1980
Title
Director
Cast
Country
Subgenre/Notes
Alien Dead
Fred Olen Ray
Buster Crabbe , Ray Roberts, Linda Lewis
United States
Horror
Altered States
Ken Russell
William Hurt , Blair Brown , Bob Balaban
United States
Body horror
Aquanauts
Igor Voznesenskiy
German Poloskov , Aleksandr Yakovlev , Iren Azer
Soviet Union
Battle Beyond the Stars
Jimmy Murakami
George Peppard , Robert Vaughn , Richard Thomas
United States
Space opera
Be Forever Yamato
Toshio Masuda , Leiji Matsumoto
Kei Tomiyama (voice), Yōko Asagami (voice), Shūsei Nakamura (voice)
Japan
Anime film
The Chain Reaction
Ian Barry
Steve Bisley , Arna-Maria Winchester , Ross Thompson
Australia
Disaster, thriller
Contamination
Luigi Cozzi
Ian McCulloch , Louise Marleau , Marino Masé
Italy West Germany
Horror
Crazy Thunder Road
Sōgo Ishii
Tatsuo Yamada , Masamitsu Ohike , Koji Nanjo
Japan
Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Vortex
Masayuki Akehi
Kazuhiko Inoue (voice), Fuyumi Shiraishi (voice), Keiichi Noda (voice)
Japan
Anime film
Death Ray on a Coral Island
Hongmei Zhang
Qi Qiao , Zhiao Ling , Zhen Qiao
China
[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Death Watch
Bertrand Tavernier
Romy Schneider , Harvey Keitel , Harry Dean Stanton
France West Germany
The Empire Strikes Back
Irvin Kershner
Mark Hamill , Harrison Ford , Carrie Fisher
United States
Space opera[ nb 1]
The Final Countdown
Don Taylor
Kirk Douglas , Martin Sheen , Katharine Ross
United States
Alternate history
Flash Gordon
Mike Hodges
Sam J. Jones , Melody Anderson , Max von Sydow
United Kingdom United States
Space opera
Galaxina
William Sachs
Stephen Macht , Avery Schreiber , J. D. Hinton
United States
Science fantasy, comedy
Golem
Piotr Szulkin
Marek Walczewski , Krystyna Janda , Joanna Zólkowska
Poland
Hangar 18
James L. Conway
Darren McGavin , Robert Vaughn , Gary Collins
United States
Nightmare City
Umberto Lenzi
Hugo Stiglitz , Laura Trotter , Maria Rosaria Omaggio
Italy Spain
Horror
Phoenix 2772
Taku Sugiyama
Kaneto Shiozawa (voice), Keiko Takeshita (voice), Hiroshi Ôtake (voice)
Japan
Anime film
The Return
Vladimir Tarasov
Viktor Balashov (voice), Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy (voice), Vasiliy Livanov (voice)
Soviet Union
Animated short film. Russian title: Возвращение , tr. Vozvrashcheniye [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10]
Saturn 3
Stanley Donen
Farrah Fawcett , Kirk Douglas , Harvey Keitel
United Kingdom
The Solar Wind
Timo Linnasalo
Paavo Piskonen, Lilga Kovanko, Antti Litja
Finland
Drama
Somewhere in Time
Jeannot Szwarc
Christopher Reeve , Jane Seymour , Christopher Plummer
United States
Romance
Star Inspector
Mark Kovalyov , Vladimir Polin
Vladimir Ivashov , Yuriy Gusev , Timofey Spivak
Soviet Union
Superman II
Richard Lester
Gene Hackman , Christopher Reeve , Ned Beatty
United Kingdom United States
Superhero
Toward the Terra
Hideo Onchi
Junichi Inoue (voice), Masaya Oki (voice), Kumiko Akiyoshi (voice)
Japan
Anime film
Virus
Kinji Fukasaku
Masao Kusakari , Tsunehiko Watase , Isao Natsuyagi
Japan
Post-apocalyptic
Without Warning
Greydon Clark
Jack Palance , Martin Landau , Tarah Nutter
United States
Horror
1981
Adieu Galaxy Express 999
Rintaro
Masako Nozawa (voice), Masako Ikeda (voice), Kaneta Kimotsuki (voice)
Japan
Anime film
The Cabbage Soup
Jean Girault
Louis de Funès , Jean Carmet , Jacques Villeret
France
Earthbound
James L. Conway
Burl Ives , Christopher Connelly , Meredith MacRae
United States
Escape from New York
John Carpenter
Kurt Russell , Lee Van Cleef , Ernest Borgnine
United States
Galaxy of Terror
B. D. Clark
Edward Albert , Erin Moran , Ray Walston
United States
Heartbeeps
Allan Arkush
Andy Kaufman , Bernadette Peters , Randy Quaid
United States
Heavy Metal
Gerald Potterton
Rodger Bumpass (voice), Jackie Burroughs (voice), John Candy (voice), Eugene Levy (voice)
United States Canada
Animated film
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Joel Schumacher
Lily Tomlin , Charles Grodin , Ned Beatty , Henry Gibson , John Glover
United States
Inseminoid
Norman J. Warren
Judy Geeson , Heather Wright , Trevor Thomas , Stephanie Beacham
United Kingdom
USA title: Horror Planet
Klaabu in Space
Avo Paistik
Soviet Union
Animated short film. Estonian title: Klaabu kosmoses [ 11]
The Last Chase
Martyn Burke
Lee Majors , Burgess Meredith , Chris Makepeace
United States
Looker
Michael Crichton
Albert Finney , James Coburn , Susan Dey
United States
Mad Max 2
George Miller
Mel Gibson
Australia
Post-apocalyptic
Malevil
Christian de Chalonge
Michel Serrault , Jacques Dutronc , Jacques Villeret
France West Germany
Memoirs of a Survivor
David Gladwell
Julie Christie , Christopher Guard , Leonie Mellinger
United Kingdom
Mobile Suit Gundam
Ryôji Fujiwara , Yoshiyuki Tomino
Tôru Furuya (voice), Hirotaka Suzuoki (voice), Shôzô Iizuka (voice), Toshio Furukawa (voice)
Japan
Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko , Yoshiyuki Tomino
Tôru Furuya (voice), Shûichi Ikeda (voice), Hirotaka Suzuoki (voice), Fuyumi Shiraishi (voice)
Japan
