clegg (director/screenplay); John McVicar (screenplay); Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell, Billy Murray, Georgina Hale, Steven Berkoff, Brian Hall, Matthew Scurfield, Harry Fielder, Ian Hendry, Malcolm Tierney, Robert Walker Jr., James Marcus, Tony Haygarth, Anthony May, Peter Jonfield, Leonard Gregory, Joe Turner, Jeremy Blake, Anthony Trent, Terence Stuart, Charles Cork, Paul Kernber, Ronald Herdman, Tony Rohr, Michael Feast, Richard Simpson, Ricky Parkinson
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Return of the Secaucus 7 Libra Films / Salsipuedes Productions John Sayles (director/screenplay); Bruce MacDonald, Maggie Renzi, David Strathairn, Adam LeFevre, Maggie Cousineau, Gordon Clapp, Jean Passanante, Karen Trott, Mark Arnott, John Sayles, Marisa Smith, Amy Schewel, Carolyn Brooks, Eric Forsythe, Nancy Mette
9 Phobia Paramount Pictures
Susan Hogan, John Colicos, David Eisner, Lisa Langlois, Alexandra Stewart, Kenneth Welsh
, David Bolt, Patricia Collins, Robert O'Ree, Neil Vipond, Marian Waldman
10 The Big Brawl Warner Bros. / Golden Harvest Robert Clouse (director/screenplay); Jackie Chan, José Ferrer, Kristine DeBell, Mako, Ron Max, David Sheiner, Rosalind Chao, Lenny Montana, Pat E. Johnson, Hard Boiled Haggerty, Chao-Li Chi, Jocelyn Lew, Peter Marc, Gene LeBell, Larry Drake
The Gods Must Be Crazy
20th Century Fox
Nic de Jager, Ken Gampu, Brian O'Shaughnessy, Pip Freedman, Jamie Uys, Michael Thys, Louw Verwey, Simon Sabela [fr
], Fanyana Sidumo, Joe Seakatsie
15 James Clavell's Shōgun NBC / Paramount Television Jerry London (director); Eric Bercovici (screenplay); Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Shimada, Damien Thomas, John Rhys-Davies, Frankie Sakai, Alan Badel, Michael Hordern, Vladek Sheybal, George Innes, Leon Lissek, Yūki Meguro, Hideo Takamatsu, Nobuo Kaneko, Toru Abe, Masashi Ebara, Neil McCarthy, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yosuke Natsuki, Masumi Okada, Edward Peel, Eric Richard, W. Morgan Sheppard, Miiko Taka, Rinichi Yamamoto, Orson Welles, Hiromi Senno, John Carney, Hyoei Enoki, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Ian Jentle, Yuko Kada, Mika Kitagawa, Yoshie Kitsuda, Stewart MacKenzie, Ai Matsubara, Yumiko Morishita, Takeshi Obayashi, Atsuko Sano, Setsuko Sekine, Akira Sera, Shin Takuma, Midori Takei, Steve Ubels, Shizuko Azuma
19 The Exterminator Amsell Entertainment / AVCO Embassy Pictures / Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment / Interstar Pictures James Glickenhaus (director/screenplay); Robert Ginty, Samantha Eggar, Christopher George, Steve James, George Lee Cheung, Toni Di Benedetto, Dick Boccelli, Patrick Farrelly, Michele Harrell, David Lipman, Tom Everett, Ned Eisenberg, Irwin Keyes, Cindy Wilks, Dennis Boutsikaris, Mark Buntzman, Tony Munafo, Roger Grimsby, Judy Licht, Stan Getz, Samuel L. Jackson
Melvin and Howard Universal Pictures Jonathan Demme (director); Bo Goldman (screenplay); Paul Le Mat, Mary Steenburgen, Pamela Reed, Jason Robards, Michael J. Pollard, Jack Kehoe, Rick Lenz, Dabney Coleman, Charles Napier, Melvin Dummar
Mother's Day United Film Distribution Company / Duty Productions / Saga Films A.B. Charles Kaufman (director/screenplay); Warren Leight (screenplay); Nancy Hendrickson, Rose Ross, Robert Collins, Deborah Luce, Tiana Pierce, Gary Pollard, Michael McCleery, Karl Sandys
Ordinary People Paramount Pictures / Wildwood Enterprises, Inc. Robert Redford (director); Alvin Sargent (screenplay); Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth McGovern, M. Emmet Walsh, Dinah Manoff, Fredric Lehne, James B. Sikking, Basil Hoffman, Quinn Redeker, Mariclare Costello, Meg Mundy, Elizabeth Hubbard, Adam Baldwin, Richard Whiting, Tim Clarke, Scott Doebler
