Best Sci-Fi movies of 1980

Actors : Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder,

Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.

Actors : Charles Haid, William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban,
Directors : Ken Russell,

A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.

Actors : Melody Anderson, Topol, Max von Sydow, Sam J. Jones,
Directors : Mike Hodges,

A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

Actors : Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, Betty Kennedy, Evelyn Guerrero,
Directors : Tommy Chong,

The two stoners and their friends go through another series of crazy, drug-influenced misadventures.

Actors : Katharine Ross, Kirk Douglas, James Farentino, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Don Taylor,

A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Actors : Ed Bishop, Harvey Keitel, Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas,

Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent 8-ft robot. Remember, in space no one can hear you scream.

Actors : John Saxon, Richard Thomas, George Peppard, Robert Vaughn,

A young farmer sets out to recruit mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet, which is under threat of invasion by the evil tyrant Sador and his armada of aggressors.

Actors : Doug McClure, Vic Morrow, Cindy Weintraub, Ann Turkel,

Scientific experiments backfire and produce horrific mutations: half man, half fish, which terrorize a small fishing village by killing the men and raping the women.

Actors : Francisco Rabal, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.

Actors : Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé, Siegfried Rauch,
Directors : Luigi Cozzi,

A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.

Actors : Avery Schreiber, Stephen Macht, J.D. Hinton, Dorothy Stratten,
Directors : William Sachs,

Main Plot: Crew of interstellar police ship is sent to recover a mysterious crystal, the Blue Star. Subplots: The ship's female android and a crew member fall in love. Alien is spoofed as ...

Actors : Burt Young, Marianna Hill, Otis Young, David Huffman,
Directors : Jeffrey Bloom,

Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace. What is the creature ...

Actors : Tarah Nutter, Martin Landau, Jack Palance, Christopher S. Nelson,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

An alien creature stalks human prey.

Actors : John Saxon, Cinzia De Carolis, Elizabeth Turner, Giovanni Lombardo Radice,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

Giovanni Lambardo Radice and John Saxon are Vietman vets that bring back contagious virus that turn people into cannibals when bitten.

Actors : Darren McGavin, Gary Collins, Robert Vaughn, James Hampton,
Directors : James L. Conway,

Shortly after the launch of a satellite from a space shuttle the satellite collides with an UFO in front of the crew's eyes. Because of an election campaign some politicians try to hide the...

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Thérèse Liotard, Harvey Keitel, Romy Schneider,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will then be run ...

Actors : Catherine Mary Stewart, Grace Kennedy, Allan Love, George Gilmour,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

In 1994, a young couple enters the world of the music industry, and subsequently the world of drugs.

Actors : Martin Shakar, Gil Rogers, Shannon Bolin, Gale Garnett,
Directors : Max Kalmanowicz,

A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.

Actors : Peter Westley, Aad Wirtz, Michael Murray, Lorna Poulter,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

The planet has been affected by a mysterious occurrence known as the Violent Unknown Event, or V.U.E. It has caused immortality and disability. Victims have learned new and peculiar ...

Actors : Benedetta Fantoli, Belinda Mayne, Mark Bodin, Roberto Barrese,

A spaceship lands back on Earth after a failed mission, but the astronauts have been replaced by hideous creatures that can penetrate people's bodies and make them explode. A group of cave ...