The Mystery of the Third Planet
Roman Kachanov
Vasiliy Livanov (voice), Yuriy Andreyev (voice), Grigoriy Shpigel' (voice)
Soviet Union
Animated film
Nuclear Shelter
Roberto Pires
Conceição Senna , Sasso Alano , Roberto Pires
Brazil
Eco-dystopian film. Portuguese title: Abrigo Nuclear [ 12] [ 13] [ 14] [ 15] [ 16]
The Orion Loop
Vasiliy Levin
Leonid Bakshtayev , Gennadiy Shkuratov , Anatoliy Mateshko
Soviet Union
Outland
Peter Hyams
Sean Connery , Peter Boyle , Frances Sternhagen
United Kingdom
Per Aspera Ad Astra
Richard Viktorov
Aleksandr Mikhajlov , Gleb Strizhenov , Alexander Lazarev
Soviet Union
Alternate titles: Through the Thorns to the Stars ; Humanoid Woman
Scanners
David Cronenberg
Stephen Lack , Jennifer O'Neill , Patrick McGoohan
Canada
Scared to Death
William Malone
John Stinson
United States
Space Warrior Baldios
Kazuyuki Hirokawa
Japan
Visitors from the Galaxy
Dušan Vukotić
Ljubiša Samardžić , Ivana Andrlová , Cvijeta Mesic
Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia
[ 17]
The War of the Worlds: Next Century
Piotr Szulkin
Roman Wilhelmi , Krystyna Janda , Mariusz Dmochowski
Poland
1982
1990: The Bronx Warriors
Enzo G. Castellari
Vic Morrow , Christopher Connelly , Fred Williamson
Italy
The Aftermath
Steve Barkett
Sid Haig , Forrest J Ackerman , Jim Danforth
United States
UK title: Zombie Aftermath
Airplane II: The Sequel
Ken Finkleman
Robert Hays , Julie Hagerty , Lloyd Bridges
United States
Anno 2020 - I gladiatori del futuro
Joe D'Amato
Harrison Muller , Al Cliver , Sabrina Siani
Italy
[ 18]
Android
Aaron Lipstadt
Klaus Kinski , Brie Howard , Norbert Weisser
United States
[ nb 2]
Arcadia of My Youth
Tomoharu Katsumata
Makio Inoue (voice), Kei Tomiyama (voice), Reiko Tajima (voice), Reiko Mutō (voice)
Japan
Blade Runner
Ridley Scott
Harrison Ford , Rutger Hauer , Sean Young , Edward James Olmos , Daryl Hannah
United States Hong Kong
[ nb 3]
Burst City
Sōgo Ishii
Michirou Endo , Shigeru Izumiya , Takanori Jinnai , Kou Machida
Japan
Button
Vladimir Tarasov
Soviet Union
Animated short film
Café Flesh
Stephen Sayadian
Michelle Bauer , Richard Belzer
United States
Chronopolis
Piotr Kamler
France
Animated film
Creepshow
George A. Romero
Hal Holbrook , Adrienne Barbeau , Fritz Weaver
United States
Science fiction horror[ 19]
Crosstalk
Mark Egerton
Gary Day , Penny Downie , John Ewart
Australia
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Steven Spielberg
Henry Thomas , Dee Wallace , Peter Coyote , Drew Barrymore , Robert MacNaughton
United States
[ nb 4]
Endangered Species
Alan Rudolph
Robert Urich , JoBeth Williams , Paul Dooley
United States
[ 20]
Forbidden World
Allan Holzman
Jesse Vint , June Chadwick
United States
Kamikaze 1989
Wolf Gremm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Günther Kaufmann , Boy Gobert , Arnold Marquis
West Germany
[ 21]
The Masters of Time
René Laloux
Jean Valmont (voice), Michel Elias (voice), Frédéric Legros (voice), Yves-Marie Maurin (voice)
France West Germany Switzerland United Kingdom Hungary
Animated film
Megaforce
Hal Needham
Barry Bostwick , Persis Khambatta , Michael Beck , Henry Silva
United States
Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space
Yoshiyuki Tomino , Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Tôru Furuya (voice), Shûichi Ikeda (voice), Hirotaka Suzuoki (voice), Yô Inoue (voice)
Japan
The New Barbarians
Enzo G. Castellari
Fred Williamson , Anna Kanakis , Venantino Venantini
Italy
[ nb 5]
Nightbeast
Don Dohler
Donald Leifert , Tom Griffiths
United States
Horror
Parasite
Charles Band
Robert Glaudini , Demi Moore
United States
Horror
Queen Millennia
Masayuki Akehi
Keiko Han (voice), Keiko Toda (voice), Ichirô Nagai (voice), Mami Koyama (voice)
Japan
Space Adventure Cobra
Osamu Dezaki
Shigeru Matsuzaki (voice), Ryoko Sakakibara (voice), Akiko Nakamura (voice), Toshiko Fujita (voice)
Japan
Anime film
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Nicholas Meyer
William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , James Doohan , Nichelle Nichols , George Takei , Ricardo Montalbán
United States
[ nb 6]
Swamp Thing
Wes Craven , Walter von Huene
Louis Jourdan , Adrienne Barbeau , Ray Wise
United States
The Thing
John Carpenter
Kurt Russell , Wilford Brimley , T. K. Carter , Keith David , Donald Moffat , Charles Hallahan , David Clennon
United States
Horror[ nb 7]
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
William Dear
Fred Ward , Belinda Bauer , Peter Coyote , Richard Masur , Ed Lauter , Chris Mulkey , Tracy Walter
United States
Time Walker
Tom Kennedy
Ben Murphy , Nina Axelrod , Kevin Brophy
United States
Tron
Steven Lisberger
Jeff Bridges , Bruce Boxleitner , David Warner , Cindy Morgan
United States
[ nb 8]
Turkey Shoot
Brian Trenchard-Smith
Steve Railsback , Olivia Hussey , Michael Craig
Australia
Warlords of the 21st Century
Harley Cokliss
Michael Beck , Annie McEnroe , James Wainwright
United States
[ 22] [ nb 9]
Xtro
Harry Bromley Davenport
Bernice Stegers , Philip Sayer , Simon Nash , Maryam d'Abo , Danny Brainin
United Kingdom
Horror
Zapped!