Super Fuzz Columbia / AVCO Embassy / El Pico S.A. / Trans Cinema TV
Sal Borghese, Woody Woodbury
26 Divine Madness Warner Bros.
Michael Ritchie (director); Jerry Blatt, Bette Midler, Bruce Vilanch (screenplay); Bette Midler
Hopscotch
AVCO Embassy Pictures
 Ronald Neame (director); Bryan Forbes, Brian Garfield (screenplay); Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, Herbert Lom, George Baker, Ivor Roberts, Lucy Saroyan, Severn Darden, George Pravda, Mike Gwilym, John Bennett Perry, David Matthau, Terry Beaver, Ray Charleson, Jacquelyn Hyde
In God We Tru$t Universal Pictures Marty Feldman (director/screenplay); Chris Allen (screenplay); Marty Feldman, Andy Kaufman, Louise Lasser, Peter Boyle, Richard Pryor, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Severn Darden
My Bodyguard
20th Century Fox / Melvin Simon Productions
 Tony Bill (director); Alan Ormsby (screenplay); Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon, Martin Mull, Ruth Gordon, John Houseman, Craig Richard Nelson, Kathryn Grody, Joan Cusack, George Wendt, Jennifer Beals, Richard Bradley, Tim Reyna, Dean R. Miller, Hank Salas
Resurrection Universal Pictures Daniel Petrie (director); Lewis John Carlino (screenplay); Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth, Roberts Blossom, Clifford David, Pamela Payton-Wright, Jeffrey DeMunn, Eva Le Gallienne, Lois Smith, Richard Hamilton, Sylvia Walden, Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood
Stardust Memories United Artists Woody Allen (director/screenplay); Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-Christine Barrault, Tony Roberts, Daniel Stern, Amy Wright, Helen Hanft, John Rothman, Anne De Salvo, Leonardo Cimino, Sharon Stone, Jack Rollins, Judith Roberts, Candy Loving, Brent Spiner, Judith Crist, Irwin Keyes, Bonnie Hellman, Cynthia Gibb, Annie Korzen, Largo Woodruff, James Otis, Alice Spivak, Armin Shimerman, Laraine Newman, Louise Lasser, Joe Wilder, Hank Jones, Richie Pratt, Arvell Shaw, Earl Shendell, William Zinsser
Without Warning Filmways Pictures / World Amusement Partnership Greydon Clark (director); Lyn Freeman, Daniel Grodnik, Ben Nett, Steve Mathis (screenplay); Jack Palance, Martin Landau, Tarah Nutter, Christopher S. Nelson, Cameron Mitchell, Neville Brand, Ralph Meeker, Darby Hinton, David Caruso, Lynn Thell, Sue Ane Langdon, Larry Storch, Kevin Peter Hall

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The First Deadly Sin
Filmways Pictures
 Brian G. Hutton (director); Mann Rubin (screenplay); Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, James Whitmore, David Dukes, Brenda Vaccaro, Martin Gabel, Anthony Zerbe, George Coe, Joe Spinell, Jeffrey DeMunn, Bruce Willis
Gloria Columbia Pictures John Cassavetes (director/screenplay); Gena Rowlands, Julie Carmen, Buck Henry, John Adames, Lupe Garnica, John Finnegan, Tom Noonan, J.C. Quinn, Sonny Landham, Lawrence Tierney
The Man with Bogart's Face
20th Century Fox / Melvin Simon Productions
 Robert Day (director); Andrew J. Fenady (screenplay); Robert Sacchi, Franco Nero, Michelle Phillips, Olivia Hussey, Misty Rowe, Victor Buono, Sybil Danning, Herbert Lom, Richard Bakalyan, Gregg Palmer, Jay Robinson, George Raft, Yvonne De Carlo, Mike Mazurki, Henry Wilcoxon, Victor Sen Yung
Oh, God! Book II Warner Bros. Gilbert Cates (director); Josh Greenfeld, Hal Goldman, Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs, Melissa Miller (screenplay); George Burns, Suzanne Pleshette, David Birney, Louanne Sirota, John Louie, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Conrad Janis, Hans Conried
One-Trick Pony Warner Bros.
