Top Rated "1980s" Titles
| Rank | Rating | Title | Votes |
| 1. | 8.8 | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) | 387,672 |
| 2. | 8.7 | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | 334,381 |
| 3. | 8.5 | The Shining (1980) | 268,673 |
| 4. | 8.5 | Aliens (1986) | 238,841 |
| 5. | 8.4 | Das Boot (1981) | 93,060 |
| 6. | 8.4 | Back to the Future (1985) | 308,167 |
| 7. | 8.4 | Cinema Paradiso (1988) | 67,341 |
| 8. | 8.4 | Once Upon a Time in America (1984) | 107,178 |
| 9. | 8.4 | Amadeus (1984) | 135,848 |
| 10. | 8.4 | Raging Bull (1980) | 123,760 |
| 11. | 8.4 | Full Metal Jacket (1987) | 224,818 |
| 12. | 8.3 | Grave of the Fireflies (1988) | 53,255 |
| 13. | 8.3 | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) | 301,891 |
| 14. | 8.3 | The Elephant Man (1980) | 84,421 |
| 15. | 8.3 | Ran (1985) | 44,596 |
| 16. | 8.3 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) | 245,535 |
| 17. | 8.3 | Die Hard (1988) | 278,851 |
| 18. | 8.3 | A Short Film About Love (1988) | 5,650 |
| 19. | 8.2 | Blade Runner (1982) | 251,252 |
| 20. | 8.2 | Come and See (1985) | 13,475 |
| 21. | 8.2 | The Marathon Family (1982) | 5,855 |
| 22. | 8.2 | Scarface (1983) | 239,617 |
| 23. | 8.2 | Fanny and Alexander (1982) | 21,296 |
| 24. | 8.2 | My Neighbor Totoro (1988) | 55,760 |
| 25. | 8.2 | Platoon (1986) | 154,617 |
| 26. | 8.2 | The Thing (1982) | 127,319 |
| 27. | 8.1 | Stand by Me (1986) | 131,748 |
| 28. | 8.1 | The Terminator (1984) | 272,273 |
| 29. | 8.1 | A Short Film About Killing (1988) | 5,535 |
| 30. | 8.1 | Gandhi (1982) | 77,215 |
| 31. | 8.1 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) | 35,344 |
| 32. | 8.1 | The Princess Bride (1987) | 160,942 |
| 33. | 8.1 | Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) | 13,736 |
| 34. | 8.1 | Castle in the Sky (1986) | 36,179 |
| 35. | 8.0 | Time of the Gypsies (1988) | 9,829 |
| 36. | 8.0 | Fitzcarraldo (1982) | 12,682 |
| 37. | 8.0 | Jean de Florette (1986) | 13,297 |
| 38. | 8.0 | Manon of the Spring (1986) | 11,059 |
| 39. | 8.0 | A Christmas Story (1983) | 64,114 |
| 40. | 8.0 | Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) | 25,483 |
| 41. | 8.0 | Paris, Texas (1984) | 23,035 |
| 42. | 8.0 | Rain Man (1988) | 178,797 |
| 43. | 8.0 | The Untouchables (1987) | 116,784 |
| 44. | 8.0 | Wings of Desire (1987) | 26,629 |
| 45. | 8.0 | Brazil (1985) | 95,567 |
| 46. | 7.9 | Glory (1989) | 68,299 |
| 47. | 7.9 | This Is Spinal Tap (1984) | 65,832 |
| 48. | 7.9 | The Killing Fields (1984) | 27,475 |
| 49. | 7.9 | The Killer (1989) | 25,913 |
| 50. | 7.9 | Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) | 29,243 |
Bottom Rated "1980s" Titles
| Rank | Rating | Title | Votes |
| 1. | 1.3 | Venni vidi e m'arrapaoh (1984) | 281 |
| 2. | 1.4 | Hollywood High Part II (1981) | 215 |
| 3. | 1.5 | Ricky 1 (1988) | 497 |
| 4. | 1.6 | Grunt! (1983) | 61 |
| 5. | 1.6 | Skinheads (1989) | 340 |
| 6. | 1.7 | What Happened to These Civilizations? (1986) | 129 |
| 7. | 1.7 | Nukie (1988) | 664 |
| 8. | 1.7 | Boogeyman II (1983) | 620 |
| 9. | 1.8 | Gor II (1989) | 881 |
| 10. | 1.8 | Zombie vs. Ninja (1989) | 355 |
The formula for calculating the Top Rated 50 Titles gives a true Bayesian estimate:
weighted rating (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C
where:
for the Top 50, only votes from regular voters are considered.
In order to appear in the Bottom 10 Titles chart the title must have received at least 1000 votes.
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