Robert J. Rosenthal
Scott Baio , Willie Aames , Heather Thomas , Robert Mandan
United States
1983
2019, After the Fall of New York
Sergio Martino
Michael Sopkiw , Valentine Monnier , Anna Kanakis
Italy France
Anniversary
Vladimir Tarasov
Soviet Union
Animated short film. Russian title: Юбилей , tr. Yubiley [ 23] [ 24] [ 10]
Anna to the Infinite Power
Robert Wiemer
Martha Byrne , Dina Merrill
United States
The Atlantis Interceptors
Ruggero Deodato
Ivan Rassimov
Italy
Born in Flames
Lizzie Borden
Jeanne Satterfield , Adele Bertei , Becky Johnston
United States
Brainstorm
Douglas Trumbull
Christopher Walken , Natalie Wood , Louise Fletcher
United States
BrainWaves
Ulli Lommel
Keir Dullea , Suzanna Love , Vera Miles , Tony Curtis
United States
[ 25]
The Creature Wasn't Nice
Bruce Kimmel
Leslie Nielsen , Cindy Williams , Gerrit Graham
United States
Crusher Joe
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Japan
Daijōbu, My Friend
Ryū Murakami
Peter Fonda , Reona Hirota
Japan
The Dead Zone
David Cronenberg
Christopher Walken , Brooke Adams , Tom Skerritt , Martin Sheen
United States
The Deadly Spawn
Douglas McKeown
Charles George Hildebrandt , Tom DeFranco , Richard Lee Porter
United States
Document Fang of the Sun Dougram
Ryōsuke Takahashi
Japan
Endgame
Joe D'Amato
Al Cliver , Laura Gemser , George Eastman
Italy
Escape from the Bronx
Enzo G. Castellari
Mark Gregory, Henry Silva , Valeria D'Obici
Italy
Exterminators of the Year 3000
Giuliano Carmineo
Robert Iannucci , Alicia Moro , Eduardo Fajardo
Italy
Final Yamato
Tomoharu Katsumata , Yoshinobu Nishizaki , Toshio Masuda
Kei Tomiyama (voice), Yôko Asagami (voice), Gorô Naya (voice), Isao Sasaki (voice)
Japan
Anime film
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Tommy Lee Wallace
Tom Atkins , Stacey Nelkin , Dan O'Herlihy
United States
Horror
Harmagedon
Rintaro
Tôru Furuya (voice), Mami Koyama (voice), Masako Ikeda (voice), Keiko Han (voice)
Japan
Kometa
Richard Viktorov
Nadezhda Semencova , Anatolij Kuznecov
Soviet Union
Comedy
Krull
Peter Yates
Ken Marshall , Lysette Anthony , Freddie Jones
United Kingdom United States
The Last Battle
Luc Besson
Pierre Jolivet , Jean Bouise , Fritz Wepper
France
Liquid Sky
Slava Tsukerman
Anne Carlisle , Paula Sheppard , Susan Doukas
United States
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn
Charles Band
Jeffrey Byron , Tim Thomerson , Kelly Preston , Richard Moll
United States
Moon Rainbow
Andrey Yermash
Vladimir Gostyukhin , Vasiliy Livanov , Yuriy Solomin
Soviet Union
The Pod People
Juan Piquer Simón
Óscar Martín, Concha Cuetos, Manuel Pereiro
Spain France
Prisoners of the Lost Universe
Terry Marcel
Richard Hatch , Kay Lenz , John Saxon
United Kingdom
The Prize of Peril
Yves Boisset
Gérard Lanvin , Michel Piccoli , Marie-France Pisier
France Yugoslavia
Return of the Jedi
Richard Marquand
Mark Hamill , Harrison Ford , Carrie Fisher , Billy Dee Williams
United States
Space opera[ nb 10]
Rock & Rule
Clive A. Smith
Paul Le Mat (voice), Deborah Harry (voice), Don Francks (voice)
Canada
Animated film
Space Raiders
Howard R. Cohen
Vince Edwards , David Mendenhall , Patsy Pease
United States
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Lamont Johnson
Peter Strauss , Molly Ringwald , Ernie Hudson , Michael Ironside
United States
Strange Invaders
Michael Laughlin
Paul Le Mat , Nancy Allen , Diana Scarwid
Canada United States
Superman III
Richard Lester
Christopher Reeve , Richard Pryor , Robert Vaughn , Annette O'Toole
United States
Superhero film
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Joe Dante , John Landis , Steven Spielberg , George Miller
Dan Aykroyd , Albert Brooks , John Lithgow , Kathleen Quinlan
United States
Urusei Yatsura: Only You
Mamoru Oshii
Fumi Hirano (voice), Toshio Furukawa (voice), Saeko Shimazu (voice)
Japan
First film in the Urusei Yatsura film series
Videodrome
David Cronenberg
James Woods , Sonja Smits , Debbie Harry
Canada
Body horror
WarGames
John Badham
Matthew Broderick , Dabney Coleman , John Wood , Ally Sheedy
United States
Techno-thriller
Warrior of the Lost World
David Worth
Robert Ginty , Persis Khambatta , Donald Pleasence , Fred Williamson
Italy
Wavelength
Mike Gray
Robert Carradine , Cherie Currie , Keenan Wynn
United States
Xabungle Graffiti
Yoshiyuki Tomino
Japan
Yor, the Hunter from the Future
Antonio Margheriti
Reb Brown , Corinne Cléry , John Steiner
Italy France Turkey
1984
2010
Peter Hyams
Roy Scheider , John Lithgow , Helen Mirren , Keir Dullea
United States
[ nb 11]
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
W. D. Richter
Peter Weller , John Lithgow , Jeff Goldblum , Christopher Lloyd
United States
Babičky dobíjejte přesně!