The B-52's, David Sanborn
Somewhere in Time
Rastar
George Voskovec, Susan French, John Alvin, Eddra Gale, Tim Kazurinsky, Richard Matheson, William H. Macy
, Sean Hayden, Ali Matheson
Terror Train
20th Century Fox / Astral Bellevue Pathe / Sandy Howard Productions
/ Triple T Productions
David Copperfield
, Sandee Currie, Derek MacKinnon, Elizabeth Cholette, Don Lamoreux, Steve Michaels, Charles Biddle Sr., Thom Haverstock, Greg Swanson
10 The Elephant Man Paramount Pictures David Lynch (director/screenplay); Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren (screenplay); Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Hannah Gordon, Freddie Jones, Michael Elphick, Dexter Fletcher, Helen Ryan, John Standing, Lesley Dunlop, Phoebe Nicholls, W. Morgan Sheppard, Kenny Baker, Pat Gorman, Pauline Quirke, Nula Conwell
It's My Turn
Rastar
 Claudia Weill (director); Eleanor Bergstein (screenplay); Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin, Beverly Garland, Steven Hill, Jennifer Salt, Dianne Wiest, Daniel Stern
Kagemusha
20th Century Fox / Toho
 Akira Kurosawa (director/screenplay); Masato Ide (screenplay); Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu, Hideji Ōtaki, Daisuke Ryu, Masayuki Yui, Kaori Momoi, Mitsuko Baisho, Hideo Murota, Takayuki Shiho, Kōji Shimizu, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Noburo Shimizu, Sen Yamamoto, Shuhei Sugimori, Elichi Kanakubo, Francis Selleck
Private Benjamin Warner Bros.
P.J. Soles, Craig T. Nelson, Albert Brooks, Alan Oppenheimer, Toni Kalem, Damita Jo Freeman, Alston Ahern, Lee Wallace, Danny Wells
Song of the South (re-release) Walt Disney Productions / RKO Radio Pictures Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson (directors); Morton Grant, Maurice Rapf, Dalton S. Reymond, Bill Peet, George Stallings, Ralph Wright (screenplay); James Baskett, Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, Glenn Leedy, Ruth Warrick, Hattie McDaniel, Lucile Watson, Mary Field, Johnny Lee, Nick Stewart, Roy Glenn, Clarence Nash, Erik Rolf, Olivier Urbain, George Nokes, Gene Holland, Helen Crozier, Anita Brown
14 Fade to Black Compass International Pictures / American Cinema Releasing Vernon Zimmerman (director/screenplay); Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Norman Burton, Morgan Paull, Gwynne Gilford, Eve Brent Ashe, James Luisi, Linda Kerridge, John Steadman, Mickey Rourke, Peter Horton, Melinda O. Fee, Marcie Barkin
17 Foolin' Around Columbia Pictures / GCC Productions Richard T. Heffron (director); Michael Kane, David Swift (screenplay); Gary Busey, Annette O'Toole, Eddie Albert, Tony Randall, Cloris Leachman, Michael Talbott, John Calvin, William H. Macy
Loving Couples
20th Century Fox
/ Time-Life Films
Stephen Collins, Sally Kellerman, Nan Martin, Anne Bloom, Helena Carroll, Marilyn Chris, Pat Corley, Michael Currie, John de Lancie, Peter Hobbs, Sam Weisman
Schizoid
Golan-Globus Productions
 David Paulsen (director/screenplay); Klaus Kinski, Marianna Hill, Craig Wasson, Donna Wilkes, Christopher Lloyd, Richard Herd, Joe Regalbuto, Flo Gerrish, Kiva Lawrence
Times Square
Robert Stigwood Organisation
 Allan Moyle (director); Jacob Brackman (screenplay); Tim Curry, Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson, Peter Coffield, Herbert Berghof, David Margulies, Anna Maria Horsford, Michael Margotta, J.C. Quinn, Tim Choate, Elizabeth Peña, Steve James, Jay Acovone
18 Motel Hell United Artists
Monique St. Pierre, Rosanne Katon, John Ratzenberger
, Dick Curtis, E. Hampton Beagle, Everett Creach, Michael Melvin, Victoria Hartman, Gwil Richards, Toni Gillman, Marc Silver, Shaylin Hendrixson, Heather Hendrixson
31 The Awakening
EMI Films
