1980
Top 10 of the year
The ten highest-voted films and series that premiered in 1980, via TMDB discover rankings.
Movies
- 1
Film
The Shining
- “A masterpiece of modern horror.”
- “Here's Johnny!”
- “Little pigs, little pigs, let me come in! Not by the hair on your chinny chin chin? Then I'll huff... And I'll puff... And I'll blow your house in!”
★ 8.2 · 18,927 votes
- 2
Film
The Empire Strikes Back
- “Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.”
- “Do, or do not. There is no try.”
- “You must unlearn what you have learned.”
★ 8.4 · 18,423 votes
- 3
Film
Airplane!
- “It was a rough place - the seediest dive on the wharf. Populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It's worse than Detroit.”
- “Joey, have you ever been in a turkish prison?”
- “Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.”
★ 7.3 · 5,069 votes
- 4
Film
Raging Bull
- “I don’t go down for nobody.”
- “The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.”
- “The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to…”
★ 7.9 · 4,762 votes
- 5
Film
The Blues Brothers
- “Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.”
- “Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save…”
- “They'll never get caught. They're on a mission from God.”
★ 7.7 · 4,559 votes
- 6
Film
The Elephant Man
- “A true story of courage and human dignity.”
- “A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak.”
- “Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity.”
★ 8.0 · 3,927 votes
- 7
Film
Friday the 13th
- “Bye Felicia!”
- “Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.”
- “They were warned...They are doomed...And on Friday the 13th, nothing will save them.”
★ 6.4 · 3,340 votes
- 8
Film
Superman II
- “The Man of Steel meets his match!”
- “Three Kryptonian criminals led by General Zod team up with Lex Luthor to conquer Earth, forcing a depowered Superman to regain his strength and stop them.”
- “Three Kryptonian criminals led by General Zod team up with Lex Luthor to conquer…”
★ 6.8 · 2,517 votes
- 9
Film
The Blue Lagoon
- “A story of natural love.”
- “Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own.”
- “Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island.”
★ 6.1 · 2,021 votes
- 10
Film
Cannibal Holocaust
- “A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.”
- “A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest…”
- “They eat and they are eaten!”
★ 6.3 · 1,866 votes
TV shows
- 1
TV
Magnum, P.I.
- “A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.”
- “A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in…”
- “He's a Hellraiser in Paradise.”
★ 7.3 · 441 votes
- 2
TV
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
- “Carl Sagan covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.”
- “Carl Sagan covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life…”
- “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
★ 8.6 · 433 votes
- 3
TV
Chespirito
★ 8.2 · 401 votes
- 4
TV
Shōgun
- “A nation of violence, Samurai warriors ... and forbidden love.”
- “An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.”
- “An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in…”
★ 7.7 · 237 votes
- 5
TV
Yes Minister
- “a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and…”
- “Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.”
- “Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP,…”
★ 8.3 · 164 votes
- 6
TV
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- “Along with his best friend Huckleberry Finn, he spends his days ditching school, fishing, climbing trees and having adventures.”
- “Tom Sawyer is a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River in the mid 1800s.”
- “Tom Sawyer is a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River in the…”
★ 7.9 · 155 votes
- 7
TV
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
- “The 1977 and 1978 episodes were originally broadcasted as segments on the package show Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics and Scooby's All-Stars.”
- “The 1977 and 1978 episodes were originally broadcasted as segments on the package show…”
- “The 1980 episodes featured Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels in their own half-hour timeslot.”
★ 7.1 · 145 votes
- 8
TV
Galactica 1980
- “30 years after the original Battlestar Galactica series.”
- “The great ship Galactica, our home for these many years we've endured the wilderness of space. And now, we near the end of our journey: we have, at last, found Earth.”
- “Upon reaching Earth, the inhabitants of the renegade starfleet take action when they realize earthlings aren't advanced enough to help battle the Cylons.”
★ 6.1 · 99 votes
- 9
TV
Richie Rich
- “over the closing credits.”
- “The other most visible character was Richie's dog, the appropriately named Dollar.”
- “The show airs occasionally on Boomerang; Boomerang's reruns feature the theme from The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show and Scrappy Too!”
★ 6.7 · 93 votes
- 10
TV
Astro Boy
- “Astrology is a science as infallible as astronomy itself, with the condition, however, that its interpreters must be equally infallible; and it is this condition, sine qua non, so very difficult of realization, that has always proved a stumbling block to both.”
- “Astrology is to exact astronomy what psychology is to exact physiology. In astrology and psychology one has to step beyond the visible world of matter, and enter into the domain of transcendent spirit.”
- “Space is big. Really big. You won't believe how hugely mindbogglingly big it really is.”
★ 7.8 · 85 votes