Ladislav Rychman
Daniela Kolářová , Jana Dítětová
Czechoslovakia
Bloodsuckers from Outer Space
Glen Coburn
Thom Meyes, Dennis Letts , Laura Ellis
United States
Horror, Comedy
The Brother from Another Planet
John Sayles
Joe Morton , Darryl Edwards , Steve James
United States
Delta Space Mission
Mircea Toia , Călin Cazan
Mirela Gorea-Chelaru (voice), Marcel Iureș (voice), Dan Condurache (voice), Ion Chelaru (voice)
Romania
Animated film. Romanian title: Misiunea spațială Delta [ 26] [ 27] [ 28] [ 29] [ 30] [ 31] [ 32] [ 33] [ 34] [ 35] [ 36]
Dreamscape
Joseph Ruben
Dennis Quaid , Max von Sydow , Christopher Plummer
United States
Dune
David Lynch
Francesca Annis , Leonardo Cimino , Brad Dourif
United States
Space opera
Electric Dreams
Steve Barron
Lenny Von Dohlen , Virginia Madsen , Bud Cort
United States
The Ewok Adventure
John Korty
Eric Walker , Warwick Davis , Tony Cox , Fionnula Flanagan
United States
[ 37]
The Element of Crime
Lars von Trier
Michael Elphick , Esmond Knight , Me Me Lai
Denmark
Firestarter
Mark L. Lester
Drew Barrymore , David Keith , George C. Scott , Martin Sheen , Heather Locklear
United States
Ghostbusters
Ivan Reitman
Bill Murray , Dan Aykroyd , Harold Ramis , Sigourney Weaver , Ernie Hudson , Rick Moranis , Annie Potts
United States
Horror, Comedy
Gremlins
Joe Dante
Zach Galligan , Phoebe Cates , Hoyt Axton
United States
Horror, Comedy
I Guerrieri dell'anno 2072
Lucio Fulci
Jared Martin , Fred Williamson , Howard Ross
Italy
Iceman
Fred Schepisi
Timothy Hutton , Lindsay Crouse , John Lone
United States
The Ice Pirates
Stewart Raffill
Robert Urich , Mary Crosby , Michael D. Roberts
United States
Impulse
Graham Baker
Tim Matheson , Meg Tilly , Hume Cronyn
United States
The Invisible Man
Aleksandr Zakharov [ru ]
Andrey Kharitonov , Romualdas Ramanauskas , Leonid Kuravlyov
Soviet Union
The Last Starfighter
Nick Castle
Lance Guest , Catherine Mary Stewart , Robert Preston , Dan O'Herlihy
United States
Lensman
Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Toshio Furukawa (voice), Mami Koyama (voice), Chikao Ōtsuka (voice), Nachi Nozawa (voice)
Japan
Macross: Do You Remember Love?
Shoji Kawamori
Mari Iijima (voice), Arihiro Hase (voice), Mika Doi (voice), Michio Hazama (voice)
Japan
The Meeting
Mikhail Titov
Soviet Union
Animated short film
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Hayao Miyazaki
Sumi Shimamoto (voice), Mahito Tsujimura (voice), Hisako Kyôda (voice)
Japan
Anime film
The Next One
Nico Mastorakis
Keir Dullea , Adrienne Barbeau , Peter Hobbs
Greece
Night of the Comet
Thom Eberhardt
Catherine Mary Stewart , Kelli Maroney , Robert Beltran
United States
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Michael Radford
John Hurt , Richard Burton , Suzanna Hamilton
United Kingdom
The Noah's Ark Principle
Roland Emmerich
Richy Müller , Franz Buchrieser
West Germany
The Philadelphia Experiment
Stewart Raffill
Michael Paré , Nancy Allen , Eric Christmas
United States
Repo Man
Alex Cox
Harry Dean Stanton , Emilio Estevez , Olivia Barash
United States
Comedy
Return from Orbit
Aleksandr Surin
Juozas Budraitis , Vitaliy Solomin , Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov
Soviet Union
The Return of Godzilla
Koji Hashimoto (director)
Raymond Burr , Ken Tanaka
Japan United States
Kaijū
Runaway
Michael Crichton
Tom Selleck , Cynthia Rhodes , Gene Simmons , Kirstie Alley
United States
Sayonara Jupiter
Koji Hashimoto
Tomokazu Miura , Dangely Diane , Miyuki Ono , Rachel Huggett
Japan
Sexmission
Juliusz Machulski
Olgierd Łukaszewicz , Jerzy Stuhr , Hanna Stankówna
Poland
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Leonard Nimoy
William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Christopher Lloyd
United States
Starman
John Carpenter
Jeff Bridges , Karen Allen , Charles Martin Smith
United States
The Terminator
James Cameron
Arnold Schwarzenegger , Michael Biehn , Linda Hamilton
United States
Time travel film[ nb 12]
There Will Come Soft Rains
Nozim To'laxo'jayev
Soviet Union
Animated short film. Russian title: Будет ласковый дождь , tr. Budet laskovyy dozhd' [ 38] [ 39] [ 40] [ 41] [ 42] [ 43]
The Toxic Avenger
Lloyd Kaufman , Michael Herz
Mitch Cohen, Mark Torgl, Andree Maranda
United States
Science fiction action superhero[ 44]
Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer
Mamoru Oshii
Fumi Hirano (voice), Toshio Furukawa (voice), Akira Kamiya (voice)
Japan
Second film in the Urusei Yatsura film series
Urutoraman Zofuii
Koichi Takano
Ichirô Furutachi, Ken'yû Horiuchi, Yôko Kuri, Sumiko Shirakawa
Japan
Superhero
1985
Back to the Future
Robert Zemeckis
Michael J. Fox , Christopher Lloyd , Crispin Glover , Lea Thompson , Thomas F. Wilson
United States
Time travel film[ nb 13]
Brazil
Terry Gilliam
Jonathan Pryce , Michael Palin , Kim Greist , Robert De Niro
United Kingdom
[ nb 14]
City Limits
Aaron Lipstadt
Darrell Larson , John Stockwell , Kim Cattrall
United States
Cocoon
Ron Howard
Don Ameche , Wilford Brimley , Hume Cronyn , Brian Dennehy , Steve Guttenberg , Maureen Stapleton , Jessica Tandy
United States
Contract
Vladimir Tarasov
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy (voice), Yevgeniy Steblov (voice), Boris Ivanov (voice)
Soviet Union
Animated short film
Creature
William Malone
Stan Ivar , Wendy Schaal , Lyman Ward , Robert Jaffe , Diane Salinger
United States
D.A.R.Y.L.