Miriam Margoyles, Michael Mellinger, Leonard Maguire, Ishia Bennison, Madhav Sharma
, Chris Fairbanks, Michael Halphie
Borderline Associated Film Distribution / ITC Entertainment / Marble Arch Productions Jerrold Freedman (director/screenplay); Steve Kline (screenplay); Charles Bronson, Ed Harris, Bruno Kirby, Wilford Brimley, Michael Lerner, Bert Remsen, Kenneth McMillan, Karmin Murcelo, Norman Alden, John Ashton, Charles Cyphers, Enrique Castillo
Sunday Lovers United Artists / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Bryan Forbes, Édouard Molinaro, Gene Wilder, Dino Risi (directors); Leslie Bricusse, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Francis Veber, Gene Wilder (screenplay); Gene Wilder, Roger Moore, Kathleen Quinlan, Lino Ventura, Ugo Tognazzi, Priscilla Barnes, Lynn Redgrave, Liù Bosisio, Denholm Elliott, Sylva Koscina, Beba Lončar, Rossana Podestà, Milena Vukotic, Robert Webber, Madeleine Barbulée, Lory Del Santo, Luis Ávalos, Catherine Spaak, Francesco D'Adda, Catherine Salviat, George Hillsden, Adelita Requena, Tommy Duggan, Pierre Douglas, Michèle Montel, Gino Da Ronch, Gianfilippo Carcano, Vittorio Zarfati, María Teresa Lombardo, Dianne Crittenden, Randolph Dobbs
Touched by Love
Rastar
 Gus Trikonis (director); Hesper Anderson (screenplay); Diane Lane, Deborah Raffin, Michael Learned, John Amos, Cristina Raines, Mary Wickes, Clu Gulager
Witches' Brew United Artists Richard Shorr (director/screenplay); Syd Dutton (screenplay); Teri Garr, Richard Benjamin, Lana Turner, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Jordan Charney, Angus Scrimm, James Winkler, Bill Sorrells, Kelly Jean Peters, Nathan Roth, Bonnie Gondel
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P.H. Moriarty, Paul Freeman, Stephen Davies, Brian Hall, Paul Barber, Pauline Melville, Nigel Humphreys, Karl Howman, Gillian Taylforth, Dexter Fletcher, Pierce Brosnan, Daragh O'Malley, Kevin McNally
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 Jerry Gross Organization Ulli Lommel (director/screenplay); Suzanna Love, John Carradine, Ron James, Nicholas Love, Raymond Boyden
Christmas Evil Pan American Pictures / Edward R. Pressman Film Lewis Jackson (director/screenplay); Brandon Maggart, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull, Andy Fenwick, Mark Chamberlin, Peter Friedman, Patricia Richardson, Mark Margolis, Rutanya Alda, Joe Jamrog, Peter Neuman, Scott McKay, Gus Salud, Wally Moran, Burt Kleiner
11 Shogun Assassin New World Pictures / Katsu Robert Houston (director/screenplay); David Weisman, Kazuo Koike (screenplay); Tomisaburo Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Akiji Kobayashi, Shin Kishida, Taketoshi Naito, Akihiro Tomikawa, Reiko Kasahara, Minoru Ooki, Shougen Nitta, Tokio Ooki
14 The Idolmaker United Artists Taylor Hackford (director); Edward di Lorenzo (screenplay); Ray Sharkey, Peter Gallagher, Joe Pantoliano, Tovah Feldshuh, Paul Land, Maureen McCormick, Olympia Dukakis, John Aprea
Raging Bull United Artists Martin Scorsese (director); Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin (screenplay); Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana, Frank Vincent, Lori Anne Flax, Mario Gallo, Frank Adonis, Joseph Bono, Frank Topham, Charles Scorsese, Geraldine Smith, Candy Moore, James V. Christy, Peter Savage, Don Dunphy, McKenzie Westmore, Gene LeBell, Shay Duffin, Martin Scorsese, John Turturro, Coley Wallace, Johnny Barnes, Bill Hanrahan, Kevin Mahon, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Floyd Anderson, Johnny Turner, Louis Raftis
