1980 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film Winner
Atlantic City
Louis Malle
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
Gloria
John Cassavetes
When a young boy’s family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
1980 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film Nominees
Alexander the Great
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Deux lions au soleil
Claude Faraldo
Going in Style
Martin Brest
La petite sirène
Roger Andrieux
Melvin and Howard
Jonathan Demme
Richard’s Things
Anthony Harvey
Story of an Unknown Man
Vytautas Zalakevicius