Simon Wincer
Barret Oliver , Mary Beth Hurt , Michael McKean , Kathryn Walker
United States
The Dungeonmaster
Dave Allen , Charles Band
Jeffrey Byron , Leslie Wing , Richard Moll
United States
Day of the Dead
George Romero
Lori Cardille , Joseph Pilato , Richard Liberty , Sherman Howard
United States
Enemy Mine
Wolfgang Petersen
Dennis Quaid , Louis Gossett Jr. , Brion James
United States
Explorers
Joe Dante
Ethan Hawke , River Phoenix , Jason Presson
United States
Galaxy Invader
Don Dohler
Richard Ruxton, George Stover, Faye Tilles, Glenn Barnes
United States
Gwen, or the Book of Sand
Jean-François Laguionie
Michel Robin (voice), Lorella Di Cicco (voice)
France
Animated film
Lifeforce
Tobe Hooper
Steve Railsback , Peter Firth , Frank Finlay
United Kingdom United States
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
George Ogilvie , George Miller
Mel Gibson , Tina Turner
Australia
Post-apocalyptic
Morons from Outer Space
Mike Hodges
Mel Smith , Griff Rhys Jones , Paul Brown
United Kingdom
My Science Project
Jonathan Betuel
John Stockwell , Fisher Stevens , Raphael Sbarge
United States
O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization
Piotr Szulkin
Jerzy Stuhr , Krystyna Janda , Kalina Jędrusik
Poland
Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight
Toshio Masuda
Japan
Planet 888
Vladimir Mailyan
Soviet Union
Animated short film. Russian title: Планета 888 , tr. Planeta 888 . Armenian title: Մոլորակ 888 [ 45]
The Quiet Earth
Geoff Murphy
Bruno Lawrence , Alison Routledge
New Zealand
Radioactive Dreams
Albert Pyun
Michael Dudikoff , Lisa Blount , Don Murray
United States
Real Genius
Martha Coolidge
Val Kilmer , Gabriel Jarret
United States
Re-Animator
Stuart Gordon
Jeffrey Combs , Bruce Abbott , Barbara Crampton
United States
Horror, Comedy
The Return of the Living Dead
Dan O'Bannon
Clu Gulager , James Karen , Don Calfa
United States
Science fiction horror comedy[ 46]
Space Rage
Conrad E. Palmisano
Richard Farnsworth , Michael Paré , John Laughlin
United States
Starchaser: The Legend of Orin
Steven Hahn
Joe Colligan (voice), Anthony De Longis (voice), Carmen Argenziano (voice)
United States
Animated film
The Stuff
Larry Cohen
Michael Moriarty , Andrea Marcovicci , Garrett Morris , Paul Sorvino
United States
Trancers
Charles Band
Tim Thomerson , Helen Hunt
United States
Underworld
George Pavlou
Denholm Elliott , Miranda Richardson , Steven Berkoff
UK
Sci-fi horror[ 47]
Urusei Yatsura 3: Remember My Love
Kazuo Yamazaki
Fumi Hirano (voice), Toshio Furukawa (voice), Akira Kamiya (voice)
Japan
Third film in the Urusei Yatsura film series
Visit with Van Gogh
Horst Seemann
Grażyna Szapołowska , Christian Grashof , Rolf Hoppe
East Germany West Germany
German title: Besuch bei Van Gogh [ 48] [ 49] [ 50] [ 51] [ 52]
Weird Science
John Hughes
Anthony Michael Hall , Kelly Le Brock , Ilan Mitchell-Smith , Bill Paxton
United States
1986
Aliens
James Cameron
Sigourney Weaver , Paul Reiser , Michael Biehn , Bill Paxton
United States
[ nb 15] Action
Armadillo Blood
Marcos Bertoni
Flora Calviño , Henrique Zanetta , Louis Chilson
Brazil
Super 8 eco-dystopian short film. Portuguese title: Sangue de Tatu [ 12] [ 53]
The Aurora Encounter
Jim McCullough, Sr.