19 Heaven's Gate United Artists / Partisan Productions Michael Cimino (director/screenplay); Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, Joseph Cotten, Geoffrey Lewis, Paul Koslo, Richard Masur, Ronnie Hawkins, Terry O'Quinn, Tom Noonan, Mickey Rourke, Willem Dafoe, Roseanne Vela, Nicholas Woodeson
21 The Apple
The Cannon Group
/ NF Geria II / Filmgesellschaft mbH
Miriam Margoyles, Derek Deadman, George S. Clinton, Finola Hughes, Femi Taylor, John Chester
, Michael Logan, Francesca Poston, Leslie Meadows, Gunter Notthoff, Clem Davies, Coby Recht, Iris Recht
Babylon Kino Lorber Repertory / Seventy-Seven / National Film Finance Corporation Franco Rosso (director/screenplay); Martin Stellman (screenplay); Brinsley Forde, Karl Howman, Trevor Laird, T-Bone Wilson, Mel Smith, Stefan Kalipha, Mark Monero, Alan Igbon, King Sounds, Maggie Steed, Mikey Campbell, Angus Zeb, David Gant, Gary Whelan, Vilma Hollingbery, Jah Shaka, Brian Bovell, Victor Romero Evans, David N. Haynes, Archie Pool, Beverly Michaels, Beverley Dublin, Granville Garner, David Cunningham, Cosmo Laidlaw, Yvonne Agard, Donovan Platt, Anthony Trent, Patrick Worrall, Malcolm Frederick, Cynthia Powell, Ann Duncan
The Visitor American International Pictures / The International Picture Show Company / Brouwersgracht Investments / Film Ventures International / Swan American Film Giulio Paradisi (director); Luciano Comici, Robert Mundi (screenplay); John Huston, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen, Shelley Winters, Joanne Nail, Sam Peckinpah, Paige Conner, Neal Boortz, Steve Somers, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Franco Nero
26 Rockshow
Miramax Films / MPL Communications
 Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, Jimmy McCulloch, Joe English
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20th Century Fox
/ Film Finance Group / Polyc International BV		 Richard Lang (director); Erich Segal, Martin Ransohoff, Ronni Kern, Fred Segal (screenplay); Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek, Michael Brandon, Mary Beth Hurt, Edward Winter, K Callan, Rod Colbin, Steve Eastin, Billy Beck, Karen Philipp, Paul Bryar
3 The Competition
Rastar Films
James B. Sikking
, Ty Henderson, Vicki Kriegler, Adam Stern, Bea Silvern, Philip Sterling, Delia Salvi
4 Superman II in Australia only opens worldwide on June 19, 1981. Warner Bros. / Dovemead Ltd. / International Film Production
E.G. Marshall, Marc McClure, Terence Stamp, Leueen Willoughby, Robin Pappas, Richard Griffiths, John Ratzenberger, Shane Rimmer, John Morton, Angus MacInnes, Antony Sher, Elva Mai Hoover, Hadley Kay, John Hollis, Gordon Rollings, Bill Bailey, Marcus D'Amico, Richard LeParmentier, Don Fellows, Michael J. Shannon, Pepper Martin, Eugene Lipinski, Peter Brace, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Tony Clarkin, Peter Diamond, Richard Donner, Harry Fielder
5 Flash Gordon Universal Pictures / Starling Productions / Famous Films Mike Hodges (director); Lorenzo Semple Jr. (screenplay); Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Topol, Ornella Muti, Timothy Dalton, Brian Blessed, Peter Wyngarde, Mariangela Melato, Richard O'Brien, John Osborne, Philip Stone, John Hallam, Suzanne Danielle, John Morton, William Hootkins, Robbie Coltrane, Peter Duncan, John Hollis, Leon Greene, Tony Scannell, Bogdan Kominowski, George Harris, Deep Roy, Bob Goody, Kenny Baker, Malcolm Dixon
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Popeye
King Features Syndicate
 Robert Altman (director); Jules Feiffer (screenplay); Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Paul L. Smith, Paul Dooley, Richard Libertini, Ray Walston, Donald Moffat, Roberta Maxwell, Donovan Scott, Allan F. Nicholls, Bill Irwin, Sharon Kinney, Linda Hunt, Geoff Hoyle, Wayne Robson, Klaus Voormann, Van Dyke Parks, Dennis Franz, Carlos Brown, Jack Mercer, John Wallace, MacIntyre Dixon, Wesley Ivan Hurt, Peter Bray
