1980-1989

The Top 10 Films Stocked by Auteur House, 1980-1989

1980
1. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, USA)
2. Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, USA)
3.  Atlantic City (Louis Malle, France/Canada)
4.  Stardust Memories (Woody Allen, USA)

5. My American Uncle (Alain Resnais, France)

6.  Ordinary People (Robert Redford, USA)
7.  The Big Red One (Sam Fuller, USA)
8.  Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme, USA)
9.  The Long Good Friday (John MacKenzie, UK)
10.  The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, USA)

1981
1.    Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, USA)
2.    Man of Iron (Andrzej Wajda, Poland)

3.    Mephisto (Istvan Szabo, Hungary)

4.    City of Women (Federico Fellini, Italy)
5.    Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
6.    Ragtime (Milos Forman, USA)
7.    The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Karel Reisz, UK)
8.    Excalibar (John Boorman, UK)
9.    Gallipoli (Peter Weir, Australia)
10.    Bad Blood (Mike Newell, NZ)

1982
1.    Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
2.   Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, USA)
3.   ET: The Extraterrestrial (Steven Spielberg, USA)
4.   Night of the Shooting Stars (Paola & Vittorio Taviani, Italy)
5.   Moonlighting (Jerry Skimowski, UK)
6.   The World According to Garp (George Roy Hill, USA)
7.   Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, USA)
8.   Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
9.   Gandhi (Richard Attenborough, UK)
10.  Missing (Constantin Costa-Gavras, USA)

1983
1.    The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura, Japan)
2.    Zelig (Woody Allen, USA)
3.    The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, USA)
4.    L’Argent (Robert Bresson, France)
5.    Local Hero (Bill Forsyth, UK)

6.   And the Ship Sails On (Federico Fellini, Italy)

7.    Nostalgia (Andrei Tarkovsky, Italy)
8.    Lianna (John Sayles, USA)
9.    King Lear (Michael Elliot, UK)
10.    A Nous Amours (Maurice Pialat, France)

1984
1.  Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, USA)
2.  Choose Me (Alan Rudolph, USA)
3.  Vigil (Vincent Ward, NZ)
4.   A Passage to India (David Lean, UK)
5.   The Times of Harvey Milk (Robert Epstein, USA)
6.   1984 (Michael Radford, UK)
7.   The Shooting Party (Alan Bridges, UK)
8.   The is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, USA)
9.   The Terminator (James Cameron, USA)
10.  Under the Volcano (John Huston, USA)

1985
1.   Shoah (Claude Lanzman, France)
2.  The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen, USA)
3.  The Official Story (Luis Puenzo, Argentina)
4.  Ran (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
5.  Death of a Salesman (Volker Schlondork, USA)
6.   Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, USA)
7.   My Life as a Dog (Lasse Hallstrom, Sweden)
8.   Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky, USA)
9.   Dance With a Stranger (Mike Newell, UK)
10.  Insignficance (Nicholas Roeg, UK)

1986
1.  Blue Velvet (David Lynch, USA)
2.  Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan, UK)
3.  Jean de Florette (Claude Berri, France)
4.  Manon des Sources (Claude Berri, France)
5.  Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier, USA/France)
6.  Aliens (James Cameron, USA)
7.  The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, USA)
8.  Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox, UK)
9.  Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, USA)
10. Tampopo (Juzo Itami, Japan)

1987
1.   Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, USA)
2.  Hope and Glory (John Boorman, UK)
3.  Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
4.   Pelle the Conqueror (Bille August, Denmark)
5.   Bagdad Cafe (Percy Adlon, West Germany)
6.   River’s Edge (Tim Hunter, USA)
7.   The Dead (John Huston, USA)
8.   Babette’s Feast (Gabriel Axel, Denmark)
9.   Au Revoir Les Enfants (Louis Malle, France)
10.  The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci, USA)

1988

1. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, UK)
2.  The Navigator (Vincent Ward, NZ)
3.  Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears, USA)
4.  Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet, USA)
5.  The Vanishing (George Sluizer, The Netherlands)
6.  Apartment Zero (Martin Donovan, UK)
7.  Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, Japan)
8.  Talk Radio (Oliver Stone, USA)
9.  The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Phil Kaufman, USA)

10.  Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy)

1989
1. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, USA)
2. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam, USA)
3.  Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland)
4.  Milou En Mai/May Fools (Louis Malle, France)
5.  Jesus of Montreal (Denys Arcand, Canada)
6.  Ju Do (Zhang Yimou, China)
7.  sex, lies and videotape (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
8.  Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, USA)
9.  The Killer (John Woo, Hong Kong)
10. Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch, USA)