Jack Elam , Peter Brown , Carol Bagdasarian
United States
[ 25]
The Battle
Mikhail Titov
Soviet Union
Animated short film. Russian title: Сражение , tr. Srazheniye [ 6]
Biggles a.k.a Biggles: Adventures in Time
John Hough
Neil Dickson , Alex Hyde-White , Fiona Hutchison , Peter Cushing , Marcus Gilbert , William Hootkins
United Kingdom
Time travel film
Chopping Mall
Jim Wynorski
Kelli Maroney , Tony O'Dell , Russell Todd
United States
[ 25]
Critters
Stephen Herek
Dee Wallace , M. Emmet Walsh , Billy Green Bush
United States
Horror, Comedy
Dead End Drive-In
Brian Trenchard-Smith
Ned Manning , Natalie McCurry , Peter Whitford
Australia
Dead Man's Letters
Konstantin Lopushansky
Rolan Bykov , Iosif Ryklin
Soviet Union
antiutopia , post-apocalyptic film , psychological drama
Death Powder
Shigeru Izumiya
Shigeru Izumiya , Rikako Murakami , Takichi Inukai
Japan
Deadly Friend
Wes Craven
Matthew Laborteaux , Kristy Swanson , Michael Sharrett
United States
Dirty Pair: Project Eden
Kōichi Mashimo
Saeko Shimazu (voice), Kyōko Tongū (voice), Katsuji Mori (voice)
Japan
Eliminators
Peter Manoogian
Andrew Prine , Denise Crosby , Patrick Reynolds
United States
Fist of the North Star
Toyoo Ashida
Akira Kamiya (voice), Yuriko Yamamoto (voice), Kenji Utsumi (voice)
Japan
Anime film
Flight of the Navigator
Randal Kleiser
Joey Cramer , Veronica Cartwright , Cliff DeYoung , Sarah Jessica Parker
United States
The Fly
David Cronenberg
Jeff Goldblum , Geena Davis , John Getz
United States Canada
[ nb 16]
From Beyond
Stuart Gordon
Jeffrey Combs , Barbara Crampton , Ken Foree
United States
Science fiction horror[ 54]
Ga, Ga - Chwala bohaterom
Peter Szulkin
Katarzyna Figura , Daniel Olbrychski , Marek Walczewski , Jan Nowicki
Poland
Gröna gubbar från Y.R.
Hans Hatwig
Carl Billquist , Curt Broberg , Åsa Dahlenborg
Sweden
[ 55] [ nb 17]
Howard the Duck
Willard Huyck
Lea Thompson , Jeffrey Jones , Tim Robbins
United States
[ nb 18]
Invaders from Mars
Tobe Hooper
Karen Black , Hunter Carson , Timothy Bottoms , Louise Fletcher
United States
Kamikaze
Didier Grousset
Richard Bohringer , Dominique Lavanant , Michel Galabru
France
[ 56]
Kin-dza-dza!
Georgi Daneliya
Stanislav Lyubshin , Yevgeni Leonov , Yury Yakovlev
Soviet Union
Little Shop of Horrors
Frank Oz
Rick Moranis , Ellen Greene , Vincent Gardenia , Steve Martin , Levi Stubbs (voice)
United States
Musical comedy horror
Maximum Overdrive
Stephen King
Emilio Estevez , Pat Hingle , Laura Harrington
United States
M.D. Geist
Hayato Ikeda
Norio Wakamoto , Rika Matsumoto , Akio Nojima
Japan
Animated film[ 57]
Night of the Creeps
Fred Dekker
Jason Lively , Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow
United States
Programmed to Kill
Allan Holzman
Robert Ginty , Sandahl Bergman , Louise Claire Clark , Alex Courtney
United States
[ 58]
Project A-ko
Katsuhiko Nishijima
Japan
Short Circuit
John Badham
Ally Sheedy , Steve Guttenberg , Fisher Stevens
United States
Star Crystal
Lance Lindsay
C. Juston Campbell , Faye Bolt , John W. Smith
United States
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Leonard Nimoy
William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Catherine Hicks
United States
TerrorVision
Ted Nicolaou
Diane Franklin , Gerrit Graham , Mary Woronov
United States
Horror[ 59]
They Were Eleven
Satoshi Dezaki
Japan
The Transformers: The Movie
Nelson Shin
Leonard Nimoy (voice), Robert Stack (voice), Judd Nelson (voice), Orson Welles (voice), Peter Cullen (voice)
United States
Animated film
Urusei Yatsura 4: Lum the Forever
Kazuo Yamazaki
Fumi Hirano (voice), Toshio Furukawa (voice), Akira Kamiya (voice)
Japan
Fourth film in the Urusei Yatsura film series
Vendetta dal futuro
Sergio Martino
Daniel Greene , Janet Agren , John Saxon
Italy
The Wraith
Mike Marvin
Charlie Sheen , Nick Cassavetes , Randy Quaid
United States
Zone Troopers
Danny Bilson
Tim Thomerson , Tim Van Patten
United States
[ 60]
1987
Amazon Women on the Moon
John Landis
Arsenio Hall , Michelle Pfeiffer , Steve Guttenberg
United States
Bad Taste
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson , Mike Minett , Pete O'Herne
New Zealand
Horror, Comedy
*batteries not included
Matthew Robbins
Hume Cronyn , Jessica Tandy , Frank McRae
United States
Creepozoids
David DeCoteau
Linnea Quigley , Ashlyn Gere
United States
Cyclops
Jôji Iida
Kai Atō , Yoshimasa Kondo , Kazuhiro Sano
Japan
The Curse
David Chaskin , David Keith
Wil Wheaton , Claude Akins , Malcolm Danare
United States
[ 61]
Death Run
Michael J. Murphy
Rob Bartlett , Lynn Lowry
United States
Direct Hit
Vladimir Morozov
Soviet Union
Animated short film. Russian title: Прямое попадание , tr. Pryamoye popadaniye [ 62]
The Dolphin's Cry
Aleksey Saltykov
Ivars Kalniņš , Donatas Banionis , Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Soviet Union
The End of Eternity
Andrey Yermash
Oleg Vavilov , Gediminas Girdvainis , Georgiy Zhzhonov
Soviet Union
Friendship's Death
Peter Wollen
Tilda Swinton, Patrick Bauchau, Bill Paterson
United Kingdom
The Hidden
Jack Sholder
Kyle MacLachlan , Michael Nouri , Claudia Christian
United States
Innerspace
Joe Dante
Dennis Quaid , Martin Short , Meg Ryan
United States
[ nb 19]
The Kindred
Stephen Carpenter , Jeffrey Obrow
David Allen Brooks, Rod Steiger , Amanda Pays