12 Stir Crazy Columbia Pictures
Franklin Ajaye, Alvin Ing, Herbert Hirschman, Mickey Jones, Billy Beck
Tess
Pathé Films
 Roman Polanski (director); Thomas Hardy, Gérard Brach, Roman Polanski (screenplay); Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson, John Collin
17 Any Which Way You Can
The Malpaso Company
Camila Ashlend, Anne Ramsey, Logan Ramsey, Jim Stafford, Michael Talbott, Mark L. Taylor, Jack Thibeau
, Charles Walker
The Dogs of War United Artists John Irvin (director); Gary DeVore, George Malko (screenplay); Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely, Hugh Millais, Paul Freeman, Jean-François Stévenin, JoBeth Williams, Maggie Scott, Robert Urquhart, Winston Ntshona, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Harlan Cary Poe, Ed O'Neill, Shane Rimmer, George Harris, David Schofield, Terence Rigby, Olu Jacobs, Alan Beckwith, Jim Broadbent
Nightkill Cine Artist Film Ted Post (director); Joan Andre (screenplay); Jaclyn Smith, Mike Connors, James Franciscus, Robert Mitchum, Fritz Weaver, Sybil Danning, Belinda Mayne, Michael Anderson Jr., Tina Menard, Melanie MacQueen
19 9 to 5
20th Century Fox / IPC Films
 Colin Higgins (director/screenplay); Patricia Resnick (screenplay); Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Elizabeth Wilson, Sterling Hayden, Henry Jones, Lawrence Pressman, Marian Mercer, Renn Woods, Norma Donaldson, Roxanna Bonilla-Giannini, Peggy Pope, Richard Stahl, Ray Vitte
The Aristocats (re-release) Walt Disney Productions / Buena Vista Distribution
Dean Clark, Liz English, Gary Dubin, Vito Scotti, Nancy Kulp, Pat Buttram, George Lindsey, Hermione Baddeley, Charles Lane, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Monica Evans, Carole Shelley, Bill Thompson, Peter Renaday, Ruth Buzzi, June Foray, Robie Lester, Clarence Nash
The Formula United Artists / CIP Filmproduktion
G.D. Spradlin, Beatrice Straight, Richard Lynch, John van Dreelen, Robin Clarke, Ike Eisenmann, Marshall Thompson, Dieter Schidor, Werner Kreindl, Jan Niklas, Wolfgang Preiss, David Byrd, Ferdy Mayne, Alan North, Calvin Jung, Louis Basile, Gerry Murphy, Craig T. Nelson, Herb Voland
Inside Moves Associated Film Distribution / ITC Entertainment
David Morse, Diana Scarwid, Amy Wright, Tony Burton, Bill Henderson, Steve Kahan, Jack O'Leary, Bert Remsen, Harold Russell, Pepe Serna, Harold Sylvester, William Frankfather, Arnold Williams, George Brenlin
, Gerri Dean
The Jazz Singer
EMI Films
Franklin Ajaye, Paul Nicholas, Sully Boyar, Mike Kellin, James Booth
The Mirror Crack'd
EMI Films
/ GW Films
Hildegard Neil, John Bennett, Allan Cuthbertson
, Marella Oppenheim, Maureen Bennett, Eric Dodson, Thick Wilson, Peter Woodthorpe
Seems Like Old Times
Rastar
T.K. Carter, Judd Omen, Marc Alaimo, Chris Lemmon
25 Altered States Warner Bros. Ken Russell (director); Sidney Aaron (screenplay); William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid, Thaao Penghlis, Drew Barrymore, Megan Jeffers, Dori Brenner, Peter Brandon, George Gaynes, Jack Murdock, John Larroquette
First Family Warner Bros. / F.F. Associates Buck Henry (director/screenplay); Bob Newhart, Madeline Kahn, Gilda Radner, Richard Benjamin, Bob Dishy, Harvey Korman, Fred Willard, Rip Torn, Austin Pendleton, John Hancock, Julius Harris

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See also

References

  1. ^ "Domestic Box Office for 1980". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  2. ^ Buzz Bissinger (June 1, 2015). "Introducing Caitlyn Jenner". Vanity Fair. Retrieved June 1, 2015.

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