I accidentally sent you a list of '70s movies --which I've now deleted.

Here are an insane number of fantastic movies from the 1980s, any one of which is worth your time (--I've seen them all, and they definitely taught me volumes about Film Language and quality movie-making):

Altered States, American Gigolo, Atlantic City, Bad Timing, Breaker Morant, Bronco Billy, The Candidate, The Changeling, The Dogs of War, The Idolmaker, The Long Good Friday, The Long Riders, Melvin and Howard, Mon oncle d'Amérique, My Bodyguard, Popeye, The Stunt Man, Tom Horn, Used Cars, Where The Buffalo Roam, Body Heat, Cutter's Way (Cutter & Bone), Diva, Dragonslayer, Eye of the Needle, Excalibur, Gallipoli, Gregory's Girl, Knightriders, Lola, Modern Romance, Ms. 45, My Dinner With Andre, Neighbors, Pennies From Heaven, Pixote, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Quest For Fire, Raggedy Man, Ragtime, Reds, Scanners, Southern Comfort, Thief, Time Bandits, Cannery Row, The Border, Diner, Deathtrap, Eating Raoul, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Chan is Missing, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, The World According To Garp, Hammet, My Favorite Year, Creepshow, The Verdict, Britannia Hospital; Come Back To The Five-and-Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; Fitzcarraldo, Frances, Fanny and Alexander, Missing, One From The Heart, Querelle, Tempest, Veronika Voss, White Dog, The Year of Living Dangerously, The Big Chill, Breathless, Dark Habits, Le Dernier Combat, The Dresser, Eureka, The Fourth Man, Local Hero, The Man With Two Brains, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Never Cry Wolf, Pauline at the Beach, The Right Stuff, Rumble Fish, Silkwood, Star 80, Streamers, Tender Mercies, Videodrome, Zelig, Brainstorm, The Dead Zone, Under Fire, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Blood Simple, Broadway Danny Rose, The Brother From Another Planet, Choose Me, Comfort and Joy, The Company of Wolves, Crimes of Passion, Dreamscape, The Element of Crime, The Flamingo Kid, The Hit, The Hotel New Hampshire, The Killing Fields, The Lonely Guy, Moscow on the Hudson, Night of the Comet; Paris, Texas; The Pope of Greenwich Village, The Razor's Edge, Repo Man, Secret Honor, A Soldier's Story, Starman, Stranger Than Paradise, Streets of Fire, Swing Shift, Top Secret! All of Me, Dreamchild, The Emerald Forest, Explorers, The Falcon and the Snowman, Flesh + Blood, Fool For Love, Insignificance, Legend, Lost in America, Mask, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, My Beautiful Laundrette, My Life as a Dog, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Prizzi's Honor, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Quiet Earth, Re-Animator, Ran, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Return to Oz, Runaway Train, Rustlers' Rhapsody, The Shooting Party, Subway, To Live and Die in L.A., Absolute Beginners, At Close Range, Blue Velvet, Castaway, Down by Law, The Fly, Gothic, Half Moon Street, Hannah and Her Sisters, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Little Shop of Horrors, Matador, Manhunter, Mona Lisa, The Mosquito Coast, River's Edge, 'Round Midnight, The Sacrifice, Salvador, Sid and Nancy, Something Wild, True Stories, Bad Taste, Barfly, The Dead, Dead of Winter, Evil Dead II, Full Metal Jacket, High Tide, Hope and Glory, Ironweed, La Bamba, Law of Desire, Made in Heaven, Matewan, Moonstruck, Nekromantik, No Way Out, Prick Up Your Ears, Radio Days, Raising Arizona, Roxanne, The Stepfather, Swimming to Cambodia, Wings of Desire, The Witches of Eastwick, Withnail and I, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Alice, The Bear, Bull Durham, Dead Ringers, Earth Girls Are Easy, Eight Men Out, A Fish Called Wanda, Frantic, Gorillas in the Mist, Married To The Mob, Miracle Mile, The Moderns, My Neighbor Totoro, The Naked Gun, Patty Hearst, They Live, Track 29, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Tucker: The Man and His Dreams, Spoorloos, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Beetlejuice, The Big Picture, Blind Fury, Breaking In, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Dead Calm, Drugstore Cowboy, The Killer, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Meet The Feebles, The Mighty Quinn, Monsieur Hire, Mystery Train, My Left Foot, New York Stories, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Society, Sweetie, and last but not least but maybe weirdest Tetsuo: The Iron Man.