# List of Italian films of 1980

This is a list of Italian films that premiered or were originally released in 1980 (see 1980 in film).
Italian films released in 1980 :
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 3 Supermen Against the Godfather | | | Comedy science fiction | |
| Action | Tinto Brass | Luc Merenda, Adriana Asti | — | |
| Alien 2: On Earth | Ciro Ippolito | Belinda Mayne, Mark Bodin, Robert Barrese | — | |
| Antropophagus | Joe D'Amato | Tisa Farrow, George Eastman | Horror | |
| Arrivano i bersaglieri | Luigi Magni | Ugo Tognazzi, Giovanna Ralli, Pippo Franco | Comedy | |
| Il Bisbetico Domato | Castellano & Pipolo | Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Edith Peters | Comedy, romance | |
| Blow Job (Soffio erotico) | Alberto Cavallone | Danilo Micheli, Anna Massarelli, Anna Bruna Cazzato | — | |
| The Blue-Eyed Bandit | Alfredo Giannetti | Franco Nero | Crime | |
| Café Express | Nanni Loy | Nino Manfredi, Adolfo Celi, Vittorio Caprioli | Comedy, crime | |
| Cannibal Apocalypse | Antonio Margheriti | John Saxon, Elizabeth Turner, Giovanni Lombardo Radice | Horror | Italian-Spanish co-production |
| Cannibal Holocaust | Ruggero Deodato | Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen | Horror | |
| Catherine and I | Alberto Sordi | Alberto Sordi, Edwige Fenech, Catherine Spaak | comedy | |
| Ciao marziano | Pier Francesco Pingitore | Pippo Franco, Silvia Dionisio | Science fiction, comedy | |
| City of the Living Dead | Lucio Fulci | Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo | Horror | |
| City of Women | Federico Fellini | Marcello Mastroianni | Fantasy | Italian-French co-production |
| Contamination | Luigi Cozzi | Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé | Horror, science fiction | Italian-West German co-production |
| Contraband | Lucio Fulci | Fabio Testi, Ivana Monti, Marcel Bozzuffi | Crime | |
| The Cricket | Alberto Lattuada | Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa | Drama | |
| Day of the Cobra | Enzo G. Castellari | Franco Nero, Sybil Danning | Crime | |
| La dottoressa ci sta col colonnello | Michele Massimo Tarantini | Lino Banfi, Nadia Cassini, Alvaro Vitali | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Eaten Alive! | Umberto Lenzi | Robert Kerman, Janet Agren, Ivan Rassimov | Horror | |
| Erotic Nights of the Living Dead | Joe D'Amato | Laura Gemser, George Eastman | erotic-horror | |
| Everything Happens to Me | Michele Lupo | Bud Spencer, Cary Guffey | Comedy | |
| Fantozzi contro tutti | Neri Parenti , Paolo Villaggio | Paolo Villaggio, Milena Vukotic | Comedy | |
| Fico d'India | Steno | Renato Pozzetto, Aldo Maccione, Gloria Guida | Comedy | |
| Flatfoot in Egypt | Steno | Bud Spencer, Robert Loggia | crime-comedy | |
| Fontamara | Carlo Lizzani | Michele Placido, Ida Di Benedetto | drama | |
| Fun Is Beautiful | Carlo Verdone | Carlo Verdone, Mario Brega, Renato Scarpa | Comedy | Won a Special David di Donatello Award and a Nastro d'Argento Award for Best New Actor. |
| Hell of the Living Dead | Bruno Mattei | Margit Evelyn Newton | Horror | |
| The House on the Edge of the Park | Ruggero Deodato | David Hess, Annie Belle, Giovanni Lombardo Radice | Horror | |
| I Hate Blondes | Giorgio Capitani | Enrico Montesano, Jean Rochefort, Corinne Cléry | comedy | |
| I Made a Splash | Maurizio Nichetti | Maurizio Nichetti, Angela Finocchiaro | comedy | |
| I'm Getting a Yacht | Sergio Corbucci | Johnny Dorelli, Laura Antonelli | comedy | |
| I'm Photogenic | Dino Risi | Renato Pozzetto, Edwige Fenech, Aldo Maccione | comedy | Entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival |
| Immacolata and Concetta: The Other Jealousy | Salvatore Piscicelli | Ida Di Benedetto | romance drama | |
| Inferno | Dario Argento | Irene Miracle, Leigh McCloskey, Daria Nicolodi | Horror | |
| L'insegnante al mare con tutta la classe | Michele Massimo Tarantini | Lino Banfi, Anna Maria Rizzoli, Alvaro Vitali | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| In the Pope's Eye | Renzo Arbore | Renzo Arbore, Roberto Benigni, Isabella Rossellini | Comedy | |
| Il ladrone | Marco Bellocchio | Enrico Montesano, Edwige Fenech, Bernadette Lafont | comedy | |
| A Leap in the Dark | Marco Bellocchio | Michel Piccoli, Anouk Aimée, Michele Placido | Drama | |
| La liceale al mare con l'amica di papà | Marino Girolami | Marisa Mell, Renzo Montagnani, Alvaro Vitali | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| La locandiera | Paolo Cavara | Adriano Celentano, Paolo Villaggio, Claudia Mori | comedy | |
| Love in First Class | Salvatore Samperi | Enrico Montesano, Sylvia Kristel, Franca Valeri | comedy | |
| Il lupo e l'agnello | Francesco Massaro | Tomas Milian, Michel Serrault | comedy | |
| Macabre | Lamberto Bava | Stanko Molnar | Horror | |
| Madness | Fernando Di Leo | Joe Dallesandro | Crime | |
| Il medium | Silvio Amadio | Vincent Mannari Jr., Sherry Buchanan, Stefano Mastrogirolamo | Drama | |
| Men or Not Men | Valentino Orsini | Flavio Bucci, Monica Guerritore | Drama | |
| Mia moglie è una strega | Castellano & Pipolo | Renato Pozzetto, Eleonora Giorgi | Comedy | |
| La moglie in bianco... l'amante al pepe | Michele Massimo Tarantini | Lino Banfi, Pamela Prati | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| La moglie in vacanza... l'amante in città | Michele Massimo Tarantini | Lino Banfi, Edwige Fenech, Barbara Bouchet | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| The Mystery of Oberwald | Michelangelo Antonioni | Monica Vitti, Franco Branciaroli, Paolo Bonacelli | Drama | |
| Nightmare City | Umberto Lenzi | Hugo Stiglitz, Francisco Rabal, Mel Ferrer | Horror | |
| Oggetti smarriti | Giuseppe Bertolucci | Mariangela Melato, Bruno Ganz, Renato Salvatori | Comedy drama | |
| Ombre | Giorgio Cavedon | Lou Castel, Monica Guerritori, Laura Belli | — | |
| La pagella | Ninì Grassia | Mario Trevi, Marc Porel | Drama | |
| Patrick Still Lives | Mario Landi | Sacha Pitoëff, Mariangela Giordano | Horror | |
| The Precarious Bank Teller | Luciano Salce | Paolo Villaggio, Catherine Spaak, Anna Maria Rizzoli | Comedy | |
| The Pumaman | Alberto De Martino | Donald Pleasence, Sydne Rome | superhero | |
| Qua la mano | Pasquale Festa Campanile | Enrico Montesano, Adriano Celentano, Lilli Carati | comedy | |
| The Rebel | Umberto Lenzi | Maurizio Merli, Jutta Speidel | poliziottesco | |
| La ripetente fa l'occhietto al preside | Mariano Laurenti | Lino Banfi, Anna Maria Rizzoli, Alvaro Vitali | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| La settimana bianca | Mariano Laurenti | Anna Maria Rizzoli, Gianfranco D'Angelo | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Si salvi chi vuole | Roberto Faenza | Gastone Moschin, Claudia Cardinale | Comedy drama | |
| Speed Cross | Stelvio Massi | Fabio Testi, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Daniela Poggi | crime-action | |
| Super Fuzz | Sergio Corbucci | Terence Hill, Ernest Borgnine, Joanne Dru | — | |
| Sugar, Honey and Pepper | Sergio Martino | Lino Banfi, Edwige Fenech, Renato Pozzetto | comedy | |
| La terrazza | Ettore Scola | Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman | Drama | Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress (Carla Gravina) awards at the Cannes Film Festival. 2 Nastro d'Argento Awards |
| To Love the Damned | Marco Tullio Giordana | Flavio Bucci | drama | Entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival |
| Savage Breed | Pasquale Squitieri | Saverio Marconi, Stefano Madia, Enzo Cannavale | drama | Entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Voltati Eugenio | Luigi Comencini | Dalila Di Lazzaro, Saverio Marconi, Bernard Blier | Comedy drama | |
| Zappatore | Alfonso Brescia | Mario Merola, Regina Bianchi | drama | |

## Footnotes

* ↑ "Alien 2 sulla Terra (1980)" (in Italian). Archivio del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
* ↑ "Arrivano i bersaglieri". AllMovie. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
* ↑ Mannikka, Eleanor. "Il Bisbetico Domato". AllMovie. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
* ↑ Curti 2019, p. 15.
* ↑ "The Blue-Eyed Bandit". AllMovie. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
* ↑ Mannikka, Eleanor. "Café Express". AllMovie. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
* ↑ Binion, Cavett. "Cannibal Apocalypse". AllMovie. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
* ↑ Deodato, Ruggero (interviewee) (2003). In the Jungle: The Making of Cannibal Holocaust (Documentary). Italy: Alan Young Pictures.
* ↑ Deodato, Ruggero (12 November 2000). "Cult-Con 2000". Cannibal Holocaust DVD Commentary (Interview). Interviewed by Sage Stallone, Bob Murawski. Tarrytown, New York.
* ↑ Firsching, Robert. "City of the Living Dead". AllMovie. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
* 1 2 Curti 2019, p. 36.
* ↑ Curti 2019, p. 42.
* ↑ Mannikka, Eleanor. "City of Women". AllMovie. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
* ↑ "La Citta delle donne" (in French). Bifi.fr. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
* ↑ Firsching, Robert. "Alien Contamination". AllMovie. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
* ↑ "Astaron - Brut des Schreckens". Filmportal.de. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
* ↑ Curti, 2013. p. 276
* ↑ Curti, 2013. p. 277
* ↑ Mannikka, Eleanor. "Il Giorno del Cobra" [Day of the Cobra]. AllMovie. Retrieved March 23, 2015.
* ↑ Sandra, Sandra. "Eaten Alive". AllMovie. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
* ↑ Shipka, 2011. p.136
* ↑ Mannikka, Eleanor. "Hell of the Living Dead". AllMovie. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
* ↑ Curti 2019, p. 18.
* ↑ Curti 2019, p. 19.
* ↑ Legare, Patrick. "Inferno". AllMovie. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
* ↑ Curti 2019, p. 30.
* ↑ Curti 2013, p. 274.
* ↑ Curti 2019, p. 34.
* ↑ Curti 2019, p. 35.
* ↑ Curti 2019, p. 37.
* ↑ Hastings, Michael. "Il Mistero di Oberwald". AllMovie. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
* ↑ Mannikka, Eleanor. "Nightmare City". AllMovie. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
* ↑ Curti 2019, p. 39.
* ↑ Curti 2019, p. 40.
* ↑ Curti 2016, p. 161.