United States
[ 63]
The Lesson
Robert Sahakyants
Soviet Union
Animated short film
Making Mr. Right
Susan Seidelman
John Malkovich , Ann Magnuson , Glenne Headly
United States
Masters of the Universe
Gary Goddard
Dolph Lundgren , Frank Langella , Meg Foster
United States
Mr. India
Shekhar Kapur
Anil Kapoor , Sri Devi , Satish Kaushik , Amrish Puri , Annu Kapoor
India
Nightflyers
Robert Collector , Gene Warren
Catherine Mary Stewart , John Standing , Michael Praed , Lisa Blount
United States
[ 64]
Predator
John McTiernan
Arnold Schwarzenegger , Carl Weathers , Elpidia Carrillo
United States
Action
Prison Ship
Fred Olen Ray
Ross Hagen , Sandy Brooke , Susan Stokey , John Carradine
United States
[ nb 20] [ 65] [ 66]
Project X
Jonathan Kaplan
Matthew Broderick , Helen Hunt , William Sadler
United States
RoboCop
Paul Verhoeven
Peter Weller , Nancy Allen , Ronny Cox , Kurtwood Smith
United States
Action[ nb 21]
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise
Hiroyuki Yamaga
Japan
The Running Man
Paul Michael Glaser
Arnold Schwarzenegger , María Conchita Alonso , Richard Dawson
United States
Spaceballs
Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks , Bill Pullman , John Candy , Rick Moranis , Daphne Zuniga
United States
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity
Ken Dixon
Elizabeth Kaitan , Cindy Beal , Brinke Stevens
United States
Steel Dawn
Lance Hool
Patrick Swayze , Lisa Niemi , Brion James
United States
The Stepford Children
Alan J. Levi
Barbara Eden , Don Murray , Randall Batinkoff , Tammy Lauren
United States
Timestalkers
Michael Schultz
William Devane , Lauren Hutton , Forrest Tucker , James Avery , John Ratzenberger
United States
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Sidney J. Furie
Christopher Reeve , Gene Hackman , Jackie Cooper , Margot Kidder , Mariel Hemingway , Jon Cryer , Sam Wanamaker
United States
The Veldt
Nozim To'laxo'jayev
Yuriy Belyayev , Nelli Pshyonnaya , Giorgi Gegechkori
Soviet Union
Dystopian
Wicked City
Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Japan
Anime film
1988
The 13th Apostle
Suren Babayan
Juozas Budraitis , Andrey Boltnev , Vladas Bagdonas
Soviet Union
Akira
Katsuhiro Ōtomo
Mitsuo Iwata (voice), Nozomu Sasaki (voice), Mami Koyama (voice)
Japan
Anime film
Alien from L.A.
Albert Pyun
Kathy Ireland , Thom Mathews , Don Michael Paul
United States
Alien Nation
Graham Baker
James Caan , Mandy Patinkin , Terence Stamp
United States
[ nb 22]
Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure
Deborah Brock
Randy Josselyn , Dianne Kay , Chuck Kovacic
United States
As Time Goes By
Barry Peak
Max Gillies , Bruno Lawrence , Nique Needles
Australia
Comedy
The Blob
Chuck Russell
Kevin Dillon , Shawnee Smith , Donovan Leitch
United States
Horror, Remake
The Brain
Edward Hunt
Tom Bresnahan, Cynthia Preston , David Gale
Canada
Horror[ 67]
Cherry 2000
Steve De Jarnatt
Melanie Griffith , David Andrews
United States
Critters 2: The Main Course
Mick Garris
Scott Grimes , Liane Alexandra Curtis , Don Opper
United States
Dead Heat
Mark Goldblatt
Treat Williams , Joe Piscopo , Vincent Price
United States
Sci-fi horror[ 68]
Earth Girls Are Easy
Julien Temple
Geena Davis , Jeff Goldblum , Julie Brown , Jim Carrey , Damon Wayans , Michael McKean
United States United Kingdom
Gandahar
René Laloux
France
Animated film
Hell Comes to Frogtown
Donald G. Jackson , R. J. Kizer
Roddy Piper , Sandahl Bergman , Cec Verrell , William Smith , Rory Calhoun
United States
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Stephen Chiodo
Grant Cramer , Suzanne Snyder , John Allen Nelson
United States
Horror, Comedy
The Lawless Land
Jon Hess
Nick Corri , Leon Robinson , Xander Berkeley , Amanda Peterson
United States
[ 69] [ 70]
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars
Noboru Ishiguro
Ryō Horikawa (voice), Kei Tomiyama (voice)
Japan
Lilac Ball
Pavel Arsenov
Natalya Guseva , Sasha Gusev , Boris Shcherbakov
Soviet Union
Children's film
Mac and Me
Stewart Ratfill
Christine Ebersole , Tina Caspary, Jonathan Ward
United States
[ 71] [ nb 23]
Midnight Movie Massacre
Mark Stock , Larry Jacobs
Robert Clarke , Anne Robinson , David Staffer , Tom Hutsler
United States
[ 72] [ 73]
Miracle Mile
Steve De Jarnatt
Anthony Edwards , Mare Winningham , John Agar
United States
Mirai Ninja
Keita Amemiya
Hanbei Kawai , Hiroki Ida , Eri Morishita
Japan
Action
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
Yoshiyuki Tomino
Japan
Moonwalker
Jerry Kramer , Colin Chilvers
Michael Jackson , Joe Pesci , Sean Lennon
United States
The Smooth Criminal segment is a noir/sci-fi film
My Stepmother Is an Alien
Richard Benjamin
Kim Basinger , Dan Aykroyd , Alyson Hannigan , Jon Lovitz
United States
The Nest
Terence H. Winkless
Robert Lansing , Lisa Langlois
United States
Not of This Earth
Jim Wynorski
Traci Lords , Arthur Roberts
United States
On the Silver Globe
Andrzej Zulawski
Andrzej Seweryn , Grazyna Dylag , Jerzy Trela
Poland
Art film
The Pass
Vladimir Tarasov
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy (voice), Vasiliy Livanov (voice), Aleksandr Pashutin (voice)
Soviet Union
Animated short film
Pulse
Paul Golding
Cliff DeYoung , Roxanne Hart , Joey Lawrence
United States
Robowar
Bruno Mattei
