Compiled
by Robert E. YahnkeA list of recommended titles is included below.
YEAR |
FILM |
DIRECTOR |
COUNTRY |
1976 |
Network |
Sidney Lumet |
USA |
1976 |
Taxi Driver |
Martin Scorsese |
USA |
1975 |
Dersu Uzala |
Akiru Kurosawa |
Japan |
1977 |
The Last Detail |
Hal Ashby |
USA |
1977 |
Annie Hall |
Woody Allen |
USA |
1977 |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
Steven Spielberg |
USA |
1977 |
Julia |
Fred Zinneman |
USA |
1978 |
Deer Hunter, The |
Michael Cimino |
USA |
1978 |
Midnight Express |
Alan Parker |
USA |
1978 |
Tree of the Wooden Clogs |
Ermanno Olmi |
Italy |
1978 |
Autumn Sonata |
Ingmar Bergman |
Sweden |
1978 |
Interiors |
Woody Allen |
USA |
1978 |
Unmarried Woman, An |
Paul Mazursky |
USA |
1979 |
All that Jazz |
Bob Fosse |
USA |
1979 |
Apocalypse, Now |
Francis Coppola |
USA |
1979 |
Manhattan |
Woody Allen |
USA |
1979 |
Marriage of Maria Braun |
Reiner Fassbinder |
Germany |
1979 |
Norma Rae |
Martin Ritt |
USA |
1980 |
Coal Miner's Daughter |
Michael Apted |
USA |
1980 |
Kagemusha |
Akiru Kurosawa |
Japan |
1980 |
My Brilliant Career |
Gillian Armstrong |
Australia |
1980 |
Raging Bull |
Martin Scorsese |
USA |
1980 |
State of Siege |
Constantin Costa-Gavras |
France |
1981 |
Prince of the City |
Sidney Lumet |
USA |
1981 |
French Lieutenant's Woman, The |
Karel Reisz |
England |
1980 |
Breaker Morant |
Bruce Beresford |
Australia |
For the next chapter in this Cinema History
See Chapter 9
The 1980s--Towards an International Cinema