Films of 1980
1980 was the least cerebral year of its era.
Across 74 well-known films, 1980 reads lower on cerebral than the decade around it — 42.8 against 46.8, a gap of 4.0. Every year is measured against its own era rather than against all of cinema, because a slow trend is not a year’s signature.
The best-liked films of 1980
The Empire Strikes Back
8.4 / 10
The Shining
8.2 / 10
The Elephant Man
8.1 / 10
Raging Bull
7.9 / 10
Kagemusha
7.8 / 10
The Blues Brothers
7.7 / 10
Somewhere in Time
7.5 / 10
Ordinary People
7.4 / 10
Airplane!
7.3 / 10
The Gods Must Be Crazy
7.3 / 10
The Last Metro
7.2 / 10
Brubaker
7.1 / 10
The most singular films of 1980
Highest Cinnamon Scores of the year, leaving out anything already listed above. Not the best films of 1980 — the ones you cannot get anywhere else.
Inferno
Cinnamon 73
Fantozzi Against the Wind
Cinnamon 73
Dressed to Kill
Cinnamon 72
The Changeling
Cinnamon 68
Cannibal Holocaust
Cinnamon 66
The Final Countdown
Cinnamon 64
Altered States
Cinnamon 62
Superman II
Cinnamon 61
Cruising
Cinnamon 60
The Taming of the Scoundrel
Cinnamon 59
The Fog
Cinnamon 54
Friday the 13th
Cinnamon 51