Reb Brown , Catherine Hickland , Massimo Vanni
Italy
Short Circuit 2
Kenneth Johnson
Fisher Stevens , Michael McKean , Cynthia Gibb
United States
The Son of the Stars
Mircea Toia , Călin Cazan , Dan Chisovsky
Mihai Cafrița (voice), Ion Caramitru (voice), Virgil Ogășanu (voice), Mircea Albulescu (voice), Mirela Gorea-Chelaru (voice)
Romania
Animated film. Romanian title: Fiul stelelor [ 74] [ 75] [ 76] [ 77] [ 78] [ 79] [ 80]
Space Mutiny
David Winters , Neal Sundstrom
Reb Brown , Cameron Mitchell , Cisse Cameron
South Africa
Science fiction action[ 81]
They Live
John Carpenter
Roddy Piper , Keith David , Meg Foster
United States
Action
Transformations
Jay Kamen
Rex Smith , Lisa Langlois , Patrick Macnee
United States
[ 82]
Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter
Satoshi Dezaki
Fumi Hirano (voice), Toshio Furukawa (voice), Akira Kamiya (voice)
Japan
Fifth film in the Urusei Yatsura film series
Warlords
Fred Olen Ray , Sid Haig
David Carradine , Dawn Wildsmith , Sid Haig
United States
[ 83]
Wind
Robert Sahakyants
Soviet Union
Animated short film. Russian title: Ветер , tr. Veter . Armenian title: Քամի [ 84] [ 85]
World Gone Wild
Lee H. Katzin
Bruce Dern , Michael Paré , Catherine Mary Stewart
United States
[ 86]
1989
Alienator
Fred Olen Ray
Jan-Michael Vincent , John Phillip Law , Ross Hagen
United States
Alien Seed
Bob James
Erik Estrada
United States
Arena
Peter Manoogian
Claudia Christian , Marc Alaimo
Italy
The Abyss
James Cameron
Ed Harris , Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio , Michael Biehn
United States
[ nb 24]
Back to the Future Part II
Robert Zemeckis
Michael J. Fox , Christopher Lloyd , Lea Thompson , Thomas F. Wilson
United States
Time travel film
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Stephen Herek
Keanu Reeves , Alex Winter , George Carlin
United States
Comedy, time travel film
The Blood of Heroes
David Webb Peoples
Rutger Hauer , Joan Chen , Delroy Lindo
Australia United States
[ 87] [ 88]
Bunker Palace Hôtel
Enki Bilal
Jean-Louis Trintignant , Carole Bouquet , Benoît Régent
France
[ 89]
Communion
Philippe Mora
Christopher Walken , Lindsay Crouse , Frances Sternhagen
United States
Cyborg
Albert Pyun
Jean-Claude Van Damme , Deborah Richter
United States
Deceit
Albert Pyun
Sam Phillips , Norbert Weisser , Scott Paulin
United States
DeepStar Six
Sean S. Cunningham
Taurean Blacque , Nancy Everhard
United States
The Evil Below
Wayne Crawford
Wayne Crawford , June Chadwick , Paul Siebert
United States
The Five Star Stories
Kazuo Yamazaki
Japan
Future Force
David A. Prior
David Carradine , Anna Rapagna, Robert Tessier
United States
Action
Ghostbusters II
Ivan Reitman
Bill Murray , Dan Aykroyd , Harold Ramis , Sigourney Weaver , Ernie Hudson , Rick Moranis , Annie Potts , Peter MacNicol
United States
Horror, Comedy
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Kazuki Ōmori
Megumi Odaka , Yasuka Sawaguchi
Japan
Kaijū
Gunhed
Masato Harada
Masahiro Takashima , Brenda Bakke
Japan
Hard to Be a God
Peter Fleischmann
Edward Zentara , Aleksandr Filippenko , Hugues Quester , Anne Gautier
West Germany Soviet Union France Switzerland
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Joe Johnston
Rick Moranis , Matt Frewer , Marcia Strassman
United States
Jetsons: The Movie
Joseph Barbera , William Hanna
George O'Hanlon (voice), Mel Blanc (voice), Penny Singleton (voice)
United States
Animated film
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Albert Pyun
Kathy Ireland
United States
Leviathan
George Pan Cosmatos
Peter Weller , Richard Crenna , Amanda Pays , Daniel Stern
Italy United States
Lords of the Deep
Mary Ann Fisher
Bradford Dillman , Priscilla Barnes , Melody Ryane
United States
Meet the Hollowheads
Thomas R. Burman
John Glover , Richard Portnow , Juliette Lewis
United States
[ 90] [ 91]
Millennium
Michael Anderson
Kris Kristofferson , Cheryl Ladd , Daniel J. Travanti , Robert Joy
United States
Moontrap
Robert Dyke
Walter Koenig , Bruce Campbell , Leigh Lombardi
United States
Mutant on the Bounty
Robert Torrance
Kyle T. Heffner , Scott Williamson , John Durbin
United States
[ 92]
My 20th Century
Ildikó Enyedi
Dorota Segda , Oleg Yankovskiy , Paulus Manker
Hungary West Germany Cuba
Comedy-drama
Patlabor: The Movie
Mamoru Oshii
Japan
The Return of Swamp Thing
Jim Wynorski
Louis Jourdan , Heather Locklear , Sarah Douglas
United States
Slipstream
Steven Lisberger
Mark Hamill , Bob Peck , Bill Paxton , Ben Kingsley , F. Murray Abraham
United Kingdom United States
Spontaneous Combustion
Tobe Hooper
Brad Dourif
United States
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
William Shatner
William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , James Doohan
United States
[ nb 25]
The Terror Within
Thierry Notz
George Kennedy , Andrew Stevens , Starr Andreeff
United States
Horror
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Shinya Tsukamoto
Tomoroh Taguchi , Kei Fujiwara , Shinya Tsukamoto
Japan
Horror, Comedy
UFO Abduction
Dean Alioto
United States
Horror, found footage
Venus Wars
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Japan
A Visitor to a Museum
Konstantin Lopushansky
Viktor Mikhaylov , Vera Mayorova , Vadim Lobanov , Irina Rakshina
Soviet Union Switzerland West Germany
[ 93]