Best award winning movies with wooden and unconvincing acting from 1980

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with wooden and unconvincing acting from 1980! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with wooden and unconvincing acting from 1980, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Can't Stop the Music (1980)

A loose biography of seminal disco hit-makers The Village People and their composer Jacques Morali.

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1980-06-20 | Comedy / Music

Cast

Alex Briley, David Hodo

Rating

rating icon 5.202
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #97 for
    catchy tune
  2. Ranked #101 for
    catchy music
  3. Ranked #119 for
    kitschy editing

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2 When Time Ran Out... (1980)

An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.

Info

1980-03-28 | Action / Adventure

Cast

Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset

Rating

rating icon 5.285
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #712 for
    wooden and unconvincing acting
  2. Ranked #766 for
    completely unconvincing acting
  3. Ranked #785 for
    like a pot of gold

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3 The Awakening (1980)

When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.

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1980-07-09 | Horror

Cast

Charlton Heston, Susannah York

Rating

rating icon 5.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #612 for
    close scrutiny
  2. Ranked #627 for
    blander
  3. Ranked #647 for
    incredibly dull

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4 Don't Answer the Phone! (1980)

A Vietnam veteran that spends his days photographing pretty girls, and his nights strangling them, sets sights on the patients of a radio psychiatrist.

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1980-02-29 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

James Westmoreland, Ben Frank

Rating

rating icon 4.567
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #9 for
    scuzzy
  2. Ranked #38 for
    lurid
  3. Ranked #40 for
    bludgeoned to death

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5 The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)

Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.

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1980-08-08 | Comedy / Horror

Cast

Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren

Rating

rating icon 4.909
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #81 for
    dumbfounded
  2. Ranked #322 for
    comedic genius
  3. Ranked #331 for
    adversary-worthy

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6 Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)

The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.

Info

1980-06-25 | Fantasy / Comedy

Cast

Cloris Leachman, Charles Martin Smith

Rating

rating icon 5.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #266 for
    least impressive
  2. Ranked #270 for
    kid-friendly
  3. Ranked #526 for
    least successful

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7 Pumaman (1980)

Thousands of years ago, aliens visited Earth and fathered the Pumaman, a man-god with supernatural powers entrusted by a gold mask with the ability to control people's minds, which in present-day London, falls into the wrong hands.

Info

1980-02-14 | Science Fiction / Action

Cast

Walter George Alton, Donald Pleasence

Rating

rating icon 2.774
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #586 for
    immoral acting
  2. Ranked #610 for
    completely bonkers
  3. Ranked #657 for
    poor character development

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8 Flash Gordon (1980)

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

Info

1980-09-01 | Science Fiction / Comedy

Cast

Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson

Rating

rating icon 6.212
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #48 for
    pulpy
  2. Ranked #69 for
    glitzy
  3. Ranked #72 for
    interplanetary

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9 Xanadu (1980)

A beautiful muse inspires an artist and his older friend to convert a dilapidated auditorium into a lavish rollerskating club.

Info

1980-08-08 | Fantasy / Science Fiction

Cast

Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly

Rating

rating icon 5.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #98 for
    cheeseball
  2. Ranked #105 for
    escapist fantasy
  3. Ranked #110 for
    kitschy editing

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10 Galaxina (1980)

Galaxina is a lifelike, voluptuous android who is assigned to oversee the operations of an intergalactic Space Police cruiser captained by incompetent Cornelius Butt. When a mission requires the ship's crew to be placed in suspended animation for decades, Galaxina finds herself alone for many years, developing emotions and falling in love with the ship's pilot, Thor.

Info

1980-06-06 | Comedy / Science Fiction

Cast

Dorothy Stratten, Stephen Macht

Rating

rating icon 3.985
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #24 for
    interplanetary
  2. Ranked #68 for
    cyborg
  3. Ranked #83 for
    pin-up girl

Trailer

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