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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
Industry professionals predicted comedy films and upbeat entertainment to dominate theaters in 1980. This was a response to poor morale in a nation suffering through economic recession, which generally increased theatrical visits as audiences sought escapism and ignored romantic films and depictions of blue-collar life.
The decade of the 1980s in Western cinema saw the return of studio-driven pictures, coming from the filmmaker-driven New Hollywood era of the 1970s. [1] The period was when the "high concept" picture was established by producer Don Simpson, [2] where films were expected to be easily marketable and understandable.
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1980 per Variety.The data was based on grosses from 20 to 22 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
This is chronological list of action films released in the 1980s. Often there may be considerable overlap particularly between action and other genres (including horror, comedy and science fiction films); the list should attempt to document films which are more closely related to action, even if they blend genres.
Made for television movie about the Battle of the Alamo: Desperado: Virgil W. Vogel: Alex McArthur, David Warner, Yaphet Kotto, Donald Moffat, Stephen Davies, Lise Cutter, Robert Vaughn, Gladys Knight, Pernell Roberts, Dirk Blocker: United States: B Western Django 2: Nello Rossati
For convenience, all 1980 films should be included in this category. This includes all 1980 films that can also be found in the subcategories. Film portal;
1980s road movies (4 C, 34 P) 1980s romance films (11 C, 70 P) S. 1980s satirical films (1 C, 70 P) 1980s short films (12 C) 1980s speculative fiction films (5 C, 1 P)