1980 film directed by Paul Schrader

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.

1981 film

1982 Taiwanese anthology film

嫣然（林青霞 饰）和巧眉（吕秀菱 饰）一对情同手足的姐妹，一场意外中，嫣然的失误导致巧眉从秋千上摔下来，损伤了视神经，就此失明。面对着再也无法看见光明的妹妹，嫣然的心中充满了愧疚和痛苦。 上大学后，嫣然结识了名为凌康（刘文正 饰）的男子，两人很快就坠入了情网。嫣然将凌康带回家中做客，哪知道娴静乖巧的巧眉吸引了凌康的注意，巧眉似乎亦被凌康的男子气概所吸引，目睹这一切的嫣然选择了退出。之后，在图书馆工作的嫣然认识了常常来借书的安骋远（云中岳 饰），两人渐渐走到了一起。几场误会的发生让巧眉知道，自己不能再流连于往昔的痛苦之中，应该凭借努力，像一个正常人一样生活。

因为金盏花，纤纤找到了属于自己单纯的快乐；因为金盏花，佩吟与自耕由恋爱走入婚礼。金盏花本带表离别，但对他们而言，却是永不离别的最佳信物。佩吟的男朋友林维之在美国另结新欢结了婚，佩吟到自耕家担任纤纤的家教，相约久了与自耕相恋，而颂超经由佩吟认识纤纤，为了接近纤纤，去学习认识纤纤最喜爱的花花草草，帮她建造花房，他的努力让纤纤很感动，两人进而相爱，此时颂超之前交往过的维珍却出现说他有了颂超的孩子，原来是维珍说谎，纤纤很爱颂超，请求维珍把颂超让给他…… 《金盏花》是琼瑶巨星电影公司于1980年3月29日出品，刘立立导演，林青霞、秦汉主演。根据琼瑶小说改编的电影，当年曾经被人简称为“琼瑶电影”，不但在台湾卖座，也在新加坡、港澳、美国和加拿大等地区“发酵”。导演或制作人只要买到琼瑶的小说就可以全球“卖埠”，预收定金顺利开拍。因此非但她的长、中篇小说，连短篇小说也被“情商”拍摄电影。

1985 film by Hou Hsiao-Hsien

A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.

1983 film by Hou Hsiao-Hsien

1986 film directed by Ko I-Chen

蒋南孙（张曼玉饰）和朱锁锁（钟楚红饰）在金色的太阳雨下相遇，性格不同年纪相仿的她们成为莫逆。二人偶遇中日混血男子宋家明，在海洋公园开心玩乐过后又失去联系，但是年轻的她们不在意，总觉得前路还有更好的。中学毕业后南孙继续升读大学，锁锁出来工作。懂得利用本钱的锁锁总是搬家，一次比一次豪华。而大学毕业后的南孙从低做起，不免觉得挨得辛苦。重遇宋家明对于南孙来说是乌云里的阳光，面对家明对锁锁现状的追问，南孙敏感地避而不答。南孙父亲炒楼失败，突发心脏病死亡。锁锁大方出手相助，帮蒋家渡过难关。南孙觉得自己不应该自私，让锁锁和家明见面了。 她们的友情经过流金岁月的洗礼，只有更醇，不见削弱。

1983 film directed by Edward Yang

A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.

1986 Chinese film

1987 film by Seijirō Kōyama

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, and who share a passion for the dangerous sport of free diving. Professional diver Jacques opted to follow in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy; to the bewilderment of scientists, Jacques harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing pattern in the water, so that his vital signs more closely resemble that of dolphins than men. As Enzo persuades a reluctant Jacques to compete against him in a free diving contest -- determining who can dive deeper and longer without scuba gear -- Jacques meets Johana, a beautiful insurance investigator from America, and he finds that he must choose between his love for her and his love of the sea.

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters, in a time when those types of relationships were shunned